we lived in a few city. all of those things can be put into play i think locally. i asked that you look at this again. i know that this has been in a process and people have devoted time but this does not fit, it is not seem like these things are being considered so i asked that you do look again at this. >> is anyone else don't like to make public comment on this item? seeing non, public comment is closed. >> i got involved in the selection committee, i have been on this commission for at least a few of the previous iterations that we then had to withdraw. i effort frustration from the committee and i volunteered to be on the selection committee. selfishly, i want to be involved with this at snow lake. -- stow lake. we would like to know what this will look like. in san francisco, we are very open-minded and progressive. if you try to change something, everyone says do not. one side says, it is find a way it is, don't change it, it has character. the other side says, we can do this. i don't see why this is utility exclusive. this is where i disagree with the oppon

as i talked to my colleagues across the state, we are one of the few cities that have kept our commitment to keep domestic violence a priority. i was speaking with someone in the belly the other day. they said they have short initiatives after murder but and it goes away. i have been thinking about our mayor and supervisors. most of them have not gone through the years where we used to have the average of 10 domestic violence homicides a year. we're down to two and it could happen any day. we never know if we will stay at around two. but we've seen significant reductions. when we see that in so many cities, we are not seeing the kind of priority that san francisco has kept with keeping domestic violence on the radar screen. it is the reason we should stay vigilant in making sure we get this mou in place. there will be a lot of shifting in leadership starting in november and over the next year or two. we want to make sure that the progress we have made over the years is left intact and that the new leadership will serve not only as a model but a springboard to move forward to increase our

a few cities including san francisco have instituted their own ban. >>> in less than 24 hours, senator barbara boxer and her republican will hold their one and only debate scheduled so far. it takes place at st. mary's college. it will start at 7:00 p.m. and you can watch it here on tv 36 that will preefferent the regular lairly scheduled bay area news at 7. >>> coming up, people that live in one san francisco neighborhood celebrate a grand opening and why some say it's the start of a new chapter. >>> and the bay area will get warmer in the coming days. bill martin will let us know how warm it will get. [ man i was deciding what to do with my citi thankyou points when it happened... [ glass breaks ...again. ♪ [ child run! [ man first it was the mailbox. then my squirrel. and now, this. so i used my points to make a donation to get the park down the street built. when it finally opened, i also used my points for... car repair. [ male announcer use your citi thankyou points for almost anything, even local charities. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >> the national hurricane

woodlawn. 95 southbound, still, the regular delay and slow at whitemarsh to the north eastside and a few cityidents to update you on. let's take a live look. as you can see, congestion at greenspring and another look at the accident that occurred at 29 and route 32. this is brought to you by the cochran firm. if you or someone you know suffered a personal injury, call for a free consultation. >>> the first week of the nfl season is in the books and so is the first week of the football challenge. jessica has more. >> reporter: hello, there's a three way tie for the top spot among my colleagues. taking a look at the bobblehead standing. three of us have 11 points two sports guys, mark, stan and me, i have no idea how that happened. so does donald in manchester. he came closest to the score of the dallas, washington game. you can sign up, come here to wjz eyewitness news and click on the link at the top of the home page. >> that's why we call you an expert. >> not hardly. >> yeah. >> you can watch the game sunday at 1:00 here on wjz-13. >> so, we get 16 more weeks of that. >>> and the possible.

