take these two safeway pharmacies in san francisco. just a little more than a mile apart.t store had consistently cheaper drugs than the one in the hill. we found the blood pressure medicine is $25 more and the cholesterol medication lipitor cost an extra $18. the biggest price difference is for viagra. $58 more. why? take a welcome at the competition. the cheaper upper market safeway is surrounded by five pharmacies. the closest just feet away. the more expensive store has only two competitors within a half mile. >> sometimes stores in low income neighborhoods have a monopoly and people don't have much choice and therefore their prices actually will be higher where the consumer can go five different places. >> in response to our findings, safeway tells consumer watch, quote, if another pharmacy be it a competitor or safeway, we will match that price. now unlike safeway and walgreen's, we found cbs, wal- mart, and costco all have consistent prices throughout the state. but keep in mind, prices may vary between cities due to tax. just one more reason our recs will be prices

take these two safeway pharmacies in san francisco. just a little more than a mile apart. the upper market store had consistently cheaper drugs than the one in the generally lower income mission district. we found the blood pressure medicine is it $25 more in the mission. and the cholesterol medication cost an extra $18. the biggest price different is for viagra, a whopping $58 more. why is this take a look at our competition. the cheaper upper market safeway is surrounded by five pharmacies. the closest just feet away. the more expensive store has only two competitors within a half mile. >> sometimes stores in low income neighborhoods have a monopoly and people don't have much choice and their prices will be higher than stores where the consumer can go five dissent places. >> in response to our findings, safeway tells consumer watch, quote, if another pharmacy be it a exeat tar or safeway has a lower price on an identical competition, we will match that price. unlike safeway and walgreen's, they have consistent prices throughout the state, but prices may vary between citi

the food banks asked for help, and safeway stepped up.res are asking customers to purchase a prefilled grocery bag for $10 each filled with tuna, peanut butter, cereal and more. >> one in five kids go hungry in the summer because there aren't the school lunches and those kinds of programs. >> reporter: patricia blackwell says she is grateful. >> did you see all the kids i got? you see the kids, because they eat. >> kids do that. the program at safeway continues through next sunday. >>> and still to come at 5:00, a big name in hollywood is in the bay area to help a special group of kids walk the red carpet. >>> and how a bay area nonprofit is helping a group of diabetic go in >>> st. mary's college in moraga served as a backdrop for a movie scene this weekend, which robots and famous names are part of the action all weekend long. bay area's joe rosato jr. shows us how it was designed to help a special group of children. >> take one. >> reporter: the bright lights of hollywood were shining on the campus of st. mary's college. >> okay, so le

. >> still to come a neighborhood chooses sides in a dispute with safeway over plans for replacing a local eye sore with a new supermarket. >> and if there is one extra person is a success. >> an east bay city joins a band bag war in afghanistan on. >> there are notice goings out to california drivers that have many scratching their heads. we'll straighten ut out later on 7 on your side. >> and there is a group of local all stars qualifies for a league world series. it's a race against time to get there. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> it's been there 40 years, and tonight plans to replace the safeway store with a bigger supermarket are coming under fire. and. >> this is beautiful. >> patrick is worried the view from the flower shop is about to change. >> if you turn around, it will be there. >> that is because safeway wants to replace the 40-year-old super mashlgt with a new one twice the size. >> they're going to impact street and i think that the time my kids are kids, a block like this will be gone. >> just like patrick's, safeway sells flowers and

>>reporter: safeway says mrours an also says meat like local butcher. lake the local baker and growing selection of wine at discount prices. >> i don't think they want us to be here. >> you think they want to capture all the businesses on the block. >> that's their job, right. >> our goal is to absolutely not have a negative impact on the local neighbors. we hope this building will enhance it. >>reporter: safeway launched outreach campaign to let people know this is no ordinary big box store. the 3 story building will have store front for other small retailers facing the street. supermarket upstairs and parking underground. >> sow get more of a feel of a neighborhood rather than an open parking lot. >> even though the store is larger it feels like it is more in character with the rest of rock ridge. >>reporter: jeff small who used to be on the neighborhood council says he likes the design and doubts it will hurt business. >> i think that the customer that goes to safeway is a different customer than wohl shop at one of the finer stores in rock ridge. >>

