as we're open the verge of recognizing a great history milestone for our sister city relationship before i make any further remarks membrane e let me that's why that's why take this opportunity to talk about someone who was cerebral in our sisters relationship with the mayors and different cities and countries i want you to all join me for this very special moment in honoring and recognizing someone's birthday today ms. charlotte schultz (clapping.) it's been great getting older with this anywhere i can tell you i'm getting younger trying to keep up with him laura thank you, thank you (clapping) well you know choorlts served i think i'm her eight mayor she's done 40 years of service and literally known around the world in every place as literally our ambassador of the city whether culture e.r. academic business i've been lucas the mayor to have charlotte as our protocol officer. >> thank you, mayor park to recognize ms. schultz in our representation she's been instrumental we'll add a lot of great history to the signing today, i'm so honored to have invested seoul, korea just last

it's the 50th anniversary of philadelphia's sister cities relationship with florence italy. special ceremony was held at the italian market. mayor michael nutter joined the deputy mayor of florence to renew the sister cities agreement. >>> calling all chocolate lovers. the academy of natural sciences is the place to be. chocolate the exhibition opened today at drexel university. the exhibit traces the origin of chocolate as a unique tropical rainforest plant to the sweet treat that we all enjoy today. chocolate the exhibition runs through january 24th. >> all right a-good saturday night everyone. hope you're enjoying your weekend. the good news is we're starting to dry things out as those clouds are breaking up nicely so get ready for sunshine to finish up the weekend across the delaware valley. let's check out the rainfall we had today. almost a half inch in philadelphia, higher to the south and east. atlantic city coming in at .64-inches. a little west the farther north you go. just over a quarter inch in the lehigh valley report in there allentown. dry air mass continues

city of brotherly love showed some sisterly affection, it is 50th anniversary of philadelphia's sister cities relationship with florence, italy. a special ceremony was held at the italian market, mayor michael nutter join deputy mayor of florence to renew the sister cities agreement. >>> calling on all chocolate lovers at contacted my of natural sciences is the place to be, chocolate, the exhibition, opened up the saturday at drexel university. the the exhibit traces the origins of chocolate as a unique tropical rain forest to the sweet treat that we enjoy today. check late the exhibition, runs through january 24th. >>> and a different kind of fun exhibit at audubon butterfly garden in new orleans. instead of being own display, bugs were on the menu. believe it the or not visitors are flock to go try delicacies including crickets, wax worms, dipped in cascading chocolate. there is a a coffee made with bug legs and meal worms and fudge with crickets and marshmallows. of course, you cannot leave without trying spicy crickets. >>> okay. >>> the chicago marathon is taking place this weekend, many

mayor nutter joined the the deputy mayor of florence, to renew the sister cities agreement. >>> and,ocolate lovers the academy of natural sciences is the place to be, chocolate, the exhibition is now opened at drexel university, the exhibit traces the origin of check late as a unique tropical rain forest plan to the sweet treat that we enjoy today. check late the exhibition runs through january the 24th. >>> and a different kind of exhibit at the audubon butterfly garden, new orleans, being on display. and, and, visitors are flocking to try delicacies, including few of the cricket and wax worms to dip in cascading check late. there is a coffee made with bug legs and meal worms and fudge with crickets and marsh in mellows. you cannot leave without trying the cricket. >>> well, to each his own, i guess. >>> it seems like summer just ended but halloween is right around the corner. parents are stocking up on candy and kids are getting anxious to dress up as their favorite characters. but is your child's costume safe? as three on your side consumer reporter jim donovan explains, checking

