. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. >> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >>

. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. b) authorizing, pursuant to the agreement, a third amendment to the memorandum of understanding with the city and county of san francisco, acting through its department of public works to increase funding in an additional amount not to exceed $17,966,556 for an aggregate total not to exceed $19,079,347 for the transbay folsom street improvement project that is within the scope of the transit center district plan project approved under the final environmental impact report transit center district plan and transit tower ("feir"), a program eir, and is adequately described in the feir

what it is today. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving cityets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. >> i personally love the mega jobs. i think they're a lot of fun. i like being part of a build that is bigger than myself and outlast me and make a mark on a landscape or industry. ♪ we do a lot of the big sexy jobs, the stacked towers, transit center, a lot of the note worthy projects. i'm second generation construction. my dad was in it and for me it just felt right. i was about 16 when i first started drafting home plans for people and working my way through college. in college i became a project engineer on the job, replacing others who were there previously and took over

. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets andarks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >>

. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. >> look at that beautiful jellyfish. the way to speak to students and motivate them to take action, to save the planet, they do, they care and my job is to speak to them in a way that they can understand that touches their heart and makes them feel powerful with simple actions to take every day. ♪ ♪ >> i was born and raised in the desert of palm springs, california. my dad was the rabbi in the community there. what i got from watching my father on stage talking to the community was learning how to be in the public. and learning how to do public speaking and i remember the first time

. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. >> for the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat -- to the public right off their boats in san francisco. it's not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but it's evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. but how is it regulated? and what does it take for a boat to be transported into a floating fish market? find out as we hop on board on this episode of "what's next sf." (♪) we're here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. i

improvements to the embarcadero. time and time again, it is instead up to the friends and family who are grieving after loss to push for more. on behalf of our 10,000 members, we urge the city to do more and to do it faster. if even the loss of life isn't enough for immediate street safety improvements, our city is failing our people. commissioners, thank you again for bringing this to the attention and let's keep pushing our city departments to do more. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. any othermen comments, colleag? seeing none, then, this informational item -- let's move quickly to item six. >> clerk: item six, update from vision zero community groups. this is an information item. >> supervisor yee: miss deluca. >> good morning, noonish, good afternoon. good afternoon, chair yee, and commissioners. i am kathy deluca, the project coordinator for walk sf. so first, i'll start with the senior and disability work group. so this group forms in -- formed in 2016, and ad vocates from several departments came together and decided we needed to do something. it wasn't okay that two

a nn program baltimore has big goals, help the environment, improved troubled city blocks and employ people who would otherwise struggle to find work. >> reporter: with crow bars, hammers and saws damon and his crew pulup buried treasure. >> this is piece of the floor. they don make this stuff anymore. >> reporter: century old yellow pine f 400-year-old forests long gone. crews have a contract to strip out and sell this wood as thete down homes that the city has condemned. what do you see when you see wo like this >> iee money. >> reporter: they will have plenty of work. the city of baltimore plans to tear down 4,000 vac ant homes like these in fouryears. >> one thing we have been involved with is the reclaiming of land and working to help to revitalize communities. >> reporter: the wood ends up in another nonprofit where the team transforms it. >> this wood came out of a baltimore row house. >> it doesn't look like much when it is an abandoned row house. there is an immense amount of beauty and value embedded in these pieces of wood. >> reporter: that value recognized by retailers l

returning the easier to its natural state has been positive nina has raised the quality of life in the city improved flood prevention and brought a bit of nature back to the city now if only visitors to the is are could learn to dispose of their garbage properly it would be perfectly. as we've seen crowds can take their toll on the bread. but there are a lot of people fighting for its preservation and plenty of associations and activists have big plans for its future one of them is mr and is a founding member of the society we get mail you're from munich can you imagine living in a city without a river and then no icons in the river really contributes to my quality of life but if it whenever i have time i go jogging along it with off to work what my friends here. on weekends i ride my bike along the river. without the river the city wouldn't have half as much a paddle this way that's probably why you're a member of the is a list organization what does that group do what's your mission yes i'm assuming it's good enough for you don't you part of it has been restored and that's great but we don't want

still quite tense you can see behind me this still heavy military and police presence in the city it has improved though compared to yesterday where the city center was always deserted and you found a policeman there today more and more people on the streets some shops even opened but you can see there's still some tension here a lot of people have the feeling that this election drama is not yet over although the results where already announced it is have a look at what the local newspapers wrote today and this is also an indicator for what i was saying. and disputes the independent is talking about and a slim victory for emerson when i've got one and then we also have the news today here that says chamisa rejects the fake results nelson chamisa is the major opposition candidate so things are not yet over here and people are looking forward to see how the opposition will now react you know what options does the opposition really have here and. well there's basically two options one is they could go to court and challenge the results there this is what some reprise entities of the opposition have

