leland yee is first on the order of business.been supportive of the library, not only in sacramento, but at this time in the city. [applause] >> i went over to mark lino to congratulate him. maybe he can make that announcement. mark lino and i really have a passion for libraries. libraries, for us, is, in fact, a community center. it used to be that you could go read a book, read a newspaper, but i know libraries are a key element to any community. to some extent, it is a place where our children get to do their homework. they come and sit in that room, and do their homework, and in the course of doing their homework, they will browse around, and then they will start reading, and then they will start dreaming, and then they will start plotting against us parents. [laughter] but they will really do wonders for us as a community when they start dreaming and planning. also, the library is a place where different individuals, that may have different attitudes and ideas, different points of view, find themselves in one room, and all t

president olague: if anyone is here for the 199 leland avenue item, we're moving back to october 6. if you could translate, that would be great. >> [inaudible] president olague: you can come to the microphone if you like, that with your voice lakari. -- your voice will carry. >> ok. [speaking foreign language] thank you. president olague culbe: it agai, if you're here for the leland avenue item, that is being continued to october 6. commissioner antonini: i move to continue items one, two, three, four to the date specified. additionally, continue item 11 to august 11. item 13 to october 27. and item 16 to october 6. item 18 to october 6. >> second. >> on that motion to continue as proposed. commissioner antonini. commissioner moore. commissioner miguel. and president olague. some moved to that motion passes unanimously. and that will place us under your consent calendar. all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar are considered to be written by the planning commission and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. the ordinance of the discussion

leland yee authored the bill. east bay state senator lonnie hancock abruptly removed a bill. an assembly was scheduled to vote on it. hancock says while repealing the death penalty would save the state hundreds of millions of the dollars the bill didn't have enough support to pass. >>> a bay area landmark is getting a new coat of paint. crews are giving the main suspension cables of the golden gate bridge a complete make over for the first time in almost 75 years. there were no paint crews out today because of the foggy weather but when that fog lifts there'll be putting down two coats of international orange paint on the span. the project is expected to take four years to complete. >>> a new political strategy is on the table tonight. the strange fellows you could soon see on the campaign trail. >>> caltrans is kicking out these skateboarders everyone though the park was built for them. the change they said makes skateboarders skateboarders trespassers. >>> and we're going to be looking at the latest weather and the heat. >>> thousands of people in the sacramento suburb of l

if anyone is there for the petco or the leland avenue item, both were continued. just wanted to let you know. gus hernandez followed by douglas fong. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i just wanted to talk about the formula retail report. the report states that there uses that are not included, but i believe that they are. this is a sample zoning control table near the corridor where i live. as you can see, retail sales in the services actually included in a formula retail as a category. that is a catch-all category. it includes other retail services, financial services, and more. it is already in the law. there's nothing to change other than implementing the law as it was intended. i also wanted to mention, you had other formula retail use is on the agenda today. petco and target. both of these are not listed separately under formula retail. this is barred, eating, drinking, a liquor store. it is not any one of these. yeah, the planning department chooses which ones they want to see before conditional use. it does not seem right. thank you very much. >> good afte

jamie: leland, thanks. rick: elsewhere in the mideast, security forces opening fire in cities across syria including damascus. huge crowds calling for the resignation of president assad, their demands now echoed by leaders in the west including president obama. human rights groups claim that assad's forces have killed almost 2,000 people since mid march. joseph is a former counterterrorism adviser for the fbi. he has a new book out called "the honored dead." it's an inside look at the arab security apparatus, and there's the cover on your screen. thanks very much for coming in the. >> thank you, rick. rick: seems lik al assad is doubling down here. more killings today. what do you make of it? >> well, it's a big deal that thousands have been slaughtered, these kids keep coming out peacefully in mass numbers, they know they're going to be killed, and they keep doing it. it's dramatic and amazing, and it's significant that the white house has at last called on bashar assad to shep down. rick: what do you thin

you see how lovely leland street looks. do you like it? >> yes. >> beautiful, isn't it? we are going to continue. we have a library that is going to be opening up in june. that's right. so i will see you all there at the library. there is a lot of activity going on. it is important we remain connected and engaged. >> would you mind if we were to pull the seniors together and translate for me in a mini meeting? >> yes, sir. >> what we are going ready to do is we are going to have a quick little mini meeting to -- because we didn't translate my short message before. >> i just want to say i want to welcome everyone to the event. >> we have folks in visitation valley only talking with visitation valley. we have folks in bayview again only talking in a very small corridor of 3rd straight and the merchant corridor. we don't have people talking to the hill merchant association, doing patch. all these fragrmented conversations are happening, largely talking about the same thing, crime, keeping the streets clean, supporting sbaubs. that is something i made a concerted effort on t

