we are not a green city. we have not done justice to the environment. commissioners, this land begot -- is pristine. within 250 years the land was destroyed. so, go on and put your hard work wherever it may be necessary. but i want some documentary, some film, about the gentrification. the harm done to this community and thousands of children that could have lived healthy but are slowly dying. today in hunters point you may not like what i am saying, the audience as well, but many are of the living dead. thank you very much. >> thank you. further comments on this item? >> hello. this is wonderful. i think that this is great. $20 million. i am trying to figure out, as i raise my family and want to make this healthy for every one, the curious thing about 2% is that with this memorandum of understanding, the arts commission is going to receive guidance from the steering committee. is that a true statement? >> the way that it works, given the different rules in the city, the public utilities commission could make the different decisions. but our steering co

and he three, when planning for urban green space, the city should support the activities of neighborhoods and community groups in their roles as local stewards of our green spaces. our specific recommendations as far as how the city should organize these efforts are, one, the mayor's office should coordinate an interdepartmental panel on green space policies in order to increase communication between city departments and identify synergies and land management practices and to establish a unified process for community greening of public parcels, and, two, when sfpuc efforts toward watershed-based planning include recommendations for green infrastructure improvements, all land-owning city agencies should collaborate on implementation of their findings and grants distributed by city department of the environment should include requirements that the grantee spend granted money locally whenever possible. so we really look forward to the continued work with the city as we move together into a new era of integrated and eek logically-based urban and climate planning. so thank you. the greater gre

they are doing everything they can on the efficiency front to make us a clean, green city. i want to acknowledge them as well. it is a team effort. not only the water enterprise, but the power enterprises making this a success. thank you to them and to everybody at the puc for making this happen. [applause] >> now we have a few gifts for the people who are speakers. then we will walk down and turn the valve. when it is totally open, it will bring in 2.5 million gallons a day into this reservoir. it holds 80 million gallons. it will take a month to fill up completely. you are welcome to come down. watch your step. we will make the last turn of the vowels. you will start to hear the rush of water going into the reservoir. [water rushing] >> many hands make light work. [water rushing]

. -- jade green, city grids, the last bite of an ice cream cone. these are all my names. i savor these words on the tip of my tongue. a book of lives lived in my right hand. i caught your pen in the other. all the rivers flower into the sea. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> next up is -- next up is marcela ortiz. >> ok. this is the first time i'm reading in front of people. ok. all right. this is a poem to my mom. you're nothing but a group of coffee klatching women. 19 years and the only image that i can think of what i hearl my mother's voice is rosie the riveter with her hand balled up in a fist and her hand underneath her face. coffee klatching women? a bunch of old grandmothers who sit in sewing sirgles and talk about the best blueberry circles. we banned my mother from the kitchenen -- because of an incident where she had burnt water the the only person who cooked was my father. please keep your peace, mom. yes, my mother say woman but coffee klatching? the term was worse than nails on the chalk board. oh, yes, a coffee klatching woman who has raised three childr

green city index. >> san francisco is green when of puts to the test with 27 major american and canadianew york, seattle, denver, and yes the mandate of cos composting and the banning of plastic bags is getting high marks. with carbon emissions, also energy, land use and water and environmental quality. when it comes to buildings? they praise their energy- efficient building standards. high marks for transportation, thanks to the muni/fourth extensive system. and the major kudos muni-bart--and also the military composting. and finally kudos for air quality with low air pollution. it was at the top of the list because of a strong showing across the board. mayor li believes that it is green because san francisco people are ready to believe to go to the distance for sustainability. san franciscans are willing to go the distance. >>pam: stanley roberts takes us and gives us some dirty details. on tonight's edition. now, here is stanley roberts who found people behaving badly. >>stanley: i guess we recycle everything in san francisco it is the greatest city in the nation. for a city that is s

they are doing everything they can on the efficiency front to make us a clean, green city. i want to acknowledge them as well. it is a team effort. not only the water enterprise, but the power enterprises making this a success. thank you to them and to everybody at the puc for making this happen. [applause]

and that's how we did all of our green programs in the city and became the first designated green city in the state. schools, and i've got to go quickly because i'm running out of time, but schools, we had an aggressive effort. we don't run our schools. most cities don't run their schools, we have separately elected school boards that run the schools, but we need to help our schools. if you don't help your schools, you're not going to get people moving into the neighborhoods, businesses coming into the community so you better be involved. i could go through a series of programs we did. if somebody wants to ask me a question, we're going to have time for questions afterwards, talk about the schools. we wound up going from -- jeb bush started the program of grading our schools based on student achievement stores, we went from having zero a elementary schools out of 27 to 16, and we had a 260% increase in the number of a and b schools based on stand achievement -- standard achievement schools. we actually passed the suburbs in some categories with our urban program. fourth is economic dev

