so as mike said, as a symbol of kempton's commitment to environmental stability, today we're inviting our public to come in and relinquish a standard lightbulb, and exchange, we'll replace with it a new energy-efficient lightbulb, on us. that's going on right now between noon and 2:00 at all 10 of our san francisco kempton hoe tells. that include the sir francis drake, the prescott hotel, the serano, the monaco, and the tuscan inn. to reward people for doing this, we're making a nice offer available from our restaurants in the city as well. little cards right there. pick one up. with that, i'd like to thank car are of kara's cupcakes who's helping us celebrate today by taking her caravan around to all of our certified hotels in the city and giving out free cupcakes. you might catch her before she leaves for the next destination, which i think is the prescott hotel on post street. so just chatting with kara and want to acknowledge the earth care commitment, the commitment to the environment that kara's cupcakes has made also is pretty substantial. now i'd like to introduce you michelle

as mike said, this has the complete, wholehearted endorsement of the port commission, all of us, of ourstaff, our planning staff, even all the way across to our maintenance staff, led by tom carter. i just want to say in closing and thanking everyone, who says we do not have ships down at this waterfront? [laughter] thank you. [applause] >> i also want to thank the opportunity thank thebcdc who helped us -- bank -- thank bcdc, who helped us get a permit for this. i told people that the cost of putting something up like this cost the city about the cost of a billboard for one month, and they had a greater ability to create community and space, and it has been a fabulous addition to the port of san francisco. people will talk about this rocket ship forever. the next person we have is our district supervisor, david chiu. when david first came to the board of supervisors, he had a conversation with the cultural affairs director for the city and county of san francisco, and he made art in san francisco a priority. he wanted to make sure the money we were spending was spent on artists from th

as mike said, there's a final wrap-up. there's a little bit on the scoring. we had some comments from one of our commissioners about scoring. i want to loop back with that commissioner and make sure that we're taking care of any of those issues. but i think we're pretty much done, with some final tweaks in the next few days. supervisor mirkarimi: and then how are we soliciting? i know that there's a routine process. but to make sure that in october we're not disappointing that we've had few bites by the community, the development community. >> i can talk about that briefly. one, there's areas of standard processes of publishing and advertising. in addition, we're going to go through making sure that in the relevant trade publications, which everybody in the industry that would be the types of firms that would be responding to this, that will be buying a half-page ad in that publication, which gets a lot of eyeballs. the last times we've done that, we've received cold calls from that. so i know that that works for sure. and also in the last few weeks, i've bee

. >> the white house said today, as mike said, that the president wasn't trying to walk his comments back. but it sure seemed like they were doing some damage control. are they worried this becomes a huge political issue, especially in an election year? >> reporter: this official i talked to said this is just noise in august. there's no political upside for the president in this. i talked to a couple of republican pollsters who noted that even republican leaders in the congress are exploiting this and criticizing the president, this is not likely to have a major impact on the election. they say, what we need to focus on are jobs and the economy. >> john harwood, thanks so much. >>> back to the gulf where the president is today, the man in charge of the bp clean-up had an update today on what happens next. and for more on that part of the story, we're joined by nbc's chief environmental affairs correspondent, anne thompson, down in venice, louisiana. good evening, anne. >> reporter: good evening. today we learned there is a split between bp and the federal government over whether or n

-- kendrick meek could be more competitive >> when jeffrey green was accused, he said drugs were used on his yacht. mikeon said he only used drugs off the yacht and never on the yacht. when mike tyson was there it was a problem. the democrats would have a problem if jeff green had run. the democrats would have supported charles crist and he would be rubio. with meek in the race, he will get the african-american vote, the democratic support and they will split the democratic constituency and rubio is up by about 10 points in the latest poll that i think it is bad hopes for the democrats in florida. >> i believe we are headed toward a quick vote which is anti-rubio. crist has money in the bank and he will fight and that's well heardmeek. you move backwards and you scott fits into this. the government wants scott as the for governor but they want his bank account. he can now finance a full state operation which they were not sure they had before. that will help rubio and everybody on the ticket. all at all, this is bad news for the democrats. >> the top democrats are pretty gloomy about holding on to the h

. >> reporter: mike said the flames appeared to be coming another the barbecue. the propane tank is charred but remains up right tonight. >> i go into the backyard and peeked through the backyard and the barbecue from the propane started catching on fire. i am calling the fire department two minutes later the whole backyard was just dowsed in flames. >> reporter: the utility was damaged, waters was destroyed along with the unit with the barbecue. a fourth unit is closed during the investigation. investigators have not released the cause but they confirm the fire was accidental. it is one of the first big tests since two stations and three other companies were eliminated august 1st. >> this area directly has not had any stations that were closed. but it affects everything when you eliminate rigs and companies. >> reporter: firefighters responded within only six minutes because they were training at nearby lake cunningham pardon me. the response time may have been lucky but the fire left waters with only her wallet and a few things she had packed in her suitcases.

