petco has a right to exist. san franciscans also have the right to tell you what we want. 01 stores that will support the city and keep the money in the city, and will care about the neighborhood that are located in. to say your corporate profits are going to san diego and you are a citizen of the neighborhood is to be somewhat disingenuous. i urge you to support this legislation. thank you. president o'brien: thank you. further public comment? seeing none, i will hand it back to the commissioners. vice president adams: i just want to say i do support this legislation. i echo what herb crohn -- the merchant associations, and i can appreciate this as a customer to. you guys vote. it should be heard. my second comment is -- i find it hard to believe he knew at 3:30 this afternoon there was a meeting here today, when this has been out in the public since last week. i have had several people who knew about this last week. in doing my own homework on this, there was very little neighborhood outreach by petco in the r

to date -- the petco on geary. there are vacant storefronts, and the small merchants are really hurting, and i hope that the small business really considers this and doesn't support of the smaller pet stores and small businesses. as you can see from the letters you have received and probably emails and causing a receipt from the richmond district and other pet owners come we need your support. we hope you will stand up with the richmond district in support of item number nine. on item number 10, i wanted to say that we are working with the city attorney's office to finalize language to make sure that we're also moving forward to open a broader approach to fill vacant storefronts along the corridors but easing up on voting restrictions so that many other types of businesses, " lee neighboring businesses, would be considered in the corridors, and we will have the language for you on leveling the playing field for businesses in the richmond district this evening. president o'brien: thank 7yo -- you, supervisor mar. no

this is one place where wal- mart, target, and petco are on the same side with the small businesses. this is about do you support california businesses, their employment, and all the rest, or do you support and out of state e-tailer whose business model is built on tax avoidance. commissioner clyde: thank you for your presentation. and thank you for clarifying many of the questions i have had about this legislation since it was first brought to my attention. but it has been said that the affiliate's will be heard in california, the 10,000 currently selling from amazon. would you respond to that? >> walmart, best buy, home depot, and i think macy's have all offered publicly any affiliate of amazon who may get fired if this legislation passes -- one of the ways in the sun can avoid this is -- the ways amazon can avoid this is to fire all the affiliates. walmart and best buy have all offered to take those affiliates in. those affiliates can still sell to their customers the same things amazon is selling, through walmart and everyone else. the only difference is sales tax would be collec

is. >> there's different all-natural ones, petco, petsmart. this a great harness.ow when you're walking the dog. >> okay. >> and the heat of the dog. so you know to take your dog out of the sun and walking if it gets too hot. also, some things you can get. i always say to people, dogs are not really into putting shoes on. and if the shoe doesn't fit -- it actually gets really hot, especially in urban environments on the streets. there's these cute disposable rubber to protect. and also, which is the greatest thing, this chili bone. they love water, right? so what happens -- yeah, so it's actually a cold toy, so when it's really hot outside or hot inside, hopefully you have air conditioning, this is a great toy to give. >> okay, wendy diamond, and all -- >> all up for adoption from the humane society of new york. >> wendy diamond, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> coming up next, some of your favorite boardwalk bites from "today's" kitchen. but first, this is "today" >>> "today's" kitchen is brought to you by newtons thins, one unique cookie. >>> this morning in

now pat cole,--petco, [laughter] >> now we have clear conditions out there this morning, low to mid 90's for the inland spots. napa and san rosa will see some of those temperatures. clear and mao this evening and today will be hot, tomorrow will be even hotter. wednesday will be back down to a hot again before we start cooling down towards the weekend. the us talk about where the temperatures are right now. 58 sanford's a spoke, 61 napa, 66 fairfield, mid-60s and concord in hayward. mid-70s out in antioch already. 65 down in san jose, we are in the '60s and '70s already at this early hour. how hot we get this afternoon? we are predicting 10:00 a mixture of '60s, '70s, and 80's. by noon, the '90s will show up. that is outlined in red, by 3:00 p.m., a lot of locations, south bay near san jose was the '90s, liver valley all the way in. up to concord, walnut creek, antioch, napa, san rosa all those locations will see temperatures and low to mid 90's. we will cool off by 9:00 p.m. not by much. temperatures will fall back to the sixties and fifties along the coastline. tomorrow we will warm

groundskeeper at petco park, home of the padres. known for his smooth moves.te to michael jackson. check him out. >> rob marciano is now going to do that himself. >> do the rain dance, rob. >> look at that. you can do that all day long in san diego, it's not going to rain this time of year. that guy has some moves. how about that? and the one-handed -- by the way, there's no crying in baseball, but apparently there's lots of crying in soccer, isn't there? >> no kidding. >> please. come on, guys. >>> from sls last night, unbelievable amounts of lightning over the arch. picturesque scene. that sky is lit up. that will get your heartbeating. hail as well. winds caused damage at times last night across parts of the midwest and across the southeast as well. this morning, a severe thunderstorm watch is in effect. it does include parts of st. louis for the next hour or two. cluster of thunderstorms rolling down i-70, could produce heavy rain and also some gusty winds. cluster of thunderstorms moving off the del marva and the eastern seaboard will be in the soup today