go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built up

welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to new york city and speak with michael kramer fund manager and financial writer michael welcome back to the kaiser report it's great to be back max and stacy thank you for having me all right michael the most important question and one that's on everyone's lips news that goldman sachs is going to make a movie about itself who do you think should play lloyd blankfein and goldman the movie. that's interesting i wonder if i don't think they've been making any more lord of the rings lately so we should we should try to see if gollum is available for that part because i couldn't think of a better character to play lloyd blankfein it's a good idea of course a cut is a golden ring that have to use a fee at currency collateralize golden ring obligation note but it kind of be similar it's a creature devoid of all so all soul whatsoever as well so that would work all right now michael kroger you recently traveled across the entire u.s. where did you go what did you see what's the what's the real situation out there in the nation yeah sure so wha

this isn't new to city college. but -- be that as it may, the question that i was getting at is the service you're roadwaying is that to serve a geographic area or anybody in the city. what is the practical experience of that? >> we primarily serve the neighborhood. many family dos walk and -- and come from the immediate neighborhood, although we're open and free to any parent who brings a kiled, the parent enrolls as a student. and they're able to participate one day a week, one day a month or five days a week. >> got it. >> are there occasion when is the children are there and not the parent? >> absolutely not. a r as -- we operate licensed facilities. i'm the manager of all of them. the licensing regulations when you leave your children are very stringent. they're very cumbersome. i work with licensing quite intimately at our five programs. there's square footage requirements and exclusive use of yard space requirements and exclusive bathroom requirements. so these are courses where parents coming with -- come wit

new fire station. action to vacate the right away, approval of the actual new museum building, and approval of the new fire station. as i mentioned earlier, we think this agreement is a win-win for the city for moma. it allows the moma to build a new wing to house the world- renowned fischer collection and provides for the fire department and the fire station facility, which is superior in its physical layout and location to the existing fire station at no additional cost to the city. before john goes over with you the agreement, i just want to give you a sense of the overall big picture schedule for this project. we are expecting certification of the eir and project approvals in fall of two dozen 11. completion of the new fire station ready for use, fall of 2012. and completion of the new museum wing, summer 2015. again, all contingent on the approvals that i already mentioned. at this point, i will hand it over to john. i just want to say to you, after john is finished with his brief presentation, we have representatives of numerous city departments and of the sfmoma key and answer any questions you might have. >> thank you. assistant director of real estate, good afternoon. the action

to this tough job. she's commissioner emily loyd and the head of department of environmental protection of new york city and appointed by mayor bloomberg to head this agency in 05. the department is responsible for imagining new york cities waist water and treatment, drinking supply, handling hazard materials and emergency x toxicities and removal of those and enforcing cities air and noise codes. they also have substantial responsibility outside of new york city managering 2 thousand square miles of the hudson valley. prior to heading up this agency commissioner loyd served as executive vice president for public affairs at colombia university and was in the administration for ten years and commissioner for sanitation under mayor, jenkins and was ma developer at port an authority and commissioner for traffic and parking for the city of boston. emily, thank you so much. we are so glad to have your energy, your smarts to lead us to this tough topic this morning. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, susan. well, as the only - at least self identifying water system manager from the east coast, i had original

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he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chico, i remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's house in our neighborhood became so famous that even my father, not particularly fond of cuban jazz, c

news. >> 91%. that's not bad. the honesty test is traveling to different cities throughout the country. so far, boston it turns out is the most honest place. they got 93.3% followed closely by washington, d.c., just about 0.03 off. about 90% in new york and atlanta were honest. los angeles, uh-oh, you can't trust the guys down there, 75% of them. a quarter of the people there -- >> they're going to start to hate you. i can't believe the lady who made the motion. come on. >>> courtney reagan is always honest about what we'll see from investors on wall street. does it look like two green arrow days in a row? we'll see. good morning. >> hi, good morning. things are looking up for the green arrows at least right now futures are slightly higher ahead of the opening bell and following yesterday's rally. you can kind of call it the earnings relief. investors cheered positive results from 3m and caterpillar and at&t. asian markets were higher overnight. europe mostly positive right now and there's no economic data out tonight but traders will be keeping an eye on europe because the result of the

