also given that once the students are on little marina green, there is actually no fencing you would normally see on a playground at other schools in the city. and, you know, the drivers that are coming down marina boulevard have no indication there's going to be children at play during these hours, so, that is all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> patricia vaughan, [speaker not understood]. we're totally in favor of this and i want everybody in the room that's in favor of this to please stand up. now we don't have to have 50 repetitions. thank you. >> thank you. thanks, everyone. >>> commissioners, good afternoon. i'm brewster eli, head of the boys. [speaker not understood] had to leave because of the parking question he brought up. our pick up and drop off is way around in the west side of the parking lot. and, so, we have a whole system. it sort of breezed right through and keeps all of our families off any of the neighborhood streets other than accessing the back of the exploratorium site. so, his fears were allayed appropriately. my only comments t

a question came up, why we use inside the building and little marina green. and it's that the open space around the palace of fine arts is a designated -- it's a nonstructured recreation area. since we are a group use, we do not interfere with public access. we actually go across. so, that's why we have a protocol, but that's why we choose -- that's r why we're going to those recreation areas. >> got it. commissioner moore. >> i just wanted to express my full support for the project. i think it is a very wonderful continuation of the application for the expansion of the school on jackson street. i think it's very serendipitous that we find an appropriate interim user for a facility which needs to be occupied and needs to stay within the active public eye of san francisco given its somewhat peripheral location and accessibility. i believe that the low-key hardly noticeable reuse of the building is not really an issue. i think the school understands living in density and living with care, so, i am in full support. i believe that the question i had about accessi

over at marina green and crossing the street. indoor space will accommodate much of that need, but we will be seeking that outdoor time, both for recess opportunities as well as academic explorations in conjunction with chrisy field and the opportunities that are educational in nature over there and we look forward to those opportunities this year. we have worked with the fire department exclusively to make sure that the area is safe. we have practiced our drills and making sure that that is at the forefront of everything we do as an absolute priority to us. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon. my name is robin may and i have a son at the town school for boys. i live in the city and i'm actually a native resident of san francisco. my family and i moved within walking distance of the palace of fine arts. in an effort to respect your time, i am here as the parent representative for our 280 plus families. at the public meeting with rec and park we did have many parents present. our parent community is t

so, one more time we're live out here in marina green.have a special interview coming up you won't want to miss. the ran who really knows the inside about what's going to happen today if the race does go on. it's going to be interesting whether or not it's table to. my forecast says -- we'll have to wait and find out. >> i have my own wind sensors here. look at the bottom of the screen as we pull this. the bottom left. see the flag. when it blows around it's gusty. so there you go. talking about the gusts as well as you cross the bay, watch the san mateo and the bay bridge. look for the good volume of traffic. we look on the maps, the census dipping down to about 60 miles per hour. so it new big concern. more traffic through fremont. 680 out of fremont into sunol, all lanes cleared by chp but the big rig is on the shoulder. sounds like maybe a brake fire. calm past the season. heading to highway 84 you'll find the activity on the shoulder. that will be there, your commute direction moves smoothly. typical slowing through livermore and 580

and kpix 5's don knapp is at marina green with fans staked out to watch. >> reporter: that much hyped summer racing may not have worked out exactly as planned but today as the actual first races of the america's cup got under way people turned out and they got excited. after a summer of america's cup sailing doldrums it looks like the winds of enthusiasm have finally picked up. the sailing faithful never doubted. they say they as you knew the competition between the most advanced racing boats in the world would eventually catch on. >>> it just started this is the first day, the first race. everything else has been just a warmup. >> here we go. >> it looks to me like you are an oracle fan. >> you bet. >> reporter: but you're on a bike. doesn't look like you're paying much attention. >> i'm trying really hard to get to a focal point so that i can watch. >> reporter: super bowl of yacht racing might be playing before their very eyes. some folks on the green seemed interested in other things. >> it's a hot day. one of the perfect san francisco days that we always wish for. so we're just,

marina. this map is the infamous lipofaction map. the green areas are the areas that will have potential lip ofaction. that is a loss of strength of material when it is subjected to vibration. it can occur in sand and silt. those have to be saturated or below the ground water level. you can almost type dismount tie t --tie this map -- this area right here is the same as this one. it is all silt and will liquefy. the marina is in this area here. you can correlate the advancement of the shoreline of san francisco with the potential for liquefaction. >> it is a perfect example. it is all sold and liquefaction. >> treasure island is unique. it was originally developed to be the location of the world fair with the understanding that once it was finished, that would become the location of san francisco international airport. it is 11,000 feet long. in those days, the thought that was more than enough to land any conceivable airplane. they thought it was ideal. they said that we have all kinds of sand out in the bay from the sacramento river. we will

