i am the president of central city democrats. this organization is in favor of them getting their permit today. i am also a founding member of north of market business association. they are also in favor of the permit today. i am also the executive director of alliance for a better district 6, which deals with the land use issues of the tenderloin in particular. half of our members are residents of the tenderloin. we are neutral on this. we would be one of the organizations that would deal with the issue of land use. this kind of permit does not have any kind of notice. since we are membership-based, we did not get any notice. we walked by and saw a posting. we only saw the posting -- we found out later about the hearing. i also chaired the meeting of tenderloin futures collaborative, where there were two outreach meetings in september and october. we heard one side in september and in august we heard the other side. you are asking about community outreach. we did that. at the tender land pitchers collective meeting, we had the s

i am here representing myself and central city democrats. i live in the neighborhood. our organization is based in the neighborhood. this business, mom's, is a business i think we need. the so-called seven other pharmacies is a walgreen's. that is increasingly a monopoly all over the country, state, and city. i think we need a little push back against walgreen's from small business, one that would provide a higher quality of customer service and more customer attentiveness then a large corporation. we have let walgreen's make their profit, but why keep up the small businessman, who would create jobs, provide vital services to the neighborhood , and i think overall improve the quality of life? on behalf of central city democrats, i hope you will consider this appeal and allow mom's pharmacy to proceed. commissioner garcia: i do not mean to correct you, but you understand this is not about mom's pharmacy, right? >> if we can strike the record and change it to the right name, the one at 281 turk. that is the one i was referring to. thank you for correcting me. president p

couple of hours at an elementary school in concord because bedbugs like people have gone from the central city as they did about a half century ago, the people, and now bedbugs are moving from the city to the suburbs. >>> reporter: lorenzo lopez is a happy 3-year-old with a cookie and without a care in the world today, but a few months ago in a concord apartment he eventually moved out of -- >> we had a problem with bedbugs. we thought it was fleas. so we got rid of animals, washed everything, did all the precaution that would you do if you had a flea infestation. they still -- they were still around. >> reporter: lorenzo shows off his scars his mom celine says came from the bites and scratching all day and all night, even while he was sleeping. >> we fogged like maybe like three times. three or four times in like a month's period. it wasn't safe but we were tying to get rid of them. >> reporter: bedbugs can't fly but apparently they have flown into the u.s. on travelers from around the world. they have been in cities for years. now they are moving into the suburbs. >> they are not -- they are

tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their p

the focus of the quake is about 280 kilometers south of sumatra's central city padang and is estimated to be 20 kilometers below sea level. the pacific tsunami warning center in hawaii says the tsunami was observed in padang one hour after the quake. with continuing aftershocks, the agency have been issuing tsunami alerts for the nearby areas. >>> the indonesian government says the country's most active volcano could erupt at any time. the alert status has been raised to the highest level. mt. merapi in central java has has shown increased volcanic activity. the 2,968-meter mountain has a lava dome building near the summit, and a series of earthquakes has been observed in recent days. on monday officials raised the alert to the highest level of 4, and began evacuating people living within ten kilometers of the crater. the volcano last erupted in 2006 killing two people. lava flows from an eruption in 1994 claimed the lives of more than 60 people while a massive eruption in 1930 left more than 1,000 people dead. >>> the democratic party in the u.s. is facing a tough campaign. just one w

department of education and central city productions, inc. >>> democrats are under attack. republicans are threatening to take back congress and the tea party is creating controversy that some say has racial undertones. so what is the congressional black caucus doing to keep democrats in power? in our all access interview, i talk with california congresswoman and chair of the cbc barbara lee. thank you so much for being here. i know this is a very busy time for democrats in particular. there are all kinds of predictions coming out. people are saying the house and senate might be lost, voters aren't going to turn out. how are you feeling right now about everything? >> i'm feeling a sense of urgency. it's very important that the african-american community get energized to come out to vote in november. casting on our historic vote for our great president barack obama was just the beginning. what's important is we understand the political process and recognize that in order for change to occur, we have to stay solved. that's the essence of democracy. >> you talked about being a

in the tenderloin, the west and south of market, and north mission in the wake of an expected central city boom. trans bay terminal is going to be coming up. it seems like we are going through in district 6 at trinity plaza, we are the only people who were able to get a good contractor or a good supervisor, chris daly. i think it is time district 6 united together. we have bmrs, but they have eirs. is that the same? something is going on in san francisco. you cannot put single people, families, and disabled people out of housing and build what you want. i cried when i heard that transit terminal would be 2017. we need equality for all. president chiu: any other members of the public wish to speak? why don't we go to planning for a presentation? >> thank you. john ram with the planning department. i will let michael do most of this presentation. i just wanted to make a couple of comments and introductions. this is an appeal of the eir, not the project. but we are here to talk about today is the actual adequacy of the eir, and not the project itself, which has not been appealed. we looked at