city of oakland and thanks for having me. and i want to talk about community involvement and make a few key points and based on my experiences with city wide planning policies. and in the city of oakland and with our pedestrian master plan and bicycle master plan and in san francisco and with the better streets plan underway, and it's a bit of a talk from the staff perspective and thinking about our work in relationship with social change. and what we are doing is about social change and that doesn't happen alone. and my work is largely with facilities and try to plan and develop things and social change is caught up in that and community involvement. the three levels, and community involvement and the first is role of the advisory committee, whether for the better street plans or pedestrian, and this is an opportunity for the city through staff and key individuals to work together on these issues. it's an opportunity for two way education. and keeps the city grounded in local issues and priorities, and an opportunity for staff to educate advocates. and an educated advocate is an important thing because they can think strateg

surprisingly, down are not ocean city, they had a few breaks and the clouds -- down around ocean city, they had a few bricks and the clouds with the sun came through. baltimore is in the middle of this. let's get to the main computer very quickly. there is a stream of moisture coming up. you can see it popping up, channeling up from the tropics. you can see how much grain we have had so far. -- rain we have had so far. as much as three inches of rain for the south -- further south. we expect in excess of six inches of rain with all this activity. tornado watch remains in effect for our area for another 40 minutes. it goes from carroll county and all. and all the way to virginia and southern maryland -- carroll county and howard county and all the way into virginia and southern maryland. there are more in the forecast and sandra shaw will talk about that next. >> futurecast really tells the tale. we will seek in excess on some of the western sides of the daby of at 6 inches of rain. up to about a foot is possible. this gives you the full impact of the torrential downpours. easy to unde

park over the past few months athe san jose city council is recommending a proposed high-speed rail crossing downtown be put aboveground. the council voted 9-2 in favor of the aboveground plan with the stipulation they have some control over the design. the below ground proposal would have cost five times that much. the mayor fears the rail authority could ultimately insist on an elevated station and thinks san jose should put language in now to give the city some leverage. >> we're looking at perhaps putting right of way into the project, in the southern part of san jose. they want that. and so i think we can negotiate for some additional control over what they build in the city. >> in some places the tracks will be 90 feet in the air. it will take between 3 to 5 years to build and is expected to cost a half billion dollars. >> this morning craigslist will break its silence to remove its adult services section. the explanation will come in a very public forum. >> eric, in just a few hours

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. >> the city has put in a few dozen of them in front of city hall as part of a pilot program to maximize both parking and bike safety. why not parallel parking? well, it takes up too much length. head first diagonal parking, too dangerous for bikers. the law doesn't allow bike lanes because drivers can't see cyclists when they back out. >> so how hard is it to park in reverse? let me just say, it's going to take some practice. >> as you turned back in, people may not expect you to back into a diagonal parking so there might be some fender benders initially. >> reporter: the city engineer gave us a demonstration when all of a sudden, the driver behind him got confused. this is all new and drivers will learn eventually. >> this doesn't exist in downtown fremont. and probably was wondering why i was doing that in a street where there was so much room. >> do you think that will change over time? >> that's our hope. >> reporter: the city of fremont trying to move urban planning forward by going backwards. >>> medical marijuana for people with a sweet toot. well, a new shop smells ice cream wi

well you got match more coming from the city of euro squabble over the next few hours as the city celebrates its thousand year anniversary and there's updates will have for you on all the news from around the world that's very true we'll be back very shortly then with a look at our main headlines for you let's bring you up to date on the business from moscow next. with eight. how welcome. business good to have you with us they head of russia's technology corporation was not only has called for a shake up of the legal and tax system you're speaking during a visit who was not a vibrant mr porson was that the value of russia's national duction could ultimately when it's the equivalent of thirty billion dollars corporation has so far pulled eighty two projects ahead of us nano on the planet you weiss says there's little hope for an efficient high tech sector under current conditions. he would if he was a couple of really efficient venture firms as well as other infrastructure to build nanotechnology is almost impossible the current legislation will look an efficient legal framework for venture f

city escape. there are parks in which few, if any live. there are industrial commercial areas in which few people live. and there are areas of the city where fairly large share of the children go to private school rather than public school, although, of course, this could change somewhat with the implementation of the new assignment system. that was another thing we thought about as we were drawing the boundaries. some encompass very large areas, because they have greater capacity than schools that can serve fewer students, and so that's another reason that the areas vary in size. the shapes of the attendance areas are dictated by the very factors that i talked about already, including the major thoroughfares and what seemed to be logical and reasonable places to draw boundaries. some of these boundaries are not drawn in the place we would ideally draw them. all other things being equal, because we really need to have space available if possible at the local school for all of the children. so here's the other areas of the city with low tes

