hack-a-thon and destruction have negative connotations. today, we are embracing those as positive ideas. -- disruption have negative connotations. we have to change government, we have to change the way we think. i have been thinking through the night. it is much less about technology but the way that we think. i need to disrupt the way we have been thinking and start innovating our way out of this. i could sit back and cry about what jerry brown's budget will present to us, or what obama cannot do in this new administration, the things that are going to go on. or i could say, i am going to work with the most innovative part of our society, people who want to help the government to better. we have really positive things to do and be positive about the way we run government. that is what i want to get to. i know the board of supervisors want to get to that as well. we need to find solutions, and this is a way to invite people who are interested in doing it. >> [inaudible] if it would actually create jobs, it would get things done. >> i woul

i look forward to working with everybody in the future. >> what are hack-a-thons? >> the hacker culture is really about creating, rapidly prototyping solutions. often, it is equated to applications and software, but during the summer, we had a partnership, and we expanded that notion by having people do thought experiments, by creating games, creating new ways of doing things. it is about innovation in general. it is not just technology and packing technology. it is more about getting a bunch of people, in a diverse community together, with people who have needs. in this case, the city. we have issues and challenges we face, and caring people who are problem-solving oriented. if we tear those two groups of people together, some amazing things have come up. we have had that over five and a people over this past year -- 500 people over the past year, over 10,000 hours of civic engagement, and nearly 30 application that have been developed. code for america, what they are doing, is taking it to the next level, where we take these ideas and substantiate new business, a

we have discovered so much through our civic hack-a-thons and other things that we have done. this is a great example of harnessing the on deprenyl spirit in the city and realizing the potential of that, serving in the red better, making it more lean, efficient, and more responsive. i also want to thank the san francisco department of technology. they have incubated innovation. i have been working with the city for five years and they have done a tremendous amount. i look forward to continue the partnership with the department of technology to bring innovation to the forefront in san francisco. thank you. >> i will try to say something that has not already been said. thank you all for coming. similar to david, i will say, i come from the private sector. when i came to the city, the question i got most was how do we made -- make government more exciting, let the private sector? we all work for tech companies or business firms, so how can we bring all that excitement into government? to have a board and mayor that recognizes technology in the community as an unborn aspect

the meeting will be between the governor and treasurer and it's known as the beg-a-thon because they stream before the board a long list of requests. and the governor hope that's the people will start calling it the hope-a-thon instead. >>> new information showed that first lady michelle obama and agriculture secretary will push for more school lunches to offer veggies and whole grains. they will make the announcement in a few hours that lunches will have less sodium. popular pizzas will still be on the school lunch lines but made with healthier ingredients that is good news. >>> great news indeed. and cardinal edwin o'brien will talk to the media. it will be his first public appearance after being named to the college of cardinals. he's going to talk about tomorrow's trip to haiti where there will be a dedication of a new school funded by catholics and the archdiocese of baltimore. >>> cease till county said that employees at this bank are to be thanked for preventing a robbery they saw a masked man with a gun walking towards the bank and they immediately looked the doors and sounde

over the past year, i have attended a number of hack-a- thons, and was impressed about the ideas of how to fix muni, making our commercial buildings greener, using vacant spaces, figuring out how to catch cabs. in the last couple of months, i figured out how we can legislate this as part of san francisco. mayor lee had a better idea, which was to partner with code of america to utilize the non- profit and private sector to come together with entrepreneurial minds. i want to figure from conaway for your leadership, not only helping to cede some of the greatest part we have here in the city, and working with a community that wants to work with the government. we have talked about in gauging the technology community and innovators to make city government better. i also want to take a moment to graduate the mayor for making a great decision for creating this position. a couple of weeks ago, i was reading york city was contemplating a similar position like this, and i meant to come and tell you, you should create the position. lo and behold, here we are. he has really been driving innovation

. >> we have wayne rogers and yawn thon . tracey byrns and john layfield . christian dorsey. tracey, i want to start with you. best way to protect consumers is get wid of the new consumer protection agency. >> most things do these days and we are talking about power hungry. >> and they are going to be passed on and look. ask corporate america and bank of america who tried to impose fees on the customer and they barked back and the fees are gone. >> wayne back in 2011, ha, ha. two weeks ago. the agency had come up with 21 rules. i am curious what they will do now they got it in place. you think hundred or two hundred rules? every time one of these agencies. this under the dodd frank reform act. no one knew what was in it when they voted on it it is a congress massive moronic statement . now come out and appoint a czar to run this thing. it creates its own rules and 21 of them so far. anyway are out of control and they proliferates itself and appoints more and more people and you have massive regulation of which are at odds with each ther if you look at it it is impossible to c