in the tenderloin, the west and south of market, and north mission in the wake of an expected central city boom. trans bay terminal is going to be coming up. it seems like we are going through in district 6 at trinity plaza, we are the only people who were able to get a good contractor or a good supervisor, chris daly. i think it is time district 6 united together. we have

in the tenderloin, the west and south of market, and north mission in the wake of an expected central city boom. trans bay terminal is going to be coming up. it seems like we are going through in district 6 at

signatures and has had support from organization such as the alliance for a better district six, and central city democrats. staff has also received numerous communications in opposition to the conditional use request from individuals in the area and organization such as the middle polk neighborhood association, the lower polk neighbors, the pacific neighbors negotiation. included in your packet is a petition with approximately 85 signatures. at this time, i'd like to pass out some additional all rights that were -- additional letters that were submitted after publication of the staff report. staff believes this cannot be considered necessary or desirable. planning department staff recommends that the commission disapprove the proposed prong. this concludes my presentation and i'm available for questions. president miguel: thank you. project sponsor? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am the sponsor and owner of the store. this is my third time coming here. last year, you mentioned that if i come up with, like, 20%, close at 9:00, you might consider approving. it's a convenience store, we only h

i'm also a vice president of central city democrats and i'm representing them as well. i'm not a customer of this store. and i don't buy liquor from liquor stores, but still, i don't see the problem. i don't see the deterioration that's been spoken of in the neighborhood. if anything, i see polk as improved over the last few decades, not gotten worse. i think the customer should decide. i think the community should decide by either shopping and patronizing this store, or not. rather than any authoritative body deciding what stores they can shop in or not shop in. so i hope you allow the community to decide, not the community of a few vested interest here or competing liquor stores, but the actual people who want to shop and peytonize the store. if they don't patronize it, the store will fail. let the community decide. thank you. president miguel: thank you. is there additional public comment on this item? >> good evening, president miguel, commissioners, i'm gerry -- jeri crowley. our position is to oppose the conditional use permit. the reasons have all been stated by

same mailing list that the better street plan goes, but the project is to develop a sort of centralized city web portal for people who want to make street improvements and the point of the survey is to try and understand what types of improvements that people are trying to make. the concern that the member of the public had is we had a number of different selections and that was in terms of how we organized the survey. it is hard to sort of follow up on each of those and that long list and not to say that people can't make more than five street improvements, but just that for the purposes of the survey, we were only going to limit it to five. >> in the future when we do multiple choice, that we have a box that says "other" and people can write in a choice. just a way and i know survey monkey and all those have the option to do multiple choice and the open box. >> right. vice president olague: to people feel like they have a place to put it and i don't know the survey and maybe we could get a link to the survey. it would be just interesting to know. >> we are trying to get people to fill it o

what he did that made him the toast of his central valley city. >>> how this paraglider ended up in a very precarious place. >>> what a weekend it has been. i'm lawrence karnow in the cbs5 weather center. warmer weather ahead. fog on the costline. we will talk more more about that coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, styrofoam food containers might be hayward. it >>> the next bay area city to ban styrofoam food containers might be hayward. it would force retailers to use packaging that is recyclable. it is in place in san francisco and oakland and berkeley. fremont's ban starts january 1st. >>> 40,000 fans gave a standing ovation to the man who helped save an 8-year-old girl from her kidnapper. >> reporter: fans get on their feet to praise victor perez. he takes his hat off. the crowd just keeps going. perez alongside his family and the police chief jerry dyer is honored by the athletic director. perez gets a football signed by the head coach pat hill. the last five days has been a whirl wind after saving an 8- year-old girl from her kidnapper tuesday perez' story of being a hero has gone nation

tanya pest manager for contra costa county says it was just a matter of time before they left the central cities where travelers stay in hotels and now are in suburbs in the bay area so she is having this meeting tonight. >> you should call a pest control company and one that has had experience with bedbugs, because there are some companies that have not had a lot of experience and it will be harder for them to get rid of them. >> reporter: commonest way to get rid of them, heating them out, freezing them out, washing them out. pesticides might have worked in the past but now with all the environmental concerns, today's poisons apparently aren't poison enough. you, you saw pictures of bedbugs on that story. they aren't as big as your television screen but they are not tiny. in an apple they are about as big as an apple seed. so you can see them and you certainly will be able to feel them n concord, mike sugerman, cbs 5. >>> all right. let check in with roberta see if the rain is holding off for the game tonight. >> i haven't hedged my bet. when you look at this high-def doppler radar and you're