mayor michael nutter join deputy mayor of florence to renew the sister cities agreement. >>> 350 years is a really long time and certainly a great excuse to celebrate. our carol erickson takes us to historic main street mount holly where a pop up shop is marking a big milestone for the garden state. >> reporter: if you listen closely you can almost hear their battle cry, the pop up stores are coming. the latest one just opened, briefly, and downtown mount holly, new jersey. feel free to look around but be quick, little new jersey 350 pop up shop as it is called designed to celebrate and sell items associated with new jersey and its 350th anniversary will close on sunday. >> the internet, we have facebook, twitter. >> reporter: modern ways to get pop up customers in the pop up store. pop up story mind us new jersey home to innovation, liberty, diversity, and, the soprano's. and sinatra and serious revolutionary war heroes. >> new jersey's lead wasn't much have a hero but just as his dog loved new jersey and they are not loan. >> i'm converted, new jersey pry. >> reporter: ray menendez a

it was created in the 1960s to commemorate portland and sapporo becoming sister cities.ry year, more than 200,000 people visit here. and they enjoy the garden as a place of healing. >> being in a japanese garden is like -- is being part of nature. >> i love the gardens. they're very peaceful, and inspiring. >> now i think the next thing -- >> reporter: landscape architect uchiyama offers workshops to visitors about how to take care of trees and plants. >> it's important just keep moving around. otherwise what's happen is once you lock in on one location you tend to take too much. >> reporter: he was born into a family that's run a gardening business for three generations in western japan. he came to the u.s. to study, and his roots are now firmly planted in portland. >> translator: human beings were born from nature, too. deep in our heart, i think we all yearn for nature to return to nature, always. >> reporter: the japanese government first exhibited a traditional-style garden at the 1893 international expo in chicago. today the garden is still here, and it's adored by

professional and business association and helped san francisco create ties with the manila as a sister city. art is well known in the neighborhood for his charm, warmth, and most importantly his leadership. always friendly, amicable, art helped to elevate the voices of neighbors and merchants. he served as the president of the west portal merchants' association twice and served on the board of forest hills neighborhood association. art carries himself with great civic pride and he's generous with his time as he has served in many capacities as a volunteer, advisor, and advocate to city and state bodies including the treasure island, yerba buena island citizens advisory board. this year's theme for filipino-american heritage month is legacy, and art bielenson certainly lives up to this title. art, or should i call you mayor art bielenson, on behalf of district 7 and the city of san francisco, i want to thank you for your contributions to the city. thank you for being a role model for civic engagement, leadership, tireless advocacy for the next generation of filipino-american leaders, and i a

now and that is what we deal with without the city government stepping in and now we will have a sister city, and set a wonderful program for many years of a delay and it is a delay. and it is many of our member are suffering. and which is the tax payers, that live here, they just don't want to move or be forced out of the city and by the name of progress. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> my name is lori salin i am not an economist and i am not a harvard graduate but it seems pretty clear that if our mayor can afford to sacrifice the taxes to the city, from twitter, that he can afford to pay a higher and he can find the money for a higher cost of bonds and it seems like a pretty flusy reason not to do this. i just want to say from my experience, the people who have gone to these agencies whether it is for help, the tenant's union for help as renters or owners and help with foreclosures and they get no satisfaction, there is not much that can be done and so that is not an answer to the current problem. thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is sheryl meeker and i work with

and we need it in china and we rejoined the shanghai calm ber of commerce, and it is a sister city to san francisco. and i think that this iron ore or a lot of these opportunities that i believe are a lot of reality and we got to continue to follow up and that we see that the commissioner brandon to say that she wants to be a part of this and i do too. and that i had asked the committee that jim and peter worked in the force and the iow in december and they are coming here to present a plan and also, we would about the risen and i think that we have a lot of opportunity and i think that with the america's cup not being that and now, i think that we had all of this land down there and i think that if we use it right we can continue to market. but i think that we are strong when her we go out and market the port and the iow and the port and we go out and we meet with the customers and we tell them that we want your business in san francisco and how much it means to us and i think that brad, and i think that they just did a good job of landing out what we got to do and we can't get weary

