a reporter gets wind of this when truman, you know, arrives at his destination in jefferson city. and they ask him if it's true. he said, yeah, of course it's true, but remember, i was a farmer before i was president. >> see. >> so down to earth. >> i think we have a question. >> yeah, trying to tie into your comments, and i appreciate that gerald r. ford story. one of the things we did a year ago was to come up with the idea to take president ford's story of standing up for diversity in his senior year at university of michigan, where his traveling roommate, because of the color of his skin, couldn't play on that football team. now, an historical group had kind of put this our pbs thing together and students would fall asleep and there have been some stabs at it. and we said, let's turn it into a play. let's turn it into a 40-minute play. well, half my board is ready to lyn lynch me, and what am i doing with that, but we did 10 productions of the play. we have a waiting list of schools that want us to go in and do this play. but it's a 40-minute play talking about president ford

a reporter gets wind of this when truman arrives at his destination in jefferson city and they asked him if it's true. he said yes of course but you have to remember i ws a farmer before i was president. so down to either. >> so american. >> anyone have a question? >> yes. trying to tie into your comments, mark, and i appreciate telling the gerald ford story. one of the things we did a year ago was to come up with the idea to take president ford's story, standing up for diversity at his senior year at university of michigan where his traveling roommate because of the color of his skoon couldn't play on the football team. historic group put this pbs thing together, and students would fall asleep. and there has some stabs at t we said let's turn it into ha play. let's turn it into a 40-minute play. well, half my board is ready to lynch me. and what am i doing in that. but we did ten productions of the play in february. we have it lined up now. we have waiting lists of schools that want us to go in and do this play, but it's a 40-minute play talking about president ford in a locker room

harry truman kept his promise and he accompanied winston churchill via train from washington to jefferson city, then by motorcade to fulton. there was a lot of poker played on that train, i know for sure. harry truman showed his prowess in that arena. they arrived in westminster college on march 5 to a packed auditorium. on campus, thece gymnasium, 2700 people here to winston churchill and the president of the united states for this address. churchill by this time has decided that his lectured will be entitled "the sinews of peace," even though up to two weeks before, he said i think it's going to be something like "world peace." that's how it's published in the program, but at a final rhetorical moment of inspiration, he changes his title to "sinews of peace." and now as i mentioned, i would like to look at the original document. here it is. his secretary, the presentation copy that she gave to colonel clark, churchill's host in miami beach. we see this is a document that churchill was working on in the embassy in washington the night before they got on the train. as you can see, this is his

to add a nuance to this, saying how brazen it is, i remember when i was in the state house in jefferson city and would see on a bill about pharmacy benefits, somebody would say i'm a pharmacist and going -- i remember like my head exploding thinking, perhaps then you shouldn't speak on this. because it has a financial interest for you and i would go back to the idea that frequently and i think this happens in washington, too, people mistake conflict of interest for expertise and so -- i don't know if that's the case here. bill, i mean, i agree with you, ridiculous that you can have this -- sit on a board and be on the committee. i guarantee you, likely anyway, he had conversations like, well, i know a lot about this because i sit on -- people are like, oh, we should listen to this guy on the board. that's the problem. they can't tell the difference of conflict of interest and expertise. >> absolutely and then this is allowed to go on because the congress, the folks in congress are not necessarily regulated themselves. you know, i would venture to say congressman collins isn't only pen on a p

[applause] kept his y truman promise and he accompanied via train fromll washington to jefferson city, then by motorcade to fulton. played s a lot of poker on that train, i know for sure. prowess man showed his in that arena. they arrived in westminster 5 to a packed h auditorium, the largest space on campus, the the -- for this address. churchill by this time has decided that his lectured will sinews of peace, even though up to two weeks before, he said i think it's going to be something like world peace. that's how it's published in the rogram, but at a final rhetorical moment of inspiration, he changes his title to sinews of peace. and now as i mentioned, i would like to look at the original document. it is. his secretary, the presentation she gave to colonel clark, churchill's host in miami beach. document that a churchill was working on in the embassy in washington the night got on the train. as you can see, this is his presentation format. he loved to read from texts in poetry, one ofe, reasons he is such a great orator. speeches.ing on the this speech is the carbon caller: . ou

