directly with community members and in gauges the city's policies around urban agriculture as well as pesticide use, a pesticide watch would find ideal to have a specific person or body to which we can direct questions and direct better understanding around the use of pesticide as well as urban agriculture as a way to invest in healthier food systems. we are looking for a more coordinated support and this would be an incredible support not only to san francisco residents and organizations, but organizations that work at the regional and state level like pesticide watch. i would like to ask you support the amendments as proposed and has just outlined. thank you for your support. supervisor mar: and we are joined by the president, which like to make some remarks? president chiu: i'm sorry i was running little late. want to thank the urban agriculture community and think spur for jump starting this conversation. we passed legislation to finally of folks in san francisco to grow and sell what they want, but we need a is centralized program that brings cohesion to the city government and i would like to

she's applied for a permit allowing thor use a pesticide similar to that used in africa to combat their locust problem. she won't be able to get her farm organicly certified this year. >> and you can get ready for doth just about anything. the corporation for assigned names and numbers is reviewing applications for largest ever expansion of online addresses and apple is plying for dot apple and google for dot android. and dot pizza is taken. it costs $185,000 to submit a proposal. >> and engineering students just wrapped up a hackathon. the event sponsored by internel. -- intel. and the apps will help teach younger students math. >> this started out with typing and card playing. and within 32 hours each team hopes to turn code into a playable game. between now and then, there won't be much sleeping going on. and there is a tradition called hackathon. >> there is power, food, coffee, and internet. focus on a problem as a way of taking a project that might take months and doing knit a short time. >> that means learning on the job. >> when in the groove all i can think about is how to fix

she was upset about the pesticide. i never used them in my house, never on my lawn. i bought organic whenever i could. her body contained several variations of organic chlorines designed to attack nervous systems of insects. i never bought it. isn't that trespassing. i tell this in my story of mary broon. mary never felt called to be an environmentalist she was nursing her 6 month daughter olivia and a story had been done by texas tech where they looked at breast milk samples, all were contaminated with rocket fuel. i was stunned, i thought breast milk was as pure as it came for food source. i was up all night thinking about it. i tell the story about michelle from california whose family was the first family to be monitored in the oakland tribune. it stunned even scientists. the tests found many of the same chemicals they found in charlotte's 5-year-old mic ala, she had recently spent a lot of time in nail salons. the biggest surprise of what they found in 2-year-old rowland, chemicals found in nearly anyone else in the world 6 times higher than in parents, twice th

of pesticides and endorse the use of others. >> theate actually goes and monitors the project, and works with the organization that wins the grant and we can also use the results of they successes. and we can use that as a model. >> certify indications from the state are also proving valuable to cities. the city of san jose has a $900 million cushion for next year. the cash is available because of layoffs and employee concessions. >> that's nice, it looks very pretty. >>> let's throw things over to jeff ranieri, and just when you think summer has start, it gets cold. >> officially here on the first day of summer, you're going to see that seven-day forecast. numbers also today, all over the -- 87 in livermore and santa rosa is at 736789 onshore flows has numbers in the 60s across the bay, 73 in lirmore right now, right now 60s at our coastline. on this monday evening, and, yes werks do have the fog combing back, but you notice that top right corner of your screen, as that fog tries to get closer, there's some dry air that's starting to

i do not want to pull up bushes that are growing and try to replant them, and how to use pesticides to keep the bushes from coming back. i love the wildlife. if we take the trees down, we are going to lose everything. it is something you will not be able to turn back the clock on. i am absolutely opposed to nap and its policies. under any name, i am against it. until i can feel comfortable the bond money is not going to support these policies, i cannot support the bond. thank you very much. >> after mr. -- chairperson farrell: after mr. paulson, we have further speakers. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am not convinced the bond funds will not be used for now. we have read tailed hawks, woodpeckers, and over 40 species of birds who visit our features, including the non native, but much-beloved wild parrots, as they are called. we have also seen skunks, possums, squirrels, and other clear favorites. look at mount davidson. it is like a wound. nap seems to think plants cut -- trump animals. poison has been used all over glen canyon. nap is a misguided plan that diverts our tax dollars t

