in 2007, the city approved an economic strategy which identified the experience sector as a key sector for the city economy. the sectors that support those businesses -- we think this supports that goal of the economic strategy by enhancing and expanding the user experience of the city. it ultimately provides opportunities for visitors to stay longer and do more in the city and support the overall city economy, and overall job creation. i just wanted to express that. president buell: think you very much. vice president harrison: these are battery-driven, i understand. they need to be recharged, and understand. i was wondering how that is going to be achieved in a good way. >> i would like to introduce the property manager with the department. >> it will have a charging station at the kiosk and in the storage container to charge overnight and between each tour. vice president harrison: and they will be using the power from the band shell? >> we are working out the electrical logistics now. vice president harrison: ok. thank you. >> we do have public comment. i am going to go ahead and read off a list of nam

consider what it might mean to lose something like an oracle open world and how that can impact the city's economy. the president and ceo of this san francisco the visitors center brings creative leadership to this industry. he took the helm in 2006, previously ran the portland, oregon visitors association. the bureau is one of the largest membership-based agencies in the country employing a staff of 80. under his leadership, san francisco passed the tourism and improvement district, which creates a sustainable funding model for tourism promotions and also for the future of the convention center. joe will tell us about future plans and why a convention center is so important to our economic vitality. please welcome joe alessandro. >> thank you, it is great to be here. these issues and project we are talking about are so important to this city, not only for its vitality but for quality of life, which is dependent on the future of the city. i want to talk about the state of where we are, talk about the current renovations going on. their error potential expansion some areas. and then a brief comment

of commerce says employees being relocated spent thousands in oakland and it's going to hurt the city's economy. we're going to have more for you as well at 6:00 tonight. >> coming up, from 7 on your side efforts to stop pg&e from charging customers to help pay for the san bruno disaster. >> pick up accident creating quite a back up on the 880 freeway this afternoon. >> and seasons are changing tonight. with it comes a change in the temperatures. we're talking about a big warm up for the fall. i'm sandhya patel. we'll talk about it coming up. >> plus, a san francisco sandwich shop sensation gets a home and a new customer policy. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> here is what it lookedded like after a pick up driver lost dronl of his truck this afternoon. sky 7 was over the scene. northbound truck landed on top of the center median, blocking traffic in both directions. the chp says the driver was hurt and has not been able to talk with investigators. >> crews have finished repair to a water pipeline in pleasant hills that has broken twice in a week. the eight inch ma

oakland but the employees being relocated spend thousands of dollars in oakland and it will hurt the city's economy. >> we'll have 500 less people walking around the plaza i would expect. difficult to determine what the financial impact would be. taxes are not based on the number of employees. so it would be more what's it gonna mean to the local retailers? >> the clorox employee move is scheduled to be completed late next year. >> san francisco will not be levying a fee on sodas anytime soon. mayor newsom said he's abandoned his much public sided plans to charge a fee for sugary drinks. he wanted to charge big box stores but not restaurants. he's running for re-election and his opponent slammed him as chief of the food police but the mayor found a better way to encourage healthier drinks and an announcement will be coming soon. >> 5:06. the announcement on the weather forecast comes right now. >> and the drink you may want to load up on, water. plenty in the days ahead. >> that's great advice, kristen, as it's going to be hot and the hottest all year. starting cool this morning with a few clouds h

. >>> clorox is about to ship 700 workers out of oakland in a move that could jolt the city's economy and real estate markets. the company is take 500 employees and 200 contract workers out of its oakland office tower and moving them to pleasanton in order to consolidate research and development operations. up to 1,000 workers will stay in oakland occupying the upper half of a 24 story high-rise. that will create 12 floors of empty office space. in addition, there will be 700 fewer people doing business with local merchants. >>> 6:21. a bay area cheerleading coach accused of stealing funds. >> plus, the popular sandwich shop opening again in san francisco. how you can place an order. a san francisco state cheerleading coach has been charged with embezzling nearly ,, een, what are you doing? just brewing up some dunkin' donuts coffee -- want some? [ whoosh! ] i'd love some. one taste, and you'll understand. delicious dunkin' donuts coffee. pick some up where you buy groceries. america runs on dunkin'. i thought it was over here... ♪ [car horn honks] our outback always gets us there...

