i watched sanford and son every day. my favorite episode was on the other day with be the king. -- b.b. king. watch to sink his legacy is? >> first of all, as a huge tv legacies. he was a guy who was not afraid to do his own brand of comedy. he opened the door for guys like richard pryor, chris rock, the use of language and the use of what you can talk about onstage, breaking the door of what you're allowed to talk about with sex and bodily functions. a lot of guys odette to him. tavis: if you go to our web site, i am going to tell it my own way. my famous -- favorite redd foxx joke. i'm going to tell the joke. he told one political joke that i think it's hilarious. " to pbs -- go to pbs.org to hear me tell it. good to have you here. that is our shared -- showed tonight. thank you for watching. as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a focusing on the poverty tour with cornel west. >> every community has a martin

execute on behalf of the city and county of sanford's his co- pilot water efficiency for community garden grant agreements with sfpuc water retail customers for a community garden, urban agriculture, and nonprofit gardens in san francisco for an amount not to exceed $100,000 for fiscal year 2011-2012. >> good afternoon again. general manager for water. one of the things that puc is interested in ideas -- interested in is making sure our goals can be achieved. it is in the pc's interest that one of the cord and jones -- the pc's interest that one of the cornerstones of the project be that those be metered. -- in the pc's interest -- in the puc's interest. installations are not cheap in

>>reporter: a pretty crazy in sanford this goal for most of the morning. by late afternoon, of the skies overhead in a gorgeous day in this city by the bay. temperatures in the upper 60s of a 70's elsewhere. right now we're looking of interstate 80 towards el cerrito ethanol. clear skies around the bay. temperatures are not bad. it is a mild. >>reporter: here is the satellite you. we had some clouds in the bay area, but there was no rain. maybe a few sprinkles. linkedin season showers and thunderstorms in to the sierra. behind this system, a lot of sunshine. warmer temperatures, '80s in many locations. things will change quickly. there is

are not think it is enough to say we would do it in sanford's is good because san francisco has been very thoughtful for many years about the way we handle three strikes, but that is now the case statewide, and we have to make sure it is fixed, and today, it is broken. >> i will only charge serious and violent crimes s third strikes in san francisco and not every serious and violent crime. you look at it on a case by case basis, but we do need to go further. we need to change state law, and i have been at the forefront of that. i also have worked closely with some of the leaders of this movement around the state to reform restrike spirit like michael romano, like the head of the three strikes clinic at stanford law school, who again has endorsed me. look at the leaders of who the commit -- who the leaders of the community are and who they support in these issues. that tells you where i will do when i get into office. i will be an absolute leader locally and statewide in

healthy sanford cisco for our part-time employees with average $600 a year for them to be a part up. we have to put aside, based on supervisor campos' amendment, $2,000 to $4,000. that is not discussed enough. first of all, the actual context of having to wait four years to get pregnant i think is a little fallacious. again, i think we should be more focused on health the san francisco. >> have you been a dollars by the board of supervisors for your great work in the city? >> the great irony, as i said -- i have been working here for 35 years. we have seen hospices. we have seen tenderloin after- school programs. we contribute. i was instrumental in starting the community market. one of our murals is in

i always loved sanford cisco in college, and i just wanted to try it out. i started working in economic development policy. i was a community organizer for six years. i worked with young people, parents, and families around issues that concern our neighborhoods, whether it was improving muni lines, affordable housing, public schools, or just planning issues in neighborhoods. we just had a hearing last week, and we are trying to do some work around bedbug enforcement, which is a major issue in the tenderloin and of hill and 63. a hearing will actually be on thursday, april 7, 10:30. we're doing our first hearing on pedestrian safety. i think public safety is a huge concern. it ranges from both low-level crimes to pedestrian safety, and so that is a really important issue to me. we are probably more than double what every other district has. and that are preventable. and we can do better. district 6 is one -- home to one of the most diverse constituencies. we have the poorest residents in san francisco. we have lgbt. we have immigrants, people of color, youth

. >>> who can forget redd fox and his son lamont in "sanford and son." is not sitting right here with us. >> he would have loved redd fox. >> i would have loved the catfight. i was going back to the catfight. he's out on the plaza with the weather instead. >> checkinging the weather. >>> let's take a look at what's going on the next couple of days starting with today. we'll show you heavy rain in the pacific northwest, more rain in the mid-atlantic states, increasing clouds here in the northeast, sunshine for the plains, all the way down into the northern plains. tomorrow, slight risk of strong storms in the mid mississippi river valley, going to be wet and cool in the northeast into the new england area, leftover showers in the pacific northwest. sunny and warm, texas into the southwest, it will be downright toasty, sunny and mild through the southeast. that's what's going on in the country. rere's what's happening in your >> good morning. we have more clouds in the sky. temperatures are not as warm as they have been. >> and that's your latest weather.

