. >>> former san francisco mayor gaifn newsom. he was once a rising political star. >> only paid sick leave in the united states. universal health care before obamacare. university preschool, university after school. >> bold and brash, the lieutenant governor is no longer in the driver's seat, he's in the back seat. now joie chen hits down with the darling of the democratic party to find out how he's reinventing himself, next. are. >> in the aftermath of northern california's strongest earthquake in 25 years a familiar face reappeared in the spotlight. gavin newsom. the former mayor of san francisco and the state's current lieutenant governor. newsom is best known for leading the charge on same sex marriage a decade ago. "america tonight's" joie chen sat down with newsom before that quake hit to talk about his political aspirations. >> just a few years ago, gavin newsom was the golden boy of california politics. mayor of one of america's favorite cities. almost unnaturally telegenic, a stunning wife at his side. but then, newsom s

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. >> lieutenant governor gavin newsom makes the case for legalizing marijuana as polls show shifting attitudes. >>> money woes force the sacramento philharmonic orchestra and opera to scrap their upcoming season. why some art companies fail and others thrive in a turbulent economic climate. >>> and at the state capitol, the legislature tackles hundreds of bills before the end of the session, including assisted living reform, a controversial water bond, and california's cap and trade system. ♪ >>> good evening, welcome to "kqed newsroom," i'm scott schafer, thuy vu is off tonight. as colorado and washington surge ahead, polls show a growing number of americans support legalizing pot. four years ago, california voters rejected a statewide ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana use, but plans are under way to put the question before voters again in 2016. governor jerry brown opposes the idea, but lieutenant governor gavin newsom is chairing a task force to study the issue. thuy vu spoke to him earlier. >> lieutenant governor gavin newsom, welcome to the program. >> good to be

one of our very best soldier stories from vietnam is from joe newsome, captain joe newsome. a great friend of this facility in fact. he was a helicopter pilot and flew numerous missions over vietnam. you can see some part of of his collection here. we have his flight helmet, uniform, and, of course, his flight bag decorated with various unit insignias. you can see that first cav division there on the front. another great part of captain newsome's collection that's absolutely invaluable is the film that he shot from the helicopter that he flew. he was a huey pilot, clipped up the camera in the main door of the huey itself and shot film of his mission. this gives you the ability to see what it would be like to be that door gunner actually in combat and flight running those missions. it's a viewpoint that very few people have ever actually seen. [gunshots] >> the cold war ends and we go in and fight dessecember -- des shield/storm. we have the photographs, videos, oral histories from the soldiers on the ground in desert storm to fight the iraqi army. we've seen a private soldie

i talked to lieutenant governor newsom he's excited about the results the point it we are dealing go specifically with chronically homeless people and not the general population that's difficult because it is hard to separate it but your goal was preempt supportive housing supportive means animal door and mental health we've lobbied many folks and we got more federal money in my prior administration including my dad ways dad was a big advocate in washington, d.c. and once trending and barbara came in and had those unite real unit moving people into real unit kitchens and everything don't put them back into the atmosphere they came from give them mental health and housing is not housing it's a trans all i firmly believe we stay ton this path we'll have a success from veterans to jail gnats to those who are newly on the street we continue on this path that mayor ed lee has promised to do with duffey at the helm we can black or blue chronic homelessness we get discouraged but we've got people that are determined mayor ed lee i told him mooimg i'm going to be a ambassador for our council

former san francisco mayor gavin newsom is back. it better be good. >> 1966. about it. >> a lot of things happen. >> you and i weren't around. 1966, the last live concert ever that the beatles performed was right here in san francisco at candlestick park. >> really? >> you know what is happening tonight. >> i know what is happening. how appropriate. >> 49,000 people -- how appropriate. city started foot, in 18949, 49,000 people coming back for the last concert ever to be performed at that iconic venue since we are tearing it down shortly thereafter. >> are you going? >> i have to be there. >> my mom is going. she has been excited about this for months. >> beatles, paul mccartney, and by the way, he was thinking audaciously of not doing candlestick, but instead doing the new stadium at the 49ers that left san francisco to go to santa clara and wisely reconsidered. >> while you are waiting to get on the show, we contacted anonymous and got the ice bucket challenge of you throwing ice on your head. we have been feverishly trying to cut it. >> don't forget, san fr

