to let you know a little bit about the roxy. it's the oldest running theatre in san francisco and also in the country, started in 1909. we became a non-profit in 2009. over 60,000 san francisco and bay area residented come to see movies. hope some of you have been to the roxy as well. we are community icon and cultural heritage asset. unfortunately our lease will be ending next june and with the boom cycle that was just talked about, our landlord feels that our rent should go up which means probably 25-55 percent increase which means we probably won't be able to afford. we are excited to see the strategy no. 4 which is a financial incentive and property acquisition for students. i -- stuart's. i think it can benefit from programs like this if they are create soon enough. it would be a tragedy to see the roxy become a gym. please promote social and cultural heritage. if there is something we can do, please let us know. >> thank you. anymore speakers? >> commissioners, i'm safely say, sugaya, i'm a resident of san francisco and th

in terms of the way we envision, places like the roxy already have protections. and also having a citywide designation program, if a cultural asset receives public assistance of some kind, we believe it should have some regulatory role into the city to make sure that vichlt investment to that asset is honored. >> commissioners, any last comment? >> i like the idea about the workforce economic development. i don't know, have you gone to the mayor's office on this already? i think that would be very important. either we initiate something like that, we are all here on behalf of the mayor. >> we have not met with the mayor's office regarding this report specifically although we are working closely with oewed with particularly our work on 24th street and the mission and the mayor's office did participate in the 2013 community summit. so in this time between this preview and the release of the report, we are planning to meet with as many elected officials including the mayor's office to discuss these recommendations. >> okay. i guess in terms of this coming out of the

my name is isabella, director of the roxy theatre. i'm here to support the recommendation by the san francisco heritage. to let you know a little bit about the roxy. it's the oldest running theatre in san francisco and so

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the officers recovered it thanks to red red roxy's decision to give them a piece of her mind. >>> engineeringudents developed a piece paper of paper that can transform into a walking robot. they created this transformer. this video sped up400 times so you can see the process. the cardboard-like paper folds into legs and walks away. they believe robots like this would be cheap and easily transportable easest especially in -- especially in space travel. >>> all of us have been working on a special project in oakland we hope will provide. >> for a lot of kids. here is a look from sky 7hd as we were building a new playground in oakland's concordia park with our partners, parent company, disney and nonprofit group kaboom. waynewayne freedman has the story. >> it was a new look and a new attitude. >> you are dressed differently. >> crystal hunter works at espn and gyms runs the assignment desk at abc7. it is sweat equity times 200 people in oakland's concordia park where a small miracle took place. it is not unlike one of those old-fashioned barn races, but in this case a playground in six hours? >

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>> guest: for many of the girls they were in essentially or fend to roxie continental and american party. so i was there teacher we became like a family to them and they became like sisters sometimes i had to be like a teacher but it was very into mint. at 1.2 of the girls one was blair the other one adriaan that they put their arms one another and said we're sisters. i said to them and i often began class with food and i said what makes you sisters? they said we just figured out both of our malls or on the streets doing drugs. so for them we had become a family and the class was their sisterhood. >> host: did it reflect was wet you grew up with? >> i was a working-class girl no one had been to college and my family and was very working-class. my dad had a job and he lived with the family. >> host: is that rare? >> guest: i think it was, in those days and he did tend to have family is with the data and down, and he was living in the house and had a job because the girls that i taught the this is not part of the everyday lives and the moms were starting to lose it because of the drug issu

his 6-year-old daughter went to incredible and adorable lengths to shame the thieves, roxy saw that her dad was sad, so she used her savings to make this sign. shame on you bike thieves, your mom would be so disappointed. the sign got a lot of attention in the local media leading to a citizen spotting the bike. officers recovered it, all thanks to roxy's decision do give the bad guys a piece of her mind. >>> engineering students have developed paper that can transform into a walking robot. harvard and m.i.t. students were inspired by the movie "transformers" to create this. the robot walks away students believe robots like this would be cheap and easily transportable. especially in space travel. >>> america's best-known bear turns 70 today. >> only you can prevent wildfires. >> it was on august 9th, 1944, that smokey bear was created to warn of the dangers of wildfires. here's the first ad, the u.s. forest service and the national association of state foresters thought it was needed, because most firefighters were fighting overseas. it's become the longest-running public service announc

