it has to be a transit first city in the core and elsewhere. if we cannot prevent people from asking people to get out of their cars and on the bus, we cannot expect them to do it if they do not have the service. i know we are dealing with real problems of the budget, but that is something i want to be able to make sure of. i want to work with members of the board of supervisors to ensure neighborhoods that are further away from the downtown core can have better options, so we do not have to do with this all the time. supervisor chu: thank you. i appreciate your comments. it is clear, when we hear the fact at the mta needs to switch back and move the trains and other direction to make sure the rest of the system is working well, but for residents waiting to get home, that is not an acceptable answer. thank you for those comments. supervisor avalos: i think it is important that our neighborhoods have a say in how muni is run outside of the downtown core. >> thank you. supervisor chiu had asked for a break out of the switchbacks by time and day.

that's why this city is poised to become the first city in north american history with a demonstration project, a commercial project, to place, in essence, a large green power plant underneath the mouth of our golden gate bridge or the mouth of the bay below the golden gate bridge that could conceivably provide enough power for 12 1/2 percent of all the households in san francisco. 100 percent green, 100 percent renewable. they are doing smaller projects around the world from israel, just over in england, we've seen these demonstration projects. we've now got to make them more commercially viable and san francisco wants to take the lead. my great hope and expectation as a californian is to see those gas oil rigs off the coast of california completely replaced with wave energy systems which again exist around the world but aren't being taken advantage of here in the state of california as they could or should be. we have done a lot on solar. in fact, we're very proud to have taken the leadership on our solar initiative a number of years ago the public passed a $100 solar bond in san fra

we are a first-class city. ow the world what a first-class city is, and let's show compassion, especially towards children and show the world what a first-class city this is and angela will be the next mayor. thank you. >> good afternoon, members of the board. my name is alan jones. i am 54 years old. i have been a resident of san francisco for close to 50 years. as long as i can remember, i have always been ashamed of the fact that i am a homosexual. last year, while putting together a book, i came across a story, and the story was about a former marine and vietnam veteran by the name of oliver. mei xiang has shifted. in 1975, oliver saved the life of president gerald r. ford outside the st. francis hotel at union square. he was never honored for saving the life of the president, and the reason is simple. and he was a homosexual. and i believe that san francisco owes him a thank you. he died in 1986, and i believe that this board, which i am sure not a penny people have heard of oliver, no that you do know of h

we are creating for the first time in this city a bike network. a bicycle network where you can -- and it's something that the mayor and several members of the board of supervisors have been talking about for years. that you will be able to pick up a bike in one location and actually drop it off. and this is also going to be in our parks. and it's an opportunity to get people from the downtown corridor, the hotel corridor. i don't think this is just limited to tourists. to get people from downtown out to golden gate park, out to union square, and hopefully marina green, and hopefully other locations where we can get people to our parks. some of the operational concerns, i don't want you to lose sight of a really exciting and youous amen -- joyous amenity this really is. with respect to those at union square, having listened to them, we understand the issues, but as commissioner levitan suggested, why don't we actually see what happens instead oftying about -- instead of thinking about what's the worst that could happen. along the lines of a nine-m

. >> even though we are a transit first city our roads are not safe for bicyclives or pedestrians.e need to work on the potholes. continue to build bike lanes. we are doing better at building bike lanes, certainly, i think where we fall short in part is we don't educate the drivers within the city. i continualy hear from people who don't understand how bike lanes work. bicyclists are always on the defensive. i wish i could say i felt like it was a safe city for bicyclists. which could say go to work on your bicycle and you will be fine. i don't think i know one bicyclist who has not been hit by a car door. >> a large number of san francisco homes don't own vehicles. i think that's a good thing. people don't need cars in the city. a lot of people don't need cars in the city. >> i think to a certain extent the saying is true, if you build it they will come. the more parking spaces you build the more cars you attract. i would like to see district 8 particularly along the transit corridors and on market and where muni is effective i would like to see less parking. >> i felt like mun mu

just two weeks ago, we open up the first lead certified public library in the entire city, the first ever, and now, we are at the home of the sunset solar project. the sunset truly is a cool place to be. i just want to say thank you to all of the amazing staff members who really helped put this together. it is exciting to see the panels of, to see them generating power, to see the people who now have job skills that are available to take on to other future projects. thank you to the staff, the mayor, and thank you to my staff for supporting this. >> you get a lot done with the sponsor of the board. it takes six votes to do a lot of things at the board of supervisors these days, and eric mar was the sixth vote. >> i think i'm getting way too much credit. this was a partnership with the mayor's office, the department of the environment, and many community-based organizations that advocated for the future. i used to take my daughter to the swings right on the corner there where you can overlook lincoln high school, and i know this is a great educational opportunity to teach about how we