leland vittert is live on the ground in a town severely hit hours ago. what is the latest? >> reporter: the issue here is, there's a saying in israel, the only thing we need to start a war is for a rocket to hit a school and that is exactly what happened, i'm at the top of a school gymnasium and you can see the damage from the rocket and if we walk down you can see where it went through and went through the roof, down into the gymnasium and you can man how many casualties there were had school been in session and thankfully, they are still on summer break but they've been trading these volleys of fire and it was not a good scene last night. the warning sirens went off just as people in the neighborhood were breaking the sabbath and you can see, where the ground missile came in, this was destroyed and you can see what it did to the side of the house there. these are truly weapons of terror, destruction and killing, as random as it is instantaneous and they have razor-sharp shrapnel, but inside gaza, where they make these, they've taken some of the technology they've used for

all the other candidates who are expected to appear tonight include david chiu, dennis herrera and leland yee. we will have a complete report on that debate tonight on the 10:00 news. >> police say video may help solve the shooting of a man killed behind the wheel of his suv. officers responded to a report of a hit and run last night. a ford rolled over the median. officers say they found him shot to debt inside the vehicle. an autopsy is subjectled this week. >>> police are searching for a gunman in connection with a shooting that has one man fighting for his life. it happened before midnight. investigators say a gunman opened fire on a man inside the car. that man is in critical condition. no word on what led to the gunfire. >>> two hospitalized after being rescued from a burning home. the fire started at 11:30 last night on jackson street. firefighters say smoke was coming from a second floor bedroom when they arrived. two people were trapped inside. >> smoke coming from the top floor. we had a report of two people that were unaccounted for. they are both pulled out. >> officials say b

leland melvin. we're all attempting to inspire the young people and the national space grant program allows nasa to have a footprint not just in states such as maryland where there's a nasa center but in every single state of the union. and i'm wondering what your vision is mr. melvin for the future of your space grant program. >> a very good question. and we just went through a redesign of nasa certification and we're meeting september the 9th with all our directors to start shaping where we're going to go with our new vision for education. so i'll have to get back with you september 9th. we're really looking at how do we give kids more experiential moments to get that defining moment in their lives? also with middle school teachers, that's another area that we're going to try to increase this pipeline. and give, you know, some of the higher ed kids, you know, these experiences. some of the things you're doing right now. all the things you're doing right now but how do we take it to scale even more

but senator leland yee is here to welcome you. [applause] and a man who went to bed on saturday night, a cop with a badge and who woke up on sunday morning a new d.a., george gason. [applause] city attorney twice elected in san francisco, and usually without opposition, dennis herrera. [applause] a member of the board of education and from your administration, mr. newsom, hydra mendoza. [applause] the assessor for the city and county of san francisco, phil teng. the treasurer of the city and county of san francisco, jose cisneros. [applause] the public defender and the man that first whispered to george, you should be the d.a., jeff hadachi. one of the judges with whom we have worked for years, lilian singh. [applause] and of course the woman who was your lifeline from here to hong kong when you were trying to escape this awesome responsibility, rose pack. [applause] fire chief of the city and county of san francisco, joanne hayes white. and a man whose work as an architect in three or four administrations, a man that i got from t

. >> alan: state senator and san francisco candidate lelande lashed out at b.a.r.t. for cutting off cell phone service they turned off the underground cell phone network after police learned a group was planning to use cell phones to coordinate a protest. critics say it jeopardy teased public safety and cut off their ability to call nine one. the protest never took place. >>> in the north bay, firefighters are battling a 100-acre fire burning near lake berryessa. it's a remote area of northern napa county. there are no report office any buildings being threatened. at least three calfire helicopters are on the scene conducting aerial drops. >> it's the first real test of who could be on the g.o.p. ticket next year. the results of today's iowa straw poll. plus thousands arrested after violent riots in the uk. and a big payday that could not have come at a better time for some canadian men. >> leigh: i'm leigh glaser, this hour looking out over the bay. a little bit of fog out there. it cleared out nicely. temperatures warmed up as well, into the 90s inland. a little wa

leland avenue has been continued to october 6. commissioners, your on general public comment. not to exceed 15 minutes. members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the subject matter or jurisdiction with the exception of agenda items. i have the one speaker card. >> amy o'hare. >> i come before you because you approved a citation before -- i appreciate your correction. good afternoon, commissioners. i have lived in the city for 26 years. we on a home in district 7. i would like to suggest to the planning commission the recently passed a cell phone right to know ordinance has an interesting implication. the citizens have the right to know about other enclosures. should the planning commission recommend to the department of the internmenin vernon to -- cid and back. there is nothing that would prohibit such notification. since this results in a change of rf levels, the carriers should [unintelligible] that have undergone changes at lay. an independent measurements database such as this would facilitate the city's ability to seek restitution. thank y

among them michaela alioto, david chu, ed lee, joanna rees and leland yee. let's check in with christina. >> good morning. too bad we can't tack the name scott mcgrew on the list. we're looking good this morning. we having fog out there. watch out for that. it's dense up in the santa rosa area. only about a mile and a half of visibility at this time. we expect the number to drop. it's a chilly start in places like novato, 46 degrees. something different from yesterday we have more fog out there but i don't think it's going to penetrate that far inland. probably to oak lands. as a result you'll be warmer up to about 70 degrees in livermore at noon, 64 in concord, rounding out the day close to 90, not quite 90 but 87 degrees in fairfield. you will notice the difference. might be kicking on the ac by noon. the full forecast coming up. tell you what the weekend looks like. it's friday eve. we enjoy that around here. let's see if we enjoy the drive. >> so far. good morning. so far the drive is moving nicely. you're talking about the fog. we'll get that shots of t

