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incredibly interested in their city government, local politics, and making sure that we remain the most amazing cityn the world. i learned that san franciscans during campaign read everything they are sent in the mail. they love to meet the candidates and engage in conversations with them. i learned how important it is to build bridges between different communities, particularly communities of diversity that we have. i was incredibly honored to have been elected in november of 2008. >> where do you place yourself on the political spectrum? >> i consider myself someone who shares the progressive values that many sentences can hold dear. we have been a beacon to the rest of the world region that many sentences skins hold dear. we have been a beacon to the rest of the world for those. >> you are president of the board. describe the role of the opposition and the responsibilities that come with being the president of the board of supervisors. >> as president, i preside over the weekly meetings we have tuesday at 2:00 here in the chamber. i also determine which legislations will go to various committees

san francisco is an amazing city. i've only been in the bay area three years, san francisco for a year. i love it here. i talk about it at home regular. but with that being said, we can't act like these students over here, the black and brown students are dirty laundry and we're not going to address their needs. we can't act like we're successful over here and amazing to the nation, but we're not going to come up with innovative ways to address what's happening here. so, immediately we do need credit recovery. we need options for these students who are one class plus or more off track to graduate. that includes other options besides online because even with the online options, our young people have said, yeah, we can finish t but i'm not learning anything. and we really don't even have accurate data of what is the completion rate of our young people in credit recovery with the online courses. at least we ask over and over and have not been able to receive that. in addition to that academic support, because we want to

this is an amazing baseball city. this town loves baseball, and we had a rough go the last two years. to see it coming back, would imagine i would be doing this. i saw it happen. i dreamed about announcing to 50,000 people in the ballpark when it sold out for the playoff game. i know what that's going to feel like, i can't wait. >> reporter: not that that job isn't awesome to begin with, what a time to be his first year on the job. a front row seat, night after night, to one of let's be honest one of the best sports stories of all year. coming up at 6:00, hear a veteran's take on the team and the year it's had. our conversation with iron man, call ripken, coming up at 6:15. brian kuebler, abc2 news. >> for you fans, we want to see your pictures, amazing photo contest end at midnight. they only have a few hours left to get in submissions. head to abc2news.com slash contest, the lucky winner will be get a $200 orange shopping spree at the zone. >>> a flee market shopper dream. a woman paid 7 bucks for a box of items and

it's amazing for the city and always places us on the map. i get to talk about this whether i'm at the u.s. conference of mayors or the democratic national convention, everybody is interested in what san francisco is doing from music to art to life sciences and clearly showing the way for our new ventures that offer even the best jobs to be created right here in san francisco. so thank you, bayer. thank you for being part of this wonderful, wonderful mix. it's my appreciate ion for you to be here and continue to support you here and how much this has become very much a part of our city. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> mayor lee, friends and colleagues and neighbors, and partners and people who are interested in partnering with us with bayer, today is a great day. today is a day that when an idea comes relative and concrete. you can feel it and touch it and the idea goes back to terry and chris. and i'm very happy to be a part of it today. as you know, bayer is really committed to innovation and knowing the intricacies of science ever gro

just hearing people talk about the playoffs, it's an amazing baseball city. this town loves baseball. we -- last -- last few years. see it coming back. did i imagine i would do this? i imagined it. i imagined it in my head and i saw it happen. you know i dreamed about announcing for 50,000 people when it sold out. i cant wait. >> you can follow the orioles with us all weekend. we have a personal section on the website dedicated to the birds, find game recaps, special features, all of that. log onto the website. >> what a cool job. >> how great. >> i like that. >> he couldn't imagine that. neither could we. >> let's talk about the forecast. out the door and again we have a great looking day tomorrow, it's -- little bit of a cool start, 57 degrees. and it's a really nice midday at 70. on the way for 72 and there you go. >> going to be a beautiful weekend. go orioles. check out the website, have a great weekend.

it's amazing for the city and always places us on the map. i get to talk about this whether i'm at the u.s. conference of mayors or the democratic national convention, everybody is interested in what san francisco is doing from music to art to life sciences and clearly showing the way for our new ventures that offer even the best jobs to be created right here in san francisco. so

. >> there is no doubt that with the orioles are doing here is purely amazing for the city, but i found that orioles fans and ravens fans are finding themselves in a little bit of a dilemma. it is purple friday. but what if you want your orioles want to lead in to your raven's purple? we found a solution to that problem. orioles fever continues to spread. >> orioles fever, magic, whatever you want to call it -- it is taken a grip on the baltimore area and is not letting go. >> it is fabulous. it is exciting to see, and there is a lot momentum. >> after a sweep of the tampa bay raise, the orioles are headed out west on an nine-game road trip. keeping the spirit alive is now more important than ever. >> i love them. they are just doing so great right now. >> is it exciting to see? >> yes, it is. i wake up before i have to do anything. >> we bought more tickets at the beginning of the season. it happens that they started playing better. >> the winning ways have also put sports memorabilia stores in an interesting situation. september usually means the entire store is raven's purple, but th

