san francisco is a very unique city in terms of we embrace history. we embrace legacy. we embrace our cable cars. we embrace our wonderful victorians that we have here, our history is very important to us, that legacy. but we also do a complete 180. we have awareness of technology. so many technological advantages started here. we have to embrace that as a city. so why do we leverage cloud? one, obviously, from an economical position. a second, because we are able to deliver services more quickly. we have a challenge with our staffing and resources, as you mentioned, but we have to embrace that legacy staff. we cannot merely replace them, as you pointed out. we have to embrace that legacy staff and repurchased them in other areas that we can benefit the city better with those folks. so our decision to recently go to a more enterprise version of cloud computing was leveraging e-mail in the crowd -- that was a major decision. ground-breaking decision for the city and county, but one that we feel will better prepare us for the future and better enable us to implement other

. >>> new orleans is one of the most unique cities in america and the big easy even buries its dead differently. michelle griego with your cbs 5 news headlines. shows us graveyards aren't just a place for grieving. ♪ [ music ]♪ >> new orleans is one of the few places in the united states that has above ground burials. >> there is a rumored voodoo queen in the cemetery marie laveau. people come from around the world to see her tomb. >> this is the second most popular graveyard destination. after graceland, it's one of those things that makes new orleans unique. >> it's more than a cemetery that draws me here. i probably been sitting here for an hour sketching. you start to notice things. this is where people's family members are buried. is it peaceful? is it a place that people want to come and spend time? or is it kind of spooky? i think it's a little bit spooky. it's not a place i want to come after the sun went down but that's kind of what's special about it. >> we have a very unique relationship with the dead. >> it's peaceful. i would invite people to visit and experience it for themselves.

this is a unique american city. the old french quarter was saved, never was destroyed, never torn down. a lot of cities in america tore down their waterfront areas in the old neighborhoods in the late 1800s, early 1900s. new orleans saved the french quarter. this is the truly unique an area this big this old this beautiful in america. people level all around us, all above us. -- people living all around us, all above us. the french settled almost 300 years ago. every street in the buick ray in the french quarter has three names, english, french and spanish. you have to love the mixture of the people. it's a big city but it's a small town. very friendly. you love the music, the food. whatever you want, it's available there. you just go out and get it. here you go, gus. you never know who you're going to bump into when you're up here. >> that's right. we were just going for a friendly carriage ride and did you see who we ran into, frank? >> well, we heard from him a little bit earlier. i guess george lucas right? >> g

when you listen to the coverage of other cities if there is that unique relationship elsewhere betweenity and his team. it seems so special here. >> that's what i heard. every time i travel to a city it is so unique. i don't know of any other team. >> you have it later in the afternoon. >> one of the children who every week we select one winner every winner receive as party at home with the cheerleaders in toe. >> it is fantastic. the kids can still send these in. >> kids can still send letters in. there are 50 in the area participating. there are 50 mailboxes where they can drop their letters off. >> don't travel. >> thank you so much. don't go away we will be right back with more news in a >> good morning. we are starting you off with a live look outdoors. the time now almost 9:41. bright blue skies and the sun a shining. maybe a few clouds rolled in. but thankfully we have the sunshine. temperatures quickly warm up. we started off in the low 30s. now already in the mid to upper 40s in some areas. 34 degrees at the airport 47 downtown. 41 in parkton and even these temperatures have b

city. they wanted the unique business in the city. it seems now that has reversed. the food trucks, whether it's coffee or food, they are always offering service that is not here already. i go to they will awesome the time and the reason i do is because they are better. not always, but often. the small businessman will go out of his way to make it better. the large business will keep their -- if they are good, they will keep their quality at the same level to keep their business at the same level. if you want uniqueness and you want to see good quality, you are going to allow more small businesses, not less. so thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi there. thank you. my name is alex hart. it seems clear from my reading of the city ordinance and dpw guidelines that city policy is to allow food trucks, if they comply with the various rules and regulations. and expresso subito has really done that to a t. there has been a 15-month process here. it was clear to me that radio services may have made a mistake in providing notice of the original dpw hearing,

