i do not take that on my own shoulders, vincent. that was a kind of burden off of my shoulders but i know that is what martin wanted and needed to say. if he was willing to go up against them, then it was a privilege for me to go with him. tavis: despite the negative reaction, dr. king never backed from his conviction. his sermon topic was to be why america may go to hell. >> now let us begin. now let us rededicate ourselves to the struggle for a new world. shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? will there be another message of logging, hope, solidarity? of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost. the choice is ours. we might have preferred otherwise, we must -- in this crucial moment in history. tavis: dr. king's opposition to the vietnam war was not the controversial aspect. he traveled to memphis to speak on behalf of striking sanitation workers and that the growing gap between the rich and poor in america. one can only imagine how he would you issues like poverty. they find themselves among the ranks of the nation's p

mayor vincent gray has declared a state of emergency for the city.was one of several mayors and governors who had a conference call with president obama yesterday morning to talk about the storm. i should mention the president has cut short his vacation on martha's vineyard. he returned with his family late last night. people have been preparing for the storm for days. engineers were scramble to plug holes in the washington monument which was damaged in tuesday's earthquake. they were stuffing flexible insulation in the holes. they were also working on the turrets on the smithsonian castle to protect it from the winds and rain of the storm. the city officials have been telling residents to be ready. let's listen to what vincent gray, the mayor, had to say about what we could expect to see here in washington. >> roughly a period of 24 hours during which we would experience the conditions of a hurricane. there could be some flooding. we don't know the extent of that at this stage. our department of public works for the last 24 hours has been making san

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joining us is the mayor of washington, d.c., vincent gray.ing out here on our balcony overlooking the u.s. capitol. we've got -- look at how empty the streets are, mayor. there's no one on the streets basically here in the nation's capital. what is the forecast? what are you bracing for here -- you have 600,000, 700,000 people who live in d.c.? >> we do. 600,000 people who live here. we're bracing for a lot of rain. we expect a lot of rain, up to maybe four inches the next few hours. we're expecting winds up to 35, 40 miles per hour. and of course with that we'll have some flooding perhaps and tree limbs coming down. and then i'm sure some power outage associated with that. >> probably a lot of power outages. what about flooding? there's always concern the potomac river could overflow. how worried are you about that? >> i'm less worried about that than i am about the power outages. you know, maybe some flash flooding with our, you know, our drains and whatnot here in the city. one of the good things is we were able to give out 6,000 sandbags

host: tweets in -- next call for vincent cochetel comes from detroit. william, you are on the air guest. caller: your record at the un has been dismal when it comes to crises. we can cite rwanda, congo. when are you going to go over there and make something happen? guest: 90 for the call. i understand your -- but frustrate -- thank you for the call. i understand your frustration. it depends on member states, what decisions are taken within the security council. it is not the when deciding -- not the un deciding. as far as humanitarian organizations are concerned, and i am not talking only about the commission for refugees, but talking about unicef, i can talk about the world food program, we do what we can to provide humanitarian response to people in need their. but we have a very, very little leverage on the root causes of the conflict spread at most we can help the victims, but we are not able to prevent the conflict and we have at very little leverage in trying to engage the actors into a political dialogue. host: does the un have troops on the grou

it is a great honor to present to you once again professor vincent harding, sister helen prejean and the 14th dalai lama. [applause] now, um, a word about how we intend to operate here today in this conversation. um, i have spoken to sister helen and vincent harding, and what we will do is we will allow our panelists to talk each for two or three minutes about their own personal path to the stance of nonviolence and the particular role that nonviolence plays in be what they do in the world. we will then follow that up with questions and comments and then, and then at the end we will have a one minute or so summary from each of the panelists, and i am certain that we will all be, by that time, greatly enlightened. we would like to start of course, with his holiness. if you could talk for a couple of minutes about your own personal path to nonviolence, and then sister helen and vincent harding. [speaking in native tongue] >> yeah. good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> indeed, i'm very happy. this first time, i think, come to state, this city. so this morning i found, of course,

i want to commend our former commissioner, vincent. we met every week at the boys' club. along with ed lee who was always out there every week. we tried to come out with some ideas in the aftermath of those tragedies. one of the ideas that surfaced was an urban peace corps. i think it was them that might have come up with that but we thought, well, what if we could place a group out there to begin the work of restoring faith and harmony in the community?

