two of my three children live in the greater oklahoma city area. my son chip is there with the salvation army volunteering throughout the week. you may bump into him and he'll give you a free cup of coffee. >> it's been nice because we've taken advantage of some of those offers over the last couple of days. the outpouring has been remarkable. how does monday's tragedy compare with what you dealt with in '99?

the vision of the strategic plan to provide choose for the folks of san francisco to make this a greater city. so just a reminded of some of the target we set in conjunction with the adoption of the streaming plan. we did a 6 year target broken up in 2 segments. so some of the highlights including reducing crime my injuries by 10 percent this is kind of a safety goal and that continues in the safety part of the plan to eliminate the gaps for 25 percent of the ridership and we're focusing on gaps we thought was meaningful. how long you're waiting for a bus or are there 3 stacked up behind it and the other was to improve the moral of the people who work in the organization. and in the 6 years the two big goals we set in the plan but which was first to move the needle on the first policy smile 60 percent of the trillion trip in san francisco are taken

to the left a very foggy, impossible to make out shot of the greater city of dallas. all of the counties under the toward watch right now. that means there is a distinct threat of a tornado occurring there. a warning of severe thunderstorms, they have already head those. showing you the conundrum that's can cause, the dallas independent school district did not release students early because of the severe weather already in effect, and the high winds already reported at dallas-fort worth international airport. winds in excess of 50-miles-an-hour, and as a result they were between a rock and a hard place in the dallas area school district, keeping kids in the schools because the better part of valor was not endanger them by releasing them. so at this time, schools havele let out, but we're told that many are still sort of in those facilities. we want to remind dallas, texas, area viewers watching to take the usual precautions as authorities say to seek a safe place, basement, get into an interior room, a middle room in your home if none is available. all the provisoses

city. in fact this is considered the greater oklahoma city area, even though it's 40 miles due east.s was the scene a few minutes ago when the tornado actually touched down and when it did so immediately sort of wreaking havoc, power lines blown away, and any structures are ripped apart. we don't know anything about the extent of damage, injuries, god forbid fatilities, but janice knows the timeline. once the cloud is seen and the tornado lands, it looks like a huge cloud mass and then you look for other tornadoes to follow. janice? >> i was listening to one of the local meteorologist in moore, oklahoma, which has a tornado warning, and he said it looks like may 19, 1999, all over again when they took a direct hit from an f-5 tornado, the highest you can get on the scale, and one of the most prolific in oklahoma city, and that meteorologist saying it looks like it's happening all over again, and moore is heavily populated. and if you see -- looks like we have some rain in the distance. so, the tornado could be obscured by rain. we call this a rain laps lapse tornado and trying to gro

>> well, remember, chris, oklahoma city greater oklahoma city has been around for about 138 years.wo more serious destructive tornadoes in the history of the city, really, i've never seen a tornado. here i'm an oklahoman and served as governor for eight years. those two tornadoes were the may 3rd, 1999 tornado that tore through moore and ef-5, and the same velocity tornado this time on may 20th. deja vu is a terrible word in the french language, i should say, and our dictionary. but it has happened and they've gone through this before. we've gone through this before. i think what has to be done, obviously, is go through the lessons learned map. first off to make sure that people don't drop their property and casualty insurance when they pay off their home mortgage. a lot of people think well, the bank makes me do that i don't need it anymore. well, things like this prove you do. also to make sure you take another look about the construction, quality, and the sustainability in high wind environments of schools or wherever the sheltering place site is. and obviously to coordinate the

so how does this city convince businesses to come back to an area that's been habitually hit by devastating storms? roy williams is ceo and president of the greaterhamber. roy, thank you for coming. first of all, what is the latest? how are you guys doing in the comeback? >> well things are going well. they finished the search-and-rescue. now it is a matter of beginning to clean up, helping people find, you know, housing, shelter, clothing, that kind of stuff..3 so they're making really good progress. david: what do you need from folks outside of oklahoma right now? >> well, there are literal have been hundreds of businesses who have contributed money, manpower, supplies and really contributions to the red cross or to some other organization like that is the best thing because you can certainly get too much of different things and so financial support is the best thing. david: okay. roy, here's the hard question and again, forgive me, it is coming on the heels of this tragedy but i got to ask the question. how do you convince companies that have been devastated by this to come back? or harder yet, how do you convince a company you're trying to at

