. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call >> foreign language speaking. [applause]. >> foreign language speaking. [applause]. >> foreign language speaking. [applause]. >> foreign language speaking. w3 >> i am very happy to be here. i feel very honored to have been asked to interpret this poem and make it a song. it's funny because something like two days before he asked me to do this, i was thinking to myself, i wonder what it would be like to write a song to the poetry. the reason i love the poem that we chose is because everything that i love in this poem, it's different, but, it has this magic in it and it's what you heard in spanish. of unexpected and beautiful things being placed next to each other in a way that surprises you and makes you realize life is always magical. here it is. [music] >> this is the way the w

. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call . >> welcome to the department of building inspection brown bag lunch. this is our market tour. we're on market street on kearney and third. we're at the fountain, which was a major landmark at the time of the 1906 earthquake. this is a landmark because this is where people posted notices and notes to connect with people they were looking for. families and people in their business. most of this area was -- >> pretty much burnt out. >> pretty well burned out. we have pat with us, a structural engineer who has done work to upgrade the buildings around this area. >> or researched their history. >> or researched their history. we will look mostly at buildings. we have a lot of other experts in the audience. i hope they will share with us. we have craig from the planning department.

considering participating as a grand jury member, to do so. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call it begins innocently enough-- you don't return a phone call; you break a date at the last minute-- but, in fact, it's the beginning of a pattern, and soon, your friend with mental illness realizes you're avoiding them, but what if you knew that your friendship was the key to their recovery? would you still lock them out of your life? [doorknob rattles] wah! announcer: the smallest moments can have the biggest impact on a child's life. [laughs] announcer: take time to be a dad today. >> you can see that it is amazing. you can hear that it is refreshing. you reach for it because it is irresistible. and the taste. simply delicious. san francisco tap water. it engages the senses. 311 is an i

. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills bett

. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call >> foreign language speaking.

what i saw were similarities, and it was impressive to learn the meeting with dutch planners and local city officials that amsterdam and san francisco -- i will focus on amsterdam because that is where i spent most of my time, but these cities are very similar. similar populations, similar population densities. they are laid out very similar in terms of residential density. we're centers for strong regional economies, similar in economic drivers. tourism is number one. viking is part of their tourism. also big finance, creative technology, that as part of the economic driver. also big similarities in terms of cultural or political persuasions. we are a population that values environmental sustainability. it values and social equity. we are cities that understand the benefit of the greater good , and are places where sometimes we are out lyras for the rest of our country. there are places that can be models for the rest of our country. in our cities, i can't talk about it without addressing the flat this issue. as flat as amsterdam is, when you are riding on a really heavy by with no barrier

. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call >> i never thought i would be at a press conference in the city surrounded by a bunch of pickup trucks. here we are. these are no average pickup trucks. these have solid green credentials. san francisco has a long history of groundbreaking initiatives an enlargement of victories. this is where the latest bring innovations have been, whether it is pursuing our zero ways to goals by 2020, when the reducing toxics in san francisco, whether it is becoming the electric vehicle capital of the u.s., this is where green innovation happens. and we practice what we preach in san francisco. every city of san francisco's department is required to develop a department action plan annually, which inventory their own emissions and sets common action targets for the department. this process eng

it was intended to mitigate that and make that unnecessary by building hundreds of megawatts of local, city on assets that you could amortize the cost of overtime of paying the upfront costs and project over time that you will receive a lot of revenue in savings. that is the discussion. that we have been having with stafford of last decade. especially in our last meeting. it became clear that the discussion is starting to bear fruit. we're having conversations about how the local build out and having a really comprehensive plan for hundreds of megawatts that would be built in the first three years of the program and start feeding into will help the program. off if you look at both the local power reports and the navigant reports, both make this a recommendation. to make sure your cost is the same or lower than pg&e. it is absolutely crucial to do the biggest and most rapid local build out possible because that is where you get a city owned nonprofit asset that is bringing in revenues that you can deliver to the customers. it is important to note. the best comments were brought up by commiss

two local city guys. >> there you go. >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed to have. i got interested in this idea that maybe there was a dark side to plants. >> the white snake root. people wh

