. >> the lombards are one of the barbarian invaders of the italian peninsula.seek to conquer rome and take over the territory that's being ruled by the papacy. >> during an easter procession, the lombards viciously attack pope leo iii. >> their faction wrestles him to the ground and cut off his tongue, but he lives through it. >> pope leo iii realizes that he needs protection and with no army of his own, he must make an alliance. he chooses the most powerful king in the western empire, charles the great of france, better known as charlamane. on christmas day in the year 800, pope leo iii calls charlamane where he calls him the roman emperor. >> that moment is really important. what it does, it puts the church together with the empire. if you have the pope crowning a king, that means the pope is giving that earthly king temporal and divine power. >> pope leo iii's decision to crown charlamane as the first roman emperor marks the change. >> the relationship had not been good for a while. >> charlamane in h view was the only christian emperor left. he developed a

something we need to continue to study and discuss with the public like we specificallily did for lombard street in district two, and it's not speaking we can implement over night. and if it's something we can move forward we can seek state authorization at that time. i just wanted to state that for the record and i will be supporting these particular recommendations, but i also want to make sure that when making decisions and things that we need to do as it relates to issues around congestion pricing, we are doing thorough studies to understand its impacts and whether or not it will have a significant impact with the lombard street in particular. it is yet to be determined, and i'm looking forward to the data when that's specifically implemented. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: okay. and then, let me also add that yesterday, we had a fun, if not contentious hearing about senate bill 827, which is sponsored by our very own senator scott weiner, and i would like staff to do their own independent analysis as have the city aplanning departf the city and county of san francisco. so with that

. >> the victim told police a man approached her as she walked on lombard street. he dragged her to watts street. lauren make spoke to people. >> it happened about 5:30 in the morning. you can see the mac walking. he grabs the woman pulling the woman around the corner, where police say he punched and sexually assaulted her and stole her backpack. this is the neighborhood in the daylight, where he showed the people to video who -- >> police just put this out. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: christina turner walks dogs for a living. >> that is ridiculous. as a woman that makes me a little nervous. >> reporter: police also released a second piece of video, showing a man they say was an accomplice, also walking along lombard. >> it makes me a little nervous, you know? i don't know. i always see strangers around here. so i try to stay away from them. >> reporter: the assault happened a block from busy broad street, but passers-by say they're leery walking here after hours. >> i hope they catch the person who did it. >>> we'll have new information at 5:00. >>> bill cosby is

. >> the lombards are one of the barbarian invaders of the peninsula.ek to invade rome and take over the territory ruled by the papacy. >> during an easter procession, the lombards viciously attack pope leo iii. >> their faction wrestles him to the ground and cuts off his tongue. but he lives through it. >> pope leo iii realizes he needs protection. with no army of his own, he must make an alliance. he chooses the most powerful king in the western empire, charles the great of france, better known as charlemagne. in christmas day in 800 pope leo crowns chalemagne holy roman emperor. >> he took on the role of defender of the faith. >> the moment he was found it puts the church back together with the empire. if you have the pope crowning a king that means the pope is giving that earthly king temporal and divine power. >> pope leo iii's decision to crown empire marks the pivot away from the eastern church. >> the relations between rome and eastern chrtians had not been good for a while. >> charli main in his have you he was the only legitimate christian emp

fox 29's dave schratwieser is live at 13 many and lombard where this all hammed. dave?reporter: iain this sexual assault has folks who live in this neighborhood and travel through it on edge tonight police used words like atrocious and brutal to describe this attack they say the suspect grabbed the woman right off the street corner. >> yes it's scares me. very badly. >> for women walking through the area near 13th and lombard in center city, there was deep concern tuesday evening after police announced that a woman was beaten, robbed and sexually assaulted here. >> pretty, like, terrifying being a woman i can definitely, you know, relate to probably being in her a situation like that. that's never happened to me before but the thought of that terrifies me. >> this man is overpowering much he's intimidating. he's, um, physically significantly more imposing than our victim. >> reporter: 5:30 sunday morning when surveillance cameras captured the suspects as he grabbed the 36-year-old victim on her way to work and viciously attacked her. >> he puts her in like a choke hold