around moore and greater oklahoma city area. weather calmed down no. tornado reports there. today, back to bay area, a live view looking at western sky. 65 in oakland. 70 in santa cruz. a live view of ocean beach from mount tam, under clear skies. 71 degrees now in santa rosa. 74 fairfield. 70 in los gatos, just a cool day around the bay area. speaking of cool, nice cool view from heavenly camera. here is our first forecast. we'll see breezy cool and clear conditions again tonight. much like last night. tomorrow morning, bright, sunny and chilly. some locations low temperatures into low 40s overnight. by tomorrow afternoon warjsing up into mid-70s inland and only upper 50s along the coast. things looking unsettled for memorial daichl i'll have the forecast coming up. >> still ahead at 4:00 a south bay bridge student is the bay area's newest millionaire. >> and new at 4:30 the fast food fan helped rescue three women held captive is getting a big thank you that is right up his alley. >> taking a look at traffic right now in the san francisco skyway. it's heavy slow going espec

now it covers much of long island an greater new york city. that's where all three major airplanes are located. you can expect some travel delays in this region. thunderstorms will move up in a peak of rush hour. that's by far where the worst travel will be found. later this afternoon, after some sunshine, we will spark off more additional showers in new england and possibly philadelphia and d.c. temperatures aren't too bad. it's a mild air mass. it will be conducive of showers and storms. in the middle of the country, additional storms for you, kansas city, omaha, later today, we will see a few strong thunderstorms around oklahoma city, wichita, maybe an isolated torpedo or two. overall, finally it looks like late spring, heading towards early summer. it's warmed up. >> consistent 70s makes me happy. yesterday was beautiful. thank you, bill. >>> to sports, a little nba action. thunder at home looking to go 2-zip on the memphis grizzlies last night. not so fast, the grids and mike -- the grizz, memphis had a late game surge to win 99-93 on the

and we should be able to work with all of the areas so that everything that's needed to make our city greaterdone. and compromise is sometimes the only way to do it, and compromise has been the story of my life in many instances. so, that's really all i have to say about myself. questions? >> any questions, supervisors? >> no. >> seeing none, thank you. >>> thank you. >> is there any public comment at this moment? you have two minutes. come on up. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. claudine [speaker not understood] with the mayor's office of housing and i just want to make myself available for any questions that you might have. i staff the fund and the citizen's advisory committee. thank you. >> thank you. >>> good afternoon again, supervisors. this is very rare that the applicant that held seat 3 before for four years comes before the board and speak [speaker not understood] on the person to replace them. i'm jazzy collins [speaker not understood] and i'm here to speak in favor of alicia duke. the seat has been vacant since 2010. please correct me. you have some dates mixed up here. this has b

. >> it is a state of emergency in greater oklahoma city this morning after those deadly tornadoes. >> jennifer reyme of the american red cross is in the storm zone this morning and she told us just a short while ago, the needs are great. >> we have six shelters, surrounding the affected areas open this evening for displaced residents. what we are looking to do, we have shelters open around the surrounding areas. we are encouraging people to use the shelters. if they are displaced from their homes. so we're prepared to shelter several thousand residents. it doesn't take long for emergency officials to let us know, hey, there is substantial damage. we have downed power lines, we have a school that's been hit. and we always lean forward and, we would prefer to have, you know, more shelters open than needed. so, you know, we lean forward in this case. we opened as many shelters as we think we need right now. we will assess it as people come into the centers and we'll go from there. we are going to be here as long as needed. we are bringing in additional emergency response vehicles that a

city staff . are being lobbied by expediters another aspect of the legislation . women contracting provisions of the minister the code to establish greater oversight and accountability for city contracting and other aspects of the legislation require that the ethics commission report close after the filing deadline for our form 700s, a list of city officials who fail to filed these disclosures . the ethics commission would also be required , the public a guy for campaign donors and multilingual services would be expanded by adding ethics commission to the listof tier 1 department required to provide additional language resources. a second item is a here a request for our budget committee related to participatory budget. as you heard in our questions to the mayor, this year when the district were allocated 100,000 dollars , in discretionary funding i decided to use our funding to launch a participatory budget process district 3 . through this model of civic engagement we had residents and neighborhood leaders the generated 50 project ideas . at a series of community meetings , i want to thank our city controller in derry city departments