the goal of newfoundland the pineapple plantation was a distant relative of sanford gold who was one of the missionary descendants who helped overthrow the queen and became president of the republic of hawaii, be short-lived government in between the hawaiian kingdom and hawaii becoming american territory. there's no real relationship other than they were distant cousins. at stanford is an interesting figure. his father was a missionary. first feature at the school founded by the missionaries to educate missionary children in honolulu and that is the alma mater of our president. it was interesting to me at the inauguration of president obama when he had his alma mater marching band playing in his inaugural parade and from this school founded by sanford's father whose ended up overthrowing the queen and taking her place as figurehead of hawaiian government and when they were marching in his inaugural parade they were playing a song written by the queen being played by the high school marching band of a school attended by all the missionary descendants who overthrew her. i love irony.

in the past, district supervisor's have lost sight of the fact that we do represent sanford cisco as a whole, and we need to major in city hall that we are acting policies, laws, and legislation that will of the city forward as a whole. there are a lot of issues like that. i mentioned job creation, pensions. a lot of them are economic, but some of them are more than that, making sure we continue to have dialogue with the 49ers. that is something that is not necessarily economic but something that matters to the city as a whole. it is a big part of what i look forward to doing in city hall. >> what are the specific thoughts you have on how the city can deal with budget issues? >> i think of two things. i'm not one the things that we can raise revenue and that is going to solve out of our problems -- i'm not one who thinks that we can raise revenue, and that will solve all our problems. we need to look at what we do as a city and was services we offer. we have 26,000 city employees. our payroll and fringe benefits for city employees accounts for over 60% of our budget. if we are not wi

. >> item 12, urging sanford's is the business of the transportation agency to reconsider and abandon the decision to shift the burden of credit card merchant charges to the city cabdrivers -- urging san francisco's municipal transportation agency. supervisor campos: this is a resolution that calls on the mta to reconsider its decision to pass these fees on to taxi drivers. we heard in committee a number of individuals about the problems that have been created as a result of this, and ultimately, from my perspective, it harms consumers. from what we understand, the board of directors is in the process of reducing that issue, and i think it is important for the board of supervisors to take a position, so i asked respectively for your support. >> on item 12, mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener no. avalos aye. campos aye. chiu aye. chu no. cohen aye. elsbernd no. farrell no. kim aye. there are seven ayes, four nos. supervisor chiu: the resolution is adopted. >> item 13 is from the government ought to an oversight committee without recommendation. an ordinance amending the administrative code

hear the conversation that took place here, but no the statistic that for every four people that sanford's is the police department arrests and the da prosecutes, nearly three are repeat offenders -- for every four people that san francisco police department arrests and the da prosecutes -- the d.a. prosecutes. there is evidence to show that doing everything we can to try to divert some of his life from repeating their offense, but we will have to really vigorously enhance our approach. one way to do that obviously is the collaboration being fostered and demonstrated here today, but it is more than just today. it will have to be every single day, or else california will continue to be building more prisons, and san francisco may not be far behind. thanks. [applause] >> once again, thanks for the flag. [laughter] have a good time. have a good evening. thank you very much. [applause]

back to the philadelphia area because that is where my family is, but i was always interested in sanford cisco in terms of the city, culture, the amazing lgbt community -- i was always interested in san francisco. i am an attorney. i started off in private practice, doing complex litigation. in 2002, i moved to the san francisco city attorney's office, where our work on the trial team, doing trials for the city and doing my own cases and supervising a team of attorneys as well. another huge issue confronting the city is the deferred maintenance on our infrastructure. we have a lot of infrastructure that has been deteriorating because we have not maintained it properly, from our roads to our sewer system to muni. we need to be much more diligent about maintaining our infrastructure. i have been interested in politics since i was a kid. i have worked on campaigns since i was a teenager. i was involved in campaigning against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i came out here i was not initially involved politically. i was involved in community work, helping to build the lgbt co

on city hall the house un-american activities committee's in sanford cisco, one of the death knells in that piper's nest of first amendment expression. i am not just here to tell you that the city has the ability to find creative ways to look at public health rules and safety rules and find a way. if the mayor has the political will,occupy can stay in sentences go for as long as we need this movement. there is a long history of american people rising up to tell the robber barons, the captains of industry, that you have to share the wealth. we talked about the populist movement. the great industrial organizing drives of the 1930's. the civil rights movements of the '50s and '60s. i am not just here to tell you that times have changed, that the political landscape has shifted. those leaders that do not stand with the working families will be swept away. finally, i just wanted to save what i really came to tell you about. occupy san francisco has finally raised the issue of the most precious of the 99%, the schoolchildren of san francisco who are denied adequate resources because the 1% s

francisco public utilities commission or his designee to execute on behalf of the city and county of sanford's his co- pilot water efficiency for community garden grant agreements with sfpuc water retail customers for a community garden, urban agriculture, and nonprofit gardens in san francisco for an amount not to exceed $100,000 for fiscal year 2011-2012. >> good afternoon again. general manager for water. one of the things that puc is interested in ideas -- interested in is making sure our goals can be achieved. it is in the pc's interest that one of the cord and jones -- the pc's interest that one of the cornerstones of the project be that those be metered. -- in the pc's interest -- in the puc's interest. installations are not cheap in san francisco. what we are proposing is a pilot program to provide funding to help make sure that meters are installed for community gardens, urban agriculture, and nonprofit gardens in san francisco. one of the things we found is that some gardens are connected off of an existing meter that has other uses, so we are unable to distinguish the use. additiona