going to forge a tran regulate personal chores it would run for statewide ban on those few cities are deeper. their use. then a big man in pressuring in this. calling in will a job killer. the state senate has defeated a bill that would of been in the chemical dismal from a plastic baby bottle city cabs, and baby formula containers it would have limited the chemical to trace amounts of food, drink containers intended for use for children in three area under. coming up on the kron 4 morning news a sharp warning and pacifica we'll give you the latest, ensure you how servers are reacting. a live look outside, bay bridge toll plaza, traffic is moved only about rob minutes ahead from the macarthur maze in san francisco. the current temperature and oakland a very comfortable 63 degrees. high of 88. and welcome back, and changing countermanded barack falling into the camera mission in that country samantha hayes reports from washington d.c.. >> who defense secretary robert gates is an ironic along with vice president joe biden the two are scheduled to attend the formal transfer of command ce

the advocacy is going to be focused for the next few weeks no city is better positioned to be an advocate-liter than san francisco because of speaker policy -- to be an advocate-city than it san francisco because of speaker nancy pelosi and other representatives. we are in a unique position. it is not good enough. everything is being played out with the midterm elections. we're playing with people's lives. we're playing with their families. you have two kids. this is serious business. this is not just about the person speaking. with an 11-month old, i get it now. 11 months ago, i would have said that i understood it but i understand it now. it is serious. it is not 3020 people. it is 3820 families. >> california is working with the small business committee in the senate on this program. mayor newsom: those are the key. >> over the last nine months, 994 families have left the welfare program in san francisco. compare that to the prior nine months before jobs now, a little over 254 families. we're more than 3.5 times the number of families leading state aid. we only have about 5000 families on we

city. there are reports of a few rockets hitting the city of jaubled but -- jalalabad but the day is just beginningnd security is exceptionally tight. altogether hundreds of thousands of both afghan army and police are here and behind them the international afghan security forces though they -- this is very much an afghan operation. the government says the preparations for this poll were better than for the polls of 2009, presidential poll which was very controversial and marred by fraud. but there are very, very big chals facing these polls, the possibility of fraud and the possibility of security incidents, especially now that the taliban has noud to disrupt them. >> you have mentioned the concerns about security and the threats from the taliban. is there any sense that afghans are reluctant to two to the polls? >> no, i don't think -- afghans would love to good to the polls but these are life and death issues for the afghans in some ports -- parts of the country. the taliban has vowed to punish anyone who casts their ballot. they say if they see the purple ink on the fingers which is a check aga

city is trying to tax us once again. and it goes to the same old argument. is it legal? i don't think it is. it's a tax on many to support few. and i think the city might be better. looking at how they can enforce drunken behavior on the streets, people staying on the streets, the serving of alcohol to known drunks and people who are drunk and maybe some of these people can be put up in the 1,400 empty spaces of city hall to take care of these people. that's my argument. thank you. >> thank you, supervisors. my name is mark wilson. i own two bars in san francisco. it's just been tough. one in ash burry and one in castro -- ashbury and one in castro. my fees are sky high. i am just opposed to it. i don't want to lay off anybody. i have to work more and more. it just gets tougher and tougher. if you can find another way it would be wonderful. thank you. >> hello. my name is john kelly. i was born in this great city, and i'm a political liberal. however, over the years i've turned into a fiscal conservative because government too often misuses taxpayer dollars. however, there are some services government must provide, and i am

