not only have they loaned small businesses and have been a great supporter in working with the city, but when the vandalism occurred on mission street, a step forward quickly to help small businesses immediately recover. they should be thanked as a city for helping out with that. [applause] you have all of our small businesses have been so wonderful to us. you have allowed us to be more creative in the city. not only will we push investment in neighborhoods and the revolving loan fund, we're also pushing local manufacturing. mark said it best. we are on a big revival of local manufacturing. it begins at home. i will tell you this. i have a lot of international friends that come from all over the world, a special from china, japan, the philippines, and career. if they see things made in san francisco by small businesses, they will buy that up. there are international markets for sf-made products. our state has yet to recognize that. that is why they have not invested in opening up an international office. i keep nudging jerry to pay attention to this. we are already creating internatio

small business is the lifeblood of the city's economy. i would like to share important facts with you. did you know that small business employs 50% of all employees in san francisco? small business contributes approximately 52% of total sales taxes paid by businesses and san francisco. 99% of registered businesses in san francisco are small businesses,-nonprofits, the government, insurance companies, banks, and other financial institutions. small-businesses contribute to the vitality and of the backbone of our commercial corridors. although there are only 13 small businesses recognized today, this ceremony celebrate every small business in the city. i would like to share a couple of words with you regarding the small business assistance center. the small-business assistance center provides direct services to clients do one-on-one assistance, navigation to city, state, permitting requirements, referrals to various small business resources including loans, workshops, training, technical assistance. the small business assistance center served

he took the small city sheriff's office and added a dozen deputies. sole focus, uptick in speeders on what has been dubbed the million-dollar smile. -- ticketing speeders on what has been dubbed the million dollar mile. >> 91 miles per hour. >> this jurisdiction is a mile or two depending on how you count it. it is a small stretch of road that is generating a lot of money. that has put one small town in the cross hairs for a lot of controversy. >> this is law enforcement happening only to improve the coffers. >> it is all about the dollar. >> the commonwealth attorney supports cracking down on speeders but want some of the money to go to public safety. >> it is a cash cow. >> it is a highway safety program, all right? i believe that. i think we will save many lives. i think we continue to do that. yes, the money does come into the city. >> that is an $84 fine. >> there are reports the state police do not want deputies patrolling 295. legislators what some of that ticket money. they managed to attach an amendment to the state budget to grab some of the

now. [ narrator ] a hospital is like a small city, with specific rules that govern its operation. day and night, teams of professionals care for patients. good. [ announcer ] their goal is to help people get well. [ narrator ] even the food they serve is part of the treatment. [ narrator ] hospitals limit the hours and the number of visitors patients may have. how are you feeling ? i'm doing very well. it's so nice to see you. you too. these are for you. [ narrator ] because medical care is expensive, hospital stays tend to be short. patients may still need weeks home care before they can return to normal activities. the hospital: a different world. a world that never sleeps. what are you all doing here at this hour ? you are early. so are you. we're early probably for the same reason you're early: to make sure the cafe is open as usual. the way mr. brashov would surely want it. do you know what mr. brashov would say to all of you, don't you ? yes. he would say "i am not paying you overtime for this !" and he would also say, "thank you." so, how is mr. brashov doing ? i spoke with

. >> the 34-year-old lives with her boyfriend's in a small city near frankfurt. she did her doctoral research on cancer tumors. still, she struggled to find suitable work at home in italy. she has been out of work for a year-and-a-half. her last job was as a lab assistant earning just 1000 euros a month. fed up with the job market in italy, she decided to move to germany. >> it is very difficult to find work in italy. especially if you of a ph.d. they say you're overqualified. -- especially if you have a phd there are papers on molecular biology and international journals. but for companies, that just means they have to pay more. the pay is the problem. they prefer to take someone not as qualified and pay them less. >> more and more qualified workers are prepared to leave their home countries to find a good job. there has been a quarter more spaniards, portuguese, and battalion signing up for german courses than a year ago. she has signed up for a more advanced course in the institute. -- at the institute. >> a british parliamentary conclusion on the findings of