the indications point to the renovation of the safeway that has stood on this corner for 40 years.mmission has to give the okay on the deal but artist renderings are posted around the store. the gas station would be the spot for restaurants. the plan calls for smaller shops and restaurants to be on the ground level and the grocery store would take up the second floor. the traditional grocery store parking lot would go away and shoppers would park their cars underground. a garage would be built to accommodate 170 cars and would have entranced on both sides of the store. but as the saying goes, you can't please everyone. some play the new plan will change the walkability of the neighborhood. but designers say it will make it safer. public comment will be taken at city hall on the 20th. >>> new tonight at 11:00, the santa clara city council will give joe montana 18 months to submit a development proposal. the new exclusivenegotiating agreement is for land. they are interested in leasing two city-owned plots. the major investment would include a hotel, restaurant and sports bar. the ci

so food banks asked for help and safeway stepped up.he stores are asking customers to purchase a prefilled grocery bag for $10 filled with tuna, peanut butter and more. patricia received some of that food today at her home in union city. she said she and her five children and two grand children are grateful. >> we will survive, we will not go hungry, and we will be able to bathe, brush our teeth. i'm thankful that somebody can help. >> the safeway summer food drive continues until next sunday. >>> coming up next, we'll show you where you can watch tomorrow's world cup final on a big screen and for free. >>> plus, the legal battleer ga california's social studies lessons. [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can

take these two safeway pharmacies in san francisco, just a little more than a mile apart.pper market store had consistently cheaper drugs than the one in potrero hill. we found the blood pressure medicine is $25 more in potrero hill and the cholesterol medication lipitor costs an extra $18. but the biggest price difference is for viagra. a whopping $58 more. why? take a look at the competition. the cheaper upper market safeway is surrounded by five pharmacies. the closest, just feet away. the more expensive store in potrero hill has only two competitors within a half mile. >> sometimes stores in low income neighborhoods have a monopoly. and people don't have much choice. and therefore, their prices actually will be higher than stores where the consumer can go to any of five different places. >> reporter: in response to our findings, safeway tells consumerwatch, quote, if another pharmacy be it a competitor or safeway has a lower price on an identical prescription, we will match that price. now, unlike safeway and walgreens, we found cvs, longs, rite aid, wal-mart and costc

. >>> safeway says it's quarterly earnings exceeded their expectations. the company earned nearly $140 million. safeway operating nearly 1,700 scores in the united states and canada. >>> morgan stanley and american express help boosted numbers today. the dow gained 152 points, the nasdaq was up a little more than 20 points. >>> a nice warm day today. many places cooler than they were yesterday. we go outside, the fog is going to thicken up and that is the mechanism for cooling. you can see as we get to the latest fog imagery, it's pushing in across the marina green and san francisco. this area out here out towards lands end. you see fog out in outer richmond. that is the story, a cooldown. it never really got that hot but it's going to get a little cooler. these were the highs from today. slightly cooler than yesterday. they're going to be cooler tomorrow. the cooling trend has begun. we're talking about that fire in morgan hill, a big deal any time you have fires. and the weather has really been helpful with firefighters. with the moist cool air coming o

th. >> oakland planning commission will consider a plan for safeway in rockridge district tomorrow.is 40 years old. they want to replace witness a three-story building that will have store front space for small retailers. the supermarket will be upstairs and parking under ground. merchants are worried that the new supermarket will put them out of business. >> i think truthfully, it will be gone. >> we hope this building will enhance the neighborhood. >> store supporters say it will enhance the neighborhood. >> still to come as richmond comes to grips with a new outrage of gang violence, a mother tries to cope with the second loss of a son. the appeal she had to community youth. >> the search efforts for a wind surfer started last night continues today. i'll have a live report coming up. >>> and east bay investment advisory stands accused of bilking customers out of millions and why his clients feel bee trade. >>> i'm nick smith in wind surf park where the search effort for a mis

