since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go >> hello, my name is jamie harper. in this episode, we are featuring the park locations in your very own backyard. this is your chance to find your heart in san francisco with someone special. golden gate park's largest body of water is this lake, a popular spot for strolling and paddling around in boats, which can be rented. created in 1893, it was designed foreboding and -- for boating. it is named for the wild strawberries that once flores. a pleasant trail follows the perimeter past huntington falls, 110 foot waterfall. two bridges connect the trail to the island. the climb to the hills summit, the highest point in golden gate park at more than four hundred feet. you can get quinces of the western side of the city through -- glim

the dc metro area is the only city to exceed that figure. >> 7 is on your side with a study that suggests eating a mediterranean diet may be healthier than just eating a low-fat diet. the study of seniors who ate a diet with lots of fruits and veggies, all of oil, yetnutts and wine had lower incidences of hearts and strokes. >> coming up what it takes to join the redskins cheerleaders. it is up for debate whether he has the moves. do you? >> coming up later tonight -- >> we are on top of the debate about organic versus frozen. is the food you are buying different nutritionally? >> get those pom-poms ready. now is your chance to try out to become a washington redskins cheerleader. >> usually, no boys are allowed. the ladies made an exception for our john gonzalez. ♪ >> these are the washington redskins cheerleaders, one of the longest winning -- running pro squads. they are busy or in the off- season. they are looking for new members. washington redskins cheerleaders are hosting their audition cup practice. what is the business of cheerleading? do i have what it takes? >> we practice about

that is why, once again, he is placing all his bets on this year's elections. ♪ >> istanbul as the only cityn the world located on two continents - europe and asia. that is significant not just from a political point of view, but earthquake researchers also keep an eye on turkey's largest city. i see tectonic plates under is and will start moving, there is a high risk of a severe earthquake, but these warnings are currently being ignored. its symbol is dealing with an increasing number of tourists and rich investors. it is a top location, which means good business for the building sector. them as moving company doing a ragg business. he is in a perfect position to see how his city is changing every day. up to seven days a week, he helps people, rich or poor, move themselves and their property. once everything is packed and loaded, he drives his moving van through the metropolis of 15 million. that drive can take several hours. >> i have more jobs than ever before. the rich are taking over whole districts in the city and pushing out the poor, but for my busine, that is good. >> his workplace,

since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go >> being a pedestrian in san francisco is not easy for anybody. >> [inaudible] people push tables and chairs outside the sidewalk. >> i have to be careful not to walk the sidewalk. it is very hard. >> sometimes people get half way across the intersection. >> you have to be alert because there is always something coming up that you need to know about. >> i learned to listen to the traffic patterns. sometimes i notice the other pedestrians, they are crossing, on occasion, i have decided i'm going to cross, too. i get to the middle of the intersection, and i find out that the light has changed. >> we need to be able to work and go from one place to the other and have public transportation. the world needs to be open. >> people on disabi

san francisco general hospital is the only trauma center in the city and county of san francisco and in the u.s. it is, in fact, i think, the best trauma center in the united states. we stand ready 24/7 to care for any injured patient in the city and county of san francisco. we also at general hospital are caring for uninsured and underinsured people who come in after injured. we also represent -- i also represent thousands of dedicated physicians, surgeons, nurses, administration and therapists who care for the hundreds of thousands of patients who come to our hospital. i have dedicated my life to providing care for injured patients in our community. it is truly a team effort to provide care for the victims of vie lertctionv crime. we rely heavily on our many trained professionals 20 help us do our work each day. after persons injured due to shooting after the scene, people go there, public firefighters and servants. the trauma surgeons, emergency physicians anesthesiologists, orthopedic surgeons, nurses, therapists and many, many others who come to help us work on the patient. and