what he did that's made him the toast of his central valley city and more toasty weather this week... prompting a fire warning... lawrence has the pinpoint forecast just ahead. hard to believe after two months hard to believe after two months underground...and rescue just,, as a prosecutor, you never forget the cases where children are hurt. they stay with you. i'm kamala harris, and it's why i started san francisco's first child assault unit and wrote laws increasing prison time for child sexual abuse. and when i found out that nearly every young person killed was a high school dropout, i started prosecuting parents who let their children skip school. truancy dropped 30%. as attorney general, i can do this for all of california. as ceo, she laid off 30,000 workers and shipped jobs to china. china. india. russia. poland. i know precisely why those jobs go. [ male announcer ] because fiorina shipped them there. to shanghai instead of san jose. bangalore instead of burbank. proudly stamping her products "made in china." 30,000 workers gone while fiorina took $100 million for herself. ca

orleans, in the shadow of the superdome is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in america, central city wake of hurricane katrina, new orleans is struggling with a plague of gun violence that gives it one of the highest murder rates in the country. gangs control the streets, illegal guns flood the neighborhood. bloody gun battles over territory are commonplace. >> we've seen individuals shoot others over a sign, a look, a word, a parking space, a girlfriend, a sign of perceived disrespect. >> to get guns off the streets of cities like new orleans, the atf and local law enforcement often work together. >> we've seen the number of drive-by shootings in the fear that these gangs have perpetuated. that's unacceptable to us. >> is it safe to say, mark, that where you're going to find illegal guns, does it necessarily follow that there's probably drugs involved as well? >> it's a very common thing. we see a lot of drug organizations arming themselves with firearms. >> operating out of this former crack house in center city is a loose nit group of nine cousins and friends with names like skinn

but just a stone's throw away from california's capitol city, you will find all of those adjectives describe another central valley city-- the agricultural oasis known as courtland. here along the delta, farming once thrived as 49ers came searching for riches during the gold rush. and now it's up to people like tim neuharth to keep that history alive by farming the land that has given him and his family so much. >> so the family's been here since 1848 here on the delta. came out here for the gold rush and found gold elsewhere. found out that there was a market for fruit to feed everybody, and grain and all of that. cherries were a big thing here at one time, asparagus was a big thing here at one time. but now it's involved. pears are still a major pear growing region here in the delta. >> tim, along with his wife and 2 sons and 81-year-old mother all care for the most recognizable crop along the delta these days--pears. he has around 50 acres of them, growing mainly bartletts and what's being harvested today, golden russet boscs. both of whh thrive in this rich agricultural land. >> it's the soil. this is t

central city. boise. mostly dry for the rest of the country.n boston. 80, atlanta. 70s, fargo. indianapolis. 60s in the midwest. 75 in sacramento. still warm in phoenix. 87. >>> amazing old world views and rent free. so of course there must be a catch. >> always is. a chicago museum is taking in a tenant for the first time. but the free room, well, pretty much a fish bowl of sorts. 24-year-old kate mcgrory was selected over 1,500 people to live in this plexiglas cube for 30 days. >> she will enjoy catered meals she will miss the sunshine, a private bedroom and open access to the exhibits at night. she said she will miss the sunshine, while couped up in the museum of science and industry. what happens if she has to go to the bathroom? >> my first question too. that is a whole different exhibit. >> don't want to do that now do you. >> we learned that yesterday. >> we'll be right back. ♪ she blinded me with science hó when i brush, i like to do a really mediocre job. i love running m mtongue across my teeth and feeling all the stuff i missed. [ ma

currently an elected city official may also serve on a political party county central committee. proposition h would amend the city's campaign and governmental conduct code to prohibit elected city officials from serving on a political party county central committee. proposition h defines this term to mean any county central committee of a political party recognized by the california elections code that performs political activities for the benefit of the party and on behalf of the party candidates. persons violating this provision would be subject to criminal, civil, and administrative penalties including possible suspension and removal from elective office. a yes vote would prohibit elected city officials from serving on san francisco political party county central committees. a no vote would not make this change. please visit the league of women voters website at sfvotes.org to get all of your voting information. early voting is available weekdays at city hall from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. if you don't vote early, make sure to vo >> currently the discharges a 14% tax on the renta

a yes vote would prohibit elected city officials from serving on san francisco political party county central committees. a no vote would not make this change. please visit the league of women voters website at sfvotes.org to get all of your voting information. early voting is available weekdays at city hall from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. if you don't vote early, make sure to vo >> hello. my name is maxine anderson and i'm with the league of women voters of san francisco. we're here today to discuss proposition i, a ballot measure you will be voting on on november 2. >> proposition i is a measure that would open all polling places twice during the november 2011 municipal elections, both tuesday, november and the saturday primplete the saturday polling would be paid for by the saturday voting fund which individuals and organizations would donate to. >> we me here today is mr. alex turk from y tuesday. a prop ownent of proposition i. could you tell me why you support this measure? >> first, thank you, maxine, it's an honor to be here. i support proposition i because it's basically the right thing