the richmond district is rich, we have a very diverse culture. it's a really wonderful place to be and see all of the neat traditions and everybody sharing together. in order to protect life, property and prevent crime and reduce the fear of crime, we will provide service with understanding, response and compassion, performance with integrity and law enforcement with vision. and i can say that my staff helps formulate the vision each and every day. i also work very closely with commander mortises. orts. again, these are our commissioners. so the richmond district is host to many different neighborhoods. outer richmond, presidio heights and outer richmond with esteemed graduates such as chief suhr. we're also a hub of young people learning and a host of other speeches, really a great place for the community to gather. pacific heights, laurel heights, laurel heights is a hub of business. there is a merchant corridor as the inner and outer richmond district. jordan park, sea cliff, the lake district and also in laurel heights we have the california p

this is a live look at the richmond san rafael bridge. rning about this big rig that flipped over. the gusty winds knocked it over. it was blocking several lanes. it looks like they are making progress. they have righted that truck and hopefully it can get on and off the bridge. lanes have been blocked all morning long eastbound. by the way, the chp tells us they have responded to 70 -- 7-0 -- traffic accidents already this morning. >>> tomorrow the u.s. supreme court may reveal whether it will weigh in on same-sex marriage. justices may announce whether they will review the low gal tee of prop 8, california's ban on same-sex marriage, and they may also take up the federal defense of marriage act that bars federal benefits to same sex couples. if the court does review prop 8, a ruling would come before the term ends in june. if the justices refew to hear the case a lower court decision declaring it unconstitutional would stand. that would allow same sex weddings in this state to resume in days. or the court could put the whole issue on hol

we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time. just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different par

and then maybe the districts of the sunset, and the richmond? because i have a family in the sunset, so i'm concerned about both districts. and i'm also concerned about people knowing about the safety in the park, which it is kind of hard to do. so i just wanted to say when we get statistics, there are different statistics for residential and for kind of the park and stuff, so i would appreciate a breakdown. thank you. >> that is a very good question. i think the captain will explain the other side of the park is covered by park station and another station. thank you. >> my name is paul, and i live on 9th avenue. i want to comment on our police chief. she has done a wonderful job for us and we have been involved, my wife and i, in getting a block party going in our neighborhood. and we have been able to get the barriers set up on the streets to block them off for the block party. there is one other thing that just is kind of disturbing about this and i don't know when it falls under auspices or not. for people to get block partis going it costs p

it's an organization that's been working hard to revitalize the richmond district, especially in the past few months as new leadership has emerged. the clement merchants association represents diverse businesses from a variety of cultural backgrounds that makes clement street stand out from other commercial districts. it's one of the most diverse places. i moved there in 1984 to second avenue and clement. it was considered the new chinatown but it's so much more than that. it's a gateway for many different types of newcomers but also businesses. this year, the clement street merchants celebrate their 90th year of outstanding service to the small business community to the whole city. and the roster is growing of many different businesses from cynthia huey's feed store, a great vintage clothing store, to park life gallery, to green apple bookstore, one of the last remaining independent bookstores in our whole city, and where you'll find me browsing in the used book section upstairs often, or my daughter in the children's section as well. i know -- isn't here but tremendous leadership f

and then the other breaking news is on the richmond-san rafael bridge where an discover turned big rig is blocking all eastbound lanes. it happened in the last half-hour. the highway patrol said that accident is storm related. no word on any injuries. a high wind advisory is up on all bay area bridges. caltran is warning drivers be very careful. again, all lanes eastbound, interstate 580 over the richmond-san rafael bridge are closed because of an overturned big rig. we will bring you more information on both of those breaking news stories as we get it. so round three of the latest series of storms to sweep through northern california is here. we have live team storm coverage. let's begin with our meteorologist lisa argen who is tracking the storm will live doppler 7 hd. >> good morning, everyone. your eye goes right to the red and this is where it is draped from the sacramento valley back to clear lake and windsor and santa rosa. the back edge has been pushing through ukiah and with it the very gusty winds preceding the gusts. we have wind gusts up to 51 miles an hour at the airport,

