whether your senator mark leno born in new york or scott wiener in new jersey or jose and i from boston or supervisor campos from lance we're the beacons for the rest of the world for the diversity the idea that today, we have a symbol that's a beacon for the rest of the world is a symbol that used to stand for had a and for intolerance and death the fact we'll turned that around is an incredible day i'm honored and delighted to be part of it thank you patrick for your leadership and let's go celebrate with the goats and flours happy pride weekend everyone (clapping.) thank you supervisor chiu please welcome supervisor david campos >> thank you no one can top the comedy of tom, i won't try i'll make a couple of points this is a special day for me as a kid born in guatemala mall i think of the kids still in guatemala who are gay and can't be who they are there are countries that's the case it's true in this country and region in the bay area we've come far but we haven't come far enough as much as the lgbt community has accomplished most of the communities don't have the rights we enjoy

like to thank all those who will be speaking the mayor ed lee first (clappin (clapping) senator mark leno (clapping) assembly member tom (clapping) assembly member phil king (clapping) supervisor campos. supervisor scott wiener (clapping) oh, the treasure of the city and county of san francisco jose is a in her (clapping) raphael from the county college trustee (clapping) to tell the history of the pink triangle we're honored to have one of our stars from the orange city block (clapping) she'll be speaking a little bit later we're happy to have the grand marshall's of the prayed. i'll be speaking before he speaks and so some of the community grand marshall's we have julia that will be speaking later (clapping) and we also have the organizational grand marshall why not come up (clapping.) i'm not sure if the other grand marshall's are here can i raise your hand larry and david any more grand marshall's here?. i mentioned melanie she'll be speaking and thrilled once again to have the san francisco's official abandon the looeb and gay freedom band. i'd like to thank our sponsor sf pride and

the president of the board of supervisors president chiu (clapping) we're honored to have senator mark leno that has spoken at all our ceremonies we're thankful for that. thank you senator >> thank you patrick and pauline and all who have come out our freedom band. >> wow. (clapping.) we want to thank lou and thrilling who knew there were so many pink flowers in san francisco. and also thank our volunteers that got up to make sure our triangle was on twin peaks i don't know how patrick got everyone up so early (laughter) >> those are not balloons they're coming condoms. >> but looking at the pink flowers and pink champaign and the marching band and family and friends you would think we're celebrating someone's birthday. >> yeah. we are. >> we'll have things later in life by the fact we're commiserating the torture abuse and initialtion of homosexuals in nazi europe really speaks a lot to the nature and the strength and the resilience of our lgbt community who else would take a symbol of mocky and recreate it as a national symbol of pride that's our community and that's what we're celebratin

when you look at supervisor tang and supervisor chiu and supervisor elsbernd, back to supervisor mark leno, some really amazing -- supervisor olague, some strong people who agree or disagree with them have been appointed to this board of supervisors. when you look at how other local governments do it that's important, but also let's take a look at how it happens on a national level. when there are vacancies in the u.s. senate, i don't know if it's in all states, but certainly in most, the governor appoints a senator to fill out at least until the next general election. we have u.s. senators, one out of 100 senators helping to run the united states of america who will serve for a year or two years in that appointed capacity, and then run again when someone loses, once they run for reelection. you can have a president of the united states who has to fill out a term who is not elected depending how it works. i don't think it is immediately evident you have to trigger a special election to somehow serve democracy. when someone is appointed and they have to stand for election, that serves democ

the bill was authored by senator mark leno.te law in line with court ruling that's recognize marriage for sex couples. the california and u.s. supreme courts arrived the right, current state laws have not been revised to reflect the changes. >> pope francis apologized to vicñËs of clergy sex abuse today and vowed to hold bishops accountable for failing to protect children. he asked them for forgiveness. he said in his homily it's the responsibility of bishops to carry out ministry with care and keep minors safe. . >> i beg your forgiveness by bishop that's did not make public the abuse. >> today's meet wags not the first of its kind but the first in francis's papacy. he said he called the meeting so victims would feel welcomed. >> five people are dead after an earthquake in south america. a news broadcast was interrupted by the quake. the 6.9 quake felt as far as mexico city through central gaud malla and south as el salvador the quake damaged dozens of homes, at least, it also triggered a number of landslides in the guatemalai

the bill was authored by senator mark leno.ation brings state law in line with court ruling that's recognize marriage for sex couples. the california and u.s. supreme courts arrived the right, current state laws have not been revised to reflect the changes. >> pope francis apologized to vicñËs of clergy sex abuse today and vowed to hold bishops accountable for failing to protect children. he asked them for forgiveness. he said in his homily it's the responsibility of bishops to carry out ministry with care and keep minors safe. . >> i beg your forgiveness by bishop that's did not make public the abuse. >> today's meet wags not the first of its kind but the first in francis's papacy. he said he called the meeting so victims would feel welcomed. >> five people are dead after an earthquake in south america. a news broadcast was interrupted by the quake. the 6.9 quake felt as far as mexico city through central gaud malla and south as el salvador the quake damaged dozens of homes, at least, it also triggered a number of landslides i

state senator mark leno who authored the bill says it ensuring all married couples are recognized equally. >>> the singer madonna did her civic duty by showing up for civic duty in new york. madonna made her way into court in a dark suit. she didn't have to do a lot of waiting. the county clerk, pulled her aside. reportedly joked about sequestering her and sent her home. it would have caused more distraction by keeping her on the jury. >>> in five minutes, our chief meteorologist bill martin with the forecast and the trend he's tracking this week. >> abandoned with a message. written in black marker. the disturbing way a dog was dumped on a downtown street. oh chris, did you remember to pay the dog sitter? oh i knew i forgot something... i'll just do it now. well, we're boarding. no, i'll use citi mobile. takes two seconds, better safe than sorry right? yeah who knows if we'll even get service on the islands? what! no service? seriously? no electricity, we're going to make our own candles, we're going to churn our own butter. oh, we lost one. can't leave a bag unattended. bank from almost