[ringing bells]ight now ♪ i'm ready to go right now ♪ i'm ready to go right now [applause] >> beam me up, scotty jim scotty from koit and the koit martini posse. wow, i'm so thirsty now. ladies and gentlemen, today this man's plans are to shuck -- chuck the whole quiet storm thing and make some noise. local sales manager of the quiet storm, kbrx manager mr. aaron jones. >> can you -- thank you, thank you. kblx is celebrating its 30th anniversary of local radio in san francisco. please funeral -- tune in to 102.9 and join in our 30th year anniversary. right now i want to introduce the kblx steppers. ♪ [ringing bells] ♪ woooo ♪ oooooo ♪ ♪ i'd love to express it ♪ >> aaron jones, ladies and gentlemen, kblx. the quiet storm quiet no more. thanks, et great job. excellent job, part-timers. let's hear it for them. that was i guess the amateur portion if you can call it that because everybody rehearsed so hard the let's hear it for everybody. shanell wang, aaron and scotty. now time to move on to the profess

the bell ringing competition is a two-part event today. we have professionals competing for a number of prizes in the coveted title of world champion bell ringer. for the amateur portion we have executives from some of our local media outlets competing for first, second, and third place trophies. the competition started with preliminaries. 37 contestants went through filling out the paperwork and a chance to proceed to the finals. all cable car crews were invited to compete. this year they have six finalists competing here at union square, competing against the two-time current champion mr. leonard oates. going to be tough. two years with the tiara, hard to give up. individual trophies welcome awarded to all six professional bell ringers. first, second, and third prizes will not only win trophies but a most -- host of prizes from our he steemed sponsors. we have the prize table right next to all the lovely doughnuts at this time we would like to thank our supporters and sponsors, without whom we could not do this every year. the sfmta, mun

[bells ringing] [bells and chimes ringing] [music continues] ♪ ♪ [singing in italian] ♪ santa lucia ♪ucia ♪ santa lucia >> fantastic! wow! let's hear it for them. ladies and gentlemen, epiphany productions sonic dance theater, san franciscoance theater, san francisco trolley dancers. you will see them on muni jay church line. they'll be there all year. fantastic. nice work. well done. and now while we're still tallying our scores, our band today is called the slot blades but i bet you didn't even know what a slot blade is, do you? it's a piece of machinery the cable car operator uses to stop the cable car. it's a very important piece of metal. it's the official emergency brake that drives a metal wedge into the ground and pushes the blade and imbeds itself for a quick stop. but these slot blades keep us going. ladies and gentlemen, once more, the slot blades! [applause] ♪ ♪ oh, go bop ♪ go bop, bop, go bop, bop, go , go bop ♪ ♪ go jingle bop ♪ go bop >> the slot blades, ladies and gentlemen! >> thank you. >> is everybody ready? is everybody ready? to announce the amateur third place c

can the city of bell continue to exist as a city?fficient to run the city, why don't you guys just turn the city over? [ screaming ] >> reporter: a question that more than just a few people are asking today. why not let the county or the state send in someone from the outside to run bell temporarily or at least until the recall election can be held in either january or february? but acting city manager pedro told me he has all the legal authority to run bell even if a city council can't meet in a quorum. for instance he can make sure the day-to-day operations are functioning, there is enough money in the bell treasury he says to make sure that happens for the next few months but as far as big items awarding contracts, selling thing lawsuits, things like -- settling lawsuits, things like that the city council is paralyzed for now. it's a unique situation. one is in jail. several who bailed out are in seclusion and told the city that they quote were too ill to attend the meeting last night and luis artiga resigned effective immediately

i'm don bell with your espn news update. we start with some baseball. the diamondbacks visiting the san francisco giants. pablo sandoval hasn't homered in 23-consecutive games. you can kiss that one good-bye. kung fu panda in the water there. splash landing. in the third, madison gardener strikes out drew. juan uribe taking care of it. top of the fifth, a continuing theme. mark reynolds grounds out. he struck out seven. and he stranded eight diamondback runners. bottom of the fifth, soros giving back to the people. a home run right there. giants up 2-1. bottom of the sixth. buster poesy, the impressive rookie. the giants go on to win, 4-1. >>> adrian gonzalez and the padres facing off against the cubs. bottom of the sixth inning. no score. runners on first and second. and adrian gonzalez grounds into the 6-3 double-play. cubs get out of the inning unscathed. top of the ninth now. no score. and there's a runner on second. heath bell, facing brad snyder. and snyder getting it done. the cubs win 1-0. the padres trail the giants

