are they a local firm? have they complied with any of the ordinance is that we require a local hiring component? have there been any other issues that might be important for us to take up here? i am not familiar with that firm. >> i do not know exactly what we know about north star solar. do you have information on that front? >> the leading i have is that the project they're doing it in the central valley. -- the only thing i have is the project that they are doing is in central valley. it is not in san francisco. they are requiring them to pay as money to mitigate the impact on the great out there so that they would not fall within san francisco contracting procedures for solar and deletions in san francisco. -- installations in san francisco. >> with a fall in the jurisdiction? >> they are not ours, so they would not apply. before our project, we're actually getting money to do other things. how we spend the money we get from them would be subject to all the different procedures within the city. but their

our rules are a little pit different, but that is how we engage the local firms on those type of contracts. if you are interested, you could call us or visit our website. i want to remind everybody that in addition to our 25% goals, we have a 25% resident hiring goal. if you known anyone, you should encourage them to get in contact with us. on all these contracts we have a requirement that we are emplaying residents of public housing as well. thank you. [applause] >> hi. i am tim. i am with the board of san francisco. in addition to the peer -- pier 27 project. i have a flyer in the back. you can also go to our port website, www.sf port.com. we advertise it in the office of contract administration's website, as well as a number of local newspapers, too. just to give us an idea of some of the projects we have. our brown street wharf is a new park coming out following the demolition that the army corps of engineers is receiving bids on tomorrow. the new park will be advertised sometime in december, probably bidding in january of 2012. it is going to include concrete, paving, landscaping, sig

financial officer awarded the contract to a firm called intralot, then that firm subcontracted to a local firm. at that time controversy because the d.c. council rejected the first bid. >>> police are looking for the man who robbed a d.c. superior court judge at gunpoint. two men with guns came up behind judge ronna beck. they had just left the tennis tournament in rock creek park. the robbers took off with purses, wallets, about 100 bucks in cash and the keys to a lexus. longtime residents say the area's typically a quiet neighborhood. >> you know, we don't want judges being held at gunpoint. >> no one was hurt in the robbery. beck was the judge who oversaw the south capitol street murders trial. >>> right now police on both coasts are working to figure out who killed a maryland man in southern california. the body of dwight henry turned up in an suv in southern california back in may. he'd been beaten to death. investigators from the los angeles county sheriff's department are in maryland. they're trying to find out why henry was in california in the first place. his family's pleading for an

. >> i am the chairman of emerald fund, a local san francisco development firm. it is my great pleasure to present for your review and hopefully approval 100 van ness, the old aaa headquarters tower. together with national real- estate advisers, a union pension fund, we are proposing to convert the building from a vacant 400,000 square foot office building into a 399-unit residential project. over the past 35 years, we have been very active in san francisco. we have developed over 20 major projects working in tight neighborhoods. development has always had its side issues, but rarely have i worked on a project like this that has so many positive benefits and so few negative ones. with your indulgence, let me go through some of the benefits of the new project. appearance -- the existing building is ugly. since starting the work on this project almost two years ago, i have literally talked with hundreds and hundreds of san franciscans. very few people like that building. stalinist and brutal as it were just a few of the nicer as it is -- stalinistic and brutalistic

that firm then subcontracted to a local firm. at the time there was controversy because the d.c. council rejected the first bid. >>> a gaithersburg woman is recovering this morning after a swarm of bats attacked her in her own neighborhood. dina knolls received six rabies shots yesterday. she was just walking her dogs when the bats swooped down and attacked her. in an exclusive interview, she talked to news 4 about the terrifying moment. >> there was probably like five of them or so and they were acting really aggressively. so you know, i was really nervous. especially with the dogs. so i felt, you know, i got hit in the back. i was just like instant pain. it was like kind of a sharp stabbing pain. >> doctors say noels will be okay in a couple of days. she'll still walk the dogs at night but probably take them earlier in the evening to avoid another attack. >>> members of the mount pleasant baptist church say they will rebuild their church that was destroyed by fire. around 4:30 yesterday morning the fire spread through the church on lee highway. when firefighters arrived they fo

. >> i am the chairman of emerald fund, a local san francisco development firm. it is my great pleasure to present for your review and hopefully approval 100 van ness, the old aaa headquarters tower. together with national real- estate advisers, a union pension fund, we are proposing to convert the building from a vacant 400,000 square foot office building into a 399-unit residential project. over the past 35 years, we have been very active in san francisco. we have developed over 20 major projects working in tight neighborhoods.