to approve the first amendment to lease -- to a lease between bodin properties at 160 jefferson street and the city for two-yea-extension for a tero june 30, 2065. >> all right, same choice, same call. without objection adopted. next item. >> clerk: item 61, a resolution to authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute the fifth amendment to an agreement with urs corporation and to increase the lent of the agreement by up to 13 months through june -- july 10, 2020. to increase the agreement and adjusting the estimated cumulative contract amount for a total not to exceed $30.9 million. >> all right, thank you. same house, same call? without objection this resolution is adopted. next item. >> clerk: to declare the intent of the city to reimburse certain expenditures from the indebtedness and to have related documents to the allocation committee to permit the issuance of mortgage revenue bonds in an amount not to exceed $80 million for 691 china basin street. >> colleagues, same house, same call. without objection. next item. >> clerk: item 63 and 64 are two

approving the first amendment to lease l-13550 between boudin properties, inc, located at 160 jefferson street and the city and county of san francisco, acting by and through the port commission, to provide the two extension options of 10 years each, for an aggregate ter july june 30, 2065. >> supervisor cohen: we have jay edwards from the port that will make a short presentation today and in short this is a lease amendment to give two 10-year lease extension options for the boudin bak bakery which is on jefferson street. and the current lease expires in 2045 and the extension potentially moves the lease date back out to 2065. and are you ready? all right, fantastic. so we'll hear from mr. jay edwards. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. jay edwards issue senior property manager, port of san francisco. i'm here today to give you a brief presentation on the ports findings here for the lease -- for the boudin properties at 160 jefferson street for two 10-year extension options. boudin has been an anchor tenant of the fisherman's wharf community here since 2003 when they built a flagship bakery, cafÉ, re

large raiding parties in virginia and richmond where the capital was located at the time jefferson had to flee the citywith his family. later on, in june of 1781 just a couple of days after his term as governor of british leader arrives in charlottesville hoping to capture the legislature which was meeting there. a party of a score or more british soldiers rode up the hill. jefferson had been alerted by the paul revere jack jewett who was bending his elbow and sell the british soldiers writing by an road like the wind to get there. he alerted the assembly men and then rode up the hill to monticello. so, jefferson barely escaped going down the other side. all three served in the revolution in face danger. but, at the end of the war all three were at loose ends. jefferson had perhaps the toughest governorship of any wartime governor during the revolutionary war. he's faced with difficult decisions with british invasions, he made some mistakes are made some choices that turned out not to be perhaps the best choice. he made enemies and as he left office some old friends like patrick henry who had been a fr

city. >> downtown was transforming. the jefferson degraded as people moved from staying in downtown. and that is likely why it was featured in the film "psycho." >> the shots in the movie make it feel like a cheap fleabag hotel. and people began avoiding the building. >> the beginning of that movie is a terrific snapshot of what downtown phoenix looked like, when there's some buildings under construction. some of the older buildings are right before probably getting torn down. >> and being associated with "psycho" certainly didn't help. >> when rumors get started, it does cause the building or the hotel to decline even faster. you know, now we use yelp. and we see what everybody thinks about the building. back then, it was word of mouth that this really wasn't someplace that you wanted to stay any longer. >> yet somehow, it survived. >> it was a hotel through the '70s. and then it was transformed thtewamplyted. the storefront was modified. >> in 1990, the city purchased the building as an overflow space for its office. and they funct