. >> reporter: san francisco has long been a city of characters, the unusual, the eclectic, the uniqueis made up of icons. this city is made up of historical spots. the brown twins represented a part of that. >> she was a little full. >> reporter: for decades twins vivian and marianne brown had locals and visitors seeing double. >> they wander all over town, extremely well dressed and cheerful and with a great smile. they were good. >> they are so cute. >> reporter: the twins were colorful fixtures in union square and knob hill where they lived. they were quick with a simultaneous smile or wave. always dressed to the nines in matching outfits, happy to pose for a picture. >> many tourists and local people wait for the cable car stop and ask them for a picture. always a good moment with them. >> hi, i'm vivian. >> reporter: recently older sister vivian was stricken with alzheimer's and placed in a senior care home separating the sisters for the first time. she died late wednesday night at the age of 85. >> loss for us. >> reporter: the loss was felt in all the haunts the twins frequente

. >> reporter: san francisco has long been a city of character, the unusual, the eclectic, the uniquehe city is made up of icons. the city is made up of historical spots, the brown twins represented a part of that. >> she was a little pearl. >> reporter: for decades twins vivian and marianne brown had locals and visitors seeing double. >> they were extremely well dressed and cheerful and with a great smile. >> that is so cute. >> reporter: the twins were colorful fixtures at union square where they lived, quick with a sigh mull tapous smile or wave, always dressed to the nines in matching outfits, happy to pose for a picture. >> touristses and local people would wait for the cable car, stop and ask for a picture. always a good moment. >> i am vivian. i am the original by eight minutes. >> and i am marianne. >> reporter: recently older sister vivian was stricken with alzheimer's and placed in a care home separating the sisters for the first time. she died wednesday night at the age of 85. >> a terrible loss for us. a terrible loss for us. >> reporter: the loss was felt in all the heart

because these are outside elevators -- these are unique to the city. >> and this is going away with the upgrade. >> that is right. none of these will be here. we have retrofitted three elevators so far and now we're doing the outside cars. >> so this is what will be replacing -- >> this will be replacing the generator controller and control system. we are down to about 15 or 20 relays, down from about 100, which means much less maintenance. this thing had been running for about six months now, but we still have eight cars here to do. >> great job. >> we have looked at past the elevators and present. now let's look at the future. we are taking a look at some of the most exciting technologies in elevators. george, tell us about destination elevators. >> this is the technology of the future. probably the biggest single investment in elevators. san francisco has embraced the technology more than any other city in the country. a big advantage with us is passengers get to their floors sooner and there is more opportunity of customization of features for individual service. four issues of secu

with preservations and making sure that the character of the city will remain with all the green spaces -- open spaces because this is very unique. this is very precious to san francisco and sets us apart from any other city in the country and this is likely the reason we live here in san francisco because we love it. along the same lines what about i living? and if there is a city that should promote smart, efficient i-living this would be san francisco. now i'm not an architect. i'm not a city planner but i think you will agree with me when you look at the plans this is not smart architecture. this is not smart development of buildings. this is simply just a big box with no considerations to the life we live in san francisco; the life we want to live in san francisco. now, to be very clear we happy that house next door is going to be remodeled finally. we support that. however, i think what is important that we feel that the owner would be able to accomplish all his goals with less impact on our lives and on our property. we love the house. we love the property. we love the area. it is something very special. please let's not

with preservations and making sure that the character of the city will remain with all the green spaces -- open spaces because this is very unique. this is very precious to san francisco and sets us apart from any other city in the country and this is likely the reason we live here in san francisco because we love it. along the same lines what about i living? and if there is a city that