the only city that's been in the 30s is gilroy.etting into the coldest point of the day right now right around sunrise. which is ten minutes away. napa, 71 degrees today. i'm forecasting a record. and the last time we hit 71 in napa was 2008. not that far back. what i can tell you is, it's highly unusual to be this warm even for the final day of february. we're only 21 days away from spring now, but still unseasonably warm, near record levels. 71 inland. 70 degrees and of t69 at the co. stick around. your seven-day outlook. as promised, here's mike with your drive. >> as you can count on, the backup on the bay bridge. they turned off the streetlights but metering lights are still on and so are the headlights as we transition from night to day. there's the backup towards west grand avenue past the end of the parking lot. we'll look out and see how things are shaping up. as we do have slowing down the east shore freeway from richmond down through berkeley and emeryville. speeds where it's orange there approaching university avenue do

since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks

new orleans is not the only city suffering from hurricane damage. people in the north are trying to rebuild after sandy. and nellie and swish beat will perform. drew brees will be at the benefit. >>> we have a lot to talk about as far as the weather goes. we have seen fies temperatures now we're seeing the opposite. >> let's see what is going on for today. >> we'll get snow but what we're dealing with is a dry atmosphere. we need to moisten things up. there will be an inch of snow temperatures this morning. we're cold enough to support the snow that will be falling. 26 degrees. rear' at 9 in edge -- we're at 9 in edge wood. bundle up as you head out. we'll get sunshine once the snow passes through. what the weekend has in store. do we see more snow in that's coming up. >>> the weekend ahead is not ray's last ride. >> the day that marks hillary clinton's last day as the secretary of state. >>> this day in history, we look back at the columbia disaster that killed seven and rocked the space program. >>> everything is up to speed here at 395 downtown. w

for the sake of the health and safety and peace of this city, the only city in this nation named afteraint we come to pray this day and we pray oh god that you would disturb us lord when we are too well pleased with ourselves and we dreamed too little when we arrived safely, because we sailed too close to the shore. disturb us lord with the abundance of things we possess we have lost our thirst for the waters of life falling in love with l we have ceased to dream of eternity and in our efforts to build a new earth we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim. disturb us lord to go more boldly and venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery where losing sight of land we will find the stars. we ask you to push back oh god the horizons of our open and into the future courage strength and things that we get in love. god we pray you will be our eyes and help us to be wise in times and honest enough to say we don't know. let this be our prayer as we go on way. let us to a place. guide us with your grace to a place where we will be safe oh god. father we pray and push bac

. >> san jose is the only city in santa clara county to allow the sale of medical marijuana. >>> the city counsel bracing for a fight today taking on the issue of marriage equality. several members are expected the counsel put it on a future agenda and also call on the city to join a case currently before the u.s. supreme court aimed at overturning the defense of marriage act. that one defines marriage is the legal union between a man and a woman. now, this question will not receive the mayor's support. in a recent interview, the mayor says while he does support civil unions and domestic partnerships, he draws the line at marriage. >>> mother nature is still a little bit sad about the 49ers loss. >> right? >> i still say she's a raiders fan. >> that's true. >> she's got her colors right. let's go, oakland, although we want to forget about last season. temperatures are looking good as you can see. it's kind of a dreary day out there. not a great day to go out there and bathe in the sun, but you might find a sliver of sunshine in san jose. 51 degrees down there. 52 in livermore and 53 i

restoration of a previously eliminated domestic violence policy analyst position, who had been the only city staff position focused on domestic violence. and the one last comment i want to say, obviously in 2012, we had a significant public discourse on domestic violence, but i would state despite the recent controversy everybody agrees we need to do more to increase our safety net, everyone from our mayor and district attorney to our sheriff and all you have our colleagues believe that we need to do more. so that being said, hopefully this will take that a step forward and again, i want to thank everyone for participating in this and introduce our district attorney and i believe you have a presentation. >> thank you, so much, mr. president, for your leadership in this area. i am introducing this, as well as thank you to all of you who supported this and co-sponsored. good morning mr. chair and members of committee and good morning to everyone else. before i start my presentation. we're going to play for you a quick audio and it is an audio of a real 911 call in a domestic violence case and