>> one other question in terms of best practices is this sort of thing done in other cities where they have greater grounded water testing around freeways and other places? are we making it more expensive to do business in san francisco. >> i do not know if other jurisdictions are doing this. i know that the health department has studies that are in the findings here that talk about the elevated risk of this in the soil but i don't know about other jurisdictions >> that might be good i'm supportive if someone finds out about this. assumely a project would have to be done. >> and there 0 through the state department and the water quality control board theirs established rules and so i believe that other jurisdictions have to comply as well. >> thank you. >> just to get a sense of the scale of the projects. have 2 h yard and if somebody had 0 replace the foundations >> 50 cubit yards is standard haul truck as i understand it's 12 cubits - you're talking about more than 4 truck loads of dirts we're talking about. if you have a large construction site and you're doing foundation work there's going to b

between seven and nine storms are to arrive in the city in greater numbers.by midnight they're still roaming the areas. things calm down a little bit. we may get some good downpour's with these thunderstorms in addition to the severe weather producing capability. there is our storm. the powerful southerly winds are moving into this area with humidity. you see how the storm clusters blow up. a judge in cuts to the air mass. what happens is the air rises and begins to rotate. the thunderstorm tends to rotate and you get tornadic vortices to spend up. tomorrow we continue in the wrist area. these storms might reform. there is the thunderstorm watch currently in effect. have a heavy rain appear in the northern midwest. advisory's for wind and possible wild fires of west. is like a july day. look at the wind gust blowing here. lots of energy as all of this error movement goes onair movement go >> this is the highest calling, that we've had so far this season the warm temperatures >> because less of a pollea pol >> is our temperatures across the metro area. the win

city. hundreds of thousands in the greater oklahoma city area, and this is a huge tornado that ripped through this area. this is a school, we're told, that has been leveled. look at the destruction right now. god only knows the kind of injuries that have occurred as a result of this tornado that was moving so quickly, so powerfully. chad meyers have been watching it. do we know how fast this was? was it 200 miles per hour? 250 miles per hour? do we know the extent of this tornado that caused this devastation? >> i don't think we'll know that until tomorrow. the national weather service will certainly be out there. they were looking at five separate tornadoes today. let's go through them. an ef-0 takes the shingles off a house. an ef-1 takes the shingles and gutters. an ef-2 we're looking at 120, 130 miles per hour. that takes the roof with it, all of the 4 by 8 plywood off. ef-3, you lose all the trusses on the roof, the struts and everything. but the home is still pretty much intact. ef-4, you lose outside walls. walls are gone. you're looking at almost a 200-mile-per-hour storm. 166 to 200.

it regards greater activation of mcclair park, the city's second largest park, and encompasses district 9, 10 and 11. but usually on the low end of funding with the city. i have been working with the rec and park division and many divisions within rec and park, to bring more activities to mcclarin park, and one is to activate the community theater and work with the police patrol and citizens to create supervision and added security for the park to add events for the public at low fees. we are excited about this project, but funding of course in this situation is also in need. we hopeful that the three supervisors that surround the park will provide for more funding from the park and to bring these programs. lastly i would like to say that our parks are very dear to all citizens of san francisco. and in the southeast part of san francisco, we suffer from lack of funding, and urge that full funding for rec and park department be in the budget this year. thank you. >> cheryl austin. >> good evening, i am cheryl austin, i am chair of the youth first advisory board. and last friday we receiv

