gavin newsom, lieutenant governor of california. the hon.ounsel general of the people's republic of china. [applause] the minister of the embassy of the people's republic of china and the united states, based in washington, d.c.. and charlotte schultz, mr. mike rossi, senior adviser on jobs for governor brown. also officials from the delegation. the director-general of the department of foreign investment and administration. mr. wong shi. and mr. -- the commercial counselor of the department of corporation. and the director-general of the investment promotion agency of the ministry of commerce in china. we have more. the chairman of the tschida chamber of commerce -- china chamber of commerce. and from the china contractors association. and the president of the foreign trade and economic relations commission. and the deputy director general, department of commerce of the inner mongolia, autonomous region. the director of economic and trade office of [unintelligible] province. i would like to mention that locally, we have a city council membe

his own wife [speaker not understood] with gavin newsome. [speaker not understood]. we don't have any police officer to give the chief of police more than the friend of gavin newsome. he don't know anything about the [speaker not understood] of my country, of my city. [speaker not understood] the district attorney [speaker not understood]. i am here, challenge everyone. enough is enough. 10 months, my city doesn't have someone to control the jail. sheriff [speaker not understood], he deserves it [speaker not understood] sooner or later. shame on you. mr. mayor, i am here, challenge anyone include you because you go bad. and when you go bad, someone like me must tell you to stop and enough know what i mean and know what i mean for what i said, i don't like discrimination. i hate discrimination. take it or leave it. [speaker not understood]. >>> good afternoon, supervisors, [speaker not understood] for the public library. don't accept money from the friends and foundation. and, of course, the answer is ask the mayor why he endorses official misconduct when it's among h

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. >> a couple of years ago then mayor good gavin newsom -- i'm sorry-excuse me, i missed a question here. my apologies. okay. this yes is for mr. everett, miss olague and miss selby. this is where i want to be. >> okay. >> thank you. again for mr. everett, miss olague and my selby. over the years there have been various proposals to allow non-citizen members of san francisco to vote in city elections. in your opinion, which city elections, if any, should be open to participation by non-citizen residents and which non-citizen residents should be allowed to vote in those elections? >> the harsh reality is that so many non-citizens still have children in our public schools here in san francisco, throughout the state of california and throughout the united states. as all of you undoubtedly know. with that being said, it's vitally important that those parents still have a say in the education of their children. i would certainly support and promote voting by those parents in school board elections in san francisco. by implication own a community college election would fit in that rubric, to s

former mayor and current lieutenant governor the honorable gavin newsom. the city chief of protocol charlotte schultz, and her husband former secretary of state george schultz. former mayor willie brown. [cheers and applause] and former mayor frank jordan. we want to acknowledge the husband of united states senator and former mayor dianne feinstein, mr. richard bloom. the wife of former mayor gina mos coney and the wife of former mayor joe alliteo, catherine. the sister of former mayor george christopher. the board board and the rest of the city family who has made this event possible. we are also honored to be joined by several giants dignitaries. president and ceo larry baer and his wife sam. [cheers and applause] . giants vice president and general manager brian saibian and his wife amanda. [cheers and applause] the wife of the skipper mrs. kim bochy. and let us now welcome distinguished members of the giants ownership group, charles johnson, david jenkins, trina and rob veen, tory and steven humphrey and allen baer. and we also joined by past giants ow

>>(narrator) share your views with gavin at politicallydirect.com, a direct line to the gavin newsom . >>focus on the folks that are making a difference, that are not just dreamers, but doers. >>(narrator) join the conversation. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> gavin: many of you always remember this date, october 5th as the day that steve jobs died. it's hard to imagine it's already been a year. today apple stock prices soaring, and the apple iphone 5s are selling out. walter isaacson probably knows more about steve jobs than anybody else. here is his perspective on the icon and his legacy a year later later. >> gavin: as you reflect a year after his death what is indelible in terms of the lessons you learned from steve? >> he had a real passion to making really great products. sometimes in america if you're in business you think about making a great product you have real pride but then you start thinking about making a profit and cutting corners. as steve jobs did we come and stand in the intersection of art and sciences creating creative creativity and technology. beauty and engineering. tha

avenue sen -- gavin newsom, honorable edwin lee, the hon. minister of the deputy of commerce, the consulate general of china in san francisco, the minister of the embassy of china in the u.s. [speaking foreign language] and the tenant governor newsome is mcclaren's -- lt. gov. newsom is joining us. [speaking foreign language] for the first year, the investment promotion energy and china sf to sign a memorandum of understanding. they are recycling the purchase contract. congratulations. [applause] [speaking foreign language] let's invite both to sign the letter of tintend for soybean purchase -- intent for soybean purchase. congratulations and thank you. [applause] [speaking foreign language] let's invite the china chamber of commerce and paramount. and blue diamond. the china chamber of commerce and blue diamond growers to sign the project on imports of all men's -- almonds. thank you. congratulations. [speaking foreign language] ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of the signing ceremony. congratulations to the organizations and companies

