. >> so i'm sure you're aware of city hall is turning one hundred this are happy birthday to city hall we'll have a celebration in june and this accept and expend fund towards the celebration. >> as san francisco struggled in the 1906 san francisco earthquake disaster a symptom of renewed hope began to take shape a palace not for queens and kings. >> after the earthquake and fire city hall was damaged and this was a desire for leadership in the city to create a brand new civic center and brand new city hall that represented the citizens of san francisco mayor ralph said this building was built without a hint of grass and represents a sort of come back for the city of san francisco. >> and master sculpture that seebd the workforce from around the world left messages behind like the messages of strength and, liability and equality and learning that's what you feel when you walk a work in this building. >> for one hundred years all those two came through the braujz doors witnessed the history events it shaped the heart and soul in san francisco. >> it was an amazing place to come to work

the landlord did not allow the passing to city hall. i think that kind of action by the management at this building is not helpful and can be very painful. i think it was very painful to the community and disrespectful to the community. i think one way in which we can begin the process of addressing the needs of this community is to make sure that when they do come to the people's building, that they are treated with the dignity and respect that they deserve. and so, i would ask the management of city hall to look at what happened because i don't think that we can be very proud of the way in which the management of this building treated this community today. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, supervisor campos. madam president, seeing no other names on the roster that concludes the roster for introduction of new business. >>supervisor london breed: okay madam clerk, at this time we'll open the meeting up to public comment, to general public comment. city clerk: at this time the public may comment for you the to 2 minutes on subject m

she is live at berkeley city hall with more on the issue facing city council members tonight. ali. >> that council meeting will start an hour from now. there's about 80 to 100 protesters marching from the western end of the uc berkeley campus. i touched base with one of the people in @ crowd and he said that the protesters were just now starting to leave their starting point at center in downtown berkeley. their plan is to end up here at berk berkeley and convince the city council to make changes to police department policy, particularly when it comes to use of force and dealing with large demonstrations. police using tear gas and rubber bullets. protesters smashing windows. this was the scene in berkeley two months ago when a peaceful protest unraveled into a violent confrontation. berkeley resident and attorney was one of the demonstrators in the crowd that night. you can see her in this video. she says she was trying to stop another protester from breaking windows, but she believes the police response that night escalated the situation. >> my back is turnedded and an office

let's go to doug shimell live at city hall getting reaction to the big announcement. at a boon for the city. >> reporter: exactly. philadelphia has been very good to the democratic party over the decades. in particular to president barack obama delivering huge margins in philadelphia that helped him carry pennsylvania for his election and re-election. so those things aren't forgotten when the democratic national committee hands out big economic plums like the july 2016 convention. now, the head of the democratic national committee, debbie wasserman schultz met with president barack obama last night according to congressman bob brady. the president had questions about philadelphia's bid and it was hard to read according to brady what those questions meant. but they were logistical questions. simple ones easy to answer apparently. once wasserman schultz answered those questions, president barack obama said go with philly. nbc 10 spoke to mayor michael nutter this morning and what happened last night got relayed to him in a call this morning. >> just kind of sitting there

there is certainly more work required here at city hall. you can see those workers still continuing to air this place out, we are told that the city council chambers won't be opening again for business until early next week. live from inside city hall, matt rivers for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> students at this elementary school in wilmington delaware were evacuated due to a gas leak. approximately 395 students were relocated to ps du pont elementary school. fire officials a a that leak originated in the basement of the school but the school will be opened during normal hours tomorrow. >>> we have some breaking news now a suspect case of measles at princeton university. additional tests are now underway, and in a statement princeton says that the student has recovered and is no longer contagious. the university is contacting those who may have been in the same area as that student with the suspect measles. >>> well, fight break out between two workers in montgomery county and it end with one dead, that worker was stabbed to death, the the