in d.c., the lottery proceeds go to the district's general funds which used to aid the city's economy through program such as education, public safety and housing. in virginia, all lottery proceeds are used for public educati for kindergarten through t 12th grade. in maryland, lottery proceeds to go state funded program which support causes such as human seices, public safety and education. >> our next question come from paula in arlington. she said she's heard people smoking electronic ecigarettes. she wants to know what is it and is it safe? >> i didn't know what it was. paula, we checked with the food and drug administration for this answer. it says that electronic cigarettes are battery pwered devices that are an alternative regular cigarettes. they are designed to deliver the same nicotine found in a normal cigarette in the form of vapor. and they're normally made to look like a regular cigarette. now the fda says that it hasn't evaluated any ecigarettes for safety or effectiveness. however it did find significant quality issues where some ecigarettes delivered higher nicotine le

but this is good for the environment, good for the economy, and a san francisco can do this, cities acrosscalifornia and cities across america can do this. i will remind you of the great line by michelangelo, who said that the biggest risk is not that we aim to hawaii and miss but that we aim to low and --. it would have been easy for us to have a goal of 50% recycling rate by 2020. a lot of states, a lot of cities across the state, that will be tow%8x4ç:vw1qs8mna ++%uq when you do that, you get people to organize that quality of imagination, where people in the private sector and public sector, using the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit coming up with new ideas and attitudes that may seem untoward or a little controversial or extreme at first, but suddenly, when you peel it back and look back two or three years, you go, "my gosh, that makes so much since." if you make a few mistakes in the process, but ultimately, you create a goal that is accomplished that becomes an example for other people and other cities to achieve with similar goals and accomplish similar efforts. we are really

city and the motor city. saying both were hard hit by the tough economy. turns out neither city liked the comparison. the mayor of detroit blasted whitman. fresno has an unemployment rate of 14.5%, two points higher than the state average. whitman has a fund-raiser tomorrow night. guess where? you're right. fresno. >>> uc berkeley laying off hundreds of workers to cope with the state budget crisis. they plan to cut 200 more. that will be added to the 600 positions already cut last year after they forced the school to reduce expenses by 140 million. those cuts are expected to happen after january, uc berkeley some $20 million. tomorrow, a federal judge in san jose will decide whether all executions in california can resume. executions were stopped back in 2006 because an inmate claimed the pros was cruel. and if tomorrow's ruling is in favor of the process, convicted murderer albert greenwood brown would be first in line. he abducted, raped, and killed a 15-year-old girl. he is scheduled to die on wednesday at 12:01 a.m. he would be the first to be executed in california for almost five years. >>> an

that had to do with the stock market general economy. the city's policy has been to smooth out those losses. even if we were earning a pretty decent rate, we would have to make up for that loss over the next five years, and that will be represented in an increase, right? dodge what you said is exactly correct, supervisor. if i could take half a minute to address something that supervisor maxwell mentioned earlier. the systems all of this year has fluctuated in value between 13 and $13.5 billion. what i want to point out to you is that our high water mark, it was about three years ago for a sustainable period. there was actually one day where we jumped over 17 billion. even though that was the high water mark, the point to want to make is this. we are using the term $3 billion-loss. i don't like using that term "loss." i don't think it is accurate for this. you don't have a loss until you write it off. i wanted to tell you that we have not been recognizing losses. if you read about other major funds having major write-offs and real estate projects,

city's recovery. >>> a major auto maker is one huge key to that plan that is expected to and tens of millions of the dollars to that city's economynd is already adding new jobs. the full story coming up in 30 minutes on tv 36. that is our show for tonight. i'm frank somerville. >> and i'm julie haener. thank you for joining us. introducing the samsung fascinate powered by verizon. super amoled screen. six-axis 3d gaming and access to thousands of free apps. all in one ultra-thin package.

the wider south east. and we are determined to wean the economy off labour's lop sided obsession with financial services in the city of london. rebalancing our economy - so opportunity is never again concentrated only in the south east corner of our island. so no matter what your background or where you live, you have the opportunities you crave. the destination is the right one but getting there is going to be hard. to those thousands of people who work in the public sector, who do such an outstanding job in our schools, hospitals, police forces and local councils, i say this: i know these are very unsettling times for you. i will not disguise the fact that we need to take difficult decisions today to ensure there are good, affordable public services tomorrow. we have protected the funding for the nhs, the biggest public service of all. we will provide more, not less, money for the children in our schools who need the most help. but i know you will be thinking: why should you have to make any sacrifices to deal with a recession you didn't cause? why are the bankers who helped create the mess not taking more of the

francisco bay area and across the country, these forthcoming economic benefits could not come at a better time, and they will provide a welcome boost to our city's economy and the entire region. this transfer of the space took a team effort between all of us -- to a team effort. all of us wanted to have the best possible agreement, not only for san francisco and the bay area, but for the u.s. taxpayer, which everyone here is, so this is about your money and your community. let's do this in the best possible way. it is a low priority for all of us in the office here, and i want to commend senator feinstein and boxer for all of their leadership to help procure an agreement to help transfer this land. partnered with mayer brown earlier, and now with mayor newsom, to keep the city's interest front and center. they were great leaders. and with the governor to engage key republican members of the house on services committee. i do not know if anyone was here from the state, but i thank the governor for the help with republican members. those republican members joined our chairman to include provisions in last year's defense bill to expedite overdue based trans

