an angel, president of golden gate university. you will see him in just a minute. for over 110 years, nonprofit golden gate university has been helping adults achieve their professional goals by providing undergraduate and graduate education in accounting, law, business, and other related areas. ggu is california's fifth largest nonprofit university, and rolling over five dozen students with over 67,000 alumni. offering weakened forces in downtown san francisco and online through the university's award winning cyber campus -- weekend courses in downtown san francisco. kaiser, founded in 1945, nonprofit integrated health-care organization with physicians, nurses, and staff working in collaboration to provide quality care and address the health care needs of communities served by the organization. kaiser permanente northern california region served almost 3.2 million members, including 5000 positions in the medical group and about 54,000 employees. and the region has 19 major medical centers. each year, kaiser permanente a donates a

at golden gate university, we have been part of the greater bay area economy for 110 years. looking at the future, we have a three-point formula to get there -- sustainability, enhancement, and trying to reach our potential. you know what? that is the same program we all have in this area, trying to make change for the better. it is our privilege to be here this morning and helped sponsor the event. i want to thank mary huff, a member of the board of trustees at the university. my job is to introduce jim gardner, the managing editor of the san francisco business times. he coordinates the print and online sides of a very active operation. he also writes most of the editorials in the business times each friday. and he has moderated this mayor's event for the past several years. please welcome jim gardner, managing editor of the san francisco business times. [applause] >> thank you. and thank you for spending at least the first part of valentine's day with 700 of their nearest and dearest. i apologize for remaining preoccupied for just a moment here, but i would like to be able

there is california society of cpas and golden gate university and right here, joining us is the cpa and financial planner. and thank you for being here. >> you want to talk about what portion of the property taxes are deductible? >> there is five million people claiming property tax deduction, everybody is deducting too much, only allowed to deduct amount based on value of the property so. like the sfsu charge, surcharge renter as sesment fee and that is not deductible. >> which is why people should be calling you tonight. >> exactly. >> or going on twitter tonight. >> that is right. >> thank you very much. wow, we're learning a lot here tonight. and you can learn, too. give us a call. or go on to twitter. reporting live from 7 on your side, i'm michael finney. >> thank you very much. >> coming up next extraordinary amount of fish we eat and why so little gets tested for safety its making us sick. i'll have an assignment 7 report just ahead. >> there is another extraordinary day for apple. stock went up ford a gain of almost 10%. since the ipad introduced last week, apple said it wi

i want to thank our sponsors and your partner, city national bank, golden gate university, a kaiser permanente a-- kaiser permanente. we wish you great success individually and collectively. we hope you have great prosperity in 2012. we will see you next year in san francisco. >> i should not be on stage. when you should be seeing -- i am used to the stage but not. that is who should be on stage. i am an animator. i am with picks are animation studios. in some ways, i felt comfortable being on stayed behind my computer. it is weird for me to be on the microphone. i have a lot of work to do but i am here to explain that, i'll come to that later. i wanted knowledge some of our special guests this morning. first off, i have some flashcards. how wanted acknowledged and the asian art museum director jay tsu. when i think of jay hsu, i think, aka dr. j. he is master of the universe. also, i never thought had -- would have the opportunity to introduce the mayor of san francisco, mayor ed lee. i just a to introduce the mayor. that is awesome. we also have a bunch of other special guests today. i would

i want to thank our sponsors and your partner, city national bank, golden gate university, a kaiser permanente a-- kaiser permanente. we wish you great success individually and collectively. we hope you have great prosperity in 2012. we will see you next year in san francisco. >> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free, and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel

peter keen, now at golden gate university law school says it's time for him to step down.ople say, look, the guy deserves a chance, to show that it's not misconduct. if that's what he's pushing for. if it's through the political process at city hall or in the courts. one of the big questions, though, suspended without pay. is that something that his lawyers could challenge that on a due process ground. >> at the very least, he has screenplay rights to sell. >> belva: and that's when he'll move down south, when he decides to do the reality show. >> hopefully they will shoot it in san francisco. >> belva: this month, kqed is looking at how 70 of california's state parks are facing closure due to budget cuts and the creative rescue plans under way to keep some of them open. we are told some of your findings as you put together the series about this. >> belva, i'm sorry to tell you, state budget cuts come back into play and that's very much the case here. the last two fiscal years, the parks department is looking to cut the budget by $22 million and this is on top of 30 years

