thank you and john predecessor stole away from us, michael lane. thank you, michael, wherever you are. lastly, my personal reflection on this building. this building, to me, is truly a monument to the tremendous capacity of generosity in the heart of sentences go. the voters of san francisco in their great willingness to support this facility will always have this hospital as a sign of their willingness to help those most in need. these neighborhoods that surround this facility, i think, consider laguna honda at their private treasure. we really do look at this hospital as our own. we love this hospital. we have great care and great love for the residents of this hospital. on behalf of the neighboring residents, to all of the current residents of the hospital, this is for you. we are thrilled we were able to do this for you. thank you, everyone. [applause] >> the work of the health department would never be possible without its commission. the commission is the governing body. you have been around to this project long enough to see some fantastic co

thank you and john predecessor stole away from us, michael lane. thank you, michael, wherever you are. lastly, my personal reflection on this building. this building, to me, is truly a monument to the tremendous capacity of generosity in the heart of sentences go. the voters of san francisco in their great willingness to support this facility will always have this hospital as a sign of their willingness to help those most in need. these neighborhoods that surround this facility, i think, consider laguna honda at their private treasure. we really do look at this hospital as our own. wov

well southbound 680 even though michael with the kcbs phone force alerted us to more reports of dense fog from pleasanton down through the sunol grade in the southbound lanes0 so watch out for that. taking a live look outside here's a live look at the nimitz freeway. picking up as well past the coliseum. these taillights are moving northbound towards high street. no big delays towards downtown oakland. southbound traffic looks good if you have a flight to catch heading out of town for the holidays. southbound traffic looks good past the airport down into hayward. and mass transit is on time bart, ace, muni metro and caltrain problem free all morning. remember our radio partners when you hit the roads, kcbs 740-am and 106.9-fm. back to you. >> thank you. >>> let take a look at today's top stories. the buses will stop next year for thousands of san francisco school students. the school board's cutting the number of school buses just about in half to save nearly $2 million a year. new routes and schedules will be worked out in the next few weeks. >>> six antioch police officers a step closer to the unemployment line after receiving pink slips from the city. t

lanes. >> thanks for the update. time now 6:10. >> just ahead a british royal gets caught in the middle of a violent protest. >> plus michael finneynd "consumer reports" clear up the picture when it comes to the best and worst 3-d tv's. >> santa, send >>> students protesting steep tuition hikes at british universities attacked a car carrying prince charles and his wife yesterday. neither was hurt. it happened during a day of violent demonstrations against plans to triple tuition from 5,000 to $15,000 a year. the proposal passed. until 1997, tuition at british universities was free. 22 people were arrested include two for arson. 12 police officers and 43 protestors were injured. here in the bay area, the man many came to know as santa john begins his new gig today at an old san francisco bar. john toomey played santa at the union square macy's the last 20 years but was fired last week after an older couple complained about a risque joke he told him while sitting on his alap. the owners of lefty's offered a new gig and a pay increase. he even appeared on the tonight show last night. he told jay leno of a letter he got from state sen

michael vick. but, there is a whole sort of set relationships that go beyond the narrow lane of white house affairs but as part of a team, you hope that okay, it is all coming together and so folks on the outside are involved in that sort of, focused in on that goal. john. >> i have a similar question. is very probable scenario in the new congress and what kind of speaker john is going to be where the white house would almost marginalize him if he is not in control of these factions in the house with a tea party people, the incoming folks? and what they have to make those phonecalls, they may not call john and they might go to i don't know, can't tour or somebody else. boorish the speaker always going to be --. >> not always, but when you have got, i don't know, publicly reported to be rivals i am sure they would say they were each other's best friends and democrats have the same set of personalities at the top. to call the inferior one, that being the lesser, to call the assistant and not the leader, you are playing with fire there. so, you had better have a real good reason for calling, calling o