ha ha! it's been a lot of fun through the years, hasn't it? >> yeah, it sure has. we've been in this market a long time. >> a long time. we've done a lot of nice things. >> and we've caused a little commotion >> a little trouble we've gotten in, with both the tenants and the customers... >> and the customers. >> and the wives. >> oh, yeah, the wives. >> we won't--ha ha ha! you know, actually at one time, back many years ago, they used topen up at 6:00, and then they changed it to 7:00. and now it opens when you get there. heh! we actually get there sometimes at midnight, 11:30, and customers will be waiting 'cause they want to get their flowers. and they maybe come from a long distance, so they want to get them, and they want t beat the traffic. >> on@e at the shop, the flowers are pampered and processed and placed in a vase. it's been a mere 10 hours since this larkspur left the farm in pescadero. it n@w heads out the door to brighten someone's day. california-grown goodness at its best. i'm dennis newhall for "california country." >> that concludes today's tour of

it was an animatronics robot who went "ha ha ha ha" all day and scared generations of san franciscans out of their wits. it has a month-to-month lease at fisherman's wharf. >> they moved it to this temporary location at fisherman's wharf. they left an unusual little treasure of the city. >> ingleside terraces, again, i was trying to show off the residence park. a lot of crazy building. for still has one of the great stairways -- forest hill has one of the greats their ways. -- great stairways. this looked like a ship. they used to decorate fire houses for christmas. >> on the side of this fire house is a wooden tower. the tower was for drying the hoses. after they get water in them, they have to be dried. >> a fire house like this is for sale. if you have $1.3 million, which is really cheap enough for a firehouse -- >> one in the inner sunset was just sold. >> was it? i want to buy a streetcar. i cannot pay my rent. >> there were two of these for pumping water out of the ground. murphy gave a lot of money for it. >> what decided the boundaries and the location of golden gate park? >>

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, ha, that's funny, ha, ha. have your mothern step up. mom steps up, si, senor. dad stands up. and he goes, hey, leave her alone because cheese with me. welcome to america. [ applause ] made it up here finally made it up here to chino hills, not that chino hills. above chinatown. echo park. yeah, yeah. echo park used to be a nice place before. echo park in los angeles. a nice place. now the ducks are dealing drugs there. at night, you go by and all that you hear is quack, quack, quack, quack, quack. [ applause ] yeah. i just celebrated 29 years of marriage. yeah. i've been married three times. and i've been married three times because first we had a court wedding, you know? went to the court. paid a ticket. got married. few years later we had a church wedding, which was cool. all of our kids were in it, you know? 25 years later, she goes hey, we have to get married again. and i go, why? why? well, it's just tradition. well, if it's just tradition, then i want a bachelor party. yeah, yeah that's tradition! >> that was comedian armando. >>> up next here on "comunid

ha, ha, go, go, buck shot, kra e crack, crack, crack. hit lights. what you think you are. >> ha, ha, stick broke. in the brushes. in the rushes. put them back on. bufks head in the rushes. put them back on. to big thicket we go, hot we go to hit staggeringly along the frees. crack, a steak broke. we go, go, go, buck shot. we go, go, go. up the road. road kill. staggering bucks. head light rushes. pick up brushes. race broke, screeching. the big thicket we go, buck shot, crack. the road kills. crack e a broke stick. on we go on. [applause] >> omni bus program. and choose to muses are exciting because they bring authors together to read at once. there are times where a special guest has the stage all to themselves. the samurai's garden by gale suckiama has become a high school favorite. her appearance brought out a young crowd. possibly looking for answers to their next english exam. when crediting charls brought house of rain to main teenage the commenttator shown pictures searching for the can bols. the first discovery of a hidden chamber. >> i immediately started for t. climbin

