and the original dda allowed ucsf to give first priority to ucsf employees with consideration given to preference hold ers working at ucsf. so in june they basically paid and released property five million dollars and also the commission approved the agreement and amendment that allows us to have the block 7 go directly to the developer for construction of temporary housing for families going through treatment at ucsf and permitted to assign the original block which still exists to the developer for 200 units on the remaining site of block 7 and ucsf has agreed to prepay under the existing dda a. which is tied to construction of the second phase of the hospital. that won't start until otherwise would not be due until 2035 onwards. 2.4 million 20 years early ucsf would be allowed to assign the dda to the developer and that amendmented dda would be 25 percent of the units on the block with the 7 west project to give preference to employees of the healthcare institution and liabilities under the dda so as i mentioned this gives us a 2.4 million about 20 years earlier that anticipated othe

from ucsf professor of health policy. thank you, dr. smith. >> thank you. i come from a background of having spent over 25 years in my career doing research on public health prevention. i recently spent three years working for the un commercial term nants of health to prevent and health strategies to one of the most effective strategies for affecting the consumable products that are harmful to health that being sugary beverages and doing studies in national institutes of health. when i speak about what we don't know about sugary beverages and taxation. i spent a quarter of my lifeworking in this area of research. i want to first speak to some of that, i think budget and legislative analyst report, i was able to read it. i think it's a wonderful piece of work. the ability to bring national and local data to bear is great. i want to speak to some things that are not in the report and that as your representative said, it's a very conservative report. and there are a number of aspects of what we know in the scientific community and the public health communities

the doctors from ucsf. >> good afternoon, thank you for the opportunity for hearing us. we are doctors at the hospital and pediatrician at uc sf. everyday in our clinic we countier -- encounter children that are over weight. this is not a cosmetic issue. it is a serious and lifelong problem with psychological consequences ranging from heart disease to diabetes and bullying and self-esteem issues. obese children will most likely become obese adults. >> recent data tells us that two -thirds of our children are consuming sugar beverages many it's higher in adolescence than any other age group. more 20 percent of adolescence are consuming over 500 calories per day. our most vulnerable children which is our racial minority and less educated and poorer families are likely to increase their risk. >> sugary beverages, a child's risk in obesity rises nearly 60 percent. when kids decrease the number of sugar sweet and bevenlgs that they drink, they lose weight and their over all health improves. sugary drinks increase bone density, headache, anxiety and loss of sleep and less nutr

ucsf professor and cardiologist brian lee read the report and has a strong feeling that there was a problem with spalding's heart. >> we know that alcoholics do have a higher likelihood of sudden death, probably due to, again, electrolyte imbalance and we know these electrolyte imbalances trigger card yiac arrhythmias. >> she was out there in the elements and she died of either

we are about to embark on the study at ucsf that the head of food services is the principal investigatoron, where we will try to do the same thing in a hospital setting, which is very different than the general setting. but hospitals have to start this. the bottom line is -- it used to be the people smoked in hospitals. and now they do not. in fact, hospitals were the first place is to ban smoking entirely. and we will probably have to be the first phase is to ban sugar sweetened beverages entirely, too. >> hi. can you just say a little, a few words about the reversibility of the condition? for instance, what is the duration of exposure for a child at risk? let's say they stop their soda consumption when they turn into, the age of 20, smokers will ultimately go back to the risk for lung cancer over many years. what happens to children -- >> there are two issues. there is the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and the diabetes issue. the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease issue, if it is just fatty liver, it is eminently reversible. it can take time, but it is reversible. we are doing a study

the dean of ucsf will serve as interim chancellor. >>> it's the catch phrase from the tv show "star trek," to boldly go where no man has gone before. >> we're here with the high aspirations of one south bay junior high. >> it's been a while for me and assume you. seven and eighth graders are 12 and 13 years, which is why what they're doing is so remarkable. their out of this world project is tonight's bay area proud. san jose's valley christian junior high school is built upon a hill. while you can joke that makes all the students here closer to god -- >> thank you, lord, for helping us to do the best we can on this program. >> reporter: the students are indeed closer to the heavens than most. for what they have spent the last four months working on heads into space this spring. a few years ago valley senior christian high began a program where students develop and build experiments destined for the international space station. it has proven such a success the program has been duplicated in other high schools. here at valley christian for the first time it is being attempted by junior hi

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laura smith who is a professor of health policy at ucsf who have been visors on this study and advising us on the impact of sugar sweetened beverages. at public comment i just want to acknowledge beatrice cardenas duncan who is a community leader and active with groups like shape up sf and the labor movement as well is here. breks board of education board of education president is here. and corner store coalition and an organizer with t ndc and todd davis who has been a great leader in our neighborhood as well. they will be speaking at public comment. we also have a number of other folks from different communities that will speak a little bit later. before i introduce the first speaker, i want to know if my colleagues have any opening remarks. >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you supervisor mar for your work and your partnership on this important issue. the coalition that has been forming in san francisco around the proposed sugary beverage tax is broad and deep. i will be honest that it is even broader and deeper than i thought it would be when we started this

. >>> the chancellor of ucsf is stepping down. susan desmond helmons has been chancellor at ucsf since 2009. she is scheduled to start her new position in may. >>> decapitated birds wrapped in fabric and found with candles. what investigators say the remains represent. >>> chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking. >>> i thought, that look i love having a free checked bag with my united mileageplus explorer card. i've saved $75 in checked bag fees. [ delavane ] priority boarding is really important to us. you can just get on the plane and relax. [ julian ] having a card that doesn't charge you foreign transaction fees saves me a ton of money. [ delavane ] we can go to any country and spend money the way we would in the u.s. when i spend money on this card, i can see brazil in my future. [ anthony ] i use the explorer card to earn miles in order to go visit my family, which means a lot to me. ♪ >>> a san francisco home under renovation suddenly collapses and some neighbors say they're not surprised at what happened. the house at

