it happens at hayes and steiner. a car came down striking a parke taken to san francisco hospital, >>> we have another developing t got on her hand and she thinks that it bit her. she started the treatment and of the wound and three follow up of injections over the period of time. she will be okay. >> seeing one in the daylight is a tip off, it is something wrong. . . there is a search under way in oakland right now for a missing 9-year-old boy. nan yal, he was last seen at 8:30. he and the boy argued because he would not let his son wearing -- he was wearing a red jacket with white and blue trims, a black t-shirt and black and green tennis shoes. >>> ymca worker accused of molestation. robert hond da has the news live. >> reporter: former ymca nicholas was composed when he enter td courtroom today. last week the 20-year-old was crying and shaking while being charg sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. this one police say involved a 5-year-old girl. >> he took sexually explicit photographs of her. >> sources tell u

this is the essayist george steiner who was saying that -- he's talking about the loss of language that has happened to us over the last few know, 50 odd years with the incoming of television media and internet. the true catastrophe of babil is not the scattering of tongues. it's the reduction of human speech to a handful of planetary multinational tongues. anglo-americans standardized vocabularies and grammar shaped by military technocratic megalomania and the imperatives of commercial read which is the voice of money talking to money in the voice that tony morrison when she accepted the nobel prize in 1993 did nominated as the language that drinks blood. happy to admire its own paralysis, possessed of no desire or purpose other than maintaining a range of narcotic narcissism. , predatory, sentimental, exciting reference in school children providing a shelter for dust that's. language design to sanction it ignorance and preserve privilege and that to me is the language of scientism. and talk about capitalism. talks about the barbaric part in one of your books and connect the ideology i

so they don't really believe it but that is a fundamental function. >> george steiner has a recent book called the politics of thought and he analyzes the pros of important thinkers in some of the various thinkers. you think part of the problem with lehrer and gladwell is the paucity of their very language? do you think if they were writing more complexly they would have more room for an allowance for metaphor there? >> i think you would need a brain transplant. [laughter] or a very different drugs than the one they use. yeah. it's hard to imagine. i mean there are -- they are ideologues so they are doing what they want to do which is push a certain point of view because for some reason they think it's in their interest to do that. scientists like dawkins are very jealous of the idea as his lawrence krause with cosmologist very jealous of the idea that science has in the privileged perspective on what will count as fact or truth. for me they are purveyors of truth. they are truth. >> you have been reduced to an odd silence. >> everyone agrees. that is what i think. >> one of my favorite

that way and towards chestnut but they don't get to that last commercial block between fillmore and steiner. this will bring more traffic. this is going to be a good addition to the street. it's going to bring more business and it's going to be synergic with some of the restaurants that depend on a lot of foot traffic. this will bring a lot of people in because the other locations, the ferry and mall like settings which means somebody has to walk into inside to see the sur l.a. table. anybody going down union street walking see's it and didn't even know there was one in the city. i think it's a good project. >> commissioner borden? >> yeah. i used to live in this neighborhood, i know it pretty well. the other formula retails along the street has shut down. the sur l.a. table seems like a real fit for the neighborhood. it interesting, chestnut street has balances and retail like william -- sonoma, i think this will be beneficial. i do love frederick sons. i spent many hours buying large and small things. i don't think there is a threat. frederick sons is primarily a hard ware and home improv

it all happened about 3:30 this afternoon at hays and steiner in san francisco. >> probably going 56 miles per hour. black car, the acura was turning. and then, camry was coming down 50, 60 miles an hour and hit the black car. >> police say the suspect driver was involved in another hit-and-run on hays just moments before totaling the two cars that. driver is also in the hospital tonight. from the looks of it, police tell us it does not appear alcohol was involved. >>> walking in the castro last year, pleaded guilty to felony vehicular manslaughter. the san francisco d.a. announced today 37-year-old, chris agreed to a plea deal. after he was ordered to stand trial back in march. under the deal, he will be sentenced to three years probation and will serve 1,000 hours of community service. this is the first felony conviction of his kind in the nation. the man accused of kidnapping and killing morgan hill teen, sierra lamar appeared in court. 21-year-old garcia torre res did not enter a plea. instead, his attorney asked to postpone it, saying they are waiting for prosecutors to give the

rec and park department to begin planning the funding of the geary underpass between webster and steiner. it was a corresponding reunification of the japantown and western addition/fillmore communities. also introduced on tuesday is another ordinance that would amend our formula retail controls. this is introduced by supervisor farrell and it would amend the planning code to expand the definition of formula retail, but just in the upper fillmore neighborhood commercial district. and then secondly, supervisor avalos introduced an ordinance that would amend the administrative code to direct the planning commission to prepare and submit a report to the board of supervisors evaluating the provisions of the planning code as it relates to medical cannabis dispensaries. so, those were the new introductions and the report for this week and are there any questions? >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes, ann marie. has that underpass -- has that already been finalized, so to speak? because i didn't know we had proceeded that far. >> it has not been. i believe this is just an informational hearing to talk

includes local small businesses that currently have always invested in mid-market, businesses like sam steiner's which we honored last year, like sales marvelous cafe on market street which recently opened. all of these places are what makes our neighborhoods unique, places that san franciscans want to live and stay. what we have been talking about also in stabilizing promoting local businesses as an important part of our diverse and local character of the city is formula retail. as many of you know market street is largely a c-3 district which allows formula retail as of late. i have asked our city attorney's office to draft interim controls for market street from sixth street to van ness that would restrict new formula retail establishments until we can study this issue further. this is an issue that we have been long concerned with way before the news had come up amongst many of out city residents about the potential dislocation of a 9 to 4 which we got several e-mails about. it is not just our district, but residents throughout the city and other colleagues and supervisors as well who are co

