the staff, teachers, and parents have waited so long and hard to get moscone where they are today. we ask that the district find a solution and work with them to solve this problem. thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening. i am the mother of a second grader. as a member of the parent club at moscone, i respectfully ask the board of education to reconsider and find a way to avoid cutting funds at our school. our children have their own dreams and goals to achieve. they believe their voice is not heard by their school district, keeping the promise to their families to achieve an education. we are doing our best for our children. we will continue to do so. please do not punish our children for doing academically well. do not take our teachers out of the classrooms. we need them there to teach our children. please do not take them. please do not take our program away from them. thank you. [applause] >> my name is edward and enriquez. i am a father and a licensed clinical social worker. i have been connected to the school since 1990. i worked at balboa health center as a counsel

please come forward. >> ♪ moscone center i hope you fix it and i hope you can hardly wait to be righthere don't you remember you told me you love the george moscone convention center said you would be coming back and you would like to fix it up greatly. i hope that you do it, do a good center i love that center yes i really do i hope you fix it up and the convention center from all over the world people will visit there right now don't you remember you told me you love the the moscone convention center said he would be coming back to visit their i love that center i really do ♪ supervisor avalos: any other member of the public that would like to comment? we will close public comment. without objection, recommendation. wait, let's back that up. we need to make some amendments. >> actually, mr. chairman, i believe that the department submitted an amendment on whole that reflects our recommendation, which is stated on page 4-7 supervisor avalos: to give the scope of the work -- 4-7. supervisor avalos: to give the scope of the work? that's get the vote and accept the amendment as a whole

near the moscone center, this is for oracle open word. tonight at 8:00, howard street will be shut down between third and fourth streets. that will be in effect until friday the 24th. so definitely give yourself extra time through that area. right now the bay bridge checking in problem-free. the metering lights are off and as you can see, no delays at the toll plaza. back to you guys. >> thank you. >>> quickly taking a look at our pinpoint weather, less fog in the forecast today and billy poone our weather producer says it will be a little warmer taste. tracy is coming here. >> looking at the transamerica pyramid. >> we'll have a little bit of sunshine. what i'm looking at the seven- day forecast. look what happens on weekend, saturday and sunday cooling down a good bit and, yes, those are rain showers. if she didn't put them in the forecast, someone would call her and blame her if there was one drop. she sticks them in the forecast for saturday and sunday. very mild temperatures around the bay area, 80s, 58 degrees. >> looks good inland.

he has been responsible for putting solar power at moscone center; responsible for putting power at san francisco international airport; responsible for putting solar power at the waste water facility in the bayview hunter's point. he will be responsible for putting power on our libraries, on our schools, and everywhere possible in the city and county of san francisco. we're very fortunate that this mayor has been the first mayor to create a climate action plan that will reduce the green house emissions by 20 percent by the year 2012. this mayor has also been a leader and innovation and we're looking at creating -- in harnessing paddle power below the golden gate bridge and that will be done under gavin newsom's leadership. so please put your hands together and give a warm san francisco welcome to our mayor, my mayor, gavin newsom. >> thank you. newly elected so i've got to now call him mr. president. thank you, president brooks. i want to thank the commissioners for being here and of course our director, susan leyall, recognize her extraordinary leadership in putting this to the. as th

most of san francisco is packed with events, including all of the moscone center. >>> after the scandalt the southern california city of bell, state attorney general jerry brown is reviewing all local government salaries of more than $00,000. some of those -- $300,000. some of those are in the bay area, including san ramon city manager who nation nearly $360,000 a year while in nearby pleasanton that city managers makes about $150,000 less. livermore and danville, also make more than $00,000 a year -- $300,000 a year. >>> police are investigating a purse snatching accident. it happened to jean kwan. jean kwan was not hurt. her purse was found a few blocks later. >>> sunny skies after a cool and cloudy start around the bay. mark will have your forecast. >>> and rebuilding with the purpose. e ret ma oilwi totr wco l wcote >>> a fire below a train bridge is disrupting train service in and out of grand central station this afternoon in new york. this is between manhattan and the bronx. no one was injured by the blaze which started just over three years ago. the cause of the fire is under in

