>> we're seeing more lgbtq folks moving into the community as a result, the families are bringing theirhildren to schools. so they really want support to make sure that the schools are accepting and welcoming and ready to support diverse families. and that's really the work of our coalition to help them. >> you've got a great name for your program, inclusive schools coalitionings. >> that's right. and so we're a group of youth service providers, educators and families of lgbtq youth who come together, really to make sure schools are safe and welcoming so that will youth can have better health outcomes that3l don't face depression and suicide alt. all this work helps improve academic outcomes, as well. >> you also have a component that involves faith. i love. you hear about some churches don't accept homosexuality. you've got a safe place. tell me about that. >> san francisco isn't is the only welcoming and accepting community in the bay area. and in con tran costa county, there are over 40 congregations welcoming and affirming and accept people of all genders and sexual orientation. so

because after the shows and you see from the map that it is targets people of colored youth and also, lgbtq and also the people who have the teen line and also you can see if you see it in the map that you can see that. and it is targeting it by having it right there so it really makes a problem and not just for me, but for everybody and also i have asthma and it is also part of my family and we have to live in that. and so it really makes us really unhealthy. thank you, and i hope that you support our policy. >> could you say what high school you are from and what grade. >> i am from cono, and i am in the ninth grade. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is fred tamko. and i would like to introduce and... and community leader. well, also i am independent of the tobacco industry and the sector and i have smoking since i was 13 years old and about 30 years ago i know how easy for the access to get i seg cigarette in the store and i started to smoke and get addicted to them as i became a chemical dependant. and now i am suffering the heart and lungs continue

lack of density and also they target the low income communities and the people of color and youth and lgbtq communities and i am at least in two of those, i am a person of color and so i am a youth and i am being targeted by this and i know that we can and it is not fair that i am being targeted for being who i am and how many of you or the people that you care about are targets. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you, for also supporting empowerment of young people. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a proud resident of the wonderful district eight, and work ends up as district nine, there are 2900 families looking to do what my parents did provide a better quality of life. when the lower district such as 6 and 9 are inundated with tobacco and we are limiting these fakly and their children's ability to live a hel ygt live, the communities over concentrated with tobacco influences have higher smoking rates that leads to the higher rates of completely prevent able diseases and within the 500 feet of my workplace there are three tobacco retailers, and the back of this

the yearly event raises money to support organizations serving the lgbtq communities. the donated toys will go to the patients of children's hospital of philadelphia. >>> the heavy rain wasn't enough to stop some people from checking out philadelphia's christmas village tonight. they came to love park prepared for the showers with umbrellas and raincoats. folks got to enjoy some live performances and do some holiday shopping. if you're going shopping tomorrow, i guess you won't need the umbrellas? >> but you'll need the thicker coats because it's going to be cold. temperatures in the mid-30s. >> thank you so much. "snl" is next. >> okay. welcome to politics nation. [ cheers and applause ] now, what happened in ferguson has come to new york.

landlord/tenant community and also those who have disabilities the history books does not include the lgbtqfforts committee efforts like stonewall or even sometimes when i look at the book asian-americans or latinos or african-americans are limited to less than a package and ethnic studies we get the whole beyond the need to have a hallway or less than a package ethnic studies shows we are more than just hallway a package. (clapping.) >> >> next speaker. >> good evening. i'm an educator at lir restrict for informational recreational center thank you for allowing me to speak so lyric is one the very few organizations that teaches both stuff about they're past and their history their community we give them the opportunity to love themselves and learn more about themselves and thanks to all of you and all the teachers that have taught economic studies in the city hall's we're changing the teacher people say the youth are the future and san francisco is one of the most diverse cities in the world and ethnic studies advances the leadership within our community and making changes all over the wor

. >> tobacco in particular, targets youth, and low income communities and people of color and lgbtq communities and i have seen the map that they have all of the tobacco outlets in san francisco. and there are so many stores and it is just one big mass i know that yesterday we got a bit of a lesson from one of the turf members about this legislation and one of the things that got to me is that the tender loin alone is about one fourth of all tobacco stores and that and everything else has been said today by all of these wonderful people does not move you to action i am not sure what will. so i thank you for your time. and fully support this legislation >> it looks like there is no other public comment. >> i want to thank everyone who has spoken and especially the young people who i think that have eloquently stated why this is a pretty easy call and so with that, supervisor mar? we need a motion to move this item forward. >> yes, before i make the motion let me just say it sounds like a tremendous number of neighborhoods are represented and people of all ages, but especially the high school stu

that meant welcoming lgbtq people. >> they were with the marriage equality and lgbt equality for a longime. even when it was not popular. even when it was not safe. but they knew it was the right thing to do. >> this church was the leader a leader in that whole process in terms of sensitizing people. >> pastors dennis and christine began officiating at civil union ceremonies. first outside the church, then two couples requested church services. >> the congregation was clear that we were now an inclusive congregation and so many people were joining the church and you could see that people are starting to ask this person, i wonder if they're gay or straight. when the union ceremony piece came up that was the straw that broke the camel's back. >> when i thought about inclusion at first it was just, let everybody come. i was okay with that. but then when they had the first marriage i thought, well, will they be doing that? so i had to embrace everything what inclusion meant. >> i think the first union ceremony it was done away from the church, some of our members were even fine. then when w

