i am a former president of a group, but i am representing the friends of choate -- joe dimaggio u6hj÷layground. we have more than 1000 signatures here, and i will pass it on. in addition, i am bringing more than 100 more the reacquired this weekend. the neighborhood is overwhelmingly in favor of this new project. we do not want it landmarked, and i think you have heard all of the good reasons, so, please, do not live market. -- landmark it. supervisor chiu: next speaker, please. >> we are for the designation of the north beach branch. we recognize that the current library is not serving the needs of the community. however, with environmental review ongoing, we are not convinced this is mutually exclusive. it has been determined and eligible for the national register for historic places by the planning department -- it has been determined a eligible. -- determined eligible. it is important to understand it will not be the building in its current condition. san francisco heritage has proposed a number of alternatives that would meet the needs of the community and work with the future of

. -- the joe dimaggio played ground on which the library is located. that was important that we create a plan that benefits the community by improving both the library and the park. these were the project goals. to this end, the library and recreation and parks department entered into a six-month master planning process that examine a number of locations and configurations with the library and playground. public meetings were held in may, july, and august 9, 2008 and resulted in a recommendation to place a new library on the triangular parcel to accommodate a new 800 -- 8500-square-foot library and to redesign the playground to not only retain all the amenities of the playground but to enhance the layout, improve the top lot and children's playground, and at 12,000 square feet of open space and greenery. to achieve this plan, the existing library would be demolished and removed. master plan recommendations were discussed again in public hearings, and both commissions voted unanimously to support the recommended plan in september 2008. our partner from

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. >> marilyn monroe autographed to hhsband joe dimaggio. >> good day for retired lieutenant bill wheeler. fighter pilot in the second -orld war. destroyed three bombers in europe in 1943. sunday, wweeler took to the skies in the single engine plane just like the one he learned to fly 70 years ago. wheeler is a tough ski gee and battling abroad and racism before, during and after the second world war. good for him. >> great stooy. >> rain and lots of it. >> now, chief meteorologist vytas reid is here with the forecast. >> big changes coming our way in the form of rain showers over the state. right now going to radar, you can see the rab is coming down on the eastern shore. folks out there in talbot and caroline counties getting showers and kent county. arundel county. folks down in annapolis and saverna park getting rainfall. down around dc. bigger picture here. we will continue to see the showers come down through the overnight. and we can expect to see as much as an inch or inch and a quarter across the area. rainfall on the way. how long it will stick around. i will how you that coming

taking marilyn monroe on a date at a local restaurant -- where i can hear about jodie maggio -- joe dimaggiotaking marilyn monroe on a date. >> i am here on behalf of my son. he is 15 months old. my husband and i are raising him in north beach. we love the public library. we do not use our branch. we use the online catalog and pick them up, because there really is no reason for us to stay there. there is no quiet place. there is no quiet, safe place for him to sit with me and read books. there is no place for us to browse and enjoy being together. now, there was a program that brought us to the library every week. probably about 100 kids, nannies, moms. they would gather every thursday, we stories, plays the guitar in instruments until last december -- read stories, play the guitar and instruments until last december, but baby rhyme time ended. when they have to abandon the library and go down the street, your library is not serving the community. we really need to have a community library that is going to serve my kids and all of the other kids and families that you see from north beach. hi

the san francisco parts trust is the fiscal sponsor for the friends of joe dimaggio playground, and we have been working for the past five years on various improvement projects -- the san francisco parks trust. we are opposing historic landmarking, and we feel confident all the various options have been well explored within the community, and the park and community would be best served by renovating and creating a new library. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm a proud supporter of our renovated library as well as a renovated library for the whole san francisco's system. i'm asking you please not to recommend landmark status for the north beach branch. new or renovated functional libraries have been popping up all over san francisco. north beach library is not functional. cannot be made ada-compliant. the existing building is on park property. any expansion would mean property currently used as a place base would be reduced. demolition of the old building and construction of a new one on the trying to would give north beach residents increase contiguous park space and a larger, function

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is selling for $138,000 an an autographed photo of mayor minute monroe signed to former husband joe dimaggio going for $63,000. >>> the caps against the thrashers. ovechkin leading the back. caps led 3-1. they go to win this one 6-4. >>> to basketball now and the maryland terps facing the maine black bears. howard hit the game winner against charleston on wednesday and he nails the three here to put the terps up 10. tucker with 16 points in this game. maryland pounds maine 89-59. >>> to football now. the redskins play tonight against the eagles. two of the division rivals were at it yesterday. the dallas cowboys and the new york giants and that game left people in the dark, literally. >> and now the lights go out. the lights just went out here at new meadowlands stadium. >> reporter: there were two power outages in the third quarter lasting 11 minutes. the cowboys had plenty of offensive power though. interim head coach jason garrett won in his coaching debut. the cowboys beat the joints 33- 20 for just their second win of of the season. >>> tonight, the redskins take on philadelphia on nati

a personal picture given by a particular blond bombshell to joe dimaggio.et's just do a quick reveal. here's the picture. marilyn monroe, norma jean, joe dimaggio, of course, was wonderful maryland's former husband, and you can see her autograph right there on her upper chest. can you make that out? it says "i love you, joe." if it's happening in hollywood you will see it in our showbiz update. kelly carter, good to see you. >> good to see you too, tony. thanks for having me again. >> it's my pleasure. are you one of those highfalutin correspondents that gets advanced copies of like sarah palin's new show this weekend? >> i'll take the highfalutin label certainly. i do get a sneak preview of things like reality shows with ex-politicians. >> did you get a chance to look at it? what did you think? >> i haven't seen it in its entirety, but for sarah palin, this is her revention on what she considered to be a pretty brutal media. this is her controlling sarah palin, controlling her image as you will see it. she gets to show us a different side of herself. she's

marilyn monroe married joe dimaggio. how about this? half gallon of milk cost you a mesley 45 cents. for the giants it's all about youth. we're fatalking about a pair of rookies that look like experienced veterans. with madison bum gartner and buster posey on board, the giants should get used to playing in october. the 21-year-old lefty stunned the rangers in the game four win. posy hit his first home run of the postseason giving san francisco a little insurance. this is impressive stuff for any player on this stage, but especially for a pair of guys not with the team back in may. >> i think it's probably a little bit hard for some people to believe. i think we both have confidence in what we're doing. if you don't, i don't think you're going to be successful. so for you, yeah, you got to expect you're going to do it. >> i mean, we didn't expect this in my wildest dreams, but i'm definitely to be here and blessed to have have opportunity. >>> the long, strange saga that's the life of randy moss took another bizarre twist today. just one

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