i'm delighted to help introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mayor mark farrell. >> thank you, david. i am proud to be here as the mayor to thank -- [horn honk] i'm going to start off. i want to thank mr. chu along with assembly member ting, but specifically on this issue here. leadership is critical to the future of our city. critical to the future of the waterfront and proud to be here at this announcement today. our waterfront is one of the most iconic parts of san francisco. it always has been. subjects of pictures, it's why tourists come here. it's one of the most beautiful parts of our city. and holding up the waterfront is our seawall. these are the buildings, the waterfront, the restaurants, the small businesses, but it's been holding back the bay to make sure that our tunnels are not flooded. holding back the rising tides of our san francisco bay to make sure we can walk along the waterfront in front of us here today. it is critically important to san francisco today and to the future of our city. we need to do everything we can as a city to make sure it

but first, it is my honor to introduce to you today our host, mayor mark farrell. ell had demonstrated his willingness to take bold action to protect the environment on a number of fronts. whether it's financing energy efficiency upgrades or zero emission vehicles to help our air quality. one particular issue he championed that remains near and dear to my heart was his work to address toxic flame retardants. they have serious impacts on our firefighters, our children and our low income families. they are chemicals that are legal to use because of weak federal regulations and yet those chemicals have no actual benefit from a fire prevention standpoint. last year, mayor farrell authorized legislation to ban the use of flame retardant chemicals in furniture and children's products. this is the first banff its kind in the nation. [applause] and that law is being now introduced in the state of california's legislature and could protect the health of families and first responders throughout the state and i don't know. so it goes to show that san francisco's leadership mat

. >> reporter: mayor mark farrell touted the new campaign, finger print training for three dozen officers and other measures to clamp down on the car break-in crisis. this staff report shows car break-ins dipped a smidge in 2015 only to skyrocket in 2017. now a glimmer of hope in march alone. thefts from cars plummeted by 20%. anecdotally, are you seeing the same number of cars you would see broken into? >> i haven't, to tell you the truth. now they seem to be, i don't see that many. >> reporter: and mayor mark farrell saying a couple of interesting things today about what he wants to do initially to address car break-ins. one is to fund more police officers. he saysçó he's going to champio that. and a judge specifically dedicated just to try casesÑi regarding break-ins. reporting live, sam brock, nbc bay area. >>> on the 30,000 reported car break-ins in san francisco last year, police only made arrest in 1.7% of the cases. of those arrested, most were never sentenced to jail time. our investigative unit also revealed how the most popular tourist attentions are often the most vulnerable.

city workers can start removing the tents at any time. ( james ) mayor mark farrel is also hiring tenclean up needles that are littering the streets. the team will respond to resident complaints and remove needles and syringes from "hot spots" every day of the week. about 275-thousand needles are collected each month by the public health department and nonprofits. the city will provide 750-thousand dollars to the aids foundation to hire the new needle clean up team. the workers would start as early as june. ( james ) a mother, accused of drinking and driving with her child in the back seat is now in jail. petaluma police arrested collette burum sunday after receiving reports of an erratic driver, who was driving into the city on lakeville highway. police say, she nearly caused a collison with a child in the back seat. petaluma officers went to burum's home... and they say she appeared to be intoxicated. that's when burum admitted to driving with her six- year old child. police say, at the time of the arrest, burum's blood alcohol content was nearly four -times the legal limit. ( james

it is truly my distinct privilege to introduce mayor mark farrell, a long time advocate for gun control and safety. as district 2 supervisor, mr. farrell introduced anti-gun ordinance to 2015 which was subsequently approved by the board of supervisors. this gun control package was intended to fill gaps that existed in federal, state and local oversight of firearm dealers and ammunition sales. this included requiring the video taping of all gun and ammunition sales within san francisco and required the regular storage and electronic transmission of ammunition sales data to the san francisco police department. as district 2 supervisor, mr. farrell introduced a safe gun storage and trigger lock law apooreded by -- approved by the board of supervisors in 2016. this mandated that all be kept in a locked container or be disabled by a trigger lock. as district 2 supervisor, mr. farrell announced his intention to introduce a gun restriction law after the krissy field rally in 2017. as you recall, an alt-right group, requested a permit to hold a rally. there was a city-wide response to prevent t