driving over the papers as well as the richmond san rafael. this is a southerly wind, in most cases which means it hits right up against your car. these costs, the sustained when his 31. gusting to near 40. 50 miles per hour at sometimes. sfo has gone down just a bit reporting 26th of october. 18 miles per hour in san jose, 12 in areas right around palo alto. the winds continue as this for weeks through. rain totals anywhere one to 3 inches around the bay area. two to five for the north bay. 7 inches for some of the hills. we are tracking this for you. i will show you when we expect the rain to come to an end coming up. in the meantime, christian continues our team coverage in the richmond san rafael bridge. good morning. >> reporter: you have some really, really good vice

the outer richmond residents feel like we are part of this [speaker not understood] world class city which we live in which we often feel neglected out there, i'll be honest. and it's also in the depths, in the dreary darkness of august, let's be honest, when many of us are fleeing towards the sun. there is a reason to stay. it is a reason to enjoy our beautiful park and to see some great music and enjoy some local food and experience it together [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you for that unique perspective. i'll call a few more names. ari [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood], christopher clark, nicky bloom, and james [speaker not understood]. >>> good afternoon, my name is don. i work for the equipment rentals. we work with another planet. we're in full support of. this all i can say is wow. i think the numbers are phenomenal to keep things going on here in san francisco, keeping the culture and the history. thank you. >>> good afternoon, my name is andrew johnson. i own the little chihuahua restaurant here in san francisco. it's been an all around excel

seeing rain in the richmond district. the sunset and acting as a specific site. a portion of the downtown area in san francisco is contending with rain. >> off a lot of the surface streets is affected. market street, a very boulevard, sunset boulevard, at 19th avenue headed out of the city. >> we will continue to see heavy rain develop through the course of the morning. i want to put this into motion for 1:00 p.m. this afternoon. take a look at the yellow that dominates the screen again. this does in the quaindicate more rain. >> as we head into the evening hours the showers will start to taper off the will continue to push their way east. expect spotty showers later tonight. do not get used it another round of wet weather storm no. 2 will approach overnight. >> that will continue to sag south waking up saturday morning. we do have a winter storm warning in the sierra as well. bring your chains of your head in that direction. 5 ft. above 7,000 ft.. the majority of the snow will fall west of highway 89. wind's also a factor 15 to 20 mi. 25 mi. an hour. beating not

we are here on the richmond five. just give you an idea of australian winds are blowing, you can see those flags whipping in the wind all the way at the far end of the tether. clearly, a great deal of wind. he has some video that we shot about a half-hour of all of that degree still on his side. it is coming eastbound from san rafael into richmond. the truck in the left-hand lane blew over at about 4:00 this morning. crews were here earlier with a record trying to get it off the bridge but it was so windy and decided simply to push it to the side, leave it there, and had drivers get through the area. for a while there was no eastbound traffic on the richmond san rafael bridge. it is now angling to one lane. if you are out on the roads, be careful. he did manage to catch up with a driver and talk to them briefly about what happened. >> it was the wind that got you. it does happen real suddenly? >> yeah. cnet you're doing okay? any advice for other drivers? >> be careful. >> clearly, dot out to our live shot, the driver

a live look from the richmond stammer feeight san ral toll plaza. we will be right back. >> the dow was down almost 200 points right now with no sign of a deal in washington on the fiscal cliff. also the latest in new town conn and we're just minutes away from a national moment of silence to honor the victims were shot and killed in last week's school massacre. we'll be back in two minutes as the kron4 morning news continues. >> very close to a moment of silence being held in conn and around the nation to honor the 20 young children who were killed at sandy hook elementary school in new town conn. also these six school employees who lost their lives last friday at this time. this moment of >> this moment of silence is being recognized nationwide. president obama will be observing the way, a silence and the white house. also manwe see the doors opening. this might be city hall in new town. let's listen in as this moment of silence gets under way. (silence) (bell ringing) >> that completes the moment of silence. they began tolling more bells just to ma

