unique outdoor experience that is not easily replaced by any of their setting any worlwhere else in san franc. san francisco eaters are interested in cuisine. there adventuress. the fact theyuse grea use great ingredients and make gourmet food makes unpopular. >> i have been dying to have these. >> i have had that roach coach experience. it is great they're making food they can trust. >> have you decided? >> we are in the thick of the competition? >> my game was thrown off because they pulled out of my first appetizer choice. >> how we going to crush clear? >> it will be easy. probably everyone has tried, something bacon tell us delicious. >> -- people tell us is delicious. >> hopefully you think the same thing. >> hopefully i am going to win. we're in the financial district. there is a food truck right there. every day changes. it is easy and fun to go down. these are going to be really good. >> how are you going to dominate? >> i think he does not know what he is doing. >> i was thinking of doing [unintelligible] we are underrepresented. >> i was singing of starting an irish pub. that was m

not about saving healthy san francisco because it would be political suicide to mismantle healthy san france, it's not going to be dismantled, whether it's going to be a money grab from workers, pure and simple, there are tens of millions of dollars that the small mirity of the least responsible employers of san francisco stand to lose as they think about it in 2014 which they can no longer claw those dollars back, it's taking money from worker's pockets and gives it back. the employer spending requirement keeps employers from dropping insurance and cutting hours preventing a cascade of [inaudible] that will hurt, not help san francisco's economy so i ask you to please look carefully through the untruths here in the business community and not only save healthy san francisco but save the employer spending requirement, thank you so much. >> thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> edward on [inaudible] i urge you to support healthy san francisco, thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker. >> [inaudible], national union of health care workers, we strongly support the health care ordinance

going to san france, waiting in the toll plaza and getting into the bridge much the incline section of the bridge, we won't be looking at it much longer. getting to san francisco, the 1936 span, the traffic is moving along relatively well. the lower deck, noncommute direction, that looks good. taking a look at the traffic via our map system, contra costa county o. of course, there's always this stuff in antioch, there's a construction work to deal with and also the slow traffic right through there. i want to mention southbound 680 looks good. there's no major problems. bart still has some residual delays because of earlier problems with equipment. caltran and muni are doing well. now let's go to steve. >> thank you, sir. a very good morning. lots of low clouds, and maybe a little mist. kind of quiet in the twitter nation. maybe you're just waitinor something. the low clouds made a strong surge are low. accelerating. heading north. as it does, may wrap in some clouds. it's really moving fast now. it picked up the fog bank in a big way. the back to school forecast, san rafael. cloudy ski

hive live in san francisco, monte frances. >>> a person fell from a cliff near the ritz karlton around 2:10 this afternoon. he was rushed to the hospital. the cliffs in that area can appear stable but can crumble quickly under pressure. >>> and still to come at 11:00, more drama on the bay. we'll take you to the america's cup and show you the problems on the water. >>> he's refusing to resign, the voters are taking action. >> stand up for humanity. a very simple call. >> a call for peace in egypt from the bay area. we'll show you what dozens of protesters are asking of the u.s. government. ♪ ♪ looks like you started to make something. ♪ oh, a green! ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] cheerios. with flavors your heart will love. >>> we have new video into our newsroom from indonesia. officials say about 30 inmates escaped after a riot broke out in the western part of that country. it began with a group of inmates staged a protest. the head of the prison told local media they assaulted a prison officer and set fire to the prison. the prison has a capacity of 300 inmates but is believed to be holdi

temperatures in san francisco will reach 62 today. meteorologist frances dinglasan has your forecast in a few >>> most people associate climate change with dramatic events like big storms, drought or large chunks of ice disappearing from the arctic. but in most cases the effects are more subtle. here's abc7 news reporter wayne freedman with the researcher who has been looking on a much smaller scale. >> when we hear about the world's rapidly-changing climate, it's natural to assume they are talking about someplace else. we never look for evidence in our own backyard. if we do, would we know where? >> i am looking for a snail. they are called limpets. >> they call her the limpet lady. >> you get used to it. people identify you with the species you are working with. >> it might feel like a stretch to connect sea snails with climate change, but not if you spend time with her along san francisco bay shore lines. the limpets are fragile creatures that survive in hot sun and cold water, which makes them unique, especially in the changing times. >> limpets are fo