vincent depaul store is up significantly year by year driven by the economy. sales volume are up and we're seeing the amount that any particular family can afford to buy as down. the volumes are up, the foot traffic are up and we can see the people hurting. >> good will stores of silicon valley says sales there are up 22% this year. >> local donors are doing all they can to help those hit hardest by the economy. the lake merritt breakfast charitable association donated to the school. they're getting toner for printer to last the year and 65,000 sheets of multi-colored paper to be used for various projects. >> halloween is coming up. you have the color things, the orange. thanksgiving is coming up. maybe it will be more orange/brown. christmas for green. so, yeah, the kids will get a chance to use the paper. >> in milpitas, hundreds of volunteers are busy stuffing backpacks that will be donated to needy kids in the south bay. the family giving tree plans to hand out up to 16,000 back packs filled with school supplies. >> so many stories about the economy. most

vincent. that's st. vincent college right here. that's about as much as i can afford. you work here and pay for your school and that will be here right at home. i said what about if i can get somewhere else. he says if you get there that's your call. so i played golf. played high school golf, played amateur golf. and i got a lot of offers. the offers started coming in because i was playing pretty good. i won amateur tournaments as a junior and the whole thing. and i was playing in the national junior in los angeles with a buddy of mine who was from washington d.c. his name was marvin bud washham. and his brother was lou who won the open in 47. that was the year we graduated. and we were out there playing in the junior and he says arnie, where are you going to go to college. and i said well, i'm looking at a couple. i said i've had some feelers from penn state and pit and one from miami and i like the miami deal because i could play golf all winter. and he said hey, he says if i could get you a scholarship, would you go with me. i said where are you going. he said i'm g

host: tweets in -- next call for vincent cochetel comes from detroit. william, you are on the air guest. caller: your record at the un has been dismal when it comes to crises. we can cite rwanda, congo. when are you going to go over there and make something happen? guest: 90 for the call. i understand your -- but frustrate -- thank you for the call. i understand your frustration. it depends on member states, what decisions are taken within the security council. it is not the when deciding -- not the un deciding. as far as humanitarian organizations are concerned, and i am not talking only about the commission for refugees, but talking about unicef, i can talk about the world food program, we do what we can to provide humanitarian response to people in need their. but we have a very, very little leverage on the root causes of the conflict spread at most we can help the victims, but we are not able to prevent the conflict and we have at very little leverage in trying to engage the actors into a political dialogue. host: does the un have troops on the grou

sot vincent matthews/encar gado, s.j.u.s.d. us is to make sure that students are in a safe and secure environment. we want to make sure that happens on a daily basis so a partnership with the city without question is needed." ---segun el encargado del distrito escolar de san jose, la prioridad de las escuelas es asegurarse que los estudiantes esten en un ambiente seguro y por ende, es importante cooperar con las autoridades.. ---por otra parte, la preocupacin de los maestros es lograr que los padres busquen el xito acadmico de sus hijos.. sot alma lpez - madre de familia "nosotros aprendemos cómo capacitarnos cada día para poder enseñar tanto en casa como aquí." ---segn profesionales en educacin, es importante conocer a los maestros de sus hijos para estar al tanto de su rendimiento escolar.. sot rosario tapia - madre de familia "la primera impresión de la maestra fue muy buena.. mm.. siento que está en buenas manos asi que no tengo ninguna preocupación de que no le vaya a gustar la escuela." ---los padres de familia tambien pu

. >> my name is niasha vincent. a lifelong resident of district 10. i have always wanted to serve my community, so i'm happy to be an ambassador with this ongoing program. our job is to pretty much make sure the residents feel safe and informed with what is going on with the community. i am going to pass it back over to ashley who will introduce her team. >> let me introduce my six wonderful crewmembers. cindy, and elena, have your, sue, and terry. they will be working with me to help make this a safer neighborhood. thank you very much. [applause] >> on the tea line, we are going to have jessica, leo, theresa, and will. [applause] we are already to serve the community and we look forward to working with the residents here in the bayview and district 10. thank you. [applause] >> two short thank you and then we are done. the mta has been a key city partner for the city embassadors program. i just want to recognize deborah johnson. she has been invaluable to connecting our program to muni operations, helping us in countless ways, big and small. she is cu

times like promotional ceremonies and graduations and in difficult times like in june with a loss of vincent and tony. thank you so much for being here. i will be back to give you your oath of allegiance to officially welcome you into the department. i look forward to seeing you grow. congratulations. you have our support 100%. all i ask is that you give your 100% each and every day you come to work. [applause] ♪ >> hi, everybody. my name is carmen chu. why don't we get started. with a marking up with the department of small business -- we have been working with the department of small business. this project started when we heard from neighborhood merchants. unfortunately, they had access issues, visibility access issues. we have been working closely with many of our partners year today to educate about these -- many of our partners year today to educate about these issues. also in terms of board guidance. i want to thank all of you for coming. many of you may have assistance. i know many merchants could not be here. please do it share this information with other merchants in the area. we ha

