>> yeah, go to the website under bureau of urban forestry. sfgov. org has a link from there to all the departments much department of public works and bureau of urban forestry. >> watch your step here. >> general cleaning -- >> not allows to broom the debris to the gutter and walk away. >> unless the morning of the street cleaning. >> you can sweep to the gutter when they street sweep. >> does this clean that up. is gum a problem is this too messy to the city's standards. there is no code involving sidewalk cleanliness. should be in well maintained condition as the code states. with a number of sidewalk defects around the city, you know -- particularly on -- >> how about when somebody wants to use their own paving do they need approval. >> its allowed it's a sidewalk surface permit. it's required to comply with american standards of protective materials -- we have a minimum code for friction it will need to meet. [inaudible]. over to the 10 plus yearses we have compiled a list of surfaces that are splitted to us or the city used in various projects

trail reconstruction this gold again gate park and john mechanic claire park for 4 million and park forestry plans for 4 million. it would permit land lords to pass through 50 percent of any resulting property tax increase to their tenants. i'm here with matthew ogrady, we're joined by george wooding, vice president of the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods and an opponent of the measure. i'd like it start off with matthew and why you believe this proposition is so important. >> certainly. thank you, richard. first off i have some good news and bad news and some more good news for san francisco. the good news is that in a study recently published by the trust for public land that looked at city park systems in the 40 biggest cities in the country, it rated san francisco as no. 1 in the country. we have the best park system anywhere in the country. that's because of the big investments made by previous generations of san franciscoans. the bad news is that a lot of that infrastructure is 60 to 80 years old and it's worn out and the city identified about 1.4 billion dollars worth of reno

the resources and a strong advantage in high tech, bio-science, agriculture, fisheries, and the forestry, and even tourism. and in terms of cooperation with china, california enjoys exceptional economic, cultural, and geographical locations and advantages. it is always is the gateway of the united states to china. as the economic and trade cooperation between china and the united states and california deepens, now we believe that trade and investment keeps growing. china is the third largest export destination for california. many multinationals like hp, intel, cisco, and chevron are doing well in china. they're making money in china. at the same time, as the close relationship is going on, many chinese companies are working in san francisco in california. i would like to name a few. the tsl, ciuts, just to name a few. these are successful chinese companies working here. as the american companies in china, the chinese companies working in california in san francisco are also making contributions to job creation and the development of the economy in local areas. we're thinking these are v

the navy, marines, and civilian aviation authorities, the environment ministry, not to mention the forestry commission and the archaeological superintendent. these are needed by anyone wishing to build on state-owned islands. >> it would be no loss for our country if a few islands were developed, just like properties along the coast are used for tourism. why not an island? damocles has some 6000 islands and islets -- >> greece has some 6000 islands and islets. every day, kostas ferries tourists to them. uninhabited islands are a unique natural paradise surrounded by crystal clear water. >> when the tourists come here, they are deeply impressed by the nature, the tranquillity, and solitude. there are not many people here to bother them. the beaches are mostly deserted, and i think the germans especially like to come here and leave their cares behind. >> he says nobody wants to see highrises go up here. people come to experience untouched nature. anyway, he makes a living partly from carrying tourists out to the islands and picking them up again in the evening. he calls the government's plans

nine hours of the cargo was confiscated by the turkish security forces meanwhile the director of forestry wrist civil. beechen agency so this whole search under went in a breach of international regulations and also violated the convention on international civil aviation meanwhile they said before the plane was the final you left the turkish territory and currently is heading to its final destination to damascus right on seeds of medina of course never forcing their lives but you know many thanks indeed for that update. and things didn't as a wakeup call was signaling that nato members are ready for open military confrontation best of you based on people activists and journalists. under international law this is an act of war and that turkey would be emboldened to commit this act makes me very nervous about what's going to happen going forward and this is crazy i have no idea what the thinking is behind this other than to try to intimidate everyone involved on the other side of this need i would venture in syria that either back off or we're going to take it to the max i think that's the

