if you haven't been to the presidio, i think you should try and make that. if you're from out of town, it's a spectacular transition there. so, these golden gate national parks that i happen to be the superintendent of has now become after 40 years the second most visited national park in our country. we get 14 million people a year that come to our parks. it has spectacular coastline, includes muir wood, alcatraz, we get to tell the stories, stories about essentially what you and your predecessors did this this area. our headquarters, fort mason, was the fisherman's wharf area was the port of embarkation for the wars in the pacific. just this week we brought in a world war ii 16-inch bottle ship gun to the marine head lands to put it up at battery townsly which would have been the pinnacle of coastal artillery in world war ii. so, we now have a canon or artillery collection that spans in our park that spans from the civil war to the cold war, including a preserve 19-missile base. some of you also know that during the 1906 earthquake, the army assisted greatl

the presidio ten honors a runner who was killed by being hit by a car while running in the presidio.> stay with abc7 and abc7news.com for the newest details on the boston bombingsup in golden gat left an ugly mess behind. thousands of people turned out for the 4/20 party celebrating marijuana at sharon meadow yesterday. lillian kim is live at golden gate park. lillian, what do you see out there now? reporter: the meadow here at golden gate park is for the most part cleaned up, but, wow, it took city workers all day to get to this point. one rec and parks employee said 11 tons of trash were left behind as a result of yesterday's 4/20 gathering. 40/20 is a celebration of marijuana that has been going on for years but yesterday leaders say the unofficial, unpermitted celebration, got out of hand. several fights broke out and we've been told there were reports of vandalism in surrounding neighborhoods. as many as 15,000 people are thought to have converged here, perhaps the largest 4/20 crowd here ever. but the few participants say the big crowd and the big mess left behind are not a big

that was built in 1936 at the same time as the bridge and at that time the presidio was an army and theyn't want civilians on their turf. and the road was built high. >> we need access and you have a 70 year-old facility that's inadequate for today's transportation needs. and in addition to that, you have the problem that it wasn't for site extenders. >> the rating for the high viaduct is a higher rating than that collapsed. and it was sapped quite a while before used and it was rusty before installed. >> a state highway through a federal national park connecting an independently managed bridge to city streets. this is a prescription for complication. >> it became clear unless there was one catalyst organization that took it on as a challenge, it wouldn't happen and we did that and for people to advocate. and the project has a structural rating of 2 out of 100. >> you can see the rusting reinforcing in the concrete when you look at the edges now. the deck has steel reinforcing that's corroded and lost 2/3's of its strength. >> this was accelerated in 1989 when the earthquake hit and cal

the presidio ten is dedicated to a jogger who was hit and killed by a car while running on the formerbase. >> stay with abc7 for all the latest developments. our coverage coins at 6:00. you can also follow the latest developments on our web site, abc7news.com. >>> little league baseball coaches got a life-saving lesson today. they attended a cpr clinic. just a week after an eight-year-old boy had to be resuscitated after his heart stopped when he was hit by a ball. tomas roman is live in roanoke park. >> that cpr class ended here in benecia park an hour ago. some coaches. coaches tell us baseball beens their life from march to june, and today they actually learned how to save a life. >> the most important thing you can do for something -- >> these people are here because a child's heart stopped. this cpr class and equipment have been donated bay local company to the cal ripken baseball little league. the students here are all cal ripken little league baseball coaches and managers and they know an eight-year-old boy would have died last week if not for cpr and a defibrillator. >> it pr

apiece, his daughter is a sophomore in high school, she asked me if i wanted to go golfing at the presidio, i said i can't walk that much, i just had my knee replaced. melinda has been an incredible partner, it's a partnership between our partners in the u.s. attorney offices and our partners in state and local government. when i think about the hate crimes cases and the other cases i've done, i've made friends for life with local law enforcement officers, with local da's and local community leaders who have been our eyes and ears. when i look around this audience i really appreciate the fact you have all the ingredients of reform and improvement. i have had the privilege of serving in the federal government, as melinda described, i've had the privilege of serving in state government as a state cabinet official back in maryland, i've had the privilege of serving as a local elected official and governor -- once a local elected official, always a local elected official. what i learned from that is partnership is what it's all about. if you want to confront the most vexing problems, you have

looking back from the golden gate bridge to presidio, you are more aware of the park land and less ofthe viaduct will parallel the existing one and to the south and can be built while the existing one remains in operation. and the two bridges there with open space between them and your views constantly change and not aware of the traffic in the opposite direction and notice the views more. and the lanes of course are a foot wider than they are today. and they will be shoulders and if your car is disabled, you can pull off to the edge. and the next area, the tunnel portal will have a view centered on the palace of fine arts and as you come out, you can see alkatrez island and bay. and the next area is about 1,000 feet long. and when you come into one, you can see through the other end. it's almost like driving through a building than through a tunnel. and noise from the roadway will be sheltered. and the traffic will be out of view. >> when you come out of the last sort tunnel and as you look forward, you see the golden dome of the palace of fine arts and what more perfect way to come

