than that, currently on lombard street, there's over -- we counted 17 according to the park -- mark ferrel's office, 23 vacant places, they've been hit with graffiti, homelessness and your nation and all kinds of problems on these vacancies, our main goal is to fill up all these vacancies, lombard street needs a big business like that, needs pet food express to open up so it can attract other businesses to open up near it and we need the foot traffic that's going to come that will help all the side streets as well as that are currently struggling. when we talk about the currently closed businesses on lombard, we always forget that these businesses used to be open and these businesses were operating at one point or another and now they are closed and we don't want to forget that the current businesses on lombard street are struggling. i've spoke with many of them, 45 of them are our members, they're all struggling and they are in need for something like that to happen, they need change on lombard. this is the right thing for change on lombard street. thank you. >> hello, my name is natalie ro

with more on this we are joined on the san francisco supervisor mark ferrell, he is acting mayor for the city. is he speaking the san francisco public utilities commission. good morning. >> good morning. >> i understand you just received an update an hour ago. >> yes. just had our saturday morning update at seven from the public utilities commission. as acting mayor i have been continuely in touch with the mayor, his staff and the puc here and continue to receive these briefings on the rim fire. >> what is the situation? is it getting worse, are we holding stead steady? a knowhow are we looking? >> here is what we know as of this morning. the fire has grown from 103,000 acres yesterday to 12 5,000 acres this morning. it's grown but at a smaller pace than it had been growing over the past few days. we do have federal, state and local firefighters actively attempting to contain the fire right now. we have approximately 30 san francisco fire departments people up there and serge -- want to take the time to thank them. >> let's talk about how serious this situation. you have the power is