i ask that you guys do all that you can in your power to ensure city college remains open in its current state and form. not [speaker not understood], not privatized. city college serves a diverse range of demographics. not only for those who transfer, but newcomers who don't yet know english. my mom is one great example. not only -- also those who are trying to get certificates to enhance their careers. i won't be able to complete my geographic information system certificate at city college closes because i have to take pre-requisites for classes at state ~. so, basically, my mom took esl classes three times in her life when she was in san francisco. she'll be starting her third round of esl classes in the fall. and she wants to master english in order to have a better life in america, and she won't be able to do that if city college closes. my brother is also starting city college in the fall and won't be able to if city college closes, won't be able to achieve what he wants to do, and he wants to study law. i've been humbled by my experiences at city college and it's nothing like what

an amazing place, it's a beautiful city. nothing like coming across that bridge and seeing the city and feeling like, i'm home, or coming from any part of anywhere, whether you're on a plane, whether you're on a bus, whether you're in a car, just to see the skyline of the city, it's just always made me feel at peace. and, so, i can't imagine myself living anyplace else. >> what motivated you to get involved in politics? >> well, as i said, i grew up in public housing and i experienced a lot of sad times as some people are still experiencing, whether it's crime and violence, issues of despair, issues of hopelessness. i mean, that still continues to plague many of our public housing residents today. and, so, it's really challenging when this is the way that i pretty much spent most of my life. and when i think about the challenges people still are going through, i know that the only way to make changes to those types of issues is to actually be a part of the decision making body of this city. and, so, what motivated me in the

so you'd lose half the city if you didn't have a replacement. narrator: without half of its water supply, the city would shut down. for nearly 40 years, new york has been in the process of constructing a solution. man: this project is water tunnel number 3. we started on this project in 1969. i'm a sandhog. i've been a sandhog for 37 years. narrator: sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we first started, it was a rough job. everything was dynamite. now, they have these machines call

not just any city college, it's our city college that's been developed through years of struggle and involvement of the community's -- from everything from our work force programs to english as a second language and other programs that supervisor avalos mentioned. i also wanted to say that high drab mendoza, the mayor's education advisor e-mailed us a memo on tuesday. i'm hoping she can address pulling more of the city family together to do as much as we can. i think there are a lot of questions that came up in different rallies to save city college from the grassroots community based efforts asking where is mayor lee on the issue ~ and hopefully ms. mendoza can address some of those questions how we all work together not just for all city college, but our city college programs that have been developed over the years by faculty, staff, community and students. also there is a question of what's the economic impact if we had -- if we were to lose city college as the acc, jc recommended, what would be the huge loss to work force development programs and the

it's a relatively new city under constant construction. but because it's in the arid mojave desert, the challenge of las vegas is supply. woman: all the growth and everything that's occurred in southern nevada has been with colorado river water. without it, the west as you know it today couldn't exist. narrator: to sustain their growing community with its limited supply, las vegas learned to be extremely efficient. mulroy: this is a desert, and it has its own beauty, but you have to get beyond what you're used to. as long as people recognize they're moving to the desert

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i think it might be the only city that does that. property taxes, business taxes and utility taxes. john: thank you. coming up, a libertarian has a plan to turn part of detroit into a mostly government-free zone. will that work? are will confront the politician who won't talk. next, the rain reason -- the main reason detroit is broke. ♪ >> we can borrow. in fact charlie really couldn't borrow money more recently. we'll them. >> detroit's new emergency manager. detroit's elected politicians spent all the money. this spend billions more. suppose to give detroit out of that mess without stripping workers of their pensions until care is not clear. michigan's former state majority leader. what will happen? >> the judge will push the reset button. it will be the largest city in america ever to go into bankruptcy, federal bankruptcy. everybody, kern workers, carothers 47 separate public unions in the city of detroit. in fact, some of the unions have only one member. it's hard for me to envision. of one man union. and i just don't think poli