safeway need it? probably not. look what they have across from the bleach. it says don't mix ammonia and bleach makes a gas. these are bad things to mix with bleach. who's got these under their sink in i do. everybody does. you want to separate the ones that don't go to together. how do you find out? read the labels. these are department of transportation placards, they are colored. they are all red. they have the sort of flame thing up there. the little number here and number here. we've got books in our rig that tell us what these are. based on a number. we will see a 1219, look in the book and say a truck carrying 1219 and it's leaking every where what do we have. george, we have 92 octane gasoline, that's not good. we call people and get help. we as volunteers are not going to be hazardous material people. you need to know this is red, it's flammable. if there is a problem, let us know and keep people away from it. these are more placards. explosives, anything orange, reds yellow. oxidizer, that's going to make a small fire into a really big fire without

the program at bay area bay safeway continues by the way through next sunday. >>> a life line also came through this weekend for a camp that gives diabetic children a rare chance at a few nights away from mom and dad. earlier this week the dreams of sleep away camp were shut down for 150 children when the nonprofit diabetes society abruptly shut its doors. now the ymca of silicon valley is saving the day. organizers hired the former camp director and are getting things in order so parents can reregister their children for the august camp at no aidditionl charge. it's really their only chance at a childhood tradition. >> it's something that can't be replaced in any other environment. it can really only happen at this place where they're away from their parents, they're among other kids with diabetes, it's very freeing and very empowering. and it only happens once a year. >> the $650 fee covers about a third of the actual cost. the rest is paid through donations and fundraising and now being paid partly by the ymca of silicon valley. >>> right now, let's check in with jim with comcast spo

i mean, you can always, you know, go from the general mills brands down to the safeway brands and now, even safeway has a brand below their store brand, but you know, on a bigger level, i agree with everything eric said except really the premise, and agree with the governments who stop printing money. what we disagree with and as we always do is the actual numbers. you said all of those things, housing, gasoline, food, have gone up. they did go up, but food, at its lowest increase of the year and this is just from the most recent cpr report, housing, for example, is only up year to year, a little over 1%, so, the inflation overall at about 3.6% is mild, in fact, it's been that way. >> gare, gary. >> for the last few months. that cpi is as accurate as casey anthony's-- >> and we can rely on anecdotalal and you can disagree with the number, this is the baseline i'm using and you can use the anecdote and make up any number you want. >> brenda: toby, make up anything you want. >> there's inflation and then there's government interference. the number at that got me this week was that for t

los >> the oakland safeway was built in the '60s and is starting to show. the developers want to completely redo this store and give it a modern look i will give you a sneak peek of what they have in mind. >> the kron4 city council is set to vote on an ordinance that could make cutting class expensive for students. >> i am charles clifford in south bay were 100--where hundreds of kids in the south bay have had their summer plans crushed i will tell you why coming up. >> of vicki has a plan that will help you get really good deals through local merchants i am gabe slate and that is coming up and my tech report. >> bad news for net flick's customers, but company plans on increasing and there unlimited straining and dvd subscription plan by nearly 60 percent query and i will tell you when to expect the new price and why this will impact other on-line streaming companies. >> a north bay family has been torn apart after a tragedy in paradise authorities in hawaii have called off a search for this man, david potts, he has been missing since saturday when his hawa

safeway is checking into it. >>> certainly a big embarrassment for the tsa. a me knower. > ian man is in federal custody -- a nigerian man is in federal custody when he got through security twice at major u.s. airports with bogus boarding passes. kendis gibson reports in one case, the suspect even managed to get on the plane. >>> reporter: frequent flyer christine hammond is alarmed to hear a man could get on a plane with an expired boarding pass that didn't have his name on it and didn't match his id. >> when stuff like this happens it just shows me rewe'llly don't have the -- we really don't have the security we're supposed to have. >> reporter: the nigerian, olajide noibi, made it past is it agents in new york and flew to virgin airlines. halfway through the flight and attendant realized he shouldn't be on the plane. the captain alerted authorities who met noibi at the gate, questioned him and let him go. >> we are supposed to have a mult layered system of security. the next layer picks up the problem and it didn't. that's troubling. >> reporter: a few day

here's the existing safeway 40 years old. new 3 story building will have store front for other small retailer facing the street. market upstairs and parking underground. but some local mir chapter say they are worried the new supermarket will put them out of business. >> i think really truthfully that a block they do we are gone. >> the goal is to not have a negative impact on the local enables. we hope this building will enhance it. >>reporter: whether to allow them to forge ahead with the plans is debated at city planning commission meeting on wednesday. >> another company plan at&t effort to roll out the bundle phone internet and tv service in san francisco may hit a city hall road block. community groups today your honor the board of supervisors to require an environmental impact report before at&t can install hundreds of utility boxes like these on city sidewalks. they say the boxes are an eye sore and should be hidden from public view. at&t tells abc 7 news that it will keep the bo boxes off streets with majority of res

