come and experience in this park and enjoy the people, picnics, and sunshine.lovely place to take a stroll with your loved ones. in the middle of pacific heights, on top of these hills, it offers a great square, a peaceful beauty, large trees and grass and greenery. it features tables and benches, a playground, restaurants, and tennis courts. there are plenty of areas for football and picnics. it is very much a couple's park. there are many activities you can experience together. stroll on the pathways, bring your dog, or just picnic at one of the many tables and enjoy all that it has to offer together. many couples find this is a perfect park to throw down a blanket and soak up the sun. it is a majestic place that you can share with someone you chairs. lafayette park is also easily accessed from the 47, 49, and 90 buses. it is ada accessible. we are here at the historic palace of fine art in the marina district. originally built for the 1950's exposition, the palace is situated on san francisco's number waterfront. it is ada accessible and is reached by the 28

that would remind her of the picnic and of her brothers and sisters.they have come from, where they are going. i think that provides a physical representation, way of sitting down and talking with a child about this story. sometimes it is difficult to know where to start and having something beautiful like this to be able to use as a trigger for talking about things is really, really important. after a couple of hours of ha rd important. after a couple of hours of hard work volunteers enjoy well—deserved food.|j of hard work volunteers enjoy well-deserved food. i am a great believer in the good effects of kindness. if you show kindness, there is a better possibility of that being magnified. for children in foster care growing up can sometimes feel unstable but these quilts are a small gesture they can hold on to. what a lovely idea! nasa has started 2019 with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind, a mountain—sized ball of dust and ice called ultima thule with the aim of learning more abo

we had picnic based on which prefecture your family emigrated from. this was a family picnic of people whose parents had immigrated from the southern part of japan. i'm at the picnic, i'm seven years old and i'm playing with kids, my dad comes over and takes him by the arm and leads me away. he said, i don't want you to play with the kids from that family. growing up in my youth, my parents told me they didn't want me to play with kids from that family often. this was not unusual but it stuck in my mind that i had no idea who those kids were or why that was a bit family. second event in my life has to do with this book. my best friend in high school, his dad went to nyu and harvard law school. he was trying to encourage us to go to college and ivy league. i was 16 at the time and in the alternative you wanted us to doda cal or stanford but he gave me this book and sold me on the virtues of going to the ivy league. so, you kids are so lucky today, when i was a kid you had to do a whole lot of research about where you were gonna go to college. you had t

>> there may be four picnics. >> or you can wear the same picnic dress to more than one picnic. >> ohow rachel brosnahan, er ne. [ cheers and applae ] ♪ >> seth: welcome back. >> thank you. it's great to be back. >> seth: how's -- it's been such a -- a great year yor you since the last tim were here. you won the emmy, you won the golden globe, but saturday you had one of the biggest things happen. yowere impersonated on "saturday night live." >> yeah. >> seth: and cecily strong did you. and here is aidy bryant as -- as amy sherman-palladino. and -- [ laughter ] you -- you tweeted about it. you seemed very -- were you very excited? >> i still feel that way. >> seth: yeah. >> i'm still making that face. just -- a >> set so, did you -- you did not see it live, correct? someone else -- >> no. i was -- >> seth: akay. >> i woad and so i was six hours ahead. and everyone i have ever met had sent me a text message by the time woke up the next mornin >> seth: and then, do you go into it with nerves. because obviously people get on impeed on it. this was done with love. sometimes they're not. >

of my questions, which was visiting the blue ridge parkway i see a lot of things that are broken, picnic tables, trails in disrepair. what is the administration doing to try to fix our parks? thank you. guest: there have been bills introduced. one bill we have been advocating for is called restore our parks, which will hopefully be reintroduced early this congress. for $6.5ould do is pay billion worth of the maintenance backlog. that means it would repaired buildings, and other amenities that people enjoy in our national parks. when you think of a national park you don't think of it as a town. but in some cases it has its own water infrastructure, its own sewage infrastructure. over time the lifecycle of these different types of infrastructure starts to deteriorate. it's quite important that congress put money behind deferred maintenance and make sure the parks are getting the funding they need. we hope the bill will pass in the house and senate. karen, anotherto recent visitor from columbus, north carolina. caller: i'm calling about the same parks system, the burnsville gentlemen from n

this number is best for special events, weddings, picnics, and the county fair building. for any athletic fields and neighborhood parks, 831-5510. you can also write us. 501 san francisco, calif. 94117. or just walk in and say hello. and of course you can find more information and reach us at sfrecpark.org. >> welcome to another episode of safety on today is episode we'll show you how 0 retroactive you're home let's go inside and take a look. >> hi and patrick chief officer and director of earthquake for the city and county of san francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt we'll talk about plywood. >> great thanks. >> where are we we if you notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they don't lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing we'll nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately you'll see a problem in a typical san francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood we've got to wind block