response are in service and forestry and public works response crews are on standby. 911 and 31 are fully operational. please use 911 only for emergencies. police officers will be deployed throughout the city and are able to respond to any incident. now is the time to get prepared. we expect to make additional announcements through the day and provide updates. stay tuned on local radio, tv, for more updates as the storm approaches. now it's time for questions. >> mayor rawlings-blake, i know you've been talking with representatives from b.g.e. preparing for the worst. what are you expecting? we're hearing of winds of 60 miles an hour. >> you were listening to mayor stephanie rawlings-blake as she was briefing the media on the city's emergency preparedness as sandy makes its way to maryland we will keep in touch with the emergency center in baltimore and let you all know what she says as the day continues. right now it's time for sunday morning q&a, joining me this morning, ross goldstien with the state board of elections. we had record early voting on first day, yesterday. is that the res

we have our forestry personnel out there. more than 1200 forestry workers.have more than 1600 linemen. we'll go out and do the work. important to note the first piece is assessment. that could take a day into a second day. once that assessment piece is complete. then the effort turns to restoration. jenna: talk to me about expectations. when do you think you will get power back to the nearly one million people that you mentioned? >> this will be an extensive restoration process. at the onset we expect to be out of power seven to 10 days after we complete our assessment, then we'll take a look at that. jenna: how about people that do have power right now? do you expect them to have power from now onwards? are you worried about more power outages to come? >> there is always potential we could have additional customers go out of service especially when you're doing arrestor race of this type. you may need to take a few customers out of service in order to bring larger groups of customers back. that is when restoration comes back. you deal with police stations h

any way, it was up there on the mountain he spotted this young woman, seeming to be conducting a forestry survey. >> i skied up to her, said what are you doing? writing parking tickets? >> then she took off her skiing coat. >> i was stunned. she was beautiful. >> when they got married a few years ago, they eloped. jetted off to fiji. it was so stephanie, said her friend. >> yeah, they kind of just ran off and did it. they made their home in silv silverthorne. >> when things were rolling, around 25 photographers working. >> stephanie got a job in county government, environmental planning department. they raised their three young children. >> awesome children. the best. >> smile. >> life for the family was -- >> fantastic. we traveled, we vacationed. ♪ >> but it was in her spare moments that stephanie was truly transformed. a ballroom dancer. >> dancing was probably to her what photography is to me. >> our guest star -- >> it was her passion, said her old friend, bill. >> stephanie loved to dance. dance was her life. she was alive when she danced. >> hardly surprising then that stephanie an

need to fix before we can move into the residential areas and we have about 1,600 line workers and forestry working the storm right now. >>neil: we have had a number utility firms in new jersey and a lot of the private upstarts, as well, are you all in sync together? do you help each other out? >>guest: utilities are members of mutual assistance agreements and we have line workers working for us from as far away as california and the state of washington. >>neil: thank you very much, chris. this just in, halloween is moved in new jersey, it is today, but it will be moved to next monday, the governor christie has moved that holiday out of safety concerns so the kids can trick or treat next monday. do not be surprised if other states follow suited and that would be election eve which might be appropriate. so, next monday the kids can go trick or treating but, again, the bottom line is you know the rule kids whether it is delayed or not, two pieces for you, two pieces for daddy. two for you, two for daddy so we are on the same page. that is nice. that is very nice for the kids. we will have mor

it's forestry. it's not very well populated at all. it's very sparsely populated. but you can guarantee there would be people right there who definitely would have felt that. but because it's so sparsely populated, we're not hearing a lot of people call in and say that they felt it. there have been aftershocks. just about a dozen or so since this initially occurred. most of those aftershocks, natalie, have been along the 4 and 5 magnitude. nothing like the 7.7 magnitude. back in 1947 they had an 8.1. almost exactly in the same area. this particular one, the 7.7 one that just occurred, was reasonably shallow. i would say moderately shallow. just about 17 kilometers deep. the initial report, natalie, was it was about ten kilometers deep. so that's fairly shallow. but it triggered the warning systems to go off. that's why the people in hawaii said we're going to issue a warning, a tsunami warning. >> that's what we're waiting to see right now to see if this does, indeed, generate the waves that they have predicted. we're going to listen in -- thank you, karen -- just