whisperer this is the bird whisperer and he specializes in parrot training and we have a beginy pig-a-thon and gerbil show and great food. there's free parking so there's all this entertainment and it's so much fun and you can spend the whole day. >> as -- >> >> reporter: as we talked about you have dog train he is here -- trainers here too right in. >> they are here doing live demos in another areasonedda where you can get yes and answersessions and maybe tackle the problems you are having with your pet. there's many trainers you can schedule session was and meet them. >> reporter: obviously the mudville comic. >> we have johnny pierce here performing and the chesapeake doc bugs doing the dock diving. >> reporter: and can we get lucy. i think she is busy. oh we missed it. eric you missed the shot. so, before the -- you can bring your family. >> it's very affordable. about the price of an hour and a half movie you can spend the day with us and be entertained and storms. it's a fairly large situation going on. >> we are here and 165,000 square feet of pet loving fun. we have our chef has 50

>> yes it will be a judged competition with the akc dog agility a cat and gerbil and beginy pig-a-thon. >> reporter: and the akc you can test how-- >> that's a competition. there's 600 runs and they are competitors qualifying for points. >> reporter: and you can bring your dog in as well right? >> yes. you can bring your dog with you as long as your pets are well socialized. it's a very busy show more fun than you want with your pet but you need to be sure your pet can handle the excitement. >> which there's a lot of excitement here. right? you don't trip over the camera cord. anyway this is going on all week long. you can bring your pet and if it is a social life or sheut should be be a great time. reporting live, brian keebler abc13 news. >>> i have to take my dog out there. >> the first lady is taking her let's move campaign to the airwaves. up next, the shows michelle obama will visit to talk about her aim to end childhood obesity. >>> and he was a star on the 70s sitcom welcome back carter. but first up to new york for this morning's tech bites. >> reporter: in today's tech bites

gingrich says that by the end of his second term as president we will have a permanent base thon the moon. jeanne? >> we saw something in the final days of the week wore momentum was moving. romney was very strong in that debate did many were frustrated that he did not defend and soft, seemed apologetic about his money. all that was gone on thursday night did double influence how the primary it closes. >> charles? >> i think the moon base was newt jumping at the shark, or to use another analogy, it could have been his dukakis in the tank moment, because it was a caricature of him. romney used it cleverly to say that newt was going out around every state promising x, y, and iz. the momentum has shifted, and what was remarkable was that with the audience at there, you would have thought it would have been at the gingrich moment like in south carolina. it was romney. it could act in the advance team. it was obviously -- a cut have been at the advance team. it was obviously a romney crowd from the beginning. whenever it was, romney won the debate decisively. >> colby? >> no question. gin

the social network came up with a timeline profile from one of its hack-a-thon events. the winner gets $5,000 plus a tour of facebook headquarters and a chance to chat with company engineers. >>> there is a strong showing for bay area students competing for the next generation of innovators. intel selected 29 students as semifinalists for this year's science talent search. they represent 14 bay area schools. more than 1800 students submitted projects in a number of disciplines from biochemistry to physics. each semifinalist will receive a $1,000 reward plus an additional $1,000 for his school. the finalists will be selected on january 25. >>>nearly 200 prisoners pardoned on a governor's last day in office. why a judge is blocking their release now. >> shocking bus collisions caught on tape. the investigation into washington's public transit system. what architects had to do with thousands of windows after the accident. >> what architects had to do with thousands of windows after an accident. >>> it is another cold start to the day around parts of the bay area. we have a

hundreds of booths to shop a goney pig-a-thon and jecial show on saturday -- jerel gerbil show on saturday. -- gerbil show on saturday. >> reporter: you have rescues here. >> we have all kinds of pets available for adoption. >> reporter: and entertainment like we are seeing right here. this is very fun for your pets and for yourself to come up here and how much are the tickets? >> $10 for adults and $5 for children and children under 5 are free so about what you pay for an hour and half you canspend the day with us. >> reporter: all weekend long. and lynette you need to tell us whether or not the poochs are going to get rained on this weekend. how is the weather looking? >> the rain in there but i wanted to ask you. your dog's name is shea named after the stadium wouldn't camden have been better since the mets are not so great? >> reporter: the mets are probably on their way down. but, as a kid from new york, what are you going to do. >> you've point. but to answer the question we are going to be seeing rain as we go throughout the day. maybe a couple thunderstorms out there too. so make s