it would be quite amazing for this city to clinch a play-off spot. the weather, everybody excited about a beautiful night, too. a lot of people saying how great it's been. 75 degrees the high temperature after a low this morning of 54. so another day below average. but i don't think anybody's going to be complaining out there. as far as the temperatures go out there right now, this was, by the way, the coolest day we've seen since the 12th. let's show you our new camera down at the gaylord national hotel. a beautiful camera down here towards national harbor. we're going to be moving this camera all around. we're going to see all the way around the potomac river down towards national harbor. a new camera we have at nbc 4. now, as far as temperatures are concerned right now, 74 degrees. we're looking at temperatures that are going to continue to fall throughout the rest of the evening. so you may need a jacket if you're head down to the game. but right now, comfortable. 72 out towards annapolis. manassas coming in at 72 degrees. as far as what we're go

amazing work for our city. át to thank the department directors. especially kirk jumped right in.owledge. >> you spoke about the on reinforced masonry -- unreinforced masonry building. i know as a former pastor here in san francisco, we had to redo our building.there were issues k 1980's. these public-type buildings, older buildings. gx8.vi commend your work and the get the support for that. that is quite important for those institutions to remain in 8 cap study helped illustrate was it there are certification -- there are certain things you can demonstrate, sort of low hanging fruit. that is really what our efforts have been the last, i would say, 18 months. to bring those four were in code regulation and say, -- forward in code regulations and say, hey. i do not think it will be a repeat of 19 06 -- 1906, but that has been our recent focus. >> my second question -- going that most of our seats expire in 2013. i don't know what the nomination process is, how we move forward people to fill these seats, but i think it is important for our commission and the existing committee to st

i have heard so many amazing stories along the way. 30 cities in 13 states. 3,000 people come out to these talks. there is just an amazing energy. and so many just wonderful store reus about people engaging in this work, people who have been to skin deep and start their own company or change their major. people making radical decisions about their own personal life styles. i like to tell this story of my kus cousin janet, 45, vice president at wells fargo. she was queen makeup diva. i was baby diva. she admitted to me she was spending $800 a month on beauty products. it was hair dye and facials and the most expensive products, ever. she read the book and started to feel overwhelmed and discovered this superexpensive evening cream had hydroevo. it makes your skin tingle, so you think something is happening. she went back to the makeup counters and have polite conversations, hey, i think you can do better. until you do i'm going to buy something else. she decided to stop coloring her hair after many, many years and loves the way she looks and feels better than she has in a long time. wh

this beautiful home has amazing unobstructed city, park, and lake views you have to see to believe.elcome to our home. i'm stacy harris and you are going to be taking a tour of our family home in the heritage codominium building overlooking fabulous millennium park, so let's get started. i want you to try and imagine what we had when we started, concrete ceiling, concrete floors, no wall. 250 square feet of wall space and windows. right now we're in our living room. i guess you would traditionally call it a living room. it's large, it has three seating areas and it's like that because we love to entertain. this wall may be one of my favorite features of the entire house. i love stone and it's beautiful to look at. so even though the table looks large, remember, this is a large dining room. we had floating wall shelves and beautiful pieces that make this really a home. they say the kitchen is the height of the home and in most homes that's absolutely true. the blue ceramic is the back splash. it is so strong. we didn't want it to compete, there is so much room in here and the stone p

city. >>> the amazing orioles are giving us all a season to watch and wonder will we make to the playoffs? there are seven games left. that's seven chances to prove that the orioles should be in the playoffs. jamie live at yard tonight. the fans still counting down the games. >> reporter: i'm watching it on my phone. two outs in the 9th inning. i will have the update for you. we have 30,000 plus out here. nobody left in the bottom of the 9th when we loaded the bases. we were shut out. first shut out by the orioles since august the 3rd when we were in tampa bay. we lost that game 2-0. it's come back tomorrow. two guise i met tonight, rob and lynnwood came out. not to see a ball game. they came out to feel a ball game. it's not white cane night here. rob and his friend are blind. >> it's great hearing the crowds roaring like they use to. >> reporter: they used their cane to find the entrance. >> thank you. makes some noise. >> reporter: they didn't seat grass first, they smell food. >> hot dogs. . >> reporter: with these white canes they walk down utah, capping over the home run markers. >>

city pride. >>> this is so amazing and wonderful. before this a lot of people had never heard of petaluma now everybody knows where petaluma is. >>> canyon in the city in tennessee that be petaluma probably not it has put the town and these kids on the map >>> it is scoreless the on tv >>> they used a live next year and it is heady stuff for 12 or of a thirteen year-old. have you ever done a television interview before? >>> yes. >>> but before two weeks ago >>> no. >>> but the ban on post-game comments and espn and seen around the country >>> it means the world to me to have all these fans and have these people here for me >>> your 12 or 13 of his people cheer for you, to mark u. back- to-school you have homework to do. does this help you out with girls? >>> no. >>> where back to the sibling squabbles the this is been a great experience >>> just another day the next day the moments of great help their remember that >>> family is fleeting as the confetti that blew upon them today. >>> petaluma pride you see a deer the tennessee team is