every day when we drive through the presidio she'll say, "oh goody, you're taking me through the enchanted forest." [music] >> my name amr a.mahmoud. i am like 49 years old. i have been driving cab more than 13 year in general. then i drove a ramp more than 3 years. this is my fourth now. i have been enjoying doing the job. i like every moment of it. >> thank you amr. [music} >> hi, my name is peter and i'm a paratransit driver for medsam, and this is north and south of market where i pick up my group and drop them off at home. >> thank you , peter! [singing] you are my sunshine. very good driver. she says driver is very good. number 1. [music] larry mingo, mobility plus driver, san francisco paratransit. >> thank you, mingo. >> you're welcome. >> hi, mingo. >> thank you, mingo. >> thank you, mingo. thank you. [music] >> thank you, larry mingo. >> hey larry mingo, you are awesome. thanks for a great, great job you do for us. appreciate it. >> thank you, mingo. [music] >> hello, my name is james fells i've been working with paratransit for 13 years now. i get a kick out of the job; i like h

the presidio 10 included a competitor who finished the boston marathon before tragedy hit. scott dunlap saw other runners runners andtopectators trying to help the wounded. >> impressive how the people of boston rallied. in anyway we tried to help. we tried to get to the scene and hundreds of people were at the scene. tried to get help and 500 people out front. you need blood? no, it is topped up. >> dunlap tells abc7 that he plans to run his 10th boston marathon next year. stay with abc7 news and abc7news.com for the newest details on the boston bombing suspect. coming up in a few minutes, the bay area company helping to track down criminals like the boston bombers. >>> new at perso one person died after an accident along the freeway in san jose. the crash happened after 8:00 on southbound 101 near hillier avenue. they are trying to figure out why the car left the roadway. the accident and the investigation blocked two lanes of the freeway and delayed drivers. >>> it took the entire day, but golden gate park is back to normal. to normal. dozens of people who turned out for

i'm the coordinator for the presidio heights residents for public safety. we encourage you to keep the lawsuit going. and you have an elected humanistic progressive value. we would like to see that continue in the city of san francisco. let me add a little additional information about this issue to the not knowing. we just went through proposition 37 in the state of california. the corporations put up nearly $50 million to defeat the right to know what goes in your mouth. people have a right to know what goes in their ear and the consequences of this. if you fail to keep this going, this lawsuit, you would be denying your humanistic and your progressive values. the people of san francisco would appreciate your awareness, to stop corporate [speaker not understood], corporations have their influence on our evolution. you need to take into consideration your children's children's children for future generations. ~ the impact of this is so critical that the corporations are going to spend a great deal of money to defeat this. they don't want us to know, and why

the presidio 10 included a competitor who finished the boston marathon before tragedy hit. scott dunlap saw other runners runners and spectators trying to help the wounded. >> impressive how the people of boston rallied. in anyway we tried to help. we tried to get to the scene and hundreds of people were at the scene. tried to get help and 500 people out front. you need blood? no, it is topped up. >> dunlap tells abc7 that he plans to run his 10th boston marathon next year. stay with abc7 news and abc7news.com for the newest details on the boston bombing suspect. coming up in a fewtes, the bay area company helping to track down criminals like the boston bombers. >>> new at 11:00, one person died after an accident along the freeway in san jose. the crash happened after 8:00 on southbound 101 near hillier avenue. they are trying to figure out why the car left the roadway. the accident and the investigation blocked two lanes of the freeway and delayed drivers. >>> it took the entire day, but golden gate park is back to normal. dozens of people who turned out for an annual 4/20

to over time at least two fire department staff has racked up oh, $50,000 over your salary and the presidio salaries are way up there. i think your efforts to create caps are important i want to plaid them but we have to control the offer time spending. i want your response to what the report is maybe inaccurate. you referenced two members that's 5 i have 5 people over 15 hundred hours at this time. we work really close with the mayor's office it's more efficient to staff on overtime. your staffing lflz are so although, the mandatory overtime is critical. >> so maybe this might help so there's one station 39 lieutenant that racked up $221,000 to a total pie that's 50 above your salary. >> there's a citywide cap of 21 percent but your firefighters it's $633. >> our shift calls for some exemptions that were granted there are 4 to exceed the cap if one the member is held over for mandatory assignment and no object o other members is skilled. so if the shift clarification has a list of people and the second one is allowing people to work a lot of overtime. and the second exemption if the member