police are trying to identify two suspects who confronted the woman sunday morning at 13th and lombard. police say one of the suspects pulled her where she was beaten sexual assaulted and robbed. >> right as they pass each other. he doubles back, puts her in headlock and takes her down where the assault take place and the assault was brutal in nature. in any immediately start striking her and things like that, there was sexual assault and it's very much a cause for concern. >> police say second suspect acted as the look-out. >>> if you recognize either them, call police. >>> many issues stim remain undecided ahead of bill cosby of sexual assault retrial. prosecutors and lawyers for the embattled comedian return for a second day of argument in norristown. prosecutors went to call 19 accusers to the washington, dc. cosby's lawyers seek to block the request. the judge has not released a time table. jury selection is scheduled do begin march 29th. >>> a big white house shake-up. president trump's top economic advisor gary cohen is resigning quit over the president's plan to impose tariffs

there will be a phase that goes first from lombard to bay, second phase from silver to lombard. and the third to philbert. we have continued with our partner agencies, and again, this is a multi-agency project to work closely with the neighbors and the businesses to do what we can to minimize disruption and anybody who wants up-to-the-minute info can go to sfpublicworks.org/polk. two other project updates, the castro accessibility improvements project which is a project to install second elevator at the castro station on the south side of market to better improve accessibility is advancing forward. we had held two open houses earlier this month as well as an online poll so that we could have the public weigh in on different design concepts for the elevator. we are gathering that feedback and will bring that forward to the civic design review process which is under the purview of the arts commission later this month so that we can keep that project moving forward and o do so many a way that has a design -- and do so in a way that has the design and support of the surrounding comm

police are trying to identify two suspects who confronted the woman sunday morning at 13th and lombard. police say one of the suspects pulled her where she was beaten sexual assaulted and robbed. >> right as they pass each other. he doubles back, puts her in headlock and takes her down where the assault take place and the assault was brutal in nature. in any immediately start striking her and things like that, there was sexual assault and it's very much a cause for concern. >> police say second suspect acted as the look-out. >>> if you recognize either them, call police. >>> many issues stim remain undecided ahead of bill cosby of sexual assault retrial. prosecutors and lawyers for the embattled comedian return for a second day of argument in norristown. prosecutors went to call 19 accusers to the washington, dc. cosby's lawyers seek to block the request. the judge has not released a time table. jury selection is scheduled do begin march 29th. >>> a big white house shake-up. president trump's top economic advisor gary cohen is resigning quit over the president's plan to impose tariffs

it hammond on lombard around 5:30 sunday morning. you can see the man pull the woman around the building there. >> right as they pass each other, he doubles back, puts her in a headlock and takes her down the street where the assault took place. the assault was brutal in nature. and it's very much a cause for concern. >>> and police say there was a second suspect who appeared to act as a lookout. >>> bill cosby's lawyers are fighting to keep a long list of women from testifying against the comedian at his upcoming retrial. cosby was up for day two of pretrial hearings today. the comedian's lawyers say the accusers are peddling ancient allegations that would sway the jury. they also want the jury to hear the details of cosby's secret settlement with the woman he's accused of sexually asauce the in 20 on 4. >>> coming up, travel troubles, for people hoping to fly the friendly skies. >>> and how this wicked weather is creating new fears about a longtime landmark in new jersey. >>> and the time you don't want to be on the roads? look at

look at this surveillance video sunday morning at 13th and lombard. can see one suspect walk up to the victim there and suspect pulled the victim on south watts street where she was beaten, sexually assaulted and rob. authorities are working to identify the suspect. >> right as they tap each other doubles back puts her in the head lock and takes her down watts street when the assault takes place. at salt was brutal in nature. i mean they metally start striking her and things like that and of course, there is a sexual assault and it is very much a cause for concern with us. >> investigators say second suspect acted as a look out. if you have any information call philadelphia police. >>> coming up next on "eyewitness news" latest honor nor'easter we have team three coverage across the area >> we will tell but yet another shake up in the white house one of the president's top advisors has resign we will have details when we continue hey, need fast heartburn relief? try cool mint zantac. it releases a cooling sensatio n in your mouth and throat. zantac wo