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knee jerk what was happening in bell. we should be addressing what is happening in bell.eporter: bell measures would have prohibited employment contract for city administrators that include automatic raise and renewal which is how former bell city manager rizzo salary rose to almost 800,000 a year under the radar. most pension are based on the last year of employment. so his retirement is around 600,000 dollars annually. another bill would have capped the salary used to calculate pensions. state senator tm joe wanted to he said pension spiking in the bill where uniform aloun and unused vacation and sick time are added to pad the he said of career salary so that pensions are huge. >> my view is in this case we missed an opportunity to shed a little light. solve a real problem and to then put ourselves in a position to take the next step. >> go government group say better to take small step to reach the bigger goal of over hauling the pension system than wait. >> pretty frustrating. clearly voters not only in bell but really across the state are outraged by what we have see

pig will: you mean a bike bell. pig won't and pig will: (arguing) no, a horn. bell! horn! bell!he bridge, maybe the tires got flat somewhere after the bridge! but it would have to be somewhere pretty close to the bridge. everyone said they noticed their flat tires soon after they crossed. sally: well, we came from that direction before, so maybe we should go this way to see if there's anything sharp on the road. good idea! bye, mr. cobblestone! mr. cobblestone: so long, kids! happy driving! ♪ ton the bus. hmm... still no flat tires! it looks like we've hit a dead end. pig won't: i told you we shouldn't go this way, pig will! pig will: no, you didn't! huckle: what happened, guys? we were minding our own beeswax, riding on the nice, newly paved road, and... we got two flat tires! flat tires?! that's great! um... what's so great about that? cause your flat tires prove that whatever punctured them must be somewhere on the closed road! mr. cobblestone said he closed the road and only bikes could use it, remember? right! that must be why none of the cars we've seen have flat tires, bu

all were taken to the hospital but bell died from his injuries. he was talking -- he was walking home from a graduation party when he was shot. that party had been hosted by a police officer for her daughter. jamal bell was just 16 years old. >>> people throughout southern maryland are drying out after being in the rain bull's eye for the past two days. parts of saint mary's county got more than 13 inches of rain. this was the scene in great mills this morning. streets and businesses completely covered in water. meanwhile, residents of a flooded out trailer park elsewhere in the county complain they should have been warned to get out last night after returning home from an earlier evacuation. scott broom is live at the langley trailer park in lexington park with what is going on. scott? >> we are really talking noah's ark stuff last night. 13 inches of rain fell in that big storm. there was an early evacuation but folks were allowed back in. then it started to rain again last night and the trailer park got flooded in a big way. they were caught by

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at the sound of a bell the city population assembled on the main square there they voted on the most important issues facing the republic a new ruler was elected after an old one died each part of the city had its own set of government and military commanders were invited from neighboring states and the but there was no good answers a glimpse of what an ancient russian might have been like instead of authoritarianism it could have been freedom and democracy. but it was not to be moscow princes keen to get their hands on its riches subjugated the city. and even carter the way the assembly bell in fifteen seventy nagar became the setting for one of the bloodiest chapters in russia's history we were. when ivan the terrible came for a visit a feast was laid out for him then just as the guests were getting drunk he suddenly got up and banged to staff on the floor that was a signal for his henchmen around up the citizens of no is going to begin torturing them for two weeks a thousand people were killed every day the legend says a river is reddish in color because of all the blood that spil

. >> glenn: this is taco bell.mexican food. >> yes, it is. >> glenn: not really. >> considered mexican food in l.a. >> glenn: this is as good as it gets in l.a.? >> darn good. tasty. >> glenn: you wrote an editorial on -- >> yum, yum. >> glenn: -- on business. and you're saying that obama is killing business. >> i'm saying that the miles per hour economy is business, small business. they're like hunted prey in the obama world. let's be honest. the bush administration made terrible mistakes, too. they started out the recession. but we are looking at obama to fix it. what he is doing is saying to the businessman we're going to attack you with obama care mandates, we're going to attack you with cap-and-trade and we're going to attack you with higher taxes on successful businessman. anytime you poke your head up, we'll shoot at it. now you have this attack on the chamber of commerce. >> glenn: never seen this. my dad was a member of the chamber of commerce. >> you would think being a member of the chamber of commerce w

[bell ripping] president miguel: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioner. i am reading on behalf of a student who had to leave ely to attend the classes at the marsh. >> we are next to the few performing arts and when it has severely cut back and payment is on a sliding scale and nobody is turned away for lack of fund. the 10-year-old program now has 200 citywide participant and reaches children and starting with aerial flying classes forked to lers and concluding with local public schools and the program is designed to build the children's skills from the ground up. ebbing posing the students to a vast world of multicultural art. >> it is for everyone. and i share the concerns about the proposed new building and would like to point out whereas the plan states that most of the shows take place at night, this is simply not true. the marsh presents events seven days a week between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. and this includes 400 shows on two stages, daily classes for youth and adults and a box office cafe al open daily. we have two different shows a day, and at