. >> it looks like it is the richmond district, but a kind of shows what was on the west side town. a great deal of it was sam, and for that reason, people thought that the weather and the san -- it was really not a place that people wanted to live, and it was going to be very typical for san francisco -- very difficult for san francisco to expand west. >> if you look at the early maps, it was 3 miles wide by about 6 miles long, this huge sand dunes that just moved around. >> here is an 1875 map of the laguna. says along the side of the map, high sand hills between the pacific ocean and the like. by the way, this had actually opened directly into the ocean. >> lake merced had a high water level. since we paid over much of the city, the water levels have dropped, but at one time, the late actually trade out into the ocean approximately where the dog diner is that now. somewhere in the 1870's, they saw the damage at the water in the late so it did not exit out uncontrolled, and for 10 years, people were drinking lake merced water as drinking water. it is much bigger, too. if you go to

. >>> good afternoon, my name is julio thomas and i'm a long-time resident of the inner richmond at 710 fifth avenue. i'm land use and real estate attorney by training and have been involved in issues like the de young museum and parking garage, that involved access and mitigation measured. and i've just been real impressed a someone who has gone to the festival for the last five years and seen the issues that another side has had to deal with, how effectively it's communicated with the residents and how enjoyable the festival really is. i've definitely witnessed impacts, tremendous positive impacts on the local businesses in my neighborhood. i also think personally as a property owner in the inner richmond, it really put the richmond and sunset neighborhoods on the map. not only within san francisco, but really nationally. and i think that has an obvious impact beyond the immediate fiscal effects on property values and business values. i'm very supportive and happy to endorse an extension to this contract. thank you. >> thank you. >>> good afternoon, my name is ari feingold, and i'm a

i also think personally as a property owner in the inner richmond, it really put the richmond and sunset neighborhoods on the map. not only within san francisco, but really nationally. and i think that has an obvious impact beyond the immediate fiscal effects on property values and business values. i'm very supportive and happy to endorse an extension to this contract. thank you. >> thank you. >>> good afternoon, my name is ari feingold, and i'm a curator for [speaker not understood], so i'm responsible for bringing local restaurants in the park and helping them transfer their operation into a fending operation in the park. i've been doing it for three years as a curator but was involved as a vendor before that. so, i've been with the festival since it started. i do consider it a real privilege to work with such a diverse group of local restaurants and to really sort of celebrate the incredible culinary culture in our city. a conversation started a few speakers ago about the local factor of the festival. i just want to say typically my strategy for acquiring new vendors is to start in th

in the outer richmond district just two tenths of 1 in.. south bay is getting the heaviest. let us take a look of the rainfall totals per hour. sunnyvale, one-quarter of 1 in. per hour. this same in millipede is. pretty heavy rainfall. the watches, the warnings it is completely let up. we have been keeping an eye on the flood warning for the russian river in napa. both expected to exceed the riverbanks. the russian river by tomorrow and wide spread wind advisory said. 20-30 m.p.h. gusting at 50 m.p.h.! pretty heavy right now but it is fast-moving and continue to press self-east. still some wind in the heart of the bay but possibly clearing in the north bay. 2:00 p.m., we will pretty much be in the clear. the wind speeds at 50 m.p.h. 15 in san jose and the wind speeds will decrease as this presses out. gusting at 30 m.p.h., gusting. and as we go towards the afternoon of the wind speed will also decrease. with your 7 day around the bay dry conditions but showers could return once again tuesday, wednesday and dry again for your weekend. >> tha