host: tweets in -- next call for vincent cochetel comes from detroit. william, you are on the air guest. caller: your record at the un has been dismal when it comes to crises. we can cite rwanda, congo. when are you going to go over there and make something happen? guest: 90 for the call. i understand your -- but frustrate -- thank you for the call. i understand your frustration. it depends on member states, what decisions are taken within the security council. it is not the when deciding -- not the un deciding. as far as humanitarian organizations are concerned, and i am not talking only about the commission for refugees, but talking about unicef, i can talk about the world food program, we do what we can to provide humanitarian response to people in need their. but we have a very, very little leverage on the root causes of the conflict spread at most we can help the victims, but we are not able prevent the conflict and we have at very little leverage in trying to engage the actors into a political dialogue. host: does the un have troops on the ground

commission adjourned its meeting today in honor of the fallen san francisco firefighters, lieutenant vincent perez and firefighter paramedic anthony valerio, two college to we have lost 10 days -- two of our colleagues that we have lost. >> any comments on the executive director's report? ok. >> item 7 b., legislative updates. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is jonathan stern with the planet -- with the port planning and development division. given that our legislative liaison was detained, he asked me to give you a brief update about the legislative agenda of the port and city at the state legislature. there are two bills that have been going through the legislature and i will give you a brief update regarding them. there we go. there are two bills, both about development projects. the first, ab-418, regards pier 7-0 and the trust status out at the pier, at the other bill is regarding the cruise terminal and the sites that will be in the america's cup. just as background, the port works with legislature, in conjunction with the city legislative committee. this is the group convene

and of course vincent pan from chinese affirmative action for giving us a space to do all of our works a time when we were floating around. and carrying out boxes of magazines from garages to garages. our readers, donors and volunteers. just one thing that i would like to mention, i recently went to a documentary screening at the san francisco film festival. and it's here for another week so i hope some of you get to catch some of the wonderful films that are there. and i went to a documentary screening called crime after crime. i don't know how many of you guys were able to catch it. and the film maker showed up and did a q&a. and there he said that visibility doesn't equal change. and that's something that really resonated with me. and if there's one thing that i can leave with you today it's that message. i want to thank our a.p.a. elected officials for all the work that you guys are doing. because again, just because there's a large number of us doesn't mean that things will change if we don't actively make it happen. so we applaud all of the officials that are serving as well as

times like promotional ceremonies and graduations and in difficult times like in june with a loss of vincent and tony. thank you so much for being here. i will be back to give you your oath of allegiance to officially welcome you into the department. i look forward to seeing you grow. congratulations. you have our support 100%. all i ask is that you give your 100% each and every day you come to work. [applause] ♪ so are you going out tonight? i can't. my parents say i have to be home right after work. ugh. that's so gay. totally gay. ugh. that is so emma and julia. why are you saying, "that's so emma and julia"? well, you know, when something is dumb or stupid, you say, "that's so emma and julia." who says that? everyone. announcer: imagine if who you are were used as an insult.

. >> vincent burton grew up in the shadow of the san antonio housing projects watching, mitchell grossed $20,000 to $30,000 a day selling heroin through his gang. but when the heroin pipeline was capped following mitchell's arrest in 1985, burton says crack took over ask he became a top dealer. >> it wasn't pretty. it wasn't pretty. it was lucrative. >> courtesy of a drug corporation blueprint created by mitchell and this man. >> the 65th village. >> and you control -- >> everything. >> mickey moore says before giving his life to the lord, he was addicted to heroin in a drug enterprise he headed called, the family. >> i had the best drugs. they call it killer dope. >> grossing $50,000 a day, moore claims he trumped 69 mob, mimicking a corporate model. things were organized until -- >> when felix got this thing in 1980. >> six people were murdered execution style. more since mitchell thought they were part of his gang. >> kill everybody up in there, they are back to having your money. >> ultimately, mitchell was sent to prison. moore was sent to federal prison, but the rivalry of 30 years