california governor gavin newsom, always great to have you on the show.ward snowden claims the nsa is working on a machine that can automatically counterattack cyber hackers. how does the program work echo how legal is it -- how does the program work? how legal is it? we debate next. ♪ >> welcome back. i'm emily chang. fans, butauburn foreign hackers who targeted the phone lines of the tuscaloosa, alabama police department. department with irrelevant calls earlier this week, briefly stopping call -- the police from receiving legitimate calls. a nearby business was also targeted. the police department is taking steps to prevent the situation from happening again, including blocking certain international calls. edwardnsa contractor snowden is making more claims in an interview with wired magazine. is developing a machine that could have the capability of lounging -- launching cyber counterattack. as how does this monster mind program work echo it sounds like a network of robots that can automatically stop an attack before it starts. >> the details are a lit

. >>> lieutenant governor newsom gets his hair wet. the viral social media challenge that's got thousands people posting videos like that one there. >> do do-do do-do do. it is shark week! hi, everybody! roberta at aquarium of the bay. everything you ever wanted to know about a shark, we'll take you here. >> hi, i'm meteorologist lawrence karnow in the kpix 5 weather center. a cold front coming into california bringing showers. could we see some here? we'll talk about that coming up. exhibit. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, camp. >>> checking the stock market, a good day so far. the dow is up a little over 80 points. >>> things got wet and cold too for the new england patriots at their training camp. watch. >> 1, 2, 3 -- >> bill belichick and all the players, it's the ice bucket challenge. the campaign is to raise awareness for als, also known as lou gehrig's disease. the patriots did the challenge all of them apparently. and they are now calling on the jets, the dolphins and the bills to do the same. news e a-l-s ic >> yeah, look who else got his ha

newsom believes social justice is what shifted his attitude.s to lead the charge this time. bad news for country group rascal flatts and actor robert martha shade has thaese stories and more in today's hollywood minute. they're canceling upcoming shows an idaho washington stay in canada. in a statement this the impart the schedule let's show the past week and they left it without a voice. the promise to restore turned soon as they can. and say there were overtaxed by monday the company made. they're being taxed $1.6 million by new york. a utah residents said he he takes chances on the resident in utah. there's lots of attorney fees and costs. the authors said they personalize and written note written from here potter scatter, at the memorial the 15 year-old said happiness can be found even in the darkest of times spirit informally rubber is to turn out the light. one illinois woman was waiting 70 years for we have dorothy called bird she was sent love letters by her boyfriend which was in the navy in 1945 she was living in chicago and he was st

>> key young in napa with lieutenant governor newsome. chad myers, i want to go to you. heard the lieutenant governor say there the possibility, strong possibility of the big one, the next 15, 20 years, that's the concern. did today's quake tell us anything about that or is it wrong to make any sort of connection? >> yeah, i don't think we can make any connection on that. this really wasn't even on the san andreas fault, a different fault, still part of the same system, the plates are still shifting from california, the north american plate, pacific plate. put it into perspective where we are today at a 6en 0 or 6.1, usgs keeps flipping back and forth, i don't understand that, that doesn't matter. compared to where we were 25 years ago, this was nine times less powerful than 1989, loma prieta. you go here the 8, 19.08 there, 180 times, somewhere in there less powerful than back out here. the strength of the 1906 right here, about 80 to 90 times more powerful than what we had right now, what we had today. so, there was an awful lot of shakinging you have to remember in 19

i did see lieutenant governor gavin newsom come here. i know he talked to bob redell about an hour ago. i just saw him here. he's making his rounds here at third and brown to see much of the devastation here. i also see a lot of officials coming through here, cal, osha, taking a look at the damage and taking pictures. i've been talking to a lot of people here. with me now is judy and jerry nunn who live in a home built in 1906. tell me about your damage? >> the fireplace is out of the wall and you can see in the backyard straight through to the living room. the chimney is down. it's demolished. >> reporter: it must have sounded like an explosion. >> well, not quite an explosion like the last one we had but this one was more of a rolling shaking where we were going from north to south. >> reporter: how long will it take you to clean up? >> it will be a little bit. it's going to be a little bit. this one was more of a shaking and long. it was long. >> reporter: thank goodness that you are okay. >> we're fine. thank god. >> reporter: thank

