thanks to the good stewardship of mayer brown and others and the good stewardship of ed lee, it nevergoing to happen again. then, in around 1983, into my office what gordon swanson, then the head of the chamber of commerce, and rick, who suggested doing and historic trolley festival, and that historic trolleys festival was set to just operate during the tourist season from fisherman's wharf down to castro just for four months. the next year, 1984, was the democratic convention, it was easy for me to convince him to continue that that year. then, it was expanded to a five- year plan, and it existed for five years. well, it has been a few decades since then, and the historic trolley festival is still going on. [applause] now, i understand the route is going to be extended. one of the great things about this city is you have people who really do care, not a year in and year out, but decade after decade after decade. rick is one of those people, so you would do me a great honor if you would give him a big round of applause. [applause] i will tell you a little story -- we were standing in

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. >> john mayer in the district. honored at grammys on the hill on capitol hill for his role in advocating for music education. the eight-time grammy winner says music class was not only important for him but essential for future musicians. >> for all those tal enter. a -- tal enteents. >> on a deeper level, locating people born with a gift. >> mayer chanced his spring tour because his vocal condition, granuloma flared up. he says that it presented him more opportunities to perform with his guitar. >> next up in sports. we'll tell you all about it. talking about the caps, folks, who are going to the >>> we are rocking the red in this town tonight. dan, go ahead. take it, man. >> i like to call this a complete sports night for washington, d.c. sports fans. you have the nationals. you have the wizards. most importantly because it is the post season you have the capitals. this one followed the script in the series. they go to overtime. another one-goal game. the only thing that really didn't follow the script, the capit

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sure it is not only serving all of us, but that it welcomes in the new route we are creating that mayer brown has worked so hard to get established. now, with the help of senator feinstein and the help of so many of our delegation and state representatives, we will start and finish that central subway that will also be the complement of the third street light rail. that will be another admission that we look forward to our transit system representing, to connect up eventually to what we have already started at the transbay terminal so that all of our muni transit system can connect up to the wonderful world of high-speed rail. that will be in our lifetime. not just a wish. we are taking steps to make sure that is a reality. that is our future. we cannot risk the inability to have our transit system connected up to all of our areas. and then, to help muni establish the bus rapid transit systems along geary, venice, that will be done in a very short time, and we got some help because today we announced the rebuild of our hospitals, and they are contributing to the rapid transit systems. s

look at you. >> reporter: pup has treated mayer for his leukemia since he was just a kid.duating high school senior. he calls pup a caring person would always looks out for your best interests. >> most kids are small and the whole hospital is built around that. you feel more of a teenager, more of an adult-tip thing and he streets you like one. >> mayer is no stranger to children's hospital but 10-year- old andre was just diagnosed with cancer in december. >> even when andre is not vague good day, he ends up at least cracking one smile because pup keep at it until he is feeling better. >> the days i was like mad, i was just serious, i growled at him. i'm happy he didn't growl back at me. he is always nice. >> pup can handle the occasional growl. he knows behind it is the spirit of a fighter. >> my bad day sometimes doesn't measure up to their worst day so it puts things into perspective for me. >> what a pleasure to meet him. >> pup seems like a nice guy. >> a nice guy. >> nice job on that. >> thank you very much. >> we have this special partnership with what used toment c

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mayer's point man running around the country. in 1952, eisenhower wanted some help from hollywood. or should i say the gop got isenhour. it pays the media strategy montgomery and murphy. eisenhower liked the two of them so much that he basically told his madison avenue firm that had been hired to do the tv, you can keep her in the, of the potion he had to appear on tv. afterwards i than asked both men to come to washington with them. murphy kindly deferred and montgomery still kept his career, but he actually had an office in washington to help eisenhower for eight years was sorted media appearances and helping them stages presents because remember, this is a period when tv is just really emerging as a national phenomenon politicians don't want to deal with television. they're teaching things like how to use makeup, what color that is to use, how to face the camera, how to use soundbites and hold your body, everything that is biscuit actor with her attack to eisenhower. >> some people are critical of celebrities for mixing their

mayer munich y barcelona ya estan en semifinal de la champions, iniesta habla del triunfo.er como le fue a juan pablo montoya en la nascar el fin de semana. hasta aqui los deportes, buenas noches. se imagina una calle pavimentada de dulces o monedas...? despues de la pausa lese imaginanacon caramelo mejor aun con dinero? bueno algo parecido paso en una importante avenida en ontario, canada, cuando dos camiones de carga chocaron y se volcaron ndo a pasramelos y monedaestique das astronomica cifra de 3 a 5 millones de dolares... los heridos estan en el hospital y el trabajo de limpiar estos caramelos y monedas se