the officers recovered it thanks to red red roxy's decision to give them a piece of her mind. >>> engineering developed a piece of paper that can transform into a walking robot. they created this transformer. this video sped up400 times so you can see the process. the cardboard-like paper folds into legs and walks away. they believe robots like this would be cheap and easily transportable easest especially in -- especially in space travel. >>> all of us have been working on a special project in oakland we hope will provide. >> for a lot of kids. here is a look from sky 7hd as we were building a new playground in oakland's concordia park with our partners, parent company, disney and nonprofit group kaboom. waynewayne freedman has the story. >> it was a new look and a new attitude. >> you are dressed differently. >> crystal hunter works at espn and gyms runs the assignment desk at abc7. it is sweat equity times 200 people in oakland's concordia park where a small miracle took place. it is not unlike one of those old-fashioned barn races, but in this case a playground in six hours? >> this is pa

the officers recovered it thanks to red red roxy's decision to give them a piece of her mind. >>> engineering students developed a piece of paper that can transform into a walking robot. they created this transformer. this video sped up400 times so you can see the process. the cardboard-like paper folds into legs and walks away. they believe robots like this would be cheap and easily transportable easest especially in -- especially in space travel. >>> all of us have been working on a special project in oakland we hope will provide. >> for a lot of kids. here is a look from sky 7hd as we were building a new playground in oakland's concordia park with our partners, parent company, disney and nonprofit group kaboom. waynewayne freedman has the story. >> it was a new look and a new attitude. >> you are dressed differently. >> crystal hunter works at espn and gyms runs the assignment desk at abc7. it is sweat equity times 200 people in oakland's concordia park where a small miracle took place. it is not unlike one of those old-fashioned barn races, but in this case a playground in six hours? >> t

. >> you might remember 6-year-old roxy compton from portland, oregon.dwritten sign outside of her home, shaming some thieves who had stolen her father's bikes. >> shame on you bike thieves. your mom would be so disappointed. wait. sincerely -- sincerely resident 6-year-old. >> that's you. >> it's just that, i don't think their mom or their dad would want them to be a bike thief. >> roxy's sign and the media's coverage of it brought in a few tips in our station in portland passed along photos of one of the bikes. that were taken by a viewer. >> the police tracked the license plate and got the bike back and returned it. the people who had the bike told police they bought it on the street for 50 bucks. >>> coming up, bloody mary served with fried chicken. an unusual cocktail with quite a price tag. >>> separating fact from fiction. an unusual bear sighted in a new jersey neighborhood. was this really a bear? you're watching "world news now." ♪ mother nature's recipe [ male announcer ] meet mary. she loves to shop online with her debit card. and so does bil

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hate to say it but we need to start thinking about what all of that means and their use of roxy. if you start seeing in the 80's when i first started working these counterterrorism issues in the 1990's, we were worried about state-sponsored terrorism. whether it is in terms of russia providing near or plausible deniability using their proxy be -- proxy, which is not new. that is how they attacked estonia, and now starting to see it through physical means. why russia is perhaps greater a lotn is they have nukes of them. those can be a game changer types of incidents. we have to be careful how we address the issues. as fertile and gruesome as terrorism is, when you are dealing with a nuclear threat, that can be a game changer quickly. obviously you have bio defense issues. if you look at it from an instrumentality perspective am a bit area we have done the least , whether it is -- foreign nations engaging in biowarfare and appointment. these are the things that can be game changers, tipping points kinds of hats. you need to be cognizant of them. then of course we still have a homeg

>> guest: for many of the girls they were in essentially or fend to roxie continental and american party. so i was there teacher we became like a family to them and they became like sisters sometimes i had to be like a teacher but it was very into mint. at 1.2 of the girls one was blair the other one adriaan that they put their arms one another and said we're sisters. i said to them and i often began class with food and i said what makes you sisters? they said we just figured out both of our malls or on the streets doing drugs. so for them we had become a family and the class was their sisterhood. >> host: did it reflect was wet you grew up with? >> i was a working-class girl no one had been to college and my family and was very working-class. my dad had a job and he lived with the family. >> host: is that rare? >> guest: i think it was, in those days and he did tend to have family is with the data and down, and he was living in the house and had a job because the girls that i taught the this is not part of the everyday lives and the moms were starting to lose it because of the drug issu