opening up the america's cup we are truly building a 21st gem of a water front that is the envy to every city in the world. [ applause ] let me tell you, part of the reason i am so excited about this exporatorium is that i know that we are going to be educating the next generation of city leaders. we are going to be seeing kids who are coming out of these doors who are going to be the next supervisor scott weiner, and our next lieutenant governor, there is going to be some 8-year-old chinese boy who is going to walk out of here and be the next ed lee, once he figures out how to grow a mustache. >> and with that, it is my honor to lay on the fifth ring and this is a ring that honors our city's innovation. what makes our city so special, is that we are forever inventing ourselves. we are forever thinking about not only who we are, but who we can be. whether it be our tech start ups our healthcare researchers and manufacturers, a artists or poets or pioneers we are innovating when it comes to arts and science and today we honor the exporatorium who represents and only an san francisco institutio

not only that's correct but we put every volunteer on our city's workers' compensation program, every single one. so, if there was a problem they were covered under the city's workers' comp program. and we had zero claims. and then we also inherited an antilitter program. we had over 14,000 antilitter volunteers. they weren't using the chemicals or anything like that, but we had same thing, no problems, no complaints, no liability issues at all. and we only gave solvent to adults. we didn't give solvents to any minors. and we made sure that the solvents that we gave were going to be ones that, number one, could do the job, but -- number one, was safe if they got the right training and number two, could do the job that we needed to have done. it worked out great. so. >> [speaker not understood]. >> hold on a second. let me come over here so you can restate the first part of your question again if i could get you to stand up and we'll talk to the san francisco police department here. >> first part of my question was perhaps more urgent. we represent this table, and over here oakland cal

there was complete denial of the problem. 15 years later, water quality is on the agenda of every city council person in that local city, and that's completely a result of activists forcing the issue, surfrider and other local groups, saying, "hey, these water quality issues are real and you need to address them." and only until the public sort of creates that will will the politicians respond. narrator: while some cities deal with infrastructure issues, others have concerns about the sustainability of water supplies. allbee: it's not just about the sustainability of the assets, it's about the sustainability of our water resources. parts of this country that thought of themselve

city. the american people will be with them every single step of the way. >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell a pc news, bomb techs are combing over evidence for clues about the devices. officials searched an payment and tracking multiple persons of interest including a person treated at app yeah hospital as well as an individual who was seen tripe to again access to a restricted area, five minutes before the blast. >> the 8 year old who was one of the three killed in the explosion has been named as martin richard, he was there watching his father run. he arrived at the finish line to welcome his dad when the explosion took place. 450 people came from maryland. sherrie johnson is life at bwi with the local runners returning home, some made it home last night. you say, for other runners, we are an hour and a half away from the rival. >> reporter: all is calm. this could be a busy day. we talked with the airlines and the first flights coming from boston, 7:00 a.m., a numb of local runners expected to come home today and in to tomorrow. we caught up with keith wilson, he was following his g

not only that's correct but we put every volunteer on our city's workers' compensation program, every single one. so, if there was a problem they were covered under the city's workers' comp program. and we had zero claims. and then we also inherited an antilitter program. we had over 14,000 antilitter volunteers. they weren't using the chemicals or anything like that, but we had same thing, no problems, no complaints, no liability issues at all.

we get to discover amazing places in every city that no one would ever know existed. >> reporter: theic tables turned dance floor. there was great dancing at the bank. harlem shaking at a plaza and slow dancing at the power plant. surprisingly, it all stayed relatively peaceful. >> 53 parties and we've been shut down three times. and it's usually for some kind of misunderstanding. >> no one has to drink. no one is on drugs, anything like that. just come and let loose your inhibitions. >> every night we risk who knows what. new country, new cities. go to jail. >> reporter: why do you do it? >> because it's worth it. >> reporter: why? >> it's fun. people come up to me in tears telling me this is the greatest night of their lives. >> reporter: can partying bring world peace? who knows. but until then, nothing unites us like a little love. >> thank for watching abc news. tune into good morning america tomorrow. as always, we're on line at abc news.com. good night, america.