. >> alcindor: today at the white house several black pastors said he had helped improve life in inner cities. as part of his plan for urban areas, president tru i put ben carscharge of the department of housing and urban development. it's a role carson has used to look into tripling renan for poor t using federal assistance. he has also slowed an anti- segregation initiative and saidt pois a state of mind. those moves have angered some who see his policies as hurting people of color. critics of the administration have also pointed to the department of justtoe led by atrney general jeff sessions. sessions has pushed for longerth sentences foe convicted of federal crimes. has discouraged the use of affirmative action by colleges and universities. still some say president trump has been eager to embrace black leaders. he had a group of h.b.c.u. presidents gather in the oval office. and today, he said he was eager to keep his door open. bishop harry jackson was one of the pastors who met with president trumusat the white this afternoon. he serves as pastor of hope christian church in beltsville,

city of melbourne. the report says manchester has seen the biggest improvement among european cities over the past year.e syrian capital, damascus. bit of a wobble now picture. i think it was a helicopter shot. yesterday we revealed the television presenter, katie piper as the first celebrity taking part in this year's strictly come dancing. last night, another two famous faces were confirmed. steps singer faye tozer and red dwarf actor dannyjohn—jules will also strut their stuff. meanwhile, the astronaut, tim peake has ended speculation as to whether he might compete for the glitter ball. the joke started when a journalist posted a message on twitter saying she had thought teasers about dannyjohn—jules signing up for the competition had been about peake. he replied: clearly disappointed. 0n the one show they had the silhouette of the two and then they put three clues through the programme. i think the clues for danny was read, space was the other one. anyway, but somebody else thought it was kim peek, got confused. —— tim peake. can we have him? i don't think he is go to do it, no. dasher going to. ——

the city of el cerrito wants to improve safety along a popular trail... by installing 10 new security cameras.( james ) kron 4's charles clifford has the details. well, the ohlone greenway is four and a half miles long. it's a popular trail for walking, running, and biking. it's also used by commuters

it is important that as a city we serve the entire range of seniors who need assisted living and i'm glad that i can work with mayor breed's office in improving our city's continuum of long-term care. with this additional funding from the mayor, our combined funding will start the process of finding longer term solutions to the challenge of improving our entire continuum of long-term care. in march this year i created a work group to further study the supply. the work will be housed in the mayor's long-term coordinated care council and meet monthly starting in august. members will include representatives from the mayor's budget office, the mayor's office of budget and economic workforce development, adult aging services department of public health, u.c.s.f. and private hospitals and foundations. and also non-profits serving seniors and home care provider organizations. i really look forward to working with my colleagues, mayor breed and the work group in the coming months to develop sustainable solutions to stabilize and expand the supply of this critical housing for our city's seniors so we can prevent our seniors from becoming homeless and

manchester saw the biggest improvement of any european city, rising 16 places to get to 35 and its aheadlia has been top, melbourne, has been top for a long time and it's been booted off by vienna. i've been to vienna and it is beautiful, stunning. crocs, are you a fan? unlike vienna, stunning, crocs are not. they are announcing their closing the last factory but crocs will still exist, what is the story in a0 seconds? their closing their last factory but it's not going to be the end for crocs -- it's not going to be the end for crocs —— they are. how can you have no factories and stay on? there are many other producers of crocs which aren't necessarily crocs which will still produce these horrendous things. what's your favourite colour?|j produce these horrendous things. what's your favourite colour? i like the one in the picture. flowers on and pink and fluffy. i think they would suit your lovely little feet. james, thank you for talking to us. james, thank you for talking to us. james hughes there. thanks for watching. bye—bye from me. hello there. it doesn't look like the widespread,

money would be earmarked for infrastructure projects including a new police headquarters, improvements to the city'snimal shelter and the junior museum and zoo. >>> this weekend marks the official opening of san francisco's salesforce transit center. >> the $2 billion projects has been under construction for almost a decade. >> reporter: what began as a competition 11 years ago is the sales force transit center. it features a board for advertisements and bus times and pays tribute to local artists. >> below us is a floor by local artist julie chang. above "uss there will be a jenny holster art piece we will see. >> reporter: this bus bridge connects to the bay bridge. there's a train box below grounds but trains are another ten years away. the public rooftop garden is open to everyone. the architects say they envisioned schoolchildren coming through for tours and lessons. >> when you grow 70 feet above street level and find a five and a half acre public park your perceptions change. it really is going to change people's understanding of where they live. >> reporter: the garden is accessible by gondo

