and it's near the eastern side of merced. the well facility includes an overlook along merced boulevard which would include benches. now the 3 facilities we propose in golden gate park. as part of phase one of the project we would construct the pump facility that's on the far right on the pap ma and a little more of one mile of pipeline and phase two would convert the irrigation well facilities and a little less than one mile of pipeline. the central pump station would be located in the central south of overlook drive and east of the middle drive west of the intersection. this is indirectly adjacent to the pump station when is golden gate parks reservation stoernl. and that general facility includes the wood waste posting yard. the landscaping and all the new assess road would have permissible materials. because this is located near the golden gate pump station they can furnish a back up pump to the park. the south park pump would be north of martin luther king drive that is used for construction of log and construction debri

you got merc? let's take a look at merc. this is what happens. once you get on graffiti checker, you can find somebody, you can put a search in there for any tagger that you want. i know you had m. ob, money over bitches, that's a big tagging crew. over 700 incidences right now in phoenix. and the cool thing is you find out * the other thing it tells you activities with other taggers, activity with crews. how many times they were with. you can pretty much find out who their crew is. you can see this one is stk. >> i got that. >> you guys can see. his city is 45 minutes from phoenix and it's out in like -- almost like a little area by itself. i used to live in maricopa. it's a little town by itself way away from phoenix, 45 minutes outside the border of phoenix. >> [speaker not understood]. >> yeah. it's out there. and you're like, this kid is traveling. so, you can see it tells you what cameras they take pictures with. this is the mic camera, what it was removed, what type of surface it was. it comes with an incident number. that incident number

that's merc. if you see merc right there and you don't know what it said but you can see the first two letters, m.e., you can go up here in the search area and just start typing. m-e and try to figure out, oh, you can look at some of these pictures. there's -- there's a mercs, too, mers. sometimes people get that confused with a k or an s. you can look at the pictures or try to match them up to the graffiti you have currently. the other thing about this, it's not just taggers, it's also gangses. we have gangs over here. we have like what's a big gang member, smily. there's always going to be a smily, right? the great thing is when you do do it, it pulls up. if i pull up like merc, i see that merc tags with five different other people. so, how can i get hold of merc? start finding out what the other guys are doing. it's a big, big thing for you to use. and this is how we put our big cases together. this is our hotline program and it's, like i said, the hotline program is similar to silent witness p

it does apply to large projects like park merced. under your legislation, for any project in which the board of supervisors will be voting on any approval item, the board will not be required to hear a full legal appeal before the entire board. instead the e-i-r will just be formally lumped in with [speaker not understood]. under normal public comment procedure with no opportunity for appellants to present a formal appeal. for project like park merced that is so contentious and profoundly important to the existing residents, a mere three member committee hearing will be totally inadequate to presenting serious problems with an e-i-r. there were many changes with the park more said after the first e-i-r were released by not siting by planning staff to do an e-i-r what had been called for. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. mr. [speaker not understood]. >>> yes, i'm robert [speaker not understood], and i'm with dolores park works, the friends of dolores park. and i'm speaking mostly as a supporter of san francisco's parks

i remember the late 90s with the merced lake getting low. unfortunately, a couple of changes were made in the earlier part of the century i understand then under the direction of a couple of supervisors. almost all of the park was being done out of the grounded water and we were trying to keep the grounded level of water higher. and then to us water to put back into lake merced instead of going into the ocean. if you were at a line where we were losing level now we're not up to the line historical it's kind of good i don't know how we're going to take 4 million gallons out of that lake and not have it go down and we have a mitigation >> we have a mitigation measure that we would add supplemental water into the system when available and would take advantage from the canal that come available from the park merced project. so that would be the first option the second option would be for the puc to offer pumping rates and another step would be to stop pumping at the lake merced and thereby in a step-by-step fashion reduce pumping to allow the la

if i pull up like merc, i see that merc tags with five different other people. so, how can i get hold of merc? start finding out what the other guys are doing. it's a big, big thing for you to use. and this is how we put our big cases together. this is our hotline program and it's, like i said, the hotline program is similar to silent witness program i was telling you about. you remain anonymous. that's big for the kids, too. a lot of places that we use this hotline reward is in the schools because that's where you're going to get a lot of intel. once they see a little bit of this and they see a little bit of money going out, they become more and more -- people are ratting on everybody. we get them to rat on each other. we've even had taggers tell on other taggers. which is kind of funny. the rewards range from $75 to $250. like i said, we have a board that sits on it and he check off different things and how dangerous it was for that person telling the other. it's p just for kids. it's all over the city. we have billboards all over the city that say this is our