less than an hour ago, the city's mayor agreed to stop taking his salary and said he will not seek re-election. the news comes hours after city council agreed to take major pay cuts. right now, four council members each get paid for than $100,000 a year for their part time work. the council fired three city leaders last week because they got paid too much, the city administrator made nearly 800,000 a year. the police chief $457,000. the assistant city manager made $376,000. belle is south of los angeles and has a population of 37,000. >>> the "chronicle" keeps a close eye on the payrolls at san francisco city hall. here's some earners from 2009. two deputy police chiefs topped the list in the neighborhood of half a million each including overtime and unusual one-time payments like cashed-in sick days. the fire department doesn't pay as well. the fire chief earns under $300,000. >>> a couple of bay area cities are considered among the best for working mothers. but they don't top the list. in fact, mom's looking for a new job should head east to the twin cities. forbes woman took into account on how much

a civilian you mention new york you compared moscow to new york and saying and then lady you continued saying that moscow has a possibility to to to become a great and great city now. do you like eagle because well i mean i love seattle well atlanta's i like atlanta washington's ok but new york city i really hate it well i think it's no place to live in i mean i live my heart and well it's not the same as i'm going to visit as a tourist. would you like to live in milan i was really manhattan sometimes many times i was teaching in jail when i was leaving jail i was a very very practically at seven o'clock in the afternoon to the never in my heart and it was laughable you think you're using a livable city regarded as a livable place yes in my opinion the most. rational she's in a war but rather is the city of the old people you can go to manhattan and. delhi as if you are born there because bali for the cinema for the leader for many respects anyway ok but so that is a very interesting the brownlees between the battle for my heart and. in the therapy. and that mosque is really quite so so so you drawing these parallels professor you want to say that it still is

to washington, d.c. for $129 one way. new york city to any bay area airport for $149. tickets are non-refundable and subject to cancellation. >> silicon valley chip maker says it has made a breakthrough. santa clara based intel, it sends and receives information using beams of light. the prototype for the processor can move hundred hours of digital music or 45 million from one device in one second. but the chip won't be on the market for another five years. >> and 45 million tweets in morning. >> a lost the tweets you are getting and about the weather. people are asking, what is up. >> some are heading to southern california for warmth and cooler there. another record low high temperature, fourth or fifth in a row. where with would you go? >> bakersfield, desert. head to the mohave but they of the fires there. wherever you are, a lot of people are unhappy with the weather. people like this, sfo, flight arrival delays during the time but not widespread this morning. we'll keep an eye we may get through the morning hours without flight arrival delays into sfo. let me go

has recalled more than 8 million cars since october. >>> well, this may not be new to drivers around the streets, but the citys failing to repair and re-pave the potholes in a timely manner and there are thoughts that it may get worse. >> reporter: the city of oakland has a lot of potholes. >> you can drive your car down and lose it. >> reporter: the metropolitan communication commission, or mcc recently gave the oakland roads an at risk grade. >> it's terrible. i mean, they need to be fixed because it's tearing up the cars and causing problems. >> reporter: if things don't chink, the numb -- change, the number could double by nearly 2014. >> if the city had some hurry to the roads that would really help. you can look out here and see the potholes and i'm sure it's doing some damage to the cars. >> reporter: mcc say that the road repairs last about 25 years and those not done in that time could cost twice as much to maintain. 80% of the repair dollars are spent on the roads rated good and fair. >> if we have to pay more money to fix these streets, we should do it because it's for us and our kids. >> reporter:

new york city around 90, boston, 89. the heat will fuel localized stronger storms later this afternoon into this evening from boston down to new york city, including philadelphia, atlantic city and now our nation's capital. behind theer weather will be in place. however, it's still going to be humid but not quite as warm. syracuse, 84, buffalo, 80, burlington around 81. across the south central, it's been very hot with temperatures well above the normal. rob, vinita, back to you guys. >>> the nation's midsection could be hit with severe storms. des moines and cincinnati could see storms. >> denver is having a heat wave1 soo. southern california has cooled down to more reasonable readings. anchorage is a cool spot at an enviable 64 degrees. >>> when we come back, new criticism over the shuttered gm. that's part of your business news straight ahead. >>> and deadly flooding in kentucky. thousands are without power and water and it could be that way for a week. stay with us. ♪ [ instrumental: upbeat ] hey, max. [ announcer ] your dog's one of a kind. and now, you have the power... [ giggling ] to help significantly extend his