city of yaroslavl. it was carrying local ice hockey club members. a passenger plane crashed near the russian city of yaroslavl on wednesday killing 36 of the 37 people on board. the russian state-run news agency says a passenger plane crashed immediately after taking off from the airport in the western russia city of yaroslavl. the plane was carrying local ice hockey club members. >>> an explosion in new delhi killed at least ten people on wednesday morning. indian authorities have blamed terrorists for the blast. the explosion occurred short ly after 10:00 a.m. outside the high court in the center of the city. local authorities say at least ten people were killed and 6 # others were injured. local media report about 100 people were lining up for permits to enter the court when the blast occurred just outside its gate. >> i heard a loud bang. then i turned around after getting the consciousness and all. i found 60 people were lying on the floor. >> the home minister says the blast was apparently caused by a bomb concealed in a suitcase. he described

she was on the working committee that gave workers pay equity and served on the local city-wide negotiations in 1988 and continuously through 2006. she also became president of the s&p nine you local in 1992 -- of the seiu local in 1992, and they went through the merger and transition in 2007. that has been four years now. karen was awarded an award and officially retired. congratulations from the san francisco city and county, 2011, concluding her term as the chapter president and as a member of the seiu executive board on august 27, 2011. we're going to be voting on the comparative agenda in a few minutes, declaring september 27, 2011, karen bishop stay in san francisco. it has been a pleasure to work with you. i have learned so much from you. thank you for letting us honor you today, and i just want to ask if the other supervisors would like to say some words, as well? president chiu: supervisor camera? supervisor kim: it is a good to see you today. i remember you explaining to me when you first came to the library years ago that the books were put in order by color, and you came in, and

. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call >> i want to thank everyone for coming. we aren't trying to do a lot to restore the luster of the uptown historic district. in the past couple of years we have installed the store? . we have a landmark sidewalk program that we want to institute. we also want to restore some of the historic advertising signs, which developed the neighborhood's character. in order to get this money, there is a challenge grant program. when we applied for this grant, the person in charge of the program was ultimately a cao named ed lee. so the mayor had to decide whether or not to fund this project, so i am glad that he did. we had support and additional financial support from the people that run the organization. jon dugan as well. you can see that great historic pedestrian lighting, which we only

. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the a

. >> if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastictizens committed to improving its operations, i encourara >> welcome to city hall. it is my pleasure today to join board president david chiu. our chief of police is here today. hydra mendoza, the president of our board of education. the director of public works. my wife anita -- she is the most important. who else do we have? the director of our treasure island authority is here. also member of our housing authority. thank you very much for being here. our city librarian -- thank you for being here as well. the president of the san francisco giants is here. all right. and they won today. [applause] sorry if i forgot to mention anybody. i know supervisor avalos will join us later. and sandy. thank you for being with us today. sharon has been here for many years. thank you for being here as well. to all of you who our guests -- family, friends, brothers and sisters of our youth commission -- thank you very much for joining us. i have been very thrilled to be your mayor for the last eigh

. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call >> welcome to sf votes 2011. we've collaborating with the league of women voters to bring you statements by all five candidates for district attorney. let's get started with sharmin bock. >> i'm a veteran prosecutor and lifelong san franciscan. i'm committed to keeping you say that getting back to the city i have loved for over 40 years. san francisco has been my home since i was for and i am 49 now. i attended sacred heart and worked in the city after college. after graduating from georgetown law school, i came home and lived in the mission district. my daughter wants to start walking home from school. as a mother and prosecutor, i want to make sure she gets home safely. i have been prosecuting cases and putting criminals behind bars as an assistant district attorney for more t

. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call >> san francisco and the league of california cities 113th annual conference. i'm mike casperzack, vice mayor of the city of mountain view and your league's first vice president. your league president, jim rightenour, mayor of modesto, who we see on the screen here, could not be with us today. so they called in the second string. jim had some recent health issues, but by all accounts he's doing very well. he's back at home and i'm waiting for him to pick up his blackberry so we can start texting again. let's keep him in our thoughts and prayers, though, as we work together during the next three days. now, won't you please join me again in thanking today's opening ceremony's participants including the san francisco police department color guard and byron pope from beverly hills.

