san francisco. we still fighting for equality in san francisco -- california. we're fighting for equality at the federal level and across the country. even within san francisco and the lgbt committee, there are issues we need to address. we have high unemployment within our transgendered community. it is important to recommit ourselves to the struggle. the struggle continues. it is important that we do that throughout the year. i want to thank my colleagues on the board of supervisors. i want to thank the entire elected family of the city and county san francisco. i see the city attorney's office. i also want to thank neamayor lee. you have demonstrated you do care about the entirety of san francisco and are committed to making sure the choices made in san francisco in the government reflect the values of san francisco. on behalf of the lgbt community, i want to thank you for being responsive to our needs. we continue to be committed to working with you. thank you very much for being here. happy pride, everyone. [applause] it is my honor to call upon my colleagu

it is a fantastic day in san francisco, california. ad we live in america, where we have the freedom of choice? i am dr. annette shelton, third vice president of the san francisco branch naacp, and 83- year-old organization in the city and county of san francisco. i rise to ask you to support the resolution that has been submitted to you by supervisor cohen that surrounds the issue of the mr. marmon. your voice is important to our community. as the speaker before me said, the saggy pants issue is picked up by other nationalities of youth. but this has nothing to do with saggy pants in the underlying situation. it is about justice for all. that is justice for all. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i would like to take this time to think supervisor -- thank supervisor cohen for your support, for your endless time that you have put into this situation with this. by the way, the whole family -- our family is related to the family. also, espinosa jackson is related as well. so you never know whose famil

. >> i would say that i was have much inspired since i lived in san francisco, california. we are a country of immigrants. in san francisco in particular, we have so many first generation americans. my husband is just became an american citizen a couple of months ago. i have friendlieds who are first generation from vietnam. palestine, israel. mexico, as i watch them struggling with their cultural identities and trying to maintain the identities and have the respect as the american citizens they are in this country, it got me to thinking about my family heritage and thinking about how history really does repeat itself. because i know that my people want through these same issues in the famine times when they came. and i thought to myself, why are not more of these stories being told? we need to collect these stories. i am at an age where my parents and their cousins, their siblings, they are getting close end of their life. one of the main ways i collect my information is through oral history i knew time was on the essense. there were stories that would be lost if i didn't c

the san francisco california. this is going to appear and broadcast throughout the country. so we're very excited today to post the white house used the round table, and we're honored to be here with the staff -- and before i go into any of this, i just want to mention the all the guests were residents of san francisco. and we are so happy they came back to san francisco. in a separate from the department of children, youth, and their families. i am joined by mayor lee with the housing and equal opportunity of washington d.c.. and this is from the san francisco office. we're going to hand this over to merely. i am so sorry. the supervisor for the bayview district, and of course, president of the san francisco board of education -- thank you for joining us. >> we have a lot of work to do it in the community. this is one of my favorite places, to be here. we have the director of children, youth, and family. as important as we are here, we have a direct connection to president obama today. this is the assistant to the deputy for housing and urban development, and we have a long

goodlett place, san francisco, california 94102. call us at: 415-554-4375. visit our web site at: wwww >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all

full of flavor as it is people with home stacked on top of one another like building blocks san francisco california has always been a place where the hills are steep and so too are the issues. this time around the battle is over circumcisions to be or not to be forced circumcision is fundamentally a human rights violation feel that. children whether boy or girl of a fundamental rights to all the body parts they were born with jonathan conti is part of a group that collected more than seven thousand signatures in favor of banning what they call male genital mutilation within the city limits enough to put the issue on the november ballot if passed and circumcision of anyone under eighteen would be a crime resulting in jail time and a one thousand dollars fine this outraged religious groups who see it as a direct attack on their religious rights jus' like our the poor have joined forces with muslims to defend age old traditions this is a hate fueled campaign to curtail civil liberties in calif and in san francisco she . many argue it's a parent's choice. the majority of american men are circumcised an

city but a judge in san francisco now says the measure doesn't hold water because regulating medical procedures is actually a function of the state not cities and today the california superior court ruled that the initiative to ban circumcision will in fact be removed from san francisco's november ballot still this was an issue that divided quite a few people but also brought two very unlikely groups together muslims and jews and also rather a question of whether this is right or wrong into the national spotlight now i just returned from san francisco and here is what i discovered when i was there. it's one of the most colorful cities in america as full of flavor as it is people with homes stacked on top of one another like building blocks san francisco california has always been a place where the hills are steep and so too are the issue. this time around the battle is over circumcisions to be or not to be forced circumcision is fundamentally a human rights violation i feel that. children whether boy or girl have a fundamental rights to all the body parts they were born with jonathan conti is part of a group that collected more than seven thousand signatures in fav