san francisco will reach 62 today. a bit cooler. meteorologist frances dinglasan will have your forecast in a few welcome back. >>> most people associate climate change with dramatic events like big storms, drought or large chunks of ice disappearing from the arctic. but in most cases the effects are more subtle. here's abc7 news reporter wayne freedman with the researcher who has been looking on a much smaller scale. >> when we hear about the world's naturally changing climate, it's natural to assume they are talking about someplace else. we never look for evidence in our own backyard. if we do, would we know where? >> i am looking for a snail. >> they call her the limpit lady. >> you get used to it. people identify you with the species you are working with. >> it might feel like a stretch to connect sea snails with climate change, but not if you spend time with her along san francisco bay shore lines. they are fragile creatures that survive in hot sun and cold water, which makes them unique, especially in the changing times. >> they are found where lan

expwhro ring me now from france is lloyd scoastled an activist who oppose s circumcise. circumcision. >> you tried to get it on a ballot in sanrancisco. you want circumcision banned in the bay area, why is this such an issue for you? >> baby boys die from routine circumcision. there are a whole lot of bad effects, not a lot of good effects, the only thing circumcision does is interferes with sex, it interferes with cleanliness. we did get on the ballot, we collected 70% more of the signatures that we needed to get on the ballot in the sa city and county of san francisco. we got on the ballot to limit circumcision to what was medically necessary. a number of our opponents had us pulled off the ballot on a technicality so citizens of san francisco would not get to vote. >> we'll approach that but it is not that simple. people with religious concerns, muslims, jews, something that's traditional and they would want to do. i've been when you talk about human rights and the suffering, deaths are very rare, infections are rea rare and i've seen kids circumcised and they were fine later on. is it something request significant? >> it'

san diego where they are leasing out their investment properties. they have newborn twins and are helping to support the diaper industry. bernardo is a lawyer and small business owner with offices in franceand -- san francisco and san jose. cynthia is a finance expert. she works with the director of property management and san jose. they develop affordable housing and she oversees a staff of over 50 and an annual budget of over $10 million. since she arrived, she has helped raise over $100 million for building low-income housing. that to me was quite impressive. she oversees the management of 1100 units in 700 cities. she is also on our board of directors. she is on our finance committee and helps us on the up and up. we are an $8 million and urbanization with lots of employees. they both feel being u.s. citizens helped provide them financial security. they wouldn't have bought a house had been up in u.s. citizens. they would not have purchased investment properties. they didn't want to miss out on the financial opportunities. they, once again, wanted to but their stakes in the ground permanently. >> that is very important. that sense of, if you're going to stay, then you're going to inv

san francisco this morning. we have some cooler temperatures on the way today. but it will still be lovely, according to meteorologist frances dinglasan. she has your forecast in just a two minutes. but first in sports this afternoon the a.l. west leading a's will try to win the rubber game of their weekend series versus the second place rangers. first pitch is at 1:05. yesterday the a's evened the series snapping a three-game losing streak. here's the highlights from this morning's sports. >> good morning. baseball top of the order. the a's austin pitcher tommy malone a triple in sacramento after allowing six runs in texas. we will start you off with some yo power as in cespedes. two-run homer, 17th of the year. 3-0, a's. hands shake time with coco crisp. move to the fifth. gerald parker cruising. ian kinzler down the left-field line. it's going foul. no it's not. that's a solo shot. rangers within a one, 3-2. day game in oakland, the dreaded sun ball. and it hands him the sixth. martinez loses it, ground-ruled double. didn't lead to a run but this does. batting in the seventh. 4-2 a's. top of nine, time to rage. belfour wi

san francisco has become a chocolate center. >> dear deli, they realize they're not going to make money with gold, one back to france and brought back chocolate equipment. and longtime chocolate tradition. >> i was reading house so many people came here for the6Ñ and some of the smart people stay here because they said these people are going to need services, food, places to stay, entertainment. people bought land and made buildings. some people made their fortunes in the gold fields, but a lot of people who started their companies after the gold rush made it really big. some of them are still here, historic buildings, is sort restaurants -- historic restaurants, and we're trying very hard to preserve not just the physical brick and mortar of san francisco boat -- san francisco history, but there is also a real push to preserve the cultural, meaningful institutions, businesses, restaurants, other services. i encourage you all to support san francisco businesses. there are so many old restaurants. this is some serious chocolate. >> it is really good. q%?>> our groves were planted r 100 years ago. it is called the silver ridge r