>> well, the commitments an annual job fair in the outer sunset and richmond. they are committed to having the two largest employers on the site, the two largest vending companies, the security company, and the beverage company who employ over 1200 patrons on-site, that they would work through that jobs fair to hire any available positions for the event. i do want to say i think the event has already employed many of the principles of local hire and planning the entertainment for this festival to have 26% of their own staff. we're based in san francisco. local 16 who actually the stagehands at the festival, over 36% of their staff are san francisco residents. but working with supervisor mar and through his leadership, we are hoping to increase those numbers as we move forward. >> did you say over 25% of the beverage and [speaker not understood] -- >> there is not a quota per se. there is rather a commitment to fill those positions through a hiring fair held in either the sunset or the richmond. and obviously we're looking not only to hire san francisco residents

gusty at the richmond san rafael bridge as well. will see if they will issue an advisory there. >> now 51 degrees. to enter to go up to about 55 in rain is likely. >> cannot forget the bay area's favorite way to ring in the new year is always with kron 4. it is hosted by catherine heena and gary radnich kron fours new year's live. >> welcome at the time is 525. this is a feel-good story that is starting to feel strange. >> it turns out that marine sergeant we told you about who stood guard outside the central valley elementary school is an emeryville anymore and was never a sergeant. >> craig pulsey started standing guard outside of hughson elementary school after the shooting conn. >> according to the department of cents, pulsey is not a 10 year veteran of the marine corps is with service in iran and afghanistan as he told sacramento television station. >> the d o d says pulsey was a private first class was serve nine months back in 2007 but that is not all that is wrong with his story. >> was school posted on line that he was injur

the bay bridge and the san rafael richmond. take it easy. the rain is on the way. if you're overren another north bay the rain has not let up. we have steady rain -- just about an hours time. light to moderate at times. clearlake down all the way to calistoga. light to moderate to heavy rain at times. we are watching it pull in along the coastline. you can see moderate rain falling in areas over sausalito and areas north into san rafael. now we are beginning to see a few light sprinkles. north beach the sunset district and over the marie that. this is going to continue to shift south and as it does it will continue to bring rain all the way down into the south bay. we are going to be pretty much at a loss. rain and through the morning hours and scattered showers through the second half of the day. temperatures we've got a milder air mass in place and shows in the numbers. take a look. 54-degrees in oakland. 53 in san francisco. upper 40s in novato. low 50s in concord. these numbers anywhere from 10- 20-degrees warmer than yesterday morning. the rain tapering off to

we have bartow lanes, 15 us on the richmond line. a headsup if you ore catching a flight over on fso. delays on that line. the a train no service because of the holiday. caltrans no delay, and regular service. >>> also we just had some herb shoes because of yesterday's rain flooding out snow ma county, highway 1 shut down both directions approaching valley ford road. both directions of highway 121 closed from 7:00 this morning between 116 and highway 37. that's traffic. here's lawrence. >> a lot of places around the bay area, almost 150% of normal rainfall for the season. that's pretty amazing. a lot of that over the weekend the right now starting to catch a break. the clouds departing somewhat. another storm is on the horizon, that could bring showers to the bay area on christmas day; but we are beginning to dry things out. the high-def doppler radar is picking up on a few scattered showers. most of that along the coastline. not a lot of energy. as the sun comes up, it starts to fade away. then we will dry things out. >>> we are watc

the drain. crews cut down a 40 ft. acacia cherry and richmond over the weekend.neighborhood in san francisco workers remove a 100 ft cypress tree and a 75 t crane had to be brought in to remove it. >> dozens of same-sex couples in washington state are tying the knot the just eat ourhours after the marriages legalized. washington joined several other states which now allowed gay and lesbian couples to wed. also washington this morning recreational marijuana use is now legal. last night under the people gathered under the space needle for a new year's eve style countdown when the measure took effect. they cheered and leg joints in unison. of the piece of marijuana is still banned and is still a crime to sell marijuana it is just possession and that is legal. national political figures are pointing out that smoking pot is still a federal crime. >> here is a live shot where traffic on the bridge is nice and light. we will be right back. one person is dead after a house fire ripped through a home intemperances those in the side heights neighborhood. it was reported at

