>> champaign, illinois. >> jimmy: champaign, illinois, home of the university of illinois, right?ad, one day. and someone handed me a flyer. hey, come to this open mic. it was at a biker bar of all places. for whatever reason, i just did it. and i did it the first time. i got that first laugh and that was it, i kept doing it. >> you loved it, yeah. what were you doing at the time? >> being a mom. >> jimmy: just being a mom. i shouldn't say just being a mom, but being a mom. [ laughter ] then mom went off to do stand-up comedy. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and acting. >> yeah. >> jimmy: is acting something that you were planning to do? >> no. i didn't plan to do any of this, first of all. [ laughter ] i don't plan, jimmy. >> jimmy: you don't plan? >> i don't plan. i'm floating through the universe, letting things happen to me, and it's working out. >> jimmy: i guess if you don't pan, you can never really be disappointed, no d disappointed. >> no disappointment, no goals. >> jimmy: had you worked with children before in any capacit? >> no, and i thought i would hate it. but these children wer

i think the american people are seeing through the misinformation champaign from the, by the administration. but they're clearly using this to, to have somebody to blame in this case rather than their own flawed and failed policies. ah, those are the main stories this our money's peter scott's, and i'll be back again with more news in about 30 minutes time. thanks for watching with western politicians and their client media have a single and terrifying message if russia is allowed to survive than democracy in the west itself will cease to exist. apparently we live in the most existential of times. in reality, the west is restoring the world order inmate during my daily liquidity, she'll know what will show the portion of my down in that awful, pretty shy at the court. where did you wanna? boy, a shawl, norwalk, with a cushion, not in the pony shri media, shirley was near please. no i for the most of them will be stupid. this is ophelia . i'm to consider a slightly goes to justin people. it was wrong. so home like, will you be for me like that? it was with the universe without us because she

course, the university that actually matters here is university of illinois at champaign, . how do these needs, what were they working on e? they're talking about how the university plays into it. >> it's one of the things that i'm more than happy b. as somebody who grew up in illinois i was happy to discover and correct the record in this way. so stanford is a big part of the paypal story. a lot of thecall them the businessheavies come from stanford . real hoffman is a stanford graduate . peter has to degrees at stanford. on and on, you can go down the roster. a lot of the engineering from the company does come from the university of illinois and luke tells me one of my first ctconversations he said he was very skeptical as more that all of this project and he said if you're going to do this, just please don't write university of illinois ofthis history . so just to give context, in 1995 a company called netscape what goes public. netscape's founder was himself at theuniversity of illinois . the person who founded yours and for an entire generation of engineers, like not ju

they are taking me back to the university of illinois champaign urbana. let's talk about college i could and he was more than open about it. so in some ways my task was much easier, but coming at it from an outsider i could else as an outsider. i could also just like kind of riff and you know, ask random questions that i think we're relatively engaging totally totally. no, no, you start the book out and this is one of the things that i still think even after reading the book and after thinking about it for a career. i still don't have the answer to you. so i want to get your answer, you know people look at paypal. as one of these just megawatt like the talent coming out of paypal is extraordinary like it touches every aspect of silicon valley touches every venture firm, it touches multiple companies some of the most valuable companies in the world. and of course as you said you were looking at these pockets of innovation and pockets of talent and you actually i blanket on the word that you use but there's a word for talent growing together and sort of sup

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >>> the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my hopes and dreams for the

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >>> hi, sandy, how are you? >> hi, fine, thank you. how are you? >> good. i want to ask you what inspired you to be a paramedic? >> that's a good question. you know, i wanted to go into med school and after i found out how much time it took and all of that, i decided that that was going to be a little too much schooling, but i still wanted to figure out a way that i could provide medical care and doing that as an emt as well as a paramedic was a way to do that. >> can you give me a break down of a typical day for you? >> i come to work and sit at my desk and then i respond to e-mails and try to figure out what are some of the issues we need to address. can we hire more people. what kinds of policies we want to try to create that will help us do our job as ems. >> what does it take to be a female