two local city guys. >> there you go. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. president mazzucco: thank you. president mazzucco, present. vice-president marshall, president. commissioner dejesus, on route. commissioner chan, present. commissioner slaughter, present. commissioner determined -- terman, present. >> thank you. welcome to the wednesday, september 21, 2011 san francisco police commission meeting. as you heard, the chief is on his way, he is in traffic. while we're waiting, we will go into general public comment period before we go there, sometimes we conclude our meetings in memory of members of the san francisco police family. i would rather do that at the end. i would like to start our meeting in memory of andy farron. he died at the age of 99 last week. every wednesday, he regularly watched the meetings with his caretaker, rose, who is the wife of a san francisco officer. he used to love watching our meetings, i would get feedback. i woul

the problem. 15 years later, water quality is on the agenda of every city council person in that local city, and that's completely a result of activists forcing the issue, surfrider and other local groups, saying, "hey, these water quality issues are real and you need to address them." and only until the public sort of creates that will will the politicians respond. narrator: while some cities deal with infrastructure issues, others have concerns about the sustainability of water supplies. allbee: it's not just about the sustainability of the assets, it's about the sustainability of our water resources. parts of this country that thought of themselves as water rich 20, 30 years ago, now are discovering that they really are not water rich, they have source supply issues, they have serious questions about how they're going to accommodate additional growth in their communities. melosi: if we can find alternatives, we can preserve a water supply. conservation of water is a way of generating more water. allbee: we think that a household can actually reduce its water usage by about 30%. and that'

. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call >> coming next on "california country," meet one couple who went from erving food to growing food, then take a trip to the school that is cooking up some of the top chefs in the world, and see how one family has been going and growing strong for more than 90 years now. plus learn some great new repes from some of our favorite chefs. that's all ahead, and it starts now. [captioning made possible by california farm bureau federation] welcome to the show. i'm your host tracy sellers. today we're in sacramento at one of the really iconic restaurants of this city, the riverside clubhouse. you know, it's a place that's known for, well, the large cow that's atop it. kind of unique, right? that brings us to our first story. you know, in san francisco, they have more than 3,500 restauran

number four, authorizing the executive officer turn for local power for services of task and development for r.s.p.'s and other tasks for in-city renewable and demand side technologies consistent with the clean power s.f. program. supervisor campos: miss miller. >> yes, this item is before you for consideration to enter into a contract with local power. they are one of our selected consultants under the r.f.q. we issued a few years back to develop the c.c.a. program. since february they have been negotiating with advocates pursuant to a resolution attached to my staff report to you. this is a resolution from the s.f. p.u.c., and local power under contract with them for development of what i will call the renewable portion of the local in-city renewable portion of the c.c.a. program. one of the potential tasks under that contract is they've been attempting to negotiate for that scope for some months now, and it has been a back-and-forth process but one that has not yet resulted in a task being contracted for. so i'm bringing this item to you. there are certain of the task in the scope of work that we can contract for. what this

. >> tend to drive, now charges have been filed after one local city council member accuses the federalue of assault. you year from the alleged victim after the break. it >> just last month green date and billy jo was kicked off for wearing his pitch to load. and another person says she too was blood from a flight nash's kron4 boycott of southwest. >> musician and the zero worked least up when to twitter and said she was kicked off of the southwest flight for casting her girlfriend. this is what she tweeted. >> a few hours later south was put out this tweet. but a little while later date put out another that she was approached after some others it but passengers complained because it was a little too obsessive. the actors responded to the statement saying that i did not realize that a small pack on the lips is regarded as excessive and never once did your stewardess' mention other passengers. >> it was warmer out there today the warming trend will continue into tomorrow no- fault expected the we will see icloud drafted a. temperatures in the upper 50s and the most part to start the day

implementing various changes to the memorandum of understanding between the city and the following organizations -- the firefighters local 798, the city police officers association, the municipal executives association, fire, and the city and police officers association. and one more between the city and the municipal executives association, police. president chiu: roll-call vote. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. item 14 is an ordinance adopting and implementing amendment 5, a memorandum of understanding between the city and the firefighters of local 798, unit 1, extending the mou. president chiu: could we have a motion to excuse supervisor chu? roll-call vote. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mi

