we are clear to go with the north beach project, the north beach. the city put in $10 million. that is $48 million worth of equity. we actually spent $300,000 per unit, but the city only put in $10 million. why is it we get only 29 units of $9 million. something is wrong. i suggest there is a positive -- there is an unspoken asset here. i also suggested if you want to get a harbinger of future quality, look at pier 1 and pier 3 and 5. they are first rate. >> my name is gina marie. -- good afternoon, commissioners. my name is june marie. i have lived in at san francisco for 47 years. i am a bit nervous. i am not used to doing this. there are always going to be people who will go against some things peeping but being a hiker, and i walked in the embarcadero all the time. is very good for my health. i walked there and i am able to study all the areas, and i think it would be wonderful if we had the 8 washington project approved. it will be very good for the city and for many other people who spend time in that area. it will be good for the children. we will finally have children i

it brought a huge tree crashing down on a car in the busy north beach. and after a long, dry winter, snow is piling up in the sierra, but getting there is a real challenge. i'm dan ashley. carolyn johnson has the night off. we will take you around the bay area for a look at the weather and its impact tonight. ama dates is live in the rainy santa cruz mountains. thomas roman is in shellville and saw snow ma county. rick, the power got knocked out tonight. >> absolutely. good evening, dan. at the heart of this afternoon's power outage there were 20,000 customers sitting in the dark. contra costa fire units were called to bancroft road because of reports that a young man may have entered the . there were conflicting reports if anyone actually went into the canal. this was partly due to weather and there were two teenagers were trying to rest.ey say the r search did not produce evidence of anyone entering the water of the residents were dealing with the loss of power since late this afternoon. >> i hope it doesn't take 20,000 years to get it back. >> they sh

it brought a huge tree crashing down on a car in the busy north beach. and after a long, dry winter, snow is piling up in the sierra, but getting there is a real challenge. i'm dan ashley. carolyn johnson has the night off. we will take you around the bay area for a look at the weather and its impact tonight. ama dates is live in the rainy santa cruz mountains. thomas roman is in shellville and saw snow ma county. rick, the power got knocked out tonight. >> absolutely. good evening, dan. at the heart of this afternoon's power outage there were 20,000 customers sitting in the dark. contra costa fire units were called to bancroft road because of reports that a young man may have entered the . there were conflicting reports if anyone actually went into the canal. this was partly due to weather and there were two teenagers were trying to rest. they say the results of their search did not produce evidence of anyone entering the water of the residents were dealing with the loss of power since late this afternoon. >> i hope it doesn't take 20,000 years to get i

. >> items 7, ordinance adopted environmental findings with respect to the north beach branch library and approving the expenditure of bond proceeds of lease revenue bonds previously authorized and issued to finance projects. item eight, ordinance amending $6,259,742 consisting of $5,770,742 in library preservation fund and appropriate balance and $481,000 in interest earnings from the branch library improvement program general obligation bond proceeds to the public library in fiscal year 2011-2012 for the completion of remaining projects in the branch library improvement program. supervisor chu: thank you very much. before the presentation, i would like to offer a representative from supervisor chiu's offers the opportunity to speak. >> thank you very much. good morning. president chiu's office. i will be brief and let our wonderful city librarian and the budget analyst go over the details of this, but i wanted to emphasize how strongly president chiu supports these items and the appropriation in particular of the north beach library. it really makes completion of the project as clos

as a local business owner in at north beach and partner with an architect group, as well as a 20-year resident of telegraph hill, i am so -- i am fully supportive of the proposal. the overall design excellence, scale, a character, and urban plan are well-considered and will be an important contribution to san francisco's waterfront. we share, as a city, the galvanizing platform of sustainability and healthy living. 8 washington meets this cultural need by promoting vital, active, and healthy uses to the coastal culture of san francisco. seizing a unique opportunity to reconnect our city back to its waterfront. 8 washington's thoughtfully organized program and urban plan strategies that include pedestrian-friendly housing, new pedestrian corridors, ground- floor retail, a publicly- accessible open space, the aquatics and health center, and much-needed underground parking. well-seeded and brilliantly planned for the embarcadero. this site is the ideal location for higher density housing on a major transit corridor with open access to the waterfront. the existing golden gate tennis and s