fox 29's dave schratwieser is live at 13th and lombard where this all happened.ave. >> reporter: iain this attack caused serious concern if the neighborhood. police describing attack as vicious they say the suspect grabbed the victim right off the street. >> yes it scares me very badly. >> woman near cautiously through the area after word spread a arthritic-year-old woman had been brutally beaten, robbed and sexually assaulted here. >> pretty, like, terrifying being a woman i can definitely, upping, relate to. probably being in her situation like that that's never happened to me before but the thought of that terrifies me. >> this man is over powering. he's intimidating. he's physically significantly more imposing than our victim. >> 5:30 sunday when surveillance video captured the suspect as he grab the 36-year-old victim on her way to work and viciously attacked her. >> he puts her in like a choke hold sort of a head lock and forces her down to 400 block of south watts street. >> police say the suspect repeatedly punched the woman, robbed her, then sexually ass

you can leave lombard to the tourists as for thrills and a dash of laughs of course some say it doesn't get any better than this weekend. that's when they hold the bring your own will race on vermont at 20th street. that's in the fortero hill. that event starts at 3:00 p.m. sunday for kids and starts at 4:00 p.m. for all of the oversized kids like you see there. >> probably good that they separate the kids from the kids. >> i've always wanted to go to this event auto. i was at toys "r" us one morning and two larger grown men carrying these big green machines and they were going there. >> jealous, right? >> let's see if we can see them. >> there he is. >> oh, my god. >> that one looked like it was souped up. my pediatricians would be going, helmet. >> knee pads. >> yeah, helmet. raid the helmet for a bonnet this weekend. >> i love your whole bonnet thing. >> maybe it's just a little house on the prairie kind of thing. >> whatever you will be wearing this weekend it's looking great. we are excited to have such a nice weekend ahead. it's going to start out in the upper 40s and low 50s as y

caught on surveillance videoyou can see suspect struggling with that woman as she walk down 13th and lombard around 5:30 sunday morning. police said he pulled her on to south watts street, where she was beaten, sexually assaulted and then robbed. >> right as they we have each other he doubles back, takes her down, lock street where at salt takes place and then just the assault was brutal in nature. he starts striking her and things like that and there was a sexual assault. it is very much a cause ofconcern with us. >> police are also looking for a second suspect they say have a look out take a good look if you recognize suspects, call the police. >>> two suspects are wanted for robbing little caesars in west oak lane this happened at ogontz avenue location sunday night, police say one suspect was arm with the handgun and got away with $500. no one was hurt. >>> still to come on "eyewitness news" bracing for the storm a live look from sky scan three in plymouth meeting as that winter weather moves in but how much snow will fall where you live? kate bilo has the latest track >>> some philadelp

crimes can happen in any neighborhood, but the hotspots include popular tourist attractions such as lombard street, palace of fine arts, and japan town. >> it is a target rich environment. when they know they can commit crimes here and not really face significant consequences if caught you have no reason to go commit crimes anywhere else. >> reporter: residents are frustrated . >> slaps on the wrist should probably stop. if you repeatedly commit these property crimes there should be some harsher sentencing. >> reporter: police urge anyone who sees something suspicious to report it right away. the department says it has increased patrols and they have seen a downward trend in property crimes starting late last year. in san francisco with ktvu fox2 news. >>> san francisco's interim mayor mark farrell supports a ballot measure that would speed up the timeline for the police to buy tasers for its officers. >> we would be better off to have it passed through the commission. i think everybody believes that. they have had it in front of them for months and have not acted. until such time as they d