i want to thank our sponsors and your partner, city national bank, golden gate university, a kaiser permanente a-- kaiser permanente. we wish you great success individually and collectively. we hope you have great prosperity in 2012. we will see you next year in san francisco. >> this is one of the museum's longest art interest groups. it was founded by art lovers who wanted the museum to reflect new directions in contemporary art. it has been focused on artists in this region with an eye toward emerging artists. ♪ it is often at the early stage of their career, often the first major presentation of their work in a museum. it is very competitive. only a few artists per year receive the award. it is to showcase their work to have a gallery and publication dedicated to their work. ♪ i have been working with them on the last two years on the award and the exhibitions. the book looks at the full scope of the awards they have sponsored. ♪ it has been important to understand the different shifts within the award program and how that is nearing what else is going on in the bay area. -- how that is mi

then, from golden gate university our buddy here is here every year. what is your advice for people this year? >> i say now it's the time to inventory paper work. go through the pile of mail, file folder where you've been storing items, open envelope. organize things in terms of income, items and identify which ones you're missing and look at last year's return. identify your missing anything. now is the time to go on line to try to get it or make a call. and look at your statements and pull out contribution autos make sure you're not missing anything. very good, thanks for joining us. and she's taking your questions, hash tag tax chat at abc 7 news bay area and our telephone number. and we'll take your questions up until 8:00 tonight. reporting live from near 7 on your side offices i'm michael finney. >> thank you. >> and there are people preparing their ncaa brackets and the president is no different. he has the university of kentucky and north carolina in the title game projecting tar heels to win it all. >> i'm just a sucker for tar heels. what can

has historically worked closely with folks in the haight in dealing with golden gate park and in dealing with the university of california medical center because it impacts our lives on a regular basis. it was suggested the university of california had asked to be put into one district. dennis santinori had double checked and found the administration does not want the university placed in one district, district 7. i do not know where that came from. he has double checked and he will be writing the tube. we would prefer that it remained in split and that is what the university wants to be, in multiple districts. in any case if you were to put it in one, put it in five. the second issue is that in the course of attempting to satisfy the demands for folks in the northern area, japantown and the african american area in central, in the southern section in the lower haight, i would ask that you not move the inner sunset, district for any further into the inner sunset and leave it where you have got it at 15th avenue. thank you. vice-chair lam: thank you, next speaker. >> good evening. when i speak, could i pleas

you remember president obama's beer summit with a black harvard university is, henry louis gates andreports lisa murkowski is inviting the president to a summit with less hops and more dairy, a milkshake summit. no word on whether there will be one straw or two. you got a few extra bucks? "the daily beast" reports ann romney will celebrate her birthday with a fund-raiser for her husband at the home of donald and mel lannian trump. the cost of attending this soiree, $1,000 bucks a head. happy birthday to mrs. romney. thanks for your time. i'm going to see you back here monday at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. follow me on twitter @thomasaroberts. now with alex wagner" is coming your way next. battle speech right? may i? capital one is issuing a venture double miles challenge. show us how much you spent last year and we'll give you 2 miles for every dollar spent on your travel reward card. up to 100,000 miles! hawaii, here we come. claim your miles at capitalone.com today! what's in your wallet? can you play games on that? not on the runway. no. >>> mitt romney has locked in another not real

but according to a university study, secret number one, people that lose weight fast right out of the gateslost more and kept it off longer next, exercise, you need long cardio workouts, right? if you want to lose weight, you have to add interval training. it raises your heart rate and then you rest. it doesn't have to be running. even walking fast. secret three, people that fifth get leaner. all of that movement burns calories. so in your everyday routine, squat, flex, wiggle and distance a little. good news on the next secrets, drinking a glass of red wine each day has been proven to help reduce fat and help you fight off certain precursors to diabetes. >> one glass good, three glasses bad. >> reporter: there's always chocolate, though small amounts of cocoa ca aid in the fight against obesity and satisfy sugar cravings. >> they're real. so a little trick, find a tea that mimics dessert. >> reporter: i like the good earth cinnamon tea, or sugar cookie tea. >> i don't know if cookies will be replaced by tea. but good advice. spring temperatures are a welcome change for many of us. but alle

