abc 7 news has learned that longtime san francisco fire chief joanne hayes white is being courted to apply for the london fire department chief's position. only a few people knew about this, but now she's ready to make it public. the question is will she take the job if it's offered to her? >> when i got the phone call i was a bit surprised and very intrigued. >> the call to fire chief joanne hayes white came from london. you heard right. london england. would the chief consider apply a soon to be vacant position chief of the fire london department or commissioner of the fire london brigade. hayes-white would go from a department with 1500 firefighters to one with 6,000 firefighter. she'd move from a city of 800,000 residents to a metropolis of 8 million people and a budget more than twice the $250 million she administers as chief here. it's a tough choice for the longest-serving fire chief in the country and the only female chief of an urban fire department. she's been at the helm 11 years and implemented many reforms. >> and then of course i have my most important role is being a m

another great san franciscan a native i like to see her more our deriving the 40ush8 chief joanne hayes-white everybody (clapping.) good morning, everyone welcome to the lots fountains we celebrate one hundred and 9 years this is the celebration of 1906 san francisco earthquake i'm proud to be the chief of the fire department and deleted to see you particularly those who have the children to carry on the tradition of our city is and the resilience of our city we love to opportunity of to commiserate our history and our guardians of the city i want to particularly acknowledge for preserving the history (clapping) we take the time to encourage you but to spread the message of preparedness the more we spread that the quicker we're respond we want to spread that message at 9:00 a.m. going come to the middle school we'll have a drill for those who time to check that auto you see the yellow and now green have a wonderful day celebrating our wonderful city thank you (clapping.) >> he rolled out of bed it's the law of the land he's been up all night protecting us, please welcome our please chef chief

joanne hayes white and assisted by mark corso. you will have the presentation provided to you in hard copy and then we're going to set up it but i would like to get started first of all by thanking for the opportunity recognizing our analyst from the mayor's office of budget and kate howard. we're working closely with the mayor's budget office on this year's budget and have an opportunity to restore and rebuild some of the department that we had to reduce in sort of the lean economic years. we will go ahead and get started. today i wanted to talk about -- i have 14 slides for you. what i am going to talk about the overall operational trends and you can see on the slide that is before you. those are some of the areas we will highlight and i am happy to answer questions at the conclusion or during the presentation. so starting off with the operational trends as you know san francisco is in a growth period and we're currently at our highest day time work force population and night time resident population in the city's history which

coming up new at 6:00, the surprising job inquiry for joanne hayes-white.t's coming from overseas. tonight on abc 7 news and her reaction and the reason why she's been approached. plus -- >> i was pretty flabbergasted. >> a south bay couple finally finds an $11,000 check missing for 13 years. getting it cashed was a whole other problem. 7 on your side has the story on abc 7 news at 6:00. >> don't want to miss that one. thank you. >> the bay area will play host to america's biggest soccer, vent of the summer. >> european powerhouses, manchester united and barcelona will square off july 25th at the stadium. >> this will be the first time manchester united has played in the bay area in 35 combleers. tickets go on sale may 4th and it is part of the tournament across the country. >> steph curry was at practice after taking a personal day yesterday. what? the team is trying to stay sharp as the players wait for their next opponent. >> curry is eager to hear the roar of the home crowd once again. >> it gets loud five minutes before the game as it is in the fourth

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report san francisco district attorney urging fire chief joanne hayes white to toughen alcohol testingetter came after a firefighter was accused of driving a fire truck while drunk. and hitting a motorcyclist back in 2013. a judge dismissed dui charges last week partly blaming the fire department for not maintaining equipment that measures blood alcohol content. the fire department tells the chronical the fire chief resisted tougher rules bus that requires negotiations with the union. >>> new words to the state's recently enacted religious freedom law, earlier this week mike pence asked legislators to rewrite the law. that was after a huge backlash by companies and organizations across the country. arkansas governor hutchison was set to sign the bill until he was encouraged to veto it by arkansas based wal-mart and even his own family. >> there is clearly a generational gap on this issue. my son seth signed the petition asking me, dad, the governor, to veto this bill. >> bay area companies including apple sales force, twitter and yelp came out against the freedom religious bill. >> a p

. >>> the city of london is looking to recruit san francisco fire chief joanne hayes white. was contacted recently by a search firm on behalf of the london fire brigade encouraging her to submit an application to become the new commissioner there. right now, she is focused on the business of leading the san francisco fire department. >>> the golden state warriors plan for a new arena in san francisco is running into some opposition. a group from ucsf is mounting an organized effort to fight the plan. they say it could block the hospital in mission bay, and special people headed to the emergency room. they're especially concerned about parking. it only includes a couple hundred parking spots for the 18,000 seat stadium. >>> today, the santa cruz warriors celebrated their first title in the nba's d league. the team showed off the championship trophy, as they were honored with a parade in santa cruz. they defeated fort wayne in the finals. after the game, the team president said champions is much more pleasant that saying runner-up. they've been playing in santa cruz for the pa

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