carolyn dyson has done with black women's breast health program has gained national recognition. this is tremendous work they do. we are talking about saving people's lives. i keep hearing people talk about how they do not take poor patients. i cannot tell you how much and how often i am up at cpmc. in fact, we need clergy parking. [laughter] i didn't want to forget that. i am there all the time visiting members of my community. trust me, we do not have a while the church. if we did, i would not have to work. it is working people, poor people. we go up to cpmc. i also want to remind you something someone -- something no one has talked about tonight, the potential for jobs. i know we always talk about that. but now we have the mandatory local hiring law. the other thing we are talking to cpmc is we want some training. we know they are amenable to that. so by the time this place opens and many people have retired and they need new help, we can get some of the young people, especially of color, especially african-americans, who are no longer in the health-care industry, back into it

carolyn dyson who is here for you because of her work with health in the african-american community, i think of a woman by the name of janet who was about 48 years old, who was terribly afraid to go get a mammogram. she scheduled it several times but each time she came up with an education cushion not to do it and i introduced her to carolyn and through that association, after a lot of enticements she went and found something unusual. it scared her again. she went again and found that there was a false positive. through my association with carol, through cpmc, i felt honored to nominate her for an award the kqed as an unsung hero in the african-american community. there were 40 people who were nominated and i'm very happy to say that she was one of the people who was chosen. as we move forward with the rebuild program, as people in our community just need help, it is really nice to know that there are really wonderful places that they can go to get help. i'm also really happy to hear that in terms of them surfing the core that the trend is -- and i'm hoping that the they will keep th