. >>> the statuses of richmond -- citizens of richmond weigh in on plans to repair the chevron oil refinery. [ female announcer ] here's to a whole world of happier holidays. time to enchant, delight and amaze. safeway will help you gather everyone round. a smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. get breyer's ice cream for $2.88 and dessert will surely shine. make it a grand finale with starbucks just $6.99. turns out this season less is really so much more. so make your holiday merrier than ever before. safeway. ingredients for life. >>> a san jose man was released from u.s. immigration and customs enforcement detention today. he was brought to the united states when he was four years old was doiped a request to join -- denied a request to join the u.s. marines because of his immigration status. he was deported to mexico, came back, and during reactions that included a rally, and a petition drive, he was set free. >> i just want to thank everybody that made it possible for me to get released. all the people that signed the petition, the people that attended the vigil. and everybod

the east shore freeway down to richmond. u may encounter a mist a heavy drizzle approaching berkeley emeryville and eventually towards the bay bridge toll plaza. off the green on your screen around san paolo and high rat highway 4. approaching the caldecott tunnel not to bad approaching coming off the altamonte pass. it is not raining at the beach but we are seeing light rain downtown, for truro hill, as well as the sunset district. it is like the green indicating it is light in nature. the rain has not reached the south bay is currently dry. we have mostly cloudy conditions but the rain will pick up later today. let us take a look at the wider view satellite and radar shows how big the system is. it is relatively weak compared to what we experienced last week. some of our north bay spots higher elevations received about 1 in. of rain overnight. trace amount everywhere else we did not pick up a lot for the rest of the bay area. futurecast 4 you can see by 7:00 a.m. yellow on the screen indicates moderate rain. in fact we are

looks like right there on the san rafael side of the richmond san rafael bridge. off the coast you can see right off the marin coast in san francisco there is a little bit stronger cells inching closer. it's not cold it's really mild. if you don't have rain cloudy conditions and foggy. there is a little low right there. that will give us enhancement here in the morning. look for cloudy skies and rain. just kind of a foggy rainy day. 60s on the temps. even the lows or upper 50s to near 60 for some. we won't see much of a change on the temperatures from lows to highs. the rain will end tonight. fog very, very thick. i think north bay, east bay out to the valley it will be a big issue here. it does look quieter. breezy. that should wipe out the fog. >>> right now the european markets are all trading higher this morning. overnight the asian markets closed with gains as well. after china's leaders -- shanghai composite jumped almost 3%. all the other markets finished the day up but with less spectacular gains. checking in on our numbers. the futures right now indicate a

but there is a high wind advisory in effect right now on the richmond san rafael bridge. this wild weather caused all kinds of problems for people here in the north bay. >> reporter: the damage looks bad but it could be worse. this massive 100-foot tree crashed into an inverness carport. this woman got the square of her life. >> i was standing underneath is over here. i feel grateful we are okay and alive. >> reporter: wild weather slammed the north bay. in petaluma, a power pole on g street could not stand up to heavy winds. the wet weather also makes it difficult for those who -- who have to drive and deliver all day. >> it's killing us. it has to be done. customers have to get to our boxes and people have to have their christmas presents. >> it's kind of annoying but it's okay, you know. it's not the worst problem in the world. >> reporter: mike, it's so windy out here. i have to plant my feet so i don't blow over on the richmond/ran ralph fell bridge. the san mateo -- san rafael bridge. lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> good afternoon. it's just messy out there

