supervisor tom ammiano twice issued proclamations declaring the band the official band of the city of san francisco. as important as these are, they cannot make the designation of an official band final. this must be done by us by ordinance. as the band closes out its 40th year, i hope you'll join me in honoring them for their tremendous impact on our city for passing this ordinance and making them the official band of the city and county of san francisco. i do believe that doug lidman, the president of the band's board of directors and apparently a fantastic clarinet player would like to come up and share a bit more about the band if that is the pleasure about this committee. >> supervisor safai: sure, and if you could limit your comments to three minutes, that would be great since this is outside the realm of normal public comments. >> okay. i had a lot to say, but the supervisor already said most of it, so this'll be short. my name is doug lipman. i'm the president of the all volunteer san francisco gay/lesbian freedom band. i'm accompanied by some of my fellow band members, includ

we will play "i left my heart in san francisco "which is the city 's official ballot and then we willand it is the city's official song. we were honored that mayor breed to shut up and presented a wonderful certificate of honor from the board and said a few words. among those was when she told us how she had played the french horn as a young woman. this is an instrument or very near and dear to us. our founder played the french horn, as did two of our artistic director -- directors, in addition, our current artistic directors both play the french horn. with this in mind, the photos we are about to take we would like to ask mayor breed if she would like to hold the original french horn that belonged to john sims, our founder. it is right there. >> should i hold it now? >> sure. >> this is a living bit of musical history that is still being played today by members of the band, and we would be honored if she would hold it. we will not ask her to play it unless she wants to. and we won't formally ask -- there you go. [laughter] >> i need to practice. >> i understand. that is why we won't

citizens who are up in arms officials have also come out strongly against of the incident calling and immoral and noxious after this scandal erupted so they had of the city administration explained that the children of local officials work as volunteers and some of them are gifted members of society. talented children they are volunteers this world and it was the year of volunteers there was a special meeting where the candidates were chosen just as the fund owes to do they had of the charity foundation says there were no violations you ring the selection process she now plans an official complaint against the local media but the flames of a scandal have already been lit the governor of the regions as he will investigate what happened and as for the local official who loved one being asked about the consequences the woman who put it in your book of which it was weakness and one of the iraqi national congress naturally maybe well we've learnt that you no longer works there the mayor of the town under fire is now reimbursed the cost of sending the children of officials on trip. china's highlighted what it calls hypocrisy of the u.s. claims of spying by bei

now city officials wanting payback. >>> another crash on highway 17.sh to clean up what bo ed talley. >>> congressional scrutiny of big tech intensifies. google's ceo gets grilled. he's even asked why googling idiot turns up pictures of tr p trump. >>> and odds are you saw pictures of today's dense fog, but it's not going away, not just yet. >>> oakland fighting back. tonight the city announced it il recover damages from the team's moveasvegas. good evenining,ing us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'mlaim ksenst that oakl never had a chance, despite bending over backwards to try to convince raiders owner mark davis to stay. >> it's a big step. lyanne melendez is live at city hall with details tonight. >> reporter: well, let's make it clear, the team is gone and most fans will tell you, you know, we don't know even want them back. now it's a matter of oakland getting back what they think they deserve. when the raiders leave oakland, the city will lose revenue and taxpayers will be left with an $80 million stadium debt from 1995, back when the team moved from lo

. >> he's suspected of dui and we learn he's a city official on peninsula. >> reporter: an unusual scene, a tesla model s parked next to a gas pump, the end of a seven-mile-long pursuit. the incident starltded at 3:30 this morning southbound in redwood city when the chp spotted the vehicle going approximately 70 miles an hour. when the patrol car pulled up, the driver was said to be slumped over and appeared to be asleep. another slowed it down to a stop north of the embarcadero exit. >> officers went to the driver's side and tried to wake up the driver. it took them a while to wake him up. they got him up, out of the vehicle, into the patrol car. >> reporter: a chp officer drove the tesla off the highway to a gas station where the driver underwent a sobriety test including a breathalyzer. he was arrested under the suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. if the tesla was in self-driving mode, it could be a case for the future. >> i don't see this legal loophole working in court by saying this person wasn't driving. it was in self-driving mode. >> he outlines his resume as a

