it was said this was the place to go if you were weary of the dirty city and the police. there were a couple of gun fights the front door has bullet holes. i don't ever repair them. 1931 stig mond bought the property from the green family. she donated it to the city of san francisco and had a specification, i'm giving it to the city that will be used forever for the enjoyment forever of the people of the city of san francisco. it has ever since. every summer the stern grove association in san francisco rec and parks put on 10 free concerts. usually people come out at 10 in the morning it's a family affair. everybody is on the lawn with picnics and it's free. anybody can come out. it's a great way to spend a sunday. >> goes to 1-2 in the afternoon and runs until 5. [music]. thanks to the stern grove association they renovated the concert meadow. it used to be a rolling grafsy area. put in a new stage and stage building. they put in terraces. we get from 8,000 to 12,000 people. and the meadow next to the concert meadow is full of people even though they can't see the music

own residents or people coming from the outside to walk around san francisco thinking this is a dirty city. i guess what i would say finally with all that said is that the fact remains that it does take resources, a ultimately, to keep the city clean. as i mentioned, we have more than 100 fewer people on the streets than we did just three years ago when i came into this job. we are trying to be as strategic as we can. used outreach, education, partnership. this new version of the corridors program, but it is hard to compensate for the loss of more than 100 people who are out there keeping the streets clean seven days a week. supervisor mirkarimi: to that point, i want to speak to the question of enforcement, especially since i did sponsor the legislation, did so knowing very well that dpw has appeared in demonstrated to everything they can with what resources they are, so then how do we send the right message to people who think that is okay, you know, to, you know, just leave debris on our streets or blood or whatever the case may be. as you reminded me, our district generates the most 31

in the streets to try to get an understanding of what drives their perception of how clean or dirty the city is. we have our evaluation method that the voters approve back and number of years ago, by which we measure how clean the streets are. there are standards, and we measure how well we're doing toward those standards, and while we have been improving each year, for the most part, and we are pleased with that, we wanted to better understand what drove people's perceptions of whether the city is clean or not. commercial corridors was one of the findings of that study, an area that drives people perceptions. so it is an area where there is a lot of foot traffic or where every day san franciscans spend their time to meet their daily needs. with the mayor's support, we think that is a very strategic area to focus in, to deploy a folks out there, to not wait for a service request that may or may not come because not everybody calls 311 every day, but to proactively both address the actual issues out there by picking up litter and wiping out the graffiti, but also by engaging people, particula

the latest poll on the dirty cities in the u.s., no. 1 new orleans.he readers of travel and leisure magazine look at air quality, travel and tap water. also on the top, the l.a. and new york. no word from the people in new orleans. >> a live look outside, this afternoon not a cloud in the sky, it is warm and sunny. we will see a day just like this as we head into tomorrow, if you icloud--high clouds streaming into the bay area. mainly, the san mateo coastline, but some fault in the bayshore is at the 6:00 hour it will clear out by the 8:00 hour sunshine throughout the bay area, a little fog through out the coastline, temperatures just as warm as what they are today as we head into tomorrow, 88 in santa rosa 72 and sent to cisco 76 in richmond, 90 in concord, 90 continues for the inland valley. places like livermore a little cooler, 70 and half moon bay, a foreign san jose. for so long have talked about temperatures been below average of we are finally talking about above average temperatures at least through tomorrow. take a look, tomorrow temperature

city improving. >> it's good to see something like this out for businesses that want to relocate in our area. >> at the top zero slots for the dirty as city it was in new orleans, san kendall was. >> barbed what real possibility of a triple digits in the temperatures today in-depth look at it when we return. time right now for 5:00 pm. this might be the warmest day of the year so far we are free are fought to start your day. temperature currently 66 degrees. yes we are talking about triple digits. the high this afternoon in a word could be 94 barry. will start out by showing you some of the highest today. upper 80s in san francisco. concord 99 san jose 95. this is how much warmer, temperatures are then they should be. 12 degrees warmer in concord 19 in a word. we're starting to warm up into the upper 60s. we're going to keep a lot of nineties in the pictures it for today. all lot of triple digits in the forecast for today. then we will cool off by the end of the week. we will have a pattern of a low patchy fog fo. >> the stall demurrals seckel i told you about before has been cleared from the traffic lane no longer living in any d