. >>> the napa city council approved using $2.8 million in sales tax revenue to make repairs and improvements to buy resis st of downtown. the money to comes from measure t, a countywide tax approved by voters in 2012. >>> up next, rachael ray is being sued. the concerns over potentially harmful chemicals in her popular dog food. >>> new devolvement on the fire that killed two children and their mother. what police in vallejo are saying about their investigation. >>> off to a good start on highway four this morning. westbound driving to concorde. we will tell you more straight ahead. >>> in weather, good morning. we have low clouds and fog near the coast in the bay. hazy skies in the forecast for today with some warming for parts of the bay area. more on the forecast highs, -- coming up. many people living with diabetes monitor their blood glucose every day. which means they have to stop. and stick their fingers. repeatedly. today, life-changing technology from abbott makes it possible to track glucose levels. without drawing a drop of blood, again and again. the most personal technology, is

conditions for bicycling include -- cities are working to improve conditions for bicycling. a path would connect redwood city to mountain view including stops in menlo park, palo alto. the bike route would cover 16 miles. supporters say the goal is to design a bikeway that is safe, efficient and connected for riders along the peninsula. a launch event scheduled next month will celebrate the opening of an interim bikeway and begin planning for a future permanent bikeway. >>> did you know that surfing is now the official state sport? governor brown made it official today. the law claims califo is tht of building industry and that surf forecasting and the neopreme wetsuit were both invented here. the bill does acknowledge surfing originated with the polynesian people and was imported into california from hawaii, state sport, surfing. >>> if you're surfing, i strongly suggest a wetsuit because the ocean is still running chilly and the air above it is not that much warmer. look at the bottom of your temperatures here for the highs today, 59 degrees at oc

board and now chair of the board of the sfmta who has been a staunch advocate for safety improvements in the city. with their approval, in 2012, we got to work with public works and planning and with public utilities and with the arts commission. all working together to design and build and implement this project. i think it is a great transformation of a city street and as mohammed said, is one of many that we have seen and will be seeing in the coming months and years. it is a great day for this neighborhood. for everybody who uses this street. whether they live here or travel through here, they walk or bike or take the bus or drive here. is a much better street and a great lesson for all of us on how to do things. we need to figure out how to do it a whole lot faster. i will acknowledge, we have heard from supervisor brown some concerns. this project is not perfect. we will continue as we do with every project to evaluate how it is performing at identify ways to make it even better. we will work with supervisor brown and the community to make sure that we make the street work as well as it was

up next i will show you how it is designed to show people all the transit improvements happening in the city. >>> the search is on to find people responsible for knocking this see command to the ground and then spitting on him. we will hear more about the attack from the victims son-in- law. >>> good morning. we can see traffic is moving along well around the bay area including interstate 880 driving past oracle arena. >>> we are tracking another round of close -- of low clouds and fog. warming temperatures inland. we will look at the forecast highs coming up. >>> welcome back. new this morning, some public school students in san francisco will again have access to free and reduced price meals. the national school lunch and breakfast program will offer free meals every day to students enrolled in 54 public schools in san francisco. these schools were selected according to the number of enrolled students that come from households that get nutrition assistance programs. >>> san francisco has released a new map of street construction across the city. the city's transit agency introduced the new

improve roads and highways. the film begins by depicting traffic jams, unsafe roads and city congestion. then documents the results of a nationwide gm contest seeking road system ideas, infrastructure advocacies such as this film help result in the passage of the $25 billion federal aid highway act of 1956. this is about 25 minutes. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> this is the american dream, freedom on wheels. an automotive age traveling on time-saving superhighways, futrahma's free-flowing channels of concrete and steel. but these wide lanes of reality actually measure out to just a few miles, scattered far apart, across the friendly face of our land. we have become the nation on wheels. with more motorized mobility than ever dreamed of before. though we have the greatest highway system in all the world, it can't carry the mounting traffic of our growing greatness. ♪ >> we're running out of roads. we didn't dream big enough. here is the problem, all mapped out. 3,300,000 miles of it, unimproved, improved, paved, superhighway. country roads, small city streets, big city thoroughfares, state highways networkin

