. >> it declares march 12 as an arbor day in the city and county of san francisco. president chiu: supervisor mar has made a motion, seconded by supervisor campos. supervisor mar: i just wanted to thank the great staff from dpw who are coordinating with many community groups for arbor day. please join us. thank you. president chiu: let me see if there are members of the public who wish to comment on this item. seeing none, if it to carol call on the imperative resolution. -- if we can take roll-call on the imperative revolution -- resolution. supervisor weiner: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: could you read any in memoriams? >> this meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor weiner, for the late clint mitchel. for the late hyacinth smith, the late tomas vallejo. that concludes our business. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen,

i am pleased to work with the folks here, and their hard work here for the upcoming arbor day. what i have for you today is legislation for today oppose the imperative edge in the declaring march 12, 2011 as arbor day. supervisor avalos and i were talking about dr. seuss's lorax. he is a little guy that stands on the stump and speaks for the trees. many of the environmentalists and activists see lorax's. they protect the trees and create a livable community. originally proposed in the late 1900's, it was proposed as a tree planting holiday. the first brigade was the planting of more than 1 million trees. it has spread throughout the united states. community volunteers in the city workers will be planting trees and dust in a community cleanup in my district this year. -- hosting a community cleanup in my district this year. it is a way to make our community more environmentally friendly and the level. -- livable. later, when we hopefully pass this item unanimously, and gloria is here to answer any questions if you have them. the last items i am proud to be cosponsoring a resolut

we have participated in san francisco arbor day is which is less than two weeks from now.elieve i bring some action and institutional knowledge to the urban forest council. we have aspirations for expanding and maintaining the urban forest. thank you. >> thank you so much for being here. sandy sherwin. >> i have a resume here. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sandy sherwin. i live on the edge of the excellus your district. both of these organizations have supported by candidacy without a public record of doing so. i have a master's degree in environmental economics. i am completing an additional certificate at the university of california at davis. after moving to san francisco 16 years ago, i quickly began being involved at the botanical garden at golden gate park and other land stewardship activities. i additionally work on a variety of urban and rural habitat restoration projects. i am a member of many environmental organizations from urban planning to hands-on nonprofits. that contributes to my diversity, but pragmatic thoughts on land stewardship. i am experien

discuss the prospects for the arab awakening i'm joined by juan cole in an arbor he's a professor of history at the university of michigan in cairo we go to he somehow or he is a fellow at the center for research in ethnic relations at the university of warwick and in san francisco we cross the steven schwartz he is the executive director of the center for islamic pluralism and another member of our crosstalk team yell in the hunger all right gentlemen this is cross talk you can jump in anytime you want one can you give me your impressions what is the importance the geopolitical importance and maybe the religious importance as well of the so the saudi incursion into bahrain to suppress what people say suppressing the majority shia population in that island. well i think there are two dimensions here well it is that you have these massive demonstrations and battering the object of which was to force us to tional change the battery is ruled is an absolute monarchy there's an appointed senate an upper house there's a likely lower house of forty seats but the districts are gerrymandered

arbors, beaches and coastline still unsafe for the least the next several hours. this advisory will be the discontinued later tonight. the worst of the tides happen between 8 and 10:00 a.m.. it's been a continuing and waves throughout the entire day. but there is looking a lot better, we have clear skies for this evening, breezy winds. for tomorrow, we will have a lot more cloudiness, clouds and morning, clouds increasing for the afternoon. even chance for a light rain for the north bay, will be a wet weekend. all talk more about that coming up. >>catherine: we've been telling you about this and on research and how it has hit the santa cruz harbert today. millions of dollars in damage. were on the phone now with glory. what is the latest information on how bad it was? >>caller: our small craft harbors offered here. they estimate about 5 million in damage to private. they were either damaged or destroyed. another $10 million estimated to harbor visibility. >>catherine: basically about $15 million at least in damage to both the boats and harper. we were hearing sinc

the storm caused headaches around the bay but not for this arbor wrist. >> a good day to be in your line of work. >> a good day, yes. >> reporter: the water levels had nowhere else to go but up. the reservoir is almost full from the rain in the mountains, but with the water being push out faster than it comes in, observers don't previc a spillover and say the rain is a good thing. >> we welcome this rain because we need it for water supply. it's helpful to end the rainy season with full reservoirs so we can use the water all summer long, all fall, until next rainy season. >> alan: the winds have died down but we had some huge gusts. leigh glaser here to talk about that. >> leigh: we'll get to that. let's turn our attention to live doppler 7hd. it's not quite over yet. the frontal system has actually stalled, moving very slowly towards the east. we have some heavy showers making their way into the east bay. antioch, brentwood, rio vista getting ready to get hit with moderate rain, check out north of milpitas. this batch of rain moving towards the east and will continue to move in towards

it was a week-long the leadership intensive held at the arbor day lodge and met with colleagues fromoss the u.s. that work for nonprofit municipalities and state agencies. it was extremely invigorating and also relieve validating to touch on a couple of initiatives

it was a week-long the leadership intensive held at the arbor day lodge and met with colleagues fromoss the u.s. that work for nonprofit municipalities and state agencies. it was extremely invigorating and also relieve validating to touch on a couple of initiatives that i supported. since i have been elected chair by my peers in the last year, i have been extremely cognizant of our use of time, especially the department of the environment's precious staff time that they dedicate to our meetings. one of the initiatives we were looking at was to look at our schedule and reduce our actual formal meetings and support a lot of work and informal group work where we would review our annual retreat and establish goals for the year and we are revitalize the way we present our annual support for supervisors taking away at the street tree list and make it more valuable for residents instead of just pushing it through. i would love to continue to support the council. i am a longtime resident of the city. although i totally enjoy my commute on the caltrain, i contact very intimately with the plan