the small city endured a powerful tornado. >> one hit the roof. it wasn't major. we had several trees that the tops got blown out. >> russell smith knows he will be cleaning up his property. he was in his home that was built in the 1800s. at first, he ignored the sounds. we live next to the train tracks, you know, and didn't think a whole lot of it until we started hearing trees falling down and that's when we took cover. >> damage around weimer is evident. no loss of life, but some people remain hospitalized after the tornado touched down while a sporting competition was underway. >> there are people that were injured. none of it is serious. there were eight that were taken to the hospital. six were released, two were being transported to austin. g instead of sadness, the police chief is smiling. he says because of how much closer the storm pushed the city of 2,000 people together. >> that's small town. everybody is helping everybody else. from all the kids and parents and students and teachers and everybody else that was at the school getting all that fixed up t

it's not easy on both sides, but this is a small city and a dense city. hopefully will do your best trying to meet the needs of everybody, especially if you end up living there yourself, i hope you get along with the neighbors. commissioner antonini: i know we are dealing with a dbi issue in regards to that rear patio but as you try to work on designs and taking that into consideration, try to think about something that might be permeable, something that might be open space that is not paved in their rear-most area. while we may not have control over that, that might be the intention you are looking for. >> any other questions, comments? >> the motion on the floor is to continue this item to june 14. i am assuming the public hearing will remain open as you are asking for new plants. on that motion, commissioner antonini, aye. commissioner borden, aye. commissioner moore, aye. commissioner wu, aye. that motion passes. you are on item 13 a and b. both are at 620 to 27th avenue -- 622 27th avenue. >> good afternoon. this is located in an rh-2 district. this

larger cities are doing it that we think might have the resources to figure it out and most of the small cities are saying we don't want to get involved in this. we have a lot of parents saying there's no role for us here and we should be prohibiting just like the federal government done. >> sounds like the issues are not going away. >> absolutely right. nobody's happy in the end. the regulations aren't progressive enough. >> final thoughts then we have to continue the dialogue. we have to continue looking at the issue but we also have to be very realistic. there's a demand, there's a public need, there's also a public need for education. sound like a challenge we're all going to f to -- to have to come back and talk again. we thank you for joining us. we hope you'll come back for another edition of equal time.

it's not easy on both sides, but this is a small city and a dense city. hopefully will do your best trying to meet the needs of everybody, especially if you end up living there yourself, i hope you get along with the neighbors. commissioner antonini: i know we are dealing with a dbi issue in regards to that rear patio but as you try to work on designs and taking that into consideration, try to think about something that might be permeable, something that might be open space that is not paved in their rear-most area. while we may not have control ov

development, and i'm delighted to welcome you here as we announced the recapitalization of the city's small business revolving loan fund. we are recapitalizing this bond with $1.5 million, thanks to a partnership between the city and wells fargo, and working with working solutions as our community lender. without further ado, will introduce the merit to describe these resources available for small businesses. >> thank you, jennifer. thank you for all your hard work. welcome to brenda's. i want to thank and knowledge board president and district supervisor david chiu for joining us this morning. scott wiener, of course, as well. for some time now, as mayor of the city, interim and elected, these two supervisors have been talking to me about the support we need to give to our small businesses. i know much of my leadership so far has been around our technology companies, and that is great. as you know, we were down even further on the unemployment rate, due in large part, to the hiring that our technology companies are giving us. we are at 7.6% unemployment, and that is fantastic, but we have

it is almost like a small city. >> this £5th anniversary celebration is expected to draw intense of thousandselebrators. -- 75th anniversary celebration. >> i remember when the bridge opened. i remember looking over and thinking, this is big! >> crowds are expected to fill up all of currency fills for its festival with music, food and fun. >>vicki: the golden gate is shutting down briefly on sunday for the £5th anniversary celebration. the sidewalks will be closed starting at ¢:00 p.m. and the roadway closed at à:00 p.m.. a fireworks show is scheduled for 9:30 p.m.. after that great officials will do is fix action before it reopens. stay with kron4 as we continue our coverage of the golden gate bridge £5 anniversary. if you would like to avoid the crowds the witness the celebration, kron4 will be streaming the entire fireworks show on our web site. >>vicki: we hope the weather holds out of the fog is fairly high. on sunday, areas of low clouds. there will be some breaks of sunshine. the sunshine will increase as we get into the afternoon. looks like the low clouds will come back for the eveni

