mayer brown, and reverend brown knows very well. in the early 1970's, a community leader from japan town and let the board informed of the african american roundtable to improve relations between japanese and african americans in the western addition, but it is going to take a lot more than just groups coming together to talk about stereotypes and misperceptions. for these tragic deaths, they must rise a responsibility to reach out beyond our communities and make sure that we understand that there is a cost to holding misperceptions and believes that oppress us all. thank you. [applause] >> we have got a great program for you, and for those of you who have attended in years past, you know that we celebrate with song. we celebrate with dance, and we celebrate recognizing different cultures from around the world, so leading off today is a wonderful performance by students -- yes, they are all students. they are -- their organization is called the golden gate bong what association. these young women are students at san francisco state

. -- to see our mayer brown here with us. eans a lot to us. >> these and gentlemen, da mayor, willie brown. [applause] >> thank you very much. i am, of course, delighted to again be part of this celebration. claudine is absolutely correct. in a city and county of sentences, the diversity that exists here in terms of age, sexual orientation, race, national origin, religious interests, all of those items are part of what we each celebrate with each other, even though we may not be technically a part of it. that is what makes it such a very special city. as indicated, we are meeting some challenges now, facing ourselves, with reference to conduct our people, but be advised -- we will get through this, as we have gotten through everything in this city, and we will only be better for having done so. so we will do so in the manner in which we always have. [applause] thank you very much for being here. [applause] >> as the evening goes on, we will hear from supervisors chiu, chu, and mar. i would like to invite our public defender up

. -- to see our mayer brown here with us. it means a lot to us. >> these and gentlemen, da mayor,

mayer kicking off your friday here on nbc bay area. here's performing on the "today" show coming up at 7:00. ♪ bs leaving. a budget disaster. california on the brink. jerry brown's you run for office and the assumption is, oh, i know what to do. you don't. i didn't have a plan for california. [ female announcer ] with our state in crisis, we need a governor with a plan. you need a real plan, something i'll acknowledge i did not have. [ female announcer ] jerry brown. no plan then. no plan now. meg whitman. a plan for jobs. log on. learn more. >>> another update on breaking news out of the east bay this morning. nbc bay area just spoke with an east bay grandfather accused in the dog mauling death of a 2-year-old. nbc bay area's christie smith is live in martinez where she just wrapped up a jailhouse interview with the man. she joins us once again with more on what he had to say. >> reporter: we spoke with steven hayashi for ten minutes inside the jail. he expressed a lot of remorse. he broke down during the interview. we'll go ahead and roll the tape. here's what he had to say -- >> i came home and there's a lot of police cars around. i was hoping and praying it

run, you can run tell my friend willie brown ♪ ♪ that i'm standing at the crossroads ♪ ♪ i believe i'm sinking down >>> this morning on "today" you saw john mayeroig m ht wan to take b.a.r.t. over to w the coliseum station tonight there's an a's game but right now we'll show you the coliseum area, very smooth. we have a dog reported on the side of the road, probably not in time for the game. >> they have to wait until the p.m. we have dog day at the park today. 7:05. mid-60s for that game. we'll have 60s and 70s this afternoon. delays of 50 minutes for some arriving flights. we'll continue with more, mid-60s at the coast. the rest of the weekend doesn't change much. it's next week we start to cool down. back to you. >> a san mateo couple admits they burglarized a homof a family that died in a car crash the night before. the trial was set to start this morning, but instead they'llen sentenced in september. they pled guilty to ransacking the home in november and stealing their car. the maloneys were driving home from sfo when a speeding car ran a red light striking and killing the family on impact. gu ter rez denies he knew the family had just di