from the san francisco pca joins us. >> this is a chihuahua mix and he has been at the shelter six weeks. too long. it is longer than most dogs. we are looking to get this guy into a new home. he is a great and wonderful guy and his owner could not afford the veterinarian care. good with other dogs, kids? >> lived with kids and good for a family. he is an all around great guy. pretty relaxed. >> so, if you are interested, give him a call, but, first, we want to talk about a big pet, adoption day this weekend. >> we are one of many shelters participating so that means we are waiving adopt fees on saturday and sunday. and we are having a celebration and we will have a budge of adoptable animals and we will have barbecue, beer garden, music, it will be fun day. >> it stars tomorrow at 10:30. >> if you can make it, go on by and meet the other animals that need home. >> if you are interested in any of the pets, call 415-554-3000 for the san francisco spca. some of our other perfect pet shelters are joining in and we will have that on our website. >> thanks for having us. >> good luck tomorrow

. >> the as pca helps us gather data today confirming poisonings in at least six bay area counties.ou see on the screen cases are almost certainly far more widespread. snail's like the a's are out now, lured by well watered gardens and people are spreading potentially deadly snail bait. >> i think people should be reading the label a little bit closer what the precautions are on the bag. >> to mars told me that powell did survive the poisoning, he got treatment but sadly died later of a nonrelated cause. veterinarians say snail symptom poisoning come come on as soon as 30 minutes and without treatment death can occur in four hours. >>> google's nest lab is recalling hundreds of phones of smart smoke detectors. a defect was found that could cause the smoke detectors to be turned off unintentionally with a wave of hand. the recall involves some 440,000 of the nets products so between december 15 of april 3. >>> general motors announced another recall today for an older chevy avails. their recalling about 200,000 of the subcontract cars because a model of the running lights can overhea

pca, this is a conscious effort to increase professionalism and increase the quality of the program. i think some of the successes are standing here before me. i would like to introduce nikki nixon from dpw who is their coordinator and really proactive on reducing pesticide use, matt pruitt, in charge of ipm for golf courses on city properties and ken woollen the general ipm coordinator for parks. >> thank you very much for that report. it's very informative. i think for the people in the room, it's always a benefit to have staff come in on your time and explain to us what it is that you actually do and how you perform in the field and how important it is and how it impacts people's lives whether it's the children in the playgrounds, whether it's our water, our run off. first of all i'm grateful that you would come here and make a report like that. i'm very interested in getting an education what it is you do and how important it is as to how we can help in moving forward. thank you very much for your report. kevin, you are up. >> thank you. my name is kevin woollen. i'm proud to be