mike said it is not effecting visibility on the roadways. that's a good thing heading out the door. then warming in the inland areas by this afternoon. by 8:00 this morning, 56 along san francisco, los gatos, 57. 58 san jose. temperatures start to separate by lunch time. it will be nice and warm in the inland areas, 76 in fremont. 77 in san jose. by 4:00 this afternoon, we expect more warming to continue. even along the coastline. maybe not a bad day to spend the afternoon in san francisco, if you can get there. or if you're there, have some friends over for cocktails later this afternoon. why not, it's tuesday, right? looking at your seven-day forecast, talking about warming today. really hot tomorrow, especially in the inland areas. then cooling down by the weekend in time for that weekend barbecue. >> all right. party planning with kris. >>> an arrest in mexico could be a big break through in the war on drugs. >>> and a cal football player is taking hits and trying to make a few as well. we'll show you coming up. >>> meg whitman may have to take a break from her campaign. we'll t

mike. >> i said that i was diagnosed in 2006. and the first thing -- the first year -- i was so angry. so angry. and i have never felt that. scared. i did not tell anybody in here we did this is -- and i did not tell anybody. this is going over a year or two. unfortunately, like i said, the folks that take care of me, tom, dr boxer, sort of told me to sit up, fix it, do it, something like this. i still have problems. the like -- i would say three out of two i will put the issue on the wrong foot. -- the shoe on teh wrong foot. these are real. i had to release that anger. sure enough, i will do it probably tomorrow. it is rather odd that these things happen. and i hope it is because of the alzheimer's. [laughter] i am so privileged with the folks that are taking care of me. [applause] >> tom -- as the daughter of a man who had alzheimer's, a have a question that i did not prompt you for earlier, but are you glad you got a diagnosis -- are you glad that you understand the diagnosis and what is going on with do? >> akko, yes. -- oh, yes. that is where the anger came from -- why the hell a

mike singletary said there was a lot of positives but not completely happy.s the head coach, he has to say that. one of the standouts, 49er fans will be buzzing about the play of backup quarterback -- let's just get to laura and let her do it. laura, take it away. i was going to give you a full introduction. you have the man with you. >> right. i have one of the backup running back anthony dixon joining us. you got your name called right away, you got out on the first play. how was with it the first team offense? >> it felt good to get that experience and get more comfortable in the offense. i was happy with that. >> you knew you were going to get a lot of opportunities, ride see what you could do against some of the better defenses. >> coach kind of told me i was going to be starting. i was trying to focus on my technique and put out a good performance. >> how would you assess your performance? >> it was okay but it was inconsistent at times. sometimes i didn't take what they gave me. i wanted to make a big play. got to learn sometimes you got to take three,

you can see helicopters are also working to put out these flames it was quite a ride we took the mike i said this is one of the world's major ends and it's in fact why prime minister vladimir putin chose to come here to fly on one of those planes we just flew on and see the process himself of course it's not only authorities and volunteers trying to contain these flames ordinary people citizens are doing what they can to help gathering whatever items they can food water clothes to help those who have lost everything and we're terribly hoping that this crisis will soon come to. when and and you see now way our t. verizon region. it's not only russians that are helping those affected by the fires people from other countries are sending aid in condolences some even want to help battle the flames as artie's laura emma discovered when she met up with one british former fireman this is a man who do you see knows no national poll which is a retired firefighter daniel coleus all the reports of the florist blazes raging in russia and felt compelled to offer his help so he wrote to prime minister puti

you can see helicopters are also working to put out these flames it was quite a ride we took the mike i said to the world kate major and that's in fact why prime minister vladimir putin chose to come here to fly on one of those planes we just flew on and see the process himself of course it's not only authorities and volunteers trying to contain these flames ordinary people citizens are doing what they can to help gathering whatever items they can food water clothes to help those who have lost everything and we're terribly hoping that this crisis will soon come to an end and he's in our way our teeth design region. a little bit later this hour we'll look at whether the u.s. can really. stick to its deadline to get out of iraq and analysts say the promise is more to appease people at home rather than a fair assessment of whether the rocks are ready to go it alone. and if we look at why so few female murder convicts governors parole in california despite being cleared for release by prison borders. japan has marked the sixty fifth anniversary of america's atomic bombing of nagasaki a tragedy w

