vice chairman brinkman: thank you. secretary boomer: eric williams. >> thank you. sir, if you want to call me, we can discuss quite a few issues. under my leadership, we are promoting safety and professionalism and courtesy. period. nothing but santa. give me a call. two minutes is not enough time for me. seriously. but today, i am here, just like you are asking us to help you out, i am going to need your help, particulate restaurant issues for our members. this has been an ongoing issue for 10 years surrounding the operators that work for the city and county of san francisco. when it is easy for a female secretary, if you will, to walk down the hallway and sit on a nice warm-up toilet, and i am being outspoken here, because this is a serious issue. the agency as $1.5 million for restaurants. we have identified locations or restrooms for the members. under the issue right now, out of seven locations right now in the southwest corner of the city, there are no restaurants at the terminals for the operators. they are bein

vice chairman brinkman: thank you. i think director bridges has something. director bridges: southeast or southwest request southwest. i am spoken to members of this body, and he is dedicated to getting this done, but right now, this has been ongoing for over 10 years. there has been steering committee after steering committee. i went to a couple of steering committees, and i can tell you, no wonder nothing has been done. seriously. no wonder. because everybody is chasing their tail, and what happened 10 years ago when you were supposed to be pursuing permits? vice chairman brinkman: thank you, mr. williams. i think we will ask for a quick recap to see what is going on, so i appreciate it. >> appreciate it. look forward to working with you all. secretary boomer: adam greenfield, chris, herbert weiner. >> good afternoon. my name is adam greenfield, an i am a board member of the sunset park neighbors at the sunset, and i am also co-chair of what used to be the inner sunset fair. mike co-chairing is here, and he has got a

vice chairman brinkman: any others? a hit and run yesterday, those are really stark reminders to us that we still have a lot of work to do on pedestrian safety. it is easy to think of those as private tragedy is affecting only the families or the drivers involved, and again, the second one i am not even sure is recognized as a tragedy, but i feel that we need to have the pedestrian safety task force back to the mta board or to policy and governance. chicago, i read, just adopted a goal of zero pedestrian fatalities by 2020, and we have some very ambitious goals, but they are really stepping it up, and they have developed a task force to examine each site where a pedestrian incident occurred to see what they can do, and it would be very interesting to see if we can do that, especially on that masonic one. i do not believe it covers that block, and that block is particularly bad. that trader joe's. we have all done something that was a bad judgment call and was something we should not do. thankfully, last weekend, we both

among them a 200-dollar chargrill classic, another the wal-mart, a 250-dollar brinkman grill. >>> we for the preakness. the tradition today. , it's a chance for the owners and trainers to get together and make up all the stories about why their horse will win on saturday's race. every winner's first reward is a blanket . . spoil era alert they aren't really black Ñ-eyed susans, they just won't grow this time of year. viking mums are used and the blanket is a simple every year of the old york giant's store. the floorist who make itself never loose their excitement at seeing it displayed. >> i think get goose bumps because i feel i'm a part of history now. i think it's neatful i think ours looks better than it the rose ones hats at the kept ñn kentucky derby. >> it has almost 3,000 flowers in it. a smaller one made for friday. >>> it was standing room only at lexington market for the 22nd crab derby. the announcer had the crowd hype entertained. a water bottle and a ping-pong ball on a stick. no matter how hard some of them just wouldn't budge but check this out. last minute my crab to

i want to thank the directors nolan, heinicke, brinkman. i think i got everybody. from the recreation and parks department, thank you. making sure we are connecting the city and connecting the parks. i want to recognize charlie johnson from the mayor's office of disability. i know we have a guest from the department of public works. the commander from the police department, we are honored to be working with you. we have an sf frfolks from sf environment. an amazing showing. many friends here. you know our goal. is easy. we want to be doing this every day. make bike to work day every day, with your support we will make san francisco the must bike friendly city. thank you for your support, have the bike to work day -- happy bike to work day. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. this is the monday, at the 14th, 2012, a meeting of the land use and economic development committee. my name is eric mar. please give us the announcement. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. items act upon will appear on the may 22 board of supervisors age

. >> thank you, director brinkman. a lot of effort and energy is required. it also takes money. while we see huge returns on the investment for the city and neighborhood, somebody needs to step up and put the money for word. we are pleased to have as our presenting sponsor for 2012 the bank of america. they have been a great partner. we are excited to have them on board recognizing the importance of this for the city's economy. i want to ask the senior vice president and a small banking manager to come up and say a few words. [applause] >> first, i want to say thank you for being here, mayor lee, thank you for the hard work and the team that helped to organize it. it is such a wonderful event. bank of america is truly excited and proud to be sponsoring sunday streets. mayor lee indicated how important this event is for him. it is important to us as well. we believe this event will not only help the local economy by stimulating neighborhood business, it will also help make this beautiful city of san francisco even more vibrant. it will attract more tourists and more neighborhood

