thank you chief joanne haynes-white. we're going to take a second i need my two people just honoring the unsong heros as the chief said working everyday to keep us safe the fire department they extinguished the mission bay fire (calling names) holly and others from engine company b representing all their colleagues (clapping) as you've heard many other city agencies respond as with most responses it begins with a call to 9-1-1 a dispatch called for the units on march 11 and the dispatches play a huge role they're the lifeline for the responder we have safe dispatch responders (calling names) thank you very much for the work you do (clapping) access to high pressure water systems is also critical that's the public utilities commission p they were the gatekeepers that day thank you (calling names.) (clapping.) we talked about no loss of life there was no loss of pet lives thank you animal control. today, we s have officer and the other law enforcement official. thank you very much. of course, coping our residents safe is w

and at this time, i want to invite chief joanne white up to the podium to provide feedback on the report from the san francisco fire department. thank you good morning, chair breed, and supervisors tang chiu, san francisco fire department, and first of all supervisor breed we would like to acknowledge you for your advocacy on shining a light on some of the challenges that we have in the san francisco fire department. much appreciated. and i know that you have some particular insights having served on our fire commission for a few years before you became supervisor. and so we appreciate your work and again your advocacy, and we also appreciate the work of the budget analyst, who after doing their audit on staffing, and recruitment, in august, took a closer look at our ems staffing and if i could make the quick comments to what you just commented on supervisor breed, both the mission of our san francisco fire department is a duel mission and its fire-based ems which is you see in many urban departments across the country, i can assure you as the chief. both the mission for ems and fire is

supervisors you'll find women in the highest levels of local government and fire cheer chief joanne haynes-white our health director and port director and other and our naivety department head appointed last week debbie so many more critical leaders in position that direct policy and function for our city. i'm proud to have as my council nancy pelosi and dianne feinstein and congresswoman spear joins us in making sure we're strong and we have a strong fight for our san franciscans and here in san francisco and washington, d.c. so joining with others congress members honda and hoffman and spear and nancy pelosi we're going to move forward and advance workers rights and equality for all of us in san francisco and across the country i know there's a lot of work ahead i remain committed for all residents i commend you and people in the audience and those i've just met even those years i was just happy to see roses come and join us thank you for coming here today congratulations (clapping) >> good morning and thank you four attending this important forum i'm emmy i'm the region representative for the

supervisor jane kim and sxhaifd and maria kaplan from the transbay transit center and chief joanne haynes-white and director ram and cindy one way or another san francisco planning commission president and tom o'connor from the fire department labor union and todd and a joint bay bay and fred character from an orientation and parker harris the co-founder and george is companies chief operating officer thank you all of you know that salesforce tower was founded here in san francisco 15 years ago. and from the very beginning salesforce tower pass froirtd growing and hiring here in san francisco that's why i'm so excited to unveil the new immaterial edition that's salesforce tower a tower to be built outside this window which will fundamentally transform the skyline of san francisco that's at the ironic building it will dramatically increase the size of our w0i8d canvas here in san francisco we'll be occupying half of the secret in the tower. in addition the location obviously couldn't be more beneficial for the saits on fremont street and our new building at the 350 admission. it will be the hear

cove ton (clapping) and michael hard man (clapping) we have fire chief of department chief joanne haynes-white (clapping) deputy chief of operations mark gonzales (clapping) deputy chief of administration raymond guzman (clapping) we have assistant deputy chief of support services ken lombardy i didn't (clapping) assistant deputy chief fire marshall. mrs. wong kwlp. we have assistant deputy chief of the airport division dale incarnates (clapping) we have the president of the chief bipartisan chief and dr. yeah. of the medical (clapping) did i forget anyone there we also have in the audience the president of the local union 798 jim o'connor (clapping) pr we also have numerous board members in the audience (clapping) to my right we have our training staff captain mickey my lieutenant bob. (clapping.) lieutenant justin brown (clapping) lieutenant john cob by a (clapping) lieutenant norm cob by a (clapping) ernest ca rely (clapping) arnold cho. jason drapery (clapping) james costa mesaer (clapping) julie anyhow (clapping) george sxhith and tyson yee who's not here today (clapping) under ems staff

george and our excessively enclosing our fire chief chief joanne haynes-white and countless others that are standing behind me barbara garcia and other colleagues that have provide shelters for the homeless. people from our labor and business organizations from across town this is a piece of legislation that should unite us i look forward to it moving forward i want to introduce one the laura's supporters our great mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee >> (clapping) >> thank you supervisor farrell and thank you for your leadership on this as well. you, you know, san francisco is is a very came pact city. we spent $2.7 billion a year a great bulk here in the general hospital and the public health department aid thanks to the classification of our fire and scheef and district attorney we pick up a lot of people own the streets and we know when the environment they go back perhaps a day of respite and they're back. while we, provide pride in moving some 18 thousand homeless people into shelters we see on the streets we have to do more and this is exactly the issue that supervisor farrell is