jenny wanted to do was incorporate text that spoke to the joy of new york city. this was access to believe the visitors that would walk by, but she wanted to make something that people who work there daily would be able to see. this is another image from the world trade. this is one of jenny's latest projects using l.e.d. technology. this is at the m.g.m. grand in las vegas. one of the more interesting things about this project was she was able to use new technology, video technology that would really make effects that were spectacular, grand, but also subtle. i'll be showing you some video of that later on so you can get a sovense what -- sense of what jenny could imagine having at the transbay transit center. >> for transbay, jenny is proposing just over 90 feet that will display white horizontally scrolling test. the sign's composition will be elegant and well-married to the underlying structure. great white l.e.d.'s will be set into aluminum bars, each 11 feet tall and one inch wide and deep that will be mounted vertically to articulate the curve. the glass. b

city council gave final approval to license four pot production operations. the marijuana would be for medical use. the the city would benefit by taxing it. cities interested to the new policy have to offer bids. richmond may pass a similar ordnance. >>> oakland city leaders and police union have come up with a possible compromise toll keep police officers on the job. it's a proposed tax of a dollar a day. voters will ultimately decide. we sampled their opinions. >> reporter: he has owned this two bedroom home the past three years. she works two jobs and hasn't decided if she'll support a measure to pay another $360 in property taxes. the money would go to rehiring the recently laid off police officers. >> i'm waiverring. it would be difficult at the same time i truly support oakland police officers. >> reporter: in work going class village some residents say the added protection is worth a dollar a day more. >> they're much needed. there's a lot of violence in oakland. i would vote for it. >> reporter: many more said no way. >> i'm pro police and pro protecting the people. i'm not pro gouging the people. >> reporter: a press conference was held to explain what's at

. >> tonight the belmont city council passed moratorium to stop any new ma coming permits from being issued. that's until current therapists can be checked out. the city is reviewing its own licensing process. >> i think there should be a clear distinction of therapeutic massage and then there should be adult entertainment. so just split the two completely. >> susan fleming went to an accredited massage school and posted her credit in her business. but there is no information about the therapist background. belmont residents say they don't care how it is done. they want all businesses run legally. >> they should be licensed. they should have all of the credits. they should go to the right school. >> during the moratorium they will thoroughly review the backgrounds of the therapists who attended the unaccredited schools. in belmont, abc7 news. >>> the antioch council had a proposal on a half cent sales tax increase. it would raise the sales tax to one of the highest in the state, 9.75%. some city leaders say it may be the only way to avoid city cuts to services including the police dep

jobs, public safety of fighting homelessness will protecting city services and not adding new tax increases, final budget includes sister cuts to most city parks reductions in overtime, layoffs. now some developing news byron williams is expected to enter a plea today for attempted murder of four police officers in connection of a shootout with the california highway patrol. meanwhile regarding our first close-up look to damage done to the patrol cars during that 15 minute long shootout, kron4 has the update. >> here at the california highway patrol this is what is left up to will oakland brokers, between chp officers spent for federal byron williams investigators say yet a plan to kill members of san francisco's philosophic or reposition and the aclu. >> speed believe he was going to the aclu for searle purpose of killing people he said that he was to sit and wait to monday to carry out as planned. >> one of the targets of suspects brian williams a nonprofit organization tides, we spoke to the ceo sides and he says he was shocked that a stranger is meant to attack his organization >> you know we were dismayed to learn there we

new york. i want to thank those people in new york, contrary to me being -- contraay to the other caller, the new york city agencies have been patient. there is a process, and the process is a risk. -- process is rigorous. they screen you very well for your mental and physical and financial conditions and they do provide services that you all are trying to do in other cities. guest: thank you so much, and congratulations on being able to exit homelessness. i thiik that the best way that you conserve it is, based on your experience with homelessness, is to work with your local community. we firmly believe that the issue is local, but the federal government as a role in can play -- has a role as a template to help families and individuals exit homelessness -- has a role it can play to help families and individuals exit homelessness. host: st. louis, missouri, republican line. caller: hi, mr. love. thank you so much for the information that you have been given. it is plain and simple and we know it is based on fact. my question is the link that your company or agency provides for childrrn in foster care at th

