i'm sorry chief you are cutting out. can you repeat that. chief tong are you able to hear us. who i we try it get chief tong on the line. perhaps can pick up? good morning. deputy chief operations darius luttropp. >> i will start my report. thank you all. if we can pull up the power point, kathy? >> do you have it plugged in. should be loaded is it open >> well it is, chooefr >> this is the fire operation's report for august of 2024. we continue our winning streak with our assistant chiefs maintaining a hundred % batting average in august. otherwise, activity was consistent. as far as reports, fire, number of working fires. slight decrease in the number of cliffs, rescue calls. you know -- fairly standard operations for august. because i never want to leave you without a fire report i will highlight number 5443 castro street. box 5416 on the 10th of august. chief thompson was the second commander. reported a castro theatre, which was quite concerning to everyone it ended up being theus bank. you see their proximity to each other in the lower picture. this is the initial pictur

we have a very, very strong command staff as well with chief. >> (calling names.) >> and our new chief sandy it's been a long time coming. you've been there with me running the department and i thank you for everything and so a chief it's been a long time coming. congratulations i'm here for everything i need and live a mile away so plenty of people will be seeing me in san francisco let's do the swearing in. >> all right. >> please raise your right >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> against all enemies. >> (repeated.) >> foreign and domestic. >> (repeated.) >> and that i will bear true faith and allegiance. >> and to the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> that i take this oath freely. >> (repeated.) >> without any mental reservation. >> (repeated.) >> that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> and during such time as i hold office i serve as interim chief of the san francisco fire department for the city. >> congratulations (clapping.) damn (laughter) (clapping). >> wow.. thank you.

we have just heard the chief magistrate is back in - chief magistrate is back in court and will deliver. we understand huw edawrds is listening to the judge, sorry, the magistrate, as he sentences him. we are waiting for those details imminently. just a reminder of what he is facing. he was sent hundreds of explicit images over a 16 month period, 41 of them included children, seven of them were a team to be of an extreme sexual nature. the chief magistrate has just become the sentencing and, as alljudges do, is outlining the facts of the offences and noting details about the character of the defendant. he said you were perhaps the most recognised newsreader and journalist in the uk. it is not an exaggeration to say that your reputation is in tatters. she huw edawrds is leaning forward listening to the chief magistrate. his hands are clasped in front of his mouth as he listens. it is new and arrestment patient —— it is not to underestimate to say this is a huge fall from grace. we anchored the ten o�*clock news, the election programme, taking over from the election programme, taking over

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get chief mullins. >> of course. i appreciate that. >> good evening chief mullins. prebl have to refer to the -- as well. >> you can move to your support services report page 33, goos as commissioner feinstein eluded to it page 34 and 35. item on page 36 and 37. >> not much and i will end with the same comment the commissioners made on station 7. i like this format. i told you before. . station 9, 12, 13. when i pick up i gotta turn the page, there is station 9 but stood out was steam fitters. when it came to station 12, what popped out was border proposal. but there is an estimation in >> 72 thousand dollars. i will move of station 13, i served furnace force. i had to turn page to look at the stations. now i'm trying to look at the stations and trying to find a pat urn. steam, furnaces and heaters. consistent where [inaudible] 22 i picked up steam fitters there. is that a comment the heating or pipe system rather than and i guess again through experiences compared to the new station 5 as a model. i come from station 16 i will not say it was hard and challenging but

chief would. would youre is a substantive, definition, the way it was ordinance, i a lot more involved. and that's substantive substantive from the 2007 definition. yes and as a result of, you know, theesses that we have undertaken in revising been instances where, such as or with prop e language that the supervisors or the voters, has paste verbatim from the language approved by the voters or the supervisors. and dgos that we have revisedhave any objection to this particular definition bei included in our new revision of the language, access dgo is it for any media? yeah for that's for the one that the work group is t correct. correct. yeah. what i would like to do, i mean, iad it before i gave you a definitive answer, but just generally i don't think that's an unreasonable thing. but i would like to read it and circle back with you. i know the work group is working on me read it and then i can answer that question agendize it. and then get it update. also on the working group status. correct. we

