excuse me a month, but nothing like this doctor, rosenfield said. not all wildlife will be impacted the same. i mean, this is like a forest fire in the water from officious perspective . and you know, from all of us know now from watching wildfires in california, you know they can burn one neighborhood and leave one house. untouched experts say this algal bloom is happening because the bay is chronically enriched with excessive nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus that come from 40 wastewater treatment plants around the bay. what they don't know is exactly why it's happening now, so it's been a mystery to researchers. why we haven't gotten algal blooms of this scope before other estuaries in the world, with even lower levels of nutrients have had chronic problems with harmful algal blooms. so the question is, why haven't we? and that's a question that will require further study. we are told the harmful blooms will go away eventually, once the days get shorter and the air and water temperature gets cooler in the meantime. health experts say it's be

excuse me a month, but nothing like this doctor, rosenfield said. not all wildlife will be impacted the same. i mean, this is like a forest fire in the water from officials perspective and you know, from all of us know now from watching wildfires in california, you know they can burn one neighborhood and leave one house. untouched experts say this algal bloom is happening because the bay is chronically enriched with excessive nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. that come from 40 wastewater treatment plants around the bay. what they don't know is exactly why it's happening now, so it's been a mystery to researchers why we haven't gotten algal blooms of this scope before other estuaries in the world, with even lower levels of nutrients have had chronic problems with harmful algal blooms. so the question is, why haven't we? and that's a question that will require further study. we are told the harmful blooms will go away eventually, once the days get shorter and the air and water temperature gets cooler. in the meantime, held, experts say it's best

would like the current bic annual report to address the following of concern to me, city controller rosenfield and mayor breed. the bic and dbi's plan to reduce the 30 million dollars operating loss at dbi. result of dbi internal corruption investigation. has a report been issued? if not why not? the specific challenges dbi the specific changes dbi implements and the current year to address the internal control weak thinks out lined in the city controller's integrity review of dbi's permitting and inspepgz process; the slide on the screen is page 19 of the controller's report. >> mayor breed's response to the controller report was to issue an executive directive to reform dbi. mayor challenged dbi and the bic indirectly to take actions to prevent misconduct. improve processes and make the department more effective at providing services for san francisco residence dents. i agree with the mayor when she said the people of san francisco deserve better. thank you very much. thank you is there anguish public comment. there does not appear any anremotely.yaremotelremotely. next is item 12 and 13. i

. >> rosenfield says the technology exists to remove the nutrients. the problem, it is usually expensive and would likely require a politically charged policy change by the regional water quality control board. the good news, the algae will likely die off on its own, especially in colder weather, but he worries of a longer-term consequence such as two endangered fish. he adds that dealt -- the algae does not pose a threat to people and pets but warns of prolonged contact with the discolored water. >> any bloom of this size and concentration produces enough chemicals that you can cause health problems for people including skin irritation and respiratory irritation to people and pets. >> abc 7 news. >> this is hard to see. a dead humpback will wash up at half moon bay. that is just south of the ritz-carlton hotel. it is not clear what killed the animal, but the marine mammals center says it is working with other agencies to perform a necropsy. the oakland zoo is responding after a facebook post about a mountain lion turned into a social media controvers

here is senior scientist john rosenfield. >> they do not pull out the nutrients in that water come innd phosphorus, that is food for all of the algae. lena: the good news is experts say the algae will likely die off on its own, especially in colder water. they are still worried about the long-term consequences, such as to endangered fish. another good thing to note is the algae does not pose a threat to people or pets, but prolonged contact with discolored water can cause skin irritation or respiratory irritation. live in the newsroom, lena holland, abc 7 news. reggie: we are following the latest on the fbi search and seizure of highly classified documents from mar-a-lago. a federal judge is close to approving request from trump's lawyers drew a point of third party to review the highly classified material. government officials are warning about potential risk to national security. jobina at the live desk. jobina: there are increasing concerns of the potential damage to national security following that search. the director of national intelligence sent a letter to lawmakers confirming

excuse me a month, but nothing like this doctor, rosenfield said.ot all wildlife will be impacted the same. i mean, this is like a forest fire in the water from officious perspective . and you know, from all of us know now from watching wildfires in california, you know they can burn one neighborhood and leave one house. untouched experts say this algal bloom is happening because the bay is chronically enriched with excessive nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus that come from 40 wastewater treatment plants around the bay. what they don't know is exactly why it's happening now, so it's been a mystery to researchers. why we haven't gotten algal blooms of this scope before other estuaries in the world, with even lower levels of nutrients have had chronic problems with harmful algal blooms. so the question is, why haven't we? and that's a question that will require further study. we are told the harmful blooms will go away eventually, once the days get shorter and the air and water temperature gets cooler in the meantime. health experts say it's best

baykeeper senior scientist jon rosenfield says. warm water sunlight, lack of rain and nutrients from wastewater dumped into the bay are contributing factors to the big bloom that treated sewage has high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds in it. and that's fertilizer for these algae effects have been dire right now. we have no birds here. this this is very unusual , very unusual. thomas charon has been living on the estuary for nearly three decades. i've never seen that kind of tied in the bay, and i've never seen this kind of tied before either causing a fish kill. that's a stunning sight in stinky smell a specially at lake merritt, the city scooping and bagging thousands of dead fish that have washed up contractors to get out there today and clean it up as fast as possible of oxygen due to the algae is thought to have caused this excess wastewater, making it worse. the only way that we can get control of this problem is to reduce the amount of nutrients that were, uh pouring into the bay and baykeeper has been advocating

