i would like you to extend your inquiry into the stock at grant park. -- stop and grand park. we have graffiti that will not quit. we have filth. it probably involves excrement and urine. frankly, i do not use that stop except for rarely because of these problems. that stopped is rarely used. when i have been down there a few times per year, rarely there is anyone they're using it. if you wish to speed up accessibility to other stops, i would say to shut it down. then, there is access. if there was a health emergency or any one was attacked, cars are prevented from coming off. stopping to assist anyone. i had an experience two months ago. for me and everyone in my home is concerned about these issues there. a group of youths was standing around in something raised the hairs on the back of my neck when i went by myself, without a person in my hand or a cell phone, attempting not to be victimized, i happened to use it that day at 4:30. i felt distinctly threatened by the fact that one of the students stood two feet in front of me and was obviously casing me for an opportunity. p

>> in the last three years since obama gave his speech there at grant park. >> bill: if you look at itly, not a party one way or the other, pretty effective ad. >> it's a beautiful ad, very slick ad. takes obama's words and uses them against him and his passion, as you see there, that victory party in grant park there and uses it against him because this is essentially based, called the obama isn't working campaign. and it's called of romney sort of for ray out into the public life now. he has been behind the scenes as he has been getting criticized for. he has had since april 11th when he announced. he has had 34 events but most of them have been private fundraisers. he is getting out there now. a little over 18 million. >> bill: and that's not nearly enough so, something is going to have to happen. mitt romney is going to have to get more visible. >> he was silent and now is he speaking out. now you are going to see this campaign. >> bill: kind of ramp it up a little. >> he will be having seven town halls in new hampshire in the month of august. going to iowa to campaign for two days

. >> well, that he what he said on election night as i remember being in grant park that night.tough shape. but at the end of the day -- >> aren't people going to blame him? >> at the end of the day i think people will look at the mess that the president inherited but more importantly look at what the fewer is for our country and compare the vision of the president versus whoever the republican nominee will be. people will have a choice. do they think that republican will do a better job than president obama or do they think president obama has a better vision to keep growing our economy, keep creating jobs and moving us in the right direction. >> and he is going to have a bus trip next week when presidents or candidates get in trouble since 1992 and the success of the clinton-gore bus trips. they hit the bus tour across america and that reconnects them. it's an image they prefer to sitting in an oval office photo op with nancy pelosi and harry reid and fighting over the debt ceiling. >> exactly. it's their humble image and you get to see america. john mccain did that when he wa

i am still trying to figure out how the weather was over 60 degrees in november in grant park in 2008 was the culmination of this incredible journey that we took together. campaign that drew on the hard work and support of all of you and people all across the country, but men and women that believed that change was possible in the face of long odds, in the face of frustrations and setbacks, who said we do not have to accept politics as usual. we can once again have a country that is living up to our highest aspirations. that was a lovely night, but you remember what i told you that night. i said, yes we can, but i said this would not be easy. i said that wasn't the end of the journey. that was just the beginning. the economy was already hammering families. decisions that had been deferred for too long and washington were finally catching up with us. all of these problems were gathering all at once. and we knew the road ahead was going to be difficult and the climb was going to be steep. i have to admit i did not know how steep the climb was going to be, because we did not realize. we

. >> the annual music festival returning to grant park sold out for all three days. 90,000 fans at dayected. this is a traveling show with nine underground act. a big honor for oprah winfrey and she will get the humanitarian award for charity work and jones is getting an honorary oscar for his very successful movie career he has been in more than 44--50 movies. concertgoers and sports fans will soon be able to get their tickets at wal-mart it has paired up with ticketmaster they plan on installing touch screen kiosks in stores, eventually you can choose any event, the store employees helps you to choose and they expected to be available by august 15th. arnold schwarzenegger a childhood home in austria is now a museum. his open over the weekend marking the 61st birthday of the california governor of the museum will feature all kinds of things like exercise equipment, that is the original sward from conan the barbarian if arnold schwarzenegger is expected to visit the museum this hall. the first film that alfred hitchcock has ever worked on has been found. it is said to be the first half

i want to give you this certificate on behalf of the city, parks trust, the challenge grant program. thank you for all of the leadership you have had. [applause] >> water? [inaudible] [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor, for your leadership on this. during his time as dpw director, during the community challenge grant program, and now as mayor, it is great for us to see a mayor that gets it on what matters to our neighborhoods and is encouraging all of the departments to embrace things the way he did. thank you for your leadership in enabling things like this to happen. someone else who really gets this is the supervisor that represents this area. he is very much focused on the importance of keeping the streets and sidewalks cleans welcoming, and beautiful. i know he was regretful he was not able to be here today. he did send a representative from david campos' office. >> i want to thank the mayor for his kind words. as a member of the committee, i would personally like to show my appreciation and thank julian and the friends of bernal gardens for their work so that we can enjoy these