newsom is voicing his concern for legalizing medical marijuana.to campaign in 2016 in favor of the issue. but he says the measure would have to be written the right way. for example, he says the legal age for using marijuana should be 21. he also says people who drive under the influence of marijuana should be held accountable and the extra tax revenue should go back to cities and counties. he made the comments yesterday while speaking at a meeting at the marin county par association in green bay -- bar association in green bay. >>> the california county supervisors has extended a ban in unincorporated parts of the county for dispensaries. under current zoning regulations, dispensaries could have requested permits to operate in four locations bordering the city of san jose. but the moratorium prevents that from happening. >>> dozens of people from australia came together and showed the human spirit to rescue a man whose leg was trapped between a subway train and the platform. this happened in perth, australia. the man was getting on the train when

governor of california, gavin newsome. that's not really home, i'm more than that. >> he's disarmingly frank. where has he he been for the past few years? >> i've been busy, it's just an anonymous position. i could get a cure for cancer and be lucky to get a cub reporter to cover it. it's very difficult from being mayor of san francisco. >> it's a big turnaround from a decade ago. then he made headlines worldwide for signing off on same-sex marriage licenses, against the law in his state, and in every other at the time. >> in 2004, the court said you're wrong. >> absolutely. >> this is illegal. >> a lot of people say its wrong. >> but most importantly, the court said its wrong. >> and my father. they've been the hardest part. >> and every major leader in the democratic party, not just the republican party. >> since then, 19 states and the district of colombia have approved same sex marriage. he made getting ahead of establishment approach a hallmark of his leadership. >> universal health care, before obamacare, universal p

renaming the sports competition to the gay gavin newsom's event was a large success and includes the degree that surpassed the olympics game during the first gay game he met sarah and decided to have a child together their daughter jessica was born and here today. to protect the legal rights dr. woody allen dell and highs wife married in 1985 he was diagnosed with aids but able to participate in the second gay games that he he lived at 49 passed away on july 11th and the center honor his work serving as a physician founded in 1911 and provides sexually transmitsed diseases it's an iv i didn't i alley the civic center it is one of the tremendous centers when i first went there i was brought by two district 6 constituents how have a lot of february on everything we do unusually a usually negative tom what'd dell was the one place they felt at home and served on the commission and building it was serving the homeless or for actually living with hiv and aids. we're able to expand the tom woody allen dell clinic on golden gate street it's a behalf center to serve the partitioned here in t

i took out the "e" misspelling of former mayor gavin newsom's name and added words reappointment to give a schedule of the appointment as a health commissioner. >> commissioners we have before us a resolution to commend commissioner melara's service here on the commission. is there a motion to accept? >> so moved. >> so moved. >> okay. moved and acceptance. a second already. any further discussion? we definitely will be missing commissioner melara and we are wishing her well of course at the police commission. i look forward to improved relationship with the police commission that serves us so well already so if we're prepared for the vote. all those in favor please say aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed. the resolution is passed and we hope to present it to her at our planting meeting at our next meeting. >> item 11 is other business. >> okay. we're at other business, and commissioners i would note though that with commissioner melara leaving the position of vice president is vacant and we will then be entertaining nominations and a vote for that on september 2 our next regular meeting d

supervisors, currently mayor and lee and his officers and the leadership of formerly mayor gavin newsom and his staff as well as liveable city staff and board on my colleagues who will wish carrying that program forward are here led by the very capable leadership of two colleagues and tom is also provide a calm and supportive leadership behind the organization and don't worry about the fund raising we have a new development scott so when he calls pick up the phone it's important as well as my boyfriend and my brother jason king and jessica and his girlfriend i want to shout out to the municipal transportation agency they've carried the ball forward two colleagues. as well as a whole team mta, department of public works and department of public health and rec and park and again, all the mayor's office and the other departments that really have put their shoulder to the bottle did care to push this program up a hill i'm confident this program will be part of the fabric of san francisco life i was talking to a supporter saying her 6-year-old grandson didn't know is streets without this pro