she has applied for a permit that allows her to use a pesticide similar to one used in africa. needless to say she won't be able to apply to get her farm organically certified this year. >> a big breakthrough, light in the million of a tunnel that will carry water safely to your home. >> and take a live look from our roof kay showing you the ferry building the flags blowing there in the wind. happy father's day everyone. your special forecast coming along with lisa argen in just a few minutes. i found a powerful new way to cut out arthritis pain. [ male announcer ] new icy hot arthritis lotion. powerful encapsulated menthol gets icy to dull pain, hot to relax it away. power past pain. >> carolyn: under the fremont hills, under the hills, miners are digging a tunnel that will secure much of the bay area's water supply in the event of a major earthquake. david louie has this exclusive. >> they call it a hole through, two tunnels dug from open certain ends 450 feet below the hills. two separate crews were finally able to shake hands. because of safety concerns they shot the video

. >> and the state department is launching a pesticide free parks initiative awarding grants to communities that stop using pesticides and switch to chemical free alternatives. and this including planting pesticide resistant shrubry. >> this either kills it or debilitates them to the point where you have kind of a fume investigation, if you will. >> in the bay area, the substances department says marin county parks are between 80% and 90% pesticide free. >> and spencer christian sup next with the accu-weather forecast. looks nice out there. >> there is a cool down since the peak of the weekend. and there are inland locations 25 degrees cooler than saturday. there is a temperatures from mid-50s to upper 60s, lingering low clouds and fog, and temperatures from 50 to with about 59. tomorrow it's going to warm up, temperatures rebounding and there are 60s at the coast to perhaps low 90s then, of course, summer arrives on wednesday. and what will that bring? >> ahead at 4:00 how eating breakfast can help you avoid developing diabetes. >> and details on microsoft's big announcement today. a live report from bloo

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debbie has applied for a permit with the state that allows her to use a pesticide similar to one usedafrica to combat their locust problem. needless to say, debbie won't be able to apply to get her farm organically certified this year. nannette miranda, abc7 news. >> up next, a big breakthrough. there's light at the middle of a tunnel that will carry water safely to your home. and we have a live look now from our emeryville cam showing you a little haze on this father's day. lisa argen will be along with your full accuweather forecast in just a few minutes. >> under the fremont hills, that's right, under the hills, minors are digging a tunnel that will ultimately secure much of the bay area's water supply in the event of a major earthquake. david louie has this abc7 news exclusive. >> minors call it a hole-through. that's where two tunnels dug from opposite ends come together 3450 feet below the fremont hills. two separate crews were finally able to shake hands after 13 months of digging. because of safety concerns, the san francisco public utilities commission shot this video inside

debbie has applied for a permit with the state that allows her to use a pesticide similar to one usedin africa to combat their locust problem. needless to say, debbie won't be able to apply to get her farm organically certified this year. abc7 news. >> today there's the latest hurdle the city must clear to keep the america cup's yacht race afloat. they have agreed to spend $150,000 to study the racing boats on my greating birds. it's part of a lawsuit settlement brought by a group that includes former board of supervisors president aaron peskin. they are concerned the snapping sound the big sails make could scare the migrating birds and possibly cause harm. special time-lapse cameras will be on test cameras along the sail course to document how birds react. >>> coming up next the big breakthrough. light in the middle of a tunnel that will carry water safely to your homes. and here is a live look from our sutra cam. there's a break in the heat wave and a beautiful day for father's day. lisa will have your forecast in xteú [ horn honks ] ♪ ♪ [ man ] excuse me miss. [ gasps ] this fiber

that a farmer not only has to get a permit to use pesticides on his crops but has to get two or three permits from the same agency. that we have a medical device tax being proposed. there are 300 medical device companies in indiana. all of them started through entrepreneurship. another foundation of this country. yet, we somehow think, at least a group of us think, that it's within the rules of the road to put a tax on these folks and think that they're going to keep innovating, that they're going to keep creating. that's just a couple of examples in this document, mr. chairman. i thank you for the time. i yield back and thank the witnesses again. >> thank you. mr. honda. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the panelists for being here this morning. i'm a classroom teacher. i'm not a financial expert. but i felt we bounced all over the map when we talked about the title free enterprise and barriers to free enterprise. i heard from each one of you things i do agree with and some of you i disagree with very strongly, but i guess what we're hearing are high points and low points