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i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >> he is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. brought this department together like never before. i am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the san francisco fire department, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome, jeanine nicholson. (applause). >> i grew up total tomboy, athlete. i loved a good crisis, a good challenge. i grew up across the street from the fire station. my dad used to take me there to vote. i never saw any female firefighters because there weren't any in the 1970s. i didn't know i could be a fire fighter. when i moved to san francisco in 1990, some things opened up. i saw women doing things they hadn't been doing when i was growing up. one thing was firefighting. a woman recruited me at the gay-pride parade in 1991. it was a perfect fit. i l

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens. i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. our community is the important way to look at things, even now. george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i w

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >> right before the game starts, if i'm still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds is very, very exciting. it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays fridays -- fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fres

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i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for joining us today. we're happy to host this event with mayor breed and our iconic downtown partners to show our support and commitment to the economic recovery of the city. we are committed to this effort and are thrilled to welcome back people to downtown. i'm honored to introduce our steadfast leader during a challenging time, but we're turning the corner. mayor breed, we look forward to the continued partnership of the downtown recovery plan, and welcome back to s.f. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, neela, and it's great to be here at selhurst park in the city, let me tell you, if you don't live here, you would want to. this is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and it's great because the weather is nice, but there's been so

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >> good morning, everyone. my name is jeffery tumlin, and i am the executive director of the sfmta, and welcome to the new van ness avenue. this has been a very long time in coming, but i am so proud of the results that all of my teams have produced. the new van ness avenue is a part of our efforts to reimagine san francisco streets, to rethink our streets to allow them to move more people as the city grows, and to prioritize the people with the fewest mobility choices, and that is what we're steadily delivering all over san francisco, so these projects include some obvious components like the bright red new transit only lanes that are built of 2 feet thick of red concrete that's red all the way through. it includes rebuilding everything of the overhead power structure, including 375 new trees a

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >>> dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a rÉsumÉ. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaigna few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >> we worked very hard with the san francisco venue coalition, the independent venue alliance to advocate for venues. put this issue on the radar of the supervisors and obviously mayor breed. the entertainment commission and the office of small business and we went to meetings and showed up and did public comment and it was a concerted effort between 50 venues in the city and they are kind of traditional like live performance venues and we all made a concerted effort to get out there and sound the alarm and to her credit, maybe breed really stepped up, worked with matt haney, who is a supervisor haney was a huge champion for us and they got this done and they got $3 million into the sf venue recovery fund. >> we have represented about 40 independent venues in san francisco. basically, all the venues c

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the d

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >> you're watching quick bite, the show that has san francisco. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward t

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. [♪♪] >>> fisherman's wharf, this is a working wharf and it's part of the beauty of the san francisco area. >> before the restaurant, before the t-shirt shops. >> at first the fishermen would go out and do the harvesting. they process the crab. >> it really is industrial. it is fish processors. >> it's a working, living, breathing place. and it's a great place to visit and there's a lot of history. >> i'm a third generation italian fisherman. we're one of the oldest fishing families at fishermen's wharf. my family's been working here since 1908. my boat's called the lovely martha. sport fishing means when you come out and catch your own fish on the boat. commercial fishermen come out, catch fish, it gets processed and they sell it to a store. they're selling crab off the boat. there's nothing mor

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. ?oo hi, i'm holly lee. i love cooking and you are watching quick bites. san francisco is a foodie town. we san franciscoans love our food and desserts are no exceptions. there are places that specialize in any and every dessert your heart desires, from hand made ice cream to organic cakes, artisan chocolate and cupcakes galore, the options are endless. anyone out there with a sweet tooth? then i have a great stop for you. i've been searching high and low for some great cookies and the buzz around town that anthony's are those cookies. with rave reviews like this i have to experience these cookies for myself and see what the fuss was all about. so let's see. while attending san francisco state university as an accountinging major, anthony's friend jokingly suggested he make cookies to make ends m