say a woman driving a camry in alamo square ran a hayes street stop sign and crashed into cars on steiner. police don't think she had been drinking. >>> women in san carlos are being warned about a serial peeping tom in the area. the san mateo county sheriff's office put out the alerts last night. he has been seen twice on the north side of town spying on women in the shower at night. authorities say to call the police if you see anything suspicious. >>> in san mateo unit high school, the district plans to sue the education national testing service. they have thrown out more than 600 advanced placement scores of mills high school students. ets invalidated the scores because of improper seating during the tests. more than 200 students will need to retake exams next month. >>> san francisco's next in line to get google's free wi-fi service. plans are expected to be announced today. if approved, google will bring wireless internet access to 31 city parks, including rec centers, plazas. google will pay the $600,000 cost. >>> the chp is about to begin a first-of-its-kind crackdown. starting to

liz: last one, steiner leisure, you made all the name, they operate a bunch. >> we have 19 differenthampoos, it may be or not, but selling lotions and potions and all sorts of things, it makes a lot of the money first of all high margins, money overseas and places were tax rates are low. liz: enough with what the fed has, let's talk about stocks. check it out. these names on facebook.com/lizclaman. thank you very much. six and a half minutes before the closing bell rings, boy have we lost a lot of steam right now. tomorrow interviewing the ceo of coin star. the company making massive changes trying to keep up with big-time competitors like netflix and amazon and more. wait until you hear what the new name is. i have the ceo tomorrow on "countdown." friday night, buddy. you are gonna need a wingman. and my cash back keeps the party going. but my airline miles take it worldwide. [ male announcer ] it shouldn't be this hard. withreditcards.com, it's easy to search hundreds of cards and apply online. creditcards.com. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial

the accident happened just after 3:30 this afternoon at hays and steiner streets. we apologize and are having issue was video. witnesses say one car may have been speeding. a bicyclist who struck and killed a 71-year-old man last year agreed to plead guilt dwree felony vehicular manslaughter. the district attorney says it's the first conviction in the country. but the cyclist won't do any time for the crime. vic lee is in the newsroom with details of the settlement. vick? >> d.a.says as far as he foes it's the first time in the country that a bicyclist has been convicted of vehicular felony manslaughter. he know there's will be critics to be sure he gets no jail time. he says this offender swril a chance to rehabilitate himself. >> i believe justice has been served. he has been held accountable. >> the district attorney said waits the right outcome. he had a a.agreed to plead guilt dwree felony vehicular man slaugtder. he and his wife were in the crosswalk last year when the bicyclist killed a 71-year-old man. police said security video taken from the tavern shows

the accident happened just after 3:30 this afternoon at hays and steiner streets. we apologize and are having issue was video. witnesses say one car may have been speeding. a bicyclist who struck and killed a 71-year-old man last year agreed to plead guilt dwree felony vehicular manslaughter. the district attorney says it's the first conviction in the country. but the cyclist won't do any time for the crime. vic lee is in the newsroom with details of the settlement. vick? >> d.a.says as far as he foes it's the first time in the country that a bicyclist has been convicted of vehicular felony manslaughter. he know there's will be critics to be sure he gets no jail time. he says this offender swril a chance to rehabilitate himself. >> i believe justice has been served. he has been held accountable. >> the district attorney said waits the right outcome. he had a a.agreed to plead guilt dwree felony vehicular man slaugtder. he and his wife were in the crosswalk last year when the bicyclist killed a 71-year-old man. police said security video taken from the tavern shows

the san francisco fire department says two cars collided at hayse and steiner. it all started when one of the drivers hit a parked car then crashed into a moving vehicle. rescue crews had to extricate two people from their cars. two people were taken to the hospital with critical injuries. >>> a controversy in the case of a man -- bicyclist who struck -- struck a plea deal. >> reporter: prosecutors call this latest conviction the first of its kind in the state and possibly the first in the nation. and it came from this intersection where a bicyclists struck a pedestrian last year. 37-year-old cyclist christopher bucari pled guilty to felony manslaughter in the collision and death of suhi wee. >> we never anticipated necessarily that we were going to seek incarceration in this case. this is a case that the individual has no prior history. >> reporter: buci'

it was at hays and steiner street. woman ran a stop sign and collided with arrest ka filled with 3 people. all 4 people involved suffered moderate severe injury and just before the accident block away police say the lone female driver had struck a parked car and drove off. police could charming her with reckless driving and misdemeanor hit-and-run. >> andrew miller ceo of the video conferenceing company polly con resigned after the board found irregularity in the expense report. company not releasing specific only that the irregularity were uncovered by an internal audit. the share are off nearly 6 percent after hours trading. >> early results show apple growth has stalled. after a decade of steadily rising profit apple says it made 6.9 billion dollars last quarter down 22 percent from last year. revenue grew by 300 million but that's actually apple lowest growth rate since the debut of the i-phone 6 years ago. nevertheless apple stock down almost 300 dollars a share since last fall did shoot up more than 15 dollars af

. >> rose: the next one is rudolph steiner. jump in at any time. >> he was another central figure the show because he was a philosopher, a self-proclaimed prophet and all his life he gave lectures. he gave more than 5,000 lectures and he made these drawings and so there are -- i joke that it's powerpoint slides for his theory of the universe and there are 54 in the exhibition all from the year 1923. >> rose: next the is bruce nellman who i've been begging to be on the show for a hundred years >> this is an older piece by bruce nellman that i asked him to present in the second last room and it's a beautiful piece in which it's a self-portrait so the show starts with carlos jung and his red book, which is sort of a self-portrait and it ends with bruce nellman spinning on his head and sort of mumbling and it's one of the most touching images of what it might be like to be an artist or to try to connect to the world around us. and so i thought -- i wanted the viewer to live with that image of the excitement of being an artist. >> r