without a doubt it's one of the most culturally diverse beautiful cities in america. with a uniqueibe all its own but its geography also makes it one of the top cities in the country for outdoor activities surrounded by protected lands, prestine shoreline and home to several of the nations top urban parts. located on the northern tip of the san fransisco peninsula is one of those parks-the presidio. this three square mile green space was originally established as a fort by spain in 1776; where large gun batteries were built to protect the bay from a naval invasion. presidio was ceased by the us military in 1846 at the onset of the mexican american war and later served as an important us base to the vietnam war. congress ended the military use of the presidio in 1994 and made it part of the golden gate national recreation area. we met up with our guest hiker julie from indianapolis for her first visit to the city by the bay and her first look at this amazing park just minutes from downtown san fransisco. the presidio is also home to this hallowed ground; the first us national cemeta

a lot of cities in america tore down their waterfront areas in the old neighborhoods in the late 18, early 1900s. new orleans saved the french quarter. this is the truly uniqueld this beautiful in america. people living all around us, all above us. vieux carre, the old square, the old city, where the french settled almost 300 years ago. every street in the vieux carre has three names, english, french and spanish. you have to love th -- you have to love the mixture of the people. you have to love the music, food, whatever you want is available. just go out and get it. here you go, gus. you never know who you're going to bump into when you're up here. >> that is so true, michelle. i know you didn't see that, but you were there and the camera just kind of panned when he said that. you never know who you're going to bump into and who's on the street, george lucas. >> reporter: of all people, george lucas from the bay area, you know, the most famous filmmaker here we bump right into him. he was gracious enough to talk to us on his early-morning walk and he gave his thoughts on the big game. >> so you're not here for the super bowl? are you rooting for the 9ers? >

unique, unusual tree. >> there are many cities that have holiday trees, but no one has the tree of hope.the proper amount of type here. no little things happen. the sound is better, i think that you can hear and i just have to go slowly, they told me, it is my pleasure to introduce the executive director of the rainbow world fund. this organization creates this holiday tree now, this is the 7th year. let's hear for that, 7 years of anything is a long time [ applause ] rainbow world fund was founded 12 years ago, the concept and wanted to think locally but he wanted to act globally. and indeed, he has figured out a way to strengthen the lgbt community by reaching out to the world on their behalf. rainbow world funds a powerful force, compassion, concern, rainbow world fund helps others by promoting philanthropy on cross the world and they have distributed 4 million dollars in humanitarian aid to communities in need around the world. let's hear it. ♪ i know that he thinks big, but i wonder if he thought that big that they would be going to cuba and helping one person at a time and tonight,

narrator: each city faces unique situations, so they must determine the asset management approach that best addresses these challenges. inspections can be done with various technologies, often by a robot... or personally by a technician on a bicycle. sensors detect breaks, cracks, and weaknesses in the pipe. man: we have roots at this cap lateral at 79. narrator: tree roots can grow into the pipe, splitting it apart. man: more light roots at 69. narrator: sometimes they may even find fully collapsed sections. after gathering the data, utilities can assess the need for rehabilitation. sinha: you have to choose the rehabilitation technique so that the life of the pipe can be extended 30 years, 40 years, 50 years. allbee: any asset has an optimal investment strategy. if you're making investments in that asset too early, or too late, you're wasting money. it costs about three times as much to fix a system once it's failed. so it's all about finding that right point where the dollars should flow toward that asset. narrator: but finding the funds to evaluate and rebuild these assets is an on

another unique thing that the city is doing in terms of helping our businesses and dealing with capital needs is as a city, sometimes, we implement regulations, and you would think that might require some substantial capital for small businesses to do an understanding that a lot of our very small businesses may not have the capital means to be able to implement those regulations. a new one that has just been implemented is there is the fats, oils, and greece requirements that restaurants are going to need to have for their restaurants, and many businesses may have to install new equipment -- fats, oils, and grease. we parted with opportunity loan fund to help provide a specific program for this new regulation for businesses, and we have also had many businesses experience some drive-by lawsuits, and understanding some of the financial needs in dealing with the losses, making the 88 improvements. again, we partnered with opportunity loan funds to help businesses comply and to deal with their legal needs and with these losses. also, we held businesses understand, if you want to do busines