if you want to avoid pesticides, buy produce that's made without the use of pesticides.imple. >> are there any folks that are more vulnerable when it comes to pesticides, they are more impacted by pesticides? >> yes. children it's thought that are more impacted by sort of environmental chemicals in general. they're smaller. their tissues are developing and pregnant women. children and pregnant women are thought to be more vulnerable to any sort of outside chemical like this. >> still okay to grab the apple? >> it is okay to grab the apple. i think we all ought to realize what we're doing. there may be pesticides on that apple. the people who make the apple say don't worry, pesticides doesn't mean it's going to hurt you. other people say, yeah, pesticides are problematic, buy organic. you as the consumer have to decide. >> err would' going to eat the onions and apples. >> cook them first. that would be my advice. >> pineapple. love them all. elizabeth, thank you. >>> high maneuvers on the seas. a british company tries to stop a russian ship from reaching sir yeah tell you

at that time i use a chemical pesticide. but i grew did tasting food. dicated making the room. i'm not as concerned. it may be more toxic. is there a concern, if you have a backyard and you haven't been using toxic things. and was always amazed. the water looks healthy. [laughter] my question is, i'm going right directly to the soil. if i don't. >> let me answer that for you. milwaukee is one of the heaviest cities in america. the south side of the walking. ranked number one in the nation. certain plant take up a lead in mostar and the eat there. they wonder why they have heavy lead problems. we have no the equipment. if you're going to do the full spectrum test of all of your soil it will cost you a few thousand dollars. not really practical. we found a method, we put to feed of newsroom on top of existing so. micro root fibers don't go out and to play. no less technically have been using. even though epa hasn't signed on and said this is the method, but they will be coming out because of all the activity. a city where we have a lot of old houses. and p

by against all the environmental toxins that could be mercury arsenic dioxin pesticide residues all the things that all of us are exposed to in our air on our food and our water and these get deposited these can cause mutations in the genes that could lead to problems decades or even generations later but your body's first line of defense is the detoxifying enzymes to rid it. but these genes that control the detox affine enzymes are very dependent on nutrients so they're something for instance called the a r e r antioxidant response of element that's part of your d.n.a. that antioxidants like retta noids vitamin a vitamin c. vitamin e. and other nutrients like rosemary and garlic and fish oil literally buying to increase the body's production of detoxifying enzymes and this isn't some abstract concept there was a paper published in the journal of the national cancer institute nine hundred ninety eight they compared women with and without breast cancer and what they found was is women with the lowest levels of the most common detoxifying man's i'm had a four fold increased risk of developing breast cancer so

they must ban pesticides, and harsh cleaning chemicals, while using earth friendly school supplies. >>> a new way across the bay. find out if this morning was smooth sailing for commuters. >> changes coming in the forecast. when i come back, the complete forecast for tuesday afternoon. >>> more live pictures on a developing news, the situation at 5th and market, where six power lines snapped. six muni lines snapped. that has closed the intersection there while crews work to clean up the problem. they're saying that they should have the repairs made by about 7:00 tonight. a couple of people were injured. fortunately, those injuries were only minor. we do have our reporter, rob roth at that intersection gathering information. we will have more coverage coming up on ktvu, channel 2 news at 6:00. >>> with the snip of a scissors, officials launched the first new ferry service on san francisco bay in two decades. it took place at the oyster point terminal. it will link the east bay, and the south bay. the ferry should provide a less stressful commute for those who have to cross the bridge.

reduce the use of fertilizers and pesticides and want to plant more vegetation in cities which should help filter problems before they get to the coastal waters >> dogs can be good for your family in more ways than you might expect. a new study from uc san francisco shows that having a dog can protect people from certain infections, asthma, and the common cold. the experiments were done on mice but researchers say the results apply to people. >> elisabeth has the latest forecast for us >> this morning it was so cold, it warmed up a little bit by this afternoon but temperatures are still on the cold side. some area saw temperatures 20- 30 degrees cooler. temperatures out the door right now, 64 in concord. upper 50s in oakland and 66 degrees in san jose. overnight tonight the fog will continue to move in and temperatures will mainly be in the upper 40's to the low fifties. a similar story for tomorrow, for friday, and we have a chance of showers mainly in the north bay by the afternoon and temperatures along the coast will be in the upper 50s to squeezing out a few low 70's. here is fut