. >>> safeway can not sell cigarettes in san francisco. u.s. district judge today dismiss add suit by safeway claiming grocery store had a constitutional right to sell cigarettes. june said the city ordinance banning the sale of tobacco at any grocery store with pharmacy includes safeway. number of corporations including philip morris and walgreens have sued over this issue and have lost. >>> well smoking ban in san francisco has been in place for years but change to that law last year now has impact on places where certain kind of smoking has continued. the city is cracking down on puke a lounges. the places are very popular with teenagers all over the bay area. story tonight from heather. >> filth up with water about halfway. >>reporter: demonstrates the hook a at family tobacco shop right next door to the hoobing a dream lounge just opened last year ordered to close did you know as of today because of state local law against smoking in enclosed workplaces. he says his dad put 100,000 dollars into the lounge and isn't sure what to do he nichb

so food banks asked for help and safeway stepped up. stores are asking customers to purchase a prefilled grocery bag for $10 each. they have things like tuna and peanut butter, cereal, pasta and more. the safeway summer food drive continues until next sunday. >>> coming up at 7:00 on "today in the bay" -- this was the scene last night as protesters stormed the streets of san francisco's mission neighborhood overnight over a controversial police shooting. that story and all of the day's top stories coming up at 7:00. right now here's more of the "today" show. e >>> hey, we're back on a sunday morning, july 17th, 2011. it is going to be a hot time in this city today. temperatures well over 90 and we have some great summer folks here enjoying this great new york heat. we'll call it that out on our plaza. thanks to them for spending part of their sunday morning with us outside on the plaza. i'm jenna wolfe alongside lester holt. >>> after three years in jail and 12 days since her acquittal, casey anthony is out of jail. >> a ten-second walk

. >>> for the first time ever, safeway stores are holding a summer food drive.rganizers say there is an increasing need for food for low-income families in the summer months when children don't get fed at school. food banks also report donations drop during the summer months. that's why safeway stores stepped up and are asking their customers to do the same. for $10, you can buy a prefilled grocery bag filled with things like tuna, peanut butter, cereal and other non-perishable items. this is patricia blackwell, she received some of that food at our union city home. she said she and her five children and two grandchildren are very grateful for that help. >> i can eat, we will survive, we will not go hungry and we will be able to bathe, brush our teeth. it's -- i'm thankful that somebody can help. >> the safeway summer food drive continues until next sunday. remember, no donation is too small. >>> much more ahead on "today in the bay." still to come, world cup action. we'll show you where you can watch the wor fal today final t on the big screen, in good company,

there's no word what would happen to the safeway store already operating right across the street. >>> now that summer has arrived to the area, the chp used a graphic demonstration to show the danger of leaving a child in the car. their goal is to prevent child deaths from deaths from hyperthermia inside the car. >> the bottom temperatures are outside temperature, at 97 degrees and the outside is 113 degrees. so if a child was left in the vehicle right now they would probably would die. >> reporter: this year 21 toddlers nationwide have died after being left alone in a sweltering car. here in california we have had no incidents so far this year. >>> the ford motor company is having trouble building its hottest selling cars that's causing car buyers to wait. ford can't build as many cars as it wants because of machinery problems. it doesn't work all the time and that's slowing down production. ford is taking the unusual step of flying in parts from europe until the machine is fixed. dealers are being forced to put focus buyers on waiting lists. >>> a british advertising group has banned

