this is a tourist city. a destination city. a lot of people live here because of the unique interest that san francisco provides and the entertainment industry and including restaurants provide a lot of that that make living here a joy for so many of us. and people say, what a wonderfully successful restaurant they must be making a lot of money. there is this image that somebody is benefitting at the other end of this commercial restaurant thing. i have to tell you knowing many in the commercial restaurant industry it's a very difficult to make a living if you are the owner or manager. more than think of from 24r point of voy restaurants provide a tremendous benefit to the city. there are a lot of people that have jobs in restaurants. suppliers and contractors have impacts throughout the city. we have to understand that restaurants provide social well being for the city. an economic base, this is an important thing and the department of building and inspection i do our very best to resolve restaurant issues. so that we can move

now there are thousands of cops on alert while parts of that tourist city look like a war zone. >>> cover story, what we learned today about how this controversial photo was selected for the cover of "news week." >>> and who doesn't love a good dog? that's the point. tonight, we'll show you the important jobs these dogs perform in the courtroom. "nightly news" begins now. captiy nbc-universal television captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. you might want to be strapped in >>> good evening. you might want to be strapped in and hang on tight if you're going to follow the u.s. economy and the market at least in the near term. it was a wild day today while nothing has changed about the fundamentals. the u.s. credit rating is not going to be restored to full strength any time soon and there are big problems from here to europe fueling all this but if yesterday was black monday on wall street today was a dizzying kind of temporary bounceback. the dow closed up almost 430 points, 4% of its value, after screaming higher in the last half hour of trading. all three of the

city in the u.s. and over 40 million tourists visit the city every year. the 1.3 billion gallons of water required every day are delivered by a system of extraordinary scale and complex engineering. man: water is essential to the economic viability of new york city. reliable infrastructure and reliable delivery of water is a must. you have to reinvest in the infrastructure every single minute to keep it current. hurwitz: we have the stock exchange, we have the united nations -- failure can have a dramatic impact on the nation, and even internationally. so there's a really keen awareness that you always have to be fixing the system. things corrode, they rust. they get to where you turn them on and nothing happens. but it is so totally used in every nook and cranny, that making any accommodation to shut it down, to do something to it, is very difficult. narrator: two massive underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the city's water supply. they run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. built at the be

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summer tourist taxis. every city has the same problem. you think you are special, don't you? i am astonished that he did not know the meter could be adjusted by the time. rush-hour, the meter goes up and discourages or encourages cab pulling which is another idea that could be implemented and it could double or triple the fleet without adding one more taxing. efficiency is what i would like to see. that comes green and you do it efficiently and do not waste taxpayers' time and money. in a capitalistic society, that is the way you go. [bell] >> next speaker, please. [reading names] >> good afternoon, directors. i want to acknowledge my id manar -- admiration, there is a small time in china where the cab drivers went on strike. that takes a lot of courage in china with their society. as far as peak time medallions, this is an opportunity for the city. the city gets involved in businesses because it needs to regulate them. this is a golden opportunity to start employing cabdrivers in a test program where i worked at a company where we split the meter and we were given minimum wa

cities are under palastinian-arab control. the only controlled areas frequented by tourists are bethlehem and jerco. oldest city in the world. >> holy sites time and again ruined. >> for example long term agreements protected joseph's tomb. in 2000 palastinians forced out the jewish study and ransacked the place. a few months ago, a palastinian policeman killed a jewish worshipper there. israel called it a terror attack. other sites include rachel's tomb in bethlehem where abraham, isaac, jacob, and their wives are buried. >> they would be willing to swap this biblical heritage for peace. >> if god for bid we uproot ourselves, there will never be peace. these jews don't feel any connection, let's wipe them out of the country altogether if we are not in jerusalem, hebram, we won't be in tell tel aviv. >> i think god's plan and purposes was that israel would allow the stranger to dwell here, but he is giving this inheritance to israel. he is giving it to israel to be the steward of this land. we could at least respect god's choosing. >> chris mitchell cbn news, baytell. >>> coming up on "christian worl