gold rush and in the words of one historian, the gold rush catapulted our little city of san francisco into a far greater world ride prestige and enviable position than the tiny population really deserved and we have been in that role ever since and our port has evolved with the city as we welcomed new and improved ways of moving not from what used to be a pier for substanence but something that is important to the city as food was and that is innovation and quality of life. and so i can't think of a project that epitomizes that more than the exporatorium like our city and port has continuously evolved and expand and rebuilt and on behave of the port commissioners who will raise their hands and be recognized. >> it is my honor to welcome the exporatorium as the ports newest coldest nugget to the world renoun catapulted water front and we look forward to celebrating the next 150 years, with all of you. and i would like to especially thank the exporatorium's board, staff, consultants, and supporters and friends. for with you all who were the innovators behind this vision, you all who had this dedication fo

the worst is definitely by far in the greater new york city area. we will keep an eye on that for you. as of now, no significant airport delays. i bet by about 8:00 or 9:00 that will significantly change. the only other big pautopic is oklahoma city. i don't think it's too bad with tornadoes. mostly large hail and damaging winds. once again, i'd have to argue the worst weather in the country this morning found right here in new york city. slow commute. umbrellas needed. you're watching "morning joe," brewed by starbucks. ♪ shadows on the wall all i see since you've been gone turning turning ♪ staples rewards program you get 5% back, on everything. everything. everything. everything. everything? [ all ] everything? everything. [ male announcer ] get free shipping and 5% back on everything your business needs. that was easy. >>> you're kind of shocked by that, aren't you? >> when does that end? >> just give me a moment. >> mika just flinched at this. >> no, i didn't. >> show her the pages from the "new york post." mika just didn't get this. a newsman

according to the index, the bay area doubled that at 22 percent and only phoenix saw a greater increase in big citiesbay area cities are not expected to reach the historic highs of 2005 but they still increasing at a rapid pace. antioch saw a 28 percent rise in home prices the last year and union city is up 34 percent, and east oakhand jumped 51 percent. >> we getting a clearer idea of an earthquake in northern california. officials have said the earthquake damned 50 homes in the area and caused more than did $1 million in losses. it was centered 150 miles northeast of sacramento. folks felt it all the way to the forth bay and there dozens of after shocks. >> wildfire has charred 2,000 actioners three square miles in a national forest. firefighters are taking advantage of a lull in the high wind with 65 percent contained. people who were evacuated on monday were allowed to return home last night. the fire has damaged only one structure so far. >> the weather began cooperating now how is the weather for us? >> hopefully we will see the sun. >> the sun earlier today so a few degrees warmer in a few spo

in fact, only phoenix saw a greater increase and just barely. bay area cities are not expected to reach the historic highs of 2005, but they are still increasing at a rapid pace. antioch saw a 28% rise in home prices over the last year. union city is up 34% and east oakland home prices jumped 51%. the market surge helped drive stock prices up. the dow-jones-average closed 110 points higher. also boosting the market, consumer confidence. people are more confident in the economy than at anytime since the great recession. >>> a grandmother has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling drugs from mexico, but her family says she was framed. the woman from arizona was taken into custody at a military check point170 miles south of the border. the 42-year-old mall do gnaw dough was in mexico for a funeral with her husband. at the check point police said they found 12 pounds of marijuana under his seat and arrested him. he contacted the u.s. consulate and was immediately released. the police then accused her and took her into custody. her husband says they are after bribe

in fact, only phoenix saw a greater increase and just barely. bay area cities are not expected to reach the historic highs of 2005, but they are still increasing at a rapid pace. antioch saw a 2 prices over the last year. union city is up 34% and east oakland home prices jumped 51%. the housing market surge helped drive stock prices up. the dow-jones-average closed 110 points higher. also boosting the market, consumer confidence. people are more confident in the economy than at anytime since the great recession. >>> a grandmother has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling drugs from mexico, but her family says she was framed. the woman from arizona was taken into custody at a military check point170 miles south of the border. the 42-year-old mall do gnaw dough was in mexico for a funeral with her husband. at the check point police said they found 12 pounds of marijuana under his seat and arrested him. he contacted the u.s. consulate and was immediately released. the police then accused her and took her into custody. her husband says they are after bribe money,