firms. there are all local businesses. -- they are all local businesses, very supportive of the marketplace.>> i know that some part of this building, the water goes underneath, the bay water is under there? >> yes. >> is it under the whole building? >> there is a sea wall, probably right under where you are standing. a lot of it is on the pilings. >> i have seen a guy on a little boat that goes under there and make repairs. >> and also, the coast guard comes, anytime there are logs floating in the water, we have to call the coast guard. acting get hung up underneath the pipes. >> i want to thank you all for coming. thank you so much for your great information. i hope to see you all again next month for our next program. thank you very much. >> i am the director of community affairs. it is a great pleasure to introduce mr. john martin. >> thank you all for being here. [applause] thank you for being here for the opening of the marine response emergency facility. i want to begin by introducing several dignitaries. the first is commission vice president mike hardeman. thank you. and commissione

. >>> some firms are planning to produce locally to expand their business in the fast-growing market. japan's mazda is showing its new mazda 6. the company will start producing the model in the far eastern city in october. mitsubishi motors new model, the outlander, will be rolling out of a planned near moscow with productions starting in november. mitsubishi is also showing a new sports model for production next year. the auto industry expect the russian market to grow over the next three years to one of the largest in europe with annual sales of more than 3 million units. >>> more than 1400 firms are showing items. the south korean maker has a new smart phone that is larger than the standard model with a 5.5 inch screen. users can navigate the variety of features on the phone using a especially designed touch pad. samsung will also be showing a notebook computer with detachable keyboard. the display can be used alone as a tablet. japan's sony combined its smart phones and tablets under a single brand. the firm is also showing a waterproof tan let for use in the kitchen. sony's lineu

some firms are planning to produce locally to expand their business in the fast growing market. japan's mazda is showing its new mazda six. the company will start producing the model in the far eastern city of vladivostok. the outlander will be rolling out of a plant near moscow with production starting in november. mitsubishi is also showing a new pajero sports model for production next year. the auto industry expects the russian market to grow over the next three years to one of the largest in europe with annual sales of more than 3 million units. >>> germany's green energy policy is going through growing pains. the country uses what's called a feed in tariff system. it requireses utilities to pay companies and other clients a set price for power generated by solar and other renewables. but problems have cropped up for consumers, utilities and clean energy producers. nhk world's yusuki kimura explains. >> reporter: they are living near berlin. the german government introduced the feeding tariff 12 years ago. back then it accounted for less than 1% of the couple's electricity b

investigator fired from the riverside police department and hired by the firm that is the connection to the shaking down of locales a private investigator to follow you around and get something on you. and vote against the best interest of the city to protect yourself from embarrassment or something worse. stuart: it amounts to harassment. if you had a beef with the police union over money, in yorktown and you are accused falsely of drunk driving. there's a connection between the two. that is nasty politics. >> we are doing now is need to be hiring new officers. a good budget to hire officers with a thousand applications for officers but we say the new officers can't come in as 90% of pay at 50 years of age plan any more. we get 81% at 55 understanding the average officer's compensation in most cities, $170,000 a year which is compensation from health benefits and 42,000 in their pension every year. outrageous amount. stuart: i want to lay that on fictive the audience. the average pay for a police officer in southern california yorktown included is $170,000 a year. total compensation and that person can retire a

. >> answers to a firm with my local audience -- [laughter] langston hughes, this auditorium that we are in was named for langston hughes and he certainly spent many many years here at the schomburg library doing research, contributing original pieces of pork to our collection so we certainly have been abetted from his life and his legacy. chicago also had a dark side and there is a slide that i can turn to. it should be number 11. that will illustrate a little bit of that. part of this history, what makes this a hard story is the racial violence, sexual abuse, the forward and backwards of african-americans from slavery to freedom. it turns out that in chicago wasn't so different from the south after all and some unexpected ways for those ancestors of michelle obama, and i want to just sort of think out loud about something that historians called southern exceptionalism. that is the way in which we remember this pass through the charred memories of jim crow, slavery. and even today, the 21st century collective imagination of what racism really is, what it was really about, the harm t

