. >> marie in moved into the mansion on powell street just five years ago. its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family residences around union square. for the 100th anniversary of the mansion, meridian hosted a series of special events, including a world premiere reading by lawrence ferlinghetti. >> the birth of an american corporate fascism, the next to last free states radio, the next-to-last independent newspaper raising hell, the next-to-last independent bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie looking for obama nirvana. [laughter] the first day of the wall street occupation set forth upon this continent a new revolutionary nation. [applause] >> in addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for san francisco states well-known port trees center. recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. >> you can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time we're not turning

at market and powell streets in san francisco today, a group of a half a dozen volunteers raised money for the victims. they've raised more than $3500 on four different days. nationwide, the filipino grassroots movement has raised more than $200,000 for the typhoon victims. >>> meanwhile, the united nations is set to appeal for more aid for the filipino vicks. they'll seek additional money for a 12-month plan to revive areas devastated by the super typhoon. the government disaster agency there says nearly 5600 people were killed during the powerful storm. more than 1700 are missing and nearly 4 million have been displaced. >>> signs of the season are showing up everywhere now. tonight the 24th annual christmas tree lighting ceremony took place in san francisco's union square. the 83-foot tree is a gift to the city from macy's. it's adorned with 33,000 energy efficient led lights and shiny ornaments. large crowds showed up for the event. >>> in danville, this tree with a little more history behind it. it's the old oak tree on diablo road and it's more than 350 years old. the holiday lig

eastbound 80 from powell street to willow avenue is a long stretch from emeryville beyond highway fur to hercules with lanes blocked for construction crews. we have 10 or 12 minutes weapon the cones are picked up. westbound 580 the sig-alert is causing a backup at 50 minutes from tracy to dublin. two lanes are blocked. two are open. the big rig was packed behind the accident to block traffic from running into that. the traffic is not too nice bumper-to-bumper traffic for pleasanton. this is going to be the drive across the golden gate bridge with construction crews picking up cones. the trucks are there and are making their way in the northbound direction. slow for the cope zone. >> the senate will begin debate on the first major bill barring workplace discrimination against gays in two decades. gays, lesbians and transgender workers face script nation on -- face discrimination on the job. it opens small businesses opponents say, to frivolous lawsuits. if the bill passes in the senate, the prospects in the house of representatives are not certain. president obama is meeting with busin

301 commonly known as the triangle parking lot, bounded by taylor street, jefferson street, and powell street; swl 314 bounded by the embarcadero, bay street, and kearny street; seawall lot 321, bounded by the embarcadero, front street and green street; seawall lot 322-1 bounded by broadway street, front street and vallejo street; and seawall lot 323/324 bounded by the embarcadero, broadway street and davis street. (resolution no. 13-42) >> my name is shai edwards and i am the senior property manager for the water front and i want to let you know that i am here today to request authorization to offer a competitive bid, on the five-year lease for the following five sea wall lots. 301, 314, 321, 322-1, 323/324. all located in the northern water front. i am going to provide a brief background of the lots. and discuss the rationale for consolidating the lots into one operator. and i will outline objectives of the project and provide the overview of the financial of the lease and discuss the bid process and qualification and hopefully with your approval and input, move forward on issuing the bid.

in the next day or so, a massive boring machine is set to cross beneath the powel street station. >>ou're looking at the back of the house, the cutter head. >> reporter: 40 feet below rock and water and climbed aboard big ulma, one of the tunnel borers. they sometimes dig 100 feet below ground. requiring some crew members to spend time in a pressurization chamber. >> what could happen if you didn't undergo that? >> air embolism. they call it the bends, if you don't decompress. >> reporter: shoppers shouldn't glts. >> yet, no one feels this going on beneath the ground? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: drilling in the next few days may affect service in san francisco's powell and montgomery street stations. in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> seat belts on buses. new safety regulations are now moving forward for large buses and coaches that transport passengers between cities. the regulations issued today call for all new coaches and some other large buses to be equipped with lap and shoulder belts by 2016. supporters of the law say it will save countless lives.