mayor mr. mark farrell who will be making the announcement that we are all looking forward to listen to. so mayor farrell. >> thank you. debbie. it's good to be here, and love the interaction that we're seeing on our waterfront behind us. so thanks to the introduction, debbie, and i want to thank everyone for coming out today for this announcement. you know we're all here today because we care very deeply about our city of san francisco, and we care deeply about our environment in the city of san francisco, and i know we all have concerns about the federal leadership or lack of federal leadership on environmental issues right now coming out of washington, d.c. the head of our epa seems to be more concerned about flying first-class and the cole industry than pushing environmental policies forward that will have a positive impact if our communities. and while they continue to stick their heads in the sand in terms of climate change in washington, d.c., san francisco is once again stepping forward as a leader in our country for the environment. thanks to our innovatetive practices here in ou

our exclusive brand-new interview with san francisco mayor mark farrell about his proposal to clean up city streets. later today, san francisco mayor mark farrell will unveil his 13 million dollar plan for >>> well later today san francisco mayor mark farrell will unveil the $13 million plan for a cleaning up streets and sidewalks in san francisco. in an interview the mayor shared the details of what the plan is to reporter bigad shaban. >> it was his recent investigation that exposed a dangerous mix of trash, feces and used needles on the streets of downtown san francisco. >> now the story gained international attention, grabbing headlines and prompting you to share your own stories online. this morning we find out how the marin tends to wipe away the city's dirty streets. >> when you see human feces and the smell of urination on the streets, that is disgusting. >> reporter: three months after becoming mayor, mark facial admits san francisco record of cleaning up human waste and garbage stinks and now wants to boost the street cleaning crew by 20%, and that is 44 more workers in san f

. >>> san francisco mayor mark farrell announced a plan to attack one of the city's biggest quality of life issues, we are talking about used needles strewn along streets, sidewalks and parks. >> rob roth spoke with the mayor and joins us live from city hall. rob. >> reporter: the city says it disposes of, get this, 275,000 used needles a month and many of them start out on the street where people step over them. mayor mark farrell says that's a situation that's intolerable. >> people are fed up with the conditions of our streets and as am i. >> reporter: san francisco mayor mark farrell and the department of public health announced they are adding a new 10 person team dedicated to picking up dirty needles on the street. right now only four city workers are on needle pickup patrol. the expanded cleanup program will cost $750,000 a year. the plan is for the team to concentrate on hot spots where large numbers of used needles often end up and the city says under the plan workers should be able to respond more quickly when a resident or business calls in about needles in their area. used

again, i'd like to thank mayor mark farrell for his support and his leadership on this issue. we could not do this without strong leadership, and that's what it's going to take is leadership from all of us to turn the tide on these crimes and make our city safer. thank you. [applause]. >> and with that, i'd like to introduce actually one of the two people that helped create the park smart slowigan, and that's commander david lozar. >> well, i want to begin by thanking our mayor, mark farrell, and our chief david scott. a little history about park smart. back in 2014, i served as the captain of central station, paying very close attention to all the auto burglaries that are that were taking place, and as the chief has mentioned, arresting those responsible is a primary duty of ours, but what's equally or more important is prevention, the message that those that come to our city, who enjoy our city, the mer chapters and the residents and the visitors to simply keep their car empty. it was back then, supervisor mark farrell, district two, we worked together on putting ambassadors

but first, it is my honor to introduce to you today our host, mayor mark farrell. rrell had demonstrated his willingness to take bold action to protect the environment on a number of fronts. whether it's financing energy efficiency upgrades or zero emission vehicles to help our air quality. one particular issue he championed that remains near and dear to my heart was his work to address toxic flame retardants. they have serious impacts on our firefighters, our children and our low income families. they are chemicals that are legal to use because of weak federal regulations and yet those chemicals have no ac

this comes after san francisco mayor mark farrell warned that a homeless sweep could happen at any time. kron4's haaziq madyun reports... removed from the street, placed in a truck and hauled away, crushed by a mobile trash compactor or packed up and carried away on your own. those were the options for people living in an encampment on division street in san franciscosotkelley cutler/san francisco coalition on homelessness: "the city did massive sweeps"human rights organizer with the san francisco coalition on homelessness kelley cutlersot earlier this week san francisco mayor mark farrell warned that sidewalk encampments in the mission district were targeted for removal. the city's public works department did the removingsot