[cheers and applause] when i look at this crowd - i'm still trying to think of the grant park back inand applause] it was the culmination of the incredible journey you people have put together, the campaign that drew on the hard work and support of all of you, people across the country, men and women who believed in change, in the face of frustration and said we don't have to accept politics as usual but we can once again have a country that is living up for the f finest ideals and highest aspirations and the was a lovely night, but you remember what i told you that might? i said yes, we can but i said this will not be easy. i said that wasn't the end of the journey that was the beginning. the economy was already hindering the then. decisions have been deferred for too long in washington are finally catching up with us. all these problems were gathering all along, and we knew the road ahead was going to be difficult. i didn't know then how steep decline was going to be. because we didn't realize -- we just found out a week ago that the economy the last few months in 2008 was even wors

. >> for a lot of the first-time voters, grant park, the thrill is gone a little bit. >> particularlyf a lot of the young voters, those are the people who are most unemployed. we look at the fact that, 44% of the young people are chronically unemployed. >>> coming up, the white house press secretary robert gibbs will join us. talk to him. up next, a little news you can't use. primarily, bill clinton giving his opinion of rick perry. yes, he disagrees with policy points. but he does approve of the governor's good looks. that's next. [ male announcer ] get ready for the left lane. the volkswagen autobahn for all event is back. right now, get a great deal on new volkswagen models, including the jetta, awarded a top safety pick by the iihs. that's the power of german engineering. hurry in and lease the jetta s for just $179 a month. ♪ visit vwdealer.com today. fiber one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um... try the number one! [ jack ] yeah, this is pretty good. [ male announcer ] half a day's worth of fiber. fiber one. [ jack ] yeah, this is pretty good. confide

i mean, i'm sure a lot of you were just crying when grant park, you know, that night. all right. that's part one of the part two is just this morning, actually was writing the obama chapter of a book i've been working on for eight years which is a history of post-war american liberalism to be out next year called the cause, and the fact is is liberalism is a lot more marginal than we like to think it is or those of us, katrina and i like to think it is. frankly roosevelt came to power in an extraordinary situation. johnson came to power in an extraordinary situation. it's not easy to find liberal moments in those times where the country agreed on goals and moved forward and made progress in the way we define progress. it's a much tougher haul than most people who hold these values as i do understand, and so in that respect, the fact that, i mean, it's significant that teddy roosevelt proposed national health insurance in 1912 and every democratic president since harry truman tried to pass it and barak obama somehow passed it, and it's got a lot of weaknesses to it, but it's not n

i'm sure a lot of you were just crying when grant park that night. so that is part 1.2 is this morning i was writing the obama chapter of a book i've been working on for eight years, which is a history of postwar american liberalism which will be out next year called the cause. and the fact is that liberalism is a lot more marginal than we like to think it is for those of us katrina and i like to think it is. franklin roosevelt came to power in an extraordinary situation. when johnson came to power in an extraordinary situation. it is not that easy to find liberal moments between those two times for the country agreed on the goals and was willing to move forward and make progress in the way that we would define progress. it is a much tougher hall then those people who hold these values as i do understand. in that respect, it is significant that teddy roosevelt proposed national health insurance and made teen 12 and every democratic president since harry truman is straight to pass it on barack obama somehow passed it. it's got a lot of weakness is to it. but it is not n

and rec park submitted a grant proposal for this proposed crosstown trail that i talk about here and is a blurry line, but they submitted a grant to develop that into something else and one of the benefits is to have this be around and other things are starting to happen and that we are working on the green connector's grant to and thinking about restoring and the happen at the wetlands and education and awareness and add on to all and expand and build upon our system not only with natural layers and which is a specific program and speaking about the city and nature throughout the city and not just the designated natural areas. and it focuses on engaging the community and we've heard a lot from community and a lot from all the agencies that have open space about the need to really have a sustaining community support system for our park and how important that is to maintain a park or open space and have a community steward. and this objective focuses on helping and giving tools to improve those working relationships and reducing barriers the government has to improve that relationship