since few blocks away from city hall and they are marching toward city hall. o come into the city council meeting. they will discuss several police tactic issues here and clothing, alleged police brutality. which kept the state acted last year they will bring up the issue of body cameras on police. brother or not they should wear it. and they will also discuss how they would use their rubber bullets and how they use their pepper spray. so several different issues again. calling toward an end up what they call brutal or police brutality . >> reporter: several different issues here at city hall. so you concede protesters are here. bringing up these issues at 745 and that will be there and i will let you know what face a starting like that in a clock. reporting live in berkeley kron 4 news scott rates. >> catherine: it's hard to forget the fiery round of protests in berkeley in december. night after night.protests which had started peacefully ended in violence. >> catherine: people were marching against the killings of unarmed black men in missouri and new york. >

once again, plenty of celebrations here at city hall as mayor nutter receives the official word from debbie wasserman shultz, the democratic convention coming to the city of brother love next september. >>> and pope francis arrives later this year, he will be in town three days in september and his visit is expected to attract 2 million people to the city. stay with "action news" as philadelphia prepares to host the democratic national convention we'll have more live reports coming up at 4:00 including security measure as well. >>> now to accuweather and the brutal cold that will grip the region starting tonight. sky 6 hd taking a live look at penn's landing and the ben franklin bridge in the distance gray now and light snow showers passing through today that will be followed through with plunging temperatures and windchills buy low 0, for the lake-effect latest on all of it lets go to david murphy at the big board. >> on stormtracker 6 live double scan you see a couple of snow showers that were morrow bust in the northern and western suburbs near lancaster eshlier this morning, they

the wonderful she sheriff saved me and city hall saved me. i had to sneak through here or get a sheriff to guide me through this place. god, it's been a long, long, long, long time coming and i'm so grateful. i'm grateful for central city collaborative. clifford, thank you for teaching me how to accept my greatness. tia, you can cuss me out any time, sweetie. karen, thank you for hanging in there with me. and to the rest of the central city collaborative, thank you for allowing me to shine. and my church, oh, my god. i can walk to oakland, that's how important they are to me. and it's wonderful when you believe in freeing people you can free people. and god has allowed me to do that. and i can only say that if you're passionate about something, continue doing the work. just go and do the work and greater things is ahead for me. you know, i'm looking for a job. (laughter) >> but i want to thank each and every last one of you for allowing me to stand here and tell my truth. i've been suicide free for 12 years. [applause] >> and i like it! [appl

. >> secondly, i am joining the city hall centennial committee. this is the hundred year anniversary of the completion of this fine building in 1915 and my great great grandfather was a scotish immigrant whose company was the stone company, the granite company, that not only quar quarried and cut and set the stone here. we had a presentation at the chamber of commerce our last board meeting at the chamber of commerce and mayor brown was there along with the committee head, a fellow by the name of richard peterson, who is heading up the committee. it was a passing of the hat, raising $4 million, but i'm going to get involved and see if i can't, these things always get away from small business sometimes and i want to see if i can't in the process make sure some small businesses are involved. in fact they are planning a big lighting ceremony and that lighting equipment will stay after the ceremony which will be in june and a lighting consult taepbs out of dog patch is the contractor on that. i will see our small business interests are represented in

the tax base alignment we have businesses teams insuring that businesses have a contract within city hall this is allowing us to strengthen our partnership working with the groups like the chamber of commerce and the golden gate sf traffic and other merchant and lgbtq chamber of commerce this allows for better consumption for the policies and regulations within city hall and faster warning of business needs in 2008 oewd launched china sf focusing on growing the chinese firms in san francisco and in 5 years we saw the recruitment of 44 new biz businesses and we've extended to greater asia working to expand our companies in san francisco awhile providing opportunity for companies to be broadening their basis and perhaps the most important part of government to make it easy to do business in san francisco in 2008 we launched a one-stop business center for folks and in the first 6 years they've helped 16 thousand small businesses to improve last november we launched a new online businesses about say for comprehensive businesses growing in san francisco looking for anyone the opportunity to ac

