eric brooks,es opinion knoll la jackson, eric smith, espinola jackson and espinola jackson. you have three cards. >> we need her to speak more than one. eric brooks, san francisco green party and community choice energy alliance in our city. i just spoke to local power an hour ago and maybe paul was being polite to work constructively with the other parties. but i definitely ascertained from him that he's not satisfied with where this r.f.p. is at. and as all of you know, the lafco commissioners should know from the email that i sent yesterday, that the advocates are not satisfied at all. we do not want an r.f.o. process to be separated out of this r.f.p. and we want this whole thing to move forward as one package, not in separate piece that's can be undermined. the key issue -- the key thing that needs to happen that has not happened yet -- and the reason the last r.f.p. was not successful, is that before that r.f.p. went out, both local power and and a half gant specifically said in their assess -- navigant specifically said in their assessments that we need to do a long as

. >> richmond homicide detective eric smith, and were among those that cater to the red cross. the chief of police of is departmen by the they could take off time to give blood. the same goes for lieutenant ecotage most of the works for the fish and game department of sacramento. she says that there w all she wa als rushed to give blood and she was comfor ted when a shooting happens in the law-enforcement community is to happen to any of us. and it is important knowing that coming down and making this considered effort to help out. and i would like to feel, i know, actually that the same be done for me. >> bunny taylor, a schoolteacher has been a regular donor since 1966. when she found out, she decided to donate an officer young's honor. >> when i give blood, on the am giving to humanity. you know, you never know where your donation is going to go. today, i know where is going and it is going to somebody who serves us all. and i think that makes it special, today. it makes it a little more personal. the american red cross will continue to except blood in his name, and in oakla

eric smith put it up there a second ago, but -- like how the thing? that is not her. wait, where are you? it is in spanish. that is the only copy you had, but people know her. she came into their houses to advocate clean energy. i spent so much time with her. she said she wanted to know everything about the program because she wanted to sell at in our region and create awareness and advocacy in her community. she has resurrected an important political organization. you cannot say political stuff during public comment, right? a very important political organization advocating for one of the political parties in bayview hunters point to create awareness for the importance of a certain process with selecting a supervisor. you know what i'm trying to say. she is just an incredible person, and i cannot say enough why she has to be on this body. we do not have enough women on our bodies. we do not have enough women of color. especially at a moment where there is a rumor that we are going to lose commission a juliet ellis from the sfpuc, something we're not going to let happ

. >> i'm eric smith, executive director of green depot. i was intending to speak on agenda item number five. it's always frightening when i agree with mr. brooks, but i'll just echo the sentiments of ms. jackson. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> aaron israel is here, a longtime member of the citizens advisory committee for power on issues of sfpuc. wanted to point out that the club thanks the good work that -- the staff of both the p.u.c. and lafco have been doing this year. focusing on the negotiations. finding the lessons learned from that process and being open. we don't have an opinion one way or the other about r.f.p. or splitting out the renewables work. we should point out that we are an advocate. we've long been involved in this process. mr. brooks does not speak for all the advocates. we're not all of one mind on this. we take great issue of him speaking for an alliance that we helped put together a number of years ago, which does not have an opinion in this matter today. so it's not possible fo

. >>> now christie smith is live with an exclusive story of survival and heart break. >> yeah, good morning to you. a man named eric butler in oakland literally told us he thought he might die in the hurricane. you might think after surviving such a horrible ordeal that life would be downhill from there. but he tells us it's quite different. first you're in shock after the whole thing, then you realize you have to start over and start over with nothing. that's what he told us he had to survive on his rooftop in louisiana for three long days with family members. 17 of them. and was only able to get down after the water receded. they evacuated here to oakland, a place they had never been before. estimates are at least a few thousand survivors arrived in the bay area around labor day, 2005. many of them have returned home, but for butler it's been quite a long road here. >> the past five years with -- it's especially difficult because now my family has left and they left early. eventually people came back to their normal selves. >> he said personally the hardest part for him was that his uncle died in hurricane katrin

smith played awfully well tonight. my big question, and i think san francisco's big question is going to be how soon can this young offensive line come together. you know, mike iupati, anthony davis, eric heitmann has been out, and as good as they can look at times now, al, you know as well as i do, when you get to be the regular season, it goes beyond graduate school. i mean you're over at oxford studying at that point. and now can these young guys, and they made some mistakes out there tonight. i mean we watched them pretty closely. and just trying to figure it out. it's not that physically they can't get it done, but if those two guys and this young offensive line and alex smith can find a way to get their protection going, because that was a major issue for them a season ago, not get alex hit so much, they have a chance because their defensive running game will be rock solid. >> al: defense very good. if they can live up to what they did last year, that's great for them. again, you've got a premiere running back in gore, you've got a great tight end in vernon davis. you've got an emerging wide receiver in crabtree. you've got a running back, a tight end, a number one wideout and, y

smith caught up with one of them to see how they're adjusting. she joins us live. >> reporter: good morning to you. his name is eric butler. he fled louisiana with 11 family members. they had never been to oakland before, never been to california, but found a rescue group here and this was really the only place they could go. he said he likes oakland, but adjusting to life here over the past five years since hurricane katrina certainly has not been easy for him. the rest of his family members have decided to return back home to the south. he says people here are quite warm and friendly and still are. he says his family members, though, miss louisiana and decided to return home. so now it's just him and his two kids. a third daughter who graduated from high school here in oakland is on a plane back down south where she will attend college. now, butler's family was among hundreds of thousands of people stranded on the roof tops after the leiv levees. he was stranded there for 13 days. we'll tell you his story of how he survived up there for 13 days, but first he will describe how it was when the waters started to rise. >> bu