richardson, the director of treasure island, the former commissioner carol, the city administrator, amy brown, the first woman in that position. the city purchaser on the mayor's staff. if i miss you, please see me. we would be happy to announce she. thank you for joining us today. [applause] >> i would also like to thank our table sponsors and all of our incredible volunteers. thank you for all of the hard work putting this together. [applause] now we're going to start our awards presentation. the organization of the year award goes to the family violence prevention fund, esther is the executive director, and the family violence prevention fund, a quick description, works to prevent violence within the home and the committee to help those whose lives have been devastated by violence, because everyone has the right to live free of violence. for more than three decades they have work to end violence against women and children around the world. please join me in welcoming her. she's the director of the family violence prevention fund. [applause] >> thank you so much for this wonderful honor. th

my name is amy brown. the mayor since his regrets.has a very busy schedule, as i am sure that you understand. welcome, everyone. mostly i want to just express to you that we do know in city government how important this industry is. we know it is important for our tourism visitors and our economy, the jobs that it directly and indirectly creates. most of all it is important because it is part of what makes san francisco san francisco. a vibrant nightlife is part of why tourists come here. the kinds of people that are creative and entrepreneurial, that come here and live here, creating jobs in high-tech industries, it is part of why they want to be here. because of our restaurants, entertainment, and clubs. i want to stress that we know how much good that you do for the city and we appreciate it. often we make it difficult to be small businesses here. i know that there is a lot of bureaucracy. we are trying, through the entertainment commission, to find ways to streamline the process. we look forward to hearing from you how we might he

actually figure out how to implement the details of this pilot program are interim city administrator amy brown. >> thank you, president chiu and mr. mayor. yes, i inherited a really great idea and had lots of help from our fleet director tom fang and deputy city administrator and working with the staff of the sfmta to implement it. very exciting day to see it come to fruition. one of the things that makes us so great to work for san francisco is we're not afraid to do bold or innovative things. i will share with you we put together a pilot with five spaces city wide that we were going to move forward. when it got to public hearings, when it got to the board, rather than have people react negatively do it, they reacted very positively. they said five spaces actually weren't enough. so we ended up being able to add six more spaces to the pilot program. so people wanted to go more big and more bold. and our leaders wanted to do that. and that makes it exciting every day to come in and to have those new ideas when they're so well received. so i think this is going to be a great success. i think ju

the late amy winehouse, snoop cog dog willie nelson. bobby brown whitney houston's former husband and mccollie hull kin. with us now the warriors margaret hoover and lauren green. overwhelming problem for american parents as kids 6, 7, 8 know what pot is. flipping around on the internet, this and that when do you start to talk to them and what do you say. >> never too early. should actually start in kindergarten and start explaining there are people who are going to offer them things that, you know, may effect the way they behave. they will try to pressure them into taking things and that's not okay. i think you start really early with them explaining to them so they know the lay of the land. >> brainwashing. >> my parents did this with me. when i was in kindergarten or first grade there were these stickers. there are stickers going around. they will tell them to put you on your skin you will feel tingle if you do it. you shouldn't do it. it's bad. talk to kids and make them comfortable opening up to you and explaining to you what's going on around

. >> as joe is prepped to move into his new cell, deputy warden joni brown offers some words of wisdom to amy>> you can go by the book, you can alter the rules, you decide how you are going to do your job, but you darn better make sure you do it the same way every single time, especially with somebody like that, because he's not going to forget. >> he's expected to parole next month. so i think a lot of it might be anxiety of -- he's been doing time since the riot days. >> all right, fellas. stay out of trouble like [ bleep ] me. >> i saw some pictures, some young pictures of me when i first come in. i look like a puppy. i mean, i was so young. and then now i look at myself, the years just go slow. they seem slow. then you know, after a while, you're like, wow, they just went by. i wasted so much of it in here. i don't want to see myself an old, gray 50-year-old man, 60-year-old man sitting in here with nothing. you know, your family just dying off. sometimes i wonder what the future is for me. is this it? you know, i don't want that. i just want to retire now. i want to find something to do

brown. again it's one of those situations where we see some of these celebrities, i talked about amy winehouselier, some of these celebrities that their drug use so highly publicized everyone is well aware of it. then news breaks that we've lost them way too soon. it comes as a shock, but if you look at the events leading up to the death itself, it's unfortunately not that at all surprising. it's so tragic, again on the eve of the grammys. >> harris: the premiere -- >> largest night. >> harris: i do want to say, associated press has been reporting, tm z report knowledge, fox news now confirming the death of whitney houston on twitter, casey, you and i communicate to each other like this a lot. casey, kathy johnson writing, what a wonderful voice and talent she will be missed. but now she will be in peace. others writing, we talked sunday about whitney getting it together with her remaking the movie sparkle. i'm so sad right now in tears. rest in peace, whitney. tom king, shocked. her legacy will live on forever in the music industry, you can tweet me your feelings and thoughts tonight. casey a

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. >> brown: finally tonight, on grief and a morning out on the water: a conversation i had recently with author roger rosenblatt. two-and-a-half years after our 38-year-old daughter amy died of an undeteed heart attack i have taken up kayaking. that's the first line of a new book titled kayak morning, reflections on love, grief and small boats. its author is roger rosenblatt long known to newshour viewers for his essays for many years on the program and among other books for his memoir making toast about his family's first weeks after the death of his daughter. welcome back. >> thank you. >> brown: making toast was partly about the ordinary thingsthemaking toast for your grandchildren. this two years later is more of a personal meditation. what happened? >> well, for one thing it was a way of getting my daughter back. when i was writing about amy in "making toast," it was a way of keeping her alive. i could keep her alive for as long as i wrote the book. then i felt the letdown once the book came out. i guess i just took up kayaking because i'm a loner. by nature. and it was probably the only suprt at myge can play anyway or tak up. so i didn't really go out in the k