the mclaren park playground and group picnic area, renovation construction contract award. >> you can weighed a second. >> i just wanted to keep it -- >> i can't get it over there. thank you very much. >> okay. good morning, commissioners. my name is alexis and i am a project manager with a capital division. i am here today for discussion and possible action to award a construction contract in an amount not to exceed $1,419,000 for the mclaren park playground renovation. this area --dash this project is in line with our strategic plan, and inspires as public space as well as play. additionally it is part of the left play --dash let's play initiative, what you all know, it is a project that stems from the park bond in partnership with the park's alliance that seeks to inspire play and creativity. as a reminder, at this particular site, there is no longer a playground. it is an empty sandpit with no play structure, and this project is going to construct a new playground in the area, and make upgrades to the picnic area, the pathways, the lawn and the site entrance. for some information

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i mean do you just ride around or do you go on some sort of a picnic or something? >> a picnic?en, you don't go any one special place. that's corn ball style. you just go. ♪ >> marlon brando came to hollywood, rebelling against the conformity of the 1950s. he was fortunate in that he had two roles at the very start of his career that allowed him to be who he was, so we see him as stanley kowalski in "a streetcar named desire" and as a rebel motorcycle rider in "the wild one." that's the movie where a young woman says to brando, what are you rebelling against? >> what have you got? >> brando iconicized the tee shirt. >> brando starts wearing this white tee shirt in public and the sales of men's tee shirts skyrocketed at that point. >> he made it okay to wear a tee shirt as a top. it wasn't underwear anymore. >> there was a freedom that was coming out in fashion at that point in time that was more individual. it became of more about, you know, what their image was when they walked out on the street. >> brando, his clothes seemed effortless. ♪ >>> i think it is interesting that the

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so yeah, he threw a beer can, at the end of the picnic and she clean up the picnic. >> look at the whole. i mean, that's horrible. >> martha: this is so shocking. it's so ingrained. i grew up during antilitter campaign. who wants to see garbage all over the park. >> now, the only garbage we see in d.c. are the congressmen. >> no littering on the way out. so talk to me a little bit about this whole shutdown, and issue of the question of all of it being manufactured. >> l think about the things they have called a crisis. we have an income inequality crisis in this country, they have said. >> i think we do, actually. >> yes. we have a global warming crisis in this country. we have a student loan crisis, but there's not a border crisis? how many people, market a have died from student loans from global warming in america? zero. but in one state alone, texas. 32 illegal aliens killed americans in just one year. that's a lot of debt, when you think of all the heroin and phetynol. and women are being raped. i feel sorry for bureaucrats who have to dip into the savings. but i feel more sorry for

which he described this interview, a philadelphia newspaper indignantly predicted that "with negro picnics on the white house grounds and negro cronies in the white house itself displaying their teeth at the presidential wit, white people will have to wait a long time for their turn. on march 12, 1864, two educated young black men from new orleans, john baptiste renee, an engineer, and ridinae, a wine merchant, and former officer of the union army -- submitted to lincoln a petition signed by several hundred african-american residents of the crescent city. it asserted that we are men, and asked the president and congress to treat us as such. it also called for voting rights to be extended to louisiana's blacks. rudinae reported that -- "president lincoln listed attentively to our address and sympathized with our object." the very next day, lincoln wrote to the governor of louisiana, suggesting that the new constitution of his state, to be adopted in the near future, should enfranchise at least some blacks. on april 2, 1864, carolyn johnson of philadelphia, a former slave, presented lincoln

but i like the way this very socially they gather for a couple of hours before a game to a certain picnic have a few drinks i really like that side of it and it's never called. me. i wonder when thailand will produce its first international superstar maybe it's just a matter of time. if you call maybe not the best at football you know in international we are a test. but i can see it growing up maybe one day we can be one off the top off a ship. just one more day before the decisive mencia game singapore time to meet the specialist. took over as thailand's coach in twenty seven. half. mad. about the. week he put. on defending. first. good. old. people getting. up in court they called him a. is upon us. and it's time to mingle. with these guys. but also with the thai fans of course. and spiderman is bad. i'm. like you. and being a true gentleman he shows me how to drink it properly in a stadium where alcohol is apparently family. and. close. thailand quickly score and people in my block go while. the war at three know the atmosphere in the stadium somehow reminds me of a carnival. that. car

