nonprofit called the bay bridged, which promotes san francisco bay area music and has produced a number of street festivals, rock concerts, san francisco themed events to promote the city's live music scene. in this position i'm very much engaged with folks across nightlife and entertainment. when i say nightlife, we're talking about bars, restaurants, night clubs as well as live music venues, social spaces where people get together and interact, and that are an important part of the city's cultural fabric and its identity to the tourism community ~ as well as a really important business sector. i am within oewd's neighborhood economic development so i work closely with the invest the neighborhood folks. so it is very much a city-wide initiative to connect with nightlife businesses and i work closely with the entertainment commission. the way i explain to people, the entertainment commission does a lot of regulatory work and i'm doing work to business assistance work. it's very complementary in that respect and work closely together. i'm pleased to be working with small business staff as well on a number of projects. i guess just to talk brie

theme. today, san francisco is being transformed into gotham city, all to make a little boy's wish come trueiagnosed with leukemia when he was 20 months old. he is now in remission. >> his team to be bat kid. he will help capture the riddler. thousands of volunteers lining up to help pull off the caper. >> by the way, san francisco, the city sent out a message to all of its residents, asking for them to become volunteers and to stand out there and be in awe of this little boy. be the audience. and i'm sure it's going to be quite a surprise. >> very cool. >>> now, world records to show you, all achieved yesterday on guinness world records day. >> who knew this day existed. we're going to start in germany, where joe alexander walked across the most upright bottles. >> scott wiener of new york owning the largest collection of pizza boxes. okay. he has nearly 600 of them. >> congratulations, i guess. >> then there's cory love the harlem globetrotter. he hit the longest basketball shot. he threw it in the hoop from 109'9" away. congratulations to all of them. but this guy. >>> after years of high

the president of the san francisco board of supervisors wants to make theme legal. >> it's going to help bring tens of thousands of housing units into legal, affordable housing stock to help address affordability cry six preserve housing that is at risk -- crisis, preserve housing that is at risk of elimination. >> it is estimated there is at least 40,000 of these units in san francisco. many have skirted the requirements raising safety issues. a new plan would be to allow owners to bring them up to code and then rent them out. >>> the supreme court will consider whether employers should be required to cover birth control cost under obamacare. three federal appeals courts have struck down contraception coverage while two others have upheld it. >>> the president made a stop at dream works studios in los angeles before leaving california today. he was in the bay area yesterday. he met with actor jim parsons from the big bang theory and comedian steve martin. he thanked the entertainment industry for shaping world of culture. he says will and grace and modern family has transmitted values s

. >> and those themes being played out in san francisco hit home in many bay area cities. the struggling with high housing costs and the crisis that presents. we held a series of town hall meetings this fall called open newsroom and heard similar worries in every county from santa clara to moran. >> we go and look at rentalsoth families looking. i'm applying and it's two months to two years long. >> what we're very deeply concerned about is just where are these seniors, us? where will we go? can we remain in silicon valley? >> tonight a deeper look in what it means to be priced out, the impact on communities and possible solutions. for analysis we're joined by carlos romero, linda mandilinni and caroline slieed. caroline, let's begin with you, for a quick overview of housing costs, how dramatic is the rise in rent and home prices? >> dramatic on both counts. double digits up by 20% year over year. housing turned around on a dime after the downturn and rising, rising, rising and the immediate housing price in the bay area is over 500,000 to buy. the median price to rent is

will honor harvey milk tonight at 7:00 on the steps of san francisco city hall, mayor lee and others will pay tribute to milk and misconi. the theme will be skyrocketing rent. they were no strangers to fighting for the rights of sfrasan franciscoans >>> thousands are getting their hands dirty to help clean up san francisco. they are working to tackle 300 tasks on the accreditation commission list of the things that must be fixed to keep the school open. this includes pulling weeds, recycling, composting and washing of the windows. earlier this years, the commission ruled the college would lose its accreditation in july of next year if certain requirements are not met. >> it is 4:51. >>> a new jersey police officer being called a hero for pulling a man from a burning truck. the terrifying ordeal was caught on the officer's dash cam. he opens the door and manages to pull the driver out to safety. he runs back to the truck to make sure there are no other passengers inside. thisic have tim is expected to survive. what caused the truck to catch fire is now under investigation. a true hero. >> instinct takes over. you jump to action for

