part of public works, the part of the environment, and numerous other community organizations at union plaza. i think we are also going to be at our own park for their own event and clean up on ringleader policy. those interested in joining us can go to our volunteer page and sign up. i encourage everyone to get their hands dirty on earth day. on monday, 3:00 p.m., i have great pleasure of joining the mayor and the consular of japan who will be planting a cherry blossom tree in the japanese tea garden. it is one of 18 donated trees from our friends in japan. the tree will be planted in the tea garden and there will also be a tree planting in union square, with the remainder planted in meadows throughout the park to celebrate the initiative from japan of giving us the cherry blossom tree. on may 12, we invite everyone to the palace of fine arts theater to laugh out loud for rec and park. something we should all be doing more of. a laugh out loud, the event benefiting rec and park's programs for children on the office of spectrum. as we have reported in this commission on a few different occas

if the strike does go through and union workers are not staffing the plazas, we hear that administrators will be the ones if the protests does go through. >> later this morning, occupy oakland leaders will announce their plans for the protest. they have a noontime rally at 14th and broadway. they plan to shut down what they call various capitalist institutions >> today america's most wanted is expected to interview the morgan hill share of about the search for sierra lamar. crews were in the area shooting video for an upcoming episode. the broadcast has helped to bring home more than 50 missing children over the years >> we wanted to get out here and do whatever we can to help bring more attention to the case >> it is hard because we don't get much sleep, it is abnormal levels of stress and a state of exhaustion >> sierra has been missing for more than one month. police in san francisco are asking for help in finding three hate crimes suspects. one incident happened on castro street and the other on market. in both cases the suspects attack victims while yelling homophobic remarks. inves

i do think that the holiday plaza on both sides is the gateway to the union square business improvement district. you cannot divide institution i f the parmkk is on both side, you unite it. i would ask that you put the hilton, which according to the census has four people, one city block, put it in so you can improve the business improvement district all together. i agree with the statement about the financial district. the financial district in 1985, it was mr. macrhis did the downtown plan. so the new growth of the financial district of the south of market. market would be coming in 10 years nothing more than a mall. it has no traffic now. they divert traffic at 10th street. it would be a unifying factor not a dividing factor. and i believe if you have 8 those00 people you can reunite the tenderloin to a large extent. thank you. >> thank you, sir. that concludes item 6. moving to cut the number7, future agenda. items i'm sorry. we were required to post are february 14 for care and post, that agenda is already prepared. so there are no future agenda items. any public comment on future

let's take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza and going to san francisco. if you are driving on the union city hayward area, let's move through. >> now we have a cold front going by and more of a cool front. there is some light rain drizzle out there and then we will turn more cloudy, partly cloudy, from there you can tell a difference, also some fog and our front washes out after some drizzle and rain we will start to see some improving conditions and sun and clouds, 60s on the temperatures. instead of that south wind giving us a much more muggy pattern, that is a cooler pattern and we are happy to say we go into your fabulous weekend . well overnight rain is making for a wet commute and steve paulson will tell us where the rain is and where it is headed next. >>> and in oakland, at least ten people are under arrest after a marijuana bust and police are asking for help.

tourists go to union square, and they go to a public place where they can belong without knowing anybody. every city needs space like that. we realized at our scale, we needed a civic plaza. we thought about bands, but as soon as you put them up on stage, you have these consuming crowds listening to the band. the longer they stood there the more beer bottle they drop on the ground. that did not seem attractive at all. we do not leave a trace after the event. we do not want a stage. if you want your own, build it, which people did. so we turned to copy. it affords you a social place. you can stay there all day, we do not care. we are not doing it to make money. we lose money. we do it for the sake of public interaction. to create a civic environment that led to communal feelings. that seems like an exception to the dogma, but what did emerson say? a speech of consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. >> i was just thinking that. [laughter] going the other direction, as fast as possible, one of the things -- a pattern that has arisen over the years -- a lot of the leading engineers in the technology industry tend to meet with each other at an burning man, recognize kin

