natoma sort of became this icon for health care reform. meanwhile, i was there with natoma as she was scrapping tooth and nail for her life, going through chemo day after day, and trying to survive this disease and relying on sort of the letters she got from the president and the letters she got from around the country from people who heard about her story to fortify her strength in hard times. >> mike in florida. welcome to the program pap you're on the republican line. >> caller: yes. i believe our president is marxist. and may i explain why? >> well, what does this have to do with this segment? >> caller: i don't know. >> okay. go ahead and make your point. >> caller: okay. i have a book called "introduction to christianity" by pope benedict before he was pope. it was written before obama came on the scene, and it says lib rau libration theology is a combination of marxism and christianity to manipulate the scriptures. it's on page 14. and i have a book by richard wormbrand, who is dead now, and the book was written in '85 and he has a

and 85 natomas street #4, the board authorizes executive sale agreement for the purchase price of $893,000. and upon closing, authorizes the dismissal of the eminent domain action. and as to item number four the mob 85 net thomas street, now berg -- the item number four, the property on 85 natomas street #4, and upon closing to authorize the disposal of the eminent domain action. rekha thank you. and we have no further items -- >> thank you. and we have no further items on the agenda today. >> correct. rex seeing none about the meeting is adjourned. meeting is adjourned. -- >> seeing none, the meeting >> you probably think you know all about the exploratorium. but have you ever been after dark? did you know there was a monthly party called after dark? science mixes with culture and adults mix with other adults. no kids allowed. every week there is a different theme. to tell us about the themes is melissa alexander. tell us about some of the previous themes we have had. >> we have had sex ploration, sugar, red, blue. many things. >> what is the theme tonight? >> rock, paper, scissors. we ar

and 85 natomas street #4, the board authorizes executive sale agreement for the purchase price of $893,000. and upon closing, authorizes the dismissal of the eminent domain action. and as to item number four the mob 85 net thomas street, now berg -- the item number four, the property on 85 natomas street #4, and upon closing to authorize the disposal of the eminent domain action. rekha thank you. and we have no further items -- >> thank you. and we have no further items on the agenda today. >> correct. rex seeing none about the meeting is adjourned. -- >> seeing none, the meeting >>

and 85 natomas street #4, the board authorizes executive sale agreement for the purchase price of $893,000. and upon closing, authorizes the dismissal of the eminent domain action. and as to item number four the mob 85 net thomas street, now berg -- the item number four, the property on 85 natomas street #4, and upon closing to authorize the disposal of the eminent domain action. rekha thank you. and we have no further items -- >> thank you. and we have no further items on the agenda today. >> correct. rex seeing none about the meeting is adjourned. meeting is adjourned. -- >> seeing none, the meeting >> everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account, things to an innovative program, bank on s.f. >> everyone is welcome, even if you are not a citizen or have bad credit to qualify for a bank account is simple. just live or work in san francisco and have a form of id. >> we started bank on s.f. six years ago to reach out to folks in the city who do not have a bank account. we wanted to make sure they know they have options which should be more low-cost, mor

and 85 natomas street #4, the board authorizes executive sale agreement for the purchase price of $893,000. and upon closing, authorizes the dismissal of the eminent domain action. and as to item number four the mob 85 net thomas street, now berg -- the item number four, the property on 85 natomas street #4, and upon closing to authorize the disposal of the eminent domain action. rekha thank you. and we have no further items -- >> thank you. and we have no further items on the agenda today. >> correct. rex seeing none about the meeting is adjourned. meeting is adjourned. -- >> seeing none, the meeting >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualifi

and 85 natomas street #4, the board authorizes executive sale agreement for the purchase price of $893,000. and upon closing, authorizes the dismissal of the eminent domain action. and as to item number four the mob 85 net thomas street, now berg -- the item number four, the property on 85 natomas street #4, and upon closing to authorize the disposal of the eminent domain action. rekha thank you. and we have no further items -- >> thank you. and we have no further items on the agenda today. >> correct. rex seeing none about the meeting is adjourned. -- >> seeing none, the meeting>r died, he was working on one of the biggest shows of his career, matter and spirit. it is a retrospective look at the many faces and faces of the life of an innovative artist from the california clay movement. stephen de staebler's developed in an area dominated by abstract expression. even his peers saw his form. >> he was able to find a middle ground in which he balanced the ideas of human figuration and representation with abstraction and found it even more meaningful to negotiate that duality. >> another chal

vice president hwang, commissioners, we have one house keeping issue about erecting a building on natomas street. that matter has been withdrawn and will not be heard this morning, so we can move them to item number one, which is public comment. is there any member of the public that which is to speak on an item not on tonight's calendar? ok, seeing none, we will move on to item two, which is the election of officers, or opposite. with the resignation of commissioner michael garcia, who was the president of the board, the office of president is now vacant, and the board needs to hold an election in order to fill it. the torrent of this presidency -- the term of this presidency will be after january 15, 2013. is there any member of the board who would like to nominate a colleague or themselves for the office of president? commissioner: i will. i will nominate commissioner hwang. director goldstein: ok. are there any other nominations? seeing none, are there any comments on the nomination of commissioner hwang for president of seeing none, then, mr. pacheco, could you please call the roll?