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the independence visitors center, fairmount park welcome center and sister cities park all are open andhere today. >>> now, your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> great day yesterday, lots of sunshine. we were in the 60s. today we'll be in the 60s, but clouds have already moved in. and we'll see clouds right on through the day along with a few spotty showers. we've seen a few sprinkles already this morning. there's a chance of light showers during the day. a big warm-up, that comes tomorrow. wait until you see the temperatures. right now it's cool, 54 degrees in reading. we saw a few sprinkles in reading, now just cloudy skies. philadelphia 57 degrees and 61 right now in cape may. the showers are avoiding the shore. that's a live view from the marquis de lafayette hotel. but inland we're already seeing some spots on the radar screen, just isolated, very light showers in delaware, philadelphia saw a few sprinkles. it's dried out now. and there you can see the few rain drops. some of these are reaching the ground, not all of them. so, don't be surprised if you

>> thank you mayor, i know that san francisco has had a number of sister cities, and i have seen richmond not just because of economic but of the people relationships but it is great to have you here and for the leadership that you and vice mayor bekels championing so much from sustainability as a season but also real concern for low income communities of color and giving them a voice as well. i am glad that supervisor avalos and in the packet we have our over 5-year-old now report of our san francisco mayor's task force on african american migration and a lot of our recommendations are consistent with what we are doing with the resolution today and i know that the report sites that san francisco at its height had an african american population in 70, of about 90,000 people and we have shrunk in half of the population but by 2050 according to the california department of finance, the african american population will even shrink significantly to about a third of what we were at in 1970, but i know that the four closures are hitting hard in the south east neighborhoods and there are some in

taking place in hong, people may turn out in support or replicate what they're seeing in their sister city down south. >> they're censoring the internet to. these image include images of the demonstrations and if you go on weibo's news feeds, the only result is a link to an article saying they could hurt the local street vendor's business. they found the number of censored posts on weibo spiked. the the country's news service called on the protests to stop and saying they harm the economy. the control seems to be effective. activist >> where there is sensitive information like this, there is no shutting it down completely. >> some media on the mainland is showing signs of support. this is a series of photographs captioned "big umbrella." and this site pokes fun of the president showing a picture of him with a black umbrella. in contract to the mainland the media in hong kong are covering the events and showing aerial images shot from a drone. >> the internet they enjoy is something that they're working so hard to protect. >> china blocked instagram on sunday. youtube, twitter and facebook

. >> the goal is to create a city here, which would be a sister city to baton rouge, so we would have mayor and have our own city council, and the tax dollars would stay here. >> we put a lot of hours into this. we're in the home stretch now. whenever we reach 25% of the registered voters, we can then bring the issue to vote for people in this area. what they'd like to see is our tax dollars kept local, but more important than that, they want the opportunity to change the public schools in this area. >> after getting married and you start talking about having a family and having kids, these are the kinds of things you start to think about. and living where we do, there's only a few options. you can either send your kids to private school and pay tuition, or you can move. >> i'm not ready to sign yet. we just moved here. >> surrounding the area we live in are great school systems, but unfortunately this isn't one of those. >> yeah, there's a list of all the schools and the number of kids that would be displaced from each of those kids. i don't know if you know anyone. >> the st. george

sister cities selling copies of the board game that are signed by spinill o and he himself is also planningrototype. he designed the game when he was a student at the university of illinois. >> it is sad but a bit ironic, right. >>> over for jennifer lawrence and chris martin. the oscar winning star and cold play front man has split. >> they have been dating since summer after jla split from nicholas holt, and martin split from his wife, gwyneth paltrow back in march. >> yes, honey boo-boo star momma june shanon could lose cuss toy i of her children. thirty-five year-old mother of four continues to deny claims that she is dating convicted child molester mark mcdaniel despite evident that in fact she is. shanon's oldest doubt are confirmed she was mcdaniel's victim at just eight years old. three of her children age nine, 14 and 17 are still living at that home. georgia child services say when children are living around a sex offender they always investigate. they would not say if there was any ongoing investigation. again, momma june shanon. >>> a judge has cut reality stars the situation a

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sitting at the tables brothers and sisters today, we celebrate that we all our brothers and sisters are in a citynce in a while we were all the children of god thank you. (clapping.) >> wherever we gasket at st. anthony's i've been reminded i can't forget the most important people yes, we have celebrates and chiefs and elected officials more important people at any gather at st. anthony's is our guest we want to guest to come up and share dell seymour is a long time guests he is resilient and resource full and started his own business a group that he community colleges u conducts tours of the tenderloin i'm honored to have one of 0 our guests dell seymour thank you. (clapping.) >> i know i was walking here this morning coming down jones a guy asked me are you nervous i said it's a piece of cake then he turned this corner and wow. this is amazing berry thank you for giving me about the tenderloin walking tours my tours are similar to the tours this the white house except mine i escort you (laughter) you know, i asked berry the other day why was i chosen to be up here this morning he reiterated tha

manage our preparation every better it's important to remind everybody and autonomy our own city but your sister and brother university campuses they have to do their part the lifeline council it's important we get all our utilities converging with each other with their emergency responses it's important. having said that, as you may have heard we did a immediate invest up to napa to look at the damage and understand it more clearly. to also register not only to from the disaster preparedness acknowledge but, of course, our san francisco him angle to register our wellness and sf gives back through the good work of daniel homagecy and accountabilities in the room clubbing the american red cross we're helping to support them under the recovery both for napa as well as for va lad and part of sin optional. we ask our corporations to assist mia my way they can you're going to see tragedy stories that continue to be on the first pages of the news reports a lot of homes got destroyed mobile homes and a lot of brick buildings and lessons learned but also folks that didn't think they might be this that q

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wiggins' sister reported her missing from atlantic city on sunday.sources tell nbc 10 police are now concerned she was taken against her will. we've also learned according to sources that wiggins boyfriend committed suicide in camden county saturday. police are now trying to determine if there's a connection. >>> new information tonight about a deadly carjacking case that killed a mother and three young children. for the first time, we're hearing from the real estate agent who police say was carjacked and then raped in the back seat of her suv. this happened in north philadelphia back in july. the real estate agent in court today testifying that cornelius crawford and jonathan rosa both forced her to perform sex acts on them. police say they later lost control of her suv and plowed into a group of people selling fruit. crawford's around says his klein the was not involved in the rape. >> it didn't happen the way she said it happened. he didn't sexually assault her, never did sexually assault her. and he doesn't want to be known as that. >> this is no

city. one of your sisters, i think, when we did the interview said what she loved, when your dad would come home from work, you would run and take off his boots, and your sister, i think, would love to sit on his lap and take in the smell of his sweat. the smell of hard work. was that what it was like. >> yeah, definitely. and i think we would fight over taking off his boots and who would take it, his feet were swollen, the strongest one would do. . but yeah, definitely i think hard work was definitely a big part of my mom and my dad, something they really taught us. and something they expected from us. and i think that's something that helped us a lot through school and just throughout life. >> and jackie, your mom is here, she's doing the telemundo version, how grateful are you for the woman that's sitting on the other side of the camera? >> eternally grateful. my mother gave us all the love that she could give us and more. she would work six days a week, get home really late, make sure we all had a home cooked meal and make sure we had dinner together because she, family was always so im