importantly you're joining the world-class fire department and thank you for the opportunity chief joanne haynes-white the conspiracy that worked with you and all the staff we've had the privilege of working certainly my 3 years as anywhere 80 mayor to be at the 3 sites usually i'm there with the mop up crew but watching the details of how fires are fought and the energy teams are saving lives. i know i join with supervisor wiener and the entire board of supervisors all of our lefkd officials to say thank you to the san francisco fire department for being a great, great partner in the city and helping all our residents know and feel comfortable that they're in the greatest city in the world congratulations to the fire department (clapping) to this class i'm particularly brought out ways i looked over some of the resumes you came in with you got interesting variety of backgrounds some of you were mortgage brokers people who were former police officers and rec and park gardener and someone who sunshine had energy braukdz or kraftsz we're going to need all that skill because in addition to our firefighte

is connected to a dozen of these feels and now there is a way to plunge and on monday joe and white -- joanne hayes pleaded to restore the unit. >>> and a law is operated by familiar ford and it started -- stamford on sand hill road in menlo park. it is one of several operated by the department of energy and the world and interstate 2 #0. >>> a small fire in antioch. that fire was reported shortly before 10:00 near willow road. this is a photo taken by a ktvu viewer. we were want that time dupe to other -- due to other problems. >>> he was attempting a maneuver in which he would cut a ribbon. he was flying upside down 20 feet off the ground when the plane hit the runway slid and burst into flames. extensive burns killed him and however it took first responders first response to reach and she will be signing new copies of her book. last night she appeared to talk about her book. it couldn't call cool an event and she said it is the hardest choice she what the who and it is all so personal since i was to be sure that it is truly pro foundly what i want to do >> this morning, hillary rodham clin

chief joanne hayes-white says she agreed with ntsb recommendations.partment has already beefed up training for firefighters and commanders. >> i think again it added some closure for all of us, uhm, that particular piece. and we look at always improving. >> the chief says she has also improved communications as the ntsb recommended in the report. >>> a bizarre scene plays itself out on national television after two weeks of frantic concerns over his missing son, a detroit father confronted with some startling news. >> we are getting reports that your son has been found alive in your basement. >> what? >> charlie bothuell tells nancy grace he has no idea how his 12- year-old son could have been inside his home. he says the police and fbi searched repeatedly but vetters are skeptical. they say the -- investigators are skeptical. they say the boy was behind a barricade he couldn't have created himself. >> there's no way he could have made this area of concealment. >> it would be hard for me to sit here and tell you that someone didn't know that charlie w

joanne i learned so much about carp. in a way it is at a point that a they are imperialists. shouldn't they be called american carp? whitecan carp. but they are representing a geographical location and not an attitude or personality trait. however i don't like offending people so i think really to avoid anything the name should be danger. right? danger. everyone is happy and they are aware of what the fish does. >> here comes danger and everybody runs. nobody gets offended. andy, did i talk to you about this yet? >> no, you did not. would you describe this issue as problematic? >> of course i would. first of all, invasive carp is no better and makes the fish look bad. it is only invasive because it was brought here against its will 30 years ago. it didn't ask to be brought here and now they are doing the best they can. they should be called we were minding our own business and some dude took us from asia carp. or who are the dumb ass who brought them from asia carp? they brought them and now they are eating all of the fish. it is not their fault. if you can't call them asian seen though they are called that then being fr

supervisors you'll find women in the highest levels of local government and fire cheer chief joanne haynes-white our health director and port director and other and our naivety department head appointed last week debbie so many more critical leaders in position that direct policy and function for our city. i'm

. >> reporter: monday fire chief joanne hayes white pleaded with the supervisors to restore fund to go city's arson unit. in 2009 they shed more than half the unit going from 11 if full-time investigators to four. in this latest rash of fires no one was hurt, but the damage is in the tens of thousands of dollars. of course, we will stay in contact with police throughout the morning and let you know if they release the name of the suspect. we are live in san francisco. i am tara moriarty, >>> good morning. we do have more live pictures from this big crash in walnut creek where you can see that a truck came through the center divider, ended up on the other side of the freeway. all of the 680 southbound lanes are blocked at north main and traffic is being taken off the freeway. you can see that there is dirt and also diesel spill on the right. you see news chopper 2 showing the backup. it is a solid line of traffic beginning somewhere in concord and heading all the way down to walnut creek. but moving at maybe two or three miles an hour. not suggesting that you even attempt to take this.