local activities can play a big heart in promoting a particular city. how is that the case. what's the trend on the global level? what is the trend local festivities can help raise a country or city's international image? >> that's a very good question. in theory, it's not only a local phenomenon, i think it's a global phenomenon. other countries in the world hold a lot of festivals every year. for example, in france, courting to a survey, there are more than 800 festivals in france every year. 60% of them began after 1980s from which you can see it is a global phenomenon. in taiwan, there are more than 450 festivals taking place on this small island. we can say every day we have festivals happening around our lives. festivals in the past is like a time of celebration for religious regions -- for religious reasons. it becomes like events or sometimes it's not just the celebration of religious reasons but the traditional or certain interesting points. we have beef noodle type things and festivals become very popular and it happens around us all the time. in taiwan, i can give

flows varies from country to country it's very difficult to talk of africa without looking at the particular city. ration of each one of the countries that compose it can give you that latin america one of the key issues in your opinion that trouble that continent so i think left in america is well positioned to benefit from more growth i think many key exporters in latin america particularly in terms of commodities. non-royal commodities but also all commodities in some cases like no merica is one of the it is a very mature continent countries are following different paths and those there are more integrated in the world economy those that are more open in participating in the global trade flows are doing quite well just to wrap it up as of that what would you hope to be your biggest achievement and your legacy after you leave the post of double here is director general well i hope i have been doing . trade negotiations for a long time i started working with the w two in one nine hundred ninety seven so the organization was two years old in during this time i saw the negotiation facing much bett

with all of the reasons looking at a school closing, money nowhere to be seen for anything in particular, cities never was there a clearer reason for people to get together and stay together and stay on that which they should though about. we're back to we ought to be in the classroom with our children's teachers. we ought to be on the street looking at why the roads are not paved, why we don't have a store that sells vegetables, how can we grow vegetables. these times when the money is gone, this is where people need to pitch in and say you can't stop us. >> miles college is a historically black college down there in birmingham, alabama. i talked to dr. cosby earlier and he pointed out that you have quite a unique baseball team there. i understand the baseball team is predominantly white. >> yes. >> no, no, 95% is more than predominant. >> but that speaks to a bit of a demographic shift that's not just happening at miles college, but also at other historically black colleges and universities around this country. talk to me a little bit about that and what we've seen over the past 50 years. >> a

we need something that looks at the city as a whole and establishes how a particular institutional proposal will affect the entire city. so this master plan legislation was a result of being concerned in particular about institutional development, but it really morphed into a huge policy statement about how to improve health in the city. i want to thank the task force for enabling the task force to move far beyond individual organizations and start to think about how to improve health based on the huge determinance of health framework that you find a little bit buried in the document, but it is there. that really framed our discussion in all our community meetings. what are your problems? how can we help you r e solve them? and many have nothing to do with buildings. i think this is a wonderful document. thank you barbara for pulling your staff out of their otherwise really important task to get this done. i commend it for your approval. thank you. >> hi. i'm dina from the san francisco consortium representing clinics in san francisco. i want to thank the staff for their work and specifical

in particular, google, sf city, our recreation and park department as well as our department of technology, and i want to thank all of those involved. this project started a little over two years ago with a conversation i had with an old family friend from google. and i want to take a moment to thank the entire google team that worked on this project. it's been two years, so, it's touched a lot of desks and had a lot of approvals and in particular want to thank veronika bell who is here from google for stepping p. up. google is providing a financial gift of $600,000 to turn this into a reality. this is with the recreation and park department. i want to thank phil ginsberg, katy, so many people from the rec and park team that really brought this project forward. we selected locations throut s francisco oa first of all, we wanted to make sure that we continue to bridge our digital divide that exists not only throughout our country, but here in san francisco, to place free wi-fi networks in under served communities and across different parts of san francisco. but also to make sure that we pro

focused in the bay area avon has eight walks across the country and they are focused on that particular cityt was mike poulter and reporting live. >> today is a good day for the avon what appeared allied this is a view from our mount tam cam you can see we are starting out with clear skies this morning and it is a chilly start with a lot of forties around the area. >> napper right now will be up to 54 degrees. >> upper '40's in pleasanton right now. the line this afternoon plenty of sunshine with warm temperatures with mid '80s in livermore. >> in the north of beirut you see a mix of '70s and '80s. >> this evening will start to feed see the fog and the cost coastal areas. >> will be down to fix these and '60s by 8:00 p.m. tonight appeared >> are now it is 59 degrees in downtown san francisco. >> we do have some changes to talk about in the forecast will will talk about that in our full report later in the broadcast appeared >> else a real police have arrested one of two suspects who were caught on a home security camera breaking into a home on cutting boulevard. >> the suspect is in custody