i think it ght be the only city that does that. property taxes, business taxes and utility taxes. john: thank you. coming up, a libertarian has a plan to turn part of detroit into a mostly government-free zone. will that work? are will confront the politician who won't talk. next, the rain reason -- the main reason detroit is broke. ♪ >> we can borrow. in fact charlie really couldn't borrow money more recently. we'll them. >> detroit's new emergency manager. detroit's elected politicians spent all the money. this spend billions more. suppose to give detroit out of that mess without stripping workers of their pensions until care is not clear. michigan's former state majority leader. what will happen? >> the judge will push the reset button. it will be the largest city in america ever to go into bankruptcy, federal bankruptcy. everybody, kern workers,ers 47 c unions in the city of detroit. in fact, some of the unions have only one member. it's hard for me to envision. of one man union. and i just don't think politically a union can g

it's a relatively new city under constant construction. but because it's in the arid mojave desert, the challenge of las vegas is supply. woman: all the growth and everything that's occurred in southern nevada has been with colorado river water. without it, the west as you know it today couldn't exist. narrator: to sustain their growing community with its limited supply, las vegas learned to be extremely efficient. mulroy: this is a desert, and it has its own beauty, but you have to get beyond what you're used to. as long as people recognize they're moving to the desert and give up this notion that they have to bring eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. man: the biggest water user in the desert is turf. turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what we've done here is use artificial turf. you're never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still l

and importantly, it will cost the city nothing. the city won't have to buy the land. on't have to build the infrastructure. and it will not have to pay the city upkeep going forward. emerald park will be a unique arrangement between the san francisco parks alliance and emerald fund. with an agreement known as the conservation easement that will ensure that forever this remains the public open space. and emerald fund by this agreement will forever give up its right to develop this land. park alliance will be a steward to make sure this remains a public open space. i moved to san francisco 16 years ago. i met my lovely wife here. we had both of our children here. and we used to live right in this building right behind us for many years. and i can tell you from firsthand experience there are very few parks around here, very few parks for children to run around in. and that's why saline and i decided to make this gift. when all these buildings we talk about are complete, there will be thousands of new families around here, thousands. and this park is needed now and will be

to raisebout working wages for workers in the city -- ok. it disrupt or is going to be removed. >> ok, great. peaking about trying to raise wages and the city, it's something you have certainly been supportive of them many have argued quite strenuously against it saying you may raise wages for some workers but at the expense of new jobs, that businesses cannot afford to hire new people at the have to pay their workers more. how do you strike the right balance? wages -- would raising wages, at the expense? the expense? >> this has been deepening over the last few years and it's on except the bull. said 46% of new yorkers at or near the poverty level. gottenhe situation has worse and worse, mayor bloomberg has fiddled while rome burned and has not address the inequality crisis. it's time for a very different approach and i have to say to mr. thompson and ms. quinn that it must include taxing the wealthiest new yorkers. it's necessary to start addressing this crisis particularly in education. we cannot do full day pre-k without additional investme

i think it might be the only city that does that. roperty taxes, business taxes and utility taxes. john: thank you. coming up, a libertarian has a plan to turn part of detroit into a mostly government-free zone. will that work? are will confrt the politician who won't talk. next, the rain reason -- the main reason detroit is broke. ♪ the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello. mother. mother! traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly any rline anytime. two words. double miles! this guy can act. wanna play dodge rock? oh, you guys! and with double miles you can actuay use, you never miss the fun. beard growing contest and go! ♪ win! what's in your wallet? win! help the gulf when we made recover and learn the gulf, bp from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the

history and this time around city employees will feel it the most as they are likely to see significant cuts to their pensions and post employment health care benefits bill will of voice of concern is reverberating throughout the city hasn't quite overtaken another sentiment one that's magnified over the last few years i've been here all my life and i've seen it in a big not like it is more good as a misspeak but as banking business is i see a lot of construction go. and on a lot of people moving down here a lot of jobs job opportunities for people down here and it's just becoming a vibrant city detroit's a place where things can grow there's room here and there's. fresh fresh minds people are moving here all the time so i feel like there's unlimited potential here it's sincere optimism which many experts say is a result of the innovators and investors that are taking a chance on the city that is what took me to tech town a business incubator that's cultivating the startups that are dancing new technologies an area that president and c.e.o. leslie smith says has only grown the activity