you see the city hall and try to understand how all the parts connect. a city is an organism and at the like mumford said you go down to the street level and start to explore it, and you explore it on foot and he had the expression, by living we learn. stay out of the library first. get into the city first hand. and that's how i found these characters. french chanon, chrysler and essentially what wanted to do was i thought i knew new york. i taught at city university, at the graduate center at 42nd 42nd street in the middle of this thing. but i didn't really know it. i finally found. and i thought, i'm going to tell a story about a new york that everybody thinks they know but don't know. and i'm getting these wonderful letters from people who are long-time new yorkers life-long new yorkers, who are telling me they're seeing the city in a new way. and any writer in the room knows this. when you get a reader that says you've gotten them to see something they thought was familiar in a new way you have been somewhat successful, and that's how you trim it. tha

john is live at city hall, john we thought the announcement would come this week and for the city it was the right announcement. >> smiles all around in city hall today jim. think about it for a minute there are millions and millions of dollars raised and spent, and it could have happened in brooklyn or columbus with you it's happening here. folks were almost giddy as word spread through city hall that philadelphia beat out brooklyn and columbus. >> they came and showed me their phone councilman did you know about this? oh good stuff! >> they quietly lobbied their national brothers they said they had the right mix of city amenities. >> we put our heart and soul into this. the dnc liked what it saw and the philadelphia effort dubbed phl-dnc 2016, under the direction of this man -- >> when you think about a process like this convention, it's a major event the super bowl and the national convenience. >> the last time the democrats had a convention in philadelphia it was the truman area, since then they are a more elaborate event. they need to raise $80 million in private money. >> those

we'll take a break and wrap things up after this. >> once again we are back live from philadelphia city hallhe mayor continues to update the city and the media about the big news today that the democratic national convention will be coming to philadelphia summer of july 2016. philadelphia got the big news and they are celebrating ever since, 1948 was the last time that philadelphia hosted the democratic national convenience and they hosted the republican convention in 2000 when george bush got the nomination and they are celebrating the impact for the city. we'll have the latest many coming up at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. >> i'm sara bloomquist have a great afternoon. [ cheers and applause ] >>> good afternoon. welcome to "the chew." thank you. it's a good audience today. [ cheers and applause ]

because, well, dogs aren't allowed at city hall.hucks. alessandro and his family are now staying at the red cross shelter in the mission district on valencia street. i also spoke to the fire chief who said that she knows that the fire started on the third floor of that apartment complex the cause unknown. but it doesn't appear foul play was involved. i'm live at city hall lyanne melendez. >>> california's $68 billion high-speed rail project could harm the protected kip fox. the fresno bee reports that the high-speed rail authority and federal railroad administration are out of compliance with environmental commitments for building the bullet train from fresno, me der a area the u.s. fish and wildlife service says the contractor's preliminary work infringed on habitats for the fox. the contractor denies the claims. it's been on the endangered species list since 1967. >>> the commute is bad in the bay area but it's congestion we can count on. a new study by the metropolitan safety commission found santa clara county has the lowest ave

priorities that i've been focused envoy not necessarily been with me thinking in my room 2 hundred and city hall it is about being out and gathering from the people that pause in our city to tell me they're concerned to make sure that i pay strong attention it is a long way to say thank you to the commenting and the small business commissions we have to the sf made members that are going gangbuster. >> thank you to their collaboration more and more we're not looking technology as. >> driver as john has indicated we're looking how technology has affected health care and manufacturers and small businesses to get to our constituents are more and more organized and how do we make sure our small businesses are taking virginia western community college advantage of we do that by creating business portal in our webtd to have a one-stop place to get the permits they need without standing in lines for hours and wooift their time in the place they were but in a bureaucracy that would be better we've london carefully to what people are saying those days my priority is about shared prosperity i'll say that

nbc 10's jesse gary is live at city hall. jesse, is there any doubt that the bill before city council has the votes to pass? >> reporter: no doubt, really vai. the last time the supporters of bill were in this position the mayor vetoed it but now mayor nutter is planning a signing ceremony inside city hall this afternoon. use of tenacity by councilman at large bill greenlee have finally paid off. his bill that would be voted on today makes paid sick time mandatory for an estimated 180,000 people working in the city of philadelphia. workers would earn one hour of paid sick time for every 40 hours on the job for a total of five days per year. the greater philadelphia chamber of commerce has expressed concern the bill creates, in effect another business tax and a competitive disadvantage. >> we're seen as one of the highest locally taxed cities in the country. we think we can do better. >> i just don't think that the fears are reality. i think it's the fear of change. i understand that. >> reporter: bill greenlee says the smoking