shooting happened in hillcrest park around grant road around 10:00 last night. one man was killed. cording to a website, police have detained one man. several bay area police agencies are helping out in the investigation. public access to hillcrest park remains limited this morning while investigators continue to collect evidence. >> the final sections of the new eastern span of the bay bridge are expected to arrive from china today. 5,000 tons of steel will be hoisted into place all but xleekt the new deck. it will be finished ahead of schedule and just in time for the hosting of america's cup in september of 2013. their woke or is being done ahead of schedule out of concerns of seismic safety and not because of the yacht race. they just want it done and schedule sounds good for them. >> you can see it tonight and how it's going to look and it will be really magnificent. >> and we've got a few clouds. >> just in the bay and along the coast. causing flight arrival delays of 55 minutes at sfo. those have just developed. check out flight tracker at the top of the page at abc7news.com.

this happened near olvera road in grant near hill crest park just after 10:00 last night.at park you can see it has been sealed off by police because of the couldn'ting investigation. we don't know the condition of the person that was shot. we have ktvu allie rasmus out there on the scene. she will give us a live update later on in this newscast. >>> another bart patrol test is planned for san francisco today. threatening to delay the evening commute. but as ktvu tara moriarty tells us, those demonstrators will face opposition this time. >> reporter: later today right here at the civic center bart station there will be a protest against the protest. a group of bart riders say it's fed up with all of these previous demonstrations and now they want to do something about it. the movement is called taking back bart. and commuters plan to carry signs asking police not to shut down any more stations. they are upset with the group called anonymous which has had protest over the past several weeks. now police say a crack down on unruly protestors today. not waiting as long as they

the intersection to olvera and grant is no longer closed but the park is. concord police responded to a call about gunfire in this area. they found the man had been shot. he was lying in the street in olvera road. again that man died from his yours. hill crest park is in a residential area surrounded by homes and apartment buildings. the park seems safe. it's frequently used by a lot of people. >> first time i have ever seen anything like this. i come here six or seven days in a week in the morning like right now where it's quiet and peaceful. i can't remember the last time i've seen an officer go down the street this early in the morning. >> reporter: now again you were looking at crime scene investigators with concord police going through hill crest park. looking at any evidence. one thing we are waiting to find out from concord police is whether police are still looking for suspects or people involved or connected to the shooting. we are expecting to to get an update from one of the police lieutenants shortly this morning. live in concord allie rasmus. >

park. >>guest: an american company was granted $500 million license and money to go build a theme park and zoo and by the baghdad mayor. i would like to know how much that baghdad mayor got and i know my theme park and that is not a $500 million theme park, and, three, what were they thinking putting up a huge ferris wheel in better distance of the u.s. embassy? anyone with any sort of military history remembers yugoslavia where they use the ferris wheel. i could see three people in the window. nice. >>shepard: it sounds like we have always known there is a lot of waste there and it is clearer in recent years, and they are telling us something around we official estimates $2 billion? exit is actually $6 billion that is missing. to be honest if they admit to $6 billion you can only imagine what the number really is. the guys that i know who have been over there in the going and are still there now are just saying, it is unbelievable what happens. and the biggest problem is that there is in actual nation building. so there is a country, iraq. it is all again to heck and back and there is a p

parking. we want an exception from active use. is the department going to grant it in every case? this is one of the first 329 projects to come through. we think it makes sense for this project to have active use but we do not have -- create a big loophole where this provision which is important to the livability, walk ability, public safety of our city, gets the run around over and over again. thank you. >> president olague: thank you. our next speakers. >> good afternoon. i am a member of the neighborhood coalition and i live on lower potrero hill, a couple of blocks from the proposed project. i have on my house there for 20 years. our group has met with the developer of the project and a developer's -- the developer's architect to share concerns. as well as to discuss some possible changes. unfortunately, we were never formally notified of the pending application before the planning commission so our discussion comes late in the game. i commend the developer and architect for making time to meet with our group at the 11th hour. i urge the commission to grant a continuance to al