france, and the u.k. weigh in on whether there will be military strikes. >> how a peninsula state lawmaker wants to make limousines safer after the fire on san mateo bridge that claimed the >> covering fremont, palo alto, north bay and all bay area, this is abc7 news. >> new this morning the president of france says they may go ahead with military strikes on syria for using cell weapons despite the british parliament failure to endorse such action. the british parliament voted against intervening in a stunning move. the white house says president obama has not yet made a decision but is prepared to act alone. intelligence report will be released publicly today that reportedly proves that syrian president bashar al-assad's regime is responsible for a chemical attack that killed hundreds of men, women, and children. >> happening today a bill aimed at making limousines safer place as critical vote before a state asimply committee. the bill follows the death of five women on the san mateo bridge in may when the limousine burst into flames. state senator hill sponsored the bill this calls for all let scenes to carry two fire sting -- extinguishers and to meet

san francisco general. we are proud to be part of a group of amazing social workers who work everyday often unrecognized under appreciated and under paid to care for the most vulnerable woman of france and we are work in different clinickics and divisions but each of us embrace the social work profession to help meet the basic needs of all people with particulars attention to the needs of people who are vulnerable and in poverty and despite the challenges of healthcare today we stand firm in our commitment to this mission and believe that a lot of people in this city would be a lot worse off if social workers weren't around. (applause) carol and i are heros today so are all the social workers of san francisco general and we continue to be inspired by the work they do today. nobody want to have cancer it's not part of the plan that we all have for our lives it's most likely that each person here today has been itemed by can retro a friend or family member and now imagine going through surgery and if you are knew to this country and don't speak english if you are a single mother with no church or do a minimum wage job with no health insurance if you loss your home last month due to th

and the ride coming in and out of central san rafael is a very heavy even slow on the south and as you work your way to serve france'snd the westbound direction. traffic is backed up tried to get to the san mateo bridge. it has been slowed downtown hayward because of a problem at the toll plaza. if one of the fasttrack lanes was damaged in the overnight hours. san mateo bridge because of the problems on the approach has had light traffic on the stand and for the golden gate bridge ride its been wrapped up in the fog all morning long but heavier traffic because of the heavier volume through marin on 11 southbound. here's erica now with a look at your weather. >>erica: the golden gate bridge is one of the few spots of fog. a lot of those within of two blue skies and sunshine. temperatures are certainly on the climb with mid to upper 60s coming up the door in concord. low 60s in santa rosa. satellite and radar shows we have some clout handsome fog to deal with all along the coast line but that's really the extent of it. that fog over at the golden gate bridge should clear before launch time. futurecast 4 we are tracking

manslaughter conviction in a boating accident in france, and the deals that made him so wealthy, starting with the first biotech company, genentech, here in sanhe and his partners launched genentech in 1976 with nothing more than a checkbook and an idea. >> the idea was to trick nature into letting us make something that didn't exist in nature -- in particular, human insulin. >> genentech's success led to new ways of treating everything from diabetes to dwarfism, and to getting rich. kleiner perkins' initial investment of $250,000 soared 800-fold to $200 million. >> that's what venture capitalists are created to do, and you can blame converting the orchards of silicon valley into parking lots partly on me and partly on genentech, because we proved that this kind of high-risk, high-tech venture capital could be an enormous home run, and everybody wanted to get in on it, including lots of entrepreneurs, and that's what got this whole silicon valley engine rolling, in my opinion. >> and it took somebody like perkins, with a background in science, to figure it out. he got an engineering degree from m.i.t. and an mba from harvard business school,

san jose. we'll talk more about that coming up. >> and good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, august 21. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. time now is 5:29. we're following breaking news. france nations to visit the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria. syrian opposition groups say at least 100 people were killed today in a government offensive near damascus. activists say regime troops used some kind of poisonous gas. the syrian government denies the reports. >>> developing news out of east palo alto where police are investigating a fatal shooting. it happened just after 10:00 last night on emmett way near university avenue. police found a man wounded in a parked car. the 19-year-old victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. no word of motive or suspects. >>> now to the wildfires burning in california. the rim fire near yosemite national park is showing no signs of slowing down but we have some good news to report. the american fire in placer fire and the swedes fire in butte county are nearing full containment. kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran joins us live in the newsroom with more on the growing fires all across our state. cate. >> r