this is as far as i go and all the way up at the other end we have fort point -- >> presidio. >> and keep going, you go all the way around the other side. that is as far as we're going to go today. do we have any questions today about the waterfront? >>> diane, what about we saw the ships getting fixed. and i have just a simple view of what happened down there. what about hazardous materials and all the southern part of the city, hunters point, et cetera, what's happening there in terms of hazardous waste, et cetera, the lead paint? >> well, if you're talking about the operations at the shipyard or whatever, they have to meet all of the current hazardous waste management and clean up requirement if you're talking about environmental cop editions in the soil or in the water because of the historical use, then yeah, that is another huge cost. if i were monique moyer, the port's director sitting here, which i'm not, she would be able to rattle off the costs associated with the repairs, the roofs, the doors, the things that are on our list of things to do for which there are insufficient

to some of you, welcome to the presidio, welcome to this absolutely gorgeous futures without violencetart by thanking futures without violence and esther solar for giving us this beautiful space to meet in today. is esther here? i haven't seen her. we'll thank her later. they made this space available for us. good morning, my name is me linda hague for those of you who don't know me. i was

. >>> in san francisco, 3,000 runners raced through the presidio during tight security. one of today's runners was at boston marathon. scott described what happened after he finished that race. >> i finished in two hours and 44 minutes and went to the finish line to cheer like i always do, but i couldn't get near. so i walked a couple blocks to get a beer and that is when i heard and the whole world just changed. >> he plans to run in the boston marathon next year. >>> in the north bay in ross a special run will honor the bombing victims. they will leave from ross park to do a 2.6 mile run. after the run they will have the opportunity to share stories about how the boston bombing has affected them. >>> dozens of injured people remain in the hospital tonight and many of them still face amputations, support from the wounded is coming from across the nation, more than $10 million has been raised through the one fund boston, that is recovery effort announced tuesday by boston officials. the fund is designed to streamline donations into one account which will then be given to

place and engineers want to see more showers fall to come up with a way from a trail slipping in the presidio. pedestrians and cyclists have to deal with the detour along the narrow stretch of lincoln boulevard. they spent $6 million on the trail and other projects there. when part of the trail slipped away during december. >> they were saying first time in 30 years this rain event happened. >> what they need to do is basically give this back to mother nature and maybe put it over here. they need to relocate, stop fighting it. >> an independent engineer is now working with the national park service to solve this problem. >> dan: the weather is clearing up just in time for the a's home opener for the first part of baseball season. lyanne melendez is live at the coliseum. soggy weather caused some extra work for the ground crews there. >> reporter: that's right. i'm here tell you it's opening day, but more like opening night for the ees because the game doesn't start until 7:00 this evening. as other fans will tell you, people here say they are so lucky it's not raining. >> the umbrellas came o

ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining together here at the presidio with all the different agencies. i see phil ginsburg, i know bill is around, others from our da office, richard caranza and others from the women's status as well and the district attorneys from the various counties, the school administrators and instructors and superintendents from other counties as well, as well as our community-based agencies that are so invaluable it all of us. this is a very important topic and it's one that our u.s. attorney, melinda hague and i helped spearhead yesterday with 800 students who came together who watch an incredible film by lee hirsch i've heard the wonderful reports from the kids, seen their laughter and their tears. we are going to honor your making that film by doing what we need to do to stop bullying across the country. because the data shared by our u.s. attorney, representatives from the department of education confirm if we don't do anything about it, 13 million kids will become victims again for another year. some 3 million kids across the country will decide it is bett

why disney is shutting down lucasarts, which is based in the presidio. noelle? >> reporter: frank, lucasarts says some of its employees here at the gaming division will transfer to disney, but others will lose their jobs. the company isn't saying how many layoffs. it's the house that yodi built. for decades, the force seemed to be with anything that had the lucas name attached to it. but today, disney announced shutting down its offices and cancelling its video game projects. the company released a statement, saying, quote, after evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift lucasarts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality star wars games. lucasarts had two star wars games in development, after 30 years of video game development, the division appeared to be swallowed up by the disney death star. disney acquired lucasfilm last year. they knew something big happened. >> it was gridlocked for an hour and a half. endless cars coming out of there. >> what did

>> it is off the beaten path, the presidio, i love to hike and i have enjoyed seeing the gorgeous, beautiful sprouting out of the city. it is amazing you can have a forest in the middle of the city. i encourage anyone who is watching to tweet me, facebook, let me know your suggestions. >> where on priorities is wine country? >> my goodness, the fransican winery sounds great and this weekend i will check out the friend laundry. >> boy, you must know someone! >> a major international airline is coming to the bay area and how it will make travel to europe easier. >> the tech savvy crooks breaking into cars. >> the d >> good morning, everyone, welcome back, coming up on 4:51. you are looking live at the golden gate bridge and the headlights helped. it is foggy this morning. it will warm up to 62 degrees in the city. lisa argen is here for mike nicco with the full forecast coming up in a few minutes. >> new high-tech device is giving criminals easy access to cars. look at this surveillance video. you can see a man approach a car with a device if his hand that disabled the car's alarm and unlooks