here's the latest from new new york city's times square. >> tourist are returning to times square and hundreds of thousands of new yorkers are returning to their homes tonight. the heart of the city largely was spared, but all around this area irene left her mark. >> irene was angry but not enraged when she visited new york. reduced to a tropical storm, she still had the strength to knock down trees, flood parts of the city and swamp suburbs. thrill seekers found themselves stranded. more than 2 million people lost power in dismurk the surrounding areas -- in new york and the surrounding areas about the city escaped the urban apocalypse. >> the mayor lifted the city's first ever mandatory evacuation, saying it's now okay for nearly 400,000 new yorkers in low-lying areas to go back home but getting back to work won't be easy. officials wouldn't say when subways and trains on the nation's largest mass transit system will start rolling again. >> the actions we took yesterday were right. the yards where we relocated trains out of are yards that are underwater right now. >> reporter: perha

bosphorus and a chance to see the city from the water, with europe on one side and asia on the other. you'll pass massive cruise ships which pour thousands of tourists into the city for a frantic day of sightseeing and shopping. the boat passes homes of wealthy locals who can afford some of the priciest real estate in turkey -- bosphorus waterfront. the dramatic bosphorus bridge was the first bridge ever to span two continents. and the rumeli fortress was built by the ottomans the year before they conquered the city of constantinople. tour boats share the bosphorus with plenty of commercial traffic. the narrow and strategic strait is a bottle neck busy with freighters, including lots of ukrainian and russian ships, since this is the only route from ports on the black sea out to the mediterranean. for more crowds and urban energy, you can join the million commuters who ferry over and back every day from the asian side of istanbul. ferries shuttle in and out from all directions as seas of locals make their daily half-hour intercontinental commute.

and also to make sure that we are investing and renewing every part of our city, to make sure that the tourists enjoy this area, and even people like ourselves -- those of us now live in the city -- will love it even more. this will benefit everybody. i also want to introduce another champion, someone that i have worked with closely this past year, who has led a very positive dialogue. that is our board president, president david chiu. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i want to welcome everyone to what mark twain calls a classic summer day in san francisco. i am proud to be here as part of this announcement, and i am here on behalf of my colleague jane kim, who is stuck in city hall. the two of us have the honor of representing the number one place in san francisco where people come to shop, and hello to everyone on the cable cars, spend time in our incredible city. this is an announcement of how we build 21st century city -- cities, how we can create communities on very busy dance streets. we know it takes a village to create a parklet. i want to thank the city department for being our part

and a leading national hotel chain are joining forces to launch a new program to attract tourists and give the city a much-needed economic boost. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news is live in san francisco. this targets what particular group of shoppers. >> reporter: we are talking about the incredibly lucrative chinese tourism market and this morning, hilton hotel officials with the san francisco mayor ed lee right there on stage with him announced that maybe the best way to get chinese tourists to san francisco is bring a little bit of china here first. >> they are debuting 13 hilton hotels worldwide. four in the bay area. two in san francisco, financial district and union square. one at the international airport and one at santa clara. >> one yeng. >> the program is aimed at tourists from china and focuses on the visitors' arrival, room and breakfast. at arrival, a staff person will be available who is fluent in mandarin. breakfast important for chinese will feature food visitors are familiar with. and displayed at the roll-out. >> when you welcome the chinese visitors for business and tourism, and you

and a leading national hotel chain are joining forces to launch a new program to attract tourists and give the city a much-needed economic boost. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news is live in san francisco. this targets what particular group of shoppers. >> reporter: we are talking about the incredibly lucrative chinese tourism market and this morning, hilton hotel officials with the san francisco mayor ed lee right there on stage with him announced that maybe the best way to get chinese tourists to san francisco is bring a little bit of china here first. >> they are debuting 13 hilton hotels worldwide. four in the bay area. two in san francisco, financial district and union square. one at the international airport and one at santa clara. >> one yeng. >> the program is aimed at tourists from china and focuses on the visitors' arrival, room and breakfast. at arrival, a staff person will be available who is fluent in mandarin. breakfast important for chinese will feature food visitors are familiar with. and displayed at the roll-out. >> when you welcome the chinese visitors for business and tourism, and you