the magazine asks visitors to gauge a city's dirtiness based on factors like litter, air pollution andunder and segueen enthusiast steve was knee yak. do you think ralph lauren will have to change the name on their polo shirt. >> that is not going to be big. i love the wand, but that will not be big. >> what chance did graham god freed have for -- godfried for the a's. there is no way the green and the gold beat timmy. >>> good evening. on paper the results tonight seem obvious. the battle of the bay matching two-time cy young winner tim lincecum against godfried. you know who will win this game, right? maybe, maybe not. togetherness, we like that. bottom of the first. connor jackson two-out single to right and cocoa crisp scores. 1-0a's. cody ross lifting off of godfried. that's his 6th on the year. josh welling ham chops one down the line. tahada could not take the play. it makes it 2-1a's. in the fourth, a flee-run game -- a three-run game. pablo sandoval tries to score. kurt -- kurt so you zoo key makes the play. pennington and olay. the a's are leading the league in errors. but he

the magazine asked visitors to gauge a city dirtiness on litter, air pollution, and taste of local tapton and washington, d.c. the dirtiest city in the country according to the survey is new orleans. >>> well, however clean or dirty we are, what is the weather today? >> nice. brightening up out there already. outside we are looking at sunshine. we'll see a strong sea breeze at the coast. the temperatures there in the 50s. elsewhere, we will be looking at numbers to warm up. just a little bit. so we're talking upper 70s to low 80s inland valley. that's concord and livermore. 75 in san jose. still on average, below normal. after today, we're going to go in the other direction. temperatures around normal. 5 degree warm-up tomorrow for father's day. monday, tuesday, wednesday, return to le to mid-90s inland. tuesday begin sums. feel like it. 70 at beaches. slow cool off by the end of the workweek. so, yeah, we go up and down like the low clouds and fog. you know, back and forth. >> yeah. >> all right. thank you. thank you for joining us on the abc7 news saturday morning news. the next news

most city can share a lot of city, but most cities were not characterized as the dirty city in america by walter cronkite some years ago. about 40 years he announced on the evening that the dirtiest city in america was chattanooga, tennessee. we went through cleaning and visioning and such and were inspired by other cities like baltimore and one of their favorite sons, james ross, if you come to chattanooga, you'll see the restored river front that looked a little bit like the aquarium here in baltimore. we have stolen ideas from cities around the country and some extent around the world. we've rebuilt the river front in the downtown and restored the environment and even just in recent years rebuilt our industrial base with the edition of over $300 million in investment, recently opened billion-dollar newstroke way gap, and just opened employing a lot of people. well, there's a lot of infrastructure that's made that possible. we all look for what is the next level? chattanooga has a partner which we own, the electric power board in the business of distributing power as a major distribu

this city by the bay is the 12th dirty assassination. -12 dirtiest city. new orleans was first.ush gives us a closer look of the problems in the san francisco. >> san francisco does a pretty good job but you can see with travel and leisure is talking about. cigarette butts are everywhere which is common for a city deeper and gross water collected in pot holes. on the sidewalks and even an old toilet in a nob hill. garbage is everywhere. also a lesson of killing is not uncommon to see an entire side wall with old chewing gum. potato chips, bottle caps, and i will not even show you the worst. is lincecum a careless and what people do here for some reason? it is sleazy--it is careless. people think that this would be a nicer place to live and work if it was cleaner. >>pam: the best cities to raise a family according to parenting magazine madison, wisconsin. no. 6. that was third last year, parenting magazine says that madison wisconsin has the fourth drwith cultural activities. c'mon, i was is number five. the city's highlight-to mourn, iowa the morninthis morng desmoine, iowa. was

. >>> he is trying to get rid of dirty politics in one bay area city. can a confessed liar make an honorable councilman? talk about that coming up. after we make a dingy floor look brand new, it's not uncommon for the term "hero" to be bandied about. but does bringing a floor back to life really make us heroes? yes. yes it does. ♪call 1-800-steemer. councilman. >>> today the voters in hercules will decide whether to recall the mayor and a city councilman. the allegations against the elected officials include financial mismanagement and sweetheart deals and jobs for friends and relatives. one of the challengers is gerard boulanger. now he was on the hot seat for pumping up his resume'. >> my mistake is i translate both my education and my political skills in france into the system here. >> boulanger claims to have served on both the city council and planning commission in his original hometown in france. he also said he has master's degrees in engineering and best administration but none of those claims are true. >>> it is 4:45 now. the fate of a massive

