the cypress is in pieces. there is only this. the cypress is in pieces. . >> a poem i wrote shortly after 9-11. the terrorists for rachel cory and all those who were idealists and who actually believed that they could make an effect and social change. the terrorists who lives amongst us is not you, the terrorist who lurks in the shadows of our crowded city streets isn't me. he's not a demon with bulging eyes, a twisted mouth full of dirt, a crooked mouth, fangs driping blood. it's not the savage guner waiting for our school on their way to school. no, this heinous replica of satan doesn't look like a jew. dopt make a habit of supplying the motives of sin with colors of skin because it's skin deep. a student with dreams of statehood or a teenage girl driven by desperation and fear or a dentist or an

the cypress is in pieces like a shattered minaret. it's asleep in the road in its own aesthetic shadows, green and dark, just like it is. no one has been harmed. cars pass by, speeding over its branches, rising dust settling on their windows. the cypress is in pieces, but the dove that chose it doesn't move its exposed nest to a nearby accommodation. overhead, two migrating birds circle the sufficiency of its nesting place and trade gestures. a woman says to her neighbor, i wonder, did you see a storm come by? no, nor a bulldozer, and yet the cypress is in pieces. and someone passing the debris says, maybe it got bored from neglect or worn out by time, for it's as long as a giraffe and as meaningly as a dust broom and it provides no shade for lovers. a small boy says, i used to draw it without air. its lines were easy to follow. and a girl says the sky

this is a cypress tree. the family was sleeping when they heard what sounded like an earthquake, they're telling us, and the tree crashed right on the roof. fortunately, everyone got out okay, including two small children who were in the very front room here. they were sleeping and slept right through. the owner says it was the night before last. he had only just moved into the home about four months ago. he says his insurance will take care of it and it should be repaired in a matter of months, hopefully. they say they heard a big crack just before the crash. i also caught up with a homeowner on skyline boulevard this morning whery huge tree branch crashed down on his deck, sending a railing flying down 30 feet to the ground. he met with his insurance add adjuster today and says a new deck is coming. the wind whipped through so fast, he says trees were bending and he's thankful he didn't hear that deck rail collapse. >> must have been really terrific. my neighbor here told me that he couldn't sleep. i'm a p

they're calling it cypress triangle. it looks like may may have a slightly new agenda, the occupy movement. the large encampment in front of city hall was cleared out weeks ago. a couple others popped up in various parts of oakland. this is tied to the occupy wall street movement over financial inequality. according to one of the occupy websites this morning, a group will be meeting tonight at ogawa plaza at 5:00 as they've done in the past, one of their ideas, apparently a proposal to take a large building as a social center. the action date on that they're saying is sometime in january. it says it would be a vacant building owned by a bank or the 1% or an already public building. after a lot of become and forth with police and the city, they basically came up where the plan that occupiers could assemble but didn't want them camping overnight. i had calls into the oakland police department to see if they're even aware of this new small encampment, but so far haven't heard anything back. live in oakland, christie smith.

anne makovec is in west oakland at the cypress triangle site. >> reporter: that's what they are calling it. "occupy oakland's" newest encampment in west oakland is here behind me on peralta street near mandela parkway. there are more than a dozen tents behind the fence, kind of an island here in the middle of the parkway. these "occupiers" moved their tents in yesterday and encouraged others to join in via their website, occupy california. oakland had been "occupy" camp- free for more than a month after police cleared out another camp here in west oakland in november. this is the demise of the "occupy oakland" encampment at frank ogawa plaza on november 14. the group also occupied snow park near lake merritt for a few days and were kicked out of there, as well. the "occupy" movement started out protesting corporate greed and unemployment and it has since encompassed a lot of other social issues. so we'll see how long they are allowed to stay here in west oakland. back to you guys. >> if it follows history, not that much longer. thank you. >>> governor brown says he is working to get bus

it's being called the cypress triangle. "today in the bay's" christie smith has more. >> reporter: good morning, jon. i have to say this is a harden campment to find even if you know exactly where this intersection is. they're set up behind the fence that you see there across the street in a vacant lot. set up way down on the far side. i just took a look inside. kind of like 13 or 14 tents set up this morning. this is being called the cypress triangle on mandela parkway in west oakland. the big occupy encampment at frank ogawa plaza in front of city hall, that was raided november 14th. since then smaller encampments have popped up. those were quickly dismantled. i spoke with a man named john this morning who says he's the medic here. he thinks it has potential. >> have something worth saying and didn't say it well, you need a place to do that and a way to do it. and they're strength -- they believe it's a global movement, probably the first one ever. >> has anyone bothered you or asked you to leave? >> no, but this is only