safeway says the ban violates the constitutional right to sell cigarettes.ginally big box stores had been allowed to sell cigarettes. they found it discriminated against other pharmacies and the city extend that had ban. >> the smoking ban in san francisco has been in place for years but a change to that law last year is having an impact on places where a certain kind of smoking has koorntd continued. they are cracking down on hooka lounges. >> you fill it up with water halfway. >> he demonstrates the hookah at polk street tobacco shot which is next door to hookah dream lounge. he says his dad put $100,000 into the lounge and isn't sure what to do next. >> a lot of families are going to go broke. who knows what is going to happen. >> its water pipe for smoking flavored tobaccos through a long tube. multiple users can use different mouthpieces. they say it's nothing like cigarette tobacco. >> but the department of public health disagrees. >> there is a lot of science that exposure from the hookah is equal not greater than cigarettes because of the number of p

the suit was filed by safeway. it challenges city law that forbids selling tobacco in stores with pharmacies. the measure had an exemption for stores and big box stores, but that exemption was removed after a california appellate court found it violated a guarantee of equal protection. >>> san francisco lounges are going in smoke and owners say they are being unfairly targeted. yesterday the dream hookah lounge was the latest to be shut down by the health department. 17 other hookah lounges are also told to shut down for allegedly violating the city's and state's bans on smoking indoors. another 20 are being investigated. o.j. simpson say the charges don't make sense. >> the city allowed us to open up a hookah lounge and now they're saying you can't smoke indoors. >> but they might have -- not have to close their doors permanently. the department of small businesses is working with some lounge owners to operate in a smoke-free environment. and anyone in a commercial building built before december 21, 2009 can apply

pleasanton-based safeway argued grocery stores have the right to sell cigarettes.rdinance contained an exemption for stores with pharmacies, but san francisco city officials said that exemption violated equal protection guarantees and filed a motion to have it dismissed. >>> in some places hookah lounges are all the rage, but in san francisco the concept is going up in smoke because in the city smoking indoors is illegal and the public health department says they have to shut down the doors. ktvu's david stevenson spoke with lounge owners today who said they did everything by the book. >> reporter: san francisco's hookah lounge went cold turkey today closing down from orders of the health department. >> this is hookah tobacco. it's really wet and moist. >> reporter: kamalas 4's dad had to lay off three employees after investing in the lounge and an air filtration system. >> now they're passing laws say you can't smoke indoors. >> reporter: the city recently amended its own law. the department of public health is now targeting 20 hookah lounges and investigating 20

pleasanton-based safeway argued grocery stores have the right to sell cigarettes. the ordinance contained an exemption for stores with pharmacies, but san francisco city officials said that exemption violated equal protection guarantees and filed a motion to have it dismissed. >>> in some places hookah lounges are all the rage, but in san francisco the concept is going up in smoke because in the city smoking indoors is illegal and the public health department says they have to shut down the doors. ktvu's david stevenson spoke with lounge owners today who said they did everything by the book. >> reporter: san francisco's hookah lounge went cold turkey today closing down from orders of the health department. >> this is hookah tobacco. it's really wet and moist. >> reporter: kamalas 4's dad had to lay off three employees after investing in the lounge and an air filtration system. >> now they're passing laws say you can't smoke indoors. >> reporter: the city recently amended its own law. the department of public health is now targeting 20 hookah lounges and investigati

safeway said the ban violates it's constitutional rights to sell cigarettes. originally big box stores had been allowed to sell cigarettes, but the appeal found it discriminated against other pharmacies and the city extended the ban. >>> the smoking ban in san francisco has been in effect for years now, but it changed the law last year, having an impact on where a certain kind of smoking has continued. the city is cracking down on hookah lounges. abc7, heather, reports. >> you fill it up with water about halfway. >> he demonstrates the hookah at his family's tobacco shop, which is next door to their hookah dream lounge. last year it was ordered to close down because of state and local lounge against smoking in enclosed workplaces. he said his dad put $100,000 into the lounge and isn't sure what to do next. >> a lot of families are going to go broke. who knows what's going to happen now. the hookah is a water pipe for smoking flavor order toe backcast through the same tube. they can share the same tobacco by sharing different mouthpieces. they say it's nothing

a federal judge dismissed the >>> safeway just lost a fight to sell cigarettes in san francisco.ge dismissed the lawsuit which argued that grocery stores have a constitutional right to sell smokes. well the city's ban on cigarette sales at drugstores originally excluded grocery stores that contained pharmacies. that law has been expanded. because another court decided that the exception violated constitutional equal protection guarantees. >>> speaking of smoke, hooka lounges are being snuffed out in san francisco. 17 of the lounges have been ordered to shut down or become smoke free by the city's health department. they have been told to get rid of all tobacco products and paraphernalia. the lounges violate city and state bans on indoor smoking. >> three people are going to get layed off and we're going to lose another business. tough times going on. >> the owner of the dream hooka lounge has to become smoke free by tonight. they have decided to shut down. other owners will convert to something else. the effort to shut down the hooka lounges which someone living nearby complained