. >> the victim who died was 19 years old and sundaying university of california at berkeley after winning a gates scholarship. three other people were hurt. the chp says the tree fell because the rain weakened its routes. >>> bay area family is a step closer to closure. a man was convicted of killing the daughter of a former oakland raiders player. this is the second time he was found guilty and families had strong emotions. >> the outcome is what we hoped hoped for. >> there is no justice here. >> tracey biletnikoff was the daughter of former oakland raider fred biletnikoff. she was strangled in 1999 at a drug rehabilitation facility. her wildfire mohammed haroon ali was convict offend the -- boyfriend mohammed haroon ali was all convicted. while no comment rues were allowed in the courtroom, the family whispered yes when they heard the verdict. >> thank you god it will keep a person like this off the street and keep him away from somebody else's daughter. >> fred biletnikoff wants everyone to remember his daughter was straightening out her life. mohammed haroon ali face as possible life term, s

universities like harvard and stanford, cambridge and oxford. when the most audacious and entrepreneurial anropists like the gates foundation want to not only giveity but eliminate polio and other shou unphillies they find partners across the atlantic in the british aid agencies like save the children, and christian aid. what a great innovator wanted a partner to make the worldwide web a reality, he turned to america. why? because he knew it was in america he would find that same spirit of creativity, innovation, and risk taking that defines our unique approach to enterprise and business. he's not alone. in 2010 trans atlantic partnerships produced eight of the nine nobel prizes in science. foreign direct investment between britain and america is the largest in the world and that stands at $900 billion. this creates and sustains around a million jobs each side of the atlantic and it provides a strong foundation for bilateral trade worth nearly $200 billion a year. in fact, american investment in the uk is eight times larger than china and uk america is nearly 140 times that of china. so, yes, the world is changing at a faster rate than ever befo

about all those investigations clearing the scientists and the university and i talk about the general consensus what happened with climate gate being different from your consensus, do you feel i'm part of the hoax, do you feel i'm being misled, how do you feel about that? >> first of all, you talked about fox news and some of the right wing, as you refer to them. let me talk about the left wing and how they responded to it. this climate gate was a big deal, listen to this. the uk telegraph, one of the biggest ones in london said it's the worst scandal of our generation, the stink of the corruption is overpowering, the ippc -- this is one that came from the united nations, a fraud on a scale i have never seen before. the u.n. scientists, and this guy's dr. phillip lloyd, called it the fraud result is not scientific. "newsweek" changed their opinion and came out and was condemning it. you can't find anyone white washing this except you. >> i don't have an opinion, the university, the penn state investigation, and the american government's investigation. >> everyone you named was someone investigating themselves. >> higher exter

gates jr. is a university professor. there are not many of them. it is the highest level of professor of harvard university. one of the most well known professors in the united states, probably the world. is a very privileged character. very impressive person and one of the leading, most influential intellectuals in american life. he has at his disposal in america what the great w. e. b. dubois could only have imagined to have had. when you say henry louis gates jr. the trajectory of his life is an illustration of how american life has opened up tremendously over the past 100 years. at the same and time you have this guy who is a university professor who takes a trip to china, he comes home and finds his door won't open. so he and the man who drove him home, cabdriver or livery driver giggle with the door, a neighbor says -- called the police and says i don't know for sure whether it is a break in going on but these two guys who look like they're trying to jeter with the door to get in a don't know what is going on and a police officer goes over an

