and now it is my great pleasure to introduce the president of our current commission, jim miller. >> what a great day for the public health of san francisco. first of all, i want to thank dr. hatz for all of his hard work to bring us to this day, and i want to acknowledge the current and former members of the commission who are here today. each of them has worked hard to champion this project. and we have forked together as a health commission to review and support each of the many steps it took to create the state of the art facility for the free list and most honorable of our citizens. i want to recognize those who designed and built and managed this massive project and overcame the many challenges to bring it to completion. and i especially want to honor and think the staff -- honor and thank the staff of our public health department, who work every day to provide care and rehabilitation for these patients. now you, the staff of laguna honda, finally have a facility to match your exceptional devotion to these patients. you have all made san francisco proud. this new hospital embod

jim miller to the san mateo, as you can see traffic is moving well in both directions was down 92 thoselights headed for a new word to foster city and no problems, the sound from the peninsula to the east bay, moving without any problems. one last look golden gate, we have traffic moving well. you drive from novato in san francisco is coming along and just 21 minutes news story, a san his system and it is will transportation agency is unveiling clipper phil gates. embedding games. it is part of some systemwide upgrades said the agency anticipates the changes will make the clipper for more convenient customers are using trans lin kurds can continue to do so on the new system by the interrupter were certain unique customers will need to transition over. also this morning sherm's season has opened of louisiana's of closed scientists will be keeping a close eye on this year's catch they will take fish, shrimp and other touches credit of put your machine will analyze it for any sign of oil. so far the testing has come back negative but still shrimpers have more than the usual worries. prices

palin was tweeting away, saying looking upward, but jim miller just tweeted, what's the hunting like in the beltway? by the way, we won't know yet who won the alaska primary. >>> the effort to legalize gay marriage in this country got a high-profile republican endorseer, isn't that right? >> ted mel man, former chairman of the committee from 2005 to 2007, the man who guided the reelection for president george w. bush, went public and said that he was gay, and part of it is that he is going to become more of a public face, public supporter for the effort, particularly the effort surrounding the groups that are trying to get that proposition 8 out in california overturned which, of course now is a supreme court thing. he is going to headline some fundraisers for that effort in the next few weeks. >> a pretty brave move on his part. chuck todd, thank you so much this morning. >> you got it. >>> let's get some more top stories from natalie mann who is covering the news desk. good morning, natalie. >> good morning. more bad news for pakistan already devastated from the worst flooding in i