in the average city it's 10 or 11 minutes. this point what do you think is going to hurt more overall in detroit, additional cuts to the pensions or additional cuts to city services? >> well, well no one is happy about what is going on. not the employees, not the residents and certainly not the state. they don't want to be running the city in bankruptcy. they've deferred their mismanagement problem for so long, but you can improve city services while lowering costs. now they've deferred, they've gone into so much debt there are likely going to be cuts coming, but for the first time in a long time i think people are hopeful about detroit's turn around. >> david, are you hopeful? >> i am hopeful that a mass movement of angry retirees city workers who have already taken 10% to 20% today cuts and other residents of the city will fight back and make the banks pay. these are criminal enterprises, and their debts should not--there would be plenty of money for everybody if the criminal banks don't take their cuts first. they're listed

brazil -- brasilia is a planned city in the 1960's. it was a city of the 20th century. as designed to be used by car. it is a very beautiful city with a lot of space, with a lot of beautiful buildings. a lot of architectures and urban designers from the world over go to study brasilia. it is a really beautiful place. i think i should included in the place you should visit. but a lot of people think it is not people friendly, not a people friendly city. it is not so easyk around, not so easy to use the city. i think taiwan is a 21st-century city. i could compare it to new york. a city made to be used by foot. it is incredible. i like it very much. i use it almost every day, my bicycle. this is one of the main differences. another difference is, brazil is a very open space. brasilia was put in the middle. not exactly in the middle, but in the middle of high land in brazil, with a lot of open space. that is a good thing. we say that the sky is the brazilian see. in the middle of brazil, you do not have the sea. but in taiwan, you also have the mountains. very beautiful. ver

and although it's been successfully implemented in other cities, it will be one of the first such installations office building. >> here is a city agency that treats wastewater, but they send no wastewater to the treatment facility. that says a lot. >> it's got a 12 gallon per day occupancy using 5,000 gallons per day with a building officing 1,000 people. that turns out to save over 2.7 million gallons a year. >> the public utilities commission runs water, power and sewer services for san francisco. we can't afford to be out of business after an earthquake. so, we're thinking about building a building. that building is going to hold our operations center and our emergency operations center for things like earth quack. that building had to be immediately occupiable. great. but we can do better than that. so, this new technology that we ended up using was a concrete building that straps basically, that goes through the interior of the building and allow the building to turn or twist as part of an earthquake as it corrects itself. >> in the course for the puc building, we've actually incorporated

this is what innovation does in the city. it gets everybody to actually work at even higher levels in government in a public-private partnership with companies like google and all the rest of the wonderful members of sf city to do what we can do and to do more than we think we can. in order to bring benefits, bring equity, bridge not only the digital divide, but perhaps bring the whole innovative spirit to every community in san francisco. this is what i think this wi-fi effort of our 31 parks is saying. and the nice thing about it is that when you study what we're going to do here and accomplish with the 31 parks, and that we along with our technology partners, our communications partners, our department leaders, new ones as well as old ones, are saying this is just the beginning. this is literally the beginning of a continued effort to innovate, innovate, and innovate. and i like what mark said. not only are there no strings attached. really the benefits are targeted at our residents and our visitors, but that the only thing w

represents the best of the cities it isn't the rough and tunnel city that i've had experience in but it had the special sense of freedom and compassion and quality and quality and all those things are happening with a banner year of getting rid of proposition 8 and celebrating life (clapping) where we're a pretty special place. it's even more special to create new jobs for people. we've never forgotten where we've came from the city of st. francis has never gotten and that's distinguished us. project hope has been about our expression now conditionally 50 times. our compassion and our opportunity for everyone who lives and works here to demonstrate that compassion. to each other. to that make this city a safer city and a more successful city but for the city for the 1 hundred percent. i want to a thank las vegas e devon and the whole staff for being here and the public health department. i want to thank our sf thank you and today sports 6 hundred members of our technology companies that point to experience not only the use of technology but also express their compassion for the city