the city's coastline extends an amazing one hundred forty five kilometers along the black sea i'm always going to need some local help to get to know it properly and who better. thank you very much by then with. your friends for the race. sunshine moved to several years ago from siberia and to see some significant changes take place. so. two thousand and seven. game. it must be almost a completely different city or so she said difference you keep trying to solve because. we have totally infrastructure we have. we have almost finished on the big where you can see the big coastal cluster where amazing. and sometimes maybe you have a feeling that. the fear of there one night when you would be spending most of my time around the olympic site but first i wanted to see more of the city itself and pavel was happy to give me a tool and a history lesson this looks like a wealthy man's playground around here this is such a scene for what. actually this place was one big square it used to be the twentieth century and the native people were living off in the mountains and because. they feared to sta

city. >> amazing. >> i love what you have done with the place. out onto the fake boardwalk. orld. not atlantic city but as close as they get. >>> our thanks to steve buscemi and for big-time boardwalk fans there is more of our guided tour. it's on our website as of tonight. that is it for tonight's broadcast of "rock center." and, it's that time, thanks to the magic of television, matt lauer and savannah guthrie have a preview of "today." >> brian, thank you. coming up friday on "today" the hispanic community's growing influence on madison avenue. >> a hit version of "call me maybe" the group live on the plaza when we see you friday on "today." >> thanks, guys. look forward to meeting you both some day. up next on "rock center" doing our part as part of the nbc-wide education nation summit. we were going to look at the provocative new component in education called grit. it's just what we think it means, about character, and failings. and it sure gets us away from the belief that all of our kids should get trophies. >> when i started teaching in the '90s, there was this sense

city. >> amazing. >> i love what you have done with the place. out onto the fake boardwalk. ld. not atlantic city but as close as they get. >>> our thanks to steve buscemi and for big-time boardwalk fans there is more of our guided tour. it's on our website as of tonight. that is it for tonight's broadcast of "rock center." and, it's that time, thanks to the magic of television, matt lauer and savannah guthrie have a preview of "today." >> brian, thank you. coming up friday on "today" the hispanic community's growing influence on madison avenue. >> a hit version of "call me maybe" the group live on the plaza when we see you friday on "today." >> thanks, guys. look forward to meeting you both some day. up next on "rock center" doing our part as part of the nbc-wide education nation summit. we were going to look at the provocative new component in education called grit. it's just what we think it means, about character, and failings. and it sure gets us away from the belief that all of our kids should get trophies. >> when i started teaching in the '90s, there was this sense th

amazing i want to. get some of what we've been a little boy he created the city to be in charge of the lawns and really to know what it's the history that the on the rings and so that we. know that has something theories are using very very seriously. in formula one ferrari are busy gearing up for their home grand prix there are eight stages left in the season including this weekend's race in italy for henri's fernando alonso currently the man to catch with a twenty four point lead at the top of the drivers' championship the most important race of the year. and we had. a lot of support from all that before see. you story they're going to find out he has been always vertical but. i will perform on sunday. another slice of motor sport history as being made in russia the g.t. won championships holding

city? that would be amazing. i already have tickets. well, yes. i'm going to radio city music hall.going -- are you going to be there? geoff: i'll be there. craig: backstage? geoff: no. craig: for much of it, though. this is from lucas from bonn , germany. what do they say at the german nightclubs when you and i walk into the clubs? ♪ here come the players ooh, ooh they are so exciting ♪ ♪ [laughter] geoff: here come the players ♪ ♪ craig: that's it. ok. this is from lucas in bonn, germany. dear craig und geoff. would you ever consider doing a show in germany? i know many people who would love you to. [laughter] well, if we are receiving this correspondence from you, then perhaps we are already somehow reaching germany? [laughter] geoff: ya. i think our show there is called "dancing poopen." craig: if you just tuned in and you are watching in the united states, you are maybe not understanding because i am speaking german. [laughter] i learned it from old movies. correct, geoff? geoff: that is correct. craig: ♪ here come the players ♪ geoff: ♪ here come the players ♪ craig: this is f

city area. >> that is an amazing thing to think of tornados in new york city. we'll have you keep us posted. thanks for the update. >> thanks . the u.s. is announcing it is black listing one of the most encourage groups in afghanistan. the haqqani network is carrying out terrorist attacks and the obama administration desigated them terrorist group. that bans americans from doing business and blocks access to the u.s.. they could create more problems in the alliance with pakistan. >> the white house missed a deadline regarding massive cuts. congress will not see it until late next week. the president signed the sequestration act that requires him to repo to congress. it will be implemented on january 2nd less congress passes a law to undo them. >> other suspect in custody. mexican police making the arrest. jesus medga is one of the five men charged with murder. they allowed weapon's trackers and drug cartel to purchase the illegal weapons. the plan was to get the tracking of the guns and many other thann't. one . suspect is on trial in arizona and three more remain at large. >> the number of