beautiful. there's a group dedicated to 1 idea that our city is beautiful and it's our job to keep it that way. san francisco beautiful has partnered with over 100 groups to open chance and protect the city's public spaces. kneel patel, welcome. >> thank you so much. it's great to be here. >> you help people align to -- what exactly does this group does. >> it's a nonprofit creating and making san francisco a beautiful city to be in. >> do you have to come by invitation or do you just say it looks rough around the edges and shape it up. >> to date, we have given over a million dollars in grants to really identify those issues that really matter to neighborhoods to help them to be able to achieve a more beautiful neighbor hood. >> this is a well established group. but you're also -- >> the city was ready to get rid of the able cars for something perhaps more modern. a group of fill and pivots got together and said we want to keep it -f-h-i-l-a-n-t-h-r-o-p-i-s-t-s. >> yes, it is beautiful, yes, we should keep it that way. where does it start to -- were there trend that's happening. >> sure. san f

bits of advertising and if we can't look at the beautiful of the golden gate bridge we're not a beautiful city. i thank you for taking my testimony and i hope that san francisco has a better tomorrow >> thank you very much. >> next speaker >> david elliott lewis. i'm against the prohibition i see it as a prohibition cabins free speech. while a lot of the speak might be commercial it gives an opportunity for groups to get their message out. not everybody follows twitter or facebook. i think getting a message out even 55 the unconventional ways i think it's a diversity we tolerate in our city. i hope this won't move forward. and i hope you won't ban this informational splie >> any additional public comment on to me 2. seeing none, public comment is closed. i am supportive of supporting this to those the to the call of the chair. and as i indicated a previous hearing i'm not a fan of aerial advisement i'm not a fan of those aerial advertisements. what i also is a and i think i indicated many of this in the past hearing i think this this legislation was rushed in the way s it was brought forward.

city, as we call it -- rio de janeiro. it is most known for its carnival. but it is beautiful all year long. s a great city by the sea, with beautiful mountains. the most important is that it is brazil's future capital. you have the brazilian lifestyle. you have beaches. you have a lot of music. brazil is the original home of somber and bossa nova -- samba and bossa nova. you really have the brazilian feeling that you can walk around the beach. people are friendly. you can go to a soccer game. we can enjoy it with a whole heart. what is really interesting is that brazil is going to a new golden age. it is having a lot of investment. the cities have been renovated. it is one of the top destinations in the world. it is worth going. it is already worth it. but brazil is very diverse. if you go to brazil, stay longer. you will have a lot of good surprises. another is the amazon rain forest. it is amazing. it is diverse. >> one of the seven wonders of the world. it -- >> it takes about 40% of the territory of brazil. you can stay in the middle of the forest. people go into the forest to see how th

in the last 10 years it has transformed itself into a beautiful city. >> i was there just last week. they have a new metro system. it is not the same that it used to be. >> i am going on saturday to attend the forum. i think this is what is happening. we hope that it is going to happen a long other cities in the silk road. >> china's relationship with this -- with the central asian countries are seen to be a one- way street. china sells cheap manufactured goods. how do you diversify the nature of that trade? >> what -- we need to have a trade and then you can talk diversification. each country or region, you develop expertise, specializations. once you have the specializations that we talk about diversification. at this moment we are talking about specializations as far as the diversity -- diversification, it may be 20 years down the road. >> how is this in keeping with china's changing model of development question mark china has been the -- the engine room has been in the east and south. how has this helped china? >> china has been developing along the coastal regions. the east --

what a beautiful city. >> what is this? early morning traffic? construction? more every, every day. >> we asked our own abc 7 news traffic reporter what she thinks is behind this continuing body neck. >> going on around, in the city along embarcadero. so i that i is adding to the pain of our normal commute time. >> could there be a few tour upside. >> one of the most fascinating features of the new iphone 5 s is a fingerprint identification. how secure is that? >> idea is that fingerprint is unique to you. not exactly full proof. here is how touch id works. the fob fon constrorts a long series of numbers. now, when touching a home button it unlocks your phone. pemplts say it would be difficult but a hacker could try to lift your print off of the glass, say and find a way to disable the id. now, survey says many americans simply don't understand what health care reform is all about. bank rate.com says 50% of those surveyed knew almost nudging about the law. the findings come just weeks before an october 1 deadline for every state to buy insurance. or face a fina