detroit has a unique relationship in specialness than other cities do. for example, san antonio thinks they're special because this come about or anything. and this city is a unique claim to specialness in a way that i think no one else can relate to because as we keep getting all these errors had not disrupted student banks, we find a specialness even in that. >> i think that's one of the things that attract me to writing about detroit even before writing this book was this one of the great stories -- american stories of the 20th century. if you think about the epic rise of the city from what came out of it, you know, basically modern life in the 20th century. consumer culture, the middle class, it changed everything. that rise in the fall, the way of so also said so much about the top things of american culture. yeah, i think that is special. >> the reason i ask is because it was funny to me when i was a kid, when they landed on the moon, when you look at the united states is what thing that stands out is michigander and i can say salt mines that peopl

unique footage surfaces of cities committed by modern troops and tanks freshly retaken from islam is reports on civilian casualties remain hard to obtain and france plans full military handjob troops. he exposed america's torture program and got thirteen months for doing so coming up we speak to the decorated cia veteran who turned against the agency. and british prime minister david cameron defies warnings all been eminent threat to u.k. interests and troubles to libya where he has pledged to help train the country's stretched security forces. it's ten pm here in moscow you live with us on our day it's good to have you with us. sarah says it may take action against israel after itself fighter jets reportedly violated syria's servant and bombed a military research complex close to damascus meanwhile diplomats in syria are friendly iran says that the attacks whole significant implications for israel are his policy here is in tel aviv with more details. now we are hearing from syria that israel did launch a military strike inside that country israel has not commented neither confirming

he means to the entire city -- with this team from day one and what he means to the entire city, it is a unique situation. >> as he might expect, there was plenty of talk about a tarbell -- john harwell brother connection. there is also a very strong university of maryland terp connection. with media day here, everyone in baltimore is concerned with what the ravens have to say but we did find a local angle here with the san francisco 49ers. some folks might not know vernon davis is a terp. we talked to him what it is like now playing in the super bowl against a maryland team. >> he would not think there would be a local angle to the san francisco portion of medi day but vernon davis played for the university of maryland in it'searly 2000's and says prepared him for the nfl. >> a lot of what i learned at college, you take that with the win go to the nfl. standing it into the weight room like colin and putting in the extra work. >> then there is the story line of play against the ravens, a team he grew up watching. he says it is surreal plan against them. >> home town team for me. to play against

city where a cut out all of d.c. is that a number epidemic level but d.c. is not so unique when compared to other major cities across the nation if you compare metro d.c. that is diminished did the disco columbia and its suburbs metro d.c. with metro philadelphia metro chicago metro miami were about the same there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives city d.c. is one of those twelve cities. we spoke to medical professionals concerning the disproportionate rise of hiv aids in the black community you ask forty five to fifty percent of your community be douglas with the disease as we know how to prevent it by the way african-americans are more likely to get tested in any other ethnic group more likely to get to know we get tested would always go for the results and we always don't get into care particularly in rural graphical remote areas we tend to have a physician or a clinician who has graduated from school or from college you know ten fifteen years ago when a hard to cheat persons or it have a positive because it was all yo

artists, queer and colorful, innovators and students, all inside our magnificently and uniquely diverse and never-changing city. san francisco will never be what it was, nothing in life will be. but as i heard recently, we are always nostalgic for a time that never was and often wanting to avoid a future that is inevitable. will change in san francisco as in everywhere is inevitable. and change can be beautiful. we are all of us the agents of change. as george and harvey were. each one of us is the story teller of our lives and the lives of the people we've lost. and that wasn't always the case, as willie mentioned. but because of the likes of george and harvey and so many others, all the way to our mayor ed lee, all of us have voice. all of us can tell the story. so, let's crowd source this thing. let's tell the real stories of george and harvey. stories of their hard work and politics and the families and loved ones who surrounded them, of the moments we met them on the street or on their campaigns, in the castro or north beach, the vacations, the arguments, the jokes they told, the wild times they lived thr