was acknowledged by staff and consultants of park merced that [inaudible]. with repeat problem with regard to pipeline. despite a quarter of a mile distance on the most volatile earthquake seismic center in the region and not addressed. the testimony and written statements to that effect were removed from the comment -- public comments. i point out that 4,000 [speaker not understood] radius of danger is [speaker not understood]. >> thank you. ms. shabba. >>> [inaudible]. >> okay, why don't we show that to the public. >> can we turn on the overhead? >> okay. >>> there >>> there it is, park merced, and cpmc. >> great, thank you, mr. showed en. ms. shabba. >>> hi, pilar shabba, california nurses association. we want to echo many of the comments that have been said today. we want to be able to take a look at supervisor kim's legislation at the same time as looking at the legislation that supervisor wiener has brought forward. we do have, you know, concerns, as everybody knows, we along with coalition members who have spoken and will speak today have been involve

that's merc. if you see merc right there and you don't know what it said but you can see the first two letters, m.e., you can go up here in the search area

i have an overhead here of park merced. per sequa guidelines public agencies must carefully consider any potentially feasible alter that may minimize a significant environmental impact. and this is sequa 5.1626 it must contain a thorough decisions that do not included that dpoogs. the bulldozer are torn down adjacent to a large community and the loss of an open is that a that was part of the hearing where the public lost and the individual tenants went from 1 thousand square feet to 1 hundred square feet and none of this was addressed. it was raised but the public agencies in charge doesn't due their diligent duty and that's why we're here today. we must have adequate comment in the process >> thank you, mr. wood. >> thank you very much i'm george coalition for san francisco neighborhood. a couple of thoughts. i think the best way to look at this sequa legislation it's not my legislation or your legislation i've heard that a couple of times today. i think we should look at the best for all are i want to thank president chiu

one of these women was my grandmother, merced moynihan. in la dominica, one of the best cafes in the world, located on oreilly street, where my grandparents met. ticket to ride, i talk about my family history but after they marry -- i am reading a little from the book -- my grandparents were at the center of many fascinating things. i found myself at el centro, the literary and musical gatherings. their house on calle mercades became a cultural cross roads with the traffic of foreigners created a new inspired geography. they travel everywhere. my grandmother, merced, nina played the piano and read poems, while edward read the poems besides playing the fiddle and violin, behaved like an avant garde composer, moving around furniture. according to the journalist were a dynamic duo that rescued the famous hotel sevilla from dereliction in 1919. they also constructed the biltmore neighborhood where many irish american families have homes. when i said irish americans, i go back to the americas, irish-spanish americans and french-irish, et cetera

i think that's a laugh because i was at a park merced hearing where i saw your good government. the city attorney came in with documents from the developer and said that was the legal [speaker not understood] of the city. is that good government when you take the developer's legal opinions paid for by the developer? i think this really is a fraud. i think that it shows actually that what's going on is the bully -- the people of san francisco, the community for the projects of the developers, and i have to say that we have a case where the supervisors, all the supervisors just voted for $750,000 settlement for dr. derek kerr because he was bullied, as have been the planners in the city department, senior developers were bullied out of the department [speaker not understood]. where is your concern of good government when you're voting millions of dollars for retaliation suits [speaker not understood] by the workers of san francisco, public workers who oppose the corruption? because that's really what's going on i think in san francisco at this point. workers, public workers are be

and a 16-year-old girl was killed according to the merced sun star. police have not made any arrests. >>> also in oakland a car fire. a car rather caught on fire on the freeway and the driver disappeared. the car went up in flames at about 3:00 a.m. on the clairmont avenue onramp on 24th. when our crew arrived there on the scene as you can see there in these pictures the car was fully engulfed in flames. the driver had fled the scene. highway patrol say it is driver may have hit the guardrail then ran off when that car caught fire on the ramp. >>> easter shoppers at a south bay store got quite a scare today when police say a man intentionally crashed his car right through the front door. matt keller was at the scene in san jose and tell us it's what happens next that injured several customers. >> late easter morning around 11:15, shoppers and workers witnessed a terrifying scene. >> this lady was saying oh yeah i saw it. this crazy person was driving through the store trying to kill people with her car. >> everybody just panicked and rushed and scream