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city crews suited up to clean up a major homeless encampment downtown. tent, trash and more filled the park along tenth street between jefferson and martin luther king way. it's been an eyesore and they saw at least a dozen rats and the piles of junks. even some of the homeless praiseed the city for the clean up. it's up to the people to keep it up but for the city to come out and do what they did is very nice. maybe the school kids can come out here but they couldn't do it with all of the rats running around here. it's beautiful that they're doing that. >> the city workers let the homeless collect any longings t >> california department of motor vehicles is ex-tending saturday services to offices across the state. 16 dmv offices in california including 12 in the bay area will open on saturday's from 8:00 to 5:00. >> i come at 7:00 but there is people across the building so it was a long line. i've never been here quicker than an hour. i always prepare for that. >> i've been here before like three hours. that's about the longest. >> offices in san francisco, hayward, pleasant on the and santa claire are among those opening on saturday starting this weeke

jefferson street phase two project. they actually wrote the grant that the city was awarded. >> great. great. that's great to hear. >> commissioner gilman? >> hi, troy. i just wanted to thank you so much for this report, and i wanted to say i was really, really pleased to see a strategy to bring north beach past bay. as someone who lives in the district, i know it's hard to get there for the locals. make it more a place of locals where folks in the neighborhood want to go. there's a lot of things absent in the neighborhood, i know you're aware of that from a neighborhood serving perspective. on the tiller street side and just on a more strategy to make it more of a destination for individuals who live there? i really appreciate that, and i also appreciate some of the lighting and landscaping work done. jefferson street has had a marked improvement. so thank you for the support. it was really helpful. >> thank you. >> troy, thank you so much for this report. yes, you do talk fast, and it was a little hard to pick up. >> 70 pages in 27 minutes. >> i do look forward to reading the report, but th

jefferson street phase two. shortly after this report was published in april, the city was awarded a $7 million grant from the state that has now been matched by city departments and -- by the city, sorry, and the city departments are now gearing up for construction that is expected to start in 2019. we also looked at private investments and how that can affect the public realm and the potential for new retail offerings. two of the projects in this slide have actually already come to fruition, beach street property and the hotel zephyr. we had visitors, local groups, stakeholders shared what they most like about the wharf, which includes the waterfront location, its walkability and people watching, the wonderful variety seafoods, restaurant, attractions, particularcally crab and chowder calls. it is a working waterfront with strong ties to the fishing industry.

city crews cleaned up a large homeless encampment. old tins and trash used to fill lafayette square on 10th st. near jefferson street has been an eyesore and a hazard for months. cleanup crews say they saw several rodents in the piles of trash. they also say they allowed the homeless to collect their belongings that they wanted to keep before that park was cleared out. >>> supporters are rallying behind oakland mayor libby shaft was officially running for reelection. mayor shaft and a few of her supporters went to the city clerk's office where the mayor filed her paperwork to run again. mayor shaffe says her priorities continue to be housing dealing with the homeless, and cleaning up city streets. she is due to pay -- face several other candidates including cass brooks. a professional wrestler will be the next mayor of knox county tennessee. republican glenn jacobs beat the opposing democratic nominee into haiti in the heavily republican area. most fans know jacobs by his wrestling name, kane. he's a former heavyweight champion. one of the longest tenured performers in wwe history. he is 51 years old and also

jefferson's memorial there, at the tidal basin. it's not much of a rain chance for today.ev y rain chance today is west of blue ridge, into the shenandoah valley. around the city't need to worry about it. we don'te need min. these are rain surpluses for the year. 30 inches ahead in washington. 30 inches at dullll uesdulles. 76 degrees now in washington, with a lighnd out of the south. that is going to be ahw soterly wind, as this big area of high pressure inches its way closer to the eastern seaboard. it opens up the pump of heat and humidity. be ready for the returnf 90-degree days. we haven't been above 90. hat forecasts a high of 92 degrees today. i mentioned a slight chance for atray shower or thunderstorm. our resolution model has continued. the last two or three hours in a row, this thunderstorm chance is iong and to the west of the blue ridgeto the shenandoah valley. not much of a rain chance around the city. temperature-wise, 76 dowown. 68 in leesburg. 71 in fedarcyksburg. for kids that have the day off, that's the dwindling number of kids that can go to the pool to ay. very htoday. temperatures in the low 90s. a little backyard barbecuing this evening

city after city for 30 miles, flowing into each other out of a continuous line out of san francisco. let's go back to june 1951, to the california highway police station at jeffersonkay, i've got it. redwood 4, redwood 4, an 1179 at bay shore and harvard boulevard. >> an 1179 is the police code for collisions involving fatalities. as accidents piled up, bayshore got a n