. >> reporter: you wouldn't think houses thon street are in danger of wildfire until you see their backyard. >> nine times out of 10, people say we're just not prepared, we just were not ready, we just didn't think about it, and now we have a threat upon us. >> reporter: there are 30,000 people living in the canyons above hayward. most of them understand that they are in danger. and they know it because of this. the oakland hills fire in 1991 convinced a lot of people that even urban areas can burn out of control. >> my husband and i stay home every year on the fourth of july, with our hoses on our deck, and although i don't know if that will save our home or not, at least we will be able to spot something start. >> reporter: the hayward hills have the same conditions most of oakland and the fire department has received a government grant to help residents help themselves. >> we've got dry weather right now. people can create their defensible space and do some of that landscape work. >> reporter: the hope is that homeowners will clear out a lot of the excess fuels around their houses. and t

influential voice in that debate, but he was an extraordinarily keen observer of the debate that went thon the white house, and you saw all of the parallels to vietnam. he said that, for example, joe biden, who was aring for a doctrine of cotererrorism as opposed to a doctrine of counter insurnsurgency, he said history will remember m as one of the most insightful voices in this debate, he will be remembered as george is remembered in the escalation of the vietnam war. >> rose: let me finally close. this is an introduction here. and william from the character of the happy warrior, and is quote who is a happy warrior, who is he every man in arms should wish to be, it is the generous spirit when brought among the task of real life have brought among the plan that pleased his childish thought, hose high endeavors are inward light make the path for him always bright who with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can is diligent, stops not there, but makes his moral being his prime care. this book is called the unquiet american. >> thank you. >> thank you charlie. captioning sponsored by

. >>> families in the south bay took part in a printa thon to keep their children safe. the event in san josi offered free fingerprinting of children along with other safety measures. they received updated photographs and dna collection kit and a plan explaining what to do if a child disappeared. marc klaas, head of the event says being prepared is essential. >> everybody agrees that in case of an emergency, time is the enemy. and you want to be able to have something that you can hand to the first police officer on the scene. >> the klaaskids foundation was created following the 1993 kidnap and murder of klaas' daughter polly of the since then the foundation has fingerprinted and photographed more than a million children across the country. >>> new at 10:00 in bay area animal lovers are just back from a trip from one of the world's most dangerous cities. ktvu's eric rasmussen is in san rafael to show us what they brought back from mexico. >> reporter: ken, there are certainly stray dogs in the bay area, but one rescue group says it's nothing like what it sneeze juarez,

the miami-dade county jail records show he was booked saturday morning, held on a 1 thon done bond.enth joel by the niners. 14niners. sacks, franchise record, and first among rookies in the nfl with sacks. coach harbaugh will not be happy. the 49ers are monitoring the matter. >> tennis. australian women's champion is now number one in the world. azarenka in he first grand slam final. sharapova showing her experience. won the first two games but azarenka woke up. took the first set. second set, the answer with the forehand. share o'a was -- sharapova was on her heels. getting old at 24. azarenka, the 22-year-old wins her first grand slam domi dominating fashion. straight sets over sharapova, and now also the top ranked player in the world. >> tee it up. round three of the championships in abu dhabi. tiger woods got $3 million to show up. par-3 seventh. birdies. die to move into the lead. always good when he needs it. better putting put him at 9-under. 18 and the par-5. a bird here puts him in the clubhouse with the lead. tiger and rock are tied at 11-under. tigers' first third-round

city on edge after a series of bomb attacks and there is one very big development thon story today. >>> plus, what's the obama campaign's biggest fear when it comes to tonight's caucuses and primaries down the road? and it's not just republicans caucusing tonight. jessica yellin standing by once again in iowa. she's next. >>> a little bit more on the iowa caucus from a different perspective. what about the view from the obama campaign? we're back to jessica yellin, once again pulling double-duty for us in iowa. jessica, do you have any inkling at all what they are hoping for? remember well, they are watching in interest but the ideal outcome for them would be, in my estimation, a long drawnout republican primary to begin with and for tonight if the most conservative candidate were to win, rick santorum victory, fex, would bring smiles in chicago and the white house and here's why. because if a more conservative kantd date wins, the belief is that mitt romney will be the event nominee. so if the obama campaign believes that's the most likely outcome but a conservative like rick santoru

it is known for holding all- night hack-a-thons where employees try to create new products and solveroblems. by the way, facebook's new time line actually came from one of those hack-a-thons. >> republican presidential candidate mitt romney is campaigning in south carolina this morning. show you some video of romney at a rally in greer, south carolina, about three hours ago. that's not mitt. but he should be walking in from the left in just a moment. right there, all of the republican candidates are fan is out across south carolina. this is ahead of the primary there, january 21st. romney toll the audience this morning that as president, he would make pbs the public broadcasting system run commercials to pay for its programming. and he said he would cut some other programs that he says don't pay for themselves. >> the national endowment for the arts, humanities, they're going to center it stand on their own. we're not going to borrow money from china to pay for things we don't absolutely have to have. >> he is already looking ahead to the next primary, january 31st in florida. he is

