deserve a shout out and michelle davis and others and certainly i see my colleagues in the city and paula johnson from the mayor lee on disability and she did the disability check on this building, certainly a labor of love and because of the mayor's charge our director has his hands full but he moved this along and certainly the planning department which permitted it and i want to thank you all the for your participation and i will introduce our site development leader with bank of america. [applause] >> good morning. what a beautiful day for our grand opening. i am ari. i am here representing bank of america merrill lynch that invested in the land of over $32 million to make this beautiful, beautiful project. i would like to thank bridge housing for your hard work on this, the community on office investment and infrastructure -- did i get it right? >> [inaudible] >> the city of san francisco, and the many, many organizations and people that worked tirelessly to get this beautiful project built. today we're celebrating 60 new homes that will be permanently affordable to the great and diverse res

there has to be -- there have to be karkts to win, unfortunately paula writing that. eric johnson paula madden want her son to go over there and get his head blown off or come back and be abused by the v.a.? we have to ask, if we're going to another war in iraq, pat said, they have to do it smartly, but we also have to all share in any more wars. we can't put it all on the same soldiers and families every five years. so let's have a draft, put everybody in, have a tax to pay for it, and let's have shared sacrifice. how many people want that? >> you see leadership, if the president wanted to lead -- when i said do it smartly, we could use, as we did in afghanistan, we could bring in allies, turkey, this -- the gulf states, their troops, we have special forces troops. we didn't put large units on the ground in afghanistan when we knocked the taliban off. airpower, we could do this smartly, but we need allies, and we need a leadership, as you said, a president who can not only lead the united states. look, the british, germans and french are already showing how concerned they are, an

paula. >> alex, thank you. >>> now to the man in charge of the crisis, captain ron johnson, calling for calm as the leader of security operations and assuring the community that he wants justice just as much as they do. abc's steve osunsami has more. >> a bunch of hugs and conversations so that's what you'll see from me. >> reporter: thursday the governor gave him the job of keeping the peace. >> today we woke up and we're all still happy and we're all still hugging and we're all still communicating. they're asking for answers and i'm guaranteeing i'm getting to get them the answers. >> reporter: he is a son of st. louis born in the '50s and injoed the hig patrol in 1987 when there were fewer african-americans in police work. in the middle of amarch against police there he was side by side with the demonstrators. he says he doesn't want his neighbors to ever fear his badge. >> we need to make sure justice is done. we need to make sure that everybody can walk these streets and make sure that i don't have to experience i can walk the streets. >> reporter: he too is calling for justice and for peace and underst