but according to a university study, secret number one, people who lose weight fast, right out of the gates, lost more and kept it off longer. >> next exercise, we need long cardio workouts, right? because if you want to lose weight, our next secret is you have to add interval training. intervals raise your heart rate and then you rest. it doesn't have to be running. walking fast. even some of the zumba workouts incorporate intervals. >> good news you can get one of these workouts a lot faster than a cardio workout. secret three people that fidget are leaner. they burn calories. during your every day routine, squat, flex, wiggle, even dance a little. >> and look so cool doing it. good news on the next secret. drinking a glass of red wine each day has been proven to help release fat and help you fight off certain precursors to diabetes. sadly though one glass is good, three glasses bad. always chocolate, though. small amounts of cocoa can aid in the fight against obesity and satisfy sugar cravings. oh, and about those, they are very real. i crave cookies right after dinner. so a little trick

gates jr. is a university professor -- there are not very much very many of them, it's the highest level of professor at harvard university, he's certainly one of the most well known professors in the united states, probably the world -- he's a very privileged character, a very impressive person. and he, you know, one of the leading, most influential intellectuals in american life. he had at his disposal in america what the great w.e.b. duboise could only have imagined to have had. so when you say henry louis gates jr., you know, the trajectory of his life is an illustration of how american life has opened up tremendously over, you know, the past 100 years. at the same time, here you have this guy, a university professor. he takes a trip to china, he comes home, he finds that his door won't open. is so he and the man who drove him home, you know, cab driver or livery driver, they jiggle with the door. a neighbor says, calls up the place and says i don't know for sure whether there's a break-in going on, but there's two guys who look like they're, you know, just trying to jigger with the door to get i

gate d12 for the next three hours. citibank for ipad. easier banking. standard at citibank. >>> rush limbaugh's apology to georgetown university law student sandra fluke isn'tg advertisers from pulling out of his radio show. today pro flowers said it will no longer run commercials on limbaugh's show. the company says his comments "went beyond political discourse to a personal attack and do not reflect our values." pro flowers is now the seventh advertiser to pull out of limbaugh's show. since he made those offensive remarks about fluke over the birth control debate. >>> a teenager who spent his early years in our area was among the three teens killed in that high school shooting in ohio last week. 16-year-old demetrius hewlin was a straight-a student with a love for sports and computers. and now his is the story of a life ended suddenly and too soon. derek ward reports. >> reporter: a story too often repeated. young people in school and suddenly they're victims. all too often at the hands of a peer and all too often families are left to grieve, lives ended too soon. while they were only doing what they should be, going to school. >> we just had a shooting a

gates, buffest and a french luxury group. there's a new local entry. kevin plank. he went to the university of maryland.k over to you. >> thank you. apparently you had to race to register to ten ter this year's marine corps marathon. it sold out in record time. they sold all 30,000 slots in less than three hours. the annual marathon is set for sunday, october 28. last year registration closed in 28 hours. >>> 11 before the top of the hour. right now our planet is getting slammed by a major storm, but you might not even notice it. the biggest solar storm in more than five years hit our atmosphere around 5:00 this morning. it is really a massive cloud of charged particles that was released by a solar flare earlier this week. that's what you see here. the storm doesn't pose a threat to humans, but it could interview with power grids, gps systems, maybe even cause some communication problems. airlines and rerouted flights that travel across the north pole. now, there is one benefit. the northern lights may be soon early this morning and later today as far south as the great lakes. >>> keep your eye on the s

gate. >> jim avila reporting. the captain is clayton osbon. they say he was ill and taken to a medical facility. "nightline" will have more after this newscast. >>> health news now, stanford universityesearchers think they have discovered a way that could help the human body fight cancer cells. the research paired antibodies with a protein known as cd47. that combination has been known to slow the growth of tumors in mice in a wide variety of cancers. now researchers have to figure out if it is safe for humans. >>> a dirty job for firecrews in atlanta. look at this picture. they rescued a man stuck in the mud. there he is. he was walking near a muddy construction site on saturday when he began to sink. he was reportedly there for hours before someone called for help. the man suffered from hypothermia, but after a long shower, the man is apparently now just fine. very scary and strange. >> goodness. just a remarkable thing that he survived that. >>> we are seeing rain across the bay area right now. >> sandhya patel is back with the forecast. >> carolyn, let me show you the live doppler 7hd. it is no where near the intensity we saw earlier today. we still have some. itit is heading up

