they are the burmese youth association troupe, and they have a special performance for us. please give them a warm welcome. [applause] ♪ [singing in foreign language] [applause] >> the costumes are so beautiful. oh, my gosh. thank you very much. the costumes are simply beautiful. wonderful thank you to them. beautiful costumes. now, what is an event would not be complete without great food? i hope you enjoyed it, and we want to thank the asian shaft -- chef association, offering the best louisiana on the bay area, and to help me find them, i would like to call upon the mayor's office of neighborhood services office manager, and she is going to say a special thank you. where is francis? claudine? is she coming? is francis here? yes, well, you can help me thank them. >> we want to say a special thanks to the shaft -- chef. francis was going to make this presentation, but it is on behalf of the chef, the owner and executive chef and also peter wong. here we are. come on, everybody. they did a great job. >> the chef will be the incoming chair person of the chef association. it

our staff speaks several languages, including cantonese, burmese, russian, and spanish. four other languages, legal attain interpreter services for you. come and visit us. glad to have had the opportunity to tell you what we do. >> thank you. commissioners, anything further? item c, commissioners' report. do you have anything? let me ask if the public does not mind that we take this after, especially the one hour into this, after item 2, which is capt. garrity's report on the tenderloin district. ok, with that, we will move on to item 2. >> introducing captain joseph garrity, commanding officer of the tenderloin, addressing the commission on police activities in the tenderloin. >> good evening, commissioners, general public. i spent 14 years as a patrolman and walking the beat. another six years as a sergeant and the attendant. i have seen many people through the commission. with that in mind, i will not go line by line. people have been around long enough -- these power points -- they will kill you. and they get a little dry. i do not mind answering questions. i was won

they are the burmese youth association troupe, and they have a special performance for us.lease give them a warm welcome. [applause] ♪ [singing in foreign language]

. >> reporter: to a burmese python slithering. >> that's why you're in south florida. >> reporter: she our backyards. >> were you swimming with bull sharks near miami. you found a boar in a cage near new orleans. you saw that python. what are the scariest things you experienced in cities? >> the fungiest thing it is of course, i couldn't look at it with fear or i couldn't do my job. swimming with the bull sharks for example. these are unpredictable sharks. in fact, they're the sharks that "jaws" was based on. there are people who have gators in their kitchens. the thing is our habitat has now converged with wildlife habitat. it's just animals have to adapt. i was out there trying to see how they're doing that. >> do you think people would be surprised to know how much wildlife exists. here in new york city red-tail hawks, owls bats people don't think about those things do they? >> absolutely. i wasn't out there trying to find pigeons. i was trying to look for spectacular things the size of volkswagens. spectacular stuff. >> you not only went hunting for wildlife. but in the first episo