in the survey of the america's favorite cities they asked people to gauge dirtiness on litter, air pollutionworse than dallas, boston and washington, d.c. dirtiest city in the country according to the survey, new orleans. >>> next at 6:00, computer chaos. the problem that snarled united airline flights here and around the country. who would poison his neighbor's dog and why? yeah. um, i thought this was going well for a first date. look at your it is. suckometer. oh, i just quit smoking, and the cravings really suck after a meal. okay. ding! [ male announcer ] quitting sucks. nicorette makes it suck less, doubling your chances of success. [ slap! slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums

moriarty: our goal with surfrider foundation is essentially to have the city understand that the water is, in fact, dirty, and then work with the infrastructure and the various issues to change that. narrator: but building more systems and more plants can't work alone as a sustainable solution. and, as in pittsburgh, as in new york, part of the answer lies in protecting the watershed. nelsen: we need to reduce the amount of impervious surfaces in our watershed, which are surfaces that don't let the water soak in and then create more pervious surface, whether it's by having driveways that allow water to soak in or different landscaping to try to eliminate the amount of runoff that comes off our land so that the system, even with the development it has, acts more like a natural system and filters that water. water quality and sewage infrastructure isn't the sexiest of political agendas, but by raising the awareness about water quality issues, we can create political pressure to get our issues solved. about 15 years ago, surfrider activists were protesting a beach for being polluted. the city council asked

if you're in the city during the 70s and 80s when the dirty deal was really in play, and you lost a family the bulger gang or someone got shaken down or beat up and you came to realize that the nation's elite law enforcement agency, the fbi, was not the place to go to to try to get some justice, when that truth comes tumbling out as it did in horrific detail during the 1990s, you get mad. >> what made whitey bulger so tough? i mean, was he just completely ruthless? >> yeah. he's a sociopath, cold-blooded killer. come up with all the terms. he's a guy who didn't think twice about blowing your brains out. and there's been ample evidence coming out and the bodies they've dug up. and when they killed someone, this is predna, they culled the teeth out, cut the fingers off, tried to make it so the victims if they were discovered from their graves couldn't be identified. there was just no bottom. it doesn't get much uglier than someone like white cri bulger. >> tom, after he escaped and all these problems with the fbi field office there were revealed, were a lot of changes made? >> yes. there wer

dirty secret? what has protestors scaling down mattel's building today. >> and then a creative approach to combat childhood obesity. how one city is taking a cue from the flintstones. ♪ let's go out to the dmv ♪ it's ok that we're number four hundred and three ♪ ♪ we'll find ourselves a comfy seat ♪ ♪ and watch some shows and stuff ♪ ♪ ♪ let's follow that lady with the laptop ♪ [ male announcer ] now you can watch hit tv shows on your laptop with u-verse online and on your smartphone with u-verse mobile, included with most plans. or get u-verse tv for as low as $29 a month for 6 months. greenpeace says barbie's got a dirty secret. today environmental activists hung a banner of >>> greenpeace says barbie has a dirty secret. today environmental activists hung a banner of a frowning ken doll in the mattel building in l.a. county. it says barbie it's over. i don't date girls that are into deforest station. greenpeace says the paper packaging they use comes from indonesian rain forests. the mattel says it is surprised and days pointed by today's demonstration and that it will assess packaging improvements. eight protestors were arre

ground in the libyan oil port city of brega this is tripoli rejects the international criminal courts to bad for colonel gadhafi harassed and accusative doing nato's dirty work critics say the ruling makes a peaceful settlement less likely and only deepens the deadlock in the country. up next financial guru max kaiser explores the dangers of the e.u. debt crisis and its influence on the global economy kaiser report coming your way next. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report there's a common theme emerging all roads are pointing to one culpable source of the catastrophe b. b. i'm not talking about brigitte bardot but ben bernanke stacey herbert please elaborate yes mag's we're going to talk about the root cause of our financial catastrophe being the chairman of the command and control federal reserve committee greece impact small for u.s. banks bernanke so this is ben bernanke speaking to the press he says we have asked the banks to a centrally do stress tests and ask looking at all their positions all their hedges what would the effect on their capital be if if greece defaulted the answer is that the effects are very small right now this is going to