he was a star at a picnic up to the point where wherever they would go as a speaking troop, the system was, it would have a resolution speak to, two or three resolutions you spoke to. douglass would start to speak to the resolution by the audience would start saying fred, do the sermon. and he would say all right and he would break into slaveholders sermon. he kept doing that kind of speech for years and years and years but this is where he cut his teeth as a radical abolitionist employing the only weapon they had which was language, words, power of the word, spoken. and then written of course in newspapers. >> there's this sense in which douglass cutting his teeth among the care sony and, in some ways drawing on the language of the king james bible, writers manual, that he carried with him, a sense in which he understood as aristotle the importance of rhetoric and its role -- >> he never read aristotle but he surely could have. >> but he seems to understand the way in which, the lesson about the moral role of rhetoric. >> right. there must be a moral position, must reach the hearts of

but i like the way this very socially think out a couple of hours before a game they said picnic have a few drinks i really like that side of it and it's never cold but. i wonder when thailand will produce its first international superstar maybe it's just a matter of time. people maybe not the best at football you know in international we are attached to me. but i can see it growing up so maybe one day we can be one off the top off a ship. that can vary just one more day before the decisive mention against singapore time to meet the specialist. took over as titans coach in twenty seven teams. the most. have you mad. i bowed to the fans. weak he put. on defending. first. good. cold. feet by getting. up in what they called a. match day is upon us. and it's time to mingle. with these guys. but also with the thai fans of course. and spiderman is bad. i know. i like you. being a true gentleman he shows me how to drink it properly in a stadium where alcohol is apparently banned. and. thailand quickly score and people in my block go while. the war elephants when three nil the atmosphere in t

is the calm before the storm which is expected to hit this afternoon but this morning won't be a picnicads have puddles on them from overnight rainfall it is gusty at timesand we do expect to see rain off and on throughout the morningsandbags are available in many places throughout the bay area including at this fire station in san rafael located on point san pedro road wednesday will be very windy, with a chance of rain in the morning, then rain and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. some thunderstorms may produce small hail in the afternoon. highs will be in the upper 50s. southeast winds will be 20 to 30 mph, increasing to south winds at 30 to 45 mph in the afternoon. wednesday night will be very windy, with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening and rain, and then a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight. some thunderstorms may produce small hail in the evening. rain may be heavy at times. lows will be in the lower 50s. south winds will be 30 to 45 mph. thanks will. thanks will. ( darya ) stay informed on bay area weather with the kron-4 mobile app. y

he said that the tornado tossed the picnic tables up against the wharf railing. thankfully, no one inside the packed restaurant was hurt. >> it is pulled off about 30% of the back of the roof. >> reporter: this alabama n ng tornadoes said they could be frightful. >> as far as the tornado coming in, if it is and ef-5, it is like the fear of god scraping across the ground. it is devastating. >> reporter: they say that the santa cruz natives were relatively weak, but still dangerous and rare. >> waterspouts are exceedingly rare in the monterey bay area, but it is rather uncommon as they approach sure to become a tornado as they had land. we don't see these very often. >> reporter: that was not the only damage this portion of i nine that was effective. they worked to shore up the road as more rain moves into the area. the national weather service estimates that it was about 70 miles per hour, saying that the one hit the wharf was slightly stronger at about 80 miles per hour. the state is lucky that nobody was hurt. >>> a san francisco based online college is waving u

at the mention of it in china that's because i'm not a chinese people wondering if they're for a picnic but if i have a right to another that is this is that job up just under the law how i see it add up to why i left my job because i tried to do it except it is a thing my name. and i will. and after that. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has won the backing of the military in his standoff with opposition leader juan guede oh who's proclaimed himself president and defense minister vladimir padrino llopis accused kwaito of leading a coup he also said the u.s. and other governments that have recognized him were waging an economic.

. >> reporter: he says when his dad got tired, the two decided to separate and meet up at a picnic area of hypothermia, which could have easily been the case, had powelson not come across a vita crummy, really awful sleeping bag, but it was dry and compared to what i had on, it was a huge boone. >> reporter: powelson hunkered down for the night and in the morning he managed to hike out and flag down a driver. back in berkeley -- >> oh, my god. you know, a lot of things came to my mind, you know. >> reporter: martino orozco says powelson is like a brother to him and can't wait for his return. >> i'm going to hug him and tell him thankli tan, "nbc bay area news." >> 4:49 for you right now. >>> how about a lift? this is our first look at the two hikers rescued out of yosemite last wednesday. the chp helicopter came to the rescue, the two men from england were stranded in the north dome area. the winter storm was on its way. luckily we can report neither of those men were hurt. >>> this morning, things back online after a break-in and emergency communications in oakland. police say both the