battalion chief joe pfeifer became chief of counterterrorism and now teaches crisis leadership.lson was studying for the lieutenant's exam. and orio palmer's name lives on the fdny's award for the most physically fit firefighters. >> a lot of bravery. a lot of bravery was displayed that day and followed by a lot of sadness. >> commissioner, it seems to be a sad day for you 20 years later. >> i think for everybody that was there that day, it has just stayed with them, the sadness. we have plenty of good days. plenty to be thankful for, those of us who survived, but it's a day that will never leave you. >> sadness becomes part of your life? >> absolutely. >> your father survived the collapse of the first tower. and instead of moving to safety, he went to answer the mayday calls from his trapped firefighters. >> receiving reports of firefighters trapped and down. >> he knew that the other building was in imminent danger of collapsing. he had decided in that moment that he was not going home. >> and he chose his guys. and, you know, we could get angry about it. i know my sister and

that's right and the chief _ chief magistrate.hat's right and the chief magistrate - chief magistrate. that's right and the chief magistrate in l and the chief magistrate in july when i was here previously asked for a lot of information between now and then, more information on his health, on him as a person, about his motivation, all of that will be looked at and assessed so that he can come to his sentencing. we have just heard that the chief magistrate is about to retire to draft his sentencing remarks. he says that he will be back at around 1230, so in around a0 minutes. he asked huw edawrds to stand and explained what their german days. he said that if he wants to run the gauntlet he would be free to get a coffee. you edwards has now left the dock the chief magistrate has now left the court to consider his remarks and considered this sentence for huw edawrds which we should hearin for huw edawrds which we should hear in about the next a0 minutes or so. 50 hear in about the next 40 minutes or so.— minutes or so. so we are exne

the national samoan chief council was founded in 1972 here in san francisco by high chief-- we have some of his descendants to my left. would you please stand? [applause] thank you. vision was to organize the chiefs of samoa residing here in san francisco and the bay area. they also formed the samoan flag day, which is what we are celebrating this weekend. from what i recall, the last time the independent state of samoa flag and american samoa flag flags were raised in city hall was with mayor willie brown. fast forward 20, 30 years later, the honorable london breed has allowed us to do the same, to raise our flags here and we thank you. we thank you honorable mayor. [applause] i know your time is brief, so i will do my best to consolidate our program today. i want to start with some introduction s of faith leaders. to my left we have reverend--please stand. [applause] also, advocate for the samoan community for many years. we also want to recognize pastor ray. [applause] pastor lemu of the first god of faith and pastor--of the faith of san francisco. [applause] to my right, we have--i w

and i just want to thank the chief, because all the chiefs that i've been through, chief scott, you've been the most attentive to us mothers and fathers. and i need to say that, it's not because of anything. you just have. and i'm pretty sure a lot of mothers can attest to that. so i wanted to say that i still carry the names of the perpetrators that was involved with murdering my son. i'm not going to even say their names, but they're there. i just want justice for my child. oh, i just want to also say on the on the. they're having a they're going to name the street after my son dean preston of district five. and please, i need your support to come and let and let them know that this needs to happen, because i fought too hard. thank you, i'll pass them out to everyone. any member of the public has any information regarding the murder of aubrey rubricosa. you can call the anonymous 24 over seven tip line at (415) 575-4444. commissioners, that is the end of public comment line item three. consent calendar. receive and file action. sfpd second quarter 2024 audit of electronic communicati

assistant chiefs, deputy chief. these are internal, of course, representatives of police, employee groups, external advisors. i'd have to look into that to get an exact list of who those are. the controller's office, sf civic bridge, sfmta, and, executive sponsor working groups that were put together during collaborative reform also played a part in this. we were robust with those working groups at the time and definitely utilized their input quite a lo. got it. and is there a place where the surveys outside of the yearly annual reports? i know every district or every station kind of summarize summarizes their surveys. is there anywhere where this is aggregated for us to just be able to get a sense of how many community members or what type of feedback was obtained. i would have to get back to you on that. i know for certain we do have ongoing surveys on our department website that we're looking to kind of build up, but in direct response, i would definitely need to get back to you on that as well, chief, i will ask