mayer, please. >> good morning, everybody. i want to thank all

the municipal tax automation team, darrell ascano, tajel shah, and rebecca villareal- mayer, come on up. [applause] >> i've been anointed to speak for us. jose has asked me to use my outside voice. we are so lucky. very rarely in your life to you get a blank canvas with leadership to tell you to find problems and solve them. i want to thank our leadership for doing that and giving us not only the opportunity to make change, but also to really make mistakes. i think that's a rare thing, to be able to make mistakes in this environment and continue to proceed and be successful. i mean it when we say -- what we end up doing is so different. we work to scale every day. we invite the people that we serve every day. thank you to the nominees. to our leadership, thank you. thank you to all the winners and to all the people we get to work with and serve. thanks. [applause] >> let's hear it for the tax team. [applause] >> parking is a universal quality of life issue. it touches on so many different parts of the transportation system. we were looking for ways to make parking easier and more con

i have found my place here and i have mentioned, i began my career here in 1996 with mayer brown. i realized then in my 20's that i needed to pursue higher education. and it helped the mayor said he would never give me a raise or promotion on till i went back to school. i enrolled in the university of san francisco law school. i got my j.d. and pass the bar. -- passed the gar. -- bar. [applause] san francisco has been my home. six years ago i was married here on the steps almost six years ago to this month. [applause] some are clapping, some are not. [laughter] it has been a fundamental time for my family and i having been nominated. by mayor ed lee and i am grateful to that community and i am grateful to the mayor and the board of supervisors who are considering this nomination. i vow to do the best job i possibly can for the city and i have -- as i have done from the outset of my city career. i will continue to draw inspiration and guidance from the black woman in our history and culture who have paved the way for me and others with their relentless fight against prejudice and i

mayer, president, thank you. thank you to everyone who has made this a reality. i look forward to making our infrastructure even better. [applause] >> another big hand for scott, who worked tirelessly to make sure that this happened. [applause] the next person i am going to introduce is a member of the planning committee and is responsible for implementing and developing the 10-year capital plan, a supervisor and or president david -- and board president david chiu. >> it is great to be here. this is a wonderful celebration. i am sorry i am late. i spent this morning going through four different districts. i experienced many of the pot holes in those districts. this is wonderful. it has been a long road. many years of wanting to get this measure done. in 2009, mayor newsom and i proposed this out of the work of capital planning. we did not have enough support. we knew where one might region were not able to pass it during the recession in 2009. we knew we were not able to pass we knew we were not able to pass it in 2009 because of the

. >>> the mayer and police chief said officers will be retrained in crowd control. ktvu's rita williams is live with how people are reacting to that idea. >> reporter: it didn't take long after the oakland police department announced the reforms today before the effort was criticized by some occupy protesters. >> i think it is clear they are protecting the rich and not the people and i think the law enforcement needs to think what they are doing. >>> the police chief says the new training of all officers and the new tactics are there to protect everyone's rights. >> it is our duty to protect public safety and balance free speech, the rights of individual protesters and nonprotesting residents. >> reporter: the department's clearing of a encampment last year brought criticism. >> there is another takeover there will be mass arrests. >> reporter: they ordered an outside investigation. it is expected in a week and expected to be highly critical. as is a federal investigation. it is the result of a lawsuit and court ordered reforms. >> the culture has to change but the

mayer brown, thank you very much. i know you are out there somewhere.sident, thank you for being here as well. i am is so happy, because we have a lot of things to celebrate. and i want to first and foremost thank one of the people that i have had a chance to work with, and i think she is a proud member of the filipino-american community here in san francisco, and that has been my chief adviser on families, children, education, and of course she is the president of our school board. hydra mendoza, thank you. thank you for being here. [applause] you know, as we celebrate filipino history month, we recognize the filipino history that is inextricably a part of our city's history. and during the historic struggle that we kept seniors -- remember those years where we stood on an alliance to protect our senior residence of the international hotel. we still had that legacy here, as we still a contract with residents of that hotel south of market. even today, i am proud, having stood on that that line and still fighting for justice and social causes to help wit

that's how it went. 7th inning, royals up 2-nothing, mitch mayer, this would be the knockout blow. the game was just called in the top of the 8th with the royals going on to win final of 3-nothing. >>> oezy gi-- ozzie guillin suspended gave games for the pro-fidel castro comments he made to a time magazine writer last week. he apologized today. did not take total responsibility for his words, saying he was thinking in spanish, but the words didn't come out the way he meant it in english. there is a protest calling for his head in little havana, miami. >> you constantly think about for four-days, i'm going to learn from this. then i will call myself a dumby, but not yet. if i'm going to learn from this mi-- if i don't learn from this mistake and i'm 40 years old, then we can sit back here and you can call my dumb. i will take that one. >>> we're going to skip the sharks. the sharks game will be thursday, their first playoff game at st. louis. the sharks have not beaten st. louis in four tries in the regular season. >>> to the nab, the warriors -- the nba, the warriors are off tomorr