the event raises money to support organizations serving the lgbtq community, while providing toys tolocal kids. this year the donated toys will go to patients at the children's hospital of philadelphia and kids served by action aid. >>> there's a lot going on at lincoln financial field besides today's eagles game, including a new effort to find missing college student shane montgomery and a die-in protest is expected to cause some traffic problems. after the game, we'll break it all down in just a few moments. >>> we're looking at that wind today. that's our big weather headline. winds gusting near 30 miles per hour at times this morning. you can see those winds really whipping those flags. we'll talk more about that. also some blustery conditions. it's beginning to be a cold one, and we'll look ahead towards that coastal storm in just a few minutes. a. . it may seem strange, but people really can love their laxative. especially when it's miralax. it hydrates, eases, and softens, to unblock your system naturally. so you have peace of mind from start to finish. love your laxative. mir

this was the first action organized by the bay area's lgbtq community. >> i feel like transgender queer people are experiencing a lot of fear and anxiety because if black men's lives don't matter, we question, do our lives matter? this event was peaceful. the heads of the san francisco, oakland and san jose police unions are worried some of the other recent bay area protests are putting officers at risk. they are calling on protesters to engage in constructive dialogue with police. >>> an angry faceout with police in missouri. police released video of the scene. look at the video. police say it proves the shooting was justified. that's coming up at 6:30. >>> the movie that led to sony being hacked is now out. "the interview" is on line. it will open in theaters nationwide tomorrow. after all the con electroversy, it is expected to do well. like they say, no such thing as bad publicity. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. even though this isn't the big hollywood release that sony wanted, it's something. people can watch online. streaming began today. people can see the movie at some bay are

this was the first action organized by the bay area's lgbtq community. >> i feel like transgender queer people are experiencing a lot of fear and anxiety because if black men's lives don't matter, we question, do our lives matter? this event was peaceful. the heads of the san francisco, oakland and san jose police unions are worried some of the other recent bay area protests are putting officers at risk. they are calling on protesters to engage in constructive dialogue with police. >>> an angry faceout with police in missouri. police released video of the scene. look at the video. police say it proves the shooting was justified. that's coming up at 6:30. >>> the movie that led to sony being hacked is now out. "the interview" is on line. it will open in theaters nationwide tomorrow. after all the con electroversy, it is expected to do well. like they say, no such thing as bad publicity. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. even though this isn't the big hollywood release that sony wanted, it's something. people can watch online. streaming began today. people can see the movie at some bay are

the event raises money to support organizations serving the lgbtq community, while providing toys toids. this year the donated toys will go to patients at the children's hospital of philadelphia and children served by action aids. >>> today it's the rededication of what's been dubbed the charlie brown christmas tree. rain pushed the festivities to tonight. the scrawny tree will be decorated with one single red ornament, just like the one in the peanuts christmas classic. some folks had been complaining when the tree first went up and was topped with a pretzel. they make a lot of pretzels in but county, but still they thought it wasn't enough. they also put up a new fuller tree across town. the charlie brown tree rededication at fifth and penn will begin tonight at 6:00. you love that story. >> i love it. i feel so bad for that tree, but i kind of love it. >> it's gotten a lot of national attention. >> i feel like we should do a live shot right near that red ornament. >> that may be happening later today. >> temperatures in the 40s and very windy. then we'll be watching that coastal s

you focused in on the lgbtq community, why?well, you know, storycorps, i used to make documentaries, social justice documentaries. and storycorps-- and i created storycorps because i came to believe when i was doing these interviews and wherever it was i was, prisons, homeless shelters, that people being listened to the act of being listened to, you could almost see people's back straighten, you know. and we have a commitment at storycorps to make sure that the voices of those who may feel least heard are celebrated through storycorps. and that you know people can recognize the grace and beauty and power in their own stories, wrefer they are. >> srennivasan: going forward, where does storycorps go. are you 11 years old now. let's say in ten years from now we're having this conversation, what is happening. >> we're working hard to turn storycorps into a sustaining national institution. i feel like we're at the first yard line, like at the very beginning of a long game. storycorps is about, you know, it's about listening. it's ab

what i'm seeing is young people young white people young black people latinos, lgbtq community.matter than every single one of us has to fight like as hard as we can for black people in this country. >> i appreciate that censorship at this hour of the morning. what about the justice department's new profiling limit also? >> i think anything to protect those who are unprotected in this country and those who are continually in struggle in this country. whether it's folks in the lgbt community or folks because of their religious. i think it's a step in the right direction. i think the u.s. attorney general and president obama, i give them a lot of credit. it's a very tough time for them. i think they're doing as much as they can. i give them a lot of credit for really, really trying to attack this system and make it just for all. >> you know, one of the things i've always thought when i speak to people throughout the country that sometimes it's almost as though there are two different americas. i think of the people i speak with that are part of the undocumented community, and they