with only 40 pedicab in city and millions of tourists, there is plenty of business to go around.m tomas roman, abc7 news. >>> the time is 4:45. coming up, easing the rules of education reform. the break obama administration will announce today for thousands of schools across the country. >> thousands of outlawed cribs are still forsale online. what you need to look out for if you are in the market for a used crib for your baby. >> san francisco is filled with sounds of the grateful dead. while thousands turn out to celebrate the life of jerry garcia. >> you way! you know the moving photographs in harry potter? they're coming to life in the real world. next, how they are made and the drive to take them mainstream. >>> welcome back. a look at the high temperatures in the country. really hot in dallas, 104. 105 in phoenix. 96 in d.c. 90 in new york. as far as the flight delays we don't have any now. a huge area of severe weather is possible in the midwest and ohio river valley. anything developed, flight arrival delays here also. abc7news.com with the flight tracker. kristen? >> lik

cities in russia's far east. borders because the region's ministers have some sent home to more than half a million people in a place that really sparkles in the summer. tourists and locals come out in force to enjoy the city's wide and picturesque whereas and down by the river there are plenty of places to work on your tan. now apparently this is one of two places in the whole of russia. in the wilds now tradition the opening of the lotus flower petals to signify the expansion of the soul so i'm hoping that my trip to hell is going to be as well and i was going. down on the riverbank. hundred fifty years ago. it links russia with china and. it's a great way to see the city. resident and to take. trains young. and we had a. so . it wasn't long before we were doing it. and. i took the. great day just to be messing around. just enough to enjoy the. grace. for me. if you want to find out of. this place that you have to visit this is the museum. and it's the biggest and the most visited in the whole of the country. thousand people step into this building every year and they get to enjoy a huge collection of exhibits from live local river residence to back in time.

that's pretty much been the name of the game here for about every tourist in ocean city maryland. officials are warning if residents don't get out now they won't be able to do it tomorrow. chris welch. >> that's what's happening on the ground. let's take you up high now and show you some of the pictures that were taken of irene. the view we're about to show you is from 250 miles above the earth. it shows the incredible size of hurricane irene which was 600 miles wide. >>> mark tamayo is tracking irene. and we're getting more information on where irene is headed. >> a little bit more of a shift to the northeast. right now moveing to the north- northeast. already those heavy rain bands pushing on shore. latest information on the satellite with hurricane irene that makes it a category 3. we'll take this into the overnight hours. this is for the overnight hours, you can see what happens as you head into saturday morning. this is 1: 11:00 our time. winds at 110 miles per hour. this hurricane will weaken a bit. but still producing significant rainfall and a storm surge. there's the trac

a tourist city generally. the attackers launched an assault on soldiers.many more wounded. there's also reports of a roadside bombing targeting a second bus in. no word yet on who the assail apartments may be. we have people on the ground there watching the story develop. we will bring you more information as we get it. >>> also break thing morning. the u.s. ready to call for syria's president al assad to step down because of the brutal crackdown on his own people. it could come as early as today. senior u.s. officials say the move has been coordinated with allies in europe, turkey, arab world. we are expecting a statement from secretary of state hillary clinton at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. we will bring that to you live. standard & poor satisfies under investigation by the justice department for the ratings it gave mortgage securities in the years leegd up to the financial crisis. according to "the new york times," the justice department is looking into whether s&p business managers overruled analysts on deals to potentially earn more money. >> developing