the whole area was like a plant at the beach north. since then, the area is undoubtedly had undergone a real transformation. this is one of the most popular visitor destinations in the entire nation. there is a neighborhood that lived along side of this but that is a fact of life of living in the area. i believe the remarkable transformation happening is due in large part to the hard work of city planners but in partnership with a visionary entrepreneur is to have transformed the area into one of the big money makers in san francisco in terms of revenue for the city and i think that this is a really important point that needs to be thought about but their business is a green business and it is a sustainable business model. this is directly responsible for leaving literally millions of visitors to san francisco with indelible memories of the city and i think that the improvements they are asking for will continue to insist their business in serving the visitors of san francisco and residents alike. on the side not -- on a side note, i t

artspan, and the youth commission, north beach merchants association and community patrol, usa. >> i feel this is the academy awards, you just think everybody. >> that is the idea of a holistic approach, right? president newlin: thank you for taking them on. is there any questions from the commission? >> this is all new to me. it sounds like you did -- everybody weighed in which is good. how much of the night club venue owners were participating? >> i went to a lot of voice of broadway. i started there because they highlighted the their issues and they definitely mirrored the neighborhood issues. it was good because the voice of broadway had already started talking about scanners and instant communication between venues and stuff like that. it opened up a better dialogue to take that to the neighbors and say, i have heard your -- i have heard your concerns and i understand there is a lot of violence and issues on the street. this is what the venues are doing. president newlin: the voice of broadway is a group of broadway clubs. quex also restaurants and hotel owners. president newlin

this will change our city into a walkable city, connecting jackson square, north beach, and chinatown to the embarcadero, encouraging more pedestrian and bike traffic to and from the waterfront. in closing, no development is not better development. this project embraces a larger planning considerations that will activate our waterfront, providing a vital link to the embarcadero's urbanism, as well as engaged design excellence and standards that will look forward, rather than backward. [bell rings] assuring san francisco's future as a livable waterfront city. thank you very much. >> thank you. michael, tony, dave, don, and billy. >> hello. my name is darcy. i will be brief. i am the mother of a teenage son who has been a long time camper and later jr. counselor at the camp. i have heard people discussed the fact that the campbell goalie and it will be compromised. i did not see that at all. my son and i reviewed the plans. he was quite ecstatic, noting the addition of more green space and recreational areas. quite frankly, when we were there, we did not see a lot of people using the te

sure our families will be able to be connected to folks who live here, not just in chinatown, but north beach, and fisherman's wharf. i know there have been a lot of thanks. i want to take a moment to thank the community partners that helped to make this happen. we spent a lot of time working with the residential tenants and the small business tenants who are here. thank you to ccdc and your advocates for working with the mta staff and others in making sure the transition will be a smooth one. the reason we have this beautiful our work behind us is because of the work of the chinese historical society. thank you. i also want to thank the chinatown ymca. the young people helped to create the minerals. from left to right, it tells the journey from our past to our present and really to our future to a beautiful new structure that will be built. this structure is being billed with the generations of struggles and advocacy represented by all of us here and by the good work of the city, working with the private sector, working with our community. thank you for being here today. look forward to futu

we will get there with the bayview and north beach library.nderful public works managers on top of that. we have the chinese recreation center that is about to be completed with rec and park. we have a number of fire stations that are part of the whole public safety program, again it reflected in the 10- year capital infrastructure plan. i want to note that public works, while being one of the most important infrastructure departments, has also, over the years, had leadership that have collaborated with public utilities commission, with the port, with the airport, where it muni so that it is part of the official city family of doing things. i know that ed reiskin appreciates this collaboration, because that is how we get a lot of things done. it is not just the construction departments that we collaborate with. we are collaborating with our police department, with our human services department, with all the other agencies that need to get involved. when we do that on the front end, we get even better results. we get timely results. that is the

this is in the middle of the north beach section. >> it was joe dimaggio's parrish. >> yes, and the aliottois buried in this church. this is his work now? >> he was helped by my aunt who was also an artist. they worked on this together for a number of years. >> that's beautiful. that's almost dangerous work, right? >> yes, and he had his first heart attack climbing climbing the scaffold while. --- he had his first heart attack climbing the scaffold. my aunt finished it after he passed away. i was pleased the visit the church with my younger daughter, elise. we had a spectacular time. >> it must be wonderful for you to see that. >> yes. >> it's a very beautiful church. i know that many of the audience today, if they haven't seen it, they should. it's a gem in san francisco and one of the most beautiful churches in california. >> so, that was near the end. didn't, well, now, was he also working on other projects at the same time? >> well, yes, he was working on the seminary in camario, california. the alter backdrops and the seminary were done by him and the archbishop's residence was done by