as larry was talking, i was thinking about those years went we and mayer brown and mayor newsom, and we had that mission. we look around the bay and we see all the hospitals going up, the project's going up, and that foundation has worked. every effort and hustle that i was doing as part of the department of public works, trying to get those permits out and get the infrastructure done and completed, and now we get to talk about mission rock. i mean, what a solid lead great contribution this whole development is going to be. i want to emphasize that as reconstruct this vision, we are going to create immediately 4800 construction jobs right here on this development for the next years to come. it has the potential of impact in an additional 4900 jobs throughout the whole city during the construction phase. when it is completed in just a few years, 6900 permanent jobs can be had literally on the site to complement all the jobs that have been being created already with at&t park and the success of around the giants and their organization. i have often talked route -- about jobs but also t

michael shearer and brad mayer were waiting on a train. total strangers whose lives would converge in ways they couldn't have imagined. nor could a third unlucky commuter. >> and out of the corner of my eye i saw a man fall into the track. >> he just -- i don't know if he just stumbled or he just fell on the track. so -- >> reporter: mayer and shearer went into action. >> my instinct was to run and see if he was all right. and a train was coming. and i, you know, leaned down there. i was like, sir, we've got to get you up on this platform off the track. and then thankfully the other gentleman came running up. >> we just tried to get him off the tracks as fast as possible. >> reporter: they managed to lift the man from the track bed. illuminated only by the lights of the approaching train. it was that close. >> that's the one vivid thing in my memory of the incident, is the lights were coming closer and closer. and we had to get this guy off the tracks. >> he was coughing up blood and disoriented. the two stayed until medical attention arri

vallejo city officials are hoping lewis -- lucas will consider mayer island a online petition is suggestinge shipyard would be an eye legal -- ideal location. >>> a man recently began carrying for a 15-year-old hercules teen whose father died last year he was enrolled in a san francisco school and the compute became expensive so he gave the boy discarded bart tickets that are usually thrown away, that is against bart policy which he admits he broke. he faces a personnel hearing tomorrow to determine if he will be disciplined. >>> >> video from a youth basketball tournament on easter weekend shows adult running on to the court and hitting a player. the video was posted online and went viral. the attack happened during a game between the rebels and soldiers, two rival teams with some of the best teen players in the state. >> i've never seen adult walk ton a court or playing field and assault a player. >> it was uncalled for. the sad part is, i want to say to the rebels i don't know who it was, the kid, his name, but to his parents we apologize. but that has no representation of the soldiers.

mayer has an awesome mustache. that is a great sign of his king weakness. it was really exciting. you hear awaken, expire. i am kind of cynical. that is like the corporate man telling me something. the fact is, they were already doing awaken and inspire. the fact that nick and his team got beyond the idea just speaks to the fact that the asian was already doing this great work. i was telling stories from my roots. when i got the e-mail, i was woken up. she said, do you want to come by to do something with the exterior of the building? i would totally do it. i was open and inspired thanks to her. once i got the assignment, i started digging into the background of the maharajah. did i go down the rabbit hole. i feel like i am a pro, doing professional art for a long time now that fix our. the one no-no is you do not go off and start and finish something by yourself. typically at picks are, you show your early progression. you are showing it to the director. of course, being an idiot, i got totally obsessed and there went down the rabbit hole. i worked on my birthday. i did not updat

mayer, supervisors, collaborators with the mayor -- mr. mayor, supervisors, collaborators with the mayor, i would have loved to have spoken to you in english. unfortunately, i was not able to learn english, so i will talk to you in spanish. i'd like to ask, particularly on holy week, for a miracle, and we hope this merkel will be able to help us all fix the problems that we have. so i am speaking today in particular in support of this program. la raza has been able to help me with many of my problems, legal and social, and where would i go, basically, that they are not able to provide that service to me. i am sorry, i just had a brain blank. this problem is not only unique to me. it is unique to other seniors, modeling will as well as other latino seniors. without their help, where would all the other seniors go? i realize that there are these problems outside of the city, and it is particular to san francisco. i am in shock of all of the issues i have heard today as well. i thank you for your attention, and i have great pride in being abl

i know mayer brown is working with the board of supervisors to try to find glasses and is getting tremendous emerging from the commission and myself to get that done so we do not lose the ground game on the reduction in violence we have enjoyed the last few years. i know commissioner kingsley speaks to the reduction and priority of reducing gun violence. it is down 46%, so we have made tremendous in-roads, and although the homicide victim total is about the same, incidence of homicide are down 20%. the reason they are as high as they are is because sadly, we did suffer the housing street trenton where we lost by people at one residents in one day in one incident. that is it for my report. i will defer the rest of my time. unless there are any questions. >> i'm pretty sure we held the funeral today in western addition. as far as we know, no problems. >> it went without incident. we believe we know the reason, if you will, on why that particular crime took place. the young man from the west addition was in the bayview. although there are some gang implications, we do not believe it was motivat