particular the city owes gratitude to a k-nine officer very, very badly in the shootings.m a full recovery and for his selflessness. about of us are thinking yesterday's tragic event at the navy yard. thinking in particular of the brave men and woman of our military and the in and es they made day day out on our behalf. like to extend ondolences to the family and friends of those who lost their lives or who were injured in this terrible, terrible shooting. know that your country is with these most difficult moments and also i'd like to express sincere responders all the and medical personnel for so many different agencies to keep and most of ormed day. afe throughout the >> the memorial service for the people killed was held earlier today. families were joined by resident obama and press secretary hagel. this is about one hour and ten minutes. amazing grace >> please be seated. pray.ace let us in ighty god whose way is the sea who paths are in the great waters who command is and whose love never fell, thank you for these and woman who en tragedy result of the at the washin

city wide. we have a few other factors that have unique to this particular location that maybe may not make it a precedent for the city wide for for stop con consolidations. we also have a remaining double left turn which is the only one we are retaining on the corridor in the southbound direction so we are able to take away and the left turns elsewhere, we are leaving this large movement here and that presents a challenge. finally we have some folks using it, but there's not a large number of folks on the bus at that point, so we don't think this will be particularly burden some from a travel time standpoint? on the southbound side we did, in recognition of the five block gap that would have been left had we taken away the gap. >> the agencies made a /khoeusz not to incloud it on the lpa? >> that is true. on the north bound. >> now, in terms of /pres /tkepbts, precedent, we have a very significant senior population throughout san francisco. we have a lot of hills. is there any analysis in terms of implementing the brt, where there are significant senior populations in relation to hills? one thi

the appointment of emergency manager in his consequences for them in a possible business of a particular citynsion funds and we want to speak about workers for the city who are left vulnerable in the face of such a decision. we even want to talk about art. you know, it is not your issue to talk about economic infrastructure. you could be moved by picasso, baby, as jay-z would say. so wherever your motivation is alive, understand we are in this book together and an arbitrary exercise of choice by a politically elected official to deny the same political advocacy and options to someone else is a direct renunciation of democracy. we have to just be honest about that. and so what we want to do is hear from our esteemed panel. and i want to start with the fact that the entire point of the emergency law, which was firmly rejected by the majority of michigan borders, which was to avoid allowing municipalities to fall into bankruptcy. in june of 2011, governor snyder said that he will not let detroit declare bankruptcy. he's not going into bankruptcy after meeting with the bond agencies in new york.

i'm glad this worked out and this really demonstrates what it means to think about a particular community in our city and what we can do for not only our kids but our families and the impact it has between the economic status and the ability of our families and that correlates with the education goals for our kids. we always want to make sure our kid s do well and learn. when we look to the city has primarily been around the social services issues and what we can provide to the families, but when we combine those efforts and really think about how we get everybody on board to target a very dense population of families where low income, low test scores, and i apologize for saying low because it makes it sound really negative, but it's been a huge challenge in the community and the mission. we have so many families that don't own homes in the communities and are getting pushed out. it really makes us stop and reflect as to what we can do collectively. the mission promise neighborhood is a great reflection of many of our city departments who already invested in the community to come together and say wha

appointment of emergency manager and talk about its consequences for the municipal business of a particular city of detroit, michigan. we want to talk about pension funds and speak about workers for the city who are left vulnerable in the face of such a decision. we want to talk about schools and we even want to talk about art. that ate your issues charter schools or schools. it's not your shoe to talk about economic infrastructure but you might he moved as jay-z would save picasso baby. whatever your motivation is and lies understand that we are in this boat together. an arbitrary exercise of choice by a politically elected officials to deny the same political efficacy and a critical option to somebody else is a director enunciation of democracy. we have to be honest about that. [applause] what we want to do here today is to hear from our esteemed panel and let me get right to that. i want to start with the fact that the entire point of the emergency manager law which was firmly rejected by a majority of michigan voters was to avoid allowing principalities to fall into bankruptcy. in june of 20