plaza and the block from mason to market street. and this is this block here. this block is a part of the tenderloin, not union square. it is a part of the district, if you look at your maps, you'll see these are the boundaries of the central market c.b.d. and, this block contains the bristol hotel at 56 mason and many social services organizations at 944 market, which is right here. which i have to be a volunteer at one of those offices. please, so please place this block back into district six where it belongs. again for the audience out there in never, neverland, here again is another map of the market c.b.d. and the block that we're talking about. and here is the actual description of the -- all this stuff is up on the screen up there. >> oh, because they moved it down stairs. >> all right, but anyway -- >> there it is. >> in closing, i would like to ask you to please keep district five in laguna. there are many reasons for this. ok, i can't multitask either. >> thank you very much, sir. >> hi, i'm lawrence lee from the lower eight. thank you so much for listening to our community. redwoast keep our immunity toget

francisco, these are union workers from the city, and in the last 12 minutes you can see what is happening here. a group of close to a thousand protesters started marching from civic center plaza, approaching market street. obviously in the street here. i'm not exactly sure what street they're in, close to market street, they're marching in the street. this will create traffic problems. and if they do go down market street that is one of the most busy in the city, we'll have major traffic issues. we'll keep our cameramen on the scene here and keep you posted on the news cast. >>> and supporters of berkeley public radio station, picketing outside the station today ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> they're calling on the parent company, pacifica radio, to cut ties with a company they say is union busting. they say they hired the jackson lewis law firm to handle the nonunion matters. there has been tension since pacifica laid off the staff of the morning show. >>> and approving the limit on state worker pay. the legislation would cap pay at no more than what the governor makes. that is just under 174,000 a year. supporters say the state can't afford to spend anymore. in 2010, more than 1400 california

plaza open. did least it's hard to set the buses there could be sympathetic that could be other actions. in to to add to the banks of the union protesters it appears the unit union reps want occupy protesters to join with them as well bacchantes adjust talks. they have been consulting with occupy protesters to make up the next half-hour we're expected to have a bridge district representative joining us live to talk to us about their contingency plan and how she says that is all the stocks right now and that we shouldn't be concerned about any potential closures at this point in time we're live at the golden gate bridge near cbs five. >>> occupy protesters will buy a policy and plans the next tuesday and subsides as the planned other actions at various locations as a morning against various capitalist institutions. today america's most wanted expected to interview morgan hill's share for about the search for the missing teen crews were in morgan hill yesterday shooting video for an upcoming episode the broadcast has helped bring home more than 50 missing children or the years and put their doctors behind bars. >>> we want to g

plaza, is going to be headlining the show on "snl." people are lined up for looks like more than a block. inside state of the unionmatt lauer. >> i hear these people are lined up, since tuesday, sleeping out, a lot of young girls and they're parents, and they're on line for standby tickets. the audience is already filled and they're just waiting for the few standby tickets that might become available. >> i will say though that i discovered because i did like to go to "snl" myself, a lot of times those standby tickets do come up but only at the last minute so you don't even know after waiting all this time. anyway, that's how much love there is out there. also coming up in this half hour on our broadcast, on thursday we told you about this online firestorm that was created by a woman's article on how other women hate her for being beautiful. well, coming up, she's going to be joining us to answer her critics h her first exclusive live interview for an american broadcast. >> also ahead kim kardashian is here. what is it about kim that keeps her in the headlines? and has people reacting to her every move? we'll be ta

union city down to fremont. northbound 880 in oakland. let's take a live look at that. the traffic is busy as you pass high street. when you get to the toll plaza0 to 12 minutes. >>> let's go to steve. >> thank you. cloudy skies, very muggy conditions. rain today, santa cruz mountains, san jose, santa clara valley to the -- santa clara valley to the east bay. after that, we clear it out. friday looking good and the weekend looking better, you two. >> all right. we'll take it. thank you. >> that's our report for this morning. thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. we'll see you the next time news breaks and be sure to join the news for more about the body blow recover -- for more about the body recovered in bodega bay. we're always here at ktvu.com. thanks for joining us.

union city. slow traffic. 80 westbound between pinole and rif monday is -- richmond is slow and we have a look at 680 very slow getting into alamo. a quick look at the bay bridge toll plaza for about a 15 minute wait. >>> a little cooler today. tomorrow temperatures start a warmup. thursday, friday, saturday. it looks sunny, mild and very warm for some. >> all right. thank you, steve. >> any time. >>> that's our report for this morning. thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. we'll see you the next time news breaks. >> and be sure to join us for the news at noon. we'll have more.