his firm is a structural engineering firm, but he has been a part of many of our local nonprofits to have their projects successful in the past 20 years. i know rodrigo is a stronger performer. he is an advocate on behalf of students and he is committed to our city college and it will not lose its accreditation with rodrigo's help. [applause] for these reasons, i am presenting to you, rodrigo, as a great asset to our city college, and i want to thank him for stepping up and accepting this appointment at a time when we really need reform. thank you to you, jenny, and the two kids for supporting you as well. it is most important than ever before that we do whatever it takes to get our city college back on its feet, for the sake of current and future city college students, for their families, and for all our city residents. it is a critical institution and we are preparing our residents to compete, not just to get the degrees, not just to get the job, but as a city, we need a city college that will help us compete with all the other international cities of the world, and it happens righ

the firm aims to cut costs by using more locally made parts. toyota announced the plant will begin operation in the second half of 2015. it will produce 200,000 engines annually for corolla sedans manufactured in brazil and for compact cars. the compact car will be put on the brazilian market next month. toyota officials say the new plant will allow the automaker to increase the local parts procurement ratio. it will be raised to 85%. that's up from the current 70%. global automakers are scrambling to increase their production and sales in brazil as the u.s. and european markets are sluggish. u.s. and european car makers account for nearly 80% of the brazilian auto market. the world's fourth largest. however, toyota's market share in brazil was only 3% last year. >>> summer is usually a good time for beer makers. markets in europe and the united states are drying up due to the prolonged impact of the euro zone debt crisis. and that has prompted global breweries to turn to asia and fight over what is called the last frontier of their industry. n

the firm aims to cut costs by using more locally made parts. toyota announced the new plant will begin operation in the second half of 2015. it will produce 200,000 engines annually. these will be for corolla sedans already being manufactured in brazil and for etias compact cars. the etios will be put on the brazilian market next month. toyota officials say the new plant will allow the automaker to increase its local parts procurement ratio. this will be raised to 85%, up from the current 70%. global automakers are scrambling to increase production of sales in brazil as u.s. and european markets remain sluggish. u.s. and european carmakers account for nearly 80% of the brazilian auto market, the world's fourth larger. however, toyota's market share in brazil was only 3% last year. >>> japanese automakers are stepping up efforts to develop fuel efficient gasoline vehicles. suzuki motor recently developed a new technology to generate electric power. the system uses the energy that gasoline engines produce when the brakes are applied. the power is

local church. it might be building a law firm, building a local radio station but the point is that those things mattersaw in indiana and now in texas, the folks who won the primaries, remarkable stories, give them credit. but the major platform is we won't compromise. we are getting a bigger uncompromising caucus in congress and so compromise has become a four-letter word. >> yeah. >> people, they sell that. people want that. they vote for it and they go to congress and have to act that way. >> that's the problem. >> you make a good point. >> that's what they sell. >> it's not that the government doesn't want to work. it's that these tea partyers are not letting the government work. it blows my mind that this is what is selling and that they pushed that message so far? >> it's true. i come from vermont. we had -- i was in the minority served in the state senate. for some time, i was in the mighty minority, some in the majority. it worked in a finance committee, for instance, four democrats and threecrats or vice versa. we would be in that room together for four months, be getting information presented

gracias a dios >> este día otra autoridad local manifiesta respaldo en el acto de confianza que repararia daños del programa comunidades segura >> que el gobernador firmertamento de alguacil que apoya la propuesta >>> se unen apoyando a la comunidad >> se que otras agencias no comparten mi posición pero san francisco hace lo correcto >> tendrá hasta el 30 de septiembre para aprobar o rechazar el acto de confianza >> falta la firma del gobernador jerry brown para que tenganlas trabajadoras derecho a cobrar por horas extras >> incencio en una iglesia detalles en el centro médico el siniestro fue esta mañana en la catedral de san patricio >> salimos todos >> en san josé contienen siniestro nadie resultó lesionado, pero 3 negocios resultaron lesionados >> sentí feo como que la escuela haya pasado eso aunque no sospechan que fue provocado aun investigan >> apuñalan a dos agentes timoti ataco a los agentes con un instrumento que el mismo hizo >> el juez niega petición de defensa de la mujer acusada de la muerte de su ex amiga, estebanenfrenta carggos de homicidio >> evacuacion por mmás de dos horas, algunos agentes estuvieron en la escuela en el día >> en es