entrance to a spectacular beautiful city. it will be the entry to golden gate that san francisco deserves. (clapping) >> are you a parents that's unemployed and struggling to pay child support we have teamed up and positions ourself to offer an opportunity for permanent employment. for more information >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the national anthem. ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome steve hengineg executive director metropolitan transportation commission. >> good afternoon, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the toll bridge program oversight committee and my committee colleagues, and the director of cal transand the executive director of the california transportation commission, it is my great pleasure to welcome you at long last, to the opening ceremonies for the new east band of the san francisco oakland bay bridge. that is an applause line. [ applause ] >> i know that you joined me in thanking the oakland institute color

today this city becomes just a little bit more beautiful. thanks to the incredible hard work that has made this new renovation a reality. the parks alliance is the independent partner to the entire city for everything having to do with parks, recreation, and open space. we have more than 100 different community groups called park partners all across the city. each of them working in their own way to make our park system a little better, a little more beautiful, a little more usable. today this is the day for one of those groups, the friends of lafayette park. this is a shining example of how a few neighbors can come together, bring together their friends, and make an incredibly beautiful thing happen in a public open space. this park was renovated with bond dollars, but friends of lafayette park brought in hours and hours of hard work over four years to do visioning and imagining what this park could really look like. they raised over half a million dollars of private fund to augment the bond dollars so that this kind of a playground could be

never forgetting that history and remembering that morning in 1906 to come back and restoring our beautiful cityu very much. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, chief. it shows we appreciate more than just irish people this morning. [ applause ] >> i appreciate everybody's patience this morning. the device is not dangerous. the bomb squad just forwarded. we'll be opening up market street shortly. you should give yourself a hand this morning. it just shows our resilience. we are not going to be denied our traditions. this is important to remember what happened. our level of preparedness even got better this morning. [ applause ] . i want to echo what the fire chief said. we continue to prepare all the time. we have a mayor who i know it's all about resiliency and getting back to where we were when and if and when it happens. with that, i'm going to give it over to bob to give it over to the big guy. >> all right. the mayor we have today, please welcome mayor ed lee. [ applause ] . >> good morning, everyone. i thought when bob said he was going to introduce more irish people he was going to intro

first, let me is i'm enjoying the day in our beautiful city. i'm a retired fire chef for second amendment. i was the fire marshall in phoenix during the late 90s and phoenix was under the process of developing a protein to type and we verified that the product is good for fir safety. they've accosted the air requirement from 2004 and currently in phoenix in the metro area 42 systems are installed and more are planned. the fact that 24 buildings have installed that speaks well, for the safety of firefighters. firefighters love it. it's the only means of assuring that you're going to have air open the staging floor to replace air that has exhausted as firefighters fight fire. what's missing from the discussion today is the logistics in getting bottles shuffled by he elevator to the upper floors it that takes firefighters away from the firefight. i might add that the international fire code a large of the pressor of the fire code that has language today starred out as an appendix a resolving document as more and more systems into into place their

and they knew they wanted a beautiful city with tree-lined trees and shaded parkways and things likee do take this for granted until we start losing them. >> reporter: they may one major mistake. they planted almost entirely just one species, norway maples, 80 years later they are all becoming senior citizens all at one time. the forest is aging and ailing. by some estimates 95% of the stately sentinals are in bad shape. the old fashioned tape measure is still an important tool, but tree doctoring has gone high-tech. >> it's not just counting them. it's getting all of the information on these trees. we'll know what species it is. we'll know its condition. we'll be able to recommending a management plan for everything from planting additional trees to removing stumps to pruning. >> reporter: while you can't put a price on beauty there is real value in an urban forest. >> it will clean the air from traffic, and people are more likely to walk or bike on tree-lined streets than non-tree-lined streets. >> reporter: when the census wraps up in mid-september, the total count is expected to