. >> this is not the first city to try to shut down a nightclub. de in san francisco closed its doors after heavy pressure from the city following a gang-related shotout. a restaurant terminated the lease on pier 50 after a couple shootings in recent years. wet nightclub says it has worked with the city to make sure the place is safe and weekly, uniformed and undercover police officers walk through the club at night and haven't reported any problems in months. >> it's a cooperative situation. and i would hope that we could come back to the arrangement that existed about a year ago, year and a half ago in terms of the meetings. if there's something to address we ought to talk it out with the police department and work together. >> the city attorney will go before a judge in a hearing january 24th to try to get an injunction to close down this place permanently. the club owner says many of these accusations are false and the city is blowing things out of proportion. jenelle wang, abc 7 news. >> jenelle, thank you. san francisco's asian american commun

city. they say if you are to walk, you need first class street furniture and they made a fantastic series of street furniture. they think you should have enjoyment when you walk around, so they see the city as a gallery for contemporary art and change it all the time and have ins sthrawtions and whatever. -- installations and whatever. they see light as a fantastic enjoyment of the city. half the time the city is out. it's dark by the way. they have put granite on all te sidewalks and more than half of them, and every year they put more granite in. they put in 500 trees every yer and one by one the streets become wonderfully green streets because if you are to walk, you should walk in shade and hear the birds and whatever, it should be a green city. and this is one of the streets in melbourne and one of the cable cars in melbourne they have there, whatever they're called, modernized. what has been the outcome of all this? that's what we have found out because we started to study how the city was used. we can come back and prove with hard data what has happened in you really are sweet to peop

. >> this is not the first city to try to shut down a nightclub. ed in san francisco closed its doors after heavy pressure from the city following a gang-rated shotout. a restaurant terminated the lease on pier 50 after a couple shootings in recent years. wet nightclub says it has worke with the city to make sure the place is safe and weekly, uniformed and undercover police officers walk through the club at night and haven't reported any problems in months. >> it's a cooperative sittion. and i would hope that we could come back to the arrangement that existed about a year ago, year and a half ago in terms of the meetings. if there's something to address we ought to talk it out with the police department and work together. >> the city atrney will go before a judge in a hearing january 24th to try to get an injunction to close down this place permantly. the club owner says many of these accusations are false and the city is bling things out of proportion. jenelle wang, abc 7 news. >> jenelle, thank you. san francio's asian american communy is holding

jean kwan will become the first city's asian female mayor.celebrated last night with her supporters at the space and science center. she said she is confident she can get thousands of volunteers to help make changes to the city. >> police in novato examining a toyota corolla in the parking lot of a safeway grocery store where two men were shot overnight. the car has its rear windows blown out, two men were found lying in the backseat with multiple gunshot wounds, the victims are now being treated at hospital. >>> time now 6:57 a.m. a quick check of weather. good morning tracy. >> good morning liz. forecast for today, sunshine, no rainfall, mix of sun and clouds expected high today mid- 50s. more sunshine, and even some fog are possible, tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday, and a mix of sun and clouds saturday and sunday. also, just forgot to mention, some fog well inland this morning, especially in our valley. my pix photo, san jose sunset taken near santana road by meisha. if you have a photo you would like to send us, please send it i w

san francisco becomes the first city in nearly two decades to host the world premier event.hen they won the world cup back in february, it was almost a foregone conclusion that san francisco would be picked to host the next cup considering the winner gets to pick where it will prercht its entitle. they have seized a tremendous opportunity to showcase in san francisco bay, provide jobs and more than a $1 million boost to this city's economy. the race is expected to create close to 8,000 jobs. quite a bit of work will need to take place before the 34th america's cup as many of san francisco's city-managed piers will need to be renovated. preliminary races are set to begin in san francisco in 2012. tom, back to you. >> boy, a lot is happening here in the year 2013. christine, thank you very much. >>> now let's talk politics. gavin news gavin newsom still doesn't know the exact date he'll be sworn in as lieutenant governor, but he is announcing his post-inaugural party. the celebration is set for january 10 at the state capitol rotunda. his swearing-in ceremony will be on or bef