. >> un sujeto fue ultimado a balazos en una estaciÓn del metro de san francisco, california.mbre de armado en 2009, cuya muerte causÓ gran indignación. >> cargos de asesinato enfrenta una adolescente que le lanzÓ agua hirviendo a su novio. el sujeto muriÓ por las severas quemaduras, la madre asegura que la menor pudo haber actuado en defensa propia. >> a tiro limpio aniquilar a un investigador de la policÍa integrante de la unidad contra las familias. irrumpieron en una fiesta familiar y abrieron fuego. el saldo de la sangrienta masacre fue de cinco muertos. uno de ellos buscÓ a la gente y le dio dos tiros >> naufragÓ una embarcación turÍstica de pesca en baja california en medio de una tempestad con 44 pasajeros a bordo. el saldo fue de un muerto, hay al menos siete estadounidenses desaparecidos. los demÁs fueron rescatados, la bÚsqueda continua. >> la plaza de miami,1 insÓlito accidente cuando un policÍa atropellÓ a dos personas con su vehÍculo todo terreno en horas de la madrugada. terminaron en el hospital. presuntamente el agente estaba ebrio mientras hacia su trabajo. t

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. >>> i'm nick smith live at san francisco state and at california state university could be a lot more expensive if the board has its way. i'll have a live report. >>> and good morning to you. here is a look at embarcadero where it's breezy and cool a little bit of drizzle this morning. you'll find a lot of it. that is why we're calling it january in july. it's cold this afternoon compared to average. we'll talk about how long it will last. >>> good morning. i'm terry mcsweeney in for eric thomas. >> i'm kristen sze. the highway patrol is on the scene of a big accident on interstate 280. chp has issued a sig laertd. >> good morning. we have an issue behind me a live shot there. we've got a sig alert in effect this morning, roadway is shut down. this was video taken earlier this morning. 280 northbound at 19th street off-ramp. it remains closed while the officers and officials do their investigation. a car versus a pedestrian there. did not fare well for the

san francisco supervisors amended may lore lee's plan to assure it doesn't share overlapping features with jeff adachy's. live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> new figures on california's points to improvements in the state's economy. the state controller's monthly report says california received $440 million more in tax dollars last month than the governor had anticipated. the report also says corporate and personal income taxes all showed signs of growth. in addition, the state brought in more money than it spent, taking in $95.5 billion and spending $93.8 billion. >>> nearly two dozen san jose firefighters will soon be getting their jobs back thanks to a federal grant. the $15 million safer grant allows the fire department to fill 49 positions that were cut in a controversial brownout plan last august. 22 of the 49 firefighters have accepted their jobs back and are expected to be back on the job next month. >>> sage pants may be high fashion in some circle but in one midwestern town they're now a crime. the collinsville, illinois, city council last night voted to ban sagging pants but it is still a hotly debated issue. some people say they're sick of low-hanging pan

california. >>> two san francisco mayors do a 180. it's all to help a city in a down economy. >>> good evening, i'm diane dwyer. imagine floating alone at sea for 16 hours in shark infested waters trying to survive. it was almost a week ago that that holiday fishing boat capsized sending 43 people into the sea of cortese. tonight one of the survivors, charles gibson of the east bay spoke about his ordeal with nbc. monty francis is in san francisco with the latest on that. >> reporter: one of the survivors is the chief of police at contra costa college, his name is college gibson, today in martinez he shared his story. gibson worked for 30 years in the oakland police department and did two tours in vietnam. nothing prepared him for what happened last sunday. he was fast asleep on the fishing boat when the ship began to sink at about 2:30 in the morning. he was wearing headphones and a snoring machine to trite his sleep apnea, and he would have died had a friend not woken him up. he ran above deck without any clothes and was immediately