it hails from south america, and local chef xavier deya loves it. >> and we -- it's a very firm white fish. >> reporter: he went to entrepreneur to explore the possibility of the paiche, a once gravely endangered species. it's in and out sustainably farmed if a way to allows the fish to thrive without damaging the environment. >> we're always looking for different species of fish. >> the paic heismt he is one of the few that breathe air, coming up every 15 to 20 minutes. because it contains a lot of collagen, the flesh doesn't droid out in high heat, keeping it moist, even in the oven, being farmed keeps the price down. he says it costs him about $12 a pound, which he labels inexpensive. as for the taste. >> it's between chilean sea bass and halibut. >> reporter: our oceans are becoming depolited. over-fishing has cost us farming in a way that doesn't pollute is the next wave. >> very visual, nice in colors. it's light, it's fresh. >> and the chef is encouraging others to dive in. >> i dove into that. the fish, the paiche is low in fact and free of mercury, because it's in the fresh w

the relationship between ryan in the operating engineers local one thirty nine union with the relationship there is that paul ryan's family firm as you know they wrote so they actually depend very heavily on infrastructure improvements and it helps for them to have a unionized firm because you know politicians like to give word tonight firms and there's certain things like project leverage agreements which tend to favor you nice for him so it's a situation where he's very very closely his family's business but this union for years and paul ryan has always voted the the way. these companies will he's very anti worker period tell you that except for when it comes to these kind of project levy and his union said it is you you know he was the tie breaking vote last year to stop a ban on the. on project leader agreements which would have hurt his family's construction business so tell us more about this union no that's that's his union doesn't have like a history of complaints against it what's going on there so operating engineers local one thirty nine to tell you you know a sign of how great their solidarity is they're the only p

forecast take bucket of tourist money out of the town coffer and accusing the firm of public disinformation. mayor is not alone. localess people also want legal action. >> let's not get crazy ideas we are not suing spencer. >> i can give hiv him a special de-he didn't consult me. you last. >> here's time lapse view lovely time lapse view this evening from our high definition east bay camera western 68 and beautiful sky it is. sun sets. mid level clouds. is in colorful sunset and now we have some sprinkles headed our way. live doppler 7 hd. sprinkle are already here and parts of the santa cruz mountains. areas of light sprinkle and light showers touching the coast line there. moving up north just off the san mateo county coast line and up into the north bay hills. we have sprinkle and that is a picture we can overnight. tomorrow sea have had festival the san francisco. partly cloudy in the afternoon but mostly cloudy early in the day. get mailed in the afternoon up to 65 degrees so get out sample the great vendor food cool breezy in the evening. here's 7 day forecast after tomorrow cloud dissipate we have sunny skies

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. >> we have some very articulate, accomplished women who are elected firms at the local, the state and ability to lead and i think what people are wanting to do is to see women step forward and take a more prominent leadership role in our party. >> what blackburn and other gop officials told me today is that even though they did not succeed in akin forch forcing akin to - akin's future is, party leaders say they're waiting to see if he can sustain his campaign without gop money. >> all right, dana. thanks very, very much. watching some of the other top stories in t"the situation room right now. >> there is a lot going on here. mosquito spraying for the west nile virus taking on some urgency. officials are saying this is the biggest west nile outbreak in history. >> let's take a look at this. last week the cdc reported that there were 26 deaths and this week that number has gon to 41. again, a bg jump i o week anen lo atillnesses, we have gone from 693 in this country to 1,118. most states are reporting some west nile activity, but they really focus on these five states, 75% of the case

because they worry about these kind of issues but in some cases state and local government officials will work with investment firms to look for creative financing, jon. jon: create tiff gets paid back by a different generation, or so it would seem. mike emanuel in washington. thank you. >> reporter: thank you. jenna: right now we'll head overseas and get the latest there in syria. we have new reports that iran is calling for the syrian government, their ally to sit down with talks with opposition groups, the same groups they have been fighting in the streets. meantime president assad has assigned a new prime minister to replace the one that reportedly defected this week. while all this is happening, turkey is reporting that 50,000 syrians, 50,000, have crossed the border hoping to find refuge there in their country. leland vittert is live in jerusalem watching all of these developments. leland? >> reporter: hi, jenna. right now we not only have the humanitarian crisis on our hands but also appears though the rebels are really losing ground in the battle for aleppo. street-to-street fighting there, the rebels are r