don't go to your staging area out in the marina green. shelter in place. that may be one of your options. choose a room with no windows, as few as possible. pick a room with toilet, water, phone, have it large enough for family members. precut plastic with duct tape. there should be a law. have your disaster kit in that room, have snacks available for kids. turn off the hvac, heating, ventilation air conditioning units because you don't want to be blowing in or sucking in the vapor cloud outside. fireplace, close the dampers and seal off your shelter in place room by using duct tape and terms of the emergency alert system. listen to the radio. that's it. do not try to call the school, try to pick up your children because do you want to leave the area? no, you want to shelter in place. people own pets. do not risk your safety for pets. in summary, it is likely you are at an incident that may be involved with bnice, your safety is the most important. limit your time, get your distance away from that and some type of shielding and listen to the emergency aler

from areas such as the marina green to washington square park to sunset playground, all a moe square, civic center, bernal heights to right here in balboa park, this project is going to touch parks and plazas across all of san francisco in every corner of our city. san francisco has been a leader in our technology community and our technology economy across our country and now we get to continue to play a role in being a leader bringing technology solutions to improve the lives of our residents here in our city. it's been a privilege to work on this project and to lead this effort the last two years and look forward to bringing the broader vision of free wi-fi across san francisco in the next few years with all the partners behind me today. this has been a strong collaboration on behalf of a lot of partners. in particular, google, sf city, our recreation and park department as well as our department of technology, and i want to thank all of those involved. this project started a little over two years ago with a conversation i had with an old family friend from google. and i want to ta

back to you though from marina green. >> thanks so much. 6:22.y start for a ripe harvest in the east bay. a vineyard that started picking its grapes at 3:00 this morning. [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to get great deals the easy way. you do enough flying around. that's why we give you real big club card deals. this week, a super low price on breakfast. honey bunches of oats is only $1.88 a box. arrowhead water is just $3.33 a case. make it a triple scoop. dreyer's ice cream is just $2.88. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>. >> welcome back. in wine country workers hitting the fields for the grape harvest. >> they were up early this morning picking those grapes, also up very early bob redell live with more details on the harvest and how this one compares to last year's crop. good morning. >> reporter: jon and laura, what you did over the past three or four hours did you pick ten tons of grape? they already finished a long time go. you're looking at some of t

at the marina green, allen martin, kpix 5. >>> so we have got racing on the bay and on the road a recipe for serious traffic. the san francisco giants are in town all weekend limping towards the end of the season. on a brighter note the oakland a's are at the coliseum hopefully sprinting towards the play-off berth and the san francisco 49ers kicking off their season against the green bay packers on sunday. add to all of that the new bay bridge. you're looking live at westbound traffic at the toll plaza. as we have been telling you all week, bridge traffic has been moving very slowly at times as drivers just look around and snap some pictures. the highway patrol says this busy weekend is probably not a good time to do that. >> we are anticipating significant traffic in the area particularly because we have some sporting events going on. i would say leave some extra time if you can, take public transportation if you want to really take a good look at the bridge use the pedestrian walkway. it's been open for a while now and a lot of people are out checking it out. >> the chp says if you are

official tells my since this all began july 4, 800,000 people have attended races here at the marina green and the second location, the pavilion, along the embarcadero. very exciting to watch. this is italy. stunning time-lapse video showing a capsized "costa concordia" cruise ship emerging slowly from the water. it took on workers 19 hours to bring the ship to upright giving us a new view of the intense damage the ship is covered in algae and slime and been underwater for 20 months. the "costa concordia" ran aground off the italian coast in january of last year killing 32 people. the captain is on trial with charges of manslaughter calling the shipwreck and abandoningship. >> pittsburg is adopting a ban on plastic bags giving approval banning groceries and other retailers from giving customers single use plastic bags. it does not apply to restaurants or protective bags for meat and produce. customers would pay a fee for paper bags. if the council formalizes the vote it would take effect january 15. the wind were blowing out katie marzullo's hair. >> you need a jacket and a kite today. it