could cake how oakland city hall does business. stay tuned. babies aren't fully developed until at least 39 weeks. a healthy baby is worth the wait. >>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >>> it is tuesday morning. thank you for joining us. >> nice of you to wake up because we know it is painful this morning. we will check with meteorologist mike nicco about that. >>> need a pay check too, so get on up. >> we have a lot of static electricity at my house this morning with everyone shocking each other. our winds are calm to about 15 miles per hour, so it is not breezy about five miles per hour is all the wind you will get on the golden gate bridge. it is cooler. check out the 12 hour day planner. 32 to 53 and 53 is the exception in san francisco. we will be very dry and sunny and low 60 at noon. by 4:00, low-to-mid 60s and enjoy the evening but improve a coat at 52 to

they have performed at many events including one of their students who performed last night at city hall for the black history month event that supervisor cohen and i hosted. they participate in city cleaning up. they have been doing this for years with cleaning up and they collaborated for the annual silence the violence k. project level is not just a music program. it builds character, responsibility, compassion, work ethic and big rich and danielle and their two beautiful daughters are here today. in my opinion, it is the kind of program that should be duplicated all over the place. again, project level is not just a program. project level is a family. and all of the young people who participate in project family, i know, see big rich as their mom and dad because the phone calls for some of the challenges these kids face. sometimes they don't have a family to go to. and so this music and the work that you all are doing in our community is changing lives. i'm just so proud that as you grew up in the western edition, you grew up in fillmore and you basically rolled up your sleeves and w

has a city hall fellows program we get high leveled people to work in the city we pitched them on project that many of the departments did they selected our project it is to look at how we bring electric vehicles to low income and moderate income families so once they've started it had been great to have them talk about their finding and have a robust discussion how we bring protect vehicles. >> their burglary to build 10 thousand new homes. >> right and we're looking at a potential ordinance on that thank you. >> commissioner stephenson. >> you know the whole story retrofit because what is happening in the next couple of years the city is providing the financing how to tag that you're going to on up our wallet and do a one hundred thousands of work. >> that's a great idea and cover the installation at the same time. >> might as well be a fellow. >> he's a fellow and (laughter). >> public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 18 please monica >> public comment >> next. >> the closed session on publish performance and report. >> any public comment before

the gleaming city hall. there's new effort to pack in the crowds. >> his is the downtown plaza that seems to have a split personality. when the sun goes down here in san jose as it just did, it has a nice warm glow to it. during hot summer days it's like a sun magnet. >> reporter: it doesn't take many words to describe san jose's city hall plaza. >> there's a lot of glare. ooust ear. -- austere. >> reporter: skating wasn't what the city had in mind when it built city hall a dozen years ago. the plaza is big and wide but crossing it in summer can peel like a trip across the desert. there's a waterfall and misters to take the edge off hot days but the built-in boulder seem to reinforce the mojave-like motif. this was supposed to be one of the city's most important public places but the public doesn't like it very much. they sit on the plaza every day to pass out religious material. >> would be really nice to see greenery of some sort. invitation so people would know it's okay to sit here. >> reporter: somebody

if you're around city hall this afternoon, it will be a dramatic visual of this die-in. call to the attention that the fear transgender live with day-to-day, especially now with the death of 36-year-old taja dejesus. she was found murdered, stabbed to death on the steps of her apartment in the city's bayview district. that was sunday, february 1st. her suspected killer was found hanged nearby. the death has torn apart taja's mother who is refocusing her pain into spreading her daughter's story. >> everybody's life matters. tran's life mattered as well. if this can save one person. >> people spent hours at san francisco's lgbt center last night to prepare for the demonstration. the center says taja is the fourth known transgender woman of color to be murdered in california in the last four months and the fifth in the u.s. since the new year so again the demonstration set to be here at city hall at 1:30 this afternoon. and they're seeking public comment at the supervisor's meeting at 3:00. stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. >>> it is 6:51. in a f