. ♪ i wanna hold your ha-ha-ha- ha-ha-ha-hand... ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: yeah. n "30 rock." he's got a new stand-up special called "black and blue" airing tomorrow night on hbo at 10:00 p.m. he is so, so, so funny. please welcome our pal, tracy morgan, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ chased a demon's lightning that burst inside your eye [ humming ] take a doo doo pie ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> that's a doo doo pie. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what was the name of that character? >> uh -- woodrow. >> jimmy: woodrow. >> woodrow. he never hurt nobody. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, woodrow -- it was a character he used to play. he lived in the subway. >> yeah, inspired by ghostface. >> jimmy: yeah. oh, is that right? >> yeah, ghostface did a skit on one of his albums called "supreme clientele" and i just got that and i said, "woodrow." and we came up with woodrow. >> jimmy: yeah. i remember you were talking to a block of wood. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and he'd go, "buy, sell, buy, sell. ha-ha. funny money." >> -- happy face, sad face that was my first attempt. we laughed

mmmmm... ( crash ) - ha ha ha! - woo! - dang! velveeta & rotel. man, that's good! see the big turkey for thanksgiving? [ grandma ] okay. ♪ ah. then we will all do it together. treats. teets...teets...teets... yeah. look at this. [ female announcer ] it seems like the best family traditions always start in the kitchen. ♪ rice krispies®. happy holidays. >> a live look at the oracle arena in oakland off of 880. it's a cold, cold morning. we will check in with rob in a minute. the holidays will be merrier for 10 families in need. 49er players and coaches and sam's club and the salvation army teaming up for the fourth annual green drive. they will present families with $1,000 with the food and gifts from sam's club. this will be at the sam's club in concord. a woman in south africa took in 28 orphans. you can help her by drinking coffee. they're donating half of profits to charitable causes. customers voted for the 9-year-old business to provide her kick down orphanage with a vegetable garden. they are hosting a celebration to thank neighbors for support from 7:00 to 9:0

haa ha ha! ha hha ha! morning and welcome to the december 7, 2010 meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority plans and programs committee. happy holidays to everyone. my name is david campos, the chair of the committee. we are joined by commissioner carmen chu and committee member david chu, commissioners and john avalos and bevan dufty are in route. the clerk of the committee is erica cheng. madam clerk, please call item two. >> approve the minutes of the november 16, 2010 meeting and the november 23, 2010 special meeting. commissioner campos: we have a motion from david chiu. is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, if we can take that without objection. >>citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. >> good morning. the cac hold a combined december and november meeting which will be held tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. to report on any actions. commissioner campos: great. i know that commissioner dufty had asked that one item be taken ou

ha, ha, ha i'm telling you right now you're going to regret what you did. less than a week ago, agents arrested antonio martinez for attempting to blow up a recruitment. he too had been turned into the fbi after someone found extreme view postings. >> they need to keep the security up. >> it's great that they caught him. so obviously somebody is doing their job behind the scenes. >> reporter: the federal affidavit quotes younis says he wanted to put bombs in the manholes in georgetown in order to kill more people. yuonis has not been charged with any crimes, only intimidation. >>> officials are trying to figure out how a teenager snuck through airport security and got on a plane. devonte is originally from baltimore. >>> she was the soul survivor and tonight she wants tens of millions of the dollars. wells filed a lawsuit. >> reporter: jordan wells and her friend younger was on their way home when they crashed. >> everything was just slow motion. i was like, this is it. i'm dying here. >> two patients. >> are you folks able to fly. >> reporter: they were air

ha-ha! one, two, three! >> wa-ha-ha! >> wa-ha-ha! >> wa-ha-ha! e adult humor. >> exciting for me to see how far it's come, from two brothers being on the street working out of their garage, building props, and then to being off-broadway in new york. >> just kind of feel like we're contributing a new look and a new style of theater. >> wa-ha-ha! you were supposed to do that too. leave me all alone on that island. >> i'm sorry about this. >> vinita, you look great. >> before the electrolysis. hó [ male announcer ] this is the way most people choose a toothbrush. with so many it's hard to see the difference. but this is the way his dentist chooses. fact is, more dentists use an oral-b toothbrush than any other brush. trust the brush more dentists use. oral-b. >>> "world news now" delivers your "morning papers." >> in the headlines recently there has been a spate of crimes. one of the linking themes of all of them is that people have been committing these crimes wearing really, really, realistic masks. if you pay attention to this show at all we did o