we were sharing the fact that we had someone from every town and city in connecticut. it brought home the fact that they are going and when they come back that will be in every town and city in connecticut. what we did was, connecticut had an experience after 9/11 where we had a great influx and great need. the department of mental health and addiction services created training programs to help clinicians in the community to be able to take some of the load off of their department. using this concept that you take people in the business of providing mental health, and we gave a training program that was 16 hours of what we call the military 101. it was trying to get clinicians to understand what all the complexities work. -- were. if you ever do this, the best teachers are to get veterans who are coming home to talk about their experience. because it helps people to understand that they may be in the military mode, but they have not yet crossed over into the civilian world. i find one of the things -- i will tell this story. this is a marine who was in uniform and his w

there was complete denial of the problem. 15 years later, water quality is on the agenda of every city council person in that local city, and that's completely a result of activists forcing the issue, surfrider and other local groups, saying, "hey, these water quality issues are real and you need to address them." and only until the public sort of creates that will will the politicians respond. narrator: while some cities deal with infrastructure issues, others have concerns about the sustainability of water supplies. allbee: it's not just about the sustainability of the assets, it's about the sustainability of our water resources. parts of this country that thought of themselves as water rich 20, 30 years ago, now are discovering that they really are not water rich, they have source supply issues, they have serious questions about how they're going to accommodate additional growth in their communities. melosi: if we can find alternatives, we can preserve a water supply. conservation of water is a way of generating more water. allbee: we think that a household can actually reduce its w

and granular fashion, neighborhood by neighborhood, not every city, but places that i was interested in looking at. and i started making pictures and amasked the large archive, probably 10,000 images that i made throughout this period and i widled it down to around 80 to make this work. i will describe some of the dynamics of street view and sort of the implications. so we sort of now at this point firmly that photography only is partial truth. it really is affected by so many variables that you get half truths and half varying context that some of which you bring in yourself. but what happens is the photographer takes a moment of time, in this case one second in a place and we are left to look at it and make assessments and judgment and make, you know, our own back story to the images and so there is an element of this that we don't really know the struting. we sort of see what we, what is in front of us. and we start to take that in and decide, you know, what we think that truth is. google has taken these pictures of every cinch of our country for the most part and doing it in othe

. >> london has changed, as every city has. you certainly will not have any of those bankers wearing bowler hats and numberless. more to the point, london out is tremendously diverse. paris is becoming in admitting that it is more a diversity, and there's a little line for me quite hidden away the says i'm very much a parisian or i'm interested in parisian women, but not quite sure that i ever met a parisian woman. what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is that my education, i have been looking at old movies that i love. we speak about the reputation of the parisian, which was supposed to dress very well. i think that, you know, in france, the eccentricity -- for me, eccentricity is very chic and it is what i love. it is so much about the good taste, which paralyzed. it is still a city where everybody meets profession, sure, but it is sad that you did not seek only may be in the young people, but you do not see when people are in the rain, let's say, in society, like having the joy to address. like you have to be like the col

nearly every city affected. 30 to 45-minute delays in dallas and los angeles.round stops at washington national and dulles. and a ripple effect across the country. kim zolar flying from dallas to laguardia for an important meeting was more than 90 minutes late. >> we were supposed to leave at 8:25, and just as we're about to leave, they said, sorry, we're not leaving. we've been sequestered. >> reporter: jonathan rogers sat on the ramp for two hours. >> new york city is right there. you want to reach out and grab it. >> reporter: in all, more than 1,200 delays yesterday blamed on the shortage of controllers, another 1,400 delayed by weather and other issues. a job that literally keeps the nation's economy and its people moving caught in a budget stalemate. of the roughly 15,000 air traffic controllers, 10% are off the job each day. 1,500 not at their stations. >> i don't think that it's fair that air traffic control, particularly air traffic controllers, are being used as a pawn. >> reporter: there's no shortage of people who are angry about it, but so far cong

people running the city block by block now they are so when the politician used to run this city when us we pay every penny to the city in tax and you know our apartments expense active. i can't even have coffee in my car. the government is telling me so for me i'm on my way to hawaii in january january i'm not going to be -- i can't raise my son in this city. for you guys maybe yes. it can be a very good city. for us it's over if this continues. applause. so i'm on my way to paradise thank you very much. >> thank you, sir next speaker please? >> hi my name is brad -- i'm a driver and dispatcher i've seen for a long time i understand their appears to be a demand for more taxis i think the market maybe instead ly growing we've got new businesses coming in i understand that but what i ask you to do to stop us all from bleeding to death. maybe one or 2 hundred medallions at a time 500 could be a blow to our gut. if we're all going to be making less than minimum wage what kind of people are you going to have driving the taxis i don't think it's going to serve the city. that's a win-win the city will win

not every city but about half the bay area bans plastic bags. one reason to reduce landfill waste. a san francisco study the year after it banned plastic bags showed an actual increase in plastic bags in the trash. plus, it said plastic bags account for just one half of 1% of solid waste. >> we're seeing fewer bags on the creeks and on the bay shoreline. that's great for fish and wildlife in the bay. >> reporter: david lewis says san jose's guadalupe creek had 40% fewer bags. the bags can starve wildlife. recycling has not been effective. >> we're hoping that very soon you won't be able to get a free plastic bag in the bay area. >> reporter: for san mateo cities, the bag ban begins as late as october. there's a state proposal to end all this city by city confusion with a statewide bag ban. john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> if you had a chance, it was a nice chance to be out by the water today. let's look at the forecast. >> it's changing quickly out there. where john fowler is standing in pacifica, pleas a live camera shot. just about a mile and a half south of here, behind the