a year ago ooze advocates about 20 community organizations stood at the steps of city hall asking for the city to hear our cries, our cries for six year old sophia lou, and 23 year old amelia who lost thro lives to traffic and preventible and here we are one year later after working long and hard to come together around this issue and it's amazing to see the amount of people here today, the different department leaders. the progress with the private sector working with businesses and our city family to develop a large vehicle training program. these are the sorts of things that we need to embrace and continue as we head into year two and i also want to thank every single group that has become the vision zero coalition. we started off with a not so small group of 20 community organizations and now we're at 40 organizations so i just want to ask everyone in the coalition to raise your hand in pride for what we accomplished in this last year. [applause] and i also want to welcome as director reiskin said our new member and nick and coming from new york's city vision zero campaign and we'

next: what brought protesters to berkeley city hall, and what those inside had to say about it. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker? i look around this room and i see nothing but untapped potential. you have potential. you have...oh boy. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. it's hard to forget the firey rounds of protests in berkely back in december.and tonight we were given another reminder. this video, courtesy of our helicopter partnership with a- b-c 7 shows dozens of demonstrators marching peacefully against police brutaility. the peaceful protests are a far cry from the violent ones that happened back in december. people were marching against the killings of unarmed black men in missouri and new york. at least 60 people holding a "black lives matter" banner marched down bancroft way towards city hall. the crowd is overwhelmingly in favor of curbing the use of force by police departments. coming up a popular c

our jesse gary is live in front of city hall this morning. so jesse, today's expected passage by city council will be followed by something else, right? >> reporter: that's right. expected passage, that's all but a done deal because the mayor has scheduled a signing ceremony for inside city hall later this afternoon. the tenacity of bill greenlee has finally paid off. his bill that makes mandatory sick time for an estimated 180,000 people working in the city of philadelphia. workers would earn one hour of paid sick time off for every 40 hours on the job. the chamber of commerce has expressed concerns the bill creates another business tax and a competitive disadvantage. >> we're seen as one of the highest locally taxed cities in the country. we think we can be better. >> i just don't think that the fears are a reality. i think it's the fear of change. i understand that. >> reporter: greenlee says the smoking ban did not chase substantial business out of the city. once the mayor signs the new ordinance, it will go into effect in 60 days. the cha

hate crime but people are protesting at city hall, for an end to violence on transgendered people for what is called trans liberation tuesday. suspect claiming to be a utility representatives are robbing homes. >> pam: these are the latest in the strength of home invasion robberies separate posing as utility workers. police are warning city residents not to allow anyone claiming to be a utility company into their home unless they have scheduled an appointment and to report any suspicious activity. >> pam: this is the second robbery of a true story and the city in one week. and number of retail rates in recent weeks. >> reporter: at this point

nbc bay area's jodi hernandez is live at san francisco's city hall with their message. jodi? >> reporter: janelle, the transgender community held a pretty powerful protest here at san francisco city hall today. they say they will not keep quiet when they feel their lives are at risk. >> if you're trans you are a person! if you're gay, you're a person! if you're in this world, you're a person! if you kill us we will come for you! we will educate you! we will let you know we are here! >> reporter: dressed in red a couple hundred transgender women and men and their supporters gathered on the steps of san francisco city hall to let folks know the transgender community feels under attack. >> i do live in fear yes. you know it's hard walking around and thinking that i could be murdered at any time and i don't know who's going to be next. >> reporter: last month, a transgender woman was stabbed by a man she says was taunting her and her partner as they rode muni. and just two weeks ago, another transgender woman, taja de jesus, was killed on the steps of her san francisco home while

nbc bay area terry mcsweeney is at city hall. what's the plan to make things safer and better? >> well for starters tomorrow afternoon there's going to be a demonstration right in front of san francisco city hall. the transgender community has had it with the violence against its members. and maybe the tipping point and the murder of tasha de jesus. >> i never thought i'd be making funeral arrangements for one of my kids. >> reporter: she's lost her daughter and the pain is incredible. >> she has a family that loves her very, very much. i'm going to miss her forever. >> caller: 36-year-old tasha de jesus moved to san francisco from san jose ten years ago, because as a transgender woman of color, she felt more accepted there. tasha's story ended here on the steps of her apartment in san francisco's bay view district, stabbed to death. her suspected killer found hanged a short time later. at san francisco's lgbt center tonight, preparations are under way for tomorrow's demonstration. >> she was just a really light-hearted and kind of care-free person. even though she was going th