>>(narrator) share your views with gavin at politicallydirect.com, a direct line to the gavin newsom . >>focus on the folks that are making a difference, that are not just dreamers, but doers. >>(narrator) join the conversation. >> gavin: my guest is "new york times" columnist nicholas kristof. the topic is why he's so passionate about fighting human trafficking and how he got the white house involved. >> gavin: you were in the clinton global initiative. president obama came in and took the time, interestingly to give a speech focused on human trafficking, something very near and dear a topic for you. were you surprised coming from the u.n. assembly, that he would take the entire focus of the speech on human trafficking? >> i was thrilled. one of the frustrations is that nobody pays attention to it. i have a friend who was trafficked herself, and we all kind of knew this was coming, we heard about it. she couldn't sleep the night before. she stayed up all night and was texting friends at 4:00 a.m. and these kids who were trafficked, whether they were trafficked in the bay area or traf

i had the privilege of working with gavin newsom in the past to during his administration to create the electric vehicle infrastructure for the city and began the conversation and the collaboration with the other counties to bring an electric vehicle corridor. it signals our efforts to support the creation of infrastructure to the electric vehicle industry. of course we have encouraged the private automobile creators to join us. today is a wonderful opportunity to do that with a bmw. any of you who noticed the labels in this city, you will certainly noticed the popularity of bmw as a corporation, not only a great company but one that is also on the cutting edge of the use of technology. i want to thank them and welcome them to not only the electric vehicle stage, which they have been working on, but also to this great program they are about to introduce, the drive now and park now technology. joined -- joining us in the car sharing program for their members who want to use bmw products. this idea of cars sharing has been a part of san francisco's objective in creating a more sharing eco

chris daly, he was here, he prove to me and prove to the city that the former mayor gavin newsom -- andp, this is criminal almost. what you talk about criminal, you did, or he did. -- to have discrimination -- ross mirkarimi, and -- to have -- that our president or our mayor wanted to have in our city hall. no puppet. we need people have courage like me to say let ross mirkarimi go to his office

(vo) here's how you can connect with the gavin newsom show. >>i'm an outsider in the inside. are the best politics. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> gavin: one of the most pressing and probably long-term damaging problems for low-income children in this country is malnutrition, leading to childhood obesity. that's a key challenge facing carolyn miles president and ceo of save the children. >> save the children focuses on two areas, health and making sure that children survive the age of five, that's a huge objective to us, and then education. children getting through basic education with the skills they need. >> gavin: before we talk education, on the health side, five, why is that a magical number? or was it just a number that sort of median age in some respects for those that are suffering certain chronic conditions? >> yeah, the reason why five is so critical the vast majority of preventive deaths, things you can prevent occur before the age of five. right now six 6 million to 7 million children guy of preventable things, most of them in the developing world. that under five is crit

that's what gavin newsom assigned me to and i worked hard to accomplish that. we don't fix it today, we're going to pay for it in the long run, our aging infrastructures exacerbate existing costs, we know that, and that's why we have placed a great amount of discipline in our all city assets. when we do this, we've shown we can build our assets and maintain them on time and within budget and for our parks bond as an example, the 2008 tax bond, all of them came in under budget or at budget and certainly on time and this means this new $195 million dollars will provide nearly 1300 new construction jobs. that's how we get our city moving. and we're not going to move backwards. we have to move forward and i want our city government to move forward at the same time. something that i had hoped not to see on the ballot, an effort to tear down our hetch hetchy and question whether and where we would ever get the cleanest water this country has from the hetch hetchy source. i have said over and over again this dangerous and misguided effort, it will be disasterous for o

. >>> ed lee and gavin newsom announced a new service this morning to help the homeless. the mayor and former mayor made the announcement that takes place five times a year. they say they are expanding the city's 8-year-old program to include an everyday connect. the expanded service will offer help to those who need it. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. >> we don't just get a piece of paper that says go to this place. good luck. we say here is where -- we say here is where you need to go. do you want us to go with you? here is where the metro is. >> they help with things like a pair of socks and eyeglasses. >>> healthcare workers will be walking a picket line. workers say sutter health is proposing drastic takeaways and this afternoon, they will conduct a three-hour walkout. the picket begins at 1:30. >>> chain require importants are in effect right now for roads in the virginia. here is placer county -- in the mountains. here is placer county. >>> well, even at noon there's still some snow up at blue canyon, also truckee. tahoe says partly sunny. this is the tahoe airp

in may 2008, san francisco opened the office of small business, under the leadership of gavin newsom, under the urging of our small business leaders. the mayor heard there was a need for the community to have a small office to help the needs of our small businesses in san francisco, help them understand and navigate the complex structure in getting a business opened within the city and county of san francisco. initially, primarily, we were going to be about helping you understand licensing and permitting requirements, but, really, shortly after we open our doors, we understood that we were also, as a government entity, a place for people to come when they want to know about loans, about writing a business plan. where to go to do that, where to go to get assistance. we are also a resourced. when we do see people in our office, many of them are a year or two out from even opening their business, so we will ask them what their credits for is, have they done their business plans, do they know what they're capital needs are going to be, how much money they have, how much money they are goi

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. >>> when the giants won the world series back in 2010, gavin newsome was mayor of san francisco. on nights like this, he tells us that he really misses the job. >> you get those fancy seats and then all of a sudden you know where you stand based on how far back you are in the stands. i'm somewhere mid to upper deck, with the real folks. >> yeah. newsome says his three-year-old daughter is good luck. every play-off game they've attended, the giants have won. except tonight his daughter is in southern california. >>> mayor edwin lee and detroit mayor david binge have agreed on their world series bets. a little late but they got it in. the winner will visit the other city and do a little community service. there you go. >>> a middle schoolteacher is under arrest, suspected of selling drugs. police found a pound of pot and 4200 in his car, in the school's parking lot. 66-year-old allen goodman is a teacher at hercules middle school. officers searched his walnut creek home and say they found evidence of a marijuana grow and a large amount of cash. >>> another bay area teacher is havin