secelebrate. loud er. secelebrate. secelebrate. fantastic. i can't even begin to tell you how shocked i am. i'm standing here at this gro d ground-breaking. i'm ashly mccumber. i'm the executive director of meals on wheels in san francisco and have been for the last 12 years and i'm really excited to welcome you here this morning. obviously we're here to do a ceremony where we're going to throw some sand and mark the beginning of construction, and that in and of itself would be a michiganiraculous thing to selc but frankly we're secelebratingo much more this morning. i believe that we're putting another mark er i eer and stake ground in support of this mission, and that's why we're here today, to secelebrate. [ applause ] it. >> it's certain dserendipitous projected opening of the building on this project in 2020 aligns with our 50th anniversary of our founding. [ applause ]. >> so today we are absolutely secelebrating five decade s of service here in san franciscaning san francisco. we're secelebrating a mission tt started with a handful of

we secelebrate the restaurant sd vit answers tha s s -- vintners. i want to call out chef in nanc oak for your leadership and that effort. we're secelebrating also that w have embraced our responsibility to affirmfy the emphasis voice of seniors and make san francisco all it can be for t m them. all of us together have embraced some very important and simple values of san fran siciscan s. no considsenior or no person sh ever go hungry because they are home bound or without the resources and support that they need. number two, no senior should be in vvisible or alone. number three, that all senior s have the right to live in their community and neighborhoods that they helped build, they raised their familyies in and have the right to self-determination and ha to live with dig nity. lastly, that cityies and communityies should be judged b how it treats the elderly and we need to work every single day to make san francisco the number one age-friendly city in amer a america. [ applause ]. >> so today we secelebrate a mar milestone, but this day has been

county of san franci o francisco. [ applause ]. >> mayor breed: yes, there is much to secelebrate.heryl mentioned the out app migration task force that was started ten years ago. we were secelebrating ten yearsf the out appmigration report, bu what was not mentioned was the fact that i along with a few other folks on the redevelopment agency commission felt it was important to do something more than talk about the challenges that so many people in the afternoon-ameri -- african-amer community face and we can't be afraid to have those discussion s. the fact is when you look at the data and see what has happened over the years, specifically to the african-american community in san francisco, we know that we still have more work to do. when you look at the fact that sadly so many of our afric african-american boys are drippi dropping out of high school, so many sadly ending up dead or in prison, this is not a new conversation. there needs to be new solutios s to address this issue, and this is why i'm excited about the work that is happening at the human rights commission. also, in lo

i give you the chance to re lla but also to secelebrate a littl bit. we' now we're going to do somethi something -- i don't know how we're going to do this, but i do want to offer a few closing thanks and instructions. flawl first of all , can we jut give our staff that work every day delivering food -- [ applause ]. >> -- answering the phones, i just don't think none of us who don't do this work think about what it means to walk up buil buildings and six flights of stairs with food in our your hand and buildings with he wieor s that don't work and getting in and out of a car. we have pretsocial worker s goi trying to help people who literally have nothing and people who have challenges and so forth and we have a staff that back them up that's unparalleled. again, my deep eest and most sincere appreciation to them. i specifically want to thank our development team led by jessica sweedler and we've been working together now for 12 years and we almost feel like we're kind of a dentist function ental -- di dysfunction al family, but a god one working toge

in a statement, while we mourn the loss of this sweet and gracious man, we also wish for all to secelebrate love of life asking that we raise a glass in his honor to freedom. >> "easy rider" is credited with ushering in a new era for hollywood. it became the fourth highest grossing movie in 1969 and was added to the library of congress national film register. >> it was his generation's captain america. dylan's here with a check of the weather. a little video that shows you need to be careful in a thunderstorm. >> this video is wild. check out this man who is walking in south carolina, a bolt of lightning struck right in front of him. i mean, he is just so lucky it didn't come just a couple of inches closer and it just goes to show you how dangerous it is to be outside during a thunderstorm, especially when there's nothing else around and you are then the tallest object in that open space, so just something to keep in mind. always stay indoors during a thunderstorm and wait for it to pass. we do have more thunderstorm activity along the coast of south carolina, north carolina also the coast