. >> reporter: anoushah, the author of that bill is state senator scott wiener. the castro is his home turf. night life lasting till 4:00 a.m. could actually be a boon for many of the businesses here. on any given saturday night, cocktails in the castro are on order. >> night life is really important in california. >> reporter: tonight, state senator scott wiener says he's looking to the next governor to sign off on his bill that would push last call till 4:00 a.m. and he's hoping his fellow san francisco city hall alum will be in the governor's office next year. >> i've known gavin newsom for 20 years. i've talked to him about many things. i do know that gavin understands night life. >> lieutenant governor and democratic candidate gavin newsom is leading his republican rival john cox in the polls, and regardless of who wins, state senator wiener says his bill had bipartisan support when it passes. some of hisdisappointed. >> why not? people work hard and at the end of the day we deserve to enjoy life. >> reporter: in a statement provided by the governor's office

for more on this issue i'm joined by scott wiener, the co-author and dr. scott steiger, the deputy medical director of dhe opi treatment outpatient program at san francisco general hospital. entlemen, thanks for being here. this is a very scottish setent. e begin with you, senator wiener. this bill is not a panacea for the problems around opioid abugs but what would you hope and expect it would accomplish. >> safe injection sites are a ublic really applying a health approach to injection drug use as opposed to criminalizing people who are addicted to drugs. andcknowledging that peop are going to inject whether or not we have a safenjection site. so instead of having them inject on your front doorstep or in front of a neighborhood store or a park, let's get them inside in safe and healthy and clean environment where they could get access to recovery services and health care and ultimatel we want to get them into recovery and health care seheices, get healthy and reduce the number of overdose deaths. >> what would you add to that, dr. steiger? >> i would just

state senator, scott wiener. [applause] >> mayor breed: the overwhelming support for this measure shows our community's desire to take care of the trees we have, as well as planting new ones. growing our urban forest will help us meet to goals of the global climate action summit. creating sustainable communities , and promoting transformative climate investments. the summit is a great catalyst for real action to make a difference in protecting our earth and i hope you can join us at any of the many events that will be taking place all week throughout our city. thank you all so much for being here today. and now, at this time, i want to introduce, senator scott wiener kahclo again, as i said, authored a bill that helped provide the $19 million to take care of our trees when he was a member of the board of supervisors. he has been a leader in san francisco and is now a leader in sacramento, pushing for the record numbers of legislation that will help san francisco become a better place, and especially for our plane

and i want to thank our leaders in sacramento, including evsus egmon and scott wiener or their consistenty -- for their consistency in pushing something that's going to help us make a better place in san francisco. i would get complaints about the number of needles on the street, about the number of people shooting up on the streets. and in certain instances, some programs and other folks would be out there, talking to individuals, trying to get them help, trying to get them support, and sadly, it hasn't worked. what we've been doing in san francisco and i think in many places hasn't worked. i was basically not complete sold on safe injection sites initially until laura thomas over here from drug policy alliance kept bugging me and bugging me and bugging me to get to vancouver to see exactly what it entails and look at the data and how it's actually been effective. and i was very surprised at how impressed i was with not only the numbers but the facility. zero overdoses in those facilities. over 3500 people refer today detox who have not come back through their system, the compassion of th

sw scott wiener said he lacks the temperament to serve as a judge. he is a political hack. and sarah sanders says lindsey graham has more decency and courage than every democrat member of the committee combined. that is in response to senator graham telling his colleagues this is the most unethical sham since he's been in politics. >> leaders say that is a prime example of what happens when people testify without an investigation. >> that means there is a focus on demeanor. it's not always the most reliable thing. for example, many people are talking about how brett kavanaugh's anger, that's how someone who had been falsely accused would react. it's also how someone caught in a lie would react. >> he is a former classmate of yale. he said he is glad the american bar association is calling for an investigation. >> on the peninsula, some of ford's neighbors rallied outside of city hall. >> nearly 150 people were at the rally organized by a group of palo alto mothers. they wanted to especially sure blasey ford wasn't alone as she told her story. >> we all look out for each oth

abc 7 news was along the san francisco waterfront where state senator scott wiener was joined with others. he sponsored 822 after the s.e.c. voted to roll back net neutrality rules in june. >> without net neutrality -- internet service provider can block our ability to access websites that they don't like or websites that aren't paying them enough monday. >> just yesterday the s.e.c. chairman called california's bill illegal. it said california's rules were anti-consumer and threatened the rest of the country. >>> now to consumer news about airbnb. >> michael finney here. >> they're popular. everybody talks about all the time. how do you know what you saw online is what you're actually going to get. even worse could be unsafe. here's a look at some safety features -- what you can do before you book to make sure your stay is safe. >> when karen travels she loves to use home sharing websites. >> we love it. because it's really cheap way to travel. >> but when karen arrived at a home she recently booked through airbnb, she was shocked to see the condition it was in. >> as soon as we walked i