a community's fight for acceptance on the steps of city hall. >> and a high school wrestling match was nothing compared you can find a new frontier. there's nothing stopping you and a lot helping you. technology that's with you always. this is our promise. it's never been better to wander because wherever you go, you'll find us doing everything we can, so you can. >>> a rally today in front of san francisco city hall to remember a transgender woman stabbed to death. kpix 5's don ford on how the murder is bringing people together to fight violence. >> stop videotaping us and youtubeing us when we're being raped, beaten, killed. >> reporter: hundreds gather on the sidewalks of city hall to protest the recent murders of transgender women of color. >> we're tired of the senseless murders so we're out here standing in equality today. [ chanting ] >> reporter: the latest victim was stabbed last weekend found deaded in stairwell of her apartment. friends described her as a kind and carefree person. ♪[ music ]♪ >> reporter: to honor the person and draw attention to the plight of all transgende

couple of hundred people demonstrated and held a powerful demonstration here at san francisco's city hall today. they say they do not feel safe and they want the city to do something about it. ♪ amazing grace ♪ >> reporter: as a transgender opera singer shared her emotion through a strong there was a staged die-in on the steps of city hall symbolizing transgender loss of life across the country. >> it's time to realize that nowhere is safe. >> reporter: last month a san francisco transgender woman was stabbed by a man she says was taunting her and her partner as they rode muni. and just two weeks ago, another transgender woman was killed on the steps of her san francisco home while police say she was not targeted because she was transgender, the killing has struck fear among many. >> it's hard walking around and thinking that i could be murdered at any time. >> we will not be quiet. we will not go unnoticed. >> reporter: demonstrators say it's time for san francisco to do more to support and protect the transgender community. they should feel free to be herself without feeling afraid. >>

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. >> stephanie chuang is live at city hall with the details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. right in front of city hall, a protest and a so-called die-in demonstration to call attention to the violence in the transgender community. the most recent victim, a 36-year-old taja dejesus. she had moved to san francisco from san jose ten years ago, seeking a safe haven for a transgender woman of color. her life was cut short february 1st on the steps of her apartment in the bayview district. stabbed to death. her suspected killer was found hanged nearby. the death has torn apart the victim's mother who is refocusing her pain into spreading her daughter's story. >> everybody's life matters. tran's life mattered as well. if this can save one person. >> people spend hours at san francisco's lgbt center last night to prepare for the demonstration. taja is the fourth known transgender woman of color to be murdered in california in the last four months and the fifth in the u.s. since the new year alone. the demonstration set for 1:30 this afternoo

she is live at berkeley city hall with more on the issue facing city council members tonight. ali. >> that council meeting will start an hour from now. there's about 80 to 100 protesters marching from the western end of the uc berkeley campus. i touched base with one of the people in @ crowd and he said that the protesters were just now starting to leave their starting point at center in downtown berkeley. their plan is to end up here at berk berkeley and convince the city council to make changes to police department policy, particularly when it comes to use of force and dealing with large demonstrations. police using tear gas

. >> hi, i'm david stewart this is any first time in city hall so i'm not as the first speaker i hope to do this the right way and take two minutes and 48 seconds i'm here actually, i live about 8 blocks from this site i work near there, too and don't have a particular i guess i don't know the developer i own a small business and as part of that i've seen people on my team try to find housing when we come to san francisco some of them have lived here a a long time and some newcomers it is catastrophic how hard it is for people to find reasonably priced homes in the city i understand people having may have a vetted interest iengsz e i'm not going to be the majority of opinion this is important for the city to move forward we've heard about the people and jobs moving here we need housing we need this sort of project i've reviewed it and you know this is in an area that has you know there's no perfect place to not disrupt some place in the not a space that is utilized it is not a 20 aspire building so being so central in the city it's in an area that is central and pretty well served by