. >> the transition of this safeway and what this new store will look like. >> the store was built in the 60 it is a traditional grows restore layout there in it is not a done deal yet but they are renovation of the safeway are in the works. terrapin the plan calls for smaller shops and the grocery store would take up the second floor. the parking lot would be done away with and cars would parked underground. you cannot please everyone they are saying it would cause a traffic congestion but the designers say bit just the opposite would happen public comment will be taken at city hall on the 28th.0th. >> plans for summer camp for children with diabetes have another problem two camps have been closed. >> this child love summer can't she asked her mother designer up months in advance and she is also a diabetic that camp is designed especially for children with diabetes. all of its summer camps or canceled because they're closing down >> it was like getting punched in the stomach always said my daughter cannot bode again she was looking forward to attending. >> the nonprofit was for the s

safeway, walgreen's. we've gotten several ipads and iphones from different offices. we have essays by the kids and give the winning eggs says one of the gifts. and losing essays we buy more gifts. there are not any losers. some of the essays make you cry a little longer. >> reporter: rebecca i congratulate you on your success. what is your message? >> it affects the stability and physician their long term. only 25% get to attend college. 20% versus 60% of the to makeon. >> we're going to make that change today. thank you both for being here. >>> we do have a ticking taik a break. we have so much to talk about. we're going hear about the largest nonprofit@Ñ >>> we've been talking about foster care in california and the importance of supporting the organization that helps our homeless children. young adults as they reach the 18 are some of the most vulnerable. capital correspondent nannette miranda has more on the foster youth. >> for nearly a decade the state of california has provided transitional housing that age out of the foster care system on their 18th birthday.

these are the one that's safeway put together. there are 15 in a box. real crab and cream cheese. a wonton wrapper. >> no rain ease right after this snk. >> no rabies risk. $8.99 value. you're going to get it free this, next web site this, is so cool. it's called rentallic. here is the deal. have you an item you don't use every day. and you go online, post it and someone rents it from you. so peer to peer rental. and look there are sporting goods and tools. all that have stuff. and normally costs 5% of the rental price online is what you pay. and they're going to give you 5% free. >> i hope they bring it back. >> and that is true. >> and cream cheese? >> no. and there is when you can call or you can go to abc 7 news.com. >> not ccn aus no. >>hank you ll b>> and wt ba. having a hard time relocating a 200 pound bear. and new after 6:30 a 16-year-old gits an id saying she's six feet five. but why did it take michael finney to cut her down to size? those stories and more coming up at 6:00. >> and he helped her. >> and

. >>> safeway just lost a fight to sell cigarettes in san francisco. a federal judge dismissed the law which argued the constitution stores have a institutional right to sell smokes. the city's ban usually -- that law has been expanded because another court stated the exception vie lats equal protection guarantees. >> trying to get areas in an area known for speed to hit the brakes. in this day and age, there's one thing to get attention. that's fine. what it could cost you going barreling down? >> and forget about earthquakes, la is in the mist of a nightmare. not even hollywood has tackenned. carmegeddon, we'll explain. and are you 3u9ing out the vibes? why they prefer some of us more than others. >>> since monday, cool weather has embedded the thunderstorm weather. in and out effect this air mass will have on our weekend as eyewitness news continues on the cw. calls >>> it's a stretch of bay area roads so dangerous a highway patrol dubbed it blood alley. we're talking about vasco road in contra costa county. mark sayer explains the harsh penalties d

we're hosting a food drive at safeway this coming saturday. >> so for $10, a bag of food for multiplein need. we know it's tough but we're asking you to give what you can and we thank you in advance. a bag of groceries go a long way, especially in summer when kids are out of school and they may not get those meals at school. >> that's this weekend at l see0 >>> we'll se you again at 6:00 for more local news.