but on the other hand you know we're also a transit first city. >> muni officials are proposing one parking placard if the family proi proe vidz a birth expert signs an affidavit swearing it's for the nanny. the board will vote on the proposal next week. in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> and academy award nomination as announced this morning by last year's best actress win winner. leading the way with 12 nominations including best picture and actor. true grit foms and social network about creation of facebook had eight nom naigs and so did the drama "inception". the fighter rounded out top five with seven nominations. toy three 3 created by bay-area based pixar is nominated for five academy awards. >> apc 7's don sanchez has more on the buzz surrounding it. >> neither woody or buzz lightyear were nominated for best actor. and there is best screenplay, sound, song and best picture. just a third animated film oo. they worked really hard and so this is just been icing on the cake. >> oscar picks topped them all. >> there is exciting and a big deal. >> the film resonated with audiences. and ther

it would be the first city recognized massage building on pulte street. -- on polka street. we have contacted the department of public health and the police department that regulates the size establishments. at this time, neither agency has concerns about the business or operator. departments that has received letters of support. today, staff just received a letter of support from the mayor's office of economic workforce development, which i can forward to the commission if they would like to review it. in opposition, staff has received two letters from nearby businesses. the department's staff believes the conditional use authorization request would be desirable and compatible with the net but and it recommends approval. at the project would provide greater diversity of uses in the theory that rigid greater uses of the area andpol street. it would offer consumer service to residents and workers. it promotes small-business ownership by a local resident, and there is no indication that applicants are involved in any illegal enterprises typically related to massage establishme

that was the first. city within its. western as well as domestic architects built on that idea later in the twentieth century. construction. facing the. one nine hundred twenty eight. to be one of the first tenants but he didn't live long enough to see the end of construction. of a heart attack that same year. however his family was allowed to move into the house on the embankment. family moved out of the kremlin. just like this one. brought them from a to. in addition to my three uncles and a sister and grandmother was very happy to see me. one hundred twenty square metres was a huge amount of floor space in those days even. for a large and growing family compared to the tiny flat the family had lived in before the apartment was like a palace. and hot water on tap were seen as marvels of engineering. the architects had introduced a host of technical novelties to make the tenants and lives as comfortable as possible. there was a service left here before the building was revamped and there was a dust bin just outside the d

we would be the first city to implement one, which is exciting, but it also means we have to figure out some of the rules. it is not an independent entity. it does not have its own board. the board of supervisors manages it. that is an

first city council then state house and in 2002 governor of minnesota.nesota for so long the cradle of liberals like hubert humphrey, walter mondale. now al franken but pawlenty styles himself a sam's club republican. fiscally conservative, middle class, emphatically anti-elite. he won praise for holding spending but left a $6 billion deficit. runs for president as a prairie populist. >> i think what you got now is people have figured out that the country has been disproportionately influenced by big government, big unions and big business and they have coalesced into an iron triangle to basically screw everybody else. and the country is mad. >> sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> reporter: john mccain's choice of sarah palin as his running mate stunned everyone including tim pawlenty who had been on the very short list of finalists. >> never had an entitlement mentality so it wasn't that disappointing but as it became possible, of course, your hopes get lifted and you start thinking about it more so, you know, i'd be lying if i didn't say you h

the top of the premier league and he intervened next game against aston villa want to be first city have played two more games when united and have been conceding a few fair few goals victory over walls and two more in the f.a. cup win over leicester. admits they need to be better of a back he is happy with his attack and the new signing striker it inject has joined tempers up front. like the players i think that needs to improve i think that he needs to. go to the other day that comes from. the need for for games to understand. his premier league because this is different from the championship. that's why liverpool troubles are walls of people one miller banfield recently new boss kenny dalglish says it's a game plan to win but remain tight lipped about possible transports and gets. little goodies and given the names a little going to call me christian this answer to an individual i'm a silly little going to talk really sums of money i think. be the charge here merc is be responsible school. returns. the club's money. diligently spent a lot. of the rest of the games on saturday leaders'

woman to serve as the city's first mayor, she plans to take on the city's $40 million deficit and introduceer budget in march, two months early. she also wants to recruit 2,000 people to serve as mentors and volunteers. >> upon which i'm about to enter. >> congratulations. >> and more firsts, this time in sacramento. pamela harris was sworn in as attorney general. she becomes the only woman and a person of color to hold that office. harris said that she wants to use innovation to be not just tough but also smart on crime. she talked about assembling some working groups to look at strategies to combat gang violence, truancy, and i den theft. harris had served as the district attorney of san francisco since 2004. >> the meantime there was no swearing-in ceremony today for gavin newsom, he has beanie elected lieutenant governor but is delaying being sworn in. newsome expected to put it off until at least the weekend. he says the new san francisco board of supervisors can choose his replacement. four new supervisors take office this weekend. so if newsome isn't lieutenant governor tonight, who

