that film was shot from the front of a cable car and back in 2000, ktvu's george watson gave us this look back at the rich history of san francisco's historic and iconic form of public transit. >> reporter: if it wasn't so dangerous, this ordinary trip down market would mean extraordinarily lacked a keystone cops silent movie fun. four strong wagons crawl slowly down one side of the street. horse and buggy start in front of the swifter upstart automobiles. bike riders flit in and out of traffic. pedestrians seem oblivious to the inherent dangers to this 1930s transportation in the emerging technology of the 20s. everything is here. people dashing in front of and behind electric street cars. dodging horses, wagons, cars and bicycles. you sow see one century moverring into another and in the midst of this adventure you can also find the cable car. >> in 1973 was started in san francisco the cable car. he used it to haul other cars out of mines. the next step was taken to street cars. it didn't work. in 1905 there were 26 cable car companies in san francisco. and nothing am handles the

thank the chairs of the steering and policy committee, chairman george miller and chairwoman rosa they lauro and vice shares debbie watson schulz and vice chair henry clay are. we will be joined by our house democratic leader stanley. we are joined by our system leader, health democratic week -- with steady we're. i want to offer a special thank you to people who came here today to take the time to tell us their story. in the wake of the recent tragedy in tucson we come together with a renewed commitment to civility. we returned to work of congress, let us do so with respect and dignity for public discourse. the best way to understand the impact of the legislation we are facing this week, repeal of patients' rights is to understand how it affects individual families. once again we welcome our special guests today, vernal branch, lori bresnan, ed burke, dr. odette cohen, alexander lataille, ed burke claudette therrault stacey and daughters hannah and madeleine. our first responsibility as we say over and over again is to create jobs and we are willing to work with republicans to achieve this goal. we believe health-care r