, shall i say interim fire chief for this new fire chief?okay. give, giving chief nicholson's retirement and need to appoint a chief. the fire commission will further discuss possible nominations for appointment. the san francisco administrative code and the brown act allow for this discussion to be held in closed session. if the fire commission votes to convene in closed session, the commission may have a closed session discussion to review potential candidates and a potential nominee potentially nominate candidates to the mayor for appointment as fire chief. so at this time, do we okay. i do not see any person approaching the podium for public comment. okay. thank you. and i do not see any public comment on online. thank you, madam secretary. before a vote is taken by the fire commission to convene in closed session, public comment will be taken. well, there's a on all matters pertaining to item two, but i guess we don't have any public comment, including public comment on whether to hold item two c in closed session, whether the commissio

chief please. please, please, please, please, i just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone from the department. the po of e shown my family and i so much support and love during this devastating loss. thank you for honoring my husband. he loved and protected his community with so much pride and devotion. every day waking he had a passio help all of those that he came into contacth. how small or how big he showed everyone love. he preached and he lived by the words of it costs nice. in fact, those were the same words he told me on our first date. and he lived by them every day. from complimenting a stranger on what they were wearing or going out of his way to make someone laugh. and i just wt to everyone in the department that you guys all have a very challenging task of showing up and helping people on their very worst days. and during those times, just please remember the words that he lived by, that it cost nothing to be nice. thank you guys. thank you. and againoe things that i think that

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you've gone from interim chief to now permanent chief.little bit about your your your role, your kind of hopes and dreams for the san leandro police department. >> well, thank you, first of all, for having us today. i appreciate it greatly. so the biggest issue we're facing right now is staffing. this is one of the reasons why we're putting this event on. on wednesday, we noticed a decrease in applications after 2020 when we saw great period of unrest and immediately after the george floyd murder, and it's been very difficult ever since for us to recruit. and so we can't move forward with some of the things that we'd like to do, like increasing staffing in some of our assignments, like traffic and detectives, our detectives division, in order to do some of the things that we would like to do to keep our city safe. >> yeah. and you, chief, have signed on to the 30 by 30 initiative, which i just explained why why make this commitment? >> well, it's important for us to be very thoughtful about our recruitment efforts, as i said, recruiting a

chief. mayor breed has picked sandy tong as the new interim fire chief of the department. she's replacing chief janine nicholson, who announced her retirement earlier this month. chief tong has 35 years experience in san francisco and is the first asian american chief. the department has had. she's been on chief nicholson's command staff for the past five years, most recently as the deputy chief of emergency medical services and community paramedicine. having served this department for many, many years and having worked with many chiefs, officers, firefighters, paramedics and emts in the field, i have seen their dedication and hard work. they do an excellent job every day and i know they will continue to do so. chief tong will serve as the interim while san francisco continues to look for a permanent chief. all right, let's get back to our chief. meteorologist jeff ranieri. talk about our heat as we head into wednesday. it's hot. as you said it was going to be. yeah. so we have two more days to go of this. and then we'll start to get those temperatures to cool on down for

well, chief tong, we've had a chinese american mayor, two chinese american police chiefs. but you are the first to head the fire department. how does that shape your perspective and leadership? >> i think what has been important for me, i think, too, is that there is much more openness for diversity in these high ranking positions and the sense of community representation. all of those things have been really important. and i think for the fire department, which tends to be a very traditional department for them to and for the mayor to recognize that a chinese woman can lead this department, i think is huge, and so i'm very humbled to be able to, you know, take this on. >> i didn't even mention the woman part. and i guess that's saying a lot, really. right. because that would have been the big headline. a while ago. and we've had women in leadership positions in the city, how about recruiting? you know, i don't know what the balance is right now in terms of men and women. what's your goal there? >> we're continuing to try to just make sure that we represent what our commun