france's president says his country can go ahead with attacks on syria despite the british vote. >>> dozens of protestors against the u.s. military taking action against syria marched the streets of san francisco. many of them held yellow signs at powell and market yesterday. they say they are concerned about the wars in the middle east. >> i'm devastated the thought of more war. i hate what is happening there. but i also hate what we have done around the world. the reality is that we have created much of the chaos that is going on there. >> protestors also say that if the u.s. steps in, they believe it will be another war like iraq. >>> thousands of retired nfl players and their families are getting a big paycheck now from the nfl for head trauma. kpix 5's allen martin on what a former 49ers star with memory loss has to say about the new deal. >> big hit! >> reporter: the settlement includes $675 million to compensate former players for brain injuries and $75 million to provide baseline medical exams. kevin turner played eight seasons as a runningback in the nfl, 11 years after he retired he was diagnosed with als, also known as lou gehrig's disease. he was thinking of his kids toda

france, everybody. it was a way of tarnishing his name. he was the furthest thing from wanting to be king. when he meant sanmartin, when bolivar met the other with the raiders coming from the south, the one thing that really, really turned bolivar against him was the fact that he really believed that south america should have a king. he had actually sent people up to your to find the king to come and rule. and bolivar said, i'm sorry. we have sacrificed a lot of live set aside to buy precisely to get rid of him. there are misconceptions there as well used against them even by south americans. i'm not surprised there were misconceptions about him. thank you for your question. >> hi. like yourself, i grew up here. i am from guatemala. have to confess that i know very little about bolivar and am looking forward to reading. as a wealthy -- the son of a wealthy family, was he educated in spain? or was the -- yes? >> it is a great story. >> a have to believe that if he was educated abroad coming from a wealthy family he must have at some point find something about history. of course traversing the andes is simila

san jose getting ready to give away thousands of backpacks and kids--for kids in need. the backpacks are filled with aging corporate school supplies. the upper kids get items like france and the older kids will get calculators. all of the and the olde♪ kids will get (woman) this place has got really good chocolate shakes. (growls) (man) that's a good look for you. (woman) that was fun. (man) yeah. (man) let me help you out with the.. (woman)...oh no, i got it. (man) you sure? (woman) just pop the trunk. (man vo) i may not know where the road will lead, but... i'm sure my subaru will get me there. (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. victims of asiana flight 214 continue the slow and painful recovery process. we'll hear from one man who's back was broken in the crash. . the crash of asiana flight 2-14 was 32 days ago. three people were killed and a couple hundred more injured. recovery has been difficult for survivors and their families. for one victim recovery has resulted in a lawsuit. henry xie spoke with kron- 4's philippe djegal he says, the pain and nightmares are making it difficult for him to go home. accompanied by his attorney based in walnut

protect san francisco bay potentially from -- not the south among which did not have the capability to invade their -- from the british and french allies of the south. our nato allies, britain and francere potentially threatening the american west coast. the russians were going to protect us from that. history has a lots of twists and turns. the russians love to point out, we were allies in world war ii. we have never been anything but on the same side in a major war. i'm not trying to paint some artificial, rosy picture. the cold war was a real and dangerous confrontation. almost as aps are practical advice advice, for politicians, for ordinary people -- a piece of practical advice, for politicians, for ordinary people, we do have a lot of common interests and a lot of common values -- it gets a lot of mileage, and changes the character of the conversation. don wants to know about the future. is russia thetes, greatest geopolitical strategic threat to the 21st century? guest: that's an overstatement. the trick about russia is, it is hard to overstate its importance. a famous american diplomat bill burns once said, russia is a bigger player on a wider range of issues of great importan

france, everybody. it was a way of tarnishing his name. he was the furthest thing from wanting to be king. when he meant san martin, when bolivar met the other with the raiders coming from the south, the one thing that really, really turned bolivar against him was the fact that he really believed that south america should have a king. he had actually sent people up to your to find the king to come and rule. and bolivar said, i'm sorry. we have sacrificed a lot of live set aside to buy precisely to get rid of him. there are misconceptions there as well used against them even by south americans. i'm not surprised there were misconceptions about him. thank you for your question. >> hi. like yourself, i grew up here. i am from guatemala. have to confess that i know very little about bolivar and am looking forward to reading. as a wealthy -- the son of a wealthy family, was he educated in spain? or was the -- yes? >> it is a great story. >> a have to believe that if he was educated abroad coming from a wealthy family he must have at some point find something about history. of course traversing the andes is simil