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city. the richmond district has not only great businesses like pete from green apple, which just installed the great crowd, but we hope to see many more of those all around the city, and i really will be working with the mayor and my colleagues on the board of supervisors to insure that the jfk drive dedicated improvements are instituted before the end of the year. they should have been done before, but we are going to make sure they are down by the end of the year. thank you so much to everyone for being here today and bicycle coalition for keeping us a biking friendly city. thank you. >> thanks, everyone. i want to say thank you to north dakota, mike, the entire group that came with me from district 2 -- i want to say thank you to andy. give me a call anytime. i'm happy to do it again, and thank you to the bicycle coalition and everyone here improving the infrastructure of our bike lanes, whether it be for the america's cup for our daily lives in sanford's is go. as critical to our future, and i look forward to working with everyone here to make that a daily part of our reality in san fra

and this is tripoli, where the heart of the city, green square, is now decorated with a gigantic portraitf colonel gaddafi himself. he has never been a man to shrink from self pulled the city. but now, britain, which was keenest about bombing gaddafi's libya, has decided to cut the last remaining diplomatic links. >> we longer recognize them as representatives of the libyan government -- we no longer recognize them as representatives of the libyan government and we invite a new diplomatic to take over the embassy in london. >> bridgton has joined 29 other countries in recognizing the transitional council. france did so at the start. germany, turkey and the u.s. took longer, but not as long as britain. russia says recognizing them is taking sides in a civil war, but it agrees colonel gaddafi must go. china just says the ntc is an important dialogue partner. but it means there will be a new set of diplomats. >> in the u.k., normal political relationships will resume like every two countries have. >> but from tripoli, the finance. defiance. -- the financ >> i tell the british government, the

cities in north america. >> it is a big honor for the district on the green front the city is one of just three east coast citiesin the top 10 of the new study commissionedded. cities were assessed in nine categories including how much energy they consumed and transportation. >>> well, bit of an about-face for dc's mayor speaking out about the plans to extend metro out to dulles airport. so the mayor says he no longer supports an underground station at the airport and he is urging the three members of the airport board from the district to switch their votes as well. mayor gray saying it will be too expensive. >>> gridlock is being predicted in alexandria this fall but tomorrow metro will start to discuss plans to create bus lines between them. talking about service between the springfield station and fort bellvoir. once that base realignment is complete more than 20,000 people will work at fort bellvoir and another 6000 at mark center. >>> bethesda is going to have to say goodbye to a parking lot this fall. the capital crescent on woodmont avenue right across the street from barnes & noble will be gone. it come

they also said they wanted us to expand the experience of bicycle riding, to make sure the city was green. all the young engineers -- they, too, said they loved the diversity of the city." that gave me a clear indication that is for the next generation of workers in the city, people who will build in the street, and then to realize what twitter and companies like that have done all over the world, being a conduit for some many events that have occurred, even the latest event that has occurred. they were still part of that. twitter was feeding information to the whole world about what was going on. and to have that product, that name-brand he suggested as a san francisco homegrown products -- we have not heard "made in san francisco" for a long time, have we? it used to be garland. to have an engineering, technology product sounds unique to me, with potentially 4 million users across the world. keeping a company like that, that will grow their employees from 350 to the expected 3000 in the next couple of years will be a fabulous contribution to the change we expect in the market. that is w

. >>> it requires the city to spend on green initiatives and infrastructure. the city is looking for public input on how to spend the money. it faces a $7 million budget deficit next year but no firm decisions are expected right away. >>> california voters may be asked for a second time whether marijuana should be legalized for recreational use. supporters of legalization received the okay from california's secretary of state to begin collecting signatures to put a new initiative on the ballot. it would tax sales of marijuana. supporters need to collect more than 500 signatures. voters rejected a similar bill in november. >>> california's new law requiring gay history to be taught in public schools could be headed for the court of public opinion. several conservative organizations want voters to decide if senate bill 48 should be overturned. the law, which governor brown signed earlier this month says historical contributions by gays and lesbians should be included in textbooks and lesson plans including people like harvey milk. >> when you start talking about

leaders may improve stringent green building standards. the city council considers the proposal tomorrow. all new construction and home add-on projects costing $20,000 or more would be required to have one or more energy efficient upgrades. options include installing ceiling insulation, toilets using less water and energy efficient windows. nue new rules would take place ary 1st. it would be toughest policies in california. >>> the big story across the country, one of them, it is hot. in the bay area relatively cool but most everywhere else can we say scorching? the national weather service declared excessive heat warnings in at least 14 states today. temperatures are near or above 100 degrees. combined that with humidity and you know the drill. it's a mess. >> just the high humidity. the heat you can deal with. the humidity makes it hard to breathe. >> we walk outside tof the car and hits wet. i didn't even run yet. >> the elderly to pets to livestock are being affected and no letup is in sight over the next week. >>> we bring in jeff ranieri. for