excuse me a month, but nothing like this doctor, rosenfield said. not all wildlife will be impacted the same. i mean, this is like a forest fire in the water from officials perspective and you know, from all of us know now from watching wildfires in california, you know they can burn one neighborhood and leave one house. untouched experts say this algal bloom is happening because the bay is chronically enriched with excessive nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. that come from 40 wastewater treatment plants around the bay. what they don't know is exactly why it's happening now, so it's been a mystery to researchers why we haven't gotten algal blooms of this scope before other estuaries i, with even lower levels of nutrients have had chronic problems with harmful algal blooms. so the question is, why haven't we? and that's a question that will require furthery, once the days get shorter. in th experts say it's best to stay out of the water in areas fox two news a technical issue forced nasa to postpone the launch of its artemis one moon rocket thi

excuse me a month, but nothing like this doctor, rosenfield said. not all wildlife will be impacted the same. i mean, this is like a forest fire in the water from officials perspective and you know, from all of us know now from watching wildfires in california, you know they can burn one neighborhood and leave one house. untouched experts say this algal bloom is happening because the bay is chronically enriched with excessive nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus that come from 40 wastewater treatment plants around the bay. what they don't know is exactly why it's happening now, so it's been a mystery to researchers. why we haven't gotten algal blooms of this scope before other estuaries in the world, with even lower levels of nutrients have had chronic problems with harmful algal blooms. so the question is, why haven't we? and that's a question that will require further study. we are told the harmful blooms will go away eventually, once the days get shorter and the air and water temperature gets cooler in the meantime. held experts say it's best t

won't know for sure until they finished testing, even if that's what it turns out to be, doctor, rosenfield says it will not affect all fish in the same way. i mean, this is like a forest fire in the water from officials perspective and you know, from all of us know now from watching wildfires in california, you know they can burn one neighborhood and leave one house untouched. experts say the algae bloom is happening because the baby has excessive chemicals like nitrogen and phosphorous in it that washed downstream from 40 wastewater treatment plants. the experts say the problem could have a short term solution very soon when there's less daylight and cooler temperatures, the allergy die off. the long term fix could involve finding a way to keep those chemicals from entering the waterways in the first place . oakland zoo is clearing up what appeared to be a dispute with the hollister's police department over the death of a mountain lion. the oakland zoo shared that the animal was shot by police friday morning after was seen on the front porch of a residence in hollister. the police departm

won't know for sure until they finished testing even if that's what it turns out to be, doctor, rosenfieldsays it will not affect all fish in the same way. i mean, this is like a forest fire in the water from officials perspective and you know, from all of us know now from watching wildfires in california, you know they can burn one neighborhood and leave one house untouched. forced fire in the water. experts say the algae bloom is happening because the bay has excessive chemicals like nitrogen and phosphorous in it that washed downstream from 40 wastewater treatment plants. the experts say the problem could have been could have a short term solution when there's less daylight and cooler temperatures , the algae, it dies off the long term fix would involve finding a way to keep those chemicals from entering the waterways. in the first place, dave. okay andre. thank you times. 7 17 what we now have some video to show you the private plane that made an emergency landing on a beach in santa cruz county. state park officials say the pilot had declared an emergency and plan to land at the watso

christopher seema, i was nominated by the controller ben rosenfield, i think seat 3. i have a background in primarily government finance. serve as budget director for bart. previously with both the city of philadelphia and city of san francisco in similar roles and i'm honored to be here and pretty excited to dig in do the work and get to know at all levels of the organization. thank you. >> thank you to the sanitation and streets commissioners. thank you for your service and welcome. now we'll move on to the public works commissioners, beginning with commissioner lauren post. >> good morning. lauren post. i live in one of the city's newest neighborhoods the east cut. the neighborhood south of market between embarcadero and second and i encourage you to visit if you haven't been there but may know it by the beautiful roof top park. i lived in san francisco all most 40 years, mission, (inaudible) and now downtown. i'm retired and worked in finance where i helped with new misple bond deals so familiar with all the bonds san francisco has passed. very supportive of them

would like the current bic annual report to address the following of concern to me, city controller rosenfield and mayor breed. the bic and dbi's plan to reduce the 30 million dollars operating loss at dbi. result of dbi internal corruption investigation. has a report been issued? if not why not? the specific challenges dbi the specific changes dbi implements and the current year to address the internal control weak thinks out lined in the city controller's integrity review of dbi's permitting and inspepgz process; the slide on the screen is page 19 of the controller's report. >> mayor breed's response to the controller report was to issue an executive directive to reform dbi. mayor challenged dbi and the bic indirectly to take actions to prevent misconduct. improve processes and make the department more effective at providing services for san francisco residence dents. i agree with the mayor when she said the people of san francisco deserve better. thank you very much. thank you is there anguish public comment. there does not appear any anremotely.yaremotelremotely. next is item 12 and 13. i