. >> the main core of the project goes from market it lombard that's where we'll be replying the sidewalks there are a number of trees that need to be replaced and they will be additional new planting. >> we're planting a lemon gum that gets to be 50 or 60 feet tall that comes over the offer head wires that wee when we get done van ness it will look like a new street it will visit fresh new looks like the grand boulevard again. >> we're going eliminating left turns off of van ness into the side streets and places the left turning traffic backs up the traffic and upgrading the signals to the mini traffic will flow more smoothly and traffic impacts as we execute the construction signed we're working to minimize these but impacts that will likely shift the traffic up franklin and we'll pick up the traffic. >> right now that looks like we're skeleton to start in march ever 2016 are of our construction. >> in the past people prospective of bus traffic that go unreliable and noisy and very fluting we're here to remake the vehicles are on the streets and with the combination of the brt improvemen

predator and his accomplice after an attack on a woman in center city and released surveillance on 1300-lombardtreet sunday and he grashed and choked the women at 5:30 a.m. and pulled her on a side street on 400-watts and the other man was a look out and a vigil was held for a 23-year-old woman fatally shot driving a van with her twin and three small children inside and people gathered in philadelphia to remember tiesha-timmons and two weeks ago she was driving on 5700 north broad street when two men opened fire and her twin says the horrible day keeps replaying in her head. >> it's tough like i can't go to sleep at night with my lights on considering the fact i was in the car when it happened. >> reporter: and no arrests have been made in timmons death the judge in the bill cosby is weighing to let the jury hear activations as many as 19 other women and the pretrial hearings ended without a ruling yet to come and prosecution and defense if details of cosby's settlement with andian constrand can be used and the trial is scheduled for april 2. things got heated at tonight's town hall meeting abo

center city look at surveillance video you can see one suspect appace victd sunday morning at 13th and lombard. police say one of the suspects pulled the victim in is to south watts street where she was beaten, and rob. investigators are working to identify those suspects. >> right as they pass each other he doubles back, puts her in the head lock takes her down watts industry when the assault takes place and the assault was brutal in nature. they immediately strikes striking her and things like that and of course, a sexual assault. it is very much a cause for concern with us. >> police say second suspect acted as a look out. if you recognize either suspect please cat police. >>> an officer is dead and two others hurt after a shooting in missouri this happened in clintone of the border with kansas. officers were shot as they entered in response to the 911 call. suspect barricaded themselves inside as swat teams and more police arrived. eventually they did get inside and found suspect dead. it is not clear how he died. other two officers have non- life threatening injuries. >>> still ahead on "

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part suspension on the jubilee line. 0n the roads, a23 purley way in waddon is closed between the lombardgood morning. certainly an icy start this morning but the wintry threats are starting to recede now. it is very chilly out there, though, and so do watch out for the ice, particularly where you have some lying snow, and then a dry and bright day ahead, although we do start with some cloud around the first thing but it is doing nicely, we'll get some sunshine developing, particularly the further north you are. still a very cold day — not as cold as it was through the weekend but the very best we will see is four or five degrees and that is somewhat tempered by the easterly wind. the wind is easing which is good news, but as we go through the night, it means temperatures fall away sharply this evening. we have some cloud moving towards us from the north. that could give a wintry flurry — no more than that expected. it means some places like central london, temperatures could hold up just above freezing. for tomorrow, starting to feel an awful lot more like spring has sprung. it is the eq

property crimes can happen in any neighborhood but that hotspots include tourist attractions like lombardtreet, to pan town -- japan town among others.>> when they know they can commit crimes enough a significant consequences they have no reason to commit crimes anywhere else.>> reporter: the resident say they are frustrated.>> slaps on the wrist should stop. if you repeatedly commit crimes there should be harsher sentences. >> reporter: police are urging people who see something suspicious to report it right away. the departments as they have increased patrols there is a downward trend in property crime starting late last year. back to you, frank.>>> san francisco's interim mayor says he supports a measure to speed up the timeline to purchase tasers for the officers. >> i believe everybody believes it will be easier to pass it off to the commission. until the act on a policy that makes sense and allows our men and women of our to police department use this equipment i will be -- supporting the ballot measure. >> if approved, this will allow the department to buy tasers as soon as august.