chief.nd happy birthday again. thank you, i guess thank your staff and, i guess the department, you know, keeping the crime rate low again, bringing it down. i just have a, i guess, a questions regarding, incidents. the first incidents regarding, i guess the retail theft and then also the auto burglaries. i was wondering if you had used drone on these or had any thoughts of dispatching drones out on these, i guess, issues or calls on these two, there were not drones used on these particular two cases. there was pretty extensive surveillance, but drones were not used. i mean, these these these individuals were. they were traveling to multiple counties and all that. not that we can't use drones in multiple counties, but this was more of a surveillance operation, that we felt comfortable with. the, the plan. so drones were not used to my knowledge on the, on either one of these. thank you very much, chief. thank you. commissioner, thank you so much, president elias. and happy birthday, chief, a

i'm curious as to like what is chief roberts's is chief justice roberts why why do you what motivates him why do you think that he because he sounds like a devious but very deliberate person and he's definitely the long game. so what i mean, i know that it sounds like he came from a very elite background, privileged background, and something happened in his that made him think, hey, we have to we white people have to hold on our privileges. we rich white people, i should say. i'm curious what you. i think it's a great question. i to talk to the chief justice about that. he didn't want was there was not a lot of interest in the book. i do tell the story of knocking on anthony kennedy's door and trying ask him if he had any regrets. these decisions on citizens united or shelby county, he didn't have whole lot of interest in it either, but he said he had no regrets. he slammed the door in my face. this was also the day that somebody showed up at brett kavanaugh's house uninvited, and i stopped knocking on doors after that. i think that the chief justice is his motivation. i think it i th

i'm curious as to like what is chief roberts's is chief justice roberts why why do you what motivates him why do you think that he because he sounds like a devious but very deliberate person and he's definitely the long game. so what i mean, i know that it sounds like he came from a very elite background, privileged background, and something happened in his that made him think, hey, we have to we white people have to hold on our privileges. we rich white people, i should say. i'm curious what you. i think it's a great question. i to talk to the chief justice about that. he didn't want was there was not a lot of interest in the book. i do tell the story of knocking on anthony kennedy's door and trying ask him if he had any regrets. these decisions on citizens united or shelby county, he didn't have whole lot of interest in it either, but he said he had no regrets. he slammed the door in my face. this was also the day that somebody showed up at brett kavanaugh's house uninvited, and i stopped knocking on doors after that. i think that the chief justice is his motivation. i think it i th

chief scott. i would like up captain jason sawyer of northern station along with the officers from northern station to r first award. bayviewsa well. come on up. i'm jason sawyer captain of northern station. we will hear a fantastic story now. we have officer mark and peralta from northern stationfirs marti april 24, another wednesday night after 11 o'clock at night officers respondsed post between van ness and franklin regarding a robbery. met with the victim the victim said he was walking down the street come neden ahead of him walking in the same direction. looked at his phone was not paraguay attention the men turned one had and have your phone. while he gave up his phone another pulled out a gun dp put it to his stomach and said ge us more stuff victim gave a back pack t had a sweater air pod case and they fled. ot knowing energid someone down and called the police and right away our officers from northernsp they could take a report and that's the end but it does not end like that. the office

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that was the chief economist _ going forward. that was the chief economist of - going forward. - going forward. that was the | chief economist of the asian development bank albert park. he was talking about chinese stimulus and putting more money into the hands of consumers. we are getting reports that exactly what china will do. reportedly they will give cash hand—outs to the poor in a rare announcement of direct aid. that's according to state media, the money will be distributed before october the 1st, the start of the national ist, the start of the national holiday. the move follows a series of stimulus measures that were announced by the government this week. turning to the world of art and luxury, christie's has opened its new asia headquarters in hong kong. the auction house holds its first sale today where an array of artwork, including two multi—million—dollar paintings by claude monet and vincent van gogh, will be up for auction. but the global art market has been struggling amid a difficult macro environment. christie's apac head, francis belin. the sales were down in