has been done, as it was reported. millions of dollars has been spent. a considerable amount of progress has been made. and with the comment ms. hester has made. there is feedback over where to locate. part of this is in the study areas. we incorporate these in the draft eir. the master plan is going to be addressing those. the one comment i disagree with is there was a statement that there was going to be a need to have more student housing. we are still doing the master plan. we were supportive of the legislation that didn't allow students to go forward without the inclusionary housing. >> may i have a minute more? >> sorry, david. public comment is closed. i would like to state to ms. roberts, and randall, we appreciate what any institution does for citizens and visitors in this city. we do not underestimate that. that is not what we sit here for. we sit here for different situations. your comments are interesting, but they are not pertiment to the situation where the planning code is violated. we do not evaluate the -- how good is the institution, how good this is in the educational operations or in

has recognized his rival as the winner. the diplomatic correspondent has this report. >> hot united nations is warning of civil war. the emmy forces but the man who has refused to step down. most of the world is convinced he lost. seen here on the left being sworn in by loyal supporters. on the right, widely regarded as the true victor, and of being protected by the un. in opposition areas, who they are accused of widespread atrocities. they fear far more. >> it has been impossible to investigate all of the allegations of serious human rights violations including the mass graves due to restrictions by u.s. personnel. >> it is becoming an increasingly dangerous place. several countries including britain and france have been told police. the ivory coast has endured a civil war before. this was meant to be the crowning achievement of the peace deal to unify the country again. what is happening on the ground where areas of opposition have strong support her? >> people are scared between security forces and they say that sometimes, they have used live rounds. they have issued a barricade to protect themselves and rahway into their houses whenever security

has been passionate. tempers have a trade and insulting and fists have flown. the pledge to rule by decree ha, ha the supporter criticized anyone has and the revolutionary. the president himself has asked congress to grant emergency powers saying he needs them to deal with the aftermath that have left tens of thousands homeless. it went overwhelmingly his way. the final vote on thursday -- in january, it made way for a crop of lawmakers, including many more from the opposition. >> this assembly does not have ethics or morals or the legitimacy to approve this law. many venezuelans haunt you change the assembly because it no longer represents the people. >> the president goes the critics accuse him of bureaucracy held using his powers to bypass the new and potentially hostile congress. he remains as polarizing as ever. the student protests had the chaos come under attack. opponents worry that home to much in the hands of one man cannot be good. >> in spain, the man that shot and killed four people, the first victims were father and son. the 57-year-old who drove where he killed mroe. -- more. viole

ha ha ha. does it grow hair, by any chance? uh, that i don't know. maybe. maxa, voice-over: drinking in the thermal mountain waters and the scenery, i take my cure and reflect on the wonders of lombardy. in the words of yet another romantic poet, william wordsworth, "you have left your beauty with me, a serene accord of forms and colors." it's a landscape that inspires poetry. when next you regard your rudy fair, i may have grown a head of hair. from the italian alps, ciao. announcer: all videos and dvds of smart travelare $24.95 each plus shipping. call... for the two-episode dvd or video on milan, lake como, and sicily. details of all of our travel videos, dvds, and best guide books are on the web at... please have a credit card ready and call... or visit us on the web. captioning made possible by u.s. department of education captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- smart travels is made possible in part by... a travel website that offers travelers a variety of ways to find the trip they're looking for, including flights, hotels,