it is a monterey cypress that is 131 years old. it is over 100 feet tall. it has over 700 lights. it took 8 rec and park tree toppers to light this up. let's give a big round of applause honoring john mclaren, who would be 160 today. 82 years later, our staff has continued the tradition, and i want to thank all of the park staff, recreation staff, tree toppers, electricians, structural maintenance crew. everyone had a plan in -- hand in planning this tonight. i want to make sure that everyone is applauded for the great job that they had done. [applause] i also want to thank the city family who is here tonight. mayor ed lee. we will hear from him in a second. members of the board of supervisors, including supervisor farrell, supervisor elsbernd, supervisor wiener, i think supervisor mar is trying to park. supervisor mirkarimi is supposed to be here. i want to thank our fire chief joanne hayes white for being here today. i want to thank our police chief. our treasurer, jose cisneros our rec and park commissioners. [applause] ana and reid, fiona ma. i also want to thank quickly our e

destruction of a very long line of mature eucalyptus trees -- actually, possibly, a couple of monterey cypress on the hill -- without asking specifically in these meetings -- how important were those to the public? that question was never answered. all the possible plans not only could the destruction of them, but very -- i want to say -- well, they've very surreptitiously covered over that issue by creating the areas of the various new plans superimposed on what looks like it could have been a billing slate -- a blank slate. that area actually has trees that are older than, certainly, everyone in this room. i myself am a non-native san franciscan, but i know that there are native san franciscans who have grown up with these tall, majestic trees, these specific ones, not just in general. and would probably be very surprised and dismayed to find out that this whole entire line of trees -- plus others because they have not been specific about -- they have acknowledged, "those will be taken out and new ones will be put in," but the specific ones have not been identified. thank you very much -- oh

the wreck and park department has the annual lighting of the beautiful cypress tree that sits in my district in golden gate park, to we ask you to come out from 5:00 to 7:30 for you can have small rides for children, a cookie factory, and a visit from a jolly old guy named sent us. it is free and to hosted by the parks alliance. supervisor elsbernd: an im memoriam -- in memoriam for a 19-year-old, son of two wonderful people. tragic loss, far too young. big loss to the family and the community. in addition are a couple of pieces of legislation, two of which i will mention. a resolution commending any brown for her service to the city and county of san francisco who stepped up as the interim c a l was leaving the city and county of san francisco to our great loss and a few weeks. i had my first experience when she was a deputy city attorney in the property division had to work with real estate 10 years ago. she is a wonderful public servant, a great president of district 7, a neighbor that lives right around the corner for me. i understand she is going to leave the city to go down to her new

that's where we find anne makovec at what they are calling the cypress triangle in west oakland. how big is this camp? >> reporter: you know, there's about a dozen tents right now hype a fence that you can see here behind me. it is on mandela parkway near peralta street. the whole area is completely fenced in, which is one of the catch-22s of this location. on one hand they say they are not being hassled by police officers. on the other hand they don't have the visibility that an "occupy" encampment calls for. about 12 tents moved in yesterday. and they encouraged others to join in very yeah their website, occupy -- via their website, occupy california. oakland had been "occupy" camp- free for more than a month after police cleared another camp in west oakland in november. and the person that i spoke with here at this camp described this new camp as the diehards of the "occupy" movement. here he talks about the pros and cons. >> it's available. we're not getting hassled -- yet -- at all. but that's also a downside. one of the guys first actually came here and said, john, the cops

it's being called the cypress triangle. christie smith is live in oakland with more on this new camp. christie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it was hard for us to find. this is much less visible than the encampment at frank ogawa plaza at oakland city hall. they're on the fireside of this fence. more than a dozen we counted yesterday. it popped up yesterday. seems like very few people even know it's here. according to one occupy website it's called the cypress triangle on mandela parkway. it's tied to the larger occupy movement over financial inequality. it was mid november when oakland police cleared out the big encampment at ogawa plaza. handful of smaller encampments popped up over various parts of the city. according to another occupy website, they'll be meeting this evening at ogawa plaza, 5:00 as they've done in the past. one option they're exploring is taking over a building as a social center for occupy oakland next month, january 28th, for things like communities, activities and sleeping space, is what

