san francisco is a unique city and our paratransit program reflects this. we have a network of services, including sf access van service, paratransit taxi, including wheelchair accessible ramp taxi and group van which serves groups of individuals going to a single location like a senior center. [music] >> i'm elsa scott and i'm a retired federal employee and i'm a native of san francisco. i use paratransit because, i've been using it for about six years because six years ago i had to start dialysis treatments at cpmc. so i'm very dependent on paratransit three times a week, coming and going.. my current driver is brian berquist.; he's just such a friendly, sort of a teddy bear kind of a guy. i don't know what it is about brian, but all of us old ladies want to feed brian. [music] >> hi, my name is fred lein. i'm most proud of driving a ramp taxi since the beginning of the program in 1994. [music] >> fred, you are the absolute best! thank you fred for providing transportation for me and opening up my social life, and taking care of medical appointments, taki

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

city in america? san francisco. over 2,000 artist. the arts are incredibly important in san francisco and incredibly unique for this city to not have an outdoor am theatre. we are excited about this although a temporary one on this site. who are we? live nation is formally bill gram presents. we have been in san francisco for almost 50 years. conspiracy pub, amnesty international, conquer pavilion but in san francisco specifically we are live nation producing the water show in park last year. all the comedy clubs, the punch line, doing over a thousand events in san francisco. over 400,000 attendees in san francisco. money going back into san francisco for music, arts education. our partners of course is the america's cup and wilhelm -- one of the most sought after trophy of sports and obviously a lot of press about the america's cup. america's cup pavilion is a 9,000 capacity if it is general admission, small if it's openly seated with bleachers on both sides. it will be used for opening and closing ceremony of the america's cup. there is no one spot that you will be able to see the entire race from. you will be able to see the majori

city. community standards 146400 is the graffiti standards bylaw. our bylaw is uniqueo other cities in that we don't focus on the definition of graffiti, we focus on whether or not graffiti is considered a nuisance on a property. so the bylaw is written such that it has to fall within the definition of community standards, the nuisance property and therefore we're not ever restricted by a definition and people arguing whether what's on there fits within a specific definition of graffiti, it all falls within whether what is on the building constitutes a nuisance. it also gives strength to it because we don't run into the possibility if somebody says that, well, i want it there because i gave permission to it, permission is not a factor, it's whether or not it's a nuisance property. in canada some jurisdictions have their bylaws such that they can charge taggers with fines for doing graffiti tagging. we don't have any such ordinance in our city. graffiti is managed on the enforcement side as a crime under the criminal code of canada. so just quickly i won't go through al

unique. most other cities are getting help from the federal government. >> what would you say happens next inms of the way this country, you know, operates differently as it relates to security? now we know what has taken place in boston. we have zeroed in on the person trap toperson -- the perpetrators. how would things change going forward? >> one thing we will see, people questioning once this gets resolved, you know, were there any signs that anyone could have detected at an earlier basis that would have given us a head up this was coming? was there suspicious travel? friend, family that saw these two individuals and the rest of the group potentially radicalize and change? one of the things people exmror. depending on what answers are will affect changes in security. >> the video and cameras have been so important to this. i mean, getting the public engaged. sending in videos from their cameras and what have you. there is so much data. how do you sift through it all? what is going on now in terms of those, the powers that be looking through all of this video and data that we have? >> yeah

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

unique. all cities will say this and they have have their own character and their own sense of community. part of the year. you live inside, you're in together. the scenes and cheers are not made up, that really is true. everybody knows your name. it isn't something made up in hollywood. robert gibbs, you're a writer, you have to deal with this kind of thing. i have to tell you, this president, you can argue with him as a legislator, he's had his failures, successes, as a head of state he has come through like clinton did, as a personification of our country's unity, not its politics. >> in many ways, this is how we remember presidents. we remember bill clinton in being okay city. we remember george bush after 9/11 and you remember the moments in which all of the politics and the arguing is put aside. to lift up. >> even the pursuit of the bad guy for an hour and a half. we'll get back to that tonight on "hardball." let me get back to james cavanaugh. there have been any developments today in the pursuit of the guilty? >> still trying to release the pictures, chris, decide if they're goin