has said that mr. ouattara has claimed to be the victor. at least four people have died there recently. the united nations has congratulated outtara on his victory. this is the secretary and general effect endorsing a position of his representative, the u.n.'s rep and the country. that representative has retracted the final voting results, upholding the provisional results which support the opposition candidate. we will bring you more on that as it develops. >>> for spanish airports have been closed because of a shortage of air traffic controllers. madrid airport and three others are affected. the spanish airport authority says many controllers have called in sick and suspect this is an unofficial strike in a long running dispute over pay and hours. there has been a deadline issued by the government and a threat to send in troops. we are waiting to hear what happens with that. >>> he may be smaller than a domestic cat at the moment, but one new arrival at a zoo in the united states is a giant. the one-month old giant panda cub would shun have been -- were shown having his regular medical exam. he actually bel

ha ha ha. telling you right now you are going to regret doing what you did for your peace i hope what i'm hearing is all lies. all from facebook. so why use it. >> the smart ones won't. they'll find a different way to do it. a lot of times what we've been finding recently is the people that aren't that smart are the ones getting caught. >> reporter: younis's father told 9news now he believes his son is innocent. younis's brother says the affidavit on which the brother is based is a lighter version than the term of bs. he says his brother is innocent and will be freed next week. >> thank you. >>> police in our area is on the lookout for an alleged thief that goes by kathy griffin. what she is doing is no laughing matter. andrea mccarren fills us in on this in northwest dc. >> reporter: when a woman calling herself kathy griffin showed up at this home, she already paid for a one-night stay. had no luggage and asked about the alarm system. >> well, one thing i thought was strange because nobody has

it has a remote control that allows you to be able to control the spray features. it has a rear-cleaning, cleaning, stopped cleaning. it has a heated sea. it has a blow dryer. it has a deodorizer. and you can't flush the toilet with a push of the remote. >> ice cube maker, everything. look at that thing. and this is a little more conventional. >> these are the more conventional u.s. type of toilets where you can actually see the trap passageway on the side. >> tell us what goes in where and how does it come out. >> the bull has the water right here, and when it flushes, it fills up around this curve here, and it basically creates a siphon. >> so here we have passage through to the bottom. i do not know if people have ever seen the bottom of one of these. there is. we have a couple of holes here that are for mounting. usually, there is a flange on the floor. we do not have that here. then, we use a wax seal, something like this. >> is has a little cover on the wax, but it has a throat that sits down in the pipe, and this wax seals it's down there to make the seal on the floor. >> right. you do not want to take this off and

has -- has brought up and injested in the discussion and brings up in most of our discussions here in terms of the budget crisis, in terms of a very -- i think -- i think potentially of a mill crisis, not just in terms of this here in san francisco but in terms of what is happening across the country, which we -- we saw reflected in the mid term elections. what happened at the state level with the election of jerry brown and what potentially is happening. i think if you look at proposition 26's passage and what its implications are, i think supervisor elsbernd talked about -- talked about the -- the -- post employment benefits situation. if you take a look from any angle, we are in a crisis situation. i think to just appoint a caretaker mayor, like the san francisco examiner owned by the hearst in 1978, said about the same subject, it would be a colossal mistake. i notice the supervisors over the last 10 years has done significant work to talk aboutualancing the power between a very strong mayor in terms of the coffman charter and this board of supervisors. for me, i think -- when i think of a strong mayor, i'm not thinking of strong and -- in comparison to the board of supervisors, because i would really like to see a mayor that that does more with the board and shares more decision making with the board of supervisors. i don't think that's necessarily what make a mayor strong. is putting another branch of government in a electorate position from where they are. i think a strong mayor can work with this board and the resources of the city to address these challenges. for me and the city of san francisco, i want to see the challenge addressed in the most compassionate way possible, not in the most progressive or the most conservative way, the most cam passionate way possible. even in my movement on the progressive side, there is not necessarily union nimity on this question. i think for those t