to promote health and educational services to all districts in the city and acknowledges that the clustering of health facilities in few areas creates problems such as limiting the access of residents in other parts of the city to the healthcare and employment opportunities that these major institutions offer so the city should encourage the decentralization of major institutional cities to other areas of san francisco, particularly those presently without adequate services. as many have mentioned, that's the southeast sector of san francisco which has the largest number of immigrants, people who speak a language other than english, children, seniors, families. and right now there's only two hospitals, there st. luke's and general. we feel the draft e.i.r. doesn't analyze how reducing the beds in st. luke's will increase access. if cpmc is allowed to continue on the path they propose with their long-range development plan, we are on our way to a healthcare crisis in san francisco. if st. luke's is downsized and more uninsured patient are pushed out, that burden will fall on general. with our record budget deficits and

cities. >> that's my next question, vernon, fremont, san ramon, a few places ted rowlands pointed out. going after these other cities that are coming up with extraordinary salaries? >> well, nothing quite like bell and maybe vernon, might be a few others. i want to not just stop at going after a few cities where the excess is crystal clear. i want to go further and identify places that deviate from the norm, deviate from what, you know, is just common sense, and i want to do that because i am proposing and constitutional amendment to take the existing salary commission that is empowered to raise or lower the salaries of the governor, the attorney general and the legislators, and give that salary commission the power to do the same thing for local officials. and if we had that, then we'd have a salary segt or a maximum salary setting authority that could stop excesses that might pass through the needle of the law. it the could be stopped by a commission. >> what's going to be the number, jerry? as you start looking at other city managers, how much do they have to be making for you to in

of which $123 million in prop k funds, might be a salvation of the muni system in the next few years as the city faces increasing budget deficits. we hope there will be some enlightened leadership, if not from our city, from washington, perhaps the fta themselves, independent agency that are not as potenbeholden to the politicl forces in the city, to guide us, in no way that will improve public transit for all of san francisco in the coming years. thank you. >commissioner chu: thank you. are there any other members of the putt that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner dufty: i just want to comment, as a supervisor who has a district including the castro, i cannot imagine the sustainability of my neighborhood without rail transit. the central subway will offer the reliability of hundreds of thousands of people every year to go to chinatown in a very expedited and fast manner, also union square. i think it does set an important milestone, in terms of providing rail access to other parts of the city. i think this is an important project and is good for the city a

up everywhere except at the clothesline temperatures up eight degrees in oakland, six in redwood city, few degrees warmer inland him saving in the south bay north bay. bad degrees cooler along the coast line banks to the sea breeze winds of those will pick up tomorrow. deceive and clear in all conditions of fog is sitting off shore it will make it to the coast line overnight so by tomorrow morning will have a coastal fog will be terribly expensive but were hoping for in and see is the sea breeze winds the cool filtering into our bay shore will close down 5 to 15 degrees cooler. it will be warm in our inland spots 96 enormous in the location that's still better than triple digits today. the cooling trend will continue through the rest the week of details coming up in your extended forecast a bit pureed >> 6:00 a.m. in the bay area is growing as the san francisco giants and to the last two series and the playoff race heats up. this is great a lot of buzz among the fans kron 4 caught up with some giant fans were excited about the possibility >> it's exciting for the bay area of the giants hav

>>> a canadian firefighter on a 1700-mile bike ride swung through san francisco today and a few of the city's police officers did a little pedaling of their own to support their support. rudy is riding from vancouver to mexico to raise money for breast, prostate and pancreatic cancer research. this afternoon, some local officers escorted him as he rode from the going bridge to a reception at the hotel. he talked about his three countries, three cancers mission and shared some touching stories about his encounters with supporters on the way during his ride. >>> more now on the hot weather gripping the bay area. for the latest on the forecast let's go back to bill martin in the weather center. bill? >> it's definitely hot. record highs, as i showed you already. we're looking at more heat tomorrow, especially inland, and another spare the air day. let's go to live stormtracker2, i want to outline the area where the air quality in the morning is the least -- it's not good. 0 so in the east bay and here. so when the bay area quality management district throws this out, you get ozone at the surface