she is the first one in the city to install it. in noe valley, the corner of castro and 24 has a lot of pedestrian casualties from automobiles. there was a lot of dangerous -- it is a very busy intersection with cars and buses. there is a school. there are the catholic schools. there are children in that area. one of the priorities in the street scape improvement plan was pedestrian safety. they implemented a duratherm crosswalk, which is a much more visible crosswalk with a special pattern for safety reasons. it adds more character and detail to the street that you normally would not havede. b -- not have. deb brought duratherm. it was the first project where we used this material in the city. the city studied it to see how it worked. since then, other districts have -- in the tenderloin, they have also implemented this. the budget amount for each category was within the 10 percentage points from the management plan. they also met the requirements to have 5% of their income come from other sources. they have done an amazing job ra

you become the city's first chinese american mayor long bob brown did city service oriented emphasis the government since 1989. and that time he served as director of human rights, city purchasing, public works, city administrator. board of supervisors president david who will serve as interim mayor says lee will bring stability back to city hall. >> he is a city administrator has great depth and experience. he is someone who has deep roots, he has worked with many of across across the aisle. >> there are all of the challenges he will face. >> a deficit from was warranted million dollars. we also of exploiting pension and health-care costs. there has to be a collaborative way to ring as in. >> the latest of a developing story at of arizona the shooting rampage or week of killing six, injuring 14. the first formal community doubt bring some saturday will be held at the tucson church tonight. doctors treating arizona congresswoman gifford says she still in critical condition, responding to romance she has been able to resist is two fingers on her left hand. freezing tent cancer and a f

oakland is month the most violent cities in the country. the first murder of the new year came ten minutes into the start of 2011. antiviolence activist say kwan a former neighborhood activist herself, won't be able to do it alone. she will need to risk political capital. >> we're not going to do nothing sitting in your office. need to get on the streets like jean do jean do her work. she need to get them get off their butts and do some work, too. >> reporter: whether quan will be able to work with the police union, which did not support her run for mayor, remains to be seem both sides hope to reach a compromise to bring back the 80 officers last year. fixing oakland's many problems won't happen overnight. >> the question is whether she will have the political will to make some of those decision right away. she doesn't have the luxury -- no excuse, but jerry brown had. jean quan does. >> reporter: quan will be meeting with oakland police officers on tuesday morning. she plans to attend their morning lineup and also plans to make an announcement about

city attorney will ask a judge for an injunction to shut down club wet on south first street. city is accusing club staffers of covering up violence on the dance floor. new year's eve club security reportedly refused to call an ambulance for a woman who was bleeding after a fight. in another case police reportedly found club staff cleaning up blood after a fight where someone was allegedly stabbed. >>> a gruesome discovery. >> seems like everywhere you step, there's even more. >> a foreclosed home filled with animals. a scene police say was unspeakable and how the homeowner in question is defending herself tonight. >>> a peninsula family fights to save a young woman's life. why a bone marrow drive today is so crucial to her survival. >>> and a live look outside where it was another wonderful, warm day. hot enough to break records? up in ait. >>> a big stretch of hiis gy wa highway is closed in san francisco. department of public works has both lanes closed from lincoln way to slope boulevard. winter weather has hit the r pdr hard, parts eroding to the beach below. there are pla

the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go >> thank you all for coming out, especially on short notice. it is a real thrill for all the giants fans and for the elected officials here in city hall to announce formally the trophy tour. we will be bringing the trophy to a city near you but will first stop. the start of the official tour is here, the visa tour, in early january. january 5, we will be celebrate your birthday and the world series victory from the giants. it will be making its way all throughout the state and even going over the state border. we are honored to have the trophy here as a preview of that tour, available for your viewing pleasure and for your photographic memories. we will have this trophy available here for a few hours this afternoon before we head off with mayor cluck of arlington, who was kind enough to join us today. around the applause for the mayor. to fulfill the mayor's obligation, and that is saddling the bets between the city and county of san francisco and t

in 19003, the first production year track models were introduced, that it was when things took off. >> that mostly happened in new york city? >> lower manhattan was the first place that took off, then chicago. those early passenger elevators always had an attendant that would take a passenger's request and then operate the car. the big change was the emergence of a electric elevators. starting in 1880, the electric elevator allowed building dollars to go much higher. we evolved from steam hydraulic elevators to the electric elevators that are not that much different from what we are going to see now at the top of the tower. this is the steam room on the top of the state st. francis. -- on top of the state francis. the equipment you see painted green, that is all the original equipment from 1972. we are just now in the middle of modernizing this equipment. >> why modernize? doesn't the equipment works fine? >> it does, it is of analog and intensive, and there are some additional controls. let me introduce the foreman to you. this is vince. he can do a better job explaining the project details. >> what is happening here, wha