i want to first and formost jeff adachi, thank you for the opportunity. patty lee. and sury to all the students. can i see the hands of the high school students? you know what i like about that? mihose means my children. look where you are sitting. in the front. i did a presentation for 2 thousand students and they were 25 hundred chairs. where do you think they sat? it breaks my heart. they sat in the back. i had all the ushers remove the first 5 hundred chairs and we started getting closer. how does it feel to be in the front? if you see yourself at second best, how do you think people are going to treat you? when you sit in the back. who sits with you? your a little brothers, sisters. now growing up in texas. i can't tell you how many times they were making fun of me. i am going to share and comments. thank you for letting me be here. by the way also, my children are here. thank you. actually, they make me feel very nervous. there's a saying in latino culture. foreign language. it means men should be ugly and strong. i am ugly. i can do 50 pull ups. comes from be

city and county has a great san francisco public defender and we want to express our thanks to jeff adachi for his support of ctla over the years and for his gratitude for being here today. thank you for your taxi and have a great conference -- thank you for your attention and have a great conference. [applause] >> i also want to acknowledge the public defender, past-present president of the california lawyers association. thank you for being here. now, we have our 50th anniversary tribute to "to kill a mockingbird." how many of you have read the book? seen the movie? i think everybody has seen it. well, this tribute features not only a great clip from "to kill a mockingbird" but atticus finch himself played by julian lopez-morillas who is one of the finest actors in the bay area. so let's go back to memory lane and enjoy this performance. >> ladies and gentlemen, gregory peck. >> never seems as fresh and wonderful, as good and evil as it does when seen through the eyes of a child. trying to capture that is remarkable and perhaps that is why one look and the last few years has been so warm

. >>> san francisco public defender jeff adachi has rolled out several videos to the embarrassment of san francisco police department in recent months. now another undercover video has surfaced but this time the tables are turned. political reporter mark matthews with the story and the video. >> as a private says he is leading the charge to revamp the pension system. it would cap benefits and raise employee contributions particularly for police and firefighters. to qualify for the november ballot, petition gatherers were hired and in this undercover video shot by a union worker you can hear the pitch. >> better retirement benefits for city workers? >> increasing pension benefits, not reducing them? >> it has to be voted on. >> getting rid of nighttime parking lot meters. >> you don't want night time parking meters. >> and nathan is representing the unions. >> that is not right. you can't say this is about nighttime parking meters when it's really about pensions. >> they say the 72,000 signatures that have been gathered should be thrown out. >> every petition has what is called that is

francisco supervisors amended may lore lee's plan to assure it doesn't share overlapping features with jeff adachy'sn francisco, david stevenson, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> new figures on california's tax revenue points to improvements in the state's economy. the state controller's monthly report says california received $440 million more in tax dollars last month than the governor had anticipated. the report also says corporate and personal income taxes all showed signs of growth. in addition, the state brought in more money than it spent, taking in $95.5 billion and spending $93.8 billion. >>> nearly two dozen san jose firefighters will soon be getting their jobs back thanks to a federal grant. the $15 million safer grant allows the fire department to fill 49 positions that were cut in a controversial brownout plan last august. 22 of the 49 firefighters have accepted their jobs back and are expected to be back on the job next month. >>> sage pants may be high fashion in some circle but in one midwestern town they're now a crime. the collinsville, illinois, city council last night voted to ban saggi

the public defender, jeff adachi turned in more than 70,000 signatures today to qualify his proposal.he mayor has a separate plan that will be considered tomorrow by city supervisors. adachi says that his plan would save the city more money. it takes a bigger bite out of many employees' paychecks. adachi says he is open to a compromise, which he has drawn up. >>> in washington, d.c. another day has passed without any progress toward a deal on our nation's debt. republicans and democrats met again with the president to try to hammer out an agreement. tara merger in reports mr. obama said today there is one thing he will not accept. resolve will. >> reporter: president obama sat down with leaders again on monday trying to make a deal on the deficit. >> and we're going to meet every single day until we get this thing resolved. >> reporter: if the government's debt ceiling isn't raised by august 2nd, america could default on its bills. president obama insists an agreement can be reached before then if republicans are willing to give a little. >> the basic proposition is it's my way or the

the other was written by jeff adachi.sterday, adachi dropped off 700 signatures. >>> let's check in with sal. everybody banking out there this morning, sal. >> i would say most people are, dave. we do have some slow traffic out there. as a matter of fact we have slow traffic -- traffic all over the bare. you will see slowing -- over the bay area. you will see some slowing up here. people ask me, what's that building? they are building a new toll plaza. they are gonna tear the old one down after the new one is built. we're looking at 880 northbound oakland. we have stop-and-go traffic, especially in hayward. but from hayward, union city and fremont, there is a -- there's also a crash on the dumb barton approach. northbound 280 getting into the west valley. very slow. so is 101. the crash is at the bay front expressway. >>> let's go to steve. >>> a pattern that's gone from one extreme to the other, last week it's about hot temperatures. this week it's about cool temperatures. a very cool week shaping up. a lot of local driz