san jose city officials approved two tiny home locations for emergency housing. re pictures of the tiny homes that will be built to city officials want to build tiny home communities near the berryessa bart station and near the highway 101 and highway 680 interchange near felipe avenue. the small cabins are expected to house about 320 people ... while they transition into more permanent housing, ( james ) also in the south bay ....a san jose man is accused of trying to burglarize a home in milpitas while impersonating a police officer. police say 66- year-old charles whittington attempted to enter the home on the 30 block of ede lane ... by kicking the front door -- all while presenting himself as a police officer. this happened earlier this month on december 7th. the homeowner called police ... who arrested him blocks away and hauled him to santa clara county jail. ( darya ) the city of san francisco announced a lawsuit against prescription drug makers and distributors for their role in the opiod epidemic. the lawsuit was filed on behalf of the city and the state

ronen says other city officials aren't doing enough to help...ghts organizers say there needs to be alternatives to help the people in r-v's. < they said they had a whole plan in place to on how they're going to deal with this issue in all neighborhoods.nothing is done and it's not fair.something other than more restrictions because people dont just disappear they have to go somewhere..>( james ) supervisor ronen is echoing the need for alternative resources.. and says the city bay ... the city of san jose is giving us a preview of their solution to help end homelessness in the area.( james ) kron four's rob fladeboe has a look at th temporary shelter for people who are homeless ... and it comes in the form of small sleeping (looklive)rob fladeboe/san jose jacky morales-ferrand/san jose housing director "...i am here with san jose housing dirctor jacky morales-ferrand, who along with mayor sam liccardo and others have unveiled the prototype model for the city's tiny homes for the homeless project. what are we looking at jacky? tell us about it pl

ronen says other city officials aren't doing enough to help... they said they had a whole plan in place to on how they're going to deal with this issue in all neighborhoods.nothing is done and it's not fair.something other than more restrictions because people dont just disappear they have to go somewhere..>( james ) supervisor ronen is echoing the need for alternative resources.. and says the city needs to move faster. ( darya ) pg&e says it is inspecting nearly 50-thousand transmission poles and towers in high fire-threat areas. the company says this is in addition to routine inspections and maintenance. crews are also using drones to do inspections. ( darya ) happening today... the environmental protection agency is expected to announce policy changes that would likely allow more dumping into across the coclean water act. that's the federal law that forbids dumping pollutants into certain waterways. meup to two-thirds of california streams could be affected by the rule change. ( james ) still ahead in the 8 o'clock hour of the kron 4 morning n

san jose city officials approved two tiny home locations for emergency housing. re pictures of the tiny homes that will be built to city officials want to build tiny home communities near the berryessa bart station and near the highway 101 and highway 680 interchange near felipe avenue. the small cabins are expected to house about 320 people ... while they transition into more permanent housing, ( darya ) in san francisco ... voters will decide on whether to extend the free tuition program for city college through the next decade. city supervisors voted to leave the matter to voters on next years november election. in 2017 ... san francisco made tuition free for residents going to city college. that pilot program is set to expire after the 2019 spring semester. now people will get to vote on a new measure that would put aside 15 million dollars each year and extend it through 2030. ( darya ) new this morning... golden gate bridge officials have announced parking restrictions at the bridge during the holidays. starting thissadturday and lasting throught january 1st

official tracker, approaching tonheit his s route.ave a link left salt lake city not long ago. etds, now's the time t o bed. he's on the way. turn our attention t meteorologist drew tuma is anly almost done. couple more hours before dryskid south bay. live doppler 7 will press in tighter. downursouthf fremont, about to enter san jose. downpour moving throughhe bay ag west to east pretty quickly. only a is in the picture then out of exploratorium camera. great day, clouds sti a midnigh. storm impact scale, now to 3:00 tomorrow morning, tracking the scattered showers, brief downpours and winds 20 to 45 miles an hour. tracking snow inie shea,rr stor tomoow morning. could see two feet of powder. tahoe.on tomorrow is good time 53 in san jose, concord, 4 in clear lake. tuesday 1:00 a.m., showers co t sedinnf bay, then racing out of here. 4:00 or 5:00 before the sun is upn o day, rain is ending and clouds departing. live doppler 7 along with satellite, storm system moving into california, will sink south tomorrow. behind is high pressure, opposite forces so bit of wind tunnel on chris