one of the biggest things we have is our ability to move children there to the lake merced and paddle boats and so forth but if we can't get our children there then it in make a difference. we have some pilot you funding we can work with partners to make sure we're getting our kids to the programs. our bond choices that we're community driven there's a significant amount of revenue in district 10 and projects in district 5. a couple of projects in district 6. we're working hard to make sure our investments are equitable. the two district where the scores improved the most were districts 10 and 11. so we have a long way to go it's no question but it's a staff focus to make sure we're providing programs and services in the community that noted it the most. our recreational program loud us to build a rock climbing wall. we're able to bring bikes and skateboards and the other things to our community >> you want to say on the budget solutions i appreciate the breakdown. i had no idea those fees were going so much. and i'll have to work much harder next year for our sports. >> it probably c

there is a big sequence of merced formation. this is a base in deposit that was formed by the interaction at the end of the continental margin. >> this is just on top. this is the same material that we were looking at at the last site. you can see it is on our way to the last side. it is deposited here by wind. it is 40-50 feet thick. this acts as a big sponge. the water flows through and it gets in a lower formation and then the water level starts to rise and it becomes a reservoir for water. this is dissipated during the more dry months of the year. >> this forms a big long skinny basin and runs into san francisco. it is the coastal bluffs areas that are subject to erosion from the waves and the ground water that comes out and you start to lose this. this is the largest example of failure for a long part of the coast. it has been moving continuously for a long time. >> the ocean was at the same level as we are standing. in 1982, and massive slide occurred further to the north of and one day it moves 5 feet and by the second da

the boy slipped into the merced river. 16-year-old alex smith jumped the railing held on to a rock and pulled the boy to safety just before he would have gone over the 317-foot drop. at 11:00 we'll talk to that teenage hero. >> lisa argen is here in for leigh glaser and possibility of rain. >> that is one of the changes. breezy conditions, but if you are not along the coast they have subsided. here is a look at live doppler 7-hd but by this time tomorrow, we could be looking at precip in the north bay but along the peninsula and winds going back up tomorrow, even windier on monday. lots of things going on. roof camera downtown and 53 san francisco. 57, oakland. mid-50s, san jose. 48 along the coast. when the wind backs off, some of the protected valleys could see a little bit of frost. usually right around sunrise, 6:30 is when we get the coldest temperatures. bring the pets in. 52, livermore. 57 in union city. coldest morning comes tuesday morning. this cooler air is going to stick around for a while. winds gusting still to 31 miles an hour at the airport. 33 mile-an-hour gusts half m

and the break in the merc -- the case of the murder of a texas district attorney and his wife. this,s is crazy, seeing soccer season starts in an hour. >> winter refuses to let spring takeover. we go to the part of the country we go to the part of the country digging out of a very did we get it? got it. yes! contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. how do i make it stronger? [ male announcer ] when you've got fios quantum, you get america's fastest, most reliable internet. hey, so where's the big project? ...huh. [ male announcer ] technology that makes you feel superhuman... where do i sign in? that's powerful. switch to fios and we'll triple your speeds for free with an upgrade to fios quantum. marvel's iron man 3, in theaters may 3rd. >> covering the world tonight, the world waits to see if north korea will test fire a missile to celebrate the birthday of founder kim il-sung. displays of military force traditionally mark this and south korea -- john kerry is meeting with leaders in china has both north and south korea thee agreed to d

. >> alex smith and his family had just hiked to the falls it when a 9-year-old boy fell into the merced river. alex jumped over the railing and held on to a rock and snagged the boy as he was going by in the swift rapids and then alex's dad came to help. i reached him and he reached me and he lacked up like the craziest look in his eye like please help me. >> then i have not only my son but my husband out there, as well. so that was -- it just -- terrifying. >>> this is the only photo the smiths have of alex and the boy he saved. the little boy, nine years old, had been telling alex thank you. >>> the new exploratorium opens in san francisco in just a few days. abc7 is the official tv partner of the exploratorium. we are excited about the new location. it's at pier 15 on the embarcadero. here's abc news reporter wayne freedman with a preview. >> put a tv news reporter in front of a mirror and watch what happens, especially if it's a convex mirror reflecting back in three dimensions. >> that is really weird. >> it also reflects sound? >> yes. the same place faces blow up optically, you c