the media probably by the lombards is that the beast will. be maintained on the. back of the monastery was destroyed its manuscripts burnt and its knowledge lost and yet for centuries cassiodorus has inspired those hungry for knowledge right through to the present. we built a first gallery on the web for digital photographs of manuscripts and we needed a name for it and i have been doing a lot of reading about cross uterus for my research and found it very interesting and he was a collector of manuscripts from both the latin and the greek world and we were working both in europe and he's your christian countries so we took the name for that gallery. four hundred kilometers north of us when r.j. lies the bay of naples with mighty mt vesuvius. a volcanic eruption in seventy nine eighty devastated herculaneum claiming thousands of lives. traces of that dramatic events can be seen in the national library of naples. one of the few libraries of antiquity to has survived through to the present day. unfortunately apart from a few fragments these traces of the past cannot

i want to learn more about the garages owned by the mta including the lombard garage.'m calling for safety procedures in place in city owned and operated parks and garages and strangs and plans for future public safety initiatives and look forward to a report back and will schedule as soon as possible. >> the clerk: supervisor tang. >> thank you. >> >> the clerk: supervisor yee. president breed. supervisor cohen. >> submit. >> the clerk: supervisor fewer. thank you, supervisor, kim. supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madame clerk. i'm introducing an amendment to division 1 of our transportation code to establish a violation for private scootership programs operating in our city without a permit. last year when blue go-go announced they'd be dropping hundreds if not thousands of their stationless bikes then supervisor fewerer and i agreed to establish a permit to keep them from blocking sidewalks and make sure they serve communities in need not just in our downtown core. the latest entrance into this space is stationless motorized scooters when we were shown how stationle

detectives just released this surveillance video of the attackers along the 1300 block of lombard street. one grabbed and strangles the victim at 5:30 a.m. and pulls her to the corner of south watt-street and stole her backpack from running away. >>> pretrial hearings are finished in the retrial of bill cosby. and the young must decide what both sides can present in the case. vernon odom was live there today. >> bill cosby leaves court after a day and a half of previal hearings thateatured hand to hand combat between the da and the defense team. he spoke briefly with the media. >> this will be tried in the courtroom not the media. >> cosby lawyer, becky james argued against the prosecution bid to bring in to testify at least 19 women that say they too were drugged and sexually assaulted dating back to the 60s. they need their testimony to establish a pattern of bad conduct. and they say it's ancient allegations too old to be credible. and they say this is about two people bill cosby and andrea constand. she believes it's to stir up because of the me too movement. she says cosby drugged a

prefer to burn your calories and not eat them, you can participate in the ride around the marina, lombard. you get in here the ferry at 11:00 a.m. to wrap things up on a sweet note. master chocolaters and once you've had your fill of tastings. you just might learn something by sitting in on the chefs and baker talks. you can get details on these events and more just go to our website, abc7news.com and we'll link you up with hoodline. >>> now to a different kind of bird's-eye view. check out this view of penguins posing for self-ys. a man lost his camera near a research station, and when he returned, he discovered these curious penguins looking into the lens. >>> teenagers, they have a new trick to hide vaping from parents and teachers. >> like behind the teacher's back, and then just like try to -- >> yeah, there's a little gadget that's causing big problems in schools. >>> and dana's here with what's come up on abc7 news at 5:00. >>> new at 5:00, we have contraband -- students walk out of class in the south bay, there's talk about money being mismanaged and an investigation by the feds.