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it

most of us take a handshake like this for granted but not former army sargeant gary anderson from champaign, illinois, who lost his right hand back in 2005 while serving in iraq and out on patrol, he was hit by a roadside bomb. >> shrapnel came up through the vehicle, severed my jaw and i have a mild traumatic brain injury >> today he uses this, fully robotic prosthetic bionic limbs like these work by receiving signals from the users own muscles. >> super light, super strong. >> this is the creator of the ability hand and ceo of sionic, a small startup in chicago. >> it's detecting all the different positions i'm making with my finger. >> it's armed with human like movement quick reflexes and engineered strong enough to withstand even an arm wrestling match. >> it takes a lot of strength to with stand the forces of arm wrestling we designed the ability hand to be that strong >> reporter: but what makes the ability hand different is it provides touch feedback to the wearer. >> we have touch sensors that relay that information back to your brain through a vibration motor. when you touch an ob

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. >> you're watching san francisco rising with chris man manors. today's special guest is mary chu. >> hi. i'm chris manors and you're rising on san francisco rising. the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and restarting our city. our guest citytoday is mary chu, and she's here to talk with us about art and the san francisco art commission. well come, miss chu. >> thanks for having me. >> it's great to have you. let's talk about art in the city and how art installations are funded. >> the arts committee was fupd funded in 1932 and support civic review, design investments and art galleerries. projects we have are funded by the city's art enrichment ordinance which provides 2% of construction costs for public art. >> so art is tied to construction. there's been a great deal in the south

let's make to patrick kane and he's joining us live from champaign. that's in illinois. he's a human rights, an international law expert on a professor of law at the university of illinois. welcome to al jazeera patrick in . and so to, you know, as we're seeing their claims and counterclaims from both sides. but to what extent do you think that the satellite images that have now emerged refute claims by russia, that ukrainian forces plays dead people in the town in sort of a stage provocation after russian forces had already withdrawn. i think go, satellite images are very important pieces of evidence and as a lawyer, 1st, as a prosecutor, where you have to do is to prove that war crimes took place or whatever the alleged crimes are. and so there will be a lot of evidence and, and it's not surprising that russia would deny these claims. i think the satellite images and other images from ordinary civilians. those are really strong. i think powerful evidence that demonstrate that these atrocities took place. no, it's a legal question as to whether they're crimes, but i thi

i feel so good right now, i want to invite all of you into the mayor's office where we will have champaign, and a few appetizers and enjoy 1 another because after two years of a global pandemic, i'm just happy to see your faces. so thank you all so much and please talk with us afterward. thank you. shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's peop

the family has moved out of quincy and curtis has opened a new law office in champaign, illinois. >>hristine are started an exoneration-type organization. they say they want to help others wrongfully accused of convicted. >> what happened to you guys in this whole thing, do you think? >> i don't know what happened to us, dennis. these kinds of things happen across our country everyday and now i think we have an obligation to share this story and to help other people. >> your goal was to leave that courthouse an innocent man? >> yes. i believe looking in the eyes of that jury, seeing, you know, tears from some of them how quickly that they came back that they were declaring to me and to the world that i'm innocent. >> curtis lovelace, a life interrupted. . >>> i'm craig mel ven and this is "dateline." . >>> this was the christmas choir bank wet. she was dressed up to the nines. >> as a young girl catches his eye? >> she caught everyone's eyes. there was blad splattered all ever a the car. it was a frenzied attack. >> the theories were awful, prostitute rings. >> the entire town was go

host: this is jack in champaign, illinois. independent. good morning. caller: good morning.s for c-span. i want to make three points and i will make them quick. if it is true that they are not as good as people thought, i would think some of the people that don't like them -- don't like russia should be think attention. maybe give them a little grief. they are not as good as we thought. the second point would be tribalism in politics. the lady said i don't like how political and each party is so tribal. luckily we have the ability to vote. if you pay attention to the people running, if there are some moderates that aren't quite so far left or far right, that is the way to correct tribalism. support moderate candidates. the third thing is illegal immigration. it seems like i don't know that anybody, no matter what party, i don't think anybody would like the fact that people are just coming over the border illegally. i think most people -- does not better if they are republican, independent or democrat, most people support having this, having people come over legally. host: a