has been an honor to serve with you. i want to thank you for sharing the land use committee. supervisor maxwell: it has been great working with supervisor maxwell: you. -- working with you. supervisor chiu: i wanted to echo his comments. we are going to miss you greatly. you have had a tremendous impact of the past, present, and future of our city with regard to land use. there are so many projects in your direct imprint help to improve. it has been a true pleasure to work with you and i think our committee has worked very well together in resolving many of the potential conflicts that we have to resolve here at land- use. thank you so much for that. we will miss you. supervisor maxwell: i think land use and our city will be in great hands. i think supervisor mar an -- thank supervisor mar and supervisor chiu. i think we'll be okay. you're a pretty snazzy dresser yourself, supervisor mar. it has been great. thank you. [laughter] is there any further business before this committee? this meeting is adjourned. >> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree o

ha ha. shut up. those are cute jeans, though. >> welcome, dancers. bring them in. coming to you live, san francisco city hall, the indians have all arrived. how about a big round of applause for our native american dancers in the house? rocking san francisco. singing loud, dance hard, all right. all right, one more time, let's give it up for our singers, our dancers, kicking it live here in san francisco city hall, all right. good to be here tonight. seeing all these shining indian faces once again. could i have all the native americans please remain standing? all native americans, stand up. how about a big round of applause for our native americans here for native american heritage month in november. all you non-indians, just look around. this is what custer saw at the little bighorn, and you know what he said to his men? where did all these indians come from? once again, welcome to the sixth annual nida american heritage month celebration here at city hall. -- annual native american heritage month cicelebration. i would like to thank our host for this month, nati

has been an honor to serve with you. i want to thank you for sharing the land use committee. supervisor maxwell: it has been great working with supervisor maxwell: you. -- working with you. supervisor chiu: i wanted to echo his comments. we are going to miss you greatly. you have had a tremendous impact of the past, present, and future of our city with regard to land use. there are so many projects in your direct imprint help to improve. it has been a true pleasure to work with you and i think our committee has worked very well together in resolving many of the potential conflicts that we have to resolve here at land- use. thank you so much for that. we will miss you. supervisor maxwell: i think land use and our city will be in great hands. i think supervisor mar an -- thank supervisor mar and supervisor chiu. i think we'll be okay. you're a pretty snazzy dresser yourself, supervisor mar. it has been great. thank you. [laughter] is there any further business before this committee? this meeting is adjourned.

ha. >> ha univisultima horaunivisio buena hora... >> el ex embajador de los estados unidos en perÚ, es el protagonista de los wikileaks peruanos. afirma que tres generales del ejÉrcito peruano estaban siendo sobornados por el narcotrÁfico en el 2009. este es el cuartel general del ejÉrcito. la informaciÓn publicada inicialmente por el diario el paÍs, ha en esta informaciÓn. >> lucÍa muy irritado esta maÑana en la conferencia de prensa en la que rechazÓ el contenido de los informes del @ univisionultima horaunivisionuls >> me reservÓ el derecho de denunciarÁ penalmente esta irresponsabilidad que desprestigia mi persona.univ hol -reservo.univisul horaunivis >> reconociÓ haberse reunido con un empresariunivisionultimÚ de que nadie del ejÉrcito esté implicado recibiendo dinero del narcotrÁfico.ionultima horauniv estados unidos afirma que la corrupciÓn que hubo en los 90 se habÍa mantenido, en su informe. los militares participan en la lucha contra los grupos armados donde el narcotrÁfico es la principal actividad de la zona. este experto en temas de seguridad dice que el tema amerita una investigaciÓn del gobierno, mÁs aÚn cuando se estÁ hablando del actual comandante general del ejÉrcito. >> desde el 2007 agresiones -versiones de que los militares estÁn cobrando cupos a los narcotraficantes para que salga la droga. >> el presidente de v