green who's a second generation built the truckdaro club house. there was a hotel then. it was said this was the place to go if you were weary of the dirty city and the police. there were a couple of gun fights the front door has bullet holes. i don't ever repair them. 1931 stig mond bought the property from the green family. she donated it to the city of san francisco and had a specification, i'm giving it to the city that will be used forever for the enjoyment forever of the people of the city of san francisco. it has ever since. every summer the stern grove association in san francisco rec and parks put on 10 free concerts. usually people come out at 10 in the morning it's a family affair. everybody is on the lawn with picnics and it's free. anybody can come out. it's a great way to spend a sunday. >> goes to 1-2 in the afternoon and runs until 5. [music]. thanks to the stern grove association they renovated the concert meadow. it used to be a rolling grafsy area. put in a new stage and stage building. they put in terraces. we get from 8,000 to 12,000 people. and the meadow next to the concert meadow is full of people even though they can'

behaving badly >> in sandra cisco we up recycle everything that's probably why it's called a green the city in the nation for is a pit city that is supposed to be so great why is it so dirty and get this most of this stuff is recyclable like this mattress and this mattress could have been recycled instead it is dumped on the street. the full-scale cut out of the trend the building could have been recycled and we still leave our oil containers full boil and everyone. look and outdoor toilet and couches are left on the side of the hill i can say we're cutting admissions especially for this car or what is left hot the interesting part for recycling. people then have gotten into the recycling thing i applaud you for others you have along way to go. this it would be allowed greener if people would not litter the streets if sampras is still is the greenest how dirty was the other cities. this stanley roberts for people behaving badly if you have a comment you can e-mail stanley at people behaving badly at kron 4 for dot com. back to la hundred for the weekend. sent it will be the best data goethe

. >> reporter: well, tonight, the green family is urging city, state and private companies companies to continuously check for contact voltage. >> reporter: four years ago, deanna green touched a fence in druid hill park. an exposed electrical wire was touching the fence underground. 227 volts traveled through her body, killing her. now, her parents are intent on having the city take action. with the regulation in the 14- year-old's dame -- name. >> the deanna green rule would work to have surveys done of the baltimore, maryland area to find the stray contact electricity. >> reporter: the greens attend a hearing at the public service commission to come up with a survey scheduled to identify areas with stray contact electricity. >> children and people are all over this city. and the infrastructure is not what it used to be. >> reporter: in february, wjz investigated this problem. riding along with a company that detected hundreds of sites pulsing with potentially deadly stray voltage. aging and decaying wires under sidewalks, light poles and manhole covers pose a risk to anyone who com

rocket attack in baghdad has killed four iraqis and injured ten others militants fired into the city's green zone an area housing government buildings and u.s. and british embassies the attack came in late at night as american staff were celebrating the fourth of july it hit a residential complex for laborers who were working at a local hotel. now how far can you go to talk people out of war five hundred miles was the distance walked by a military journalist who saw the events in iraq firsthand and felt he had to do something about it you cannot watch your story coming up at fifteen hundred g.m.t. here on r.t. . spent in the year in iraq is a military journalist. on the ways. there is kind of wasting their time trying to get killed. i thought all along the length of the. twenty seven days in going to publicize it he invited the audience and i think. people started to bait have a dialogue just. chanting the slogan or waiting for. the . twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow it's a rare and incurable disease and in russia sufferers say it's ignored by the medical establishment known a

because i don't think the city does a very good job with green jobs whatsoever. and the reliances on this program to deliver green jobs then i would hope that that component be well applied to this particular contract or with another contractor. ms. miller? >> yeah, there is a co ponent of the development of green -- component of the development of green jobs that was submitted and is part of task seven and eight. so it's in the body of the -- of the document. it's not a separate line item. it wasn't separately numbered. >> but what i'm saying is it didn't wow me. it didn't wow me at all. we have gone through p.u.c. we've gone through recurrent energy. we've gone through the solar city contracts. we have gone through -- i cannot tell you how many dozens and dozens of hours of debate through the budget committee and board of supervisors and being with the understanding that this would yield green jobs. and i still don't think the city has come to scratching the surface of yielding jobs for disadvantaged communities. it's frankly underwhemming. so in this case what

the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the greenpace on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the begi