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house, quite the celebration inside lefty o'doole's the bar showing live video feed from sister bar in kansas city. not too late to get tickets for friday's game at at&t park if you have the cash. last check, cheapest tickets $592. standing room only. for game four, price jumps up to $794. and earliest the giants could win the world series. sun the price drops just a bit, $663. >>> we want to see how you support the orange and black. that's why we have a whole page on our website dedicated to you and the fans. tweet your photos or send us an e-mail. >>> right now, an update on breaking news. we've been following all morning long in gilroy. a pallet fire, you see flames still going there. east gilroy, just north of 152, following this, 10,000-square foot fire, three alarm fire, so evacuations or injuries. flames substantial right now. what are the winds like down there? we'll check in with rob mayeda. what are you seeing? >> you saw the smoke going straight up, not blown sideways across the ground. not strong winds, dense smoke in areas dealing with the fire. the winds right now close by, north-nor

the bar was showing a live feed from a sister bar in kansas city. one crowd much happier than the other. >> that is a classic shot right there. >> we want to see how you support the orange and black. we have a whole page dedicated to you, the fans. tweet us your photos or send us an e-mail. >>> okay, doing something that no california city has ever done before. a bold move here in the bay area to curb smoking. the limitations for when you can buy cigarettes. why some people are saying it's going too far. >>> plus, the future is now. we'll take you on a ride on a hoverboard. >>> and temperatures right now in the 60s, on our way to mid 70s for parts of the bay area, but you notice the high clouds coming in. those hint at changes ahead, which will bring rain starting off in the north bay within the next 24 hours. how much rain we expect and when the rest of it will push through the bay area coming up in your forecast. >>> welcome back. fremont police are ramping up efforts to deter crime in their community by trying to use privately owned surveillance

she travels to her home village, together with her sister clara who was abused and attacked two years ago. she almost died. clara fled to the city she only dared return to the village in the company of her sister monica. she remembers the attack vividly. >> the village elders stood back at some distance, but they knew what was going on. they gave orders to the younger men. and everybody watched. nobody was there to help me. >> the men of the village welcome the women with respect. it is a tense encounter. the assailants were not strangers, but brothers, cousins and -- neighbors. >> these are the very people that i rely on and i think they will be supporting me if i go through problems and things like this and if they are atttacking my sister, they will also attack me in the long run. i didn't want to come, but then if i don't do it, they will continue to do it to other women in the village. monica paulus stands up to the men. it takes a great deal of courage to do so, and to challenge traditional beliefs and practices. her message is clear. the violence and the killing must stop. >> a very brave woman indeed - and hopefully an e

city last year. >> but to the victim's grieving sister, it's much more than a crime statistic. bruce gordon with a story of frustration and fear. >> reporter: police say this surveillance video shows james brockington's killers walking down the 5400 block of christian street just moments before they took his life. brockington's sister says the video dredge up far too much pain. >> i can't watch it at this point. >> reporter: monique asked we not show her face. >> it's a year later, and they're still free. so, yes, that has me nervous. i don't know these people, and i don't want anyone to be able to recognize me. >> reporter: the suspects a husky black man with a full beard and braided hair and his accomplice a thin black man in a dark hoodie and tan shoes approached brockington right in front of his home on christian accompanied by third man, a so-called person of interest. police say there was a brief conversation and then one of the two men pulled out a 9-millimeter semi-automatic handgun and fired eight shots into brockington. he died at the hospital. >> they knew the victim

all of the family is in the twin cities and her sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and she's doingw. and her parents and kouzins are there. >> we walked to school and public school instead of sitting an hour and half. >> my son said if it is below 15 degrees we are driving. >> i am from tennessee. so it is a climation. to. >> i lived in chicago and i was kind of ready for it. it is a great city and place to live. >> hard on your career? >> i thought it might be. i have been there six years and did six independent movies and two plays and everything i did. it was shot in puerto rico, texas and lewisville. it didn't matter where i lived. >> you think other folks might follow in your foot steps? >> i don't know if i would be a trendsetter. it is possible because everything is shooting everywhere else. >> and it might be shotter to vancouver. >> and it is. and i think the trend is only because the tax incentives in other states. >> ah-hah. bottom line. amazing how it drives you. >> it worked out well for us so far. and the kids being with the family. my wife runs a gym which she wanted