we have two arbors reports that have spoken to that and we have presented that to you. this is in direct conflict to the city's position on trying to have the interfaith community seismically upgrade the building, which is a huge problem in the san francisco. we are trying to do the right thing. we don't want to tear up the sidewalks six months from now. that would be crazy. this is costing us millions of dollars to do this project and on a very limited budget. we are trying to correct the issues and we are trying to comply with the city guidelines and plant the trees appropriately. it is time now that we make the -- and correct the issues with these trees and plant trees that are proper trees for sidewalk in san francisco. the new zealand christmas tree has gotten a lot of bad press. they were small trees. today they are huge. these trees have issues and they need to be resolved now. >> i was walking on the sidewalk, which is new zealand trees. there are serious issues for these trees. this does not make sense. these are the wrong trees for that sidewalk. you cannot se

besides berkeley and madison, an arbor, san francisco, and the rest of this country is right wing. what does that mean in terms of what is happening? we have 7 million people in constructive custody. 7 million at this moment. jail, prison, probation, parole. last year, 80 million people were arrested in the united states. 1/3 of them were released in 26 hours. about 2/3 spent a day or longer in jail. we are incarcerating and solemnizing -- felonizing this population. you cannot discriminate by race, but you can buy criminal record. wisconsin was a police state, very liberal, right? it is against the law to have intercourse until you are 18 years old. but i just ask you this, this is san francisco, let me ask you this -- how many of you have smoked pot? [laughter] i ask this of my students every semester. how many of you have sexual intercourse before age 17? in my state, you are convicted felons. right? so i tell my students, i tell them that i'm going to take my university's 15,000, and going to take my students, and we're going to march down to the police station, and they are al

in ann arbor michigan, there's a robot repair shop. in boston, a big foot research institute. and at 826 headquarters in san francisco, a pirate store. the unusual store fronts lure in curious passersby and once you're inside, 826 taps into your imagination. and every time someone makes a purchase, say a canister of alien drone, the proceeds go to the free education program. >> the one-on-one attention really changes the kid's life. >> reporter: make that 25,000 lives, that's how many kids the 4,000 volunteers serve every year. >> i always leave here feeling better than i did when i come in. >> we're going to write a book today. >> reporter: on this day in san francisco, a class of fourth graders will become authors. >> we're writing a story about a half giraffe and a half iguana. >> reporter: and back at the superhero shop in brooklyn, young minds are dreaming up new worlds. do you have a superhero name? >> yeah. >> reporter: what is it? >> junior. >> reporter: junior? young superheroes, teaming up with their dedicated sidekicks, the volunteers that work without the fancy cap

they are recent transplants from ann arbor, michigan. >> this is like "leave it to beaver" the black version. >> reporter: and it's not just the young who are moving. experts say the boomers are also finding new roots. >> some of them are older, and they are in some ways bringing part of the north back to the south. >> reporter: black families exploring new choices as color lines blend together in an increasingly diverse america. kristen welker, nbc news, los angeles. >> by the way, there's more information on this story, including the census numbers just out, and what they're telling us. we've put it all on our website tonight, nightly.msnbc.com. >>> up next here tonight, america's former presidents all in one place for a good cause. ♪ >>> this was the scene at the kennedy center in d.c. last night. all of this nation's former presidents together to honor one of them, george h.w. bush. the tribute was in honor of his years of volunteer efforts, including his points of light institute. in the last few years, of course, he's teamed up with former rival bill clinton to raise money for

playing for men i'd say see i call it using some dripping skills to pull down their dogs see one of the arbor nuts bids a night they'll find a double for. the for the series is now tied at three apiece and all pressure is on the underdogs after that things go back to arms for sunday's decisive game seven. russian football fans are awaiting the start of the prolonged russian premier league season city then says scott will kick things off in the super call in the first of their four clash a schedule this year yvonne takes a look at the teams as they prepare for a long journey in a calendar transition year. russia's top two clubs will be battling krasnodar on sunday two thousand and ten league and cup winners you need are facing plenty of injury concerns manager luciano spill lead he only has fifteen players to choose from for the upcoming encounter the strikers alexandre coffin alexandre bahar of are still not fit to play midfield of straw for will be out for at least six months after blowing out his knees in a russian cup match against on g a st petersburg powerhouse will try to repeat their d

>> i was one year at university of michigan in ann arbor and i went to st.ndrews as a junior abroad. i told my father i wanted to stay there. he said we will miss you. they were middle-class people and could not come to see me. >> what about being a foreign policy analysts? when did that come into your life? >> very early, in high school, there is debate. there is a domestic component an international component. at the age of 14, i thought i would give the international component a try. i never really stopped reading the paper. >> you say that high school debate by the difference in your life? >> that was fundamental. when i worked abroad and the u.k., st. andrews is the seminal experience. >> if you were to name three or four people international figures -- national figures that had an influence, would they be? >> my father made history and important part of my life. my mother loved english and loved writing. that was an honorable thing to do with your life. on the bigger side, people like eisenhower. when i read about the things american can -- americans c

this legislation is going to prohibit local stations like michigan radio in ann arbor and in your own districts and in your states from using public -- from using money from corporation of public broadcasting from producing any public radio programs. as regards to process, we are completely evading the processes and the commitments thaare -- can be found in the rules and pronouncements of the leadership on the other side. and we are finally -- finding that the htory of this, which goes back to the 1934 communications act in the commerce committee has been grossly disregarded. some for regular order and so much for transparen that the majority made such a big fuss about at the beginning of this year. what's next? are we going to amend the endangered species act on the floor to declare an open season on the big bird or upon programs which educate our kids or which contribute to the advancement of our society? i urge my colleagues to oppose h.r. 1076. it's a bad bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. the gentlelady from tennessee. mrs. ackburn: re