i have worked in forestry, probably tens of thousands of trees i have watched as our national forests have moved towards more and more thinning. the wild land urban interface as well as they have. they will not be able to overcome the very real changes that we are seeing around us. it is why we have a moral responsibility to stand up and say, in a state or so many people make their living off of science, so many people are ph.d. is and work in our national labs and our universities, we will not stick our heads in the sand and pretend that science does not exist. >> we have failed to maintain our public lands. you can see the difference in the land over 100 years, were they are now heavily loaded with fuel. they are loaded with fuel, dry, and everybody is waiting for the next lightning strike. the endangered species, which prevented people from maintaining a lot of these public lands, only exist on the indian reservations because they have maintained their public lands. i think we need to get back to multiple use of our public land and reasonable land management so we did not face thes

so we do have our national guard deployed along with our department of highways and division of forestry roads ahead of the power company crews both first energy and appalachian power have brought hundreds of workers in from their affiliate companies into the state. so, you know, we are getting them deployed wherever we can. obviously, we've got to reemphasize to people that are on the road to please slow down. some of our problems are being caused by especially trucks jackknifing and so forth. so we just encourage everybody if you got to be on the road to drive slow and realize it is slick whether it's the snow, the slushy snow, or the leaves that have collected on the highways. so, you know, we're working as well as we can and we're -- i think we've been pretty well-prepared with our state crews working with the power companies to be able to clear the roads as well as to get the power back on as quickly as possible. however -- >> i know, i can't imagine that many people without power all at the same time. what kinds of watches and warnings are in place? because it's a strange c conglom

. >> part of it is because of the nature of the coast forestry if he was a union man in the state wast angry at the direction the new policy took then there is not much to celebrate. he was in many ways lincolns ever. and if you really did not like emancipation and so on. so kentucky would not be inclined to celebrate, except, perhaps, the unionists. he was also an intensely private person, someone who never sought electoral office. and so he did not do a whole lot to promote himself. although he lived a very long life. he lived in to the late 1800's in 1894. he retrieved, especially in the last 40 years of life into pretty much a private world and did not promote himself. i also think that soon after the war was over, very soon after the war was over much of the nation was guided by or inspired by a desire for reconciliation among whites. too bad for anybody else. and he did the represent the point of view. he was very distressed at the rapidity with which the nation was unified and the slaves, the former slaves, welfare was abandoned. and so he was a contrarian. again, did not have

without power, a lot of the power outages are caused by downed trees, and so we have crews from our forestryision, our division of highways and national guard working with the power companies to get access to where these lines are down to try to get the power restored as quickly as only to. jon: i know some citizens, residents, were caught off guard by the snow. what about your department? they were talking about bad weather. did you think it would be like this? >> yes. we had been planning for this several days in advance of the event, had been monitoring the weather. we anticipated the snow in our mountain counties. we anticipated the power outages. we just went through in this summer, so we had anticipated it, but there's not a whole lot you can do until after it's over, and then you try to get access and get everything back as quickly as possible. jon: it's a wet snow, too, you've still got trees with some leaves on them, i imagine that's just compounding the problem, a lot of broken trees and downed timber. >> it has compounded the problem, and another concern we have is the weight of t

and there is a section there on the menominee as well, but they had actually pioneered sustainable forestry for the world and had actually built and endowment of $10 million at a time when many tribal people were living in abject poverty and had a great program. the u.s. government came and said you are pretty civilized we are terminating your government, and the consequences were devastating for the harvest reprogram for the wealthy and the benefits of the native people. the menominee county then became the poorest county in the state of wisconsin. more money in welfare payments than they had been paying the subsidized tribal government was tartabull. and a lot of times, you know, that's been the problem with outsiders trying to figure out how to do something about the indian problem in that they don't know what is best and the tribal governments tend to know a little bit better. it doesn't mean there are not issues of contention and found that as well but i think the native nationhood should be seen as important for everybody. you know, when america came into existence, it was through con