as we bring these services to the official city functions, i think it's essential that pretrial services be under a civil authority. senate bill 1054, which was signed by the governor in september, granted the city and county of san francisco an extension to maintain the current, separate, nonprofit funding operations until january of 2023. i heavy some brief nonsubstantive amendments that i have circulated. you should have them in front of you. first, i'd like to add "whereas clause to read as follows, september 30, s.b. 1054 was enacted that granted the city and county the ability to contract with the nonprofit entity performing pretrial services to provide continuity and sufficient time to transition the entity's employees to public employment." and i would like to amend the first resolved clause on page 2 line 6 to reflect senate bill 1045, "resolved that the board of supervisors reiterates the city and county of san francisco's authority under 1054 to allow san francisco pretrial services agency to continue operating in its current form as an independent, nonprofit organization." i

and a parking lot in texas after being sent there by immigration and customs enforcement officials and the city of el paso a group include women and children with hundreds of other center locations including bus shelters and as gabriel is on the reports from el paso they were left to fend for themselves in the cold. but it will cost and yet it came to the u.s. from guatemala like so many others seeking a better life for his son philippe there now just trying to keep warm at a shelter after a couple nights at a border patrol detention center at the end of the only little. they put his in a cell it was very cold like an ice box it made his cough we went to another so it was the same while we were there they didn't give us much food there wasn't much attention and they said it was our fault we brought kids with us but it was out of necessity to find a better life in the united states. when finally released it got worse earlier this week immigration and customs enforcement officials unexpectedly released hundreds of migrants from detention facilities but instead of taking them to shelters they were

the water main broke thursday under a union city boulevard causing a significant amount of flooding in the area. some residents were without water officially, but the biggest issue has been closing road. city officials say a pg&e contracting crew hit that water main leading to the break. >>> from mid afternoon into the evening the weather will be pretty intense. gusty wind, 36 hours of powerful surf causing some breakers maybe above 40 feet on the coastline tomorrow night. right now it's a pretty evening in san francisco. no worries about rain for the moment. high of 59 degrees. tonight we're looking at increasing clouds, preyoutdoors. as storm range but not really any rain producing clouds. a powerful storm with a lot of wind out here. some wave heights detected by satellite 40-50 feet and wind speeds close to 70 miles an hour with that low. the frontal boundary attached to that low is what's going to bring the big changes in our weather mid afternoon tomorrow. north bay may begin to see some rain early in the day. then things turn stormy, wind and rain, maybe some isolated thunder. the timeline of the storm does coincide with the 49ers t

san jose city officials approved two tiny home locations for emergency housing. tures of the tiny homes that will be built to city officials want to build tiny home communities near the berryessa bart station and near the highway 101 and highway 680 interchange near felipe avenue. the small cabins are expected to house about 320 people ... while they transition into more permanent housing, ( james ) also in the south bay ....a san jose man is accused of trying to burglarize a home in milpitas while impersonating a police officer. police say 66- year-old charles whittington attempted to enter the home on the 30 block of ede lane ... by kicking the front door -- all while presenting himself as a police officer. this happened earlier this month on december 7th. the homeowner called police ... who arrested him blocks away and hauled him to santa clara county jail. ( james ) a settlement has been reached in the high profile death of a 13-year-old boy near santa rosa. sonoma county officials agreed to ápay the family of andy lopez, three million dollars to settle the ci

the city attorney is an elected official of the city and county of san francisco. this commission has four or five different jurisdictional ordinances, and the subject matter of the last public comment is not a part of those legal responsibilities of this commission. and i'll observe again that people have sometimes a misimpression that almost when all else fails, go to the ethics commission, and the ethics commission will act on some complaint on a public elected official, failure to execute public responsibilities or a city department or employee's failure to act in a certain way. we are not all things to all the people of the city and county of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. >> agenda item number 11, discussion and possible action on items for future meetings. commissioner kopp? >> i have a request for preliminary review of statements, activities, and actions which are reflected in a newspaper article that was published three days ago. it's about seven pages. i have underlined what i consider pertinent portions of it. it involves a city employee by the