>> nobody does as good as san francisco but it's a challenge for every city to do that. i think it's something that we work i worked in both throughout the bay area and i worked as a district director acting in los angeles as well, and all cities have a challenge in trying to get contracts to small business, to women owned business as part of that is a big challenge. parts of is the limiting conditions where contract preferences can go in california. that's one of the conditions that makes it more difficult to get a goal in the way on the federal level you can't do on the state level so there is challenge with that respect, but i think you heard it earlier too. more emphasis for local business enterprise contracting is something that we encourage, a theme of what we would like to see that is one of them. more emphasis on local business contributing which is something that can be done in california and shg something that we would like to see. >> any other questions? i just would like to make a comment director quinn. when you were making your statement you said about how w

almost every city had two or three telephone systems, so callers needed two or three phones to be sure around town. competition meant lower prices and lower profits. and bell fought back. it slashed rates to undercut some competitors and bought others out. others were cut off from equipment or from the long distance network, which bell controlled and which only bell could afford. wounded independents began asking the government to take bell to cot der titrt laws the way it had standard oil. then in 1914 at&t president theodore vail sent at&t vice president nathan c. kingsbury to washington. he set up a deal that would create what vail called "a natural monopoly." we asked picard wagner of at&t what was in the kingsbury commitment. the key part of it, of course, was the commitment to refrain from buying up any more independent telephone companies, that it would provide long distance connections to the independent, which means the non-bell companies, which then existed. mr. wagner, what do you think prompted theodore vail to give up the fight, so to speak, and decide to go into an agreem

. >> every city needs a place for that, if you store sand and gravel when you're recycling and all that. >> you need to have these kinds of sort of low value land use things. not everything gets high value developed. >> yeah, it's an interesting dichotomy. because for these kind of traditional -- what we still consider traditional maritime uses, shipping to come in, those are from an economic perspective, they're not high revenue generating kinds of uses. and yet the port commission, that is really one of their fundamental mandates, is to make sure that there is a place in san francisco for that to happen. and notwithstanding the fact that the whole city has changed so that you don't have the working waterfront, like it used to be, there are still discrete areas where it makes sense to have some of that. but the port operates as a trustee to the state, and the state has oversight on what the port is doing on the land. and have on occasion, look over our shoulder to make sure they kind of concur that the lands are being managed according to certain public trust principles which are basic

our dream would be to have a similar program to ours in every city in the united states. obviously that takes time, our speakers are volunteers, they aren't paid. it may take 4 or 5 hours to go into schools so resources are always an issue. many schools are afraid to invite speakers in to talk about any religion, but particularly islam, there's not always a clear understanding to what the first amendment guarantees, which is the right to teach about a religion but not proselytize about it. i think there's fear of associating with anyone associated with islam. there are events outside our control that creates more interest and unfortunately also makes people more afraid. one of the programs we are about to launch is putting all our content online so a teacher in north dakota where there are no muslim, potentially, no expert can come to her classroom, they can go to our web site and download the content and teach the things we are teaching. >> i think partnerships are the best way to overcome the limitations because we all have limitations. and sometimes it's just visibilit

any time you find that in every city in this nation, african-americans are much more likely than whites to live if areas where there are high concentrations of air toxins, i don't think there can be anything but that. >> justices about right relationships among people and what the world around us so yes, it includes proper stewardship of the environment. we need policy to put people first as our most precious and unique resource. and to inspire people to be good stewards of the environment. >> and environmental policies, studies have shown that environmental policies affect economic, racial, gender disparities and more attention needs to be paid to that. >> i think tackling this problem of climate change and people of color is a very delicate one because we have to tack. it in such a way it doesn't adversely affect them. we have to talk about the manufacturing sector. disproportionate number of latinos and. a can americans live on the edge of inner cities where there are manufacturing wrongs and we are to talk about that. >> all right, and let's start with and i want to spend some time