neo is a visitation valley resident who has lived in the neighborhood for over 50 years and has a long history of working in the pacific islander community and the visitation valley in sunnydale neighborhoods. neil organized the first i is aa contingent and he's shared his story, i'm ok, you're ok at many workshops and programmes. his story deals with the struggles he faced coming out, being bullied, attempted suicide, triumphs of becoming a father and bringing the lgbtq islanders together and he's a cofounder of utopia, united territories of pacific islander alliances, an organization that is a support, social and resource group for the lgbty p polynesians. he was appointed to the human right's commission, lgbtq advisory committee working on senior issues, providing lgbtq resources and marginalized neighborhoods in sanfrancisco and appointed to the visitation valley, citizen's advisory committee by the mayor to advise the redevelopment agency and city in their consideration of establishing a redevelopment plan for the survey areas and visitation valley and to review policy documents t

the emergency department to meet with our newly arrived and non-english-speaking students in visitation valley to ask for language appropriate context, especially for emergency services. since then, i have been lobbying for appropriate access in all our city departments. i have the opportunity to meet with the owner of orchard bakery he was kind of reluctant to talk about many things, but finally he knows about my work as a community person, so he said that his business has gone down, and i asked him if -- how he could be helped. he told me three things. he hopes the police can provide more street patrols, he wants to see more surveillance cameras to help the police identify interest perpetrators, and he would like to provide resources to help businesses to install cameras in their businesses. lastly, he told me he was very appreciative of the english english-language offices forgiving him personal context information, and of course, i also think captain hart for providing officers for the services in visitation valley. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, president yi and supervisors.

they focus on working with know immigrants and visitation valley. this grant is really going to be focused on working with sunnydale housing which is our largest public housing in san francisco. it's going through a huge rehab now. this is a great opportunity for us to go in when residents move in the apartment to talk to them about zero waste. zero waste outreach program in language. garden city environment is their sponsors s.f. parks council alliance. it's a long-term grantee of ours. we're funding them to do free backward composting classes for san franciscans. we're funding the gardening composting educator training program. it's residents of san francisco can get training in organic gardening. moneys of folks have gone through this program and they maintain our community gardens. which is a fantastic resource for the city. this is a new grantee, groceries seniofor seniors. that's why they have their vest on. they volunteered with them during earth month. this group provides a thousand seniors groceries weekly. right now they're relying on dist

pipeline such as hunters point shipyard project, mission bay, mission rock, sunny dale hope sf, visitation valley, pier 70, executive port as well as others. furthermore, as you know, there are lawsuits pending all of which we do not have the outcome of. but which will effect the viability of water supply to this proposed 1,550 unit project. so, also, as you know, the state is requiring a major cuts in our water supply from the tuolumne and the san jaoquin river to preserve fish habitat. i know that the puc is trying to find a loose bu solution but yot have one yet. there could be a 20% cut or more in our water supply which is a serious issue. so until the solution is found, the puc should not approve water assessments for large projects because you are relying on that old data and you don't have the solution and not to mention i'd like to rewind you that you have not taking a consideration all the of the projects in the pipeline already and so we ask you to postpone approval of this water supply assessment. thank you. >> please postpone it today. thank you. until these points were brought up by

up next, more from palo alto as we visit the silicon valley archives at stanford university. this is all material related to a region known for its scientific innovation. silicon valley archives is a project that started in the mid-1980's. silicon valley was from the early 1970's. it was beginning to be a parent that something unusual was going on -- apparent that something unusual was going on. this was a unique phenomenon, this concentration of industry, work, technology, and science. all of these things that we think of when we think about silicon valley. nothing had been done to document the history of this region. was we did have at stanford a set of archival collections from stanford of people who had been involved in the early development, people like fred turman, who is called the father of selah khan valley. his students -- of silicon valley. liketudents hewlett-packard who founded hp. it sounded like a good idea to broaden that story out into what was going out -- going on outside of stanford. it was the stanford and silicon valley project, and, at the lettersg i wr

i think some of the case studies we've heard about what's happening at visitation valley middle school and the new maker space has been inspiring. that can also continue to understand that storytelling of what that looks like and, perhaps, that's going to be integrated into the middle grades redesign. >> did you want to respond to any of the comments? okay. all right. commissioner lopez. >> i had a question about the accountability piece and the work that you do for sfusd. i'm wondering about how your board is chosen, the people who are on the board at spark. what's that process like? >> so i think -- i wasn't here three years ago when it was first initially formed. the bylaws were created with, i believe we have an number of usd members on the board as well as public volunteers who want to serve on this board. the way we want to ensure our board is serving our community is to make sure there's a diverse set of people serving on the board with the same passion and the same commitment that is part of our mission. so we do go through a recruiting process of finding people who can balance

in 2015, we extended the 9r to visitation valley, as well as implemented additional service on there. 2017, we did capital projects on both 11 th and bay shore, that included things like stop, consolidation, putting in islands. in 2018, we completed the street scape project that has transit-only lanes from 17th to 25th on petrero, and we made the 9r a 60-foot bus. it ewait equates to about 6,000 additional riders. those are just a few examples of specific corridors. in general, we're seeing where we're putting investments and making investments in the system. we're seeing some really good results. ridership is up over 8% on our rapid corridors. and the backdrop nationally of about a 4% decrease in transit riders. and even our own system, where we haven't made these improvements, we're seeing either basically steady ridership or even a little bit of a decline, 1% or 2%. aside from some of these major capital projects, we've also done some smaller changes or tweaks to the system. for example, 35 eureka used to stop several blocks short of connection to glen park burt, and we made that c

in 2015, we extended the 9r to visitation valley, as well as implemented additional service on there.017, we did capital projects on both 11 th and bay shore, that included things like stop, consolidation,

sunny day at visitation valley originally for ship builders during world