we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in sa

but it was jerry garcia who said that you don't want to be the best of the best you want to be the only one that does what you do. >> i think of that quote in the context of today. this is unique in every capacity. [ applause ] this is special in every way. and you heat our heart out and it does not exist anywhere else not only in this state or in the state or the rest of the world. mr. mayor, congratulations, mr. president, the city attorney, and members of the board. and treasurer, others, this is a glorious and gracious day and it is a day, frankly that i was not necessarily looking forward to be candid to you when this started. because i grew up in the marina district and i remember falling into the old lagoon there thinking that i would drawn only to find out that it was one inch deep. loving my days at the palace. no one gave me the memo. this is what happens when you are the ex-memo, i came down on a sunday and you guys were closed. and i had a crying kid in the back devastated she could not come back to the exporatorium. she had been waiting for this day, unfortunately she is in

just pounded cyrix late jerry garcia's make a rush i'm like you know just as you know what i don't said that every detail of travel is about two hundred sixty it's an hour and the odds are that behind the wheel is thirty one year old broken for the top of the overall standings by two points of the five races of the ten race series and he let me feel firsthand what it's like to drift. as i was pushed back in my seat with smoke inside and outside the car watching the crowd. watching me totally thrilled all here to be at the city race is a great opportunity to you know promote our serious to promote the race and to. feel how the people are patient about model sport in russia i didn't expect it like this to be honest and yeah it's a great you know opportunity to be with the race guy in the in the center of moscow i'm expecting a lot of people coming to race and hopefully i get to be the first g.m. we know in russia this year would be great great also the most because it's a very swiss formula one driver vitaly petrov who took over from schumacher behind the wheel of his mercedes russia's fi

cale wrote "after midnight," a classic recorded by eric clapton and jerry garcia and also wrote "calle the breeze," a huge hit for lynyrd skynyrd. cale suffered a heart attack last night and died at scripps hospital in la jolla, he was 74- year-old. >>> afriends of a north bay woman are holding a benefit to help with her medical expenses. she is currently in a wheelchair and friend hope to raise her enough money to pie a wheelchair to raise her 11-year- old sound. it will be held at the petaluma fairgrounds and it features a fund for michelle setup at red rood credit union. >>> this is say rare illness, but when it comes to batten disease is there hope. ktvu photojournalist eric hintergardt. >> reporter: running across the united states to raise awareness for batten disease >> it's just me, i am going solo, 3100 miles tote from half moon bay to boston, massachusetts. batten disease is a very rare neverological squeeze that strikes infants and children. the symptoms are blindness, seizures, and over time they slowly degenerate to being bedridden and in a vegetative state. currently the

. >> the grateful dead performed their last concert with jerry garcia at soldier field in chicago.e 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 airline 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? >> hollywood nights on this tuesday morning. i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. thank you so much for joining us. it is half past the top of the hour. we are going to start with your 5@5:30. we are hearing from the three victims held captive in that house right there the cleveland house of horrors. while you were sleeping the women posted a brand new video on youtube offering thanks for the love and support they have received. >> i want everyone to know how happy i am to be back with my family and friends. >> i would say thank you for the support. >> i may h

and a month later, founder jerry garcia died of a heart attack.ock group had a cult following of fans known as dead heads. survivors reignited and performed under the name the dead. and 2005 a group performed >>> 25 minutes past 8:00. sharon has traffic after marty's first warning weather. >> first warning doppler radar, the shower activity is -- as you take a look there it's falling out of the mountains and fall apart. this will be a day like yesterday. a little bit of everything. hot and humid is the constant. with a high of 90. here is sharon gibala. >> good morning. the big issue on 895 southbound traffic is being held at the tunnel because of an accident there. we will keep you up to date on that. meantime, you are looking at another accident 97 northbound. that is at benfield. watch for an accident at harford at 695. south macon at mcdonald and speeds on the beltway in the 30s. there is 895. traffic is stopped because of the tunnel accident. we will keep you up to date. in the meantime, 95 southbound is the best bet. there is the west side o

and a month later, founder jerry garcia died of a heart attack.up had a cult following of fans known as dead heads. survivors reignited and performed under the name the dead. >>> this is a kpix 5 news morning update. >> good morning, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. 8:25 your time. time for news headlines on this tuesday morning. ntsb south korean investigators start interviewing the pilots whose plane crashed on saturday. they want to know why the plane was going 40 miles an hour slower than it should have been by the time the crew thrust up. the tail clipped a sea wall short of the run way. >>> family members of the two teenage girls from china who died are here in the bay area. they stayed in a hotel. they were shuttled there. the families directly from the tarmac to the hotel early this morning. and some of the first responders have been talking publically about how they got the passengers off that plane. san francisco firefighters said yesterday, they had to go up the emergency chutes. once inside they put out the flames while freeing a number

let's start with ice cream icon ben and jerrys, they sent the most popular flavor cherry garcia.s? here's one for you. there you go. that's not cherry garcia. >> so cherry garcia is interesting, it has that vanilla background, but it also has a bing cherry and kind of dark fudgy chips in it, which are really nice. it goes well against the vanilla background. they're a deep flavor. try a little bit -- >> i've never heard someone describe ice cream with such seriousness. i somehow didn't get -- this is not mine. anyway. so what else do we have here? >> we also have peach, right? homer's ice cream peach. does everyone have a peach? >> we do. >> how do you transition from a chock lot to peach. normally i would go with the fruits before the cherry. i think any kind of tasting, whether it's cheese or wine or chocolates or ice cream, start with the lighter thing first, then you kind of go into the heavier and deeper and more bitter flavors. >> there a right way to taste it? >> roll it around in your mouth. >> let it melt on your tongue. >> is there a sitting involved like wine? >> no. >