once he left lieutenant governor gavin newsom took over but newsome had plans on tuesday, he had to flyo the east coast to to a special olympics event. the next in line of succession after him was the president pro tem of the senate darrell steinberg. he was named acting governor until he had to go to chicago on some kind of personal business. this morning at 8:00 a.m., assembly speaker tony atkins became acting govern are. and you know we love acting governors, arnold schwarzenegger ronald reagan. it's a very rare thing that the third in line wa take over. and i was wondering what a person would do if they were governor for one day. say hello to acting governor toni atkins. [ cheers and applause ] are you technically governor now? >> technically yes. >> what have you accomplished in your hours as governor? >> technically nothing. i'm hoping that nothing breaks that streak. >> are you letting the power go to your head in any way? >> i hope not. my nephew would probably say yes, you know. >> as a joke you should change all of the governor's passwords rile you're there. >> that's a good i

i caught up with the lieutenant governor gavin newsom here at this corner earlier today. he says it's time for california to get with the program that's in place in other countries such as japan and taiwan to get people notice and have them be alerted when an earthquake is approaching. he says this quake is a wake up call and it's time for state lawmakers to get that early warning system in place in california. >> inconceivable to me we didn't fund it already. i understand the economic challenges in the state and budget tear challenges better than anybody. you're looking at 80, $100 million rage. it works. paoáepl -- people might think this is science fiction, it works. >> reporter: if you had that time even 10 seconds to know that an earthquake particularly one this large was about to hit you would have just enough time to try to find a safer place to be where you couldn't get hit by falling debris. you could protect yourself and be prepared for that earthquake that is about to come. of course, some people didn't know. all of us didn't know this earthquake was coming and

hope sf began in 2007 under mayor newsom and all of the task force that was convened in 2007-08 that laid all the of the sites and the guiding principles. i listed here all eight. the most important once are the ones that stand out to ensure there is housing replacing of all the public housing and integrated economic communities income housing. maximizing new affordable housing and making sure the residents are involved in every step of the change process. >> so this photo here shows you an aerial view of the public housing site, both the terrace and the annex. this is facing north that it's on the southeast side of the city. you can also tell from this aerial that is very much detached from the natural street grid of san francisco. it made up of a bunch of diagonal streets and cul-de-sacs on the annex side. here are some examples of the existing buildings. most of them are 3 story barracks style in the 1940s and the annex built in 1955. the demographics now there are 606 residential units. 85 percent of them are occupied. what we know now is there are about 1300 residents on lease.

>> gavin newsom, the lieutenant governor, he did get wet for the challenge, as well. lieutenant governor gavin newsom taking part in the als ice bucket campaign at at&t park on monday. he is now challenging l.a.'s mayor and giants players to do the same. all is a neural degenerative disease with no cure. you did it, too, frank and you challenged michelle. >> yes, michelle, liz wenger and lawrence karnow. they have yet to spill the bucket. let's see if they can dump the bucket. i don't hear anything over there. [ pause ] >> crickets. [ laughter ] >> you have to pay money if you don't do it. >> now that i called him out, they have to go to work. >> that's right. >> it is 6:53. protests continuing near st. louis days after a police officer shot and killed a black teen. coming up the latest decision drawing outrage from demonstrators. can't say thank you enough. you hae my life special by being apart of it. (everyone) cheers! glad you made it buddy. thanks for inviting me. thanks again my friends. for everything, for all your help. through all life's milestones, our trust

gavin newsom did it and so did the new england patriots.king about dumping that ice water on yourself and others. you did it. >> i did it, too. yeah, it's all to help out a deadly disease, to stop it. cate caugiran takes us to the ice bucket challenges over the east bay in lafayette. >>> reporter: august 23, 2012 a day bob hall won't forget. >> up until then, i felt i was going to go to the doctor and he was going to give me vitamins and i would be good as new. >> reporter: he was diagnosed that day with lou gehrig's disease, als. >> i knew two things. i knew he played baseball and i knew he died. >> reporter: he was given three years to live. >> shock! right? i was walking and doing everything everybody else does, right? then all of a sudden i learned that the condition i was in right then was the best condition i was ever going to be in the rest of my life. >> reporter: sue morris knows this. her husband died from the same disease. >> als sucks and it is not something you choose and it is tough. >> reporter: this year one boston family tr