dirty. and quietly enjoy. it. i am still here feels where i am where you got your. like. your friends and spanish were also occupying their squares and their major cities in order to protest the major economic failures of their government i'm sure people in the streets in france here today why are they protesting. government is doing. all of. its and we want to be found it's like one week we pick the place here. movement. it's. political system in france it sincerely direct spain spanish movement the move started in spain and people thought that i gave it starting in spain like we have to do something because something is coming now and it's like we have to catch it you know so we decided to come here to speak to things and to try to tantrums happening france and in europe well we are the violence but. it's not it's not it's not our fault it's our job but others have some. so they're well on this place. and the police came with gas and there was violence and they they removed all the people and some people were taken to the police station to get into the prisons but there for twenty four hours was. was was was was first of all i would like the media is

dirty face. and by that time, the '40's and 50's's, the old houses in downtown savannah were worth more dead than alive just because of the bricks. when city planner said savannah was so poor as she was not able to destroy herself. but progress did make some hideous inroads putting highways through one part of the old town. street through three of the precious course. at one point there were you going to extend lincoln street through colonial cemetery which is the place of virtually all of george's founders over there in the falling apart cemetery. come to the rescue in 1954 was the historic preservation society who finally had had enough when the old city market was destroyed and they built subsequently an incredibly hideous looking parking lot. i mean, the parking lot that is incredibly ugly. so they band together and formed what some detractors have called hysterical savannah foundation to save the old houses starting in 1954. and literally seven low old ladies and some of them into the shoes went around touring their bodies in front of old buildings and the wrecking ball to stop the progress. a revolving fund to the firehouse, picks it

the city is kicking off a campaign to keep johns away from the boulevard. >> people try to use this neighborhood as a place for their dirty little secrets. >> reporter: in oakland's fruitvale directed it's hardly a secret. scantily clad women some wearing little more than lingerie, roaming international boulevard in broad daylight. >> these girls like 14, 15, 16, they're babies. should be in school. >> reporter: this area is known as the track. neither undercover state police stings nor neighborhood rallies have cut into east oakland's persistent prostitution problems and neighbors are sick of it. >> why the state, the county, the city, hasn't been able to deal with this problem effectively i think is really disturbing that this has gone on for decades. >> reporter: today fruitvale resident michelle joined her neighbors and the east bay asian center in a photo shoot pro moating a campaign that if you get caught trolling for prostitutes neighbors will take down the license plates of johns. the center will pass it on to police. >> we'll see that the police department sends a letter to the owner of that car. >> reporter: a d

with every dirty deed out in the open, all of us, you, me, people at this table, our government and people on the streets of new york city face two choices, clean up your act or spill the beans and deal with it. where it's going to end though. we're back with more on this special edition. what do you got? restrained driver... sir, can you hear me? just hold the bag. we need a portable x-ray, please! [ nurse ] i'm a nurse. i believe in the power of science and medicine. but i'm also human. and i believe in stacking the deck. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what's it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. we've got to be smart about this. it's a smart way to go. ♪ >> welcome back to a special edition of the dylan ratigan show. as human due blissity meets the internet and the truth spills all over basically everything, whether we like it or not. the phrase, heard through the halls of

dirty face. and by that time and by the '40s and '50s, the old houses in down on the savannah were worth more dead than alive to get the bricks to build new houses. one cityplanner said atlanta was so poor that she was not able to destroy herself, unquote. but progress did make some hideous end roads in this putting highways through one part of the old town and a street through three of the precious squares. and at one point they were even going to extend lincoln street through the colonial secretary which is the place of all georgia's founders over there in the cemetery. come to the rescue 1954 was the historic preservation society who finally had had enough when the old city market was destroyed, and they built, subsequently, an incredibly hideous looking parking lot. i mean, there are parking lots, and then there's incredibly ugly parking lots. so they banned together and formed what some detractors have called it hysterical savannah foundation to save the old house starting in 1954. and literally seven little old ladies and some of them in tennis shoes went around throwing their bodies in front of old buildings and the wrecking ball to stop the progre

with dirty du i and conspiracy, weapons, drugs charges, and even running a brothel for these four officers. >> jan: theater and movie updates cannot fat kó [ man ] i got this new citiand started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >> the e coli in new europe has been linked to three people and kidney failure here in the u.s.. there were and northerner germany. they did not eat at the same restaurant or stay at the same hotel. produce in the u.s. remains safe. >> crews in arizona are battling while fires. the worst in history for their state. they're hoping that there weather conditions today will help contain with scorching 105,000 a.. residents forced to flee. people as far as new mexico can see and smell the smoke from these fires. >> still ahead, the san francisco firefighter is installed critical condition. after two days of battling the blaze that took the life of