. >> we're on the roof of the moscone center of san francisco and we have 2500 panels that power the center. >> here we are using real energy, energy from the sun, free energy from the sun coming in right here. this converts directly into electricity. >> all these technologies cost money. they don't make economic sense. solar never made economic sense. bio fuels never made economic sense. it's when it was adopted that it started making sense. >> some of them have challenges, that take a long time to prove out, but there's no reason that the challenge of where we will get tomorrow's energy in the united states should not produce a very, very large. >> san francisco is unique in the united states because we serve our own power needs. >> the city of san francisco is well positioned in that we are perfectly located to take advantage of any renewable category. >> we tend to be the last one to figure it all out. it's real people that are saying, enough's enough. . >> the answer is going to be in renewable. the sooner we do something about it, the easier it will be it resolve. >> we're not

use mass transit if you plan to head to the area near the moscone center. also a fog advisory for the bay bridge right now. chp has issued that this morning around 1:30:00 a.m., no delays at the toll plaza. that's traffic. tracy has the forecast. a little misty. >> yeah, misty, drizzle, fog, clouds, you name it. heading out the door this morning, fog and drizzle along the coastline and around the bay and areas of dense fog especially well inland in some of our valleys for the morning. temperatures ranging from the mid 50s to the mid-60s. for this afternoon, mostly sunny skies but temperatures are going to cool down a bit. near 80 degrees inland today. upper 60s around the bay with a mix of sun and clouds. and check out the coastline, low clouds and drizzle expected well during the day. we have your weekend forecast cooler weather and even a chance of showers? >> , that's in the forecast this weekend. i'll explain coming up. >> it's hard to see coming into work this morning. >> a little bit of mist at the coast. >>> 5:07. we found something that maybe will m

coming up closures near the moscone center.l have details. >>> a new tool to fight crime in one of the bay area's most dangerous cities. 14 oakland cops are now wearing cameras to get audio and video recordings of what they do. the recordings are electronically sent to superiors at the end of each shift. >> it's been excellent. i'm able to record everything and download it. it's there. i can log on the computer. it's like your a phone book with all your contacts. >> the oakland city council is expected to decide next week whether to buy cameras for all 350 officers. cameras for all the cost, $900 apiece. they would provide evidence when there are allegations of misconduct. >>> a proposal to build a mall in san francisco's mid market neighborhood has been given the green light to move forward. the board of supervisors unanimously approved the mall's environmental impact report which had been appealed by some neighborhood groups. the five-floor city place shopping center is expected to be built on market street between fifth and

cnet's molly wood outside the moscone center. there is speculation of changes with itunes, apple tv which was a rare miss for apple. so what's the word? >> reporter: most of things that we expected did turn out to be true. there were new ipods but there was also an announcement of a new version of apple tv that will include the ability to rent not buy movies and tv shows and the tv shows will be priced at 99 cents which is about the lowest that we have seen for tv show rentals. >> molly, one question i have was about itunes. is there a new ipod and is itunes going to work differently? or am i getting things convoluted? >> reporter: there was a new version of itunes, itunes 10. the big announcement is the same software program was. the announcement is that apple built in a new social networ so that itunes users can share music information, follow different artists, not with other social networking sites, but there was no new ipad announced today. >> what about apple tv? that's a rare myth as far as apple is concerned. >> reporter:

award contracts for construction services, for the renovation of and capital improvements to the mosconevention center. supervisor avalos:? told that we have a small technical amendment for this? >> yes, -- i am told that we have a small technical amendment for this? >> yes, the middle initial is s. supervisor avalos: we will make that change in the resolution to the ordinance and we assume that that is not substantive. we will make that amendment. welcome. >> thank you, good morning, supervisors. i will be speaking about the alternative contract process. first wanted to acknowledge that we have other team members here at the convention facilities department from the visitors' bureau, as well as executive liaison to the non-profit source improving district. the capital improvements is much needed to maintain it as a modern and destinations base for conventions. over the last couple of years the bureau has reached out to major stakeholders and clients for feedback on improvements required to maintain the facility as fresh and competitive based on the feedback received we have prepared imp