cities. today we live in this unique moment where we're pouring out more than ever before and most importantly there were these enormous communities that want to jump in and help. by building that ecosystem that's really part of building our leadership as a city, as an economic development force and understanding all of this. and we've already been a leader. i want to recognize [speaker not understood] the work that he did taking data from multiple arenas in a sustainable cities index and then using that to put a lens, ability to manage the city differently. by looking at multiple data sets and trying to bring about change, that's what leadership is. that's the next point i'd like to make. the reason i think a chief data officer is so important, data doesn't happen by accident. you need to use new techniques and insights and push things forward. great organizations have leaders that understand this stuff and i think in a city like this, having somebody who understands data culture and understands how to bring about change to then partner with departments allows us to move forward. and san fran

just a whereas clause and i will be to the record: whereas the city policy for the use of city infrastructure is unique to the portal seven cisco and does not establish a precedent for the use of infrastructure elsewhere in the city and county because this concern cannot because isd plans are going on in other parts of the city. we did make some amendments to the actual guidelines. that does not have to be voted by the board but i thought it would be good to acknowledge . what some of those changes were for several unwanted numbers the amendments made per hour budget and save analyst at budget committee which acknowledge that we will also look of the next fiscal impact of the proposed project areas on the city's general fund so not just looking at the economic benefit it also looking at the actual impact to the general fund. we are also making three other amendments to the guidelines. one restates the board of supervisors will review project specific and infrastructure fi

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

so new york is unique, but most other cities are getting help from the federal government. >> what would you say happens next in terms of the way this country operates differently as it relates to security? i mean now that we know, you know, what has taken place in boston, we have zeroed in on the perpetrators and obviously looking for more accomplices. how would things change on a security level for the country going forward now? >> i think one of the things that we're going to see is people questioning once this gets resolved, you know, were there any signs that anyone could have detected at an earlier basis that would have given us a heads up that this was coming. was there suspicious travel? were there friends or family that saw these two individuals and the rest of the group potentially radicalized and changed. that's one of the things that people explore. and depending on what the answers will affect potential changes in security. >> the video and the cameras have been so important to this. i mean, just getting the public engaged, sending in their videos from their cameras and what

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

just a whereas clause and i will be to the record: whereas the city policy for the use of city infrastructure is unique to the portal seven cisco

that gave people a feel for the city of san francisco, it's diversity, but also some of it's transit uniquenesses which is something that really speaks highly of the city of san francisco in terms of it's ranking in the country and in the world in terms of being a transit for enterprise which is the message to candidates if you are not interested in working for an organization that is really pushing the envelope relative to transit, then this is probably not going to be the greatest place for you to come. it's not to run a transit operation or company minor projects but big ethics -- things are going to take place and are taking place in the city of san francisco. the information on the city and community address that. then we think that individuals need to know about the make-up of the authority. how did it come into existence, what's it's mission, it's charge. we quantify that by giving it data of it's size and layout the mission statement that come from our documents and also a look at what this organizational chart looks like and then what the agency is responsible for doing in those 4 core f

today, the ceo says he's tickled pink because it, quote, celebrates the unique character of our colorful city. previous sponsor zazle dropped out earlier this year. >> well weather was spectacular, people in shorts and tank tops but that is about it for a while. >> yes. things are changing. weather brought out unique and colorful. taking a look at live doppler 7 clouds now mainly at the coast you can see them beginning to push inland. about 161 miles from san francisco so it will be here in a few hours just will take a fast forward to arrive. it was warm today, here is a sampling in santa rosa. napa, 78 in antioch, san francisco a high of 74 today, 79 in san jose. 83 in gilroy. thick things different near the coast now. a live view from our mount tam camera looking over the bay z current temperatures 54 in san francisco. 20 degrees cooler than afternoon highs. another live view from our east bay hills camera. you can see clouds thickening now. readings as we continue jant rosa 74 livermore, mild inland and these are the forecast features rain arriving after midnight. rainy into morning hours