. >> it is gorgeous, i'll send people to this tree, this is the brisbane box. we plant a lot of trees from australia and new england. brisbane box, they're well adapted, they have trees that will do well in our climate. a bigger chaltoning plant in many parts of the san francisco, the micro climate, we have windy area, really foggy areas and part of the reason we don't have native trees, is there weren't a lot of native trees in those climates. they're shrubry and branchry and they don't make good street trees. >> a good street tree is a tall tree that hasn't been topped or hacked back to get under wires. one reason this is lovely, is it is allowed to achieve its actual frm and a lot of times you see this lollipop trees or trees that are packed back to get under wires. on this particular street, we don't have overhead wires, we'll release them and they can definitely more naturally. >> this is a great street tree, it is a new tree, it is a hearty urban tree but it didn't have some of the problems of a ficas. it is more like a column at maturity, it gets good si

the city of brisbane, which is where the interchange is partially located, is serving as the lead agency for this stage of work. and the estimated cost of the stage of work is about $720,000. the p.s.r. is currently at about 80% complete. however, caltransrecently began to require reimbursement for the staff time that caltransstaff spend providing oversight on projects such as these. the cost estimate for that caltransoversight is $110,000. so there's a gap of $110,000 in the project now. that grew. before now, the project has been funded by private developer contributions two developers in particular, in the amount of $610,000. so for this $110,000 gap, $55,000 has been provided by our counterparts in san mateo county, the san mateo county transportation authority that leaves $55,000, which is the subject of this request. the project itself for full construction has not been fully funded yet. in fact, that's a question that the authority is currently engaged in the stud dwroi try to answer -- study to try to answer. it's called the bycounty transportation study. ear wailing to build som

we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation.e do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that

who provide jobs, who pay our payroll tax without whining about it, did not threaten to move to brisbane, and always want to be here. the companies you are trading with now and offering tax breaks are going to be public companies sen. they will answer to their stockholders. they will outsource their jobs, god knows where. in a move to north carolina lake bank of america. it will probably hire a few people in bayview. but most of these jobs are going to go to computer geeks from oklahoma and seattle and they are not going to hire locally. our future is not with them. it is our local businesses. i saw a headline in usa today last week that 300,000 jobs that were created last month were created by small businesses. i know that's the city always pays homage to small business, but you are just talking the talk and not walking the walk. 10 or 15 companies like mine, in a general contractor, another of our members has 70 staff, and the only auto parts store in the city. we have a grocery that has 70 employees. we each pay about $40,000 a year and then there will taxes. we will be gone. this wil

people is what companies are located in silicon valley and brisbane that are not here. i would have thought they would have moved here first, but they are not here. when you look at those companies like google or hp or other silicon valley's, that is why i went down to talk to the silicon valley leadership forum. there ceo's -- their ceo's had a chance to coordinate with us. they were telling us why they would not moving to san francisco. that gave me another agenda that is not corporate welfare. what can we attract here for them? the key is education. we've got to have an intelligent work force that keeps them wanting to be here. that is the number-one thing. that is why i investing so much time in creating a strong connection with our city college, school district. they've got to make sure we have a very integrated education system. that will be a key for many years to come. they tell us in no uncertain terms that they come here because these are the best minds. if they have marginal engineers , just being here makes those engineers better when they are interacting wi

there is even a fear it could drift toward brisbane, capital of queensland. it is already affecting outlying towns in new south wales, like new castle. this is having a big impact on travel in australia. coach companies are laying on extra services. obviously, in a country this big, there are distances. for some country, they are impracticable. >> how damaging is this for the airline industry? >> it is a nightmare for the industry. obviously, they have had the destruction last week. 700 flights were cancelled them. airlines like a virgin australia were trying to fly around and below the ash cloud. this time, they have decided it is too dangerous. qantas has had a cautious policy throughout. it says safety is more important than schedule. this comes at the end of the year or qantas has already had problems with its super jumbos. it grounded those. also, the ash cloud in europe. a nightmare for australian airlines. >> thank you so much for updating us. you are watching "newsday" on the bbc, live from singapore and london. still to come, our series on asian mega