grant. >>> 5:25. a popular skate park in the east bay has been destroyed and soon a second one will also be gone.rans crews demolished the waste land skate park. they did this yesterday. the state also plans to bulldoze a nearby border town skate park in the coming weeks. the skate borders were trespassing on state property and those skate parks are a liability. >> the sad thing is now it's gone. and it was not based off of any place to do drugs just have fun skate boarding. >> we tried the best we could to work out some kind of atreatment growth and when we -- some kind of an agreement and when we couldn't we had no choice. >> they tried to shut down the border town skate park but the city of oakland stepped in they leased the park from the state to keep it open. the city of oakland decided not to renew that lease. >>> a california sea lion is safe after being rescued from a creek in east palo alto. the sea lion was spotted about 6:00 yesterday evening. volunteers lifted the sea lion out of the shallow creek. the sea lion was sick but not hurt. >>> a deadly crash on the streets of san francisco

$864,000. 5 b, request authorization to apply for, except, and expend a grant or $5 million from the state of california prop. 84 statewide park development and community revitalization program of 2008 for the northeast north plaza open space, located on pier 27 at the embarcadero promenade across from lombard street. five c p request authorization to advertise a request for quote -- qualifications soliciting as needed real estate economics and related professional services. 5 d except the port's annual report on contra connectivity for fiscal year 2010-2011. >> so move. second. >> any public comment on the consent calendar? commissioners? all in favor? the resolution 1151, 1152, and 1153 , along with the port annual report have been approved. >> on 5b, i would like to commend staff for uncovering a substantial amount of money. from what i understand, they had to work with other city agencies to get the party to go for this. it would be fabulous if it comes through. again, kudos on the creativity and finding the opportunity. >> bigger and better. >> 6a. request adoption of the california environmental quality act findings and

this is excellent teamwork and collaboration between the parks and recreation staff, and this is from the global community grants fund. this will provide hardware, including laptop computers, we have a digital arts mobile program that will give digital arts training to children and adults in recreation centers across san francisco. this is based on experience from the harvey milk recreation center. this enables us to respond to the need for training to overcome the costs barrier of every -- this is the result of the great work of chris and jamie from rpd and christine gardner. it took a lot of hard work and patience, to make this proposal to google. i have not seen the make a lot of guests here, so this is encouraging that they are thinking of doing this. the second is the $20,000 giftit from sports basement. this funding is for equipment and supplies for any and all rec centers. rec directors, working with their manager, can apply to us. it is a simple process that is approved by both rec park and sfgtv. some new and innovative projects we recently funding include a lego education robot kit to expand their rand

sharp conflict announced a new law lifting censorship and granting freedom of expression archies arena delusional went to the syrian town of the park here to see for herself what's terry . let that kid there is a special significance for syria and for the president bashar al assad his father is from a village near the city in which the population is predominantly al the great just like the rest of the province the process began here in march of this here this is one of the main buildings this is one of the main squares in the city of latakia where the syria tell headquarters located on rights in the middle of it syria tell us a company telephone company which was owned by one of the cousins of the president and the protesters expressed their he. towards the regime by looting the place and then burning it violence returned to the attack yet again just a couple of weeks ago claiming more than thirty lives antigovernment protests broke out in the sunni part of the city officials said they were battling with armed groups which they say have infiltrated the area now what's the story here the story goes according to the protesters accord

grants to fight obesity. richmond, bay view and the coun cord, the amoney will be used to create walking trails parks parks and afterschool programs. >>> google users may find something unusual on the web giant's home page today. the company is giving away samsung nexus s smartphone. the offer is good today only through best buy. users have to sign up for a two year contract. >>> the 49ers proposed new stadium is coming to life, what you will see inside and how the sadeium could accommodate two teams. >>> back here in 10 minutes i got your forecast and it calls for cooling in many bay area neighborhoods. >>> 40,000 signatures from people asking u.s. airways to apologize to him and his family today. he is the young man kicked off a flight and arrested for suspicions of battery after being a asked to pull up his sagging pants. prosecutors decided not to file charges. a manager accepted the signatures but said he couldn't comment. >>> a group is calling on bay area law enforcement agencies to reveal how they use surveillance videos gps and other monitoring devices. it wants to understand how police keep an eye on