and there are many who now feel that the city will soon run out before who traditionally will begin picnics come to the rescue that's why. bangalore india silicon valley. high flying for multinational corporations located on the city's outer edges but bangalore is also home to severe water issues. polluted lakes that froth over with toxic foam made up of chemicals and raw sewage and unchecked tech driven urban growth that has left many of the city's water grid among those affected is saddam krishnan he's a successful i.t. professional with his own company. but his apartment complex gets no piped water it's a problem faced by many in bangalore's tech community in. the fight and says their patients with civic authority is wearing them when. expectation was definitely. connection. many in bangalore are now reliant on private tankers. which get their supply from bore wells as deep as fifteen hundred feet the practice is depleting the local water reserves. leaving many worried the city could soon run out of the resource altogether. but conservation is this one outs or country or believes the sit

year's eve sailing trip on the bay, but the water was too rough today so they decided let's do a picnic at chrissy field instead. good idea. our photographer happened to be there when zach got down on one knee. >> seriously? >> the storm of the century brought us out here today. i love you so much, britney, will you marry me? >> yes, yes! >> zach is a great guy, not a meteorologist but he's celebrat engagement with friends and they popped a bottle of champagne as well. >> he owes us one for bringing the storm of the century. >> for this week at least. >> all right. >>> coming up, the raiders introduced their new gm, a draft expert with no front office experience, the warriors are starting to click and the bench making a significant contribution as the dubs spent new year's eve in phoenix. >>> this season has had its ups and downs for the warriors, the fallout between draymond and kd, and the lack of cohesiveness with this group. finally in the last two games, the dubs showing signs they have turned the corner. steve kerr back in phoenix, where he was the general manager. as a warrior, i

. >> it looks like they're packing up huge summer sausages to picnic with but this is not what they'reomething like for an avalanche. are they going to drop bombs? >> yeah, that's what they get to do. they make their own little bombs with their own makeshift guidance systems, put those into the helicopter and fly out into the mountains to drop bombs on snow. yes, sign me up. >> we always talk about the people who do this and wonder who they are. >> they are 1700 soldiers, part of the austrian army. over the last several weeks, austria has seen a monumental falling of slow so they had to call in the army to help get rid of some of this but over the last two weeks of his this storm there have been 18 fatalities related to this snow. now, in addition to using the bombs dropped on avalanchers, they used the downdraft of the helicopter blades to blow the snow off trees so trees wouldn't bre break. isn't that cool? there are reports that there was a fight in youngsters applying for the military after this video came out so this video just kind of resonating with the use of austrians. >> don'

these folks brought their kids for a pancake picnic. they knew the bathrooms were closed. so while dad strummed guitar the kids used a built-in potty of their camper van. then there's the trash. what are you guys going to do with all your stuff when you leave? >> take it all with us, of course. we're very diligent to pick up every last scrap and pick up anything else we saw around. >> reporter: rodeo beach is very clean despite heavy traffic and huge crowds. land he is inn in san francisco, not so much. so trail railings are broken and trash is spilling out of these containers, but here again folks are helping out. >> i understand that the park rangers aren't working today. so we figured we had plastic bags on us. why not clean up this mess? we're spending this afternoon cleaning up what we can do. >> reporter: a half hour later when i returned, the good samaritans were gone and so was the pile of trash. ft. point has some trash scattered along the trail, too. that is still there. ocean beach restrooms are closed locked up. here, too, it appears folks are making an effort

it may look pretty, but the polar vortex is no picnic. >> made it about two blocks and huddled up in gas station and ubered home. >> reporter: the ucla men's volleyball team in chicago for a roadtrip couldn't handle the sub-zero temperatures. >> we actually had to search the athletic department, actually borrowed what we had from the football team. we're usually not prepared for this in california. >> reporter: northern some -- >> reporter: more northerners enjoyed the cold, turning boiling water into snow, and freezing wet t-shirts. >> we don't care. we're minnesotan. we're going to do what we've got to do to have some fun. >> reporter: the polar vortex is expected to last at least another day. and the deep cold is causing some serious problems for a lot of people in the midwest and here in the northeast. in new jersey, a massive blaze at a paper company was only made worse by the whipping winds. >> firefighters are dealing with water on their hands, on their face. i was out there. it's spraying all over you, and regardless if you have equipment on or not, it's impacting you. and th