used in a long time and intended to be restored as the harbor's master master oe and it's on the marina green and it has this thing on the top and do you notice this and the second town building did and the bigger ones were called monsters. isn't that right? and they call it a monitor and hampon roads and chesapeake bay in the civil war and a lot of these had monitors to let in light and sky light and the old marina station and i can tell you about this building and the side of telegraph hill and built by mr. gonya and a friend of ours and great uncle and personal residence out of concrete and this is an opening dome in the living room and large room ceiling. >> transamerica building. >> definitely unusual. cost $19 million to build this and 853 feet tall. 48 stories. >> and it's on the bay mud and did something novel and cut out equal amount of dirt to equal the weight of the building and dug it out to equal the amount. >> so it won't settle. >> and no piles. >> this is a landmark, an icon of san francisco and replace the anothereplacedanother landmark e building and survived the earthquake

america's cup village at marina green is a great location to watch, great view of the start line.e have reserved seating in our grandstand areas. tickets start at $40. >> the start line? >> right at the start line. the boats come right up to the shore so you have great shoreline viewing. they are selling quickly so we encourage everybody to come out and join us. >> real quick, one last spot, it's an historic ship where you can view the racing action? >> that's correct. it's located at pier 45 and it is a historical world war ii liberty ship. >> wow. >> you can view racing from the deck and cheer on oracle team usa or new zealand. >> reporter: i never thought i'd be doing an interview on a yacht. it's testing our skills with rocking back and forth. we did pretty good, i think. >> i think we did. >> reporter: let's look at the superforecast and what you'll be able to find is that temperatures have been influenced by the coastline. it dropped 20 to 30 degrees from what we experienced this weekend. let's look at the thursday forecast. temperatures start in the 60s. areas of cloud cove

it could go beyond port property over to marina green. so i think it's not just port -- from the port perspective but i would like to encourage you to think like that. we're going to hear more about water tax later today, but if there's a shuttle that goes back and forth and who are in the water transport business, if you can help think that through because you go on those, it's not friendly in the morning on 280 or the afternoon. >> i think we have 3 million people a year that take our fairy. a lot of people don't know that and that might be second to seattle. do you see a fairy from the treasure island coming over and maybe as a possible warrior and what the president was saying to really educate more of our community to the fact of the availability, the take water taxis like 15 or 20 percent of the people that go to the giant's game, it's fun and it's fast. to use the water front and a lot of our communities doesn't know the efficiencies of water tax. there's an alternative that people can take water taxes or taking them to the city. >

ones worried, about, it regionally, but there are obviously federal, land, involved here, and in marina green and fort mason and all of that area, and they have to face the same issues and so i guess how we are coordinating with either the federal or state level in terms of other areas that are related to area. and something that was jointly, you know, the plan and if we can't agree upon whether it is 35 inches or 55, it does not seem to matter, you have to agree upon a plan first and then technically you have to decide how far you are going to address the rise. so that is a lot to swallow, but those are the thoughts that were going through my head as we were talking. >> to answer your first part of the question, we are taking the steps, in particular, the project as you know, we tilted the deck, and you know, that made the deck higher at the water's edge. and which kind of eliminates or mitigates the sea level rise, effect, to some extent. but, i don't think that solution takes care of the 2100, sea level rise. and all of these other projects that we have, that these are projects on the wate

kpix 5's don knapp is at marina green where excited fans watched the competition today. hi, don. >> reporter: hi,ann. if the america's cup promoters were looking for something other than the races to bring out the fans today, they got it with the weather. it was terrific. and it seemed to work. after a summer of america's cup sailing doldrums it looks like the winds of enthusiasm have finally picked up. the sailing faithful never doubted. they say they as you knew the competition between the most advanced racing boats in the world would eventually catch on. >> it's it just started. this is the first day, the first race. everything else has been just a warmup. >> here we go. >> it looks to me like you are an oracle fan. >> you bet. >> reporter: but you're on a bike. doesn't look like you're paying much attention. >> i'm trying really hard to get to a focal point so that i can watch. >> reporter: super bowl of yacht racing might be playing before their very eyes. some folks on the green seemed interested in other things. >> it's a hot day. one of the perfect san francisco