[applause] >> the message of no labels has -- has its time come? >> its time has come. this is an example of where the public is ahead of the politicians. the politicians are not done. they see this movement gathering force. they will tch on. i shar your concerns about the debt and deficit. i really do. i would look at the vote next spring on raising the debt levels. dy is going to want to vote for tha that might be the kind of moment that forces meaningful tax reforms and spending restraints that will have the added effect of getting the deficit on the right path. it may take that kind of misogynist events to make it happen -- and misogynist to -- event to make it happen. >> you are exactly right. there is such a fundamental disconnect from more washington is and where in new york is compared to where most american voters are. we have seen it time and time again. we have gone out with a couple of different folks and given 200 speeches all across the country. it shocks me. it shocks m -- we give the same speech that we gave at pat robertson's university. people laugh at

the other party has a -- has one shot at briefing. changes the deadline from materials, members of the public. i'm not sure what the reason was for setting it at two-thirds-based, but would allow staff sufficient time to include them in your packets. of course the board is allowed to bring something today board pursuant to sunshine. they will not be forwarded to you, but it creates a process by which someone may request permission to file. there is an opportunity to request additional pages. section 2 offers the board to give guidance to the public and give assistance to the people that may communicate with the board. it says evidence may be made part of the public record, and to do that a, written submital to the board, and those submitals should be submitted to me, to the executive secretary, and not individual board members. >> i want to applaud that change. that means are no longer 6 c1 that means we are no longer to be contacted by the public. >> that is putting the public on notice those types of contacts should not take place.

alguien que conoce a amÉrica latina es julio, tanto que ha ha ayudado a siete candidatos a llegar al poder, hauchos otros gobiernos de latinoamÉrica, si tu asesorarÁ a barack obama, buen presidente calderÓn o a cristina kirchner ¿quÉ le dirÍas? >> hay que entender que es un fenÓmeno producto del avance tecnolÓgico, producto de que los cÓdigos de seguridad, los candados no habÍan sido colocados oportunamente, el origen de la crisis de hogar de un error -es por un error de gestiÓn de estado. >> pero nada se borra. >> y ahÍ un asunto muy importante, ya no hay secretos en el mundo global, internet nos cambiÓ la vida a todos. >> te truena la crisis, te llama un presidente, y cuando sale informaciÓn, ¿quÉ haces? >> en estos casos la verdad es la que debe prevalecer, y si hay informaciÓn que efectivamente fluyÓ de funcionarios de su -tu gobierno y esta visible, del consejo es que la verdad prevalece. >> dÉjame ir tocando muy brevemente alguno de los paÍses de conoces bien para que medidas -que conoces bien para que me digas cÓmo estÁ la situaciÓn, que wikileaks haya dicho que peÑa nieto va a ser el p

has a meaning. it has to offer just more than space. it has to convey its substance. the safe -- the sacred building has always been a place of communication. the cathedrals have huge paintings there to bring the christian message to a population that could not read. sacred buildings have to convey and have a narrative. >> a church for 6500 parishioners. the skylight represents the wounds of christ. this space is a reminder of the temple in jerusalem. there are stars of david. ♪ he is one of the architects of the munich synagogue. >> we were working in a safaith with no imagery. we tried to reference the basic architectural experience of the jews and transfer them metaphorically. we tried to use the pairing of concepts and deploy it architecturally. ♪ >> historically, synagogues and mosques have served as meeting places for the community. whatever the religion, there must be a sense of the divine. that is why contemporary devotional buildings are often more expensive than other construction products. the catholic church of the sacred heart in munich consists of a space

has been a training, into a manhole, over here. that has been dreaming, to a man who, over here. that has been draining, to the manhole, over here. some residents are upset that they were not notified properly or in a timely manner. will be following up on that section soon. >> and through the sierras, we have just spoke with the c h p it is clear now. and if you're going to dry up? to drive up--today, because they're expecting heavy snowfall saturday, sunday. >> panel? >> to bring in the new year, the best bay area new year's eve live party. and it is the only local and new year's celebration locally. we've will be right back >> this just in to the kron 4 news room oakland police say a federal express truck has been stolen. the fruitvalle district. 3:45. in oakland. 60 packages were inside that truck. still awaiting confirmation. a news crew is on the way. >> the search continues for the suspect who fired shots. south san francisco, wednesday night. two victims died at the scene. hospital officials say that a third that was in critical died today. you can see family members sprain in the valley. 19 year-old consol, an 18 year-old