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now he calls it the hope-a- thon, provides the backdrop for the reason why. >> reporter: governor o'malley goes to a new school in annapolis. >> new school in germantown. >> reporter: but what do you do for the kids in old school? >> sometimes i feel like because our children are in the city, they don't get what other children get. >> reporter: and the difference isn't lost on the children either. >> my school mates and are so lucky to have this school. >> the new school must mean that if we are premiere students, we deserve a premiere school. >> we don't have a lot of money. and that means that we can't afford the lockers and stuff. and r and a lot of -- although and a lot of people nowadays aren't willing to donate it. >> reporter: so they go to the school to beg for it. or as the governor says, hope for additional projects. >> booker t. washington, one of our schools, was built in 1895. >> uh-huh. >> so what you want to talk about old, we can give you old. >> the state of the buildings, they're all old. keith, i saw you with somebody, talking about a building that was built way back in

abc january thon karl has the story. noychlt secret that romney is wealthy.on dollar dollars. but for years he has refused to say what he pay ins taxes. today we learned he pa pays a tax rate less than many middle income americans. i have been paying probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything. >>reporter: that's a writ more likely to be paid by a police officer or secretary than a multi-millionaire. according to the tax policy center the average tax rate for those earning between 50 to 75,000 dollars a year is about 15 percent. those earning 75 to 100,000 dollars pay nearly 17 percent. average rate for those making 1 million or more, more than 29 percent. how does romney get away with paying just 15 percent? >> my income comes overwhelmin overwhelmingly from investment made in the past rather than ordinary income or earned annual income. >>reporter: investment income is taxed at the lower capitol gains rate of 15 percent. queshing in the tax code famou famously allows billionaire buffet to pay a letter rate than his secretary. gingrich seemed taken

>>reporter: asking engineers to volume up tier their time code for america holds hack a thon to buildew cloud base app that solve the city problem. san francisco already has an app to find parking. soon taxi and buses will be tied in then what about an' for volunteers helping the homeless. >> do they have the best information at hand. about where the available shelters are medley when they encounter somebody on the street? can they get a wrap around service right away without having to make 3 or fore phone calls. >>reporter: these aren't the kind of idea that make people rich. they help everyone live better. >> most of the really big innovations have started from people who were dichb by passion and not by chasing the money. and it's in hacker culture that you find the purist of that. >> in san francisco, abc 7 new news. >>> multiple tanker burned after 3 freight trains derailed in a collision in northwest indian a.county officials say one train rear ended another that derailed a third train on adjacent track. everyone is accounted for and no injuries have been reported. despite this

the class kids foundation is holding a print-a-thon in san jose.families about child safety. children will be fingerprinted and photographed at no cost. the event runs from 11 to 3:00 at the academy in apple seed school on dent avenue. >>> greece is taking extreme steps to bring in much-needed revenue. their plan to use historical sites to help pay the bills. >> and live look, san rafael. mix of sun and includes from few scattered showers in the forecast for your morning. and then a nice break for the afternoon. more rain on the way for the second half of the weekend. >>> the chinese new years starts on monday. it's the year of the dragon and that could lead to a baby boom. china is now anticipating a 5% increases in births this year. the dragon is the only mythical creature in the 12 animals in the chinese zodiac and also believed to be a symbol of might and intelligence. china along with hong kong and taiwan have all experienced baby booms in previous dragon years. >>> singapore is getting the ready for the chinese new year and that is leading to

facebook came up with its timeline profile from one of its hack-a-thon events. the winner this year gets $5,000. >>> if facebook goes public it could help california. that's how big it could be. the state's legislative analyst says facebook could sell $10 billion worth of stock in it has an initial public offering. and that can mean hundreds of millions of dollars in worth of capital gains taxes from facebook investors and their employees. >>> algorithmic. >> algorithmic. [ laughter ] >> hard to say at this hour and some of us just can't say it. >>> a big weekend for football fans, the 49ers and saints on saturday and the team will take the field in the first play-off game in a decade so pg&e has made some improvements to the electricity at candlestick. san francisco wants to prevent a repeat of the embarrassing electrical failure during monday night football last month when the nights went off twice. several poles and electrical wiring have been replaced to carry more power to the park. saturday is going to be fun. you have 9ers and saints, then later that nigh

we have fed over 4 thon people in the city of oakland.very time we feed, we promote donor awareness. >> we sign up at least 30 people at each event we have. >> it's ealey important to help your community because without you, there's no community. >> mikey is truly a young wonder. >>> back with what has now >>> back with what has now become the ever expanding santorum family. let me get this right, sarah has joined us, daniel, john, and elizabeth. and the reason you're at the front is apparently you're the one who talks the most. >> i'm the oldest. >> exactly. you were telling me a fantastic story about your parents and about how your father -- this may be a sign of how he perceives things like the presidency. how did he woo your moeth. >> my mom is feisty. she was mad at my dad, so he went over to where she was living and threw stones -- >> stones. >> not rocks, but then he sang to you. >> what was he sing sng. >> i'm not going away. >> i can tell you. >> no, no. >> what do you remember? >> i was singing "the street where you live. ". >>