city for 30 miles is growing into each other on continuous land. let's go back to june 1951. the california highway police station at jefferson avenue a bay shore highway. >> redwood number four. 11 7090 bay shore highway boulevard. 1179 a bay shore and holiday -- highway boulevard. >> that is the police code for collision involving a fatality. as accidents pileup, they got a new name. blood he bay shore they called it. two lanes for that big rush hour traffic. 50,000 drivers all trying to get out of san francisco at the same time. and after the delay when you get past the area what is a man to do? but open up? make up for lost time. >> 1179 a bay shore and market narrow. >> 1179. somebody's number. some people decided that the police needed to keep a record of that. >> we have been trying to do the job, that the newspaper should be doing. keeping the community alert. we headlined the accident here and we published photographs. take a look at some of these. these were running over a 60 day period. here is an editorial by eleanor cogswell who's been writing them every couple of weeks. read the statistics and shutter. >> father

city of memphis took it down and hid it last december. ehe county commissioner led the drive to remove two statues here: one of jefferson davis, president of confederacy; the other of general nathan bedford forrest, who later became the first leader of the ku klux klan. >> we don't want anyone to try and go destroy the statue. ep reporter: turner took us to the the statues if we promised not to the reveal their hecation. e you make this right here. and we'll have to cut the cameras off. >> reporter: oh. >> we're about to get to it. >> reporter: that close? >> yes, sir. i reporter: president davis here, general forrest, and this has been their home since december. es yes. >> reporter: why all the secrecy? >> you know, you have some people who are very upset. >> i think it's just disgraceful. >> reporter: lee miller is upset. he's the spokesman for the sons of confederate veterans, which has sued to put the statues back up. >> i think it's just a lack of appreciation for american history, and the great history that we have. and everybody's history should be appreciated. >> reporter: since the unrest in charlottesville, 36 cities have removed

communities took the brunt of extreme weather hits and protect the city of new orleans when they take those hits. people in jefferson parish, and others, these are the people who look the eye of the storm in the eye and take the hit. many people have relocated because louisiana is losing land. i am talking to you about sea level rise. coastal erosion and a reality that means millions of people in the next decade will have to move themselves out of south louisiana. what is causing this? there are critics and those who debate. we live in a zone where in some places you cannot say i'm a change. but we know it is real -- climate change. but we know that climate change is real. [applause] oh, fantastic. you know what israel. you are right -- you know it is real. you are right. it is accelerated down here by oil and gas and what we do to the land. we are part of the problem. this coastal erosion and land loss is causing issues across the board. you cannot just think about what happens to a house, you have to think about what happens to the people when they have to move to a new place. what happens when the people you elec

. >> my name is jefferson mccarly, and i'm the general manager of the mission bicycle company. we sell bikes made here for people that ride here. essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. we care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. when people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. it's a pretty fun shopping experience. paragraph. >> for me as a designer, i love the control. i can see what's going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. going through the suing room, i'm looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look? is this what she's expecting, maybe if we've made a customization to a dress, which we can do because we're making everything here locally. over the last few years, we've been more technical. it's a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where thi

city after city for 30 miles, flowing into each other out of a continuous line out of san francisco. let's go back to june 1951, to the california highway police station at jefferson avenue and bayshore highway. >> okay, i've got it. redwood 4, redwood 4, an 1179 at bay shore and harvard boulevard. >> an 1179 is the police code for collisions involving fatalities. as accidents piled up, bayshore got a new name, bloody bayshore, they called it. two lanes for that peak rush hour traffic. 50,000 drivers all trying to get out of san francisco at the same time. and after the nerve-racking delay when you get past the real jams, what's a man to do but open up. make up for lost time, beat the speed limit, just a little. >> palo alto 3, palo alto 3, an 1179 on bayshore and embarcadero. palo alto 3. >> 1179, somebody's number, some people besides the police kept a record of those 1179s, like the managing editor of the palo alto times, gene paulson. >> we've been trying to do the job a newspaper should do to keep the community alert. we've written editorials and headlined the accidents, we've published photographs. here, take a look at some of these. these were run over abou