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. >> reporter: west coast often hires foreign exchange students who over charge tourists, not abiding by the city's existing pedestriany cab rate. a police department hearing on it last week had to be postponed because of a language bare i didn't. >> they need to pick up their city hall documentation. >> reporter: you have words with them on the road or not? >> no, a lot of them don't speak english. get a permit. play by the gentleman's rules of the road and these existing pedi cab drivers say it's fair game. they say there is no backpedaling on this issue allowed. juliette goodrich, news 5. >>> stocks are down sharply this hour indicating the possibility of another bloodbath on wall street. that and as the finger pointing over the national debt heats up, standard & poors downgraded the government from a aaa rating to a a a plus. they say third were influenced by the long standoff between republicans and democrats on the debt. on the talk show republicans and democrats disagreed on who is to blame. >> the fact of the matter is that this is essentially a tea party down grade. the tea party brought u

tourists were returning to the city in droves, and business in her popular french quarter restaurants were going so well, she decided to open a new restaurant in her home neighborhood of lakeview. lakeview was under water during katrina, but unlike some of the poorer areas of new orleans, rebuilding is well under way. >> i thought well, why not have a nice restaurant here, one where i could maybe try to recreate some of those great old new orleans seafood dishes. >> susan was feeling positive about her future and that of the city. >> i felt like five years after katrina, we were really on a roll. starting off the year with the super bowl victory. >> i, mitchell joseph landrieu -- is going on to having a new mayor, and then the oil spill has really been kind of a smackdown. >> chef spicer joined a class action suit against bp to claim damages for lost income from the oil company. so many small business owners in louisiana and their employees have been decimated by the disaster. >> the question is what happens next? where are people going to make a living? do they stay there? do they h

tourists. >> all pedicab operators in the city pay over $300 to get a permit to operate, and it's my understanding the other drivers don't have those permits. so, i start to wonder why did i pay $300. >> reporter: three companies operate on the embarcadero, san francisco pedicab, cabrillo and golden gate pedicab, which is operated by car loss. he says there are rules, including getting a permit and license for the operator. most importantly, there are specific fares they can charge allowed by the city. >> they charged $100 for a couple to go about a mile -- one-ten inch miles which we can charge $205 for. >> the aku says have been leveled at west coast pedicab since shay showed up last month. the owner says his operation and drivers are legal. >> they don't want anyone else coming on their territory. less money for them, but i applied for the permits, carry the proper insurance, i have done everything i need to do. and the drivers have applied for licenses. they have paid all their fees. they have their driver's license, done everything they need to do on their end. >> reporter: many of the driver

they want a successful city that keep on bringing in tourists. lots of tourists from china. you saw the ping pong group yesterday. everyone enjoys that. i think asian community wants a successful city that is balanced. it but not always have to be the pocketbook, but they want a quality city. that is why they came here. it is about the richness of the city in general. do i want to keep living here? do i want to make my life here? that is on the minds of many asian families. i went to lunch with some sixth graders from alice fong. i said, do you want to be in the city? yes, i want to be in the city. they were asking me about twitter. they play some of the zynga games. they did not know that their headquarters were here, but they need to know that, growing up. we want the chinese companies to also use san francisco as their headquarters and to continue to be the gateway. people love that about the city. asian families, the matter their income -- they could be a hotel workers, garment workers, for ceo's, they all want -- or ceo's, they all want a quality city. my job is to make

over about forty percent of europe and turned the chernobyl blast into an international city today only tourists are permitted to enter the exclusion zone but there are extreme health risks when doing so the proponents claim nuclear technologies have become much more sophisticated this still vulnerable to natural disasters the earthquake and tsunami the tristen quickly japan turned to the city before her she went into a dead zone because afraid asian levels of push him a severity level was raised to seven the same as. some experts remain steadfast in the face of chernobyl and for question and continued to think nuclear the only major energy source that is available when all your missing and running short is nuclear power and we better get prepared for many european countries continue to have the rely on nuclear power in france for example it amounts to seventy five percent with its tricity needs to ennoble seriously undermines the nuclear industry and many countries who refuse to build more nuclear power plants but resistance gave way to what many call in nuclear renaissance with more countries