this mental health tring training is just another class among many classes. you get out and do your other training, and then you get assigned to a station. what i understand you are saying, and maybe you can elaborate on this, if this is a three to five-year officer who has demonstrated judgment who wants to be part of the program, applies to the program, and selected to the program and then is given educational training and practical training, what you are talking about is de-escalation, and it is an ongoing training. these people become specialists. they get a chance to learn and grow. and they have resources available to them. [applause] >> the short answer is yes. but you did really summarize the flavor of c.i.t. within the specialization. we are proud of all of our law enforcement officers. there is no question about it. i think it has been repeated by many of our citizens here tonight and by others this is a special population requiring special needs and special services with dignity. i think the c.i.t. program is a platform. it is a platform for office

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i know that that's been a strong tring and -- thing and we wouldn't have survived without that kind ofto let you know what's in my heart and mind and let's kick off this celebration to unite everybody in this city and be broud -- proud of who we are, and thank you very much. >> thank you, mayor lee. we are about to bring up our keynote speaker. but i did want to mention we also have with us david campos who's joined us. let's welcome supervisor camp ovements and dr. veronica hunnicutt is here also the so with that we're at the point where we really want to get to the real meat of this thing today, our key note speaker. i mentioned earlier we've had a strong partnership with bring the exhibition we have now with the kinsey collection through the kinsey foundation and no stronger partner could we have had than the san francisco public library under the leadership of luis herrera. luis has been -- let's give luis a -- [applause] luis has been a real up toer in standing with us in doing what's necks -- necessary to make this happen. stuart shaw, ann carroll is back there. everett, the peop

i know that that's been a strong tring and -- thing and we wouldn't have survived without that kind ofto let you know what's in my heart and mind and let's kick off this celebration to unite everybody in this city and be broud -- proud of who we are, and thank you very much. >> thank you, mayor lee.

you may tring diet soda if you're watching you weight, but that could be hazardous to your overall healthat? >> dietsoda has been portrayed as sexy, glamorous and guilt-free. but a new medical study is questioning the safety of diet soda, suggesting diet soda may be linked to serious health risks. >> this study really shows us some new information to help sort of fill out the -- the question of whether diet sodas are healthy and what we see is that they're not. >> reporter: for nine years researchers at the university of miami and columbia university followed 2,500 new yorkers who drank diet soda every day. the study found that daily diet soda drinkers had a 61% higher risk of so-called vascular events, including stroke and heart attack, than those who did not drink any diet soda. the study did not look at specific diet sodas, nor the amount of the diet soda people in the study drank each day. hanna gardner is the lead author of this study. >> i can't tell you it's safe or unsafe. all i can say is what we found was that there was an increased risk of vascular disease among those who drank