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we're going to have a very interesting tour of elevators in sanford cisco. we have all gotten into an elevator, the doors have closed, and it has carried us to our destination. have you ever wondered how elevators were -- work? we check out the need outside the elevator using current technology and we learn about the latest destination elevated technology all here in san francisco. we will also visit the machinery where all the behind- the-scenes gears control these incredible machines. we are very fortunate today to have an expert with those who is going to walk us are around elevators in san francisco. can you tell us about the history of elevators in san francisco? the measure -- >> sure. the history of elevator technology evolves with the city. first elevators were installed for moving materials in the 1860's. in the 1870's, the first passenger elevator was installed, and that allowed building heights to go up to about seven floors. starting in the 18 eighties, 1890's, the first electric elevators were installed. that allowed for buildings to go up even

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. >>> sanford women's basketball coach can add another trophy to her shelf.ketball hall of famer has been honored the atena award. it goes to women who show their creativity and help other women accomplish their potential. >>> good for the tigers, they're hanging in there. >> an enjoyable way to spend the afternoon. watching a baseball game hard fought. and the tigers still clawing away on the rangers. it all happened in the 6th inning. 2-2 game and the tigers hit for the cycle, single. and this double that hit the third base bag off the bat of miguel cabrera hitting everything. hottest hitter outside of albert pujols. victor martinez has been struggling, battling an injury. down the right line. if he was feeling better he may have circled the bases for an inside the park home run. the a triple for victor martinez. and they weren't done. young hits his fifth home run of the play offs. this one a 2-run shot. the second of the game. they build a 6-2 lead and hang on to win it. 7-5 final. verlander the winner they go back to texas still trailing the rangers 3-2.

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from there, daniel sanford sent this report. >> hammering, clawing, cutting, pulling at the ruins of reinforced concrete apartment blocks. the ordinary people of this city are desperately helping the official rescue teams to look for the hundreds who are missing. at the center of this rescue effort, is a 29-year-old menu is trapped beneath the rubble, pinned beneath a car and a wall. he has been there for 24 hours, through one freezing cold night. amongst those trying to get about our his brothers. they had formed a human chain, fromng saucepans awawy their injured brother. with exhaustion setting in, his mother waited patiently nearby. >> we have all been here since yesterday, she told us. we slept in the car overnight and no food has passed any of his brother's lips. >> this 6-year-old girl has also -- is somewhere under the collapsed flaps. her uncle told me she had been playing at the time of the earthquake and no one has heard from her since. >> the saddest part, my sister's husband was in the rubble. we were burying him. and just got back here. hopefully that kid will come out,

. >> on television, looking at the sanford and son theme song, i could watch the color purple which youoduced or open up a magazine which you help found. >> you put oprah and will smith on the map for that? >> fresh prince was our show, our production, co-production on the color purple. >> what's the key for you having such a wide reach and such longevity? >> i don't know, man. if god gives it to you, i am not going to send it can ba. it is about orchestration, number one and vision too. i could see down the street. i was with dallas simpson. i saw her singing when she was 19. the guys did that to me. they lifted me up and put me on the show with sidney poitier. great director. automatically, that hand was out there. mandela says, quincy, come over, i would like you to co-host with me up in botswana in south africa and we promised to build 100 homes for habitat from humanity. i brought five gang bangers with me from l.a. in ten days, we turned around. they saw the essence of south africa we were going through and all this stuff with mandela. all these kids are executives at big organiza

for seven years we've been asking for taxicab services for the people of sanford says go. it is unheard of to have people wait two hours for a cab. i am just telling you the reports. if you want to come down and see it, you are welcome to. supervisor campos: any other member of the public that would like to speak. please come forward. >> hello. i am the general manager from auto cab. a lot of points of been made, and there are a lot of misunderstandings. our primary customer is the cabdriver. we provide services to cabdrivers. our job is to support cabdrivers and make sure they make money. what we of design here with the system that the mta has implemented and that we were the first company to deploy in san francisco was the rear seat payment system was away for credit card -- credit cards to be accepted in every taxi in san francisco, and to minimize the impact on the cab company. prior to this, we cannot afford to accept credit cards. yellow accepted credit cards, but the soda calve could not. -- the desota cab could not. every driver pays 5 cents out of every dollar to