granted a law that there is a city government here. this was something that brought people together. you heard people talking about it at the cafes, park playground, people who do not always pay attention. in that $0.10, it was the best thing we could have done for city government, even though it was a little bit messy. it was a lot of fun and an eye opener. it got people interested again. hello, and welcome to the department of elections ranked-choice voting instructional video. this video is part of the department of elections' ranked-choice voting outreach campaign and is designed to educate san francisco voters about ranked-choice voting. today we will learn what ranked-choice voting is, and who is elected using this new voting method. we will also talk about what the ranked-choice ballot looks like and how to mark it correctly. finally, we'll see how the ranked-choice voting process works and show you an example of an election using ranked-choice voting. so, what is ranked-choice voting? in march of 2002, san francisco voters adopted a charter amendment to implement ranked-choice voting, also known as the instant run-off voting. s

parking. the proposed extension would be to september 8, 2014. item nin9b fois the request fore extension of variances previously granted under the planning code sections. the project approved under the motion is the demolition of the existing one-story warehouse building and construction of the 11-story hotel. let me remind you as you consider the extension of the conditional use, the zoning administrators responsible for granting the extension of the variants. item 10 is 4 mission st., request for a conditional use authorization to allow small- self-service restaurant in the mission street commercial zoning district. i have no speaker cards on these items. if there is no public comment, if you can consider these items as one. >> is there any public comment on any of the items? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i moved to approve the items under consent except for 9b, which is the call of the zoning administrator. >> the motion on the floor is for approval of items 4 throught 10 as they have been read into the record. commissioner moore: aye >> thank you, commissioners. >> i have been asked by the zoning administrator to represent him. i wi

care for the poor, and closing senior seniors and cutting welfare grants and cash aid for the eldaughterly and disabled and 70 state parks foreclosure and community college fees on the rise, and family programs will be trimmed efly. >> well, there's another aspect here, and that is we're to live within our means. i propose that we did half cuts, painful cuts, and mainly the ones that you just read, and also half continuing the tax revenues that my republican predecessor put in place, but which expired. the republicans wouldn't give me one vote in order to have that balanced program, so we have to cut. i will continue. we are not going to borrow, but we are going to put our books in order and it's going to be painful and we're going to do things i don't think are things we ought to do. >> it's a strategy to force the public or republicans into saying let's raise taxes rather than to cut this bone? >> that's not the intention, but it is a consequence. i do think as a state, as wealthy as almost all over the country of the world, the gross domestic product is $2 trillion, and it seems like it makes a lot of sense, at some p

granted a law that there is a city government here. this was something that brought people together. you heard people talking about it at the cafes, park playground, people who do not always pay attention. in that $0.10, it was the best thing we could have done for city government, even though it was a little bit messy. it was a lot of fun and an eye opener. it got people interested again. >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going arou

granted a law that there is a city government here. this was something that brought people together. you heard people talking about it at the cafes, park playground, people who do not always pay attention. in that $0.10, it was the best thing we could have done for city government, even though it was a little bit messy. it was a lot of fun and an eye opener. it got people interested again. >> happiness rains supreme. nearly one thousand couples tide the not. >> by the powers invested in me, i declare you husband and wife. >> the north like court was turned into a huge extension of the city clerk and hundreds of city and county employees were trained as volunteers. >> the process has been amazing. the people have been so gracious and supportive. the energy here is fantastic with so many couples getting married. it's a fantastic experience. so wonderful. >> we have been planning this for a year. we thought we were doing the ceremony for the 2 of us. actually, being able to be a part of this time in history and in our history is amazing. >> it's really nice to have our relationship recognized as important as our parents and not something

granted a law that there is a city government here. this was something that brought people together. you heard people talking about it at the cafes, park playground, people who do not always pay attention. in that $0.10, it was the best thing we could have done for city government, even though it was a little bit messy. it was a lot of fun and an eye opener. it got people interested again. i feel like all of us are starng to see what the problems in this country are. i think plenty of people are opinionated. i don't think there's many forums where you can really express yourself or try to make a difference or anything. i mean...wha'...whatdo... what do i do, ya' know? the only people that i'm able to affect are the people who care about what i have to say. there is something you can do, but i'm sure it wouldn't be, uh...easy. different man: i get angry about it, but it's like... ya' know, in my own apartment. [laughs] >> happiness rains supreme. nearly one thousand couples tide the not. >> by the powers invested in me, i declare you husband and wife. >> the north like court was turned into a huge extension of the city clerk and hundred