in the next day or so, a massive boring machine is set to cross beneath the powel street station. >> you're looking at the back of the house, the cutter head. >> reporter: 40 feet below rock and water and climbed aboard big ulma, one of the tunnel borers. they sometimes dig 100 feet below ground. requiring some crew members to spend time in a pressurization chamber. >> what could happen if you didn't undergo that? >> air embolism. they call it the bends, if you don't decompress. >> reporter: shoppers shouldn't glts. >> yet, no one feels this going on beneath the ground? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: drilling in the next few days may affect service in san francisco's powell and montgomery street stations. in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> seat belts on buses. new safety regulations are now moving forward for large buses and coaches that transport passengers between cities. the regulations issued today call for all new coaches and some other large buses to be equipped with lap and shoulder belts by 2016. supporters of the law say it will save countless live

feet at the 1.7-mile line has been completed and a massive boring machine will cross beneath the powell street station and bart and muni tunnels. >> you are looking at the back. >> reporter: we got a look at the work. 40 feet below rock and water and climb aboard one of the drillers. this is the brain of the operation. the gps system that guides the machine. they sometimes dig 100 feet below ground, requiring some to spend time in a pressurization chamber. >> reporter: it is set to pass beneath this store in the next day or so. >> reporter: no one feels this going on above ground? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: the drilling may affect part service. b.a.r.t. officials say some trains may slow down as the drill passes beneath. david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> now at 6:00 p.m. storm clouds drench the bay area but the down pours are over. the big change that we are tracking right now. >>> a man is being held in north korea. >> he didn't say anything other than they pulled him off the plane. and no explanation. >> we are talking with friends about efforts to get him back home. >> a battle

they will be protesting at market and powell street where there's always a crowd at the cable car turn around. they will ask people to sign pegs calling for label changes at the gap and other clothing retailers. >>> bay area players and coaches from the junior giants program were honored yesterday. willie mccovey honored the honorees at mill williamsly mays plaza in san francisco. more than 125 willie mack award winners celebrated their achievements in confidence, integrity, leadership and teamwork. congratulations to them. >>> meteorologist lisa argen saying we have something to be thankful for. a little bit of rain coming our way. >> yeah. a couple days before that moves on in. right now it's some fog in emeryville. temperatures are pretty mild here. 54 degrees and we've got the cool numbers and the poor vision in in the north bay. rain will arrive by tuesday. i'll have the details next. >> thank you, lisa. also next, bcs goal hopes busted for the cardinals as usc knocks >> one city is getting a new beach, actually an old one restored. they are working around the clock to recreate 8,

this afternoon from 2:00 to 3:30 they will be protesting at market and powell street where there's alwayshe cable car turn-around. they will ask people to sign a petitions calling for label changes at the gap and other clothing retailers. >>> bay area players and coaches from the junior giants program were honored yesterday. san francisco hall of famer willie mccovey honored the honorees at willie mays plaza in san francisco. more than 125 willie mac award winners celebrated their achievements in confidence, integrity, leadership and teamwork. lisa argen is here now with a preview of the accuweather forecast. something we have not seen a in a long, long time. >> that comes later. right now, though, we are used to this. which is fog and patchy fog. 54 degrees here. pretty mild. we are on our way to another nice afternoon. but what is nicer is that the rain is headed our way. i will have that forecast coming up. >> thank you, lisa. also next bcs bowl hopes are busted for the fourth-ranked cardinals as usc knocks off stanford. larry beil has the highlights and postgame reaction hey! have you

this afternoon from 2:00 to 3:30 they will be protesting at market and powell street where there's always at the cable car turn-around. they will ask people to sign a petition calling for label changes at the gap and other clothing retailers. >>> bay area players and coaches from the junior giants program were honored yesterday. san francisco hall of famer willie mccovey honored the honorees at willie mays plaza in san francisco. more than 125 willie mac award winners celebrated their achievements in confidence, integrity, leadership and teamwork. congratulations to them. and to willie mccovey for doing so. lisa argen is here with a preview. >> a beautiful shot. this is lake tahoe with temperatures right now in the low 20s. tahoe valley airport. but later on this afternoon 55 degrees, sunny skies and maybe high elevation wet snow. we will talk about that and a look at our own forecast and tell you when the rain is headed our way next. >> also next, the bowl hopes are busted for the fourth-ranked cardinals as. sc knocks off stanford. larry beil >> one city is getting a new beach, actually

you can see that the east bound 80 right at the powell street.et's face it yesterday there was some sporadic rain around the north bay and around the bay area, but this is the first full commute that we will have at least where we have this heavy rain so obviously that's going to come up. but are going to have to slow down for it will have the proverbial a fender benders this morning. as you get up and get out to grab the rain jacket and grab that umbrella. it's a developing story that we are going to be on all morning long. whether weather weather. anny? >>anny: already jackie 3 the ticket easy on the rope. happening now. a power outage in the south bay is affecting more than 1600 customers bridge official said all regions are mainly in the san jose and morgan hill areas. this is down from more than 7000 customers without power reported just before midnight. crews are on seen working to determine the exact cause of outages. no word on when repairs will be complete. time now is 435 let's stop the that's just let's start the half hour with erica a

san francisco, a small group of filipino americans say they will be back on the corner of powell and market streetss morning to collect donations. >> the communication lines down. there is no way to get into the other areas. for us being so far away and as much as we want to help this is our way of helping. >> the group collected $700 yesterday for information on how you can help, go to abc7news.com and click on "see it on tv." >> meteorologist mike nicco is here to look at the storme: moving to china. >> we will show you what is going on it came in north, right near the chinese and vietnam border and has moved through the hilly mountains of southeast china. it has been ripped apart. it has no more tropical characteristics left and it will be a rainmaker for this area. it is making the move to the northeast and by 4:00 tonight there will barely be wins of 35 miles per hour. there could be minor flooding but typhoon haiyan is over for all intents and purposes. the cleanup begins in the philippines and parts vietnam. >> "good morning america" correspondent who spends her career reporting on life-or-d

street. this is video of the lit snowflakes from last year. the snowflake lighting ceremony will take place in front of the cable car turnaround at powell and marketeet. the lights will stay lit through mid-january to celebrate the holiday season. >>> and in the city's golden gate park, newschopper2 found snow and santa claus. a little patch of it. it's all part of the california academy of sciences tis of season. visitors are allowed to play and build in the snow. you can see santa claus waving there. the exhibit runs through january 5th. >>> today on the news at 5:00, questions about the city of oakland's plans for a multi- million dollar redevelopment project near the coliseum. 2 investigates why the group tapped by the city to lead that project could keep it from ever getting started. >>> thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. we'll see you the next time news breaks. we're always here for you at ktvu.com and you can follow us on facebook and twitter. that's me, elizabeth. and today my friends, taylor gray and jennifer veal are out exploring the beautiful bahamas with me. we're making discoveries. there it is uncurled. hanging out with

it is open to the public and held at the filipino center building on center street near powell at 5:00 p.m. >> this morning, two women are behind bars accused of stealing the identities of dozens people including breast cancer patients. police arrested the two women november 5th in santa clara after they checked into a hotel using a fraudulent credit car. officers sent to investigate found stolen mail and personal information from 100 people in their hotel room. it was determined the information was for patients of the breast cancer center in oakland. they tracked down 15 of the patients most saying they had been victims of identity theft. >> fremont police are looking for a thief would posed as a delivery man in order to steal packages. look at the surveillance video. a man is carrying an empty box to a house on monday. he drops it off and picks up two other bogs delivered from amazon sitting on the front porch. he hopped into an older blue sedan and took off. >> today in walnut creek police will clear out three small downtown homeless encampment after getting complaints about thefts,

invited to a holy mass in san francisco for victims and survivors of the typhoon haiyan on sutter street near powell starting at 5:00 p.m. and put on by the consulate general of the philippines. >> investigators hope a new sketch will lead them to a man who raped a student in cupertino at deanza college in his early 20's and up to 200 pounds with shoulder length dark brown area and prominent acne on the children. this happened in a woman's bathroom on campus november 4, the victim may have been targeted because of her identification as pan sexual means attracted to people regardless of their gender or sexual preference. the rape charge could include hate crimes. >> could the t.s.a. hernandez have survived if he did not wait for 33 minute after being shot before being put in an ambulance at lax? they had to wait until the terminal was considered safe this was no threat from the accused gunman for all but five of the minutes because he had been shot and taken into custody. it is not known if hernandez could have been saved if he were treated immediately. >> on capitol hill, president obama had his say

. >> reporter: at powell and market streets people stepped forward to contribute. >> weare hoping anyone can donate, even just a dollar. >> reporter: many who gave were filipinos. >> i know this happens all the time. it is kind of -- i remember when i was young the typhoon. >> reporter: groups are talking with san francisco city hall about a fundraiser here, possibly as soon as friday. at 6:00 p.m. the woman and her story about the family members just discovered alive today. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >> supplies are starting to pour in from around the world and hopefully in time. one victim is quoted as saying people are walking around like zombies looking for food. the united states sent marines with supplies and they worked along side filipino soldiers. >> the embassy asked for military and international relief organizations. military has capabilities that are unique. >> they ordered an aircraft carrier and other u.s. ships to help. they should be arriving in the next 2, 3 days and we posted a list of ways you can help the victims of the typ

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and later today, lighting of the snowflakes on market street, market and powell. t will be dry, temperatures ranging from 55-57 degrees during one hour from 6:00 to 7:00. there will be dancing snowflakes on market street. great way to kick off the holiday season. >> had those are good dancing snowflakes. >> just about all of the sierra ski resorts will be open for thanksgiving this, video, over the weekend heavenly and north star opened with kirkwood l following yesterday squaw valley, tomorrow, they haven't had natural snow yet but investments in equipment are certainly paying off. >> continuing to make snow, to add to our already-great base we have. coming up next a school's ultimatum to a young girl if she doesn't change her natural hair. >>> a rescue story with a twist. a blind man saved a woman from a burning apartment. to those who'v to those who've waited... worried... poked and prodded... taken risks... and lived in a state of "what if?"... welcome to a new state... of health. welcome to covered california. the place to find quality, affordable coverage. fi

francisco for victims and survivors of the typhoon held at the filipino center building on sutter street near powelltarting at 5:00 p.m. and is put on by the filipino council general. >> a call is going out for greater tolerance after a fight between a transgender boy would identifies as a girl and gives that the teen accused of bullying her. the school provided this disturbing cell phone video of the fight on wednesday starting when the boy who identified himself as a girl spokeswomanned to relentless teasing by slapping another student. other girls joined the scuffle against the transgender teen and all face possible punishment for the fight. >> support for berkeley teen set on fire by another teen is growing. hundreds of people marched in honor of fleischman who suffered second- and third-degree burns and to raise awareness of gender identity. his parents waved the ban neither for agenda -- agender rights. >> sasha born male was wearing a skirt and napping on an a.c. transit bus when the 16-year-old student from oakland set sasha open fire causing serious burns. >> san francisco is turning into g

streets. 20 new snowflakes were added this year. the event in front of the cable car turnaround, you know where that is, powell and market streets, andooking like christmas this morning at the academy of sciences. newschopper2 shot this video about an hour ago. there it is. the steps are blanketed with real snow for the annual 'tis the season for science exhibit. right at the top of the screen, there's santa claus all dressed up. two real rain deer arrived this morning. they -- rein deer arrived this morning. >>> ten lucky viewers will win four tickets to the san jose harvest festival. this is the largest indoor arts and crafts shows on the west coast. tickets are good for november 29th through december 1st. it's being held at the san jose convention center this weekend. to enter go to ktvu.com tonight and enter the secret word holiday or do it by tonight. any time. >> do it. >> yeah. >>> 8:57. sal is back. you are watching our roads still. >> yeah, we are. right now, just looking at the toll plaza. it's improved finally if you have been waiting around. there's an improvement. there is a backup. i don't think it will be that bad. loo

through institutions that no longer were working as they showed like colin powell in the government and robert rubin on wall street and they didn't understand until it was too late that they were part of the problem and that their institutions were actually working directly to undermine what they had. the other is of the celebrities are more institution breakers. and i think that that is kind of the role that the elites play today. and they got where they were breaking the rules moving fast, breaking things, jc is one of the subjects of the book and his whole career from drug dealer to corporate rock star is a story of don't simply hold down a job and finish school because that is a sucker's game. the way you make it is the way the mafia lords make it, which is to be tough and want to win and winning is its own justification. so the north carolina boy clutching a bible is a man named dean tries who is the son of a fire and brimstone teacher in north carolina and his family farmed tobacco for generations and he grew up with the ambition to be an entrepreneur and his heroes were people like andrew carnegie and henry

union square and it will eventually end at powell and columbus where the tunneling machines hillary surface at the old pagoda theater site in june. stockton street has been closed to vehicular traffic since january to accommodate a variety of subway-related work. it will re-open on friday to the holiday shopping season, closing again on january 2nd. that's a true holiday gift for this fed ex delivery man. >> it is extremely heavy this time of year. it would be a blessing to reopen. >> don't hold your breath for the subway reopening. that's not until january 2019. abc7 news. >>> the board of directors is set to vote on the contract of the two largest unions tomorrow. yes, we are here again. the vote comes two weeks after the discovery of a medical leave provision that bart insists wase roan yously included. the unions are calling on bart to honor the contract they signed. >> you probably noticed stores are starting to advertise their door buster deals. with so many sales it is challenging for a shopper to get to all of them. >> michael finney is here with how you can stretch your budget and your time. >> door busters are designed to get you and m

union square and it will eventually end at powell and columbus where the tunneling machines hillary surface at the old pagoda theater site in june. stockton street has been closed to vehicular traffic since january to accommodate a variety of subway-related work. it will re-open on friday to the holiday shopping season, closing again on january 2nd. that's a true holiday gift for this fed ex delivery man. >> it is extremely heavy this time of year. it would be a blessing to reopen. >> don't hold your breath for the subway reopening. that's not until january 2019. abc7 news. >>> the board of directors is set to vote on the contract of the two largest unions tomorrow. yes, we are here again. the vote comes two weeks after the discovery of a medical leave provision that bart insists wase roan yously included. the unions are calling on bart to honor the contract they signed. >> you probably noticed stores are starting to advertise their door buster deals. with so many sales it is challenging for a shopper to get to all of them. >> michael finney is here with how you can stretch your budget and your time. >> door busters are designed to get you and m

powell. up next. are you ready to freeload? if i put on a fake beard and beg on the streets, will people give me money?olish policy and it will come to an end the soon per the better. >> that's ron paul talking about the millions we spend on foreign aid. much of which is squandered or stolen p. i agree with ron paul that we should stop almost all foreign aid. but when libertarians say that people get angry. >> you want to cut it off, pull the aid out. we give less than one percent of the entire budget of the united states of america. >> it is pretty close to 1 percent. $35 billion. i say we can't afford that. gregory adams who runs aid effectiveness program says we should spend more. it is a giant charity that tries to fight poverty all over the world. you raise the money leave governments out of it. >> the issue john is that there are some things charity just can't do. despite the impact that it has around the world, and we are proud of the work that we do with money raised from average americans there is only so much we can do with our own projects. >> they made to make sure they aren't murdered on t

this happened about 6-30 this morning on hyde street between broadway and pacific. the powell is clear so service should be normal now. >> we'll get a full check of weather and traffic when we come back. >> here is a live look outside at a bad accident in menlo park. this has created a mess. this is affecting the nimitz and the dumbarton. surface streets also backed up. >> welcome back. we continue to attract a major hot spot ends a menlo park pripet the accident still has westbound shut down and it has backed up the traffic all the way to the east end of the dumbarton bridge. there is no indication yet from the police department in redwood city it when they made reopen the two left turn lanes. this is what is taino all of this traffic. you should use the san mateo bridge instead. >> 101 in marin county is still backed up to us out of central san rafael. a again, we mold over to the eastern uc slowing for a ride on 680 southbound. it is still backed up leading to up one of creek pripet the west 24 ride is much slower today than any other day. we continue to mold towards 580 in

powell and montgomery stations. the second tunnel boring machine is due to cross under market street in january. >>> 8:16.w report shows that hundreds of underground leaks will go unmonitored because of a new state policy. since the 1980s, more than 44,000 underground fuel tank leaks have been recorded in the state. but a change went into effect last year that allows some of those sites to end regulatory monitoring even if contamination is traced. the state said too much money was being spent on low-threat sites. >>> marin county is a big step closer to banning single use plastic bags. residents are being invited to express their opinions on the county's environmental impact report on the issue. county officials are expected to certify the report in late january. after that is done, cities and the county are expected to approve a ban on plastic bags. >>> almost 4.5 million californians will travel this holiday weekend. the day before thanksgiving will probably be the busiest day ons on the -- days on the highway. if you have to drive, get on the road in the morning to avoid the biggest traffic jams. sunda

powell and columbus and the tunneling machines will resurface in june at the old theater site. this weekend, the machine will pass below union square 95' below the surface, with stockton street closedill re-open tomorrow for the shopping season. the subway itself will open in 2019. >> more travel others at san jose airport can get through security quickly law a special government program. later this morning, the transportation security administration is unveiling new precheck lanes in terminal b which senators southwest airlines that accounts for half the travelers at san jose, which has been open in terminal a since last month allowing reapproved travelers to leave on shoes, belts and keep liquids in the carry on. >> still scattered light rain scattered height rain link otherring as the low pulls away. it did rain i admit the i unforecasted the rain. we needed it. it was good to fill up the reservoirs. we had two-thirds of an inch in hayward and los altos and fairfield and three quarters in san jose to an inch at sfo and everyone else is an inch to 1.75" in mount st. helena. now it will get dry again. as the rain was moving off we captured a beautiful rainbow yesterday so it had b

this is muni selling tickets down at the powell street station, it has no lowered counter area, it has a number of problems. even a temporary use is required it meet these standards of accessibility, especially a brand new thing. this is what they call a cobon, a japanese model of sort of a small station. it should be fully accessible as a new facility. it's 1.30, i promised we would end at 1.30, we'll stick around in case you have questions after. thank you.