i just want to announce sb 1045, a bill scott wiener was carrying which is meant to increase powers of conservators office, people who are drug addicted, gratefully disabled due to drug addiction, mental illness and all that stuff, it would help a little bit. i want to commend jill nelson, deputy director of das to help spear head the effort to make this work in san francisco. we are working through what now, what that would look like to roll it out in san francisco we will know more. i think the mayor is hoping there will be an ordinance to move forward with this expanded power of conservatorship so we will have more info about that in the next several months as well. the third thing, and i did mention this to president serenia, but the mayor announced last night we have a new commissioner, who i assume, brigitte will be reaching out to immediately, that's martha knudson who has been an active in the lgbt senior community for sure. has a long history of prominence in san francisco. i'm assuming will you be excited to welcome her as one of your members. so that's exciting. i just passe

i want to thank senator scott wiener and susan egmon for their leadership on 186. i want to thank glide for continuing to be a leader for pushing efforts that are controversial -- [applause] >> the hon. london breed >> the hon. london breed: -- but need to be done because it can save and change lives, a place of hope and a place of inspiration. thanks to janice and reverend katani for being here, and the work that you do in this effort, but also, the work every single day that you do for folks here in the tenderloin. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i also want to thank the senior program director of programs for the glide foundation as well as reverend fong, who is here from chinatown community development. thank you so much. i want to thank the safer inside community who helped to sponsor this project and spent countless hours of putting it together in a way for people to see m.o.how it actually works. thank you to the tenderloin health improvement partnership and to capital one design pro bono for their support. thank you to laura thomas, and she has been in

scott wiener says it needs to work because it has worked in other site and he believes it will here in san francisco if the governor signs the bill. reporting from sn fran, mark matthews, bay area news. >>> the passengers accused of assaulting an uber driver. a couple drinking in sausalito called an uber to drive them to san francisco. one of the passengers reportedly attacked the driver. >> robert says they pulled over, got out of the car and took off running. they drove the uber to a hotel in san francisco. then they arrested the couple. no word at this point what prompted that attack. >>> a payroll glitch at city college of san francisco, an accidental holiday without pay made it an awkward weekend forte lot of people. a technical glitch is blamed for the part-time faculty not getting some or all of the august salaries. one of the 200 affected instructors says the jobs are not correctly classified in the system. some administrators interrupted their weekend to rush to the campus and make out checks. the timing was crucial because the holiday coincided with the first day of the month

chair of the budget committee fill tape with the support and former supervisor now state senator scott wiener as well as assembly member david chu, the entire local sacramento legislative delegation, have with uber and lyft support agreed to produce a bill, with any luck at all, by a majority vote of both houses in the state, will be law by the first day of january of 2018 -- i'm sorry, 2019. that will allow us to actually go to the ballot in november and do what portland has done and have a per ride sur charge so there's a direction next us between the impact and our fund to transportation improvement this is san francisco. there are details but it is a 3.25% sur charge at its highest. we want to have a. d.a. rides so there's no charge on those. rides where there are multiple individuals that and it's a one and a half percent charge. i will give you all of that. i want to thank assembly member tinge as well as senator wiener and chu as well as the folks at lyft and uber who really, i think, want to turn the page and become a part of the solution and finally, it wouldn't have happened without

scott wiener said his demeanor was the opposite of judicial.temperament to serve as a judge. he is a political hack. oh, sorry. that was his tweet. and sarah sanders says lindsey graham has more decency and courage than every democrat member of the committee combined. that is in response to senator graham telling his colleagues this is the most unethical sham since he's been in politics. >>> legal experts say the hearing is a prime example of what happens when people testify without an investigation. >> that means there is a focus on demeanor. it's not always the most reliable thing. for example, many people are talking about how brett kavanaugh's anger, that's how someone who had been falsely accused would react. it's also how someone caught in a lie would react. >> and that is mark osler, a law professor from st. paul, minnesota, and kavanaugh's former classmate at yale. he said he is glad the american bar association is calling for an investigation. >> on the peninsula, some of ford's neighbors rallied outside to support her outside of city

one bus though didn't show up, forcing senator scott wiener and others to walk to a nearby b.a.r.t station the press conference in time. the muni ride-along organizer said for them it wasn't a big deal, but so many others depend on public transit. >> what i experienced planning this ride-along is all too familiar for tens and thousands of people, single mothers who end up late picking up their kids, so the first generation college student who loses their job because they were late a third time, and we are working to fix that. >> we're told it took officials from each of san francisco's 11 districts nearly an hour to arrive using public transit. >>> transportation officials also celebrated the approval of a new bill that could provide needed funds for public transit. governor brown signed ab-1184 last night. the bill will allow the city of san francisco to charge a fee to rideshare companies for each ride originated in san francisco. >> the excitement was so large, the first calls we got were l.a. and oakland wanting to come on board as well. >> the bill doesn't take effect just yet. it wil