it fell on to a car near the corner of columbus and broadway right in the heart of north beach. car badly damaged but nobody was hurt. columbus is closed from broadway to green street while crews clear away that debris. >>. >> 51 miles outside of detroit index ter the, michigan destruction and thankfulness after yesterday powerful tornado. nobody seriously hur hurt. one couple rode out the storm in a car wash. more from ginger. >> holy cerebral palsy lack how big it is. >>reporter: vailt tornado. roaring through south east michigan. >> my god. go go go go. >>reporter: one of 3 rare march tornadoes. >> oh, my gosh. >>reporter: chris and eric rode one out in their car inside a car wash. sparks flying. tl debris swirling around them. they prayed. >> help protect us. be with us lord please. we just went through a tornado. >>reporter: security camera capturing that garage door blowing in as the twister passed by. slicing through the neighborhood. britney run to her bathroom for cover. >> you don't even have enough time to pray or kiss yourself goodbye. it's just sit there and witness

on saturday, more in the north beach area. we have a number of establishments that we have brought in a lot of resources from the city. some are paying for the street closures to have officers there. they are allocating officers from different parts of the city. >> thank you. any members of the public wish to comment on the police report? next item. item number five. items under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. we have three items that we were going to approve. there is somebody for public commissioners. i am going to read these off. item a is the brick wall for billiard tables. item b is devine. item c is blush live bar, limited live performance. is there anybody here from the public who wishes to oppose these items? seeing none, can we get a motion to approve those and then have a discussion? >> i would like to make a motion to approve the consent calendar. any discussion on any of these? seeing none, called the roll. sounds good to me. we will switch to a regular calendar, item d. 555 golden gate, place of

. >> reporter: detectives craig catlin and rocky festa of the north miami beach police department wille him with buying these gift cards with stolen tax return money. police say here's the same guy on video at target using a debit card in someone else's name with a fraudulent tax refund on it. and, police say, he used that debit card to buy those gift cards that were on the front seat of the car. he's arrested for marijuana possession. but police later charged him with grand theft in connection with tax refund fraud. he has not yet entered a plea to either charge. how easy is it to do this? >> the fraudulent refunds are so easy it's like the federal government putting crack cocaine in candy machines. it's that easy. >> we already have one detective on the scene with an eyeball at the jewelry store. you guys show up. we'll need help over there. a car just pulled up. it's the target we observed receiving about 23 fraudulent u.s. treasury checks. >> reporter: police in north miami beach alone, with just 98 officers patrolling a city of 41,000, have seen over $100 million in tax refund fra

they used to bury people in north beach. they would go up there and very bodies. >> there were removed from many of these cemeteries. there is a slogan that is -- anybody know? "it is great to be alive." >> beats the alternative. >> i was wondering if gary boulevard had always been a major thoroughfare. >> it used to have streetcars on it. they are thinking of bringing them back. the b line and the a line where there until the mid-1950's. we are taking the street cars away, but bart will come out here and everything will be fine. >> downtown, gary ave. >> when you get past it, it becomes gary boulevard. >> they wanted streets to be large, they should have vegetation and trees, they should be ornamental. gary strieker was the main road from the 1850's. -- gary street was the main road from the 18th of the's. >> it was planned as a major thoroughfare. >> it was a toll road originally. we make people pay to get on the road and we make them pay when they get to the clubhouse. it was a toll road. >> i think that does it for today

very day that the sisters of mercy, who came over from ireland, got off on a clipper ship down by north beachin a day, they got a knock on their door where they were staying. it was members of the san francisco board of supervisors who came to ask them to open san francisco general hospital, which they did. they ran it for four years until a very familiar thing happened, and that was the county board of supervisors had a dispute about how to pay health care bills. the sisters said we've had enough of that and went on to create st. mary's hospital. as you can see, very familiar with how the city works. even then, over 150 years. it is an important issue. we're glad to be able to provide it. we're glad to be able to be here and to recognize some super creative people and the super creative programs. the committee which reviewed folks and review projects had a tough time picking who should be chosen and who should be recognized. the list is fantastic.