just after 5:00 p.m., oakland police moved in on the occupy protesters called zion cypress triangle. they were following up on a warning issued earlier. everyone here on this vacant land was trespassing. >> got real high volume, there was a little bit of marijuana smoking, we could smell it in the air. >> reporter: organizers continued bringing in supplies when they escorted us in, they had set up addisen tents and started work on a kitchen. one told us said they checked out each person who wanted to come in. >> no criminal activities, no drug and alcohol policy here. there's no people drinking or on drugs. >> reporter: they're putting the word out to other occupy movements to come join them, but some are glad that won't be happening. >> this is my business and to leave it at night and not knowing what we're going to come back to in the morning. >> reporter: maybe something of all stalemate setting up, one of the tents is set up outside the gate now. we were able to talk to one of the owners of the property. he bought this property from the city about five years ago. as recently as a

and 80 foot cypress tree felton a home early this morning and the family was sleeping inside. luckily, everyone was able to get out safely, including two small kids. and a three snapped on to a cherokee in san jose. and crews were forced to work in pitch-black conditions as they struggled to restore power to tens of thousands of people. over 47,000 pg&e customers are still without power and more than 20,000 are in santa cruz county. only about 300 people in the bay area are still without power. jeff joins us now. despite all the wind and we've been hearing about it the last couple of day, today was beautiful and sunny and a lot warmer. >> it helped get temperatures 5-10 degrees above average. early this morning, while we did have trees down, wind gusts at 60 miles an hour, only 13-30 miles an hour but everything was weakened. i showed this last night. top wind gusts at 92 miles an hour, mt. diablo and down into los angeles, winds close to 100 miles an hour. this was a very widespread event across the bay area. right now, we still have a wind advisory for the hill top but gradu

strongest winds of the decade's left across california and not some great large trees down, like the cypress tree that crushed his house in oakland hills. >> in the middle of the night, it rumbled and then the whole house shook. i just assumed earthquake because everyone talks about earthquakes here. >> the five-time tree crashed into his kid's room and thankfully escaped escaped. but what happened to the trees that need to be cleaned up? standard industry practice is to take these trees and took them or turn them into firewood. but there is another company who has the whole different idea. lumber. the professional tree care company tries to keep the tree trunk school and with their own sawmill recycles the downed trees and custom cut lumber. pretty the top of the recycling team. >> when they do get to our yard, depending on the species and quality of the log, we will build that into lumber or boring or landscaping timbers. >> the cedar wall may have fallen in your local wildest eucalyptus may have once u. or sidewalk. or perhaps this one that they have been shoveling over. blogs to lumber,

there are more than a dozen tents occupying the area dubbed the cypress triangle. >> persistent enough. we have something worth saying, and say it well. then you need a place to do that. >> the group will be meeting tonight to discuss plans on taking over a vacant building as occupy oakland headquarters. no word how mayor ckwan plans t tackle this one. >>> one sports stadium's plans is flying under the raid yaur. the san francisco earthquakes, the bay area's professional soccer team, could get a green light for a stadium to rival the best stadiums in the country. kris sanchez joins us live from the proposed stadium site with where the plan stands now. >> reporter: fancy digs. there's nothing here. the old tank factory that was here has been demolished, and now the team, the san jose earthquakes, are waiting to see if anyone is going to file an appeal against their planned development permit are if that does not happen, construction could break ground next year. >> barcelona to london, france, argentina. i would give it all up to watch the quakes play once a week. >> reporter: brandon b

others, cypress semi and applied materials, dropped 6% each. while some companies have brought down their profit forecasts, a couple of dow industrial stocks decided to increase their payments to shareholders. boeing's board of directors okayed a two-cent increase of its quarterly dividend. boeing will now pay shareholders 44 cents per share. and drug maker pfizer lifted its dividend to 22 cents p sreha the dividend boost didn't help shares of boeing today, though. the stock fell 1.5%. separately, boeing said it has almost 800 commitments from buyers for its newest 737 plane. that's 100 more than the update given just last month. pfizer's dividend increase didn't help its stock price today either. shares dropped a fraction. they were at a five-month high friday. in addition to the dividend hike, pfizer also okayed spending up to $10 billion in more stock buybacks. the return of the european worries after the weekend was underscored by the selling of european-focused exchange traded funds. with the credit agencies skeptical of the latest deal, t