>> steve richie, assistant general manager for water. would not call it a low snowpack, it's less than median, but certainly better than 2015 and i think on par with 2016. so we fully expect the system to fill with runoff, in fact, i think hetchy should be full in another couple weeks. but yes, water bank is full and we expect the other up country reservoirs to fill as well. >> good. >> president kwon: any public comment on item 5? seeing none. other commission business, item 6. >> i have a little levity. somebody sent me this piece, it was in "the chronicle" a few weeks ago, it was the opening day when the giants moved here, so that's 60 years ago. and of course we played the dodgers, and of course they won, but that's not what i wanted to read to you. so, the city was all flitter about the fact opening day and everybody was planning on going. reported that the san francisco public utilities commission meeting covered 29 items in less than an hour. [laughter] and our president could do that, too. so, that's nice that we are remembered.

requires the retrofit of you will older and multiple wood frame residential building that have a steve richie condition overseeing house over one and 50 thousand san franciscans and are susceptible to strong damage in an earthquake because of weakness in the building lower story the ordinance is purpose to mitigate those soft story risk to damage and collapse to the strong earthquake and ground shaking and diminish the unhabitual housing following on earthquake disaster and what is the soft story buildings again wood frame built prior to 1978, two or more stores over-basement or under floor that expends below grade and cantonese 5 or more units and a soft story buildings the first story is subsidizing more flexibility than the stories above due to lack of walls or frames on the second floor those are last year open ores arrest forces restaurants and convenience stores on the ground floor often feature large windows and garage door banks leaving the building highly vulnerable to damage under earthquake again why are they soft story buildings so disparage past earthquakes should demonstrated th

i would like to just show you a couple of photos, i know steve richie showed some photos right just after the event, but this is a photo that shows the floodwaters near their peakt about 1:40 in the afternoon of march 22, and what you are looking at there is the dam over on the left side, with the floodwaters within about a foot of the crest of the dam. which is something that you really you never want to have happen with a dam because overtopping is something that would be, that we want to completely avoid. and so at that point, and after seeing seepage on the downstream face of the dam, as you know, an emergency evacuation order went into effect and downstream folks were evacuated. on the right side, the floodwaters are actually going through two spillways, one is the main spillway, which is kind of in the center of the photo, where you kind of see the water going off a cliff and then on the far right is the auxiliary spillway, built in the 1980s, to be able to provide additional spillway capacity. this photo shows the seepage that was emanating from the downstream face of the dam durin

steve: how did you get bob richie, also known as kid rock, to endorse you?ing. and i believe that you made the connection and we started talking and we began connect ago number of shared values, our love for this country. our love for the state of michigan and doing everything we possibly could to give a voice to those who don't have a voice for themselves and the fight for those who can't fight for themselves. kid rock is a patriot who loves this nation and who is serving in his own way. and i spoke the first time about how when i was deploying to iraq the first time, in november 2007, this was when his song all summer long came out. and while i was fighting for iraqi freedom, he was raising morale among the troops. so, just excited to get the momentum. and if you want to seat rally. go to john james for senate.com and we'll have a post for you. steve: that's right. he was watching this program. saw you on tv. reached out to us and our producers and we were able to give him the information on how to get ahold of you. here's the thing. i understand last nigh