can bare as much as you dare for the ride around popular spots like fisherman whav wsh the marina lombard haight. the even is free of costs and clothing and begins near the ferry building saturday. on the sweet note at the san francisco international chocolate salen. master chocolatiers and cull near artisan provide gourmet premium chocolate in every shape and size. kwuns you had the fill of tasting you might learn something by sitting in on one of the author talks. the eventual is at the hall of flowers sunday from 11:00 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. you can get details on these events and more go to the website. abc news.com and we'll link you up with hood line. >>> all rights thanks very much. >>> sports director larry beil with all the sports. and oh, oh. >> would you be willing -- how are your ankles by the way? would you like to give an ankik transplant. it's happened to steph curry, the right ankle. the latest tweak against the spurs. there it is. what does it mean in the long run? for golden state? sports is next. >>> good evening. it almost seems like steph curry right aiken sell a magnet

property crimes can happen in any neighborhood, but that is a hotspot, lombard street, palace of fineown. >> it's a rich environment for criminals. when they know they can commit crimes here and not really face significant consequences if they are caught, they have no reason to commit crimes anywhere else. >> reporter: residents say they are frustrated. >> slaps on the wrist should probably stop, in our view. you have repeatedly committed these crimes. there should be a harsher sentence. >> reporter: please urge anyone that sees something suspicious to report it right away. department has increased foot patrols and they see a downward trend in property crimes starting last year. in san francisco, amber lee, ktvu fox 2 news . >>> a ballot measure is being supported to speed up the timeline for officers to buy tasers. >> it would be better to have this. everybody believes that. they have had this in front of them for months and months and haven't acted. until such time they act on a policy that makes sense and allows our men and women of our police department use this equipment, i will

now, folks know about lombard, noted as the curviest road in san francisco, probably in the world, in some people's book. we're talking vermont. look at this video. this will tell the story. give it a couple seconds. this is the big wheel race. bring your own big wheel race. every weekend this happens on vermont street. this is in the potrero hill area right by mckinley square. a very steep roadway. and the organizers have two divisions. one for the kids at 3:00 and one at 4:00 for the adults. anyone over 14. you'll notice they have plastic wheels. that's because one of the few rules is you have to have plastic wheels. i think because traction is boring. and you have to have a helmet and you have to sign a waiver for the adults and a waiver for the kids as well. this is an annual event which i have not yet been to. it looks like a lot of fun. maybe we can get an nbc bay area team. >> did you see that there were kids the dressed like the p. pamplona bulls. >> that's april 1st. you can check out all these cool stories online and the breaking news you've been talking about. >> happening

this bill is wrong, it's saying let's put high rises on lombard street. thank you. >> supervisor tang: going to call more names here. catherine, kathy, dennis, dr. lisa, ozzie. >> my name is greg miller, i think the proposed senate bill is atrocious public policy. the bill would essentially privatize and automate the planning process to replace the power to transform the character of our communities in the hands of individual real estate developers and investors. competitive pressures will make expected profit margins that criteria for urban planning. the combined impact of many individual business decisions is unlikely to lead to ideal optimal outcome. eventually overbuilding and lower quality of life seem to be the likely outcome. for those who doubt this, i refer you to the performance of the unregulated banking industry in the course of the previous decade. thank you. >> next speaker. >> my name is ashley, i'm the vice president of the marina community association, we strongly oppose this bill. i would like to say that i'm appalled by this bill. it is

joining us now is christopher grandville from ts lombard great to have you in studio. >> good morningthis >> this uncertainty around the saudi aramco ipo comes as mohammad bin salman has a meeting with president trump do you think this will come up in the meeting or will he stick to national security and geopolitics? >> i think will very much come up there's a state visit planned by mohammad bin salman's father, he's the crown prince, his father is the king of saudi arabia, king salman's trip is planned for later in the year. the political and geopolitical agenda in the middle east and the president trump's strong alignment with saudi will come up at that visit this one is all about economics, finance, the modernization program for the saudi economy. >> it's ironic in a way because you look at the u.s. oil shale boom that we've seen, that pushed the saudis to diversify their economy away from oil and go through this massive transformation that they're going through now. do you think the access to the shale boom market, the impact it's had in oil prices will be a part of the discussion