throwing them out of town and afflicting great loss of life so much so that the people wondered how a small city like fallujah could resist against the world's most powerful army yes i live. in march two thousand and four for mercenaries under contract to the us army were killed in their vehicle on the outskirts of town their mutilated bodies were dragged through the streets then hung under this bridge as trophies it was one of the very first acts of violence against the united states these pictures were soon seen all over the world it was the start of an escalation that culminated in the battle of fallujah in november two thousand and four the death toll listed one hundred thirty four g. eyes and thirty five hundred iraqis saluja became a symbol of the revolt. accordingly the army imposed very strict checks in the city the fingerprints and retina scans of every last inhabitant were recorded in u.s. army files never has any town undergone such treatment. residents were even issued with biometric id cards. where they buy this badge a neighbour's wait to answer a leaf a loser. seven years later th

that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and i could feel the hair of people who had been there and i was there with a navajo guy that i know who just was creeped out by this. because there's a certain heavy taboo in navaho culture about death and he said after we left this cliff dwelling, he said, i need a ceremony. too much death. yo

human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war planted military base some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claims that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria. that said the assad regime and i was there under saddam is a pretty repugnant and horrible regime my feeling on syria and i'm not on the ground and as a reporter you know i i think that finally for one to make those kinds of judgments have to be on the ground but my feeling is that everything should be pushed through to create some kind of a cease fire because in cities like cities like homes at this point aside from the murderous showing and everything else you really have a situation where can he there's no water and and so rather than pass a resolution that calls for assad's removal or resolution. that you know calls for intervention or anything else i would rather see them work more incrementally if that doesn't happen do you think there's any chance of. terry intervention i don't think so i think

human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war planted military bases some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claims that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria my feeling is that everything should be pushed through to create some kind of a ceasefire rather than pass a resolution that calls for assad removal or resolution. calls for intervention or anything else there's no real formal opposition you know it's a sort of a mess and they just went through this in libya. all right nineteen minutes past the hour and the a legit mastermind behind the nine eleven attacks appeared on the front of the guantanamo military tribunals on saturday on charges that could see him and his four accomplices face the death penalty khalid shaikh muhammad is one of five men charged with planning the atrocities in which almost three thousand people were killed during the thirteen hour hearing of the accused refused to answer questions or enter a plea all while some relatives of nine

human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war planted military bases some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claims that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria my feeling is that everything should be pushed through to create some kind of a ceasefire rather than pass a resolution that calls for assad's removal or resolution. calls for intervention or anything else there's no real formal opposition you know it's a sort of a mess and they just went through this in libya. egypt saw a shot sergeant violence this week run is against the military rulers ended and deadly clashes tension between the interim authorities and protesters has intensified less than three weeks before the country's first post revolution presidential election on wednesday at least nine people were killed when a group of ultra conservative islamists were at times by unknown assailants while staging a sit in against that kind of it was fun to raise most rush to blame the military for the time b

human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war planted military base some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claims that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria my feeling is that everything should be pushed through to create some kind of a ceasefire rather than pass a resolution that calls for assad removal or resolution. that calls for intervention or anything else there's no real formal opposition you know it's a sort of a mess and they just went through this in libya. president dmitry medvedev has just one more day to enjoy in the kremlin before handing out putin as russia's need to all of their credit and for his liberal views and push for as well as staring a reception of relations with the u.s. we dread of presidency also saw some of the largest protests in modern russian history and now it takes a look back at the top. one term in the kremlin was it too little time to make a dent mr medvedev is going to be remembered as someone who had genuine reform i

human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war planted military bases some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claims that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria my feeling is that everything should be pushed through to create some kind of a ceasefire rather than pass a resolution that calls for assad's removal or resolution. calls for intervention or anything else there's no real formal opposition you know it's a sort of a mess and they just went through this in libya. the day before putin returns the credit on to government protesters are taking to mosco streets opposition activists initially promised to have believes now they say they're expecting around five thousand to turn up let's check it out in this and i was in the epicenter of the rally together now at the moment. a significant drop in numbers into what was initially promised by the organizers yet what you're seeing around you. certainly not five thousand people we're hearing that that number is goin