. >>> a couple of people standing down by the marina green going i saw a miracle. >> kidding. >> i saw by that had oracle written on it that a week ago had no chance of being here today. 8 to 10. now, it's 8-8. >> wind is going to increase but uong weir going to hit that threshold where it's too much wind. all of you want to come into the city tomorrow, swert going to be okay for it all be it a bit breezy. we have ourselves mainly clear skies with a beautiful moonlit night we are having. oakland touched down the bay bridge. no low cloud cover to speak of. chilly night, though. we're going to lose that heat pretty quickly. napa down to 50. fairfield 52. oakland 57. redwood city 54. sunrise one minute after 7:00. mentioned earlier the wind is picking up. higher elevations really going to pick up late tomorrow. that will increase the fire danger. then we're going to get warmer. that's going to drop the humidity level. that will also increase the fire danger. fire weather watch has been issued for all higher elevations all throughout the bay area from tomorrow night until friday morning so

and i watched the races on the marina green where they were already dismantling some of the grandstands because they thought it was all going to be over. one more race. >> dennis, a great comeback, yes. but you got to have heard the people -- you must have heard the people saying, come on, the fix is in. >> reporter: yeah, right. well, the fact of the matter is they made some boat changes and you have to look at this race today new zealand blew it at the beginning of the start of that first race. that's the reason they were penalized. i didn't see any reason for a fix there. so the debate will continue as america tries to win this improbable comeback. >> it will continue until the next america's cup race too. thank you so much. >> larry ellison was scheduled to give the keynote address today at the oracle openworld conference. he didn't show. he sent one of his people to give the address instead so he could stay at the america's cup races. why not? dennis mentioned the score now tied at 8. the winner needs 9 to win the cup. the final race scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 1:15 weather

again, tap water is publicly available in places where it might not be so easy if you're at the marina green, at a park, things like that. we have also begun to participate in a national partnership called tap it where businesses sign up to be a "tap it" partner and they offer free bottle -- free refills of water for anybody that wants it. we have about 100 businesses participating here in san francisco. one thing that we've done at the puc is both on our website and through our mobile app that you can download, you can see where is the nearest "tap it" station. we're pretty excited. we only have it on the iphone now, but we are the communications team is planning on helping create that app for other platforms. so, coming soon if you're not an iphone user. >> i just wanted to say i think it's great that there is the expansion, but it sure seems like nowhere near enough. but i could see the map and it sure seems like there's a lot of areas that are tremendous gaps. i know the national park service looks out and some places have implemented specialized drinking fountain stations and filling st

that does not include the fans along the waterfront and at marina green. right now larry ellison is likely celebrating his victory on treasure island. this is a live picture. it's a yearly event scheduled as part of oracle's annual convention which is in town this week. maroon 5 and the black keys are performing tonight, and after the america's cup's big win today, you know that is a party there tonight. >>> a group of republican lawmakers urged brown to call a special session of the legislature to prevent a bart strike. they want to force a bill for bart not to strike and continue negotiating. they called on the governor to take swift action to ensure this labor dispute does not create a transportation nightmare. the governor responded saying that management and the union and not lawmakers, that most lawmakers thought it wasn't the right way to go in this instance. instead the governors called upon the parties to get serious, make the concessions needed and keep bart running. abc 7 news nick smith has more on the plans in the works to keep bart moving in

countless others lined the waterfront, and the america's cup village down at marina green..com we posted more photo and videos. look for our america's cup special section. just click on the sports tab on our home page. >>> it coincides with oracle's open world tech conference. treasure island is all lit up. the bands maroon 5 and the black keys are playing for what's billed as an appreciate event for oracle's customers and partners. >>> the san francisco 49ers are setting their sites on college football's biggest game. they're bidding on the national college championship game. the national championship game in college football is one of the most watched sporting events on television, behind the nfl playoffs and the super bowl. >>> new information tonight on the attack that left a pleasanton homeowner in critical condition. police say david lamont went outside saturday night to ask people to stop making noise. police have identified one individual in the case. he's 18 years old, and doesn't live in pleasanton. three other teens have been interviewed as witnesses. david lamon

our allen martin is at san francisco's marina green wi more on a hopeful turn-arou. will this be when the crowds show up for america's cup? mayor ed lee hopes so. the city is in the red... about seven million dollars if th don't. oracle hopes so. they're down two races and going to be millions of people coming to the town. but haven't seen 'em. >> reporter: maybe this weekend? >> maybe a couple of thousand. i don't know about millions. >> reporter: at ciao bella salon there's an open chair. if you get tired of walking around in the heat or watching the races, come in, sit down, get a manicure or a pedicure or both. but christina ran lives here too and she is a kiwi and a fan. >> my husband has bets that new zealand is going to win nine races with an american. >> reporter: in a row? >> yes. but i don't think that's going to happen. i think the boats are too big and the wind conditions are too unpredictable. >> reporter: well, the weather looks to be perfect tomorrow. san francisco's secret summer is here, hot and breezy and if nothing else that will draw crowds. allen