can't expect that the cultures with which you're going to be interacting are going to be carbon copies of new york city alone greenwich village. >> charlie: nobody said new york was perfect. >> unless your going to create a university that has a study-away site in philadelphia and toronto but no place else, you're going to have to get people out of their comfort zone. getting people out of their comfort zone doesn't mean core values -- >> charlie: who is out of their comfort zone? >> the whole purpose of the global network university is to get our students -- >> charlie: you're saying having to accept certain things -- having to accept certain things about people and nations and institutions that are outside your own comfort zone as to where you would like to be. is that the idea? >> yes. and you engage -- look, this -- the whole notion of this university is you don't look through the window, you're looking at the facets of a diamond. that means looking at other people's viewpoints and trying to engage with them. now, there are core values about which we feel very strongly, ok, and they have to do with

city. they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we first started, it was a rough job. everything was dynamite. now, they have these machines called "moles." it's like a big drill, and it just cuts right through the ground. so there's no more dynamite. and it's still a rough job, but it's gotten to a point where it's a lot safer. in the '70s, we lost a man a mile basically. here, maybe we've had two or three deaths in the last 20 years, which is too much anyway, but it's cut down a lot. hurwitz: city tunnel number 3 will be an opportunity to take

legislation moved through the board where we will hire a special events coordinator for the city to create a new halloween around the city. >> anything that helps curb the violence in the castro is a good thing. its unfortunate but its reality. >> district 8 is home to rich and poor. drivers and bicyclists and pedestrians. gays and straights and families and swinging singles. the district will face new challenges as the city grows and changes. thanks to the residents commitment to working things out district 8 will survive and thrive. for sfg tv i'm jennifer low and as always, thanks for watching. >> good evening, everyone i'm delight to be here to welcome you to the conversation with lalita tademy and scott shafer. lalita was born in southern california. and their home louisiana west maintained a noncalifornia edge. she's always been interested in her family stories especially ones about here great grand mother emily who died with a life savings hidden in her mattress. lalita level her position at sun miko systems to seresearch her family. she had no choice but to write about the amazing people

needs to lay off an additional 27 officers next year. if the new tax measure passes, the city doesn't need to amend measure y. it would get back the 80 officers laid off this month and prevent layoffs for the next three years. but if voters decide against both measures, an additional 122 officers will be lost in 2011 on top of the 80 laid off this month. >> it's a very volatile city right now. we need more protection. >> i have an 11-year-old son and his safety comes first. >> reporter: would you spend an extra $360 a year. >> well, ye wouldn't you? >> reporter: the police union has to vote on this to make it official. the police union and police department denied our requests for interviews this morning. allen? >> a parcel tax will take two- thirds of the vote to pass, didn't it? >> reporter: yes. they need a two-thirds majority. and a couple of other tax measures that are likely going to be on the ballot in november, one that would raise taxes for marijuana and phone taxes for cell phones. >> thank you, anne makovec. >>> besides this public safety parcel tax the city council

you can fly to new york city from airports, tickets are nonrefundable. make sure you read small print. and i'm glum today, i purchased tickets to nork a while back. >> all right. >> thank you. >> and let's get a check on the forecast now. >> there is mild like today fchl you're expecting summer warmth you don't have to wait longer. there is a some changes and there is a live picture from emeryville camera looking across the bay. you can see golden investigate bridge there. patchy low clouds there is we pan around from high definition camera you can sigh patchy nature of the low clouds. there are changes here. there is current temperatures this is just a sign of what is still to come. 60s and 70s this afternoon. numbers within a few degrees of yesterday's highs. there is sunny inland for wednesday. still, below normal. and then, we're expecting warmer days for thursday and friday. there is this afternoon, gray skies and sunny conditions across the bay area. and the coast is this circulation here just pulling marl away from some beach communities so. there

to the city. >> teresa garcia has details. >> good morning. mayor is certainly making a bold move to encourage the a's to set up new home turf even though major eball has not given such a move a green light. the mayor is asking city council to put a measure on the ballot called the down park and jobs measure. campaign would be fully paid by the a's owner. meanwhile, a special committee appointed 16 months ago is still sticked the option of moving. the league is not likely to get into the issue without ironclad assurance the city's plan could go forward. they propose they are using 14 acres of land to build a new ballpark and create hundreds of jobs. the owner has agreed to pay $461 million for the ballpark and maintenance while the city would pay millions nor infrastructure around it. city council has until august 3rd to decide whether to put a ballpark measure on the november ballot. >>> final check on weather and traffic. >> we do have a little bit of fog once again, not neither as extensive. readings will be in the 50s and then by noon today, we're looking at readings in the 60s and 70s. we'll start to see mid to upper 80s by the end of the