surprise victory over a high flying coupon to move one place off the bottom in the role so wins for brisbane and f.c. krasnodar. by the end of this month we should know a former russia. is set to return after all to english premier league side chelsea the london club puppy money interests in sacking carlo ancelotti last month but the blues say they want to appoint a new boss within the next fortnight former acting coach i think is believed to be front runner for a job regarded as one of the most in club football is the manager was. the process is going well. but no relation to the times is a. vehicle with the next tuesday. we we're. ok let's move on to tennis where streamer williams has finally returned to competitive action the thirteen time grand slam champion had been out for a year with a foot injury but managed to come through the first round on ski at eastbourne despite. best efforts well it didn't look like a victorious comeback for williams out first the former world number one only able to take a single game in the first but turned things around in solid fashion to carve out a one s

we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are

right next door in brisbane, they have a lot of land. they do not tax them for their employees growing. i am trying to keep jobs in the city. i want you and your sons and daughters to be able to work for twitter. that is why we gave the payroll exemption for some time. we will try to be smart about it. we have to welcome business in. i do not think we're giving anything away. we're losing business in the city. we're trying to be smart about retaining business and jobs and growing those in the city. >> thank you, mr. mayer. thank you for the feedback on the pension proposal. we're in the process of kicking around ideas. thank you for your thoughts. as the mayor said, the goal is not to punish anybody. the goal is to have a fair pension. we also need to look at some of our policies and think about the changes we need to make. so that when you look out in the future, we have a solvent pension system and have a city budget that can support all of the services we care about. i appreciate your feedback. i want to let you know that we have a lo

if we did this on april 19, 1906, we would be meeting in temporary trailers and brisbane right now. i guarantee you that. we got it done. we did it at city hall. we do it every day in san francisco. we get things done. this is a project that needs to get done. it will not just put people to work, which is my primary goal. this will provide people with direct control. this is something that we need. the whole west side of the city needs this project. we need this to go through. aror hands. we can continue it. that is not progress. we need to vote and get this passed through land use and we need to vote yes this afternoon. thank you, supervisor chiu, for those amendments. let's hope this can go through. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. >> working with the parkmerced action coalition. i cannot go without saying that the heart of this project is the demolition of 1538 homes. it's the demolition of a neighborhood. pretty much every time we've done that in this city, we regret it later. i also need to point out -- mr. sullivan makes a good argument that the density bonus exception is

and incoming flights diverted to brisbane. with meteorologists warning 5 disruption for another 48 hours, quantas has announced it is grounding all scheduled flights to and from sydney, melbourne and cambra wednesday. and then there were eight. that's how many candidates have officially announced they are running for the republican presidential nomination in 2012. today, jon huntsman was the latest to join the growing field. the former utah governor was most recently served as president obama's ambassador to china. he is now hoping to unseat his former boss, but all the of the republican candidates are looking for the competitive edge, there is one famous name who is sitting this cycle out. jeb bush has quite a family tie to the white house and recently i caught up with him in florida to get his take on the political scene. for more than 30 years, the name bush has been at the center of almost every american presidential election. george h.w. was first elected vice president in 1980 before winning the oval office. his son geor

what may not be as clear to people is what companies are located in silicon valley and brisbane that are not here. i would have thought they would have moved here first, but they are not here. when you look at those companies like

what may not be as clear to people is what companies are located in silicon valley and brisbane that are not here. i would have thought they would have moved here first, but they are not here. when you look at those companies like google or hp or other silicon valley's, that is why i went down to talk to the silicon valley leadership forum. there ceo's -- their ceo's had a chance to coordinate with us. they were telling us why they would not moving to san francisco. that gave me another agenda

. >> some of the flights coming into, say they were scheduled to come into sydney, diverted to brisbanethere are other options there. it is a long journey. you can go bus or rail. there are some international flights still getting in. mostly airlines from overseas and admittedly their approach to the airport and out of is through the north, which is not so effected by this ash cloud so there are other options there. doesn't mean nobody is getting in or out but it is a chaotic situation foremost and a lot of the domestic flights. the routes between sydney and melbourne is a major route. hopefully by late tomorrow we might be seeing the situation change with that. it is a moving feast as it is described. when you look at the ash plume on its second way around it's worse off on the second time, thicker and bigger, it's 2,000 kilometers long so it's understandable why it's having such an effect on air travel, as bizarrely as it sounds to hear a volcano in chile disrupted air travel in australia for a second week. >> gem ma veness at australia's airport. >>> we're going to look at the money