gate. >> jim avila reporting. the captain is clayton osbon. they say he was ill and taken to a medical facility. "nightline" will have more after this newscast. >>> health news now, stanford university researchers think they have discovered a way that could help the human body fight cancer cells. the research paired antibodies with a protein known as cd47. that combination has been known to slow the growth of tumors in mice in a wide variety of cancers. now researchers have to figure out if it is safe for humans. >>> a dirty job for firecrews in atlanta. look at this picture. they rescued a man stuck in the mud. there he is. he was walking near a muddy construction site on saturday when he began to sink. he was reportedly there for hours before someone called for help. the man suffered from hypothermia, but after a long shower, the man is apparently now just fine. very scary and strange. >> goodness. just a remarkable thing that he survived that. >>> we are seeing rain across the bay area right now. >> sandhya patel is back with the forecast. >> carolyn, let me show you the live doppler 7hd. it is no where near the intensity we saw earlier today. we still have some. itit is heading

universities like harvard and stanford, cambridge and oxford. when the most audacious and entrepreneurial philanthropists like the gates foundation want not just toharity but to eliminate polio and other avoidable diseases so that no child in our world should die unnecessarily, they find partners across the atlantic in the british aid agencies like state for children, oxfam and christian aid. and when a great innovator like sir tim berners-lee wanted a partner to make the world wide web a reality, he turned to america. why? because he knew that it was in america that he would find that same spirit of creativity, innovation and risk taking that defines our unique approach to enterprise and to people. he's not alone. in 2010, transatlantic partnerships produced 8 of the 9 nobel prizes in science. foreign direct investment between britain and america is the largest in the world and now stands at $900 billion. this creates and sustains around 1 million jobs each side of the atlantic, and it provides a strong foundation for bilateral trade, worth nearly $200 billion a year. in fact, american investment in the uk is eight times larger than china's, and

university's camp. to put this in perspective, former governor of illinois, rod blue goy vch was found gate of 18 countsrruption, and he got just about the same sentence. 13 years for killing trees. the lesson, you don't mess with trees. this is not a political statement. it's a warning because people are really passionate about trees. joyce kilmer said, i think that i never shall see a poem as lovely as a tree. we all climbed trees as a kid, we had tree houses, trees are connected to us. family trees, christmas trees, tree huggers, money trees, phone trees, we go out on a limb sometimes, bottom line is trees

university if you're heading to the dumb bow. highway 84 over the water has that wind advisory continuing this morning. gusts at times over the high-rise here, san mateo bridge. the golden gate bridge, the clouds are all blown out of the way and no problems. just crews moving those cones right now. >> thank you, mike. 4:56 right now. students from southern california getting quite a treat this week. >>> a really big treat. the world's largest chocolate bar is on display in l.a. the 12,190-pound bar is touring schools around the country to promote, what else, healthy eating among younger kids. makes sense, right? not really. actually, the bar was created as an example of portion distortion, commenting on how large serving sizes have gotten over the past several years. the 21-foot-long bar will visit more than 60 schools as part of the tour. >>> interesting. 4:57 right now. >>> it's ooh double-death mystery. i'm stephanie chuang live with what we learned this morning. that's coming up. >>> raider nation a

. >> the case of professor gates up in cambridge pales compared to this and the president did speak out about that. megyn: it had to do with a black harvard university professor who was arrested boy a white police officer responding to a 911 call about a possible break in. it turned out that it was actually professor henry lewis gates' own home. he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. those charges were dropped but it sparked a national debate about racial profiling by police and it turned explosive when president obama weighed in and said this during a prime-time news conference. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. megyn: after a week-long firestorm the president invited both men to the white house for a so-called beer summit to discuss the situation. well as ed henry mentioned the president is apparently choosing not to mark or really even mention today's second anniversary of his healthcare law becoming law. he is no doubt standing behind it. the president's re-election campaign launching a new website supporting the controversial law. we asked ou