he got here before the chiefs did. >> there were no kansas city chiefs. there was no afc.in 1941. >> reporter: bob moved to kansas from new york when he was just a boy. he went to games in municipal stadium when the team moved from dallas, but it changed a lot when arrowhead opened in 1972. >> i can remember, a group of us went, and we were just in awe. >> reporter: years later, he and his law partner purchased ten tickets. >> it was terrible. it took an hour and a half, two hours just to get out to the stadium. season tickets were under a hundred dollars per ticket. 22 rows up from the 50 yard line. only one of us on the 50 yard line. >> reporter: 50 years later, he still has four of those tickets. and, at 93 years old, he rarely misses a game. although he'll forgive you if you miss him when he's there. >> i keep a low profile, and it's getting lower every year. we sit in the visitor's side, which is good, because that's the sunny side in the winter time, you know. and i must say this. you got to be in shape to go to these games. because people stand up three fourths of t

chief. and coming up in just a few hours, our raj mathai is sitting down to talk one on one with san francisco mayor london breed. they will cover a wide range of topics, including city safety. that's happening in our 7:00 newscast. now to our bay area proud series. and tonight's story is all about repairing things both mechanical and emotional. garvin thomas joins us now with the story of the south bay volunteer, who is doing both. hey, janelle. irvine. pat vandermolen is a firm believer in never being too old to learn something new, like a new skill to help refugee families or a new way to heal personal trauma. this is where the magic happens. the spare bedroom in pat van der mullin sunnyvale home is no longer a place where anyone sleeps. obviously not anymore. it's a space where things are being repaired. this one was completely bound up the easiest of those to spot are the sewing machines. i've got two, four, five and six on that, and another two. over the past two years, pat has fixed u

chief meteorologist lawrence karnow will be with us.et us know when we can expect a little cool down. >> plus, that bear fire burning near tahoe is now at more than 1500 acres. we have the latest crews efforts to knock it down and then congress says less than a month to stop the government from shutting down what needs to be done to avoid that from happeni >> our top story this half-hour, governor newsome recently gave communities the green light to clear out homeless encampments from city streets and neighborhoods to big push. now the mayor of antioch wants his city to strengthen its no camping ordinance. kron four's philippe djegal tells us about the crackdown. >> antioch mayor lamar hernandez thorpe supports creating more transitional housing programs for homeless residents pointing to opportunity village as an example of success. it works and i want more. i want to make sure that we're up putting people in the right conditions so that they can get services. city leases, the former executive in and helps unsheltered residents get bac

chief tong will serve as the interim chief while san francisco continues to look for a permanent chief. mayor breed and city attorney david chu are proposing new reforms that they say will make the city government more transparent and accountable. they say the legislation will provide additional oversight and accountability for city contractors, and ensure public funds are awarded fairly and prohibit city funds from being used for purposes such as political activity or lobbying city officials. the bill will go before the board of supervisors. it comes after breed reportedly pulled her support over prop d because of its ties to her opponent, mark farrell. the prop would also reform city ethics laws. if approved by voters, the california state senate will not gather for a special session that revolves around the governor's push to set new regulations for the oil and gas industry. newsom's proposal tries to prevent gas price spikes by authorizing the california emergency energy commission to require oil refiners to maintain a minimum fuel reserve to avoid supply shortages. senate presiden

kron 4 chief meteorologist lawrence karnow was back. >> yeah, here we go. we are in the midst of a heat wave now was a nice weekend. lots of sunshine. now things are getting a little bit uncomfortable as those temperatures soaring to heights up to 100 degrees in some of the interior valleys outside right now, beautiful. look, though, clear skies all the way the coastline, they'll stay that way for quite a while tonight. then some patchy fog likely to make a return toward the coastline, but not much. but what a day at the beach is right. look at that. gorgeous weather along the coastline. clear skies right now. temperatures have been hovering in the 70's right along the water's edge. so really nice time there, 70 right now in half moon bay, 73 degrees in pacifica. 78 in san francisco. yet hot inland, though. 99 in concord, 103 in pittsburgh, one-on-one in fairfield, 101 also in vacaville, even nevado checking in at 100 degrees. 97 in santa rosa and 97 degrees in sonoma. so as you can imagine, heat advisories are going up. they will continue wednesday through