what like bolts to use, how much water can be in our toilet , a farmer has to get a permit to use pesticide on his crops, but has to get two or 3 pesticide permits from the same agency. we have a medical device taps being proposed. medical device companies in indiana started through entrepreneurship. a group of us think it is within the rules of the road to put a tax on these folks and think that they are going to keep innovating, they will keep creating. that is just a couple examples in this document, mr. chairman. i think for the time and i yield back. >> i want to thank tthe pan elists being here this morning. i am a teacher. we have talked about free enterprise and barriers to free enterprise. what we are hearing are high points and low points of each party's positions. what do you disagree with in each other's presentation in terms of a balanced appreach to our economy? do you think money behind each person gives power to the vote? each individual's some bitter power of his own vote. one guy, 1 vote, regardless of his standing. where would we be today in this country if each person ha

organic gardening may be defined as simply, the use of substances that aren't synthetic, pesticides that are not synthetic, fertilizers that are not synthetic. >> what is the problem people do with their gardens or their yards or herb gardens per se. >> over water and over fertilize. >> mm-hmm. >> it really doesn't take as much as we think it does >> it doesn't. >> do you need to be patient would you like sugar >> yes, please >> one or two cubes. >> two. >> do you thing it takes patience. >> gardening is very frustrating, the plants take their time and do their thing in their own way >> you will be here at the festival this weekend. >> what are you going to do. >> answer plant questions. >> that is your invite for you to come out and bring all your plant questions and have the herb doctor remedy them. >> yes. >> you will give the right prescription. >> and if i don't know the answer i know where to find it. >> you know the people who do. >> that is my motto to everything. myfoxdc.com our website we have a link to the sun flower cottage middle town virginia don't forget their herb festiva

successfully designed that you know once they get a farmer sucked in to using their seeds and their herbicide and their pesticide that farmer is essentially a customer for life whether they want to be or not and it becomes a devastating cycle so this is certainly come up in other comment countries but but it's very hard for small farmers to band together to the extent that we're seeing in brazil why brazil sheli why five million farmers in brazil what is going on there well in g.m. those were originally introduced to brazil illegally and once they became illegal they became very popular very quickly to the point where eighty five percent of brazilians so what it is now genetically engineered so it's really it's a huge crop for them it's one of their big profits for farming and so it's it's really. you know we have a large concentration of farmers and they've been able to to really organize and get this going and what do you think the case is more symbolic at that's what i mean i know that there are two hundred seventy thousand farmers who attempted to sue monsanto in the case got dropped what do you think is goi

us. you worry about your launch there could be pesticides fert laser. >> debby left one person dead at thisoint. the depression expect to do head out into the atlantic. >> that's certainly good news. >>> time for your first dpeegre weather update. >> when is everybody going to get a break from debby? >> very soon. we are expecting the center of tropical depression debby to go to the eastern coast later on this afternoon. it continues to weaken as it has been over land. maximum sustained winds at 35 miles per hour. moving east 10 miles per hour. that is more than the last couple days where we see it spinning out over the gulf. it will continue eastward and it will go later on this afternoon by friday not much impact with land. >>> as far as how much additional rainfall we are talking about at least two to three inches across central portion of florida. we head basically into tomorrow. florida looks much better now light showers across the stap. some areas of a little heavy rain. the reason you can see it over the last 24-hours it got pushed out along the east coast. we have lingering showers

you find some good good use for it will be answered thank you producer andrew related clues that agricultural giant months on that was best known for their production of pesticides and genetically modified foods but they have a controversial history as a chemical company with a slew of toxic coverups artie's abby martin brings us more on their cd practices and what they're up to now. we gather we can face the challenges of the next generation. improving agriculture improving lives the motto of the world's largest producer of pesticides and genetically modified seeds we're monsanto and we're working with farmers and partners worldwide. to realize a vision for sustainable agriculture a vision not sustained by all thousands of vietnamese still suffer from the effects of agent orange the deadly monsanto chemical sprayed by the u.s. during the vietnam war and the town of anniston alabama still poisoned with toxic chemicals contamination covered up by monsanto for over forty years court documents showed their response when they when the executives learned that they were quietly poisoning the people of anniston alabama with their p.c.b. factories they said we can't aff