. >>> the san francisco mayor mark farrell said he is launching a crackdown on homeless encampments. he plans to start this week in the mission district. >> reporter: san francisco mayor mark farrell said when it comes to homeless encampments on city sidewalks, enough is enough. >> we have to acknowledge that we have been moving from compassion on our streets which has to be our first approach, to enabling street behavior. i am saying that is not okay. >> reporter: they said that outreach teams have been trying to get those sleeping in tents to services. but within the next few days, the city will be taking down about 120 tents in and around the mission district. >> we need to make sure that the streets of sam cisco are safer everybody. >> reporter: but new camps have tended to pop up a few blocks away, but the mayor says that will not happen this time because the city will be making sure. here in the bull's-eye of the coming sweet, this man was doing some sweeping up of his own his tent. he says he has been through this before. where we go? >> i am staying right here. >> at some poin

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. >>> welcome to this morning and joining us is san francisco mayor mark farrell, you didn't ask for the job but you got it. what did you learn about city hall? >> as someone born and raised in san francisco, it's an honor to do what i'm doing. it's an incredibly complex job. there are a thousand of things coming at you every single day. but what imthankful day what i wanted to work on as mayor we're actually following through on. what do you think about the homeless or street cleaning or public safety? we're working on those issues and pushing forward aggressively. >> i'm not sure people thought you were going to be doing this. the idea is you were supposed to be a caretaker. you were supposed to playbook and be quiet but you're proposing things against the people that put you in. >> again, i came into office no strings attached as mayor and i said from the first week i rejected the notion of being a caretaker mayor. the residents of san francisco don't deserve that. i have a unique ability and i understand the unique situation of not running for an office but being in office for ha

mayor mark farrell doing a great job. i hope your singing voices are in shape because before we ring the bell we're going to sing a little san francisco and i will need some help. it's a tough key. ok. coming up next say personal friend and a great administrator and great, great gift to the city, she's terrific. would you please welcome our fire chief joanne haze white. ladies and gentlemen! [applause] good morning, everyone, all right. welcome once again as we do three things, we commemorate today, we celebrate today and we take the time to educate today and and it gives me great pride and make it a very special event and several generations and the family is here and several murphies that have agreed and all the men and women safety and for the and we want to commemorate what happened today on this morning. there was seismic activity and there was fires that swept our city from the maps and it was because from our resilient community then and now that we are the vibrant city that we are san francisco. there are four peo

which means city workers can start removing the tents at any time (grant) san francisco mayor mark farrel says he's hiring ten workers to clean up needles that are littering the streets. the workers will respond to complaints and visit so called "hot spots" every day of the week. public health director barbara garcia says the city will provide 750-thousand dollars to hire the new needle clean up team. she says she expects the workers could start as early as june. about 275-thousand needles are collected each month by the public health department and nonprofits... which provide syringes and safe disposal locations. (grant) to the north bay now ... where a hiker had to be rescued in marin county after a rattlesnake bit the hiker...several times. it happened on mount tamalpias yesterday afternoon. the victim was the victim was transported to an area hospital. with the warm weather we now have-- officials are warning people to be extra careful of rattlesnakes while hiking. coming up at eight.. a proposal that could put more ex-convicts to work in california...in positions that require a licen

. >>> in san francisco mayor mark farrell is making good on his promise to clean up homeless camps. >and as christien kafton reports, this comes after the mayor announced a multimillion dollar plan to clean up the city's dirty streets. >> reporter: the mayor is pledging to spend $13 million launching a series of initiatives. trash on the streets of san francisco as a distressingly common sight. residents and visitors regularly complain about stepping over garbage, huged hyper determinic needles and human waste. mayor mark farrell rolled out a two year plan spending $2.8 million to clean the streets. >> so together this is an ambitious effort. and i know i only have a few months left as the great mayor of this great city of san francisco, but i plan on sprinting to the finish. >> reporter: the mayor's proposal will fund five new pit stops and expand the hours for the portable public restrooms. a place for people to relieve themselves instead of on the streets. they will hire an additional 44 neighborhood cleaners. that is additional four per district that will target problem areas. >>