you can see helicopters are also working to put out these flames it was quite a ride we took the mike i said this is one of the world's kate major and so that's in fact why prime minister vladimir putin chose to come here to fly on one of those planes we just flew on and see the process himself of course it's not only authorities and volunteers trying to contain these flames ordinary people citizens are doing what they can to help gathering whatever items they can food water clothes to help those who have lost everything and we're terribly hoping that this crisis will soon come to an end and he said now way art. he resign returned. meanwhile the images of russia in flames people sweltering in a record breaking temperatures and the capital city shrouded in smaug have been seized upon by environmentalists as a sign of manmade climate change but pearce corbin of the weather action foundation and there's nothing manmade about it climate has always been china but it has nothing to do with man we predicted there would be extreme heat in east europe and russia this summer and it's caused by a. patt

you can see helicopters are also working to put out these flames it was quite a ride we took the mike i said this is one of the world's kate major and so that's in fact why prime minister vladimir putin chose to come here to fly on one of those planes we just flew on and see the process himself of course it's not only authorities and volunteers trying to contain these flames ordinary people citizens are doing what they can to help gather and whatever items they can food water clothes to help those who have lost everything and were terribly hoping that this crisis will soon come to an end. now of course those of us that eyewitness are just a tiny part of the amends efforts taking place to tackle. these wildfires and of course also help those affected by the devastation across russia these past few weeks. so we'll look at whether the you ask can really stick to its deadline to get out of a walk analysts say the problem is more to appease people at home rather than a fair assessment of whether iraq's ready to go it alone. this week saw the sixty fifth anniversary of america's atomic bombings of

military chief during a talk show mike mullen said a strike on iran is an option if diplomacy fails to stop the rands nuclear ambitions the iranian president also said military confrontation was not something his country was considering now this all comes around faces new international sanctions driven by washington over the islamic republic's nuclear program son go to monday's founder of the iranian american political action committee he told me the admiral statements intended to show the military might of the us and the reason for the timing of that is because the u.s. is concerned and the obama administration is concerned that as they pursue this sanctions policy that they are perceived to be pursuing an appeasement policy in a way that is going to fail and they feel that the whole sanctions track will be ineffective if they don't do wield a credible military threat there's been some there was some internal deliberations within the administration and there was some concern that the iranians were not taking the threat of the u.s. military response seriously enough and so these commen

admiral mike mullen said he was concerned about the risk to afghans who have helped the united states. >> i think we do have a more all obligation given their exposure and given what they have done to do all we can to ensure their safety. >> mitchell: and the growing concern over the course of the afghan war is reflected in recent dramatic covers for both time and "newsweek". earlier today i spoke with the author of the "newsweek" article, he is richard haas, president of the council on foreign relations and u.s. government's coordinator for the future of afghanistan under president george w. bush. richard, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. you said in "newsweek" magazine recently that it's time to dramatically scale back in afghanistan, why? >> well, first of all i'm not sure it's really worth it in the sense that afghanistan is no longer the unique center of global terrorism like it was at the time of 9/11. secondly, i certainly don't think this level of effort is going to succeed. you have a sanctuary in pakistan, you have got a weak central government in afghanistan. i woul

is military chief during a talk show admiral mike mullen said a strike on iran is an option if diplomacy fails to stop iran's nuclear ambitions and said that military confrontation was not something around was considering this all comes as a round faces new international sanctions driven by washington over the islamic republic's nuclear program said mohammad marandi spoke to says from the university of tehran he says president some of the speech highlights around willingness for dialogue. but i think it's more symbolic what he's basically saying is that we are willing to compare our ration rationality in our reasoning with american reasoning in american magick in front of a global audience in what he's basically saying is that americans are behaving unreasonably irrationally and dangerously whereas the iranians are looking for a way for solutions for example with the with regards to the iranian nuclear program that iran declaration was a major step forward that the united states forced a resolution in the u.n. security council basically to destroy any opportunity for resolving the issue

into this kaichls within days mike receive aid letter of apology. >> in response to the letter addressed to kgotv they're refunding appraisal fee. we got it. >> the bank saider made aware of the error we waived the fees for mr. mccoy. >> only a matter of $407 but it was... kind of the principle of the thing. thank you kgo oo. mike says he noticed the fee because he went over all of the many pages before signing off. that is a good idea. >> do they have to tell you about that beforehand? >> they have to tell what you sit. the way the law is written you don't know the final final until you get in there to sign papers people are ready to go. they don't think look i've got to stop and go through everything line by line. >> thank you sure. >> tonight fun a rare behind the scenes visit to san francisco's longest-running musical. >> what goes on beyond the oday i deserve it! or, i could have a medium slice and some celery sticks and they would ccel each other out, right? or...ok. i could ha one large slice and jog in place as i eat it or...ok. how about one large slice while jogging in place followed by eight celery... mmm raspberrcheesecake... i have been thinki