it's the first time a european city has topped the rankings of the annual survey, by the economist intelligence unit. manchester saw the biggest improvement of any european city, rising by 16 places to rank 35th. manchester's rise puts it ahead of london in the rankings by 13 places, the widest gap between the two cities since the survey began two decades ago. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. what we are seeing this week is a typical weather pattern of this time of year, no big area of high pressure keeping it dry, hot and sunny, instead a strongerjet stream closer to the uk, the weather coming in from the atlantic, over the next few days some bands of clyde will bring rain down from the north—west. today we've had some rain it's been affecting northern ireland and here in scotland as well the rain continuing to push its way east so we are seeing improvement in the weather across western scotland with most of the rain in eastern parts running into the far north of england. for most of england and wales it will be dry with a little bit of sunshine on what has been a cloudy picture across most areas. a lot of dry weather,

improved. paved. super-highway. country roads. small city streets. big city thoroughfares. highways, networking the nation. and here is the crisis. two-thirds of the way is now obsolete, worn out and inadequate and inferior in condition, capacity, and safety. sure these were good roads 30 years ago. when they were laid out. but nothing lasts forever. the waiting line forms on the right. and at the head of the waiting line is your local highway engineer. listen to what he thinks about our roads. all over the county our farm to market roads are dying of old age. not anybody's fault. just a matter of time. and not enough money to keep them up or make them modern. most were built in the '20s. but along came the neglect of the war years and beat them up and broke them down. we've been using them more and more ever since. what we need is toe invest more money in good new roads and instead of spending so much patching up worn out ones. what do the people think who must use these roads, asked the farmer. a sinkhole and washboard, rotted to nation and come every spring the bottoms d

for over a decade, i worked for two supervisors and with the city to improve the neighborhoods in district five. the life i built in san francisco is a very different one than the one i grew up with in utah. i grew up with a single mother working odd jobs to support me, my sister and my grandmother. i never knew my father. i knew the fear of not having stable housing. we moved often. one day, when i was at school, i overheard a girl tell everybody that my mom was a deadbeat mom and she didn't pay the rent. that is when i realized that nothing is guaranteed to. by the time i was 14, my mother and my grandmother had passed away. and it took a community to raise me. so you can say, good or bad, i am a product of community development. [laughter] now i stand before you today, your community partner, your district supervisor, your neighbor. i am ready to jump in now. i'm ready to jump in to work with japan town, the valley, alamo square, and the fillmore. shout out! and inner sunset. ashbury, cold valley, i i think i said lower hayes. when avista, lower pack heights. thank you to residents of t

bradford is highlighted as a city that would especially benefit from the northern powerhouse rail project. the argument being by improving workforce would see the creation of another 15,000 jobs. that would be welcomed by companies like this one in shipley. they make components for the aerospace industry. 75 people work here, including josh, who joined straight from university, and moved house because commuting by train was impossible. i've tried getting here from york, from the other side of leeds, and from sheffield, all three of which were an absolute nightmare. relying on public transport was intermittent at best and expensive. so it got to the point where you thought "i'm going to have to relocate". josh gave up on trains and now drives in, but plenty of commuters don't have the choice, and short of having their own powers of flight, there are many dreaming of a trouble free transport network. judith moritz, bbc news, bradford. after a dominant day in the field, england 5 cricketers faced a stubborn late stand by india s batsmen, on the second day of the first test at edgbaston. ? the tourists made steady progress t

customary automobiles are being transformed into vehicles of the future will that improve life for the smog within cities nine million residents. a basic income trial in finland is being followed with great interest around the world how's it going. but first we head to the central app.

we heard from city staff and nonprofit developers and projects were getting stalled with permits and approofal -- approvals behind other you projects. they can improve our internal processes. the city allocates millions of dollar to create this housing, but when the projects are moving forward through the city system they are thrown in a mix. the two sets of executive directors we focused on. one was in 2013 there was an executive directive to give priority to affordable housing. in 2017 a subsequent directive to streamline all large residential projects affordable or not diluting the intent of the previous directive. the board has recently passed the former mayor's legislation to streamline. ocd is leading the construction cost containment discussions and implementation of the directive. this comments those by focusing on affordable housing specifically. what the legislation does is very straight forward and simple to direct five city departments to give absolute priorities to 100% affordable housing development, second, it requires each department to designate a person to shepard the projects through the process, to tract those and third to requir