. >>> the chancellor of ucsf is stepping down.esmond helmons has been chancellor at ucsf since 2009. she is scheduled to start her new position in may. >>> decapitated birds wrapped in fabric and found with candles. what investigators say the remains represent. >>> chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking. >>> i thought, that looks like it's about ready to fall. >> and fall it did. we learn what was learned about a collapsed house on a property in san francisco. >>> a san francisco home under renovation suddenly collapses and some neighbors say they're not surprised at what happened. the house at crown terrance and clarendon in the twin peaks was being significantly enlarged. the property has been the focus of a neighborhood dispute. >> reporter: the small two story house began falling at about 10:30 last night from crown terrace toward gray stone terrace. no one was living there and no one was injured. >> i thought, that looks like it was about ready to fall. >> reporter: the house was being remodeled. it had been lifted up an

is com posed of several health commissioners and senior managers at sfgh i worked with some of the ucsf staff who staffed the renal center at supervisor cam pos's hearing was in front of the neighborhood services and safety committee and supervisor campos asked roland pick ens chief operating officer if it had been voted on by the health commission. it was never discussed at the full health commission, they never took a vote on it. most of the speakers during that october 17th hearing i should say all 40 of them opposed moving dialysis because of the burdens of the patients to face longer transportation times. places a huge burden on them. >> thank you mr. monnet. your 3 minutes has passed. >> thank you. >> next i have mr. robert fitch. >> hello. thank you for having me here. i am with the city college disabled students programs and services and i know you are aware of all of the stuff involved with a creditation but even on a statewide level as it relates to seniors and people with disabilities. trying to redefine the purpose of community colleges narrowly pretty much wiping out all of

about sustain appeals court first with literacy in the past two years were our collaboration with ucsf has been excited and kindling. they've compromised our students and have their lessons for our curriculum needs and provided resources for our program. i'm especially excited about correcting the law students and other students they can also recognize the viral science as a value for a career path. this is in addition, that i know my states will are appreciate. we have not only been to see hour students graduate from high school but from - within jobs sorry. and working with the viral foundation they've opened up many opportunity as well as lincoln our students to hire education. thank you katherine board president ass. i want to add as a former student i would have liked to be able to or take to have been able to work with the board so i appreciate in opportunity >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm here today to represent the labors local union. the foundation and the local are behind the support between the bay institute and the continually of san francisco. the reason that t

the event benefits the ucsf medical center and the benioff children's hospital. be right back. >>george: the westbound commute as the back of the ball away from downtown san mateo. southbound rather traffic and so the bomb was averted on to the '92 because the south of bound lanes were closed. here you see that the police department still has a deeds for employees. this is the traffic heading south bound on el camino. the traffic is being forced to make it right hand turns. this is backed up traffic all the way across the bridge and that's the reason for the slow traffic. looking at the rest of the bay area, winding down for 80 and 24 a still sluggish make no mistake about it. there's than 92 traffic backed up from industrial 3 south bay freeway is, the heaviest traffic. and the north bay ride while on winding is still slow but plane and about and central san rafael. i just heard about an accident southbound at spencer on highway 101 and 4 car crashed that's backing up the ride coming all over the wall belgrade. in the picture bay bridge ride. let's look at weath

finished high school at the age of 15, graduated from uc-berkeley at 18, and finished medical school at ucsf a way to help people, but sort of like the doctor said, you know, the founder of the republic of china, he, too, recognized that to help people you need to get more involved in the community fiber. >> a trained vascular surgeon, dr. lowe was courted by prestigious clinics, but his passion was to help the under served in china town. he opened his family practice just down the block from the nursery school he attended. >> doctors sometimes they feel like god, so they tell more than listen. and i think it's more important the patients feel that you hear them. >> dr. lowe's impeccable bed side manner was matched by his work outside of the exam room when he was board chair at chinese hospital, he helped create a revolutionary chinese community health plan to offer high quality, affordable, and culturally competent care. rollins lowe also gave voice to asian pacific islander health issues on a national level. he helped start the asian pacific islander health forum for health advocacy and wa

project open hand, and the san francisco and the food banks and the tender loin, development and the ucsf center for populations at san francisco general hospital. as we come together, we really work to figure out how to collaborate and how to improve this situation we know that there are programs that we can get data for but we wanted to see the system as a whole and to be able to have the data to analyze that and we wanted to make this information available to groups and other department so that we will be able to join in and make sure that all are eating healthy. and i am going to go into the framework that we have utilized for this analysis and supervisor mar touched on it in his opening comments. we know that food security and healthy eating are really complex policy issues and you cannot just look at the issue from one dimension. and we search for a way to communicate this better and understand it better but we found it from the world health organization to be helpful for us and we have modified that. and so it has allowed us to accurately examine the issue. food resource and access

the hospital suggested five docktors out of ucsf. the judge gave the family until monday to pick one of the five while the hospital will check on each doctor's availability. he'd like jahi examined monday so the family knows whether further treatment is warranted. kimberly terry, nbc bay area news. >>> a person in a wheelchair is dead after hit by a car tonight in san jose. the collision happen around 7:00 p.m. in the area of monterey road and feland avenues not far from municipal stadium. police say the car ran into the person head-on. the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. the driver is cooperating with police. alcohol is not believed to be a factor. this is the 26th vehicle versus pedestrian death in san jose this year. last year, there were 12 such accidents. >>> good news for commuters in the east bay. ac transit buses will keep running. no strike. ac transit and its unions have reached a tentative labor agreement. the news comes just two days before the expiration of a 60-day order not to strike. the union, which represen