city limits. this is along the regional water system that brings water from the sierra to the local customers and the city of san francisco. it is the red stripe on the third screen, along the blue line that traces the full route of the transmission system. the fourth screen shows you the affected communities which are tracie, manteca, modesto, oakdale, and river bank. most of the property through which the pipeline -- the right of way is agricultural. this is developed primarily through modesto but in terms of the uses, this is agriculture, most of the way. the fifth screen gives you an idea of the configuration of the system in the corridor and this varies from 100-200 feet wide, depending on whether we have power transmission facilities as well as the water drinking facility. and 50 miles of pipeline and the 3 miles of buried pipeline that underneath the surface in the yellow circle indicate the fourth pipeline, and the water system improvement program was installed. the last slide, this is the timeline for the review for this particular project. we published the project just last year for publ

local hiring project. good faith did not work in the sixties and it will not work now. the city had this local hiring process as well. the city chose this through legislation and this was supported by the board of supervisors. the ship from a good faith type of approach that measures success and outcomes and actual results is what i think might be really important because i don't think that the concerns will go away. the redevelopment continues to have a good face policy. to build upon the relationships that are developing that led it to the passage of this law. the board of supervisors can consider using their influence to influence the redevelopment agency. thank you. >> thank you, my name is oscar james. the one thing i want to bring up first is that i was like this session to clothes. -- to close. there will be a meeting on the 20 it and they're talking about capping. we don't want any of the shipyard to be capped. i have seen the radiation roberts, i have seen the lead, i have seen the toxic -- back there. i have also served on the hunters point shipyard. i talked about the

a fire brigade and south defense forces are working in the city. local residents look for belongs in the wreckage of houses destroyed by landslides. >> translator: i hurt to find photographs of my husband. and grandchildren. >> the land ministry has begun surveying fur areas where landslides created lakes. there is concern lakes may overflow and cause damage down stream. the ministry will deploy buoys to monitor water levels in the lakes. the devies will be dropped by helicopters and transmit around the clock data by satellite. the storm left a trail of destruction, including damage it a world heritage site. parts of an ancient stone-paved pilgrimage route were covered in mud. the shrine was hit by rocks and also covered in mud. they are part of sacred sites on routes in the key mountain range designated as a world heritage site in 2004. local officials and members of the shrine plan to assess the extent of the damage and rebuild. >>> joined now with the latest in business news, ai, good morning. >> good morning. the u.s. markets snapped a l three-day st

week, they warned them of everything and basseller is suspected of killing two people including a local cityn. >>> he will request a court order for san francisco doctors to force feed a patient on a hunger strike. he is accused of a double murder and stopped eating three weeks ago. woo is trying to commit suicide by starvation and it is the sheriff's job to keep him made safe. they feel woo has no mental health issues. he was found competent to stand trial and prosecutors do not believe that decision. >>> the tainted fruit is from jenson farms. they made shipments to 25 states but because the product gets resold, it is not sure where it ended up. if you have cantaloupe in your home and not sure where it is grown throw it out. 16 people have died several others have gotten sick including one person in california. >>> today prosecutors will once again focus on the moments after michael jackson was found unresponsive. coming up at 5:45 what jackson's personal assistant said when the singer was discovered. >>> the obama administration wants the u.s. supreme court to get involved in the battle,

as young as ten crash dieting to make sports teams. >> san mateo county has granted $100,000 to local citieso support after-school activities for elementary school students. great news. 700 students participated in science technology, engineering, and science, too. san carlos, half moon bay, and pacifica participated. >>> what do you have coming up for the 7:00 p.m. newscast. >>> kicked out of the military for being gay, the don't ask don't tell repeal has i am reenlisting. >> find out where the u.s. is on this list and the longest running show on san francisco's waterfront. how the performers under the big top are being evicted and where their new home will be. >> that is such a fun show. >> it is. >> it's a whacky, crazy show. >> enjoy your evenin we'll see you here at 11:00. >>> comcast 186 next. >>> i'm suzanne shaw. california lawmakers passed 600 bills in recent weeks and jerry brown vows to veto most of them. explaining simply not every human problem deserves a law. nbc bay area couldn't agree more. but we're sorry the governor vetoed a bill that would have toughened the hands free no