addiction caused the deaths of more than 21- hundred californians last year. ( darya ) san jose city officialso tiny home locations for emergency housing. here are pictures of the tiny homes that will be built to city officials want to build tiny home communities near the berryessa bart station and near the highway 101 and highway 680 interchange near felipe avenue. the small cabins are expected to house about 320 people ... while they transition into more permanent housing, ( james ) in san francisco ... voters will decide on whether to extend the free tuition program for city college through the next decade. city supervisors voted to leave the matter to voters on next years november election. in 2017 ... san francisco made tuition free for residents going to city college. that pilot program is set to expire after the 2019 spring semester. now people will get to vote on a new measure that would put aside 15 million dollars each year and extend it through 2030. ( james ) salesforce founder mark benioff, along with his wife, lynne --- cut a check for 15 million dollars to childrens hospital oak

officials have issued a disaster declaration as the state deals with dozens of aftershocks. cityad literally hundreds of aftershocks. we have been diligently working through this problem. we are all in this together.">( terisa ) the aftershocks include a magnitude four-point-zero quake centered near big lake. that's more than 60 miles north of anchorage. many seismologists say these aftershocks will remain part of alaska's quake climate for months and possibly even years. ( terisa ) a family is calling for a group of officers to be fired after they were caught on camera striking a man in memphis. police have launched an investigation after officers were seen punching yasin bashir at least 15 times while he was handcuffed on the ground. it happened thursday night. police say they first got involved because bashir was panhandling and attacked a downtown security officer who tried to stop it. things escalated from there. bashir appears to kick at them and then one officer starts punching him. memphis mayor jim strickland says he the city's police chief made the right decision in lau

city officials paved the way for a new redevelopment project.( james ) but as kron4's gayle ong reportsy they are being forced out. that's how david ebrahimi feels about eminent domain proceedings issued by the city of santa clara.it could be used through redevelopment..to build things like shops, hotels and offices. the city council voted tuesday night on the proceedings..that would affect businesses on 5131 stars and stripes drive, right across the street from levi's stadium.ebrahimi owns davids banquet - and has been serving the community for 31 years.he's not against the project, he just wants to be a part of it.his wife and co owner of the restaurant jean..

hear what family members of victims are asking city officials to ánot do...he building ( darya )and... a califoia doctor connected to borderline mass shooter... ian david long... is facing federal charges. we tell you why after the break. ( john ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. (ácommercialá) (ácommercialá)(áábreakáá) (darya)(james)( robin ) welcome back. lets get a check of weather and traffic this morning. no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. temperatures just a bit cooler today ranging temperatures just a bit cooler today ranging from the mid 50's to a few spots hanging onto the low 60's. skies will be partly cloudy through the day before some showers moving in early tomorrow morning. heavier rainfall can be expected to start next week on christmas eve. (2-shot)( james )in national news... the house of representatives is set to take up a measure... to keep the government funded and running until early february.( darya ) it comes after the senate passed the short term funding bill wednesday. reid binion re

officials. the teachers plan to march to city hall to call attention to a bargaining impasse between the school district and the teacher's union, organizers said. district officials said educators who participate in the "sick out" might be subject to disciplinary action and a loss of pay. the teachers can't use sick leave or personal leave - it will go unpaid and a doctor's note may be required from teachers who use sick leave, according to district officials. teachers who are frustrated over lack of progress over a new contract have are threatening to strike this morningthe teachers plan to gather at 730 at the school and then march to city hall hoping to get oakland mayor libby schaaf to step in the teachers say they haven't had a new contract in two years and the current proposal amounts to about a 70 dollar a year raise. (anchor1) taking a live look outside-- our sutro camera overlooking the golden gate bridge. (anchor 2) time now to check on our weather... meteorologist lawrence karnow. lawrence karnow: a weak storm brought a few showers to the bay area this morning out of t afternoon mostl