no greater counsel than the current attorney general, kamala harris, herself. i've known her well before both of us were not elected office. we have had a unique relationship where we are quite honest with one another, perhaps above and beyond the normal course of what one would call protocol. we had a good back and forth over the last few months about the bush a thought would be outstanding and what kind of qualities she was looking for -- about what she thought would be outstanding. i had the privilege of including many of you, including many of the people better up here today to counsel me on this process as well. yesterday, the entire day was spent going through the finer points and asking questions back-and-forth of some of the candidates. there are probably six or seven people that we gave a very serious consideration to. the point i'm making is that there are a lot of good people out there. they have a lot to add. each one made a compelling case. every time i got off the phone, i said, that's the right person. i got on the phone with a new person and i s

the process for the new replacement of kamala harris has been predetermine the by the election, by no means did we have a predetermined choice. that process began after the final numbers came in for attorney general harris and it was determined that she would be taking the oath of office as the next attorney general. of course, we had other business to attend to at city hall. notably, who would replace me as the interim mayor. a lot of work finalizing the america's cup, the asian art museum, and one more surprise we will leave you with tomorrow. as you know, tomorrow, i will be taking over as our next lieutenant governor. we have at least one of you here. thank you. [applause] only willie brown could say it best. he said, "of course i want to be at your funeral tomorrow." i have taken this decision very seriously and very personally. unlike other decisions that would require concurrence and require a collaborative effort in terms of the ultimate determination, this was a different type of collaborative effort. the decision was ultimately mind. i have spent a great deal of time intervi

now you get to jump ahead of your former boss, gavin newsom and kamala harris. >> right.iends and we had a lot of time to chat before the president came down and they are all giving me fantastic advice and i think the president immediately saw that we're all good friends. we were talk and joking while he was coming down the stairs. and gavin has been very, very good advice to me and he is going to be helping on redevelopment -- >> what's it like to have the president call you by your first name? >> it's wonderful. i have asked my staff to give me a video of it because it's happening so fast, i can't even recall what happened. >> okay. meanwhile, now tomorrow night, or is it -- it's tomorrow night, right, the big chinese new year parade. for 15 years you have been working that parade. you have been helping organize that parade and tomorrow night you're the grand marshal. >> it's a wonderful honor. we have over 5,000 participants in the parade, 1500 of which are kids. got 130 units and it's going to be a marvelous weather. are you sure? >> absolutely. >> of course. >> lawre

he was greeted by mayor ed lee, lieutenant governor newsom and kamala harris. the president again spent the night at the milbray weston. air force one is expected to leave sfo by 8:30 this morning. from there it is off to oregon where he'll pay a visit to chip maker intel and its ceo. he may have a little bit tougher audience there than here in the bay area. that ceo is quoted as saying that obama had a tough time creating jobs, so it should be interesting to see how that goes. he is expected to leave sfo about 8:30 this morning. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, "today in the bay." >>> thank you. meantime, pg&e is raising the cost of dealing with the san bruno explosion. and you can end up paying the bill. it says that it is likely going to spend between $200 and $300 million this year on investigations linked to the deadly blast. the company is also setting aside hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with lawsuits from last victims. pg&e says most of the money is spent on lawsuits and should be covered by insurance. however, utility's cfo hin

around, and now our attorney general to get into be able to take the work that attorney general kamala harris did, and then bringing together my experience and the men and women of the san francisco district attorney's office, and others, and began to deliver a different kind of public safety. a different kind of criminal justice delivering. i'm also looking forward to working with jeff. i believe the role of public defender is a very important role. i'm understand that in our system of justice, we are often called to be in this role. i believe this is the best system there is. i think there's also a lot of things we can do together. at the end of the day, we want to make sure that our community is safe. we want to make sure that even criminal defenders, not only are they given due process in court, but more importantly, they are given due process in life. that they're given the opportunity to get out of the life of crime and to be able to become conservativecontributorsr community. the reality is that the majority of the people, given the opportunity, would surprise you sometimes. i'm realis

state attorney general kamala harris and san francisco mayor ed lee greeted air force one at the airport. the president is spending the night tonight here in millbrae and then he's flying off to oregon, where he'll be meeting with executives from intel. reporting live in millbrae jean elle nbc bay area news. >> thank you, jean. the white house kept the guest list a secret until today. it was a who's who of the silicon valley titans of the new economy. among the dozen vips, carol bartz the ceo of yahoo!, twitter's ceo dick costello, netflix founder hasteis. genentech's arthur levinson and the heads of other goliath like cisco and intel and google. >>> while the bay area remains on storm watch tonight the heavy rain that crossed the south bay caused the guadalupe river to rise. but it's not just rain. tonight the big chill is moving in. in fact, tomorrow's highs will be new lows for us. chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is tracking the cold but we begin in the east bay with nbc bay area cheryl hurd and the problems caused by all of our recent rain. cheryl. >> reporter: jess, right now the g

he was greeted by mayor ed lee, gavin newsom and attorney general, kamala harris, would was quite goodh thed from and greeted warmly. she was one of his earlier supporters. then he went on to a rather exclusive dinner at venture capitalist john doerrs' house. >> can you imagine being at that dinner. >> yes. >> and moving on with all of the titans of silicon valley. steve jobs was there and mark zuckerberg from facebook. >>> we will also be watching as we watch air force one taxi here, very closely what happens up in oregon, where the president is headed now. and what may develop out of those meetings up there that he will be taking part of. >> what's interesting, i heard san jose mayor chuck reed say it's not a good thing for calf -- intel is building -- is building a plant in oregon and it shows how california needs to build up business tack take -- business tactics. >> we're looking at all of the different vantage points. everyone getting as close as they possibly can to take a picture. get a quick peek at air force one as it is about to take off from the bay area. these folks have g