mayor mark farrell. >> i think phil took care of the thanks, but let's give a round for phil ginsburgral manager. thank you, phil. and to the entire rec and park staff, thank you for all the work you've done on the project. to assembly member phil ting, i know we're here in large part because of his efforts and want to thank supervisor safai. this was something he talked about when he was running for office. we talked about it in the board of supervisors. such an amazing advocate for the neighborhood. it was about 5-6 years ago that as a district 2 supervisor, weaver came to our office enough that we came here and went on a tour of this place a number of years ago. and so this has been an issue and project that because of the advocacy of so many of you has been in the forefront of peoples' minds. who here is a neighbor? give yourself a round of applause. this is grassroots, built from the neighborhood, with a lot of support. but to cass and all the people making this work. i want to say thank you for everything you've done to get us to where we are. i'm curious about what is buried un

if interim mayor mark farrell approved it the city will start impounding any unpermitted scooters. the city has ordered the three major scooter companies, bird, line bike and spin, to figure out a plan to ensure riders are following the rules of the roads. >> i haven't seen them. >> i rode a scooter when i was 8. >> it has a little more power. >>> scooters could be going faster than those on the roads. we are tracking hot spots. here's a live look by 80. headlights westbound approaching the dublin- pleasanton interchange. the good news, we are not in the red just yet. so we are still in the yellow maintaining that 30-minute travel time. but it's definitely filling up out there. we had an earlier crash southbound 680 approaching stoneridge drive that's not blocking lanes over in the center divide and we are tracking slowdowns southbound. you will hit the brakes before you hit 580 and then your ride continues to be slow down towards 84 there. vallecitos. it's about 12 minutes. out the door on 880, be prepared for a lot of brake lights southbound. we have an earlier accident, that's n

san francisco's interim mayor mark farrel tweeted out in part quote: "we are helping cheer on >>> todays blue and gold day in san francisco, san jose and oakland. san francisco's interim mayor mark farrell tweeted out in part: the lights at san francisco city hall will be lit up in blue and gold ahead of the play-offs. and oakland city hall is also showing warriors pride. the team is also encouraging fans to fly their car flags and if you don't have one, you can pink a free flag at any of the warriors' team stores in the bay area. >>> play of the day from the stanley cup play-offs. toronto at boston. r how it's 4-1! >> yeah, it is. slo-mo replay really let you appreciate those spectacular goals. the bruins beat the maple leafs 5-1. legal battle is ting. when a judge will hold a key hearing on the court case against p-g-&-e >>> it is 6:26. months after the deadly wine country wildfires, the legal battle is just starting. when a judge will hold a key hearing on the court case against pg&e. >> plus the search under way for a family who went missing in mendocino county and the new clues jus

today mayor mark farrell announced the city will add 10 more. he promised that residents will see a difference and he said if you don't, the city will hire even more people for that position. e so many needles and syringes on the street that he job will be to pick them u picking up needles in san francisco has become a full- time job. in fact, the city is hiring. mayor mark farrell announced today there are so many needles and syringes on the streets here that he'll hire 10 people whose sole job will to be pick them up. >> the status quo on our streets today is simply unacceptable and we're not going to stand for it. >> every month us and other partners at the city collect 275,000 syringes. >> reporter: the mayor held a news conference in front of tamara friedman's business of three years. she says picking up syringes doesn't go far enough. >> it's still not addressing the real issue, which is that people are living on the street, leaving their needles and defecating and urinating everywhere. >> reporter: in fact, yesterday tamara called 311 twi

mayor mark farrell and police chief bill scott will share their response to the epidemic. more details now: our investigative unit reported earlier this year -- that in 2016 there were 30- thousand auto break-ins in san francisco. that )s nearly three times the amount reported in 20-10. and arrests were made in less than (2 percent of the cases. in total - s-f-p-d made 790 arrests last year. to see the investigative unit )s entire report including our exclusive hidden camera video go to nbc bay area dot com. several people witnessed a violent robbery near the san leandro bart station. police say a man tried to snatch a woman )s purse yesterday morning. the suspect knocked the victim to the ground, kicked her until he got the purse. san leandro police officers arrived quickly and arrested the suspect as he tried to run. the victim suffered minor injuries - and she did get her purse back. happening today - linebacker san francisco 49er rueben foster may learn if he )l be criminally charged - after his arrest earlier this year in the south bay. los gatos police arrested foste