i want to commend our former commissioner, vincent. we met every week at the boys' club. along with ed lee who was always out there every week. we tried to come out with some ideas in the aftermath of those tragedies. one of the ideas that surfaced was an urban peace corps. i think it was them that might have come up with that but we thought, well, what if we could place a group out there to begin the work of restoring faith and harmony in the community? there was an additional deployment of officers out there but we knew they could not stay. we thought this might be a way to do it. it was very unique. i do not know -- think anyone else in the united states was doing this at that time. we all the said we can make this happen. -- we all of us said we can make this happen. with the strong support of the board of supervisors, i remember talking to president david chiu. i used lobbying efforts to get funding to make that happen. we were able to do it and the community ambassadors were born one year ago. it was a pilot program. it was evaluated, i felt it worked very well and

times like promotional ceremonies and graduations and in difficult times like in june with a loss of vincent and tony. thank you so much for being here. i will be back to give you your oath of allegiance to officially welcome you into the department. i look forward to seeing you grow. congratulations. you have our support 100%. all i ask is that you give your 100% each and every day you come to work. [applause] ♪ >> good evening. welcome to the meeting of the board of appeals. the board president is kendall goh. to my left is the deputy city attorney. she will provide the board with any legal advice. i am the board executive director. in the front row we are joined by representatives from some of the city departments you will be hearing from this evening. the senior planner and assistant to the zoning administrator. next is the building inspector. he is joined by the acting chief inspector tony greco. mr. pinelli will not be here. there is one housekeeping item. president goh has canceled next week's meeting. the next meeting is september 14, 2011. at this time, if you could please go over t

times like promotional ceremonies and graduations and in difficult times like in june with a loss of vincent and tony. thank you so much for being here. i will be back to give you your oath of allegiance to officially welcome you into the department. i look forward to seeing you grow. congratulations. you have our support 100%. all i ask is that you give your 100% each and every day you come to work. [applause] ♪ >> this is where it techs started and this is where we lead from. it is with great pleasure of publicly announce -- i publicly announce the expansion into an additional 50,000 square feet of offices. [applause] we have quickly proven our ability to build a thriving and profitable ecosystem of some of the best tech startups in the world. these are our next generation of stars. this will be the center of epicness in san francisco, the place for tech entrepreneurs to build their dream with the support that san francisco has to offer. i was greatly encouraged when the mayor came to meet the company's. it would appear in the industry -- any industry is in need of support and lack of disr

the mayor of washington, d.c., vincent gray with us now. an idea, how prepared are residents particularly as i understand that all of the sandbags that have been distributed for free yesterday and today now all out? >> we're all out. i just came from rfk stadium, where we had lots of people in line, an frankly very chummily without exception, people are in good spirits, people are prepared for it. we're telling people to go home and stay home. we're expecting anywhere from two to four inches of rain, we're expecting high winds and we certainly could have some power outages, but all of our staff is mobilized at our emergency operations center and we're ready for this. we're asking people to call 311 if they have any questions and we'll try to get them answered quickly. >> you said there could be some power outages already, some 260,000 people without power in maryland and parts of virginia already, is there particular pockets of washington, d.c., the city that you, i guess, are bracing for the most, to likely hugh lose power? >> certainly in

times like promotional ceremonies and graduations and in difficult times like in june with a loss of vincent and tony. thank you so much for being here. i will be back to give you your oath of allegiance to officially welcome you into the department. i look forward to seeing you grow. congratulations. you have our support 100%. all i ask is that you give your 100% each and every day you come to work. [applause] ♪ hello, and welcome to the department of elections ranked-choice voting instructional video. this video is part of the department of elections' ranked-choice voting outreach campaign and is designed to educate san francisco voters about ranked-choice voting. today we will learn what ranked-choice voting is, and who is elected using this new voting method. we will also talk about what the ranked-choice ballot looks like and how to mark it correctly. finally, we'll see how the ranked-choice voting process works and show you an example of an election using ranked-choice voting. so, what is ranked-choice voting? in march of 2002, san francisco voters adopted a charter amendment to implem

san mateo county the saint vincent depaul saw up take in business in sales and donation and stores in silicon valley up 22 percent this year. >> in east palo alto the police chief and mayor held a special town hall meeting tonight to address the recent spike in violence. they applauded the community for coming together and working with police but they also face a lot of criticism. corrina was there. >> there have been 6 murders in east palo alto this year and police say 3 men may be responsible for half of them. the police chief told crowd tonight one of those men is in custody and they desperately need help finding the other 2. they release pictures of the suspects today. they had previously withheld. >> right now our focus has to be in capturing fidel silva and gar did i know a because we have information that the spree of violence is not over. that we are at risk of future violence. >>reporter: first hour the police chief and mayor did all of the talking and when the question and answer period began, the comments were often emotional and angry. >> my husband didn't get killed at 2: