you need to visit all of the food stations, and once your ticket is mark, you can take it to a raffle, drop it in the bowl to with a gift certificate from one of the participating restaurants, and the winner of the raffle will be notified by phone or e-mail. remember, doors to the green room not going to open. we still have a little bit more of our ceremony here, so stay and enjoy the grand finale. now, i would like to turn the program over to rose, who has overseen the finale of this event since 2008. she also coordinates the decision america pageant coordinates all of tonight's multi-cultural performances as well. [applause] >> thank you very much. each year, it is our pleasure to invite friends of the community to showcase their heritage. everyone, please, for this year, joined in the segment with your party applauds, sing along, or just get up and dance, okay? we want to have a lot of enthusiasm because we have so much to celebrate. ladies and gentlemen, the 2011 cultural procession. [applause] ♪ [applause] >> hello. thank you everyone. how you guys doing? we have one last song fo

these bags are available for sale for $100, but we have 10 to raffle off today. sari, one of these today. [laughter] -- sorry, one of these today. [laughter] we are sliding back on our promises today. i know you can go online and in some additional bags -- win some additional bags. you have to take a photograph of an art in storefront side, uploaded to twitter or flickr or facebook and enter to get one of these custom bags. somebody had a clipboard around here. where is the clipboard? ok, there is the clipboard over there. it is going to be circulating around, and mayor ed lee is going to pick the first winner of this bag. before i introduce our distinguished elected official, we have a number of bank used -- thank-yous we want to share with you. revitalizing the neighborhood requires the efforts of a whole big village. so we have got david adderfield, byron yee, mark casagrande, and i would like to ask you all to join me in thanking them for their support of art in storefronts. [applause] today, we have to thank as well the artists who were selected to be part o

caught in the process of properly using the carpool lane, then you get registered automatically for a raffle ticket for a giants game, programs like that. although after the performance against the marlins, i'm not quite so sure about that. and last, but not least, we really are going to see good public-private partnerships come out of this and that's where the real effectiveness is going to be. sharing both the costs and benefits to program and putting a lot of thought into the -çptem.lf we're reminded of the riddle of how do you eat an elephant? you eat an elephant one bite at a time. what the city has done and what s.f. environment has done is you've identified the elephant. you wrestle him into the room and then you invited us all to sit down and share our recipes. so we look forward to dialoguing with y'all. thank you. [applause] >> hi, mayor lee. my name is melissa. i'm the director of environmental affairs for gap , inc. as members of the san francisco business community, we're writing to express our support for the city and county of san francisco's greenhouse gas emissions reduction

surgery on the tenth of june through a public abscess and said it was determined to overcome its raffle was now on the way to food recovery. china is celebrating the birthday of its ruling communist party not just because even the world's top officials are attending a grand ceremony in central beijing thousands gathered to mark the day when i say sion as a small group of intellectuals and now presides over the world's second largest economy so-called red who is and is flourishing to great this place is china's communist history have become rich he says it's. one of two french journalists regard eighteen months left empty believes there was an exchange deal or being money in prison it's the taliban also said several of its jail come august freed from prison t.v. reporter and these kind of men were taken along with their colleagues in late two thousand and nine filming in remote mountains afghan government has denied any prisoner exchange took place. on the un back tried to you know has issued arrest warrants in connection with the murder in two thousand and five lebanon's former prime mi

the events leading up to the polish president's plane crash continue to want to raffle as investigators in poland now also admit that pilot error was probably to blame claimed they previously denied. there's no get out of jail free card for platform and associate of convicted oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky prison officials claim liver death does not deserve an early release. and what are these exclusive interview with the legendary queen guitarist brian may when he discusses his passion for music and science gives his views on the mysteries of life the universe and just about everything else in between. north korea's top diplomat is in the united states as part of attempts to restart negotiations on the country's disputed nuclear program he had meet with american officials on thursday and has said he remains optimistic that ties with the u.s. will improve the visit comes just days after a nuclear envoys from north and south korea sat together for the first time in over two years on the sidelines of a security summit in indonesia agreed to bring new six party talks of atomic ambitions a

previously our foreign aid spending not including the wars in afghanistan and iraq and the president's raffling involvement in libya cost us approximately one percent of our budget now that this increased over the past two years exponentially we're closing in on the five percent mark and it's going relatively undisclosed because the general accounting office makes its extrapolations on past history and it's really not an accurate reflection of what we need to do is get our arms around the spending nip it in the bud and as unpopular as this might sounds of some of your audience we have to lower corporate taxes and really get a resurgence of business in the united states can i begin let me ask you again can you name one thing that the republicans have put on the table or are offering that would say ok average working people and poor people you're going to experience pain you're going to lose working people's students are all going to get screwed in a little way here's what here's how we're going to cut a slice here's the here's the haircut that the billionaires the multimillionaires the big corpo

a change for a raffle ticket to win up to sixty thousand dollars in gold bars in a drawing to be held in october unclear if the dog poop for gold promotion is working but might i recommend advertising it on fox news i have a feeling the gold nuts over there would be sending doggy doo by the tons it's just to get their hands on that goal. what is the department of homeland security doing about domestic terror threats here in the u.s. following what happened in norway last week you'll be shocked by the answer that. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions it's. sort of if you have made who can you trust no one who is you know view with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism it's called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. well go back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour you know a huge chunk of america's war on terror falls on the shoulders of just one man just want to tell you why that is why our nation could be a dangerous and also twenty years ago presidential candidat

these questions for anyone who condemns the darwinian raffle raise without the heated competition with life expectancy have risen from 47 to 80? in 1800 affluent people tower over less affluent people. literally inches taller. wouldn't poor people still be shrunken today if we didn't have this rat race? wouldn't for and median income people be morning over dead infants as they did before the rat race began because only rich people have surviving babies? this is freedom for rest. there is the question of freedom. in traditional societies before the rat race if your father grew corn you grew corn. if your father was a printer his father with a printer and you would be a printer. if your father was a blacksmith you would start looking at horse who for yourself and couldn't imagine doing anything different. freedom burst out amid the competition and that is what we must embrace. ronald reagan's father was a failed shoe salesman. thank got ronald reagan did not follow his father's half or else the soviet union would still be standing. we would all be wearing hush puppies or whatever ronald

last month president obama made a video at the white house, a video about a campaign raffle. >> hi, everybodyty big announce wherein about the campaign, where you can join me for dinner. we're setting another place at the table for joe biden. >> desperate republicans smelled a scandal. she said president obama broke the draw, from fund-raising, and he wasn't attorney general eric holder to investigate. quote -- i never expected i would be in this regrettable position, but the president's conduct and white house staff's stonewalling leave me no choice. >> yes, reince, it's a sad job, so hey, might as well be you. >> the obama administration said it was filmed in the residential part of the white house, so it didn't violate any rules. they point out the president didn't even ask supporters for money. beyond that fact he clearly didn't commit a crime. veechbtly you, reince, forget. someone also used it as a backdrop. >> this country needs a president who clearly needs that. >> the strength, the focus, the characteristics these times demand. >> i'm optimistic about america, because i believe in t

the celebration continues tonight with raffle drawing with dance performances and a fireworks show whichrts at 9:30. >>> the nation's 235th birthday was marked not only around this country but by americans posted all over the world. brian mooar has a look at some of those celebrations. >> reporter: july 4th at the beach. is there any better way to celebrate america's birthday? yes, actually, there is. if you live in connecticut where beach-bound traffic jams started before dawn. >> i know we have been here since 5:00 in the morning. >> it's torture. >> reporter: for most of us, independence day was a chance to chill out with a cookout or kick back at a parade. in phoenix, it may not have been as hot as a fire cracker, but it was 100 degrees. in amhertz, new hampshire, residential hopeful mit romney was hoping to pick up some votes. >> happy 4th. >> reporter: john huntsman was literally running to the white house. participants in the peach tree road race were trying to survive 10 kilometers, an endurance test, but nothing like the hot-dog eating contest on coney island. in dallas, america

. >> it was announced yesterday that the charity called to hatch announced this lottery, this rafflell, for about $35 or $40. you can buy a ticket that will entitle you to some $40,000 worth of fertility treatments. just to give you an idea, though, people who are under the national health service system here may have to wait up to five years to be even screened if they're eligible. so, you know, they're -- there are pros and cons to this. >> right. i guess $35 for the chance at $40,000. i don't know. monita, thank you. >>> a second man accused of hacking at&t servers and ipad users facing conspiracy charges. 25-year-old andrew arnheimer was indicted for his alleged role in the january hack. his co-defendant, daniel spillter, pleaded guilty to similar charges. the justice department says they're part of a hacking group whose victims include new york mayor bloomberg and chicago mayor rahm emanuel. >>> a judge has decided ton stand in the way of amazon for using the term app store. apple says they're infringing on a trademark, but amazon argues the words are generic. >>> and flyers not