well, it also looks like some kansas city fans have their own superstitions and it might not be working. according to our fox sistern kansas city, rachel rail started posting these hunter pence signs in her front yard last week. now there are about 20 of them. some of them reading hunter pence didn't call his mom on mother's day or he drinks banana daiquiris with a straw. since then, these signs have been embraced by most fans. but now rail may be changing her swing. yesterday, a local paper tweeted this picture of her latest sign. it says "perhaps after the outcome of the last two games, i should be rethinking these signs." now she says her new strategy may be to focus her attention on madison bumgarner or pablo sandoval. >>> the san francisco police chief has his own superstition with the giants one win away from another championship. tentative plans are underway for another victory parade like the last one in 2012. look for a parade down market street on thursday if the giants win tonight. that world series parade would likely happen friday, yes, hall hoe wean, a lot of -- halloween, a lot of orange and black if

. >>> here are stories our sister station kyw news radio 1060 will be following, city councilman is looking to crackdown on anyone who might use drones to commit crimes in the city. new study find colleges are offering free tanning beds to students, and, how facebook new controls the way millions of people get their news. check in two, three, four times a day on kyw news radio 1060 on your am dial, erika. >>> coming up next, it is back the two bargaining table what that means with a possible septa strike around the corner. >> also trapped in the raging river but this isn't your average rescue we will show you how we have to bring in construction equipment to save a driver. >>> change of heart a termally ill women admits she's having second thoughts, we will >>> just a frightening night on the job for philadelphia police, an officer is drag during a wild chase and that is not the only crime, the driver is accused of committing. >>> plus it is coming down to the wire, septa workers return to the bargaining table later on today with the threat of a strike still looming for tens of thousands of

fire who peep who are good or bad trying to get some of the brothers and sisters off the corner and stay focused to make this city and my community a much better place. >> thank you, mr. james. >> any other speaker cards. >> no other speaker cards. >> any other comments by members of the public public comment is closed to the commission commissioners. >> i like this project there is a color combinations i have some questions from you i want to concerned about the dr. espanola jackson, you know, it is still are there any toxic. >> for the record commissioners you know it was transferred to the former redevelopment agency it was deemed clean through a findings the suitability from a document that determined that to be clean and safe for developing consistent precise what you're seeing each one of the shipyards parcels will have an suspect have not just want but this project is being consistent with all the documents. >> okay. thank you i think it is a good project good color combination and each unit has a two garage i like that and small business you know proper shares and m b e and w b e you know, i like this i m

supervisor cohen and president chiu for truly bringing back this sister building of this true community interit has been is an anchor within our city and the visitacion valley center for well over 95 years and supervisor you said one hundred years this has been a place for residents this place is a place for parents to come to seek support services for their children to learn how to support their babies a as they develop e develop a place for youth for mentor and place for seniors for nutritious meals for opportunity to congregate and socialize to bring meaning to their lives i'm proud to be standing here with the city community and our community balances partners to revitalize this center and bring that back to its full glory of what was was before i'm proud and committed as folks to bring the services back here to insure that our young people whether they're coming from school back into they're community there's a safe place to come to if they want that first opportunity for career development come here for the skills tests apartment that need support for after-school program and services they can come here and receive the suppor

also understand as the intent of the pelosi to make sure that the sister is ac acting with the discretion that is allowed to each city department and this department to be fair in reviewing this case we believe you should use your discretion and allow the windows to remain in place given the history and inspectors history the gentle consistency of the character of the neighborhood and the cities balance with the aesthetic concerns and oils in our submittal we ask you to apply reason not blinded hearing to guidelines and allow is to remain the windows until replacement in the future there's a couple of key points first we believe we've deemed within air grief the windows were instead of at the time of the 2004 permit and prior to the use of building those permits were opened we requested the permits be closed a permit was taken out to renew the permits and a building inspector visited our property 3 days after the request and final the permits so we've thoroughly believed all the work from the remodel permit was final and closed that includes the windows we relied on the city requirement to do due diligence in attenti