chuck bell, what's up with the weather? >>> crai rain encroaching on our area on the radar. it will be here in a matter of hours. i'll tell you how long it's planning on sticking around this time. hakim, what's in sports? >>> coming up, navy puts its winning streak on the line against air force. the hokies run with the wolf. >>> and maryland trying to protect the house agains >>> you're looking at the town of windsor,orth carolina. in a state of emergency tonight. half of the town is underwater in some places it's as much as 6 feet deep. dozens have been forced from their homes because of the drives rns from the tropical storm that pushed across the eastern part of the state earlier this week. fortunately, no injuries reported in windsor. >>> al qaeda leader osama bin laden, has issued a humanitarian appeal now. bin laden ha urged muslim governments to do more to help pakistan's flood victims and shared his worried answer the effect of climatechange. he says the muslim nations have not done enough to help pakistan that was hit by the devastating floods that killed hundreds a

it has nothing to do with the bell salary scandal. this time, a mayor is accused of >>> another southern california politician under arrest tonight has nothing at all to do with the city of bell salary scandal. this time it is a mayor accused of purse snatching and taking off in a car. while someone was clinging to the outside of that car. davey lopes shows us this apparently all started with a fight in a dumpling house. >> reporter: the mayor of the city of san gabriel, albert wang accused of getting into a fight with a woman in a parking lot at 1:00 a.m. and he is charged with felony robbery, trying to steal her purse, felony assault and domestic violence. the reaction at the dumpling house where wang was seen arguing with the woman. this woman works for the law firm representing the mayor. he posted his bail and avoided the media. no comment at all from anyone at city hall or from the police department. no one wanted to say anything. >> anything you can say on his behalf? >> nothing. >> reporter: police confirm it was an argument o

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the luxury yacht bell has been brought in for more floor space. the costume party is tomorrow night. 7500 people are expected to attend. the exotic erotic expo kicks off at 4:00. . >>> 4:39. for anyone who may be interested, there it is on the map if you want to go for any festivities. we are looking at the east shore freeway across the san rafael bridge to a reported flooding. typical when we have any rain. the times throughout the east bay are looking nice. out of antioch and over towards concord, no problem. the pass and 680 through sunol. 880 with a live look -- the bay bridge shows a light volume of traffic and puddling over at the toll plaza side and slick conditions throughout the east bay and the approach. that's further south and the approach. things are drier on the freeway. 880 itself down into san jose and i drove that myself. >> thank you much. we are leaving at 3:00. rob wants to carpool. good morning. very wet weekend ahead. i was joke being a sunny weekend earlier to get my mind off the giants. >> we try to have the power of positi

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time now though, joe, for business before the bell. >> let's go to cnbc's international superstar, erinurnett. live at new york stock exchange. erin, what is the climate down there today? >> are you guys looking at me or are you looking at a weird thing right there? >> i have no idea. >> you hear me, right? >> crazy is as crazy does. >> vision, it says. >> i've got to say, mika has some competition this morning. in the crazy races. >> i'm on camera now?

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[bell ringing] >> and in no more locations. president miguel: thank you. >> and this will cause further access to those in san francisco. thank you. president miguel: thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. i am ron smith with the hospital and we represent all the hospitals in san francisco and are part of a coalition of long-term care facilities and medical society and mental health and substance abuse treatment groups who are concerned about this ordinance. first, we want to applaud supervisor campos for proposing a master health care plan to identify goals and sets goals and identifies gaps. we're in favor of doing this. what our problem is is the process proposed in this ordinance which will hinder health care in the city, not help it. i think you were right when you said and supervisor campos said the decision to the health department and i can't tell you how important it is and the tremendous change happening in health care in the next five years. when managed care came to san francisco we had 22 hospitals. at the end of

[bell] all right, thank you. chair maxwell: does anybody else after paul -- please line up and come forward. >> thank you, supervisors, for the opportunity to get in touch with the front of a coatt -- he the fun topic of ceqa. this is not doing a good job either for the product sponsors or as the community as a whole. i have not had time to begin the most recent revision of this proposal legislation in death, but i am extremely concerned about the timing after documents are released, the tight restrictions for an appeal. when you consider the voluminous comments, the voluminous documentation that comes out with the final eir, the short time. i believe you will see people rushing to file appeals simply because they have no option but to do so in that time period. it also creates an incentive to hide things and very things that you do not want found if you are a developer, it is you can count on the fact that they may not have time to dig it up. it is complex comedy, and demands. this really needs to get looked at,

i heard the bells in the entire chile, the church bells. oh the way until louis, the last miner, came up. >> we said the first day.tay >> this is not going to stay like that. the ones responsible, they will have to havethe responsibility. we have to better the system, our attitude, to protect better the life and dignity of our workers. not only the mining field. the farms, thish ifer res, the industry. we owe it to all the chileans i i hope in the next few days. che.n announce treaty with the workers of chile. look, it was very emotional to receive that word. words of emotion and appreciation. then they say, mr. president, we want to thank all of the chileans, the lesson we spoke to. pside president qhaw -- chavez from and president garcia from peru and the presidential from argentina. prime minister from england,quay david cameron, prime minister from israel, and very many more. that shows that chile, it was in the heart, not only of o chileans, but we were in thethi heart of the world. the unity, the friendly -- the friendliness and the f