what is this, a company picnic? yeah. you on your way out?the orchard there. name's jane. looks like you caught some trout, jane. yeah, trout. a few crappie. worm? my dad taught me to use canned corn. i come up here every year to fish and to quit smoking and every year i'm only half successful. did you happen to see anybody else out here? maybe someone with nine fingers. that's awfully specific. uh-uh. no. this have to do with that parachute i saw a little ways back? should i be worried? would you like an escort to your truck? from you? or them? thanks. i'll take my chances. oh, and that, uh, parachute, it's about two miles due south. just right off the trail there. south? i thought you said east. fornell: i got us close. i didn't hear anything from the eagle scout. i don't know. sounds like that scoreboard's back to goose eggs. i wanted to surprise you. i've only been in town for two weeks. i was starting to get a little bored, so i just thought this would be like old times. you know? minus the good beaches. we had fun. had. what is your dea

except then we get mike pence and he is no picnic either. he's sane.alling a minute... vice president and former governor of indiana. hardcore conservative money man, religious right, conservative, all of that. the same nominees. the same nominees in the supreme court. for 18 months. the democrats controlled the house. nancy pelosi is better at moving the process. it's not so much will trump be gone but what happens in 2020. look at 2019. what's left, a year and a half in which most is spent campaigning for the presidency? mike pence is a social conservative, he is not my cup of tea but the point is he would not do the things that trump has done. trump is the infant in the white house playing with very dangerous toys. absolutely and as i said, i hope you are right but having seen so many things i expected to go differently, turn over the last two years, i think we in the age of disruption and there is no predicting anything. there is one thing that americans won't tolerate disruption of and that is the stock market. they are very sophisticated investor

and also just been hearing firefighters picnic right desperately through. the wreckage after that time collapse swept a surrounding villages with iron or waste and of course the results have been devastated be more that of course. as we get it. it's not the business john bye and good luck i in the stududio good evening t to u taxx statarting w with t tht washgtgton's latesest effort to ramp up pressure on venezuelan president. nicolas maduro well one of the two venenezuelan presidt at the moment because look at the situation that is the whole story -- the united states now what taking their economic weight behind this announcing new economic sanctions against the state owned oil company pdvsa venezuela's largest source of revenue. this is the toughest u. s. financial measures so far against nicolas maduro treasury secretary stephen your chin said the sanctions prevented medora from diverting more resources from the crisis damage country. until controlling caracas could be transferred to a new democratically elected governments. psas us based subsidiary said

it's going to be violent they were aware that it's his jihad after all and it's not going to be a picnic therefore they are going to commit their lives to the cause. but there are two and that's what they call i don't want to do the time in order to expel the americans out of the middle east bring about the change in the governance and create the kill if it doesn't what was. brought them into the fold of jihad then a fold of a card that. you know. and that was a common theme among them all so as you've sat radicalization happens in different ways for some it's a matter of days for others years but have you ever noticed common features in this individual journeys to stream isn't anything but unites them except the purpose. the five common themes in the first one is the need for redemption many people understand that islam is a guilt based religion most of devout muslim and i feel guilty about many things but that's what islam is about and therefore basically there is a need for redemption and not to do within every muslim. now you know out of the you know one point eight billion muslims o

one afternoon i saw a young woman sitting at the picnic table in our back yard. she lived on the top floor where i hadn't met anyone so far because they entered the house through a separate door. the young woman told me she had dropped out of college in michigan and come out with her boyfriend to the bakken. but unlike many of the women in their early 20s who migrated to the oil field, she hadn't taken work as a cashier or waitress. she wanted to pay off her $20,000 in student loans and had taken a job as a pumper, checking oil tank levels for a company owned by exxonmobil. as the pumper and i chatted, a new stranger walked by with a load of boxes. i was startled when she told us she was moving into the room next to mine. i hadn't even realized the last roommate had left. babs rah, as she -- barbara, as she later introduced herself, had the most inspiring story. back in new england, her boyfriend bought a conversion van for them to live in while he dealt crack. he did ten years in federal, she said as we got acquainted. when barbara tried to escape, he threatened

rumsfeld the fall of put him in in place so that you could make sure that nobody would be a skunk at the picnic and say whoa there are a day we can't find any weapons ok so rumsfeld was down at the lad and i happened to be down in town for another reason and i challenge him and people can look at that on the web my point will be this that as i left the auditorium was very hostile about you know idea that if i could get anybody usually somebody would come up with your i mean nobody was i going to call all of that anderson cooper. oh this is ray mcgovern well you know you're causing quite a stir down there are likely to have them i will show but but first i have to ask a question and i so with that he says well how do we say this or over and over that well. we were too afraid. and i thought to myself well that's a normal question you know so i said well no i have briefed a lot of secretaries of defense i thought way saying yes this is the heir to the fed the vendor both fortune right this is the pretty face on c.n.n. and he's asking me why they afraid and so i had some fun i said anderson actuall