our theme about be honoring the latino community and the tremendous work that happens in san franciscoife (clapping) >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> (clapping). >> more many years we've seen latino impact san francisco for so many ways. we've seen san francisco grow and it's amazing celebrations alongside with impacting policies with the city of san francisco. this year once again, we're honoring young people and showing the excellence on and he impact our lives and families. this year we've identified many community based organizations and have highlighted a pitcher with the san francisco school district to highlight the services we have here in san francisco >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> we would like to thank all the parents and the community members and the dignitaries that are celebrated the lives of young people here, no san francisco. >> (speaking spanish.) >> (clapping). >> and now it's my honor to introduce a special guest our mayor edwin lee. he's worked hor

theme now? to fund roads and parks and libs and asking san francisco voters to invest they're hard earned dollars to build infrastructure to help families skewed. we've worked together to make san francisco the gateway to china and beyond. through china that sf it's a partnership for economic development we've attracted 2090 imply companies to 90 san francisco and we're setting our sites on latin listen to this latino sf. we've worked together to rebuild our 70 san with 5 hospitals, of course, our san francisco gunmen e general i'll be asking you for more help with furniture. of course, c pmc chinese hospital and uc san francisco. we've worked together to fix our that deficit with reform and 5 years planning all of which has maintained our strong bond rating and this summer we're going to tangle our health care obligation. well, it's bogging because of our layers focus on the infrastructure of our economy that that has allowed us to become the faster growing state not new york or los angeles but we cannot have done that without the san francisco chamber of commerce and without our business commun

holiday season everyone come to san francisco and shop but pay attention to the price tags and not to your cell phones. thank you >> thank you, chief. i think there's a themening through all of this is awareness and distraction while your using our phones we want you to help us raise the profile we'll have more officers on muni and inspects handing out your screen cleaners. just to try to better engage with folks. the chief as inspired me to consider a new partnership we'll be connecting the library. i want to thank you you outlining all you're helping to spread this message so happy to take some questions so we like to think with the officers it's loaves and fishes and they'll be everywhere we don't say for purposes we won't be where we're not. the citizens have talked about the improvements and the numbers are fantastic. how about plenty of cops and they'll be everywhere. the number of officers in the san francisco police department remains the same although the director ruskin mentioned that the board of supervisors are staffing united states we have about one hundred officers but the officers are discharged through the muni. numbers of arrests in the p

holiday season everyone come to san francisco and shop but pay attention to the price tags and not to your cell phones. thank you >> thank you, chief. i think there's a theme running through all of this is awareness and distraction while your using our phones we want you to help us raise the profile we'll have more officers on muni and inspects handing out your screen cleaners. just to try to better engage with folks. the chief as inspired me to consider a new partnership we'll be connecting the library. i want to thank you you outlining all you're helping to spread this message so happy to take some questions so we like to think with the officers it's loaves andis

theme of cute this morning. >> absolutely. it's a friday. >> the perfect time. >> we've got mandy newkirk here with the san francisco cca, talking about properes. she's amanda when she's in trouble with her mom. i get called michael. adorable little girl. >> look at her dressed for the holidays. this is little soda. on the ride down, she was looking out the window, looking for batkid, hoping for a rescue of her own for the holiday season. hello. she's three months old -- >> she is beautiful. >> sweetest disposition. a big kudler. a little bits of a duface. she's dressed up ready for holiday windows this which launches on friday. >> very nice. >> yes. at macy's, union square. >> exactly. and will she be there, or will there be other dogs and cats? what do you -- are you featuring this year? >> we hope to adopt over 400 for the season. if she's still with us, of course she'll be there opening night. we kick off the year, and it takes a couple thousand volunteers to make that happen. so if you're interested in volunteering, please visit our website and sign up. we need all the help we can get getting these guys home for the holidays. >> joey sn