mary ellen is here and can explain the need for that in a moment. but what this legislation does, if dem gets the approval and funding, it allows them to expand onto those two tennis courts you see that are covered in the blue property line. it also would require them, if and when that expansion goes forward, to compensate the recreation park department to the tune of $4 million, which you see in the amendment before you. so that we can work to replace that recreational asset within the western edition. and last slide i have for you, a rendering of what the new park will look like. with lots of happy people enjoying it. before mary ellen carole comes up, i want to briefly explain the amendments that you were provided. they do three things. they make a small adjustment to the property lines. our calculations were off by 7 square feet in the original. they up the amount that dem would pay the department if they do expand onto the tennis courts from $3 million to $4 million. that is an adjustment for how much it costs to build tennis courts now as oppo

it is mary ellen hannibal and i am an environmental journalist. my most recent book is called citizen scientist searching for heroes and hope in an age of extinction and the volunteers that we do have, thousands of volunteers in the city, removing invasive plants and planting native plants, are citizen scientists and heroes. and what we are doing is protecting native ecosystems here in san francisco. and just to tap back to the first part of the meeting tonight to the climate summit, and all of the huge herculean things that we will have to do to mitigate climate change, one of the most important things is something we are already doing, which is supporting the native ecosystems. as the climate bears down on us, our first defence is the healthy and resilient ecosystem. we need to do everything we can, as bob explained, to keep those native plants in the ground and have the relationship with those butterflies that are endangered, at all of the birds and small mammals and reptiles and amphibians, et cetera that use them. i too look to the day when w

. >> mary ellen is peter moore's wife. >> couldn't believe it. >> dwroid you think it had something toth what happened? >> i didn't think that first. say what are they doing at our house? >> i got out of the car, said what the [ muted ] is going on here, two cops escorted me to the front of the house. >> mary ellen and peter asked what was going on, they were land ed handed the search warrant, investigators were asking about anything connected to bomb making. >> i said how do you know it's a bomb? >> that's the first you heard it said? >> we thought it was an accident. >> did they seem to be accusing the two of you? >> yes. >> both of you? >> yes. >> were you frightened? >> what were you afraid of? >> that they thought we did it. >> around calusa, the raid on peter's house just days after roberto's death was big news. a neighbor began sending out realtime updates on facebook. >> there was a parade of cars driving around the whole neighborhood. >> as these detectives were asking you questions? >> as they were going through my house. >> and when they left? >> they took our computeers and

he is an author of the study many of we also have mary ellen carole the director of the department ofd angus carty and oohed like to bring up professor to discuss a little bit about the recommendations in this report. >> thank you. i've been working on a team with the applied technology council with the team of other academics and technical engineers to develop this. there's 16 recommendations in our plan. i won't a at the present time to go through all of them. a few of the high points, first to get a handle on the issues with tall buildings, we initiated developing a data base of how many tall buildings are there in san francisco. what are their occupancy and about what types of materials were they built out of. depending on the age and materials of the buildings, we learned things through subsequent earthquakes. with concrete structure and in 1994 north ridge earthquake and l.a. we learned about fracture issues with frames. in the existing building inventory of tall buildings there's many of those tall steel moment frame buildings in the city. so from that, we developed recommendat

. >>> up next, emily blunt, on an interview today, the actress sat down with ellen to talk about her new movie "mary audience. blunt was nervous about the performance. she got assistance from the backstreet boys. take a listen. ♪ tell me why ain't nothing but a heartache ♪ ♪ tell me why ain't nothing but a mistake ♪ ♪ tell me why i never want to hear you say ♪ ♪ i want it that way 'cause i want it that way ♪ >> you left me alone. >> that was your part. >> beautiful. she did so well. you see the rest of her interview with ellen, check the local listings and tune in later today. >> that song is in "mary poppins"? >> it should be. thank you, sheinelle. >>> now, to something special. we're celebrating 15 years of our annual series "thanks and giving," highlighting st. jude children research hospital. kristen went on the road with marlo thomas and the inspiring kids of st. jude. >> reporter: on a misting morning near the arch of st. louis, nothing could dampen the spirits of this team. >> come on, everybody. >> reporter: it's a trip the st. jude patients and their families have taken many times before. >