first street, elevators from beale street, and elevators from the west and on that, to be part -- on natoma to the park level. >> -- commissioner moore: how are people getting to the buses? >> the elevators at the west and from they are going to the park. there are other levels that service other locations as well as the park. >> and we can get you information about the tax information as well. >> i'm with the former redevelopment agency. the good news is -- and this was mentioned by some of the developers that came up and spoke, to. all of the developers that formally spoke from a transit center to the redevelopment area is still in place. we will continue to collect that tax increment and spend its as before. there's not any loss of tax increment for transbay. i want to clarify that, to make sure everyone understood we are definitely still in place as a redevelopment plan and all the tax increments. we're not a redevelopment agency anymore. we've lost some of the tools, and in the domain for example, but other than that, all of the other tools are in place. -- and an end of domain for exa

. >> the next caller's from natoma, kansas, lauren, hello. >> caller: thank you. i teach fifth grade history. and i wonder what are most important topics that i should relate to my students. and if you have know suggestions for resources besides the dvd from today, i'd be interested in knowing those suggestions. >> well, that's a huge question. i don't have my bibliography with me. but i know that there is one volume -- well for fifth grade, i guess it would be a little complicated. but there's a volume of original documents that teachers might want to look at before they talk to their students. it's called "jamestown narratives." and it collected most of the original eyewitness accounts of the first 13 to 20 to 15 years, these things that were written about jamestown. the most important things, of course, i think really is the park and partially a national park because the first representative assembly met here and the virginia assembly is still meeting since 1619 and also the first africans came to this country in 1619, same date. so our diversity that we have,

police are saying two people were shot at 10:15 at 15th and minna street near natoma. the first victim was taken to san francisco general with a non-life threatening wound and a female juvenile went to san francisco general hospital with a gunshot wound to her left arm. police haven't made any arrests. >>> in san josi police say a man shot on cadillac drive last night is expected to survive. it happened just after 8:00 knew south winchester boulevard. officers say they found the 28- year-old with at least one gunshot wound. he was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. so far, no arrests have been made and investigators are still looking into a motive. >>> the streets of san josi were relatively peaceful last night for cinco de mayo. there was a heavy police presence as scores of people came to the downtown area despite the lack of any special events. for the past two years the city has canceled its official parade due to violence. this year some bars and restaurants hired private security guards to try to prevent crowds from getting out of hand. the

. >>> it could be misconstrued as racist csi has learned that teachers natomas shares three times alln an effort to have this post is removed with the superintendent says they are proud that they openly discuss race and its impact on students success. the house is expected to vote soon on an anti- abortion bill the republican proposal would make it a federal crime to carry out an abortion based on the gender of the fetus in some countries where there's a strong preference for boys female fetuses are often imported it is a sex discrimination issued upon and say they it would further limit a woman's right to choose an illinois state lawmaker loss is pull the state house floor and a good way in a big way. >>> this is not the american way. these bills are up here all the time. enough in there to try to figure out a vote for my people republican mike boss has a plan to overhaul the state pension system and was apparently not afraid to show he went on for two minutes and unleashed a screaming reims on democrats for not given enough time to read over the latest version of the bill i think he

by the afternoon we're looking at a natomas with temperatures down just a little. 83 degrees and one in santa clara, had 83 in san jose. the state senators moving into the 80s. 84 and walnut creek. you get inside of the maze and there's a strong sea breeze with temperatures in the upper 60s. 74 and very nice and oakland with the badgers warming up from here. let's check on the roads. >> they cover much, let's go live to chopper 5. it is bicycle to work day and we saw a group of bicyclist gather at the 24th st. bart station. they were expecting a large group to attend this bike to work day. they're now headed for city streets in san francisco. we're expecting to see a lot bicycles on the roadway. we'll have more in just a few minutes so you might see some more busy conditions but keep your eyes peeled. let's check the three conditions. the metering lights are on and traffic is stacked up in the fast track lands. slow and go until 880 overpass. elsewhere, if you're headed out and about, there are construction happening along 101. paving work happening. you might see slight delays. at t