it's an amazing place, it's a beautiful city. e coming across that bridge and seeing the city and feeling like, i'm home, or coming from any part of anywhere, whether you're on a plane, whether you're on a bus, whether you're in a car, just to see the skyline of the city, it's just always made me feel at peace. and, so, i can't imagine myself living anyplace else. >> what motivated you to get involved in politics? >> well, as i said, i grew up in public housing and i experienced a lot of sad times as some people are still experiencing, whether it's crime and violence, issues of despair, issues of hopelessness. i mean, that still continues to plague many of our public housing residents today. and, so, it's really challenging when this is the way that i pretty much spent most of my life. and when i think about the challenges people still are going through, i know that the only way to make changes to those types of issues is to actually be a part of the decision making body of this city. and, so, what motivated me in the past has alw

entrance to a spectacular beautiful city. it will be the entry to golden gate that san francisco deserves. (clapping) >> are you a parents that's unemployed and struggling to pay child support we have teamed up and positions ourself to offer an opportunity for permanent employment. for more information

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they knew they wanted a beautiful city with tree-lined streets and shaded park ways, and sidewalks and things like that. >> we do take this for grand, until we start losing them. >> those urban planting pie nears made one major mistake, planting almost entirely just one species, norway maples. eighty years later, they are all becoming senior citizens at the same time. >> unfortunately, our forest is aging. >> aging and ailing, by some estimates, 95% are in bad shape. >> dead wood. >> many may soon fall or need to be cut down. >> very poor. >> the old fashioned tape measure is still an important tool, but tree doctoring has been high tech, mapping every try along every street. >> it's not just counting them, it's getting all the information on these trees. we'll show what species it is, know its condition. we will be able to recommend a management plan for everything from planting additional trees to removing stumps to pruning, and diversification of species. >> while you want put a price on beauty, there is real value in an urban forest. >> lining your streets with healthy trees is goi

so it's in that spirit that i welcome you here to the most beautiful city in the world, san francisco, on a very sunny september day, and i really thank you for being engaged in this conversation. this really is the conversation of the future, especially when we think that bullying now doesn't happen just in schools. with the internet and all of the technology that we have, it can happen anywhere. so thank you so much for being here, it's a great honor to host you here and i look forward to a very engaging conversation today. thank you. >> now i want to tell you my fae vifrt very favorite department of justice official. eric holder is my favorite department of justice official. tom perez is my second favorite department of justice official. we are very honored today that tom perez has come from washington, dc, to give welcoming remarks here at this summit. tom perez is the assistant attorney general of the civil rights division in washington, dc, he was nominated for that position by president obama and sworn in in october of 2009 and we are all the lucky -- we are all very lucky that

. >> the beautiful sunshine, beautiful people, our beautiful city and indian summer is the best time of year here. >> reporter: i checked with park police and despite the crowds no problems today. beach-goers staying safe in the strong currents that ocean beach is known for and one more notable temperature to share with you before mark takes over, napa at 97 was 4 degrees hotter today than phoenix. reporting live in san francisco, debora villalon, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> that is something else, let's check in with meteorologist mark tamayo. >> this is the time of year that temperatures warm up. that happened for tonight and in san francisco. san francisco maxing out at 83 degrees earlier this afternoon. that is the hottest day so far of the summer. so big warm-up in the city and some warm to hot temperatures to show you as well. in fact, lots of 90s for santa rosa, napa and san josi, fremont. look at the hot numbers towards antioch and livermore, and morgan hill, topped out 96. 96 today pacifica topped out at 76 degrees. coming up in 30 minutes we'll taking a look at the areas that

. >> it is one of the most beautiful cities in america.of an endlessly glorious future. the people who built these structures, they were thinking big. >> they were. >> they were looking at a new rome. and they built it, actually. it's awesome here. i started doing this late in life. i'm just too old and too mean, too old, too mean, and too dumb to change. so i can't say that i'm evolving or maturing or doing anything differently. same dick i was 13 years ago. >>> it's easily the most contentious piece of real estate in the world. and there's no hope, none, of ever talking about it without dissi i pissing somebody, if not everybody off. maybe that's why it's taken me so long to come here, a place where even the names of ordinary things are ferociously disputed. where does falafel come from? who makes the best hummus? is it a fence or a wall? by the end of this hour, i'll be seen by many as a tro