department of environment is working with them on implementing new recycling initiatives, senator scott wiener's s.b.458 bill, which authorizes jurisdictions like san francisco to set up mobile pilot recycling centers. once we have this resolution approved by the board and signed by the mayor, the department will be able to apply for grant funding for a mobile recycling pilot. that will certainly be good news in san francisco. we've seen -- we have seen and gone from 35 recycling centers in 1990 to about seven today. clearly this is an issue that affects the entire city. for district 5, i have one recycling center that has closed in my district and one nearby. and i really want to make it easy for constituents in the city to be able to recycle, so this resolution will help the city to begin to address some of these issues by working with cal recycle. and the second that i'm introducing is an ordinance to accept and expend $415,597 from the laura and john arnold foundation. it's to support the justice project as they develop a model of the local government-driven fines and fees reform. fines and

in merchant and traffic corridors with the input of residents, but i also opposed sb 827, which scott wiener proposed, and that is to build more than five stories, and i don't think that is the answer in the sunset district. >> thank you very much. mr. tom? >> i think that of course everyone wants more housing. there are some workable solutions to that, besides just increasing density because when we increase density, we have to say what kind of density. i'd like to see more two and three bedroom homes rather than the studios and the one bedrooms that the developers have been talking about, because this is a family neighborhood. i'd also like to consider parking. right now, the planning code calls for.2 parking spaces for each unit. i need to drive more than a quarter of a car when i take my kids around town, so that needs to be considered for the neighborhood. also, the water infrastructure here is not adequate in case there's a disaster, so we have to consider that. and we also -- people don't realize there's sandy soil, and we know the millennium tower is sinking. we have to consider how

london breed joined sate senator scott wiener, urging brown to sign a bill to create a three-year pilot program. ou drug user we don't want to see people shooting up and we don't want to see the needles on the street doesn't mean that it's just going to disappear without taking real action. >> supporters say on-site drug counseling can also cut overdoses and steer users toward effective recovery programs. governor brown has until the end of the month to sign the bill. >>> and the bill that would ban styrofoam food containers on state beaches, requiring all takeout food containers be recyclable or compostable by 2021. the packaging clogs landfills and pollutes the environment. critics say the mandate would impose an unnecessary hardship on business owners. >>> fireworks on capitol hill today as the supreme court hearing gets under way. >> a judge must interpret the constitution as written. informed by history, and tradition and precedent. >> the protests and w democrats asked for before the hearing even began. >>> and some changes are coming to facebook, but you won't see these on your a

(pam) state senator scott wiener tweeting today..."l, california moves toward 100% renewable energy. thank you, governor brown, for signing #sb100, to move us toward a 100% renewable power grid." (pam) state senator wiener is one of many praising the move... as another example of california's global leadership on environmental initiatives... all while the trump administration backs away from such policies. (ken) but critics say the bill doesn't go far enough. (ken)joining us now to talk about this... doctor daniel m kammen... director of the renewable and appropriate energy laboratory at u.c. berkeley. not everyone is satisfied with gov. jerry brown for setting a goal of phasing out fossil fuels from the state's electricity grid by 2045.the bill would not affect in-state oil and gas drilling.some environmentalists are pushing brown to end new drilling permits. they are pledging to disrupt an international climate summit brown is hosting in san francisco later this week.consumer watchdog and food & water watch say they'll air a televisi

the state senator scott wiener said many big projects have glitches, this one is aggravating. >> this is significant when you talk two different supporting, critical steel sports having cracks in them that is a safety issue. >> shocked and very disappointed. i think that is a view held by a lot of people. >> we reached out to the city's building department. and we have yet to hear back. >>> a friday. let's check in with salvation army to see how the traffic is cooking along in the bay area. >>> right now at the bay bridge, we have a 20 minute delay before you make it to the bridge. let's go to the picture. it seems like that is pretty slow and it is a little bit slow on the east shore freeway. it is better than it normally is monday through thursday, getting into san francisco is okay. but there is congestion at fremont street exit because of the salesforce transit center closed. sam te'o bridge looking good. the south bay is starting to fill n. >>> we have one hour delays at sfo because of low ceilings because of the fog. and departure delays to boston and new york. they have rain ou

in merchant and traffic corridors with the input of residents, but i also opposed sb 827, which scott wiener proposed, and that is to build more than five stories, and i don't think that is the answer in the sunset district. >> thank you very much. mr. tom? >> i think that of course everyone wants more housing. there are some workable solutions to that, besides just increasing density because when we increase density, we have to say what kind of density. i'd like to see more two and three bedroom homes rather than the studios and the one bedrooms that the developers have been talking about, because this is a family neighborhood. i'd al l