and there is a section there on the menominee as well, but they had actually pioneered sustainable forestry for the world and had actually built and endowme of $10 million at a time when many tribal people were living in abject poverty and had a great program. the u.s. government came and said you are pretty civilized we are terminating your government, and the consequences were devastating for the harvest reprogram for the wealthy and the benefits of the native people. the menominee county then became the poorest county in the state of wisconsin. more money in welfare payments than they had been paying the subsidized tribal government was tartabull. and a lot of times, you know, that's been the problem with outsiders trying to figure out how to do something about the indian problem in that they don't know what is best and the tribal governments tend to know a little bit better. it doesn't mean there are not issues of contention and found that as well but i think the native nationhood should be seen as important for everybody. you know, when america came into existence, it was through conta

my father served for the forestry and national resources sciences. master's degree from harvard. it led me to spend years as a volunteer working with jesuits and teaching children. i decided to leave my private sector business career and go to iraq as a civilian. and of course, my wonderful wife is here with our two children, conrad and roman. if you hear crying, roman is one month old and is giving his opinion on the state of the economy. eleanor and i met in afghanistan and she is the smartest and toughest person i know. she study genetics at cambridge, became a journalist, and once ran 200 miles to the desert. that is like going from seattle to portland, but she did it in the sierra -- sahara. she is definitely the better half. the reason we are running for offices because washington, d.c. is really broken. we think america needs bipartisan budget, private sector driven economic growth and it needs to end the war in afghanistan have smarter foreign policy in the middle east. republicans and democrats need to work together. people say that is impos

i have worked in forestry. i've cut probably tens of thousands of trees, i've managed a ponderosa pine forest. i've watched as our national forests have moved toward more and more thinning and i applaud them for working the interface as well as they have. but they're not going to be able to overcome the very real changes that we are seeing around us. and it's why we have a moral responsibility to stand up and say that in the state where so many people make their living off of science, so many people are ph.d.'s and work in our national labs and our universitys, we are not going to stick our head in the sand and prevent -- and pretend that that science does not exist. >> representative wilson? >> we have failed to maintain our public lands. and you can see the difference in the land over 100 years where they're now heavily loaded with fuel, you can't get a horse through anymore. and they're loaded with fuel, they're dry, and everybody is waiting for the next lightning strike for it all to go up in smoke. the sad

trail reconstruction this gold again gate park and john mechanic claire park for 4 million and park forestry plans for 4 million. it would permit land lords to pass through 50 percent of any resulting property tax increase to their tenants. i'm here with matthew ogrady, we're joined by george wooding, vice president of the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods and an opponent of the measure. i'd like it start off with matthew and why you believe this proposition is so important. >> certainly. thank you, richard. first off i have some good news and bad news and some more good news for san francisco. the good news is that in a study recently published by the trust for public land

. >> rose studied forestry at u.c. berkeley but soon realized she really loved planting things.ogether, she and dan decided to try herbs. success soon followed, and the farm is now one of the largest wholesale suppliers of herbs and perennial plants to nurseries in california and nevada, delivering to more than 50 retailers. >> and i find it a lot more interesting to look for these rare plants, and a lot of them are really good for california climates. they work perfectly in our area. again, they're multifunctional, so you can cook with a lot of them. a lot of them you cook with kind of unusual cuisines. and a lot of them are drought-tolerant. so, it really goes forward on what we would like to promote, which is dry gardening in our area. >> like lavender--30 different types grow on this farm. go ahead. try and say this one's name. >> lavandula stoechas kew red. it's a-- >> wait. it's called a what? [laughing] >> lavandula stoechas kew red. it becomes important to know which lavender you have. >> the vacaville farm has the feel and the charm of a rustic garden. but make no mista