. >> it is one of the most beautiful cities in america.lessly glorious future. the people who built these structures, they were thinking big. >> they were. >> they were looking at a new rome. and they built it, actually. it's awesome here. i started doing this late in life. i'm just too old and too mean, too old, too mean, and too dumb to change. so i can't say that i'm evolving or maturing or doing anything differently. same dick i was 13 years ago. >>> it's easily the most contentious piece of real estate in the world, and there's no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off. maybe that's why it's taken me so long to come here. a place where even the names of ordinary things are ferociously disputed. where does falafel come from? who makes the best hummus? is it a fence or a wall? by the end of this hour, i'll be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a zionist too

it is very, very important to honor all the people who are working hard to make our city be the beautifulity it can be. big hand to all of you. (applause) >> all right. so, i'm up here to present the graffiti-watch volunteer award and the graffiti watch program is a program that started about four years ago. over 300 people enrolled in the program, and about 180 of very, very active people,. very, very active means those people go take time out of their busy day to go remove graffiti and make san francisco be graffiti-free. and in that 180 there are very, very few that get up early in the morning, early -- i mean, 3:00, 4 o'clock to go and make sure the neighborhood is clean before everybody wakes up to see a nice clean street or nice clean wall. and the awardee tonight and the winner is larry win ham, if he would come up and receive his award. a big thank you to him. [cheering and applauding] ♪ >> congratulations, larry. * >> well, i don't know about 3:00 or 4 o'clock, but -- [laughter] >> that's a little too early. just like to keep our neighborhood clean and just somebody once said the

what a beautiful city. >> you know, what is early morning traffic and afternoon traffic and constructionmore construction every day. >> reporter: we asked our own abc 7 news traffic reporter layla what she thinks is behind this continuing bottleneck. >> aside from the allure of the bridge, i think there is just a lot of construction going around, going on around the city along the embarkadaro and ramp. i think that is adding to the pain of your normal commute time. >> reporter: could there be a future upside to this? >> maybe more people will go back to public transportation. >> reporter: in san francisco, caroline tyler, abc 7 news. >>> all right. spencer christian is here, whether the weather is cool or warm, depends where you are but cooler overall. >> it is indeed. the last couple days rather sharp cooling from where we were with 100-degree temperatures but things are nice and cool now. we have high clouds and low clouds around the bay area tonight and some areas of clear skies, as well. let's move along and take a look at the golden gate bridge where things -- well at least traffic

beautiful city.o want to acknowledge the governor and attorney general and my longtime friend who did so much as mayor and then governor to create this center right where it along. [applause] i want to say a special thank you to governor bush and to apply his commitment to the national constitution center. this is not the first time that a clinton and a bush have shared this stage. some of you a member in 2006 -- remember in 2006, my husband and jeb's father were jointly honored for their work on behalf of tsunami victims in south east asia and residents of the gulf coast after katrina. 41 and 42 as a sometimes call each other are the classic art couple of american politics. -- odd couple of american politics. barbara sometimes refers to bill as adopted black sheep son. i know bill loves it. he has great admiration and affection for 41 and all that they have been together. today jeb and i are not just renewing an american tradition of bipartisanship, we are keeping a family tradition as well. [applau

. >> it is one of the most beautiful cities in america.rious future. the peep who built these structures, they were thinking big. they were looking at a new rome and they built it, actually. it's awesome here. i started doing this late in life. i'm just too old and too mean and too old and too dumb to change. so i can't say that i'm evolving or maturing or doing anything differently. same dick i was 13 years ago. ♪ >>> it's easily the most contentious piece of real estate in the world and there's no hope, none of ever talking about it without pissing somebody if not everybody off. maybe that's why it's taken me so long to come here where even the name of ordinary things are ferociously disputed. where does falafel come from? who makes the best hummus? is it a fence or a wall? by the end of this hour, i'll be seen bma

. >> it is one of the most beautiful cities in america.lessly glorious future. the peep who built these structures, they were thinking big. they were looking at a new rome and they built it, actually. it's awesome here. i started doing this late in life. i'm just too old and too mean and too old and too dumb to change. so i can't say that i'm evolving or maturing or doing anything differently. same dick i was 13 years ago.