to some of you, welcome to the presidio, welcome to this absolutely gorgeous futures without violence i want to start by thanking futures without violence and esther solar for giving us this beautiful space to meet in today. is esther here? i haven't seen her. we'll thank her later. they made this space available for us. good morning, my name is me linda hague for those of you who don't know me. i was appointed by president obama a little more than two years ago to be united states attorney and it is my incredible honor to represent the president, the obama administration here in the northern district of california. welcome to the stop bullying summit. i'm a federal prosecutor so it may seem odd that here we are talking about bullying and we asked all of you to be here and i want to explain the origin of that and why this happened. you people, everybody in this room, has been involved in this issue and is doing incredible work on this issue and we were so honored to be a part of it and to meet with all of you and to speak with you about it. the origin is that as the united states atto

in the presidio, abc 7 news. >> about sure has been a dry winter but rainy couple days. ore on the way. spencer here watching it all for us. >> we didn't have a rainy season. >> rainy day. >> the i hope we saved for it. let's go take a look at live doppler 7 hd. which shows dry conditions right now. no green showing up on the radar screen no. precipitation. has wound counsel. live view coyote tower from high definition roof top camera. right now under partly cloudy skies. 56 in san francisco. 59 across the bay oakland. san jose fwechlt santa cruz 56 on we go another live view from sutro tower lacking out over san francisco. again partly cloudy skies 52 in santa rosa. fairfield 55. union city 57. these are our forecast features. we see areas of fog developing tonigh tonight. it could be dense in patches so may reduce visibility for the early morning commute. dry and warmer next two days and rain comes back at us again on thursday. right now looking at the satellite radar compass it image there's the storm moving inland to our east that brought us the stormy weather yesterd

4's charles clifford has details on what happened and a closer look at the area. >> reporter: the presidioal trail, which is part of the much longer california coastal trail, stretches from ocean beach...along the coast... to the golden gate bridge. this is the northwestern edge of san francisco. over the past few years this trail has been improved as part of a larger effort to upgrade trails through out the presidio. but after heavy rains last november and december, maintenance crews noticed that a section of the trail... here... just north of baker beach..had become unstable. here's a picture of the damage. you can see cracks in the ground and the railing had become uneven for safety reason, the park service closed down the trail. they've since removed rocks and dirt from the site to prevent further damaged and also to figure out what was going on. the black plastic here is to keep water from saturating the unstable ground. in the meantime, warning signs and fences are keeping people out of the area. foot and bike traffic can go around this spot using lincoln boulevard. the national park

secretary of transportation and with the great leadership of president barack obama whether it was the presidio park way, transway terminal, completion of third street rail and all of that. in recent years when he served in the congress and now as the secretary of transportation. he knows full well the role that senator boxer played and he was a member in congress of the transportation committee and the consensus she is building in the senate on this is quite remarkable so i am honored to be here with senator feinstein and our colleagues and share in this for san francisco and what you see here mr. secretary is consent. our great mayor lee -- he is the consensus maestro and brings people together and he said "listen, listen" and we act upon the consensus of our community. it's about consensus. it's about community. it's about here comes the bus and now we can get

and the fourth grade we have partner the presidio y program. they come with vans and bikes and set up a bike skills rodeo on the yard and teach children how to wear their helmets safely and run through an obstacle course. and as you can see in almost every grade we reach about a thousand students. for the encouragement, this is the fun piece of safe routes to school. we have walk to school day which is the first october annually every year, and i believe most of you have participated this past year was at buena vista horace man. bike to school week is actually next week and we hope you are planning on attending. the highlight school will be groton in district 5. and -- but the main point of this program is to establish what we call walking school buses and bike trained. these are regular occurring events chaperoned by parents and caregivers to have children walking to and from school or biking to and from school on a regular basis. ideally we'd like to see it once a week. that's a little tough so we ask for once a month. and then of course we wa

cliff, and the neighborhoods surrounding the presidio. supervisor farrell started his first term this january, so he is new to the board. we will get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. welcome, supervisor. thank you for joining us. tell us about your background -- where you grew up, went to school, the kind of jobs you have worked. >> i am a born and raised san franciscan, first and foremost. very proud of that. i am also a born and raised district 2 residents. i grew up close to the palace of fine arts. my parents still live in the same set of flats i grew up in. i went to grammar school at stuart hall in district 2. i went to high school in st. ignatius. i'm a very proud wildcat. i went to college at loyola marymount college in los angeles. i had a scholarship to play baseball down there. ended up going to ireland and getting a master's degree at university college dublin. came back to the states and went to law school at the university of pennsylvania. spent three years in philadelphia. came back, and ever s