this is something that's been decided 16 17 years ago, 1996. >> for the record san jose is the only city in santa clara county allowing the sale of medical marijuana. today's hearing starts at 11:00. >>> 4:35. san jose city council will take on the issue of marriage equality today. several council members are expected to request the council put a resolution supporting marriage equality on a future agenda and call on the city to join a case currently before the u.s. supreme court that is aimed at overturning the defense of marriage act. they will not receive the mayor's support. in a recent interview with san jose inside, the mayor said while he supports civil unions he draws the line at marriage. >> it is 4:36 right now. time to check in with christina loren to find out what is going on outside. what can you tell us young lady? >> not too bad out there. good morning. we do have low clouds overhead but nothing like yesterday morning. visibility levels will drop off as we head through the next few hours. i expect more low cloud cover hovering above the bay area. it will be a murky day to s

a lot of people talking about new york and making that comparison chicago was not the only city dealing with an increase in murder. it's up by 12 percent say was also dealing with something similar is the fact that we went over the 500 number that got us national attention in new york the number was a little over 400 murders. chicagos beautiful skyline to a stunning views but staring down completely different pictures. while chicago is battling the title as the nation's murder capital new york three times our size celebrates its lowest murder rate in half a century. their laws are stronger when it comes to guns. anita alvarez points to stiffer sentences for gun crimes as one key difference between the two cities the minimum sentence here is one year which means we have seen cases where sometimes the have only served 61 days n.y., the minimum three and a half years. if mandatory minimums existed in the state of illinois michael ward would not have been on the street to commit this heinous act. that is gary mccarthy talking about one of the suspects in the pendleton case he is on probatio

they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth,

the big flood is coming, we better start building the ark. >> new york city isn't the only city laggingin rising sea levels an not every problem can be solved by building walls. >> so here in boston you have the problem so many east coast cities are facing. we built the city on the water. >> steven flynn is a leading advocate for investigating big in projects that make the u.s. more resilient to disaster. >> on a scale of 1-10 how prepared are we right nowen the northeastern u.s.? >> on the scale oven with-10, we're in roughly a 3 range. >> 3? >> we have been whistling by the graveyard too long when it comes to dealing with a major weather event especially in the northeast. >> one place to start, he say, could be power grids and transit systems, critical yet storm vulnerable infrastructure that gives coastal cities life. >> americans basically have got themselves into thinking bad events are things somebody else is supposed to prevent from happening. >> prevent and pay for. take for example the choices now facing the people of breezy point. >> did these people have any protection at all

i watched him soon become the director of city purchasing and then going on to become the director of public works. i think ed is the only mayor in city history that can carry tlau on the campaign promise to fill the potholes because he actually knows how and he's the only mayor in city history that can say he actually knows every single city street because his crews probably paved them. i have had the privilege of working alongside ed for many years in city government. he has always been a cherished colleague and friend to everyone in city hall. he's done the job, he gets the job done, never wanting credit, just the satisfaction of doing the right thing for the people he serves in the city and county of san francisco. i was thinking about the introduction of mayor ed lee lastity and we'll taking the time to think about ed as mayor and ed as leader. i've been lucky to know every single mayor in san francisco since my birth and mayor lee is quickly taking his place among the very best. i've seen ed grow into the mayor's role with great ease and aplomb and there's no surprise there. mayor lee is focusing on young people an

the confidence to believe that our problems could be cured. he not only arrested the decline and showed that the unruly city was governable, he not only restore the fiscal health and made us that nation's economic engine, not only building affordable housing, not only made new york city once again a national leader in equal rights, arts, and culture, but he did something even more important. he restored the ark of our nation's city. before, we had lost our way. thanks to him, we became great again. that was not inevitable. ed made it so. the city we know today would not exist without him. everything that rudy giuliani and i have accomplished is built on the foundation that ed laid. it is a foundation that is strong and unshakable as his faith in the genius and beauty of new york and his faith in god. you will be happy to know that i have been to my biblical research. it is only fiction that this -- fitting that this torah portion is about moses leading the jews out of egypt. ed was our moses, but with a little less hair. [laughter] he did not part of the red sea, but he broke out a strike i shouting words of encouragement. just as moses died b

