and the city's best interest to promote the city and the trees. unfortunately it came too late until the project where it's physically impossible to put them in for city and pg & e requirement and underground utilities. this building 1190 mission is the second phase of 2000 apartments and we are under way on the third phase which will result in us changing the sidewalk for the entire distances of 8 street. we will be removing the parking late to support with dpw and we'll be doing a very extensive planting program, not only street industries but also some green ways from what you see on the golden gate avenue. we hope we'll come up with a solution for this portion of 8th street in front of 1190. our only thoughts are that we have to be able to do it above the surface in planters probably trees or shrubs, we don't know at this point in time. unfortunately with the opening of the 1190 mission street on july first 1st and in order to get all of our requirements up, we were not able to respond to what we want to do in that area and make sure that whatever we came up with coincided with what we are going to do there. we are in agreement with the city's goals and

the lines could cause arcing. amid a temporary loss of 110 megawatts, energy used to power buses, city hall, streetlamps and the airport. the city is paying pg25,000 a day to help make up the difference. >> currently, we're visually inspecting the lines. hopefully, we can bring them back to service soon. >> reporter: san francisco utilities are monitoring the fire's path. in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> in the continued effort to combat the spread of west nile virus, vector control is planning to fog parts of milpedes. the fogging is set to start tonight at 11:00. this is the second time that crew has been out fogging that area. tomorrow night vector control crews in contra costa county will be out spraying for mosquitoes. east to west between sellers avenue and brentwood boulevard. >>> neighbors evacuated. a home destroyed by fire, and a bay area family left homeless. the small mistake that caused these big problems. >> then, how safe is that bus your child rides on? we went along an inspection, and >>> a small mistake causes huge problems. take a look at what happened when the driver hit the gas instead of the

the lines could cause arcing. amid a temporary loss of 110 megawatts, energy used to power buses, city hall, streetlamps and the airport. the city is paying pg and e $25,000 a day to help make up the difference. >> currently, we're visually inspecting the lines. hopefully, we can bring them back to service soon. >> reporter: san francisco utilities are monitoring the fire's path. in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> in the continued effort to combat the spread of west nile virus, vector control is planning to fog parts of milpedes. the fogging is set to start tonight at 11:00. this is the second time that crew has been out fogging that area. tomorrow night vector control crews in contra costa county will be out spraying for mosquitoes. east to west between sellers avenue and brentwood boulevard. >>> neighbors evacuated. a home destroyed by fire, and a bay area family left homeless. the small mistake that caused these big problems. >> then, how safe is that bus your child rides on? we went along an inspection, and we'll show you what it reveals about school buses on bay area road. >> after days of fire danger, the chan

the utilities commission de- energized transmission lines from two of three hydro electric plants. it's meant a temporary loss of 110 megawatts, energy used to power buses, city hall, street lamps and the airport. the city is paying pg&e $25,000 a day to help make up the difference. >> currently, we're visually inspecting the lines. and hopefully, we can bring them back up to service soon. >> reporter: hetch hetchy water is not being used to fight the fire. and officials say the drinking water supply is not in danger, though they continue to monitor the fire's path tonight. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> more details now. the two hydroelectricken electric plants have been shut down as a precaution. they are between the hetch hetchy and the sight of the rim fire. normally, these two powerhouses run huge turbines that convert the water into electric power. >>> ground and air attacks are being launched to contain the rim fire. it has shut down highway 120, the main gateway into yosemite national park and it continues to spread through the stanislaus national forest, burning not far from the town of groveland and yosemite national forest. ken wayne joins us now live. he has be

the power lines and start even more fires. >> that meant the loss of 110 megawatts a day of power for the city of sfraen san francisco. it's paying $25,000 a day to pg&e for back up electricity. >>> now to our continuing coverage of a car crash and in the oakland hills today, authorities say an 89-year-old woman lost control of her car at a stop sign. she apparently stopped on the gas instead of the break. this is in the sequoia hills neighborhood. the camry hit a gas meter and a burn fired a house, a garage. and a neighbor helped the woman out of her car. she was treated at the scene. >> i went and pulled this lady out. >> firefighters evacuated neighboring homes as a precaution. >>> one week from tonight issue the bay bridge is scheduled to close -- tonight, the bay bridge is scheduled to close, the opening of the eastern span. >> however, before it opens, the entire bridge will be closed for five days beginning next wednesday night. during that time, workers will anchor the $6.4 billion span to the island and complete work mere the toll plaza. today, the highway patrol let us know its plan for stopping traffic. >> we're going to do rolling traffi