would bring increased vitality to the neighborhood, increased spending in the city that would help overall -- the overall economy. when we look at the political will, we look at financing options and opportunities to take next that's. the best opportunity is mosconi east in 2008. that would be a perfect time live from what we believe meets the demand that is growing at the moment. the last thing i want to talk about his proposition j, the proposition to increase the hotel tax. it increases it two points, 14%. it just went up 13% two years ago, so we would have a 25% increase in hotel taxes in just a few years. it is important to know that the customers pay this tax. san francisco would have the highest hotel tax in the country. new york did the same thing a few years ago. new york had the highest rate in the nation and the business collapsed. hotel spending went down, they lost meetings, conventions, and in an emergency situation, they lowered the tax. in new york budget office said that when they had a lower hotel tax, it generated more revenue because more people came into town. we have had five groups present

instability of this fits the people who are in the insurgent since it's all of that sector of the city with russia's economy is here we're not talking about nato being russia's enemy or all russia being paid enemies the fact is that we've got to deal with these problems needs to be part of our community of values so that we knew what we would defend. what's our full interview with former nato had george roberts in about fifteen minutes time here in r.t.e. now thousands of farmers in india are opposing government plans to build a new highway on their land with two thirds of country's population dependent on agriculture land acquisition is a sensitive an explosive issue as artie's current saying reports. indian farmers took to the capital recently in protest against a government takeover of the land to build a new two billion dollar highway this followed the deaths of three farmers were killed after police opened fire on protesters in the state of the top of this. we will not keep learnt for development attorney crops that any price at any price we're ready to die and will not allow anyone to step in or learn

many of them abandoned homes and other vacant structures in sections of the motor city hit hard by the struggling economy. eight of the fires started when power lines were downed by heavy sustained winds. the flames whipped by strong gusts up to 50 miles per hour, sending plumes of smoke into the air. >> it was chaos. seemed like they couldn't get it under control. >> reporter: many tinder dry adjoining structures caught fire from the flying sparks. >> i have never seen fire move like that. you couldn't see. there was so much smoke just looking like debris from a tornado. >> reporter: today, detroit's mayor praised the motor city's first responders. >> they just did a yeoman's job under some terrible, terrible conditions to make sure that there was no loss of life. >> reporter: hundreds of firefighters responded, many from the suburbs, called in for the first time since the 1967 riots here. today, there is criticism detroit's emergency services have been cut too thin. >> the fire department got here too late. they got here late. >> reporter: these fires just another blow to a still proud city that has se

showing what our city is made of. >> reporter: looks like this is one problem that won't get fixed any time soon. it will cost $000 to build the wall and the city can't afford it until the economymproves. ou have a problem that needs fixing or a government service that isn't working upload the video on our website. don't forget to include a phone number and e-mail address where we can contact you. for the i-team, dan noyes, abc 7 news. >>> in san jose a program has children and parents walking in a pact two and from school. calling this the walking school bus at bagby elementary. they started it because of budget cuts to transportation. the police chief says it means more parents dropping off children in cars and suvs and the congestion could be frustrating. it is a reminder for people to show down and pay attention in school zones. >> this is our community. these are our kids. if we don't do something to try and create our own traffic safety zones around the schools then nobody is going to do it. >> another benefit, kids and parents spend more time together and they get some exercise. >>> a courthouse car bombing 0 years ago. when abc 7 news at 9:00 continues tonight, the envi

francisco bay area and across the country, these forthcoming economic benefits could not come at a better time, and they will provide a welcome boost to our city's economy the entire region. this transfer of the space took a team effort between all of us -- to a team effort. all of us wanted to have the best possible agreement, not only for san francisco and the bay area, but for the u.s. taxpayer, which everyone here is, so this is about your money and your community. let's do this in the best possible way. it is a low priority for all of us in the office here, and i want to commend senator feinstein and boxer for all of their leadership to

i think we need to do everything we can to help our city really grow, not just the are cystic -- the artistic community but our city's artistic economy. we need to promote breast core values of activity, community, and activism. i want to thank those of you with the foundation and the community for all you have been doing both for san francisco for the world and for our wonderful public spaces in our city. thank you. [applause] >> it is a real privilege to be able to serve the community with the black rock foundation's work. this is where our roots are, and this is where a lot of our activity happens. although we are expanding worldwide, the burning man organization is world renowned, and a lot of people do not understand or realize that the black rock arts foundation supports artists all year round, and we have a big presence in san francisco. have you all see in the rocket ship down at pier 14? i highly recommend you go check it out. it is this beautiful retro futuristic looked from the 1920's or 1930's, and flash gordon comes to mind. when we were installing it, an elderly gentleman wearing a service cap -- they were veterans of f