francisco's money, san francisco's pension funds equally as subject to being used in this city and in particular where the predictability of have you ever given is to wonderful. i'm carried away with the idea when the base closure came along they said i can have the shipyard and, of course, diane and nancy make sure it was done. it took a lot longer than then we a thought it would but it happened. and believe me reference has been made to all the people who were involved. there's been at least 3 secretaries of the navy and they stepped up and their staff he believes that everything that appeared to be high-risk was worth the trip it was demonstration and republicans. the rest of the nation is going to be required to follow suit and be rearview mirror to find our dedicated people like we have. they're going to be able to find and require people like ed lee and others who have done so much to help put this altogether. and i'll tell you something. my ugly worked in the shipyard. it's the only job he ever had but might uncle worked from the shipyard and he's smiling knowing he would be gambling beca

city. that particular line of storms very common to see damaging winds there, winds greater than 65 to 70 miles per hour that's enough to knock down the siding off of the hoots and also to cause road damage. we want to be cavern if we are out there today travelling along i-35. that front is going to actually make its way into the northeast as we track into the next 24 hours. it will be a rainy day. mostly cloudy, overcast skies into pennsylvania into new york state and we have heavy rain in boston we will continue to have to deal with that throughout the night and evening into tomorrow and on labor day so if you are travelling along i-95, if you will be in new york city, i want you be careful on the roadways. could have heavy rainfall they said monday into tuesday. the front does push through tuesday into wednesday. we season shine and temperatures certainly a lot more comfortable. that humidity will subside. the rain willing across the southeast along i-95, i-75 and i-10. if you are traveling there, take it ease as well. across the southwest, monsoonal moisture will track from the southwest fr

that may end in a pilot program to look at alternatives for late-night transportation in a particular area of the city first. and maybe pilot something to assist moving people out of area quicker and safely. and see if we can expand that city wide. we are just working on the instrument trying to survey people how they got there and where they are headed and what type of transit they used. that's an interest some of you had and keep you updated. so you know this initiated not just from our begging and pleading, but mta coming up with this and a list of priorities and finally getting to it. i am excited about that. i want to remind you again about our covered california workshop or obamacare, workshop we are doing september 9 at the library. for anyone and everyone, there is plenty of room. and we encourage everyone to come and learn about covered california. anyone watching here that has staff or kitchen staff or anyone who needs to figure out how this will impact them. enrollment starts october 1. and the law kicks in jan 1, and you will have to have coverage. it's free. open to the public, and at 1 o

been really supportive partnership and to this point we could not of asked more from the city and in particular i ask for jaime mendoza who has been helpful with the planning and implementation and with problem solving. i have appreciated working with her in that manner. what i want to talk about is really about how really we are successful in the grant. i think the hard work is really ahead of us. i think some of the thing that i heard were mentioned earlier today as you talk about the quality of housing. we need to have better data of what is that quality of the housing, how many units, where and what families are there. this is what we have to do to make sure that we can come up with policy that actually address the need. so our job as mission promise neighborhood, victor mentioned that we have a five member evaluation team and we need to have better information to connect those low income people. that's mostly important. also with our community partners and city department we have to talk about more about how we work on outcomes and not just output. really make sure the strategies we are im

opportunity, again, to bring both my knowledge and expertise, interests, and passion for our city and in particular our parks and i'm excited about the opportunity to join the commission. so, thank you very much for the welcome and look forward to our work together. >> we look forward to working with you. thank you. and lastly, i know that commissioner low went to the ping-pong festival press event. i thought if you wanted to make a comment about that. >> all you ping-pong players, come out on sunday to chinatown at portsmouth square. you can meet harrison barnes. even if you cadthv take the ball to the rack, maybe you can beat him in ping to betionv. i encourage all of you to attend the ping-pong event. it's a great event, hosted every year. rec and park is one of the hosts and it's wonderful that it's bringing people together. >> thank you. with that, that concludes my report. >> is there any public comment under the president's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are now on item 3 which is the general manager's report. >> good morning, commissioners. denny kern, director of operati

city and their doors are closed. and i do know that sometimes it is challenging to open a shelter in a particular neighborhood because you get people who live in those areas who complain and don't want to see it happen there. but we are an urban city. we are a place of compassion, and we do need to figure out better ways to address some of these issues and not necessarily concentrating our homeless population in shelters that are concentrated in a particular area. san francisco is a big place. there are a lot of other opportunities throughout our city. and, so, i would like us to try and explore where there are more appropriate places for families to be on a temporary basis as it relates to shelters because these are -- for example, the kids at first friendship are going to school every day and there are no facilities. so, where are they taking showers? where are they able to take care of their hygiene? the kinds of impacts that happen as a result of even being in a shelter i'm sure is already challenging enough for these young people. but to not have the ability to take c