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leland vitter joins us live from our bureau in jerusalem. >> reporter: it's the nature of the cease-fire. they take a while to kick in. it was supposed to started an hour ago. since that time we have had more missiles fly in from the gaza strip. do both sides wants this cease-fire? will they did not what is necessary for the israeli side of having a political twiol stop the strikes and hamas have the ability to stop the other militant groups from forcing missiles? the one thing that has happened over the past few days is a lot of missiles flying from gaza into israel. we were there as some of them rained down today. >> each missile fired by them cost about $40,000. the system was specifically to countered the short range home built rockets used in southern israel. the kill ratio was 60 am which is good but far from perfect. if they fire multiple rockets aimed for the targets some get through. like last night a small neighborhood the sirens went off. one man didn't make it to the shelter in time. >> couldn't find his pulse. blood next to him. there was another guy that was conscious. i ha

of course, supervisor cohen and weener -- weiner, leland yee as well. i have been not to over 20 of these ribbon cuttings. it is not often we get to say your tax dollars are at work with a smile on our faces, but we can do so today. voters knew what they were doing in 2000 when we passed proposition a, which provided $106 million for 24 renovations and a few new constructions. this being one of them. yes, this will be a 9000 square foot educational resource center bridging the digital divide with 21st century technology. but probably more importantly, this new branch library will be a house of ideas, a home of dreams, and a home of hope. this will be the heart and soul of the future of bayview. so we are invested in this. we talked to the folks in charge to guarantee we will have a ribbon cutting before the end of 2012. [applause] we are going to keep them to their schedule. before i sign off, i want to present to linda a proclamation from the state senate banking the bayview branch library for being such an important part of the branch library improvem

you see how lovely leland street looks. do you like it? >> yes. >> beautiful, isn't it? we are going to continue. we have a library that is going to be opening up in june. that's right. so i will see you all there at the library. there is a lot of activity

leland vitter is live in southern israel with the very latest. leland. >> hi megyn.ght now is on the highest security level it can be. we're standing at the last military checkpoint before the egyptian border and as the israeli chief of staff was giving a briefing at this checkpoint a couple of hours ago, there was another shootout with these militants as the security team whisked them out, that's how tense the situation is. these attacks were incredibly sophisticated and coordinated against two buses, an army chief and civilian car, seven israelis dead, at least 30 injured, they were using everything from antitank weapons to heavy automatic machine guns and ieds. it appears, though, this was a gaza militant group and for the first time have been able to exploit the border between the sinai peninsula in egypt which is very, very desolate and unguarded with israel. they snuck across and launched this attack. we are told by israeli intelligence, their aim was to kidnap an israeli soldier, they failed in that. and the israeli military patrol went out and we're told kill

san francisco state senator leland lee has opposed the bill. they say sharks are multi late by fishermen. >>> protestors who disrupted the evening commute at bart civic center station are threatening to continue the demonstrations indefinitely. that is what they told the bart board hearing. the board plans to establish a new policy on exactly when the underground phone service could or should be cut off in the future. >> if you are going to shut off all service ever, it needs to be under the most extraordinary circumstances. >> other board members defended the move to cut cellphone service. >> you can't use your cellphone on an airplane. there are reasons why there are some restrictions. >> the demonstrators say they won't stop protests. they want bart to meet their demands including dismantling the bart police force. >> the water is flowing in the community of pes cav dero. the water pump was malfunctioning last week but there was no warning when the 30,000 gallon task ran dry on tuesday. a new pump begin running yesterday morning and resident

current senator leland yee. >> there were reports in the newspaper about various board members being nominated. we were concerned about how the conflict of interest laws would apply to them. very specifically for foreign issues. perhaps there would be six board members who would be not able to bridge as a paid in a successor mayor selection and appointment process. we would lose quorum. we have to contemplate how we would then bring back quorum. i went to bed every night with it on my mind. i woke up with every morning. >> time was running out. there were no more meetings scheduled in november due to the holidays, and the board did not meet again until december 7. san francisco citizens again waited on the mayoral selection. >> we want someone who has the greater good of the people of san francisco in mind, not just business owners. >> i am here today basically to urge you to select an interim mayor who will prioritize our nonprofit sector coming here in san francisco. >> supervisor daly once again called for a discussion of mayoral character polities and possible nominations. >> it