[laughter] i said, gentlemen, bob mcguire, new police commissioner. he says, mayor, isn't this just part of the old irish mafia? [laughter] i turned to bob, and i put my arm on his shoulder, and i said, bob, you told me you were jewish. laugh. [laughter] he turns, puts his arm on my shoulder, he says, no, mayor, i didn't say that, i told you i looked jewish. [laughter] end of story. >> of course, when i was writing the book, i said to ed, did you know that your second police commissioner, benjamin ward, who was the first african-american police commissioner grew up speaking yiddish, and he said, no. >> well, he had a bad accent. [laughter] >> anyway, the problem, but the problem is as you said, you took the heat. but when you, when you fix, when you fix the pavement on park avenue, you don't fix the pavement on 126th street -- >> because you don't have the money. >> -- because you don't have the money, and you don't have the money year after year, people start to get angry. >> sure. >> and it starts to make you -- and it becomes a racially-divisive is

mcguire. >> that's right. >> there are a few. sunday we cleared the clouds and snow in the hills. we had a lot of snow up there. livermore hills bob sent in a tweet picture there. i know mt. tamalpais pam told me about. looking at all the snow. all the peaks have some snow and looks like there could be more by this weekend too. today cloudy and cool. i will mention light rain. this system is staying mainly off the coast and going right down the coast. but light rain to the west, a few sun breaks more to the east. now tuesday and wednesday look okay after some cold lows. upper 20s and lower 30s but at least mostly sunny. by thursday we cloud it up and then a very cold rain looks to be on tap for friday the with low snow levels maybe below 1,000 feet. now with that in mind there have been times -- these are the main dates national weather service forecast in monterey supplied this information on his discussion this morning but there have been other dates february 5, 1976 significant snow even in san francisco and also january 21, 1962. measurable amounts. december 1998. so it happens. these were two memorable occasions. we're in a l