about pesticides -- i had an experience with that in the schools where they zeeds -- decided to go ahead and splash it around the corners of the room and it was coming from the district and they told us not to use that around kids. 72 hours and they were using it. i don't trust anybody who's walking around with chemicals on their back. and my last comment that i want to make is if you have five trees and you take them down it might be because you're interested in their he'll. if it's 10, maybe you're still interested in their health. but when you take down 1,600, you're interested in clear cutting. >> thank you very much. the last three speaker cards. jane risk, anita bowman and chelsea parrish. >> hello, supervisors. how are y'all doing today? apparently we're going to continue this over to next week so i'll make this short. i'll try to come back next week. really the bond is good. through the con semmings i've been around it. it's been something i've personally taken that needs to get done because our park system needs us to move forward. this is about access to our parks and getting our parks fixed where they need to be done. it's something very important. if anything, the board n

pesticide rules. >>> lisa will be here to talk about the mosquitoes and the weather the rest of us have to live it today>> but in the city it should be nice. 70s. we have another festival, the juneteenth vest natural today and tomorrow so it should be nice looking weather here. take a look. you can already see the smog and ozone near the surface, hd emeryville this morning. it will get hot today. triple digits into the east bay. we will talk about all of that next. >> and tiger woods moves to the top of the u.s. open leaderboard, taking aim at his 15th major title. we have the highlights coming up in sports. >> lisa mentioned the 16th annual juneteenth festival at the african-american cultural details. >> you are the details. tell me more. >> near gary, 11:00 this morning, starts out today and tomorrow with a parade. it draws tens of thousands of people and it should be a heckuva party. >> and it should be really nice for that. marin county, though, getting kind of hot. san rafael for that art festival up by the civic center. here's a look from the peak. the sunset at 8:34. it was up at 5:47. 14 hours,

pesticides. here to break it all down for us is michael hansen, the senior scientist with "consumer reports." uce, the ones that have high levels of pesticides. there's some that i wouldn't expect. some that have their skin on them. which one is the worst? >> what the data show, for example, is every imported nectarine that the usda tested had pesticide residues followed by 98% of the apples. >> are the apples imported as well? >> no. that's any apples. 98% of them had at least one pesticide on them. celery was 96. potatoes were 91%. so all these, you see here, those either had high levels of pesticides, a large number. they've also included kale and green beans and the reason for this is because those tended to test positive for those organic phosphate pesticides. most have been pulled off the market but there's a new study showing that they had higher levels of organic phosphate residues in their bloodstream when they're pregnant had lower birth rate and children born earlier. >> oh, my gosh! how do we protect ourselves against -- you want to eat kale and blueberries. >> some of these, what

pesticide resistant crops are supposed to help increase the food supply. but could they be bad for our health? >> sounds interesting. our partners at cbs this morning are investigating that. erica hill joins us live from new york with a preview. good morning. >> good morning to you. critics call this agent orange corn. the name makes some people stop for a second. so we're going to take a look this morning and get the battle over the new engineered crop. summer thrilled with it. we'll talk to a few people to see whether or not there's any cause for concern here. also, we are taking you to the town as long as you promise to be on your best behavior, the town that voted to fine people for swearing in public. i had a vision of a huge swearing jar in the center of town. >> oh pickles, you know, when something goes wrong. a new word. >> right. >> have a good morning. >>> 6:32. the polls are open across virginia for today's primary elections. the biggest one statewide republican primaries for u.s. senate. former senator and governor george allen is seen as the favorite in this but he is facing a challenge from prince william county's bob marshal along with jamie radke and e. w. jackson. there are

used to sew doubt about the science. >> the house where you serve, it recently -- >> and you know, it's -- >> sorry? >> i was just going to say, you know, rachael carson and the pesticideests and on and on. >> the house recently voted against national science foundation funding for political science. in a vote that kind of disturbed me, it was an amendment from representative jeff flake and it didn't take away the funding, it just said the national science foundation could no longer use its funding to fund political science, in part, representative flake said, because the funding was used to support studies on climate change. that subtle and specific interference with scientific judgments worried me as a precedent. am i right to be concerned, or is this not a big deal? >> you're absolutely right to be concerned. what we were talking about with climate change and with tobacco, and with big developers against the endangered species act and big agra business against nutrition science, that's the old-style, long-lasting confrontation science, trying to overpower their science. what you're talking about a more insidious problem that strikes at the very method of science, an