. >>> there is a six-day conference at the moscone center that's closed streets. >> we love hosting this in san francisco. they are so supportive of having oracle open. every time we grow, we are able too expand our footprint within the city. >> there's also a venue on treasure island for a musical event for wednesday headlined by the black-eyed peas, steve miller. >>> boy, those people were getting some great weather. the views were phenomenal? >> it really feels like fall out there. therethere is a lot of moisture leftover for the weekend. the sprinkles did occur, drizzle along the coast, actually some rain up in santa rosa. now we're changing around. let's go out in the pacific. i want to show you, the wide shot. look at the weather systems lined up out here. this is a very active pacific for what is essentially going to be -- be -- the fall ecoknocks starts in a few -- equinox starts in a few days. it's 77 san jose. 78 in livermore. it feels lotter than that,vy to admit. the forecast is for more fog tonight. coastal fog. maybe a little drizzle. more fog again tomorrow morning and the

. >>> the city of san francisco is about to add ten parking meters in fishermen's wharf, moscone centernd at&t park. it will brick -- bring in more money obviously. patti lee has more. >> reporter: frank, right now we're on rich street where right now it's tree -- it's free to park but 15 new meters could crop up by as early as next. when you start charging for things that used to be free there is bound to be a backlash. >> there's nothing free any more. and -- it's so expensive to park. >> reporter: citywide, 1,340 currently free spaces are slated to get meters by january, where the owners are concerned the added expense of going out will hurt business. the city's transit spokesman says the new meters will ease congestion, good for business and will add convenient payment options for drivers which could lower their chances of getting tickets. i've been working down here for four years. the spots down there were tree and -- were free and it made parking competitive and if these go away, i don't know what people are gonna do. >> but around town -- >> what i end up doing is not going any

that's taking place at the moscone center. we have other closures to report. between ellis and o'farrell will be shut down on saturday morning. and the eastbound lanes of taylor will be shut down between o'farrell and eddy, that gets under way on sunday morning. stop and go through antioch, the usual stuff, speeds around 19 miles per hour on that westbound side slow and go mostly between hillcrest and loveridge. westbound 580 speeds in the 40s from 205 to the altamont pass. dealing with dense fog on highway 1 through pacifica. also 280 through daly city and through south san francisco. give yourself extra time out the door. and checking your drive through milpitas, looks like not too bad actually. i know our camera isn't working. 880/237 connector not bad at all. tracy has your forecast. >> thank you, gianna. forecast out the door, it's cloudy out there. fog and drizzle along the coastline. fog and drizzle around the bay. delays on arrivals at sfo around one hour and areas of fog with mostly cloudy conditions inland. temperatures for the morning from the mid-5

we have a closure, howard is shut down between 3rd and 4th street due to oracle open world at the moscone so expect delays. use mass transit. bart no delays. ace on time, muni and caltrain checking in problem-free. here's a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. so far, so good no delays approaching the pay gates. everything clear across the upper deck into san francisco. the metering lights are still off. checking 880 right now, both directions mighty fine near the oakland coliseum. i hear our weather is mighty fine, tracy. >> yeah, weather mighty fine. it's the last full day of summer. what's in store for today? how about cooler temperatures? out the door this morning, mostly clear conditions with a few clouds expected inland temperatures ranging from 50 to 58 degrees. mostly cloudy conditions around the bay and we do now have delays on arrivals at sfo around 40 minutes. temperatures anywhere from the lower 50s to the lower 60s and low clouds and fog for the coastline for the morning. for this afternoon, sunshine expected. but not as warm. 70 to 76 degrees inland. sun and clouds lower

remember, howard street closes between third and fourth for a convention at the moscone center. moving along and taking a look at northbound 280, that's a little bit slow now getting into the valley, so is 85 and 101 but we don't have any major problems reported. let's go to steve. >>> we have a lot of fog out there. it's going to be on the increase for the next day or two and then it will start to ramp up as the system gets close to us. probably giving the north bay a hint of rain. a few high clouds will skirt mendocino county, lake county, maybe parts of sonoma. not a big deal. the fog's in place, just not going anywhere any time soon. fog, drizzle, mostly sunny. slightly warmer. 53 in san francisco. we'll go for a high of 64 which is still way below average. 52 to 58 san rafael and napa. san jose, 58. almost everybody says cloudy -- or fog except concord. even livermore says cloudy. 35 in tahoe. 50s in the valley. 50 the and 60s up and down the -- 50s and 60s up and down the coast. fog, drizzle, mostly sunny. it will be slightly warmer. there is still a sea breeze. west-south

. >> we're on the roof of the moscone center of san francisco and we have 2500 panels that power theter. >> here we are using real energy, energy from the sun, free energy from the sun coming in right here. this converts dirtl