instill protective and supportive factors for youth, particularly for youth and families at the bessie carmichael school, the only school in the soma district. this will allow them to have an even wider reach to soma youth and provide college prep services for them. they propose to serve grades 8 through 12 with this money to provide academic support and tutoring, individualized case management, counseling sessions as well as training for parents related to financial planning for college. the contract if approved would be two years starting july 1, 2015 and sending june 30, 2017. the united playas proposal is to serve as a down payment to acquire the building at 1038 howard street where they have been operating their clubhouse for the last 5 years. they recently celebrated their 30 year anniversary providing antiviolence services to soma and across san francisco. the cac and the soma fund have long been wanting to acquire an asset for the community in the form of a youth-serving space. it's been on their wish list since the beginning of the fund but there has never been any viable opportunities t

the principal of bessie carmichael got word out to parents and tried toics plain about the closure. there are about 50,000 students and 8,000 employees in the school district. the decision to close was made at about 1:00 today and officials relied on facebook, twitter, e-mails and fliers to warn parents about what is ahead. parents took it in stride, but the children were a little nervous. >> for the safety of the kids. we are fine with it. you know. the teacher will e-mail us. >> we are not willing to risk child safety. >> ha are you going to do tomorrow with no school? >> i'm going to go take a nap and driveways. school buses will be running. parents should expect deplays. the schools will serve alternative meals. >>> pg&e is getting ready in the event there are widespread power outages. tom vacar is live where space responders are working now to coordinate efforts. tom? >> reporter: what is happening now is people are filing into this place for the city to make sure that everything goes well. pg&e's system will start up about midnight here though the north bay center is already o

this afternoon at bessie carmichael pre through eight grade, the principal was on the playground to warn the parents of the closurement she went classroom to classroom to explain to the students what the situation is. >> they took it seriously. this is something that is new to them. we just told them that we want them to be safe and that there is a storm coming. but everything will be okay. >> it is bad that he is missing his school because he loves school so much. but i would rather have him safe at home than anywhere else. >> reporter: and staffers passed out these fliers warning about the closurement they were written in english and spanish. and the last time the school district saw a closure like this was on 9/11. >> david, i imagine a lot of the kids are excited to have the day off, but will they have to make up this day during the summer? >> reporter: we talked to the superintendent of schools late this afternoon. he said he doesn't believe that will be necessary. that the california school code makes provisions for these types of emergencies but so far, he believes they won't have