the merced river in yosemite valley has been almost recreational for almost 150 years. it has never been wilderness. any plan which proceeds should not change any infrastructure or ban any activities traditionally carried on in yosemite valley, end of quote. indeed, when he authored the legislation designating the merced as wild and scenic, these tourist facilities already existed and nowhere in the bill's findings is there any mention of an intention to force their closure or to override park policies. in fact, many of the facilities slated for removal are not even on the merced river and do not in any way impede or affect its flow. the officials of the national park service are clearly not required to take these actions. it's becoming increasingly apparent that they want to take them and they intend to take them despite widespread public opposition from all but the most radical elements of the environmental left. indeed, when 13 mersmebs of the california delegation, including liberal democrats and conservative republicans alike asked for an extension of the public co

it is not about park merced, treasure island, haight washington or cpmc. those projects all proceeded under full environmental impact report. we already have clear and transparent appeal processes for full e-i-rs. instead, this legislation aims to bring that same clear and transparent appeal process that we already have for e-i-rs to smaller projects, particularly categorical exemptions and negative declarations. many of these projects are small home projects, small business projects, park projects and other public projects. as we saw yet again last week, when somebody appealed the negative declaration for the dolores park renovation, one person, one single person, can appeal and potentially delay a project even if hundreds of community members participated in the design process. indeed, under our current rules, that appeal can occur when the project is already in construction. that appellant who filed the dolores parka peel, as with other appellants, has every right to file that appeal, but we should at least have clear rules and deadlines in place. the [

lows of the merced river, running through the valley. it's another beautiful day in yosemite national park. >>> bags are in the camp kitchen. >> for campers malcolm morgan and his daughter, mia, visiting. >> we are comparing it to disney land, you see more happy faces here than you did in disney land. >> but he found not so family friendly activities near his campsi campsite. >> we detected the odor of pot. >> he is not the only one. rangers arrested or cited nearly 900 visitors for drug possession, out of the roughly 3 million traveling into the park. up 18% from five years ago. >> i don't think that we have drug dealers on the corners or anything like that. >> she spends most of her time patrolling the campsites in the valley and said, yosemite is safe. >> do you feel there's a drug problem? >> i think there's a transient drug issue here. it's largely folks coming and going. >> but the investigative unit found that more of the visitors are getting busted for drugs here than at other popular national parks. in the last three years, yose

merced, stockton, low 70s, high sierra, upper 60s. now, our numbers tonight, pretty much upper 40s and 50s. not bad. tomorrow's day time highs, averaging 20 degrees. above normal. right around 91 degrees and throughout the try valley. 84 in fremont. 60s at the beach. we are talking about microclimates here. 91 throughout pleasanton and danville, forth of the golden gate bridge and numbers approaching 90 degrees as l. the 60s, 70s, 80s across the bay. here you go, your extended forecast is cool. ed with, barely feeling the difference, and then, high pressure strengthens on thursday resulting in some of the hottest weather so far this season. especially on friday. that is going to be the day that the dodgers come to town against the giants. dry weather all of the way through the extended period. >> hopefully people got to enjoy the day today. it was beautiful outside. and maritime along the san francisco waterfront took advantage. a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the port of san francisco. an event sports person says it include

northern boundary of our homeowners association and on the east and on the south and west by lake merced boulevard so we comprise a large block of homes. we view sloat boulevard as one of the neighborhood streets for us. there are three major schools right off of sloat. there is a major park. there's a shopping center there so it's a heavy traveled area, not just for people transiting through the area but for people living there. i am currently the president of the organization, and we're very concerned about safety. 20 years ago with the help of senator cobb at the time we were able to have caltrans look at the area. the traffic engineer said at the time there is nothing wrong with this. now take a look. slope boulevard is one stretch in san francisco that is a mile long with no stop light or controls of any kind. even brotherhood way has lights now. they didn't before. sloat is a speed way period. and tragedyically a lot of the focus is because of the young lady that was killed a few months ago and it was an unnecessary death and what is going on sloat is unnecessary. caltrans came in

>> we're from merced, california.this is our first thing in the whole world to do. >> reporter: and for so many this game is about more than baseball. it's family tradition. >> my son and i have been coming out for 27 years consecutively. i told him as long as i'm alive we'll still be doing it. >> i don't know if i remember the first one. the giants were here earlier. it's been a lot of fun. >> reporter: while some continue their decades old tradition, other fans are trying to start new ones. >> we'll read this together. >> reporter: jane and her friends motivated a crowd to read a quote from field of dreams before the opening pitch. >> this field, this game, it's part of our past. it reminds us of all that was once good and could be again. something she and her husband have done for 12 years before the home opener. she just wanted others to notice how profound the message is. >> it means that there's something that holds all of the americans together. that's good and it doesn't matter what kind of american you are. i