san francisco municipal bus as dozens of stunned passengers look on. >> slamming on each other, kicking. it was like, oh, great. this is my commute. >> stop it. stop it. >> october 7th, 2009. san francisco, california. systems administrator jonathan perell is riding the bus to work. >> i get in just like any other day. find a seat. sit down. and the bus starts going. >> because it's a heavy commuting hour, the bus is extremely crowded. and when it pulls up to the next stop, there are hardly any seats left. >> a lady gets in and there's only one seat left open in the back. and she has got a couple of bags and she tries to sit down. and the lady that's there doesn't want to give up the free seat where she has her bags. >> the two unidentified women argue and eventually the woman who is standing is allowed to sit down. but not for long. >> the other lady starts yelling at her that she's too close and don't touch my bag and you don't think anything is going to happen, though, until one of the ladies gets up and starts yelling at the other lady. >> that's when perell takes out his camera and begins to record. >> when they get up, they start yelling. the arguments, it's -- the asian lady didn't speak eng

lloyd joins us from san francisco, california. you've got some new and maybe sometimes little known facts about the heat and what we need to do. aside from the case of a bad sun burn, how do high temperatures really stress out our bodies? >> well, it's great here in northern california, like most of the country, it's going to get 100 degrees today. that means the body is going to have to work extra hard to keep that temperature where it wants to be at 98.6 so it makes more picture picturation to make you feel -- it's a lot of work to keep your body cool. >> and of course it makes a lot of sense to keep small kids and older folks indoors, but who else needs to take extra precautions when it is so, so hot? >> the answer is simple, anyone who can handle a lot of hard work. so people who are overweight need to take precautions in the high temperatures. if your heart is racing, you're also going to have trouble breathing. if you' ee're as mattic, there special questions with these pills that i'm taking in this hot weather. and anybody

>> reporter: back out here live now at the soup shop, california -- san francisco soup company on california street. you can see the monitor they are making sure that everything is running smoothly and they will make more deals available if they can because a lot of the places this morning are sold out. grace? >> bringing back the lunch monitor. all right. love it. anne makovec live in san francisco. thank you. >>> hold the fries and pass those carrot sticks. today at least 15,000 restaurants are rolling out new healthy menus for kids. big chains are adding vegetables and lean proteins as part of a campaign to target childhood obesity. >>> the clock still ticking on capitol hill. >> the latest on the debt limit debate and how republicans are trying to defuse the talks of a disaster. >>> and where to let fido run free. the battle in one bay area city to give dogs a place to play. >>> and we woke up to cloudy skies this morning but there is sunshine in store especially in the inland locations but still on the cool side. when will we warm up? i'll tell you when, when we come back. >>> closed ca

san francisco's. there is an estimated 64,000 uninsured adults in san francisco based on the california health service. there are about 64,500 uninsured adults currently in san francisco. we currently have a take up rate of about 88%. we do not accept all uninsured individuals who want to enroll. commissioner clyde: do you know how many are employed outside of san francisco? >> no one can be enrolled in healthy san francisco and be a non-san francisco resident. commissioner clyde: employed outside of san francisco. i thought all san francisco residents who do not have insurance -- if they are employed in alameda county, san mateo county -- as residents, they are eligible for the program. is that correct? how many people are employed by employers outside of the city and county of san francisco? >> we do not maintain that information. employment status is not relevant. we do not care about your employment status or immigration status. we do not ask that information. >> for me, as a resident of san francisco and a san francisco taxpayer -- if one of the goals of this program is to protect the san francis

san francisco carnaval, live your fantasy, i think that's what i'm doing, celebrates the magic of life in the san francisco bay area and our city's legacy of acceptance, tolerance and equality for all people. and whereas california's largest annual multicultural celebration, the san francisco carnaval, will take place in the historic mission district for its 33rd year to showcase the very best of latin america and the caribbean cultures and traditions. now therefore be it resolved that i, ed win lee, along with the board of supervisors, in recognition of the celebration of our diversity, proclaim may 28 to 29, 2011, as carnaval weekend in san francisco! >> so, greetings. i would get to follow the mayor. well, of course let me start by saying to mayor ed lee, on behalf of san francisco cultural arts traditions, on behalf of the artists and per for mars that take part -- performers that take part in carnaval, in part of all the carnaval community, we thank you very much for this proclamation and we are deeply honored that you showed up here today personally to present it. now, mayor lee, if you'll forgive me, i was told there would be a teleprompter. so i'm not that good of a speaker. just off the cuff, so i've got

san francisco and the impact we are making in the state. we changed the state. >> you had clerks in the state of california that didn't step up. they walked away. we are not only going to not do same sex marriages not a second time any. in contrast, in san francisco, this is what we can do, add up all these computers here. expand our capacity by x. we can open up early. stay open late and on weekends. it's unbelievable and we coordinate all the training and get all through the process and make sure everything is signed and certified. that's