that's the brinkman grill. >> 81 apps. >> you have more than i do. 76. >> what's your favorite >> >> tet rhis. i love it. >> you do love . >>> stay with us this morning. we have your news to go coming up. >> including the latest on that pill mill bust. two days after the dea agents that came in, we're learning all new information. what those in the clinic refused to do. >>> and i am live here at pimlico racetrack where things are all abuzz. everybody getting ready for the preakness stakes. i'll tell you what's happening today, coming up. >>> and a break from the rain, but for how long? those details coming up. >>> it is going to be a slow ride here on the west side of the beltway. also where there's congestion coming up in my time saver traffic report. >>> thanks for joining us this mo. >> a lot to get to, a busy thursday for you. linda sellers is live with a suspected pill mill. a check of that preakness forecast first. >> looks good for the preakness and it looks good this morning as maryland's most powerful radar is nice and dry and it will stay that way as we go into the afternoo

have a reception right outside to launch our beginning of our celebration and we invited cheryl brinkman, who is the vice chair of the m.t.a. to say just a few words about their anniversary and, again, invite all of you to join us after the commission meeting. >> thank you very much. president, commissioner, executive director. thank you for the opportunity to represent the san francisco m.t.a. on this day as you begin to mark your 150th anniversary here at the port of san francisco. i'm standing in for tom nolan, our chairman of the board, who couldn't be here this afternoon but does he plan to join you this evening. as you know and monique mentioned, muni is celebrating its centennial this year. it's very appropriate our two agencies have decided to team up and remind people what amazing things we've done for the city in terms of transportation. this is the building where our muni cable cars and street cars come down to meet the water borne transportation as they have done so long. so people can board ferries to locations around bait and ships to destinations around the glone. the most

but first a game of brinkman brinksmanship is playing out in the dilemma over greece staying or quittingthe euro economists see europe's monkey powerbrokers offering athens nothing new but nothing new to do but to do as told and keep cutting even though greek voters are increasingly likely to reject that next month peter all over has more. should they stay or should they go germany's angela merkel is adamant too if you mind is that for my part i would like to say that i think we agree we want greece to remain in the euro zone we know that it's the same for a majority of greek people. but it seems plans are being drawn up in case those hopes fail the german blunders punk says the situation in greece is extremely worrying but isn't predicting the demise of the single currency should the greeks quit the euro a view certainly not shared by all if it won't happen if it won't become reality then we are really in a mess and it means automatically that this will spill a domino effect all over europe because then we have also a question of moral hazard for example if you overdo it you pull out of

martha brinkman of new jersey, 103 years old. on the boardwalk of atlantic city.eople love to hear her. adeline wallace from evansville, indiana, is 105 and has friends of all ages. and she really believes in helping other people. and we have an extra one this morning, irene baumgartner of kenosha, wisconsin, is 100 years old. she loves to dance. and she also enjoys wonderful things like tasting some wine each evening before din-din. that's it. and now back to new york. >> all right, willard, thank you so much. >>> pepsi has reached a deal with michael jackson's estate to feature the pop star's image in a new campaign now nearly three years after his tragic death. nbc's kristen dahlgren is in los angeles with details on this story. kristen, good morning. >> good morning, ann. remember, michael jackson and pepsi, the first time around, it was an ad campaign that had its ups and downs but was a huge financial success. now pepsi is banking that even in death michael jackson is still the king of pop. in the '80s it was a match that made madison avenue history. the wor

participate, a regular member here, senior fellow at the bipartisan policy center, secretary dan brinkman. i also want to acknowledge and hope that he will protect debate, ron brownstein. ron has written a great deal about the issues that were going to be talking about today or that i'm very pleased that he was able to be here during this period as you know, bipartisan policy center was established five years ago, building on the work of the national commission on energy policy. it was founded by four former senate majority leaders, howard baker, george mitchell, bob dole, and tom daschle. they believed that while there is a critical place in the making of public policy and partisanship, and for different views and values, all of whom were certainly on the barricades fighting for the things they believed in and for their parties. but they also believe and practice that we have to be able to shape and negotiate solutions to tough in critical national issues across partisan ideological regional and economic lines. i may mention that some of you are aware, about a month ago we honored senato

i was going out there to argue and what made it really bad is one of the umpires joe brinkman which you'll me from behind right there. and all of a sudden, i don't know what's going on. then i'm trying to go away and had a little struggle with him. but you that's about as bad as i've been in my life. >> they threw you out for having too much pine tar. >> here's the rule. i guess this is a different rule. this would be 18 inches to the beginning of this label, right here is so what would happen, you can only have pine tar, from my understanding, i think it was 16 inches. so 16 inches up and my pine tar was actually up to about here. and that's just the result of using the same bat for a long time. i didn't break that bat for a long time and as a result, every time you used the bat and you go like this and it gets on your hand and then it kind of climbs up the barrel a little bit as a result, it got up a little high. by no mean did i think i was cheating or know the rule back then. >> billy martin knew about it and was waiting for the right moment. >> we played them a week prior to that in k