few more mid-90s. i'll go over that complete forecast city by city in a few moments. diane. >>> with the warm weather hundreds of people are spending their labor day weekend at the beach, of course, despite the fact there's been two recent sightings the great white sharks along the bay area coast. we're in pacifica with a look at whether the shark sightings are unusual for this time of year. >> reporter: experts say this is the time of year that sharks are actively feeding along the northern california coast. they also admit that there have been more sightings than usual of great white sharks this summer. that said, just take a look. you can see that does not keep surfers or swimmers out of the water here at linda mar beach. warning signs are no long posted here indicating there was a sighting of a great white shark last week attacking a sea lion, but many people are aware of the incident. we talked to a shark expert in san francisco. the expert today us it's not uncommon to see all varieties of sharks along want coast and even in the bay along in september and novemb

the advocacy is going to be focused for the next few weeks no city is better positioned to be an advocate-liter than san francisco because of speaker policy -- to be an advocate-city than it san francisco because of speaker nancy pelosi and other representatives. we are in a unique position. it is not good enough. everything is being played out with the midterm elections. we're playing with people's lives. we're playing with their families. you have two kids. this is serious business. this is not just about the person speaking. with an 11-month old, i get it now. 11 months ago, i would have said that i understood it but i understand it now. it is serious.

few homes. as far as the city goes, liberty heights, all lanes blocked there. 's southbound route one and emergency medical equipment still on the scene. we have a few brake lights there on the northside side. and as far as the northside, it's smooth. we'll take a live look another the westside. and no problems to report and this is brought to you by toyota and your local toyota dealer. toyota, moving forward. back to you. i didn't mean to steal your thunder, i just wanted to say it. >> well, it's a local thing. this morning's coffee with is with guy fierri. >>> ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome the antithesis to the food police, guy fierri and his son, hunter. how are you. yeah, the antithesis to the food police. i've heard a lot, not sure about that one. this is hunter, the wafflenater. we're in harold square in new york city. everyone's calling him the waffle nator. >> hey, wafflenater and dad, home of chaps. one of the greatest restaurants featured on your show. >> please don't talk about it. all right. i won't be able to go through the interview with the

the advocacy is going to be focused for the next few weeks no city is better positioned to be an advocate-liter than san francisco because of speaker policy -- to be an

city. the rain will be with us off and on. maybe a few thunderstorms this morning and into this afternoon. high temperatures into the upper 70's. the evening commute will be better. we will check the seven-day forecast coming up in just a few minutes. a first we say good morning to sarah. >> we have one early morning accident at kingston road and eastern boulevard. watch for possible lane closures in the middle river. also some closures near norfolk avenue because of police activity. the rest of the major roads look good. 11 minutes on the north and west side outer loop. this is harford road. so far so good of the outer and inner lips. so far looking at a bpretty easy ride on the west side. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> out west plans to buy airtran airways, merging the two largest discounts carriers. kim dacey joins us live from federal help with the details. >> this deal would be a billion-dollar deal. baltimore could expect to see some defects with 140 flights already out of bwi. the merger between southwest and airtran wi

a few california cities already prohibit plastic bags.n francisco is the first to do it back in 2007. palo alto, fairfax and malibu have also followed suit. another bill that would have made it illegal to carry unloaded guns in public was rejected. it would have made it a misdemeanor to openly carry a handgun in public. current state law does allow carrying unloaded guns in holsters. and another bill that would have required gun owners to register their rifles and shotguns fell short during a vote on monday. more local news in half an hour. and the "today" show returns in about a minute. >>> hey, everybody, so glad you're with us, it's wines-day, do you believe it? it's september 1st. welcome back to hoda, you took a little time off. >> i did, hair issues. here's the thing with the hair. we've been talking about this keratine treatment for the hair. i thought, i'm not sure if it will work for me. now here's the thing, every day they blow my hair out here. so laura kill hersself, because it takes hours and hours of time. so if i'm left to