i have been telling everybody, the big flood is coming, we better start building the ark. >> new york city isn't the onlyg behind in rising sea levels an not every problem can be solved by building walls. >> so here in boston you have the problem so many east coast cities are facing. we built the city on the water. >> steven flynn is a leading advocate for investigating big in projects that make the u.s. more resilient to disaster. >> on a scale of 1-10 how prepared are we right now in the northeastern u.s.? >> on the scale 1 to 10, we're in roughly a 3 range. >> 3? >> americans basically have got themselves into thinking bad events are things somebody else is supposed to prevent from take for example the choices now facing the people of breezy point. >> did these people have any protection at all? >> they have no protection at all. we're looking towards the ocean. you cannot see it behind this. it's about a quarter of a mile from us it's flat, as flat as a football field. >> malcolm boman says the construction of sand dunes 30 feet high would have been enough to keep breezy point dry, a project that cou

duplicative to the money in the self-insurance fund and it will help to stream line the process for not only the city, the administrator and the contractors. and so we are looking at alternatives to the letter of credit of being able to issue some form of collateral that is effective to the surty companies to keep the program going in a stream lined fashion. we are going to continue to review the processes for efficiency and effectiveness. there will be further 14 d clean upcoming up down the line and we will be using that process to make additional recommendations to the program efficiencies. in this current legislation, we just wanted to make sure that deal with what we consider to be some what of a no brainer, in that it does, it has a very immediate impact with without a whole lot of down side. and essentially. and then, we are also going to take a look at options to increase the types of contracts that are allowed to participate in the program, we are also partnering with mta to make sure that we can use federal moneys, through this program, and that their subcontractors can have access to a sur

is a performance based contract lends it to itself if you are low bidder which is actually the only way the city charter says you can actually get work in construction by being low bidder, if you get the job, you're not excluded from competing. and, so, you build your capacity [speaker not understood]. that's what we're here for. thank you again for the opportunity. >> just a question. on the low margin issue, are you saying you negotiate a contract with the puc and then they come back with an amendment because they change their mind about the kind of carpet they wanted? >>> no, the scope of the work is undefined. so, when you do civil work, a rock is a rock is a rock. it doesn't have a brand name. so, it's very simple to pre-price rock and concrete and pipe. but when you get inside the building and you say you're going to get a light fixture, what kind of light fixture? i want that light fixture. that light fixture is not in the book. so, i have to go out and solicit that specific light fixture and tell you exactly what the price of that light fixture is and then it's predetermined how much mar

american city which is so very different from any other place, that really represents the soul of america through culture, art, music, historic preservation. you know our history, we are the only city in the nation that had the flag of france and spain it is just a very rich place. and the nation also got to witness really probably one of the worst days that was seen with so many american citizens left behind it was a tragic moment in that building just outside of our window that had 13,000 american citizens in it. it had the roof peeling off of it. it was just a bad time. and since that time the people of new orleans did something that i think is pretty miraculous. they didn't accept the fact that the city was going to continue dying. in fact, katrina and rita didn't cause all of our problems. we had many of them before the storm started. but what happened was the people like james and mary, julia, other people came back and said you know what, the place is worth saving. the new orleans people themselves said we're not leaving. they began slowly to stand back off, to kind of dry off to say to themselves, you know, this is a very bad thing that happened to us. we had 500,000 h

city. but they want to keep the as, raiders around warriors in the same complex to create a stadium mall, shopping, apartments, what not. it's the only city in the bay area that has three of the six major pro franchises. >> reporter: these guidelines would be the first significant move from the baseball commissioner's office since the committee was set up after the as first unveiled plans to move to san jose years ago. the story doesn't mention the specific guidelines and leaders of both the giants and the as aren't commenting. live in the newsroom, cate caugiran, kpix 5. >>> new developments in the murder case against olympian oscar pistorius. a judge may decide today whether to allow him out on bail. he is charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend. now we're learning the lead detective in the investigation is facing attempted murder charges in an unrelated shooting. also today, nike announced that it is suspending its endorsement contract with the runner. sports bar company has supplied the sprinter with running gear and special soles for his racing blades since 2007. >>> san jose city leaders say they have no interest in c