of my attention has been focused on the obvious to generation along ocean avenue, especially the safeway store that was supposed to promise a lot and then basically moved out without accomplishing that much. along ocean avenue, we have the obvious eyesores. i was kind of surprised when west portal was mentioned for this kind of business district. when i looked into it further, i had to in the -- i had to notice the people in the parking lot. i knew that my neighbors commenting and there was some 8 policemen at starbucks. it is obvious that they needed to be there. an organization like this is usually formed when it is necessary. unfortunately, it has become necessary. i am asking myself why did it come down to this? why wasn't there better leadership and intervention by some of the people in our neighborhood to stop these kind of businesses? thank you. >> public comment is now closed. >> we have a motion to move this forward with recommendations and we can do this without opposition. thank you to all the members for being here. can you please call item number four? >> can we take 4, 5, 6

supervisors did include that, we would have to make a modification that would exempt stores like safeway or somebody who has -- it has to be principal use pet food supplies as opposed to part of their stores. that is a contingency part of the motion. >> i am curious to see what the other commissioners -- >> there is the basic philosophy underlying supervisor mar's legislation. the challenges posed by the department are real. i believe there are too many disconnected pieces at this hour and i would like to have further discussion on this and to be fair to all parties, there is a lot of work in there. this is coming with too many uncertainties for me. i will ask that we continue. >> president olague: is there a second? there is no second. commissioner sugaya? >> commissioner sugaya: could you give me a quick run down on the other neighborhood commercial, other parts of the city where we have prohibition on certain formula retail uses and what they are? >> on page 4 of the case report, we go over the current status of the retail controls in the city. the first controls established in 2004 a

a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by safeway that challenged the san francisco law that forbidsselling tobacco in stores with pharmacies. they passed the ordinance last year. the measure had an exepgz for grocery -- exception for grocery stores. it was removed after a court found it violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. >>> carl icon made an offer to buy oakland based clorox to take the company private. they are offer 10 billion. the biggest shareholder of clorox. the bid may be an attempt to flush out buyers. in addition to pwhraoerb they make trash bags and salad dressing. clorox got its start in oakland in 1913. >>> on wall street, google rose 22 points. following google's strong earnings report. the chief executive officer of the dow jones company is the latest casualty of the news corp phone hacking scandal. dow jones ceo was in charge of the uk tabloid at the heart of the scandal for 12 years. he became head of dow jones in december 2007. rupert murdock owns the the paper. the chief executive national resigned. rebekah brooks is the editor of the tablo

we can find safeways to opening up.s a commitments from the arts community to the description of the city about howe hoping to encourage arts and entertainment in the very challenged sixth street corridor. we're hoping to open a gallery and in many cities and in many years we have had, for example, a d.j. to accompany the wine and cheese and nobody has been hurt and nobody has been annoyed as a result of that. many of these things have never required or many of us have never known could require permits. now as more research has been done and there might be a chance to meet compliance which i think is fantastic. especially in setting these price points is potentially achievable for many of our communities. i'd really like to applaud this permit in its current language. i think there's more community vetting, more ways that it can evolve. certainly more areas i'm hoping we can open it up to. specifically the sixth street corridor, i know it butts up against the youth and family zone. i imagine there will be a discussion w

november twenty fourth of two thousand and seven i've used this toilet i went grocery shopping at safeway over there on october seventeenth i got gas over here he posts copies of every debit card transaction so you can see what he bought where and when a g.p.s. device in his pocket reports his realtime physical location on a map and this is the shot he took on his way to our studio which was immediately uploaded on his website has. says his extraordinary abandonment of his own privacy stems from the ignorance of the authorities but in the fear they decided well that guy looks a little different so he must be arab and if he's arab then he must have explosives everyone knows that that's the logic we're operating we we realize how ridiculous that logic sounds but when your country when your own country takes that on as the basis for national policy. ignorance as the basis of national policy is a pretty scary situation. and that's how i got caught up in it for ha son privacy has become a rally of the past and he says he's not surprised that journalists or anyone else really would use the same