you could get a raffle ticket to get those books. or for $70, you can get the guy who played draco sign something. we had all of these famous authors and you to celebrities get on these weathercasts. we were pleading -- tweeting hhh. helping haiti healed. we raised over $123,000 from small donations. that sent five cargo planes full of medical supplies. each of them was named after a different harry potter character. we all have the power to create these contagious things. who is on facebook? who is on twittered? anybody on youtube? if you did not raise your hands, i would recommend doing it. you are all the sudden famous in this weird way. time magazine made the person of the year you, meaning all of you. we are the ones recreating our world. we have that chance. you're not in this isolated world with in your school and community. you get on the internet and put something up, and one can see it. that is the difference between now and the 1990's. that is totally different and exciting. it means we can make things better contagious. s

raffles. contests.ons they want these small donation because it's a sign of support but brings down the average contribution size. some of these people are writing checks for, you know, some $38,000 for the joint committee between the president's re-elect and democratic national committee contribution so they are trying to even this out. i'm with you. i think they wouldn't have set the 60 million if they didn't reach it. i'm not sure if they will hit 80 or not. somewhere between 60 and 70. but those small donations are the people that they are, are the most concerned about the enthusiasm among these most fervent supporters who were so with him last time. if you talk to anybody at the chicago headquarters they will candidly say they have some work to do on that score. >> i want to ask you something about michelle bachmann, simply because cnn wolf blitzer had an interview with bill clinton where he was complimentary about romney and governor huntsman but also said about michelle bachmann. i think she come

it started with a cheesy little enterprise, the president raffling off a dinner with himself and saideople said gee, that is the white house and you cannot raise money in the white house, but, previous administrations have used the white house as back drops for political ads, and it is seems more likely what darrell issa is doing here is he is not trying to nail the administration to some big crime but he's saying we're watching, and if you continue to do this and make bigger use of the white house in the 2012 campaign, we will be watching. bill: i see but you think it is a stretch for him to prove anything in this circumstance, you don't feel he has the goods on him? >> based on what we have here, it is a minor violation, if one at all. the white house says it has been done many times by previous administrations. bill: republican and democrat? >> exactly. exactly. and, indeed, it has. the bigger issue is that -- is it part of a larger use of the white house for political purposes? and i think, by holding a hearing and you probably wouldn't hold a hearing on this single thing. i think

i want to buy a gun -- a raffle ticket, i want a gun.t is where i found out with a background check that could not have the gun. that is my store. host: how does someone like that go about getting that passed indiscretion erased from his record so that if he can go through legal channels and buy a gun? guest: a growing number of states have restoration of rights procedures, where people who had blocked from buying guns can have their gun buying rights restored. there was a long piece in the "new york times" that talked about this in the context of people who were mentally ill. that some troubling conclusions about those able to purchase about those able to purchase guns, having persuaded courts that they were healthy again. but there are procedures that are in place for people, appeal procedures and that the state level in order to restore their rights. host: the article that rick schmitt refers to. no. 4, va., on a line for republicans. you are on the "washington journal" with rick schmitt. caller: i agree with a gentleman the call for

you could get a raffle ticket to get those books. or for $70, you can get the guy who played draco sign something. we had all othese famous authors and you to celebrities get on these weathercasts. we were pleading -- tweeting hhh. we raised over $123,000 from small donations. that sent five cargo planes full of medical supplies. each of them was named after a different harry potter character. we all have the power to create these contagious things. who is on facebook? who is on twittered? anybody on youtube? if you did not raise your hands, i would recommend doing it. you are all the sudden famous in this weird way. time magazine made the person of the year you, meaning all of you. we are the ones recreating our world. we have that chance. you're not in this isolated world with in your school and community. you get on t internet and put something up, and one can see it. that is the difference between now and the 1990's. that is totally different and exciting. it means we can make things better contagious. sometimes they will not be

you could get a raffle ticket to get those books. or for $70, you can get the guy who played draco sign something. we had all of these famous authors and you to celebrities get on these weathercasts. we were pleading -- tweeting hhh. we raised over $123,000 from small donations. that sent five cargo planes full of medical supplies. each of them was named after a different harry potter character. we all have the power to create these contagious things. who is on facebook? who is on twittered? anybody on youtube? if you did not raise your hands, i would recommend doing it. you are all the sudden famous in this weird way. time magazine made the person of the year you, meaning all of you. we are the ones recreating our world. we have that chance. you're not in this isolated world with in your school and community. you get on the internet and put something up, and one can see it. that is the difference between now and the 1990's. that is totally different and exciting. it means we can make things better contagious. sometimes they will not