the rates are competitive with pg&e? >> right. >> if it's clear that the city -- that we do not want future dependency on recs. and that all roads lead to this program creating and funding local living wage jobs that are unionized. and that's really all we're trying to say. >> that's what we want. >> that's what we want. the rates have to be competitive because if they're not competitive, nobody will buy it. if nobody buys it, there's no cash. if there's no cash, then none of this other stuff comes into being. >> right. >> who has the best notes to -- help us make this motion? >> i'll go after director [speaker not understood]. >> [speaker not understood]. greenhouse gas emission and/or supporting renewable energy just to make sure that is in there somewhere. >> yes. well, i mean, once again, that's the part of the issue about the lack of dependency on the recs because local, you know. so that our goal -- that our goal as a city in terms of renewable energy and our renewable energy policies. so, i take that as a friendly amendment. >> as a friendly amendment. >> although you're not a commissioner. >> i don't know

the city's reliance on ghg emitting and toxic air pollutant emitting by switching to shell, the city wishes to [inaudible] resource portfolio, shell's portfolio that has a higher of known fossil fuel projection than pg&e, shell's non-fuel resource mix [inaudible] credits. today's action may also result in changed rates of air pollutant emissions from existing fossil fuel facilities, by switching to shell, the city changes the source of generation for sf customers from facilities that serve pg&e's load to facilities that serve shell's load, that different facility may be operating on the margin to facilitate the city's demand, this changes the rate of air pollutant emission from the facilities, if the program is a success and increases demand enough to cause corruption of non-renewable generation in its new phase, they will result in new impacts such as conversion of agricultural demands [inaudible] staff's proposal until an eir has been prepared, thank you. >> thank you very much, david mcord, sierra club. >> welcome. >> david mcord and i'm the chair of the sierra club bay chapter energy committee. we've got before you now a not to exceed rate that has been brought to be competitive with pg&e's rate

and commercial corridor in san francisco. especially where there are high concentrations of businesses. the san francisco energy watch program is a partnership between the city and county of san francisco and pg&e, the small business owners qualified for high incentives and turn-key service and energy assessment at no cost and followed by a full project management by the staff. and this turn-key services are beneficial to small business owners who have limited time to examine today's technology on the market today. >> we need of the financial help to the retrofit, and the program staff presents the optional pg&e financing. we have a 0 percent interest loan, they are also looking at this possibility through the power and staff or the water bill to offer great flexibility for the larger projects. >> the opportunity for improvement including lighting, and heating and ventilation and air-conditioning and the computer management network. here are a few case studies of small and medium sized businesses, you may be able to see that the incentive is better for each one of them and that is because it is based on the energy savings identifying the business and so the higher the energy savings, and iden

cities here. the fire is also threatening san francisco's water and power fly because it's burning so close to hedge hetchy reservoir where the city gets most of its water. pg&e had to shut down two hydroelectric plants at risk and the governor declared a state of emergency warning it could cause an interruption of the water service. however, that could change. an official told us last night the fire is burning less than four miles away from the water and it's headed that direction. >> it's quite possible it could reach it with the movement. the fire behavior is so unusual it's hard to predict anything. >> yosemite national park is open but the entrance on highway 120 remains closed. crews are also working to protect two groves of sequoias in the vicinity, but at this point, they say the fire appears to be moving away from the giant iconic trees. most of the park has been unaffected. the fire is burning 20 miles from yosemite valley and a spokesman for the park told me there were blue skies over the valley today. you can see here this morning, no blue skies here. a lot of smoke, you can see the sun in the distance glowing pink there. the real concern is for

the program were unwarranted. as of this month, we are serving over 120 thousand customers throughout marine county and the city of richmond. because of our existence, any customers in our region can choose pg&e's 19% renewable program, our light green 50% renewable program or our deep green renewable program, those are three choices, right now in san francisco, there is only one, we bring in revenue and we are solely funded through a revenue stream of rate payers, not tax payers, our rates are competitive and lower than pg&e rates for almost all customer classes, i have a joint comparison that we compared with pg&e and mailed out to all customers in our shared territory last month and i'm happy to share that with you all. >> thank you. >> we have contracted for power since our launch from 17 different supply contracts. many of these are to build new california based renewable supply. quite a few of which have launched just in the last six months, that's again new renewable energy supply being built to serve our customers in california, that's what's happening with our agency, we're creating new jobs and creating more renewable energy under the grid under long term 20 and 25 year contract,