on 14th avenue in the richmond district. i'm using this light to sort of help knee navigate around here. this massive pile that you can see here is only a section of the huge eucalyptus tree that came down this morning. need less to say, crews were busy. trees and roofs combined with heavy winds can cause an old tree to topple in a storm this, one happened to also fall on a car. >> winds blow. as bad as today, we're busy. >> crews cut it down. it's the city's responsibility to trim the trees. >> we don't have the number of trues that we'd like. in fact tree maintenance cycle is far short of that. it's a resource issue of money. >> some trees supposed to be maintained by homeowners. across town in san francisco russian hill neighborhood, this family narrowly escaped being hit by a huge cypress tree. one piece spearing through the master bedroom. >> fell over my head. one of the branches, the main trunk of the tree fell into our yard. and then, one branch fell into our house. >> trees like this one found in city parks are usual

rather a commitment to fill those positions through a hiring fair held in either the sunset or the richmond. and obviously we're looking not only to hire san francisco residents, but to actually target it towards those communities which are most impacted, the sunset and the richmond. >> so to you in the department, how do you intend to track that given the information reporting on employeeses by zip code? how is that going to work? >> yeah, what we've done in events of this kind, we have worked with another planet to track their own employees and local 16 who are paid through their payroll by zip code. we can work with them to try to obtain that data for the vendors. it should be noted that this is a relatively large endeavor putting on this festival and there are a number -- in fact, dozens of contractors and subcontractors who work on this project compiling all the data might be a little difficult. >> thank you. and finally, there were a few questions that have been raised by residents, i think. this is a persistent issue about the timing of [speaker not understood] going up that restrict

beyond that the shop i believe iran is ready if they recognize the rights of iran for the richmond like any other member of n.p.t. and if they are prepared all to make clear to lift the sanctions to start lifting the sanctions gradually at the end the state to lift all sanctions if the west and the five plus one already on these two issue i believe iran would show good will to accept additional protocol to cooperate with by a possible military dimension issues which would need to give access to die beyond additional protocol the e.u. hasn't been buying iranian oil for months now has iran been able to find new markets i believe iranian oil export has decreased fifty percent sixty percent but believe me even if you are a me and they cannot export one drop of oil they would not give up their rights under impunity it really doesn't matter how much you want comics port or not during the war eight years invasion of iraq nine hundred eighty two nine hundred eighty eight we had march more or situation. let's move on to syria no how do you think the cost to consume a affect the situation around

police commission will be holding as well. >> thank you, very quickly the case that you site in the richmond, that particular person in crisis murdered his mother with knives and then popped out and turned the knives on the officers, they did deploy the less lethal option and it was ineffective and continued the assault and having committed what had been a murder. those are again, tragedies to be sure, i can assure that the crisis intervention training is a priority to me. it is a priority for the department and it is ongoing and it is robust. we have tremendous support from the mental health community in going forward on it. and the discussion is in process about the taser. so that is being discussed. the crisis intervention training has been and will continue and it would be my desire at some point in time to have the entire department have that additional level of training. thank you. >> thank you. >> just before you go, real quick. do you have any thoughts about the memphis model of crisis intervention i have heard a lot about it. recently. it has been around for a long time, since 1988.

. >> it is much higher than in the rest of the richmond harbor and the san francisco bay area. >> they were first detected at high levels in 1960. ddt was once considered safe. it can be seen here widely spread to kill pest and even directly on people as a de-lysing agent. it is known cancer causing agent now. and they began a nine-year, $12 million clean up removing cubic soil highly con taminature contaminated. >> the level went back up after the year. >> it is scheduled to be cleaned up again in 2015. >> the epa says it is somewhat isolated and no indication the ddt there is making its way out into the bay. >> but birds and fish are exposed and until a second clean up is completed, fisherman are advice today avoid the area. >> they don't break down and build up in fish and then in humans. services has aided the state in posting warning signs about fishing in the harbor, signs that go ignored. the people in the bay are at risk because fish here provide substunance. >>the pacific network says warning people are comp licattedlicated by the language barri rerbgsr. the epa's message to a