the city has won a few but pg & e has won most. i was involved in a case where three conduits were under our force main. by our city, with the knowledge of sf puc and they tried to put the blame on pg & e to compromise our force main. when the public gets home, we the public, we need the experts to discuss factual stuff. we know pg & e is going to fight you and you need to fight pg & e. >> your time is up. >> next speaker please. anyone else would like to comment? seeing no one. public comment is closed. >> next item. >> schedules of rates and charges of the san francisco public utilities commission power enterprise for phase one of the clean power sf community choice aggregation program for renewable power procurement within san francisco. >> today i can like to talk to you about the history of the program, just a few reminders. talk a little bit about the program and how it's designed and how we vision it and how we have revised it and made a change to make it a more viable program than it has been in the past. first, as you all know in 2004 the board of supervisors voted to implement as part of it's energy resource program and a way to decrease

the explosion. pg&e is quoted as saying the utility would have to sell more stock to pay the fine and that pg&e could be forced into bankruptcy. city officials say several financial experts, including one hired by pg&e, have given testimony that contradicts the claim that bankruptcy is a possibility. >>> a big bay area university, the target of an investigation. claims students made about how that school handled sexual assault accusations. >>> school buss are bus -- school buses are hitting bay area roads. >> i thought it was going to pull my leg off. >> also, surviving a shark attack. a bay area man recounts his harrowing ordeal, just as the same north bay beach is closed due to a shark sighting. 0!ockÑ?çóxo?Ñ=çñÑñçvxqx?ñññ?óioy >>> happening now, justin herman plaza in san francisco. this is where supporters of bradley manning are gathered this hour. a military judge sentenced manning today for giving military secrets to the wikileaks websites years ago. manning was sentenced to 35 years in military prison. the former army intelligence analyst faced up to 90 years in prison, after being found guilty last month of 20 criminal coun

again, i've asked and appreciated the work of our city administrator to head up the lifelines council. while we're all watching boston we know what happened in san jose it involved but pg&e and i want you know know our lifeline emergency services. we're focused on the lifelines council we at one point make sure not just our water and sewer but ear electrical services our would it be fair to say that serve ♪ the private sector can get to those areas when there are events that occur we have to thibe on top of that. so those are all the things i wanted to report on and keep abreast of the practice, practice, practice sessions and the more we face the ineventually, we'll be ready so our public deserves this thanks everybody for work. >> mr. mayor you'll be hearing presentations on some of the subjects that the mayor touched on today. i'll be brief i want to give an update on the bay project. this is the recreational data communications system that will allow responders to communicate on a smart type of device so the realtime video the apps are being refined we've got to grants to start to bill this out there's been a lot of braerts in washington. basically, it's been on ho

and make their repairs. in the meantime, they are -- well, they have to deal with pg&e to provide enough power for the city of san francisco. and they are buying power on the open market. right now, that bill is getting close to a million dollars. reporting live from mariposa county, i'm ken bastida, kpix 5. >> all right, ken. thanks. dozens of firefighters from across the bay area have joined the fight against the "rim" fire. just this morning, a group from alameda county packed their bags and headed for yosemite. in fact, so many bay area fire crews are working there there aren't a lot left to spare, especially in one county. we'll talk more about that tonight at 6:00. >>> those firefighters could certainly use a break from the weather and paul joins us now. are they going to get one? >> they could use a break. they are not going to see much of a break there. humidity is up a little bit and temperatures aren't that hot. the wind isn't that bad. but as we look at the weather computer for yosemite and that fire area for the next couple of days, it is still going to be dry. it is still going to be sunny. and i

in san francisco today under combination of rebates from the city and county of san francisco and from the california solar initiative. you know, pg&e takes that power through an energy metering transaction. the rec is, as you've mentioned, is an unbundled rec. and that was designed in a way that hopefully down the road creates more economic value and more incentive for the solar panel. so, in that case, having an unbundled -- an unbundled rec could help promote one part of green energy which is self-generated rooftop solar. there are other traction transactions where it wouldn't look so good. >> thank you. any other questions? >> i just want to -- wait, commissioner king. >> sure. i fear asking another question and get a lengthy answer. i'd like to speak for people who don't follow this stuff every day. so, i'm going to ask a very simple question. does a rec, this unit, use the count renewable energy, right? does that mean that when san francisco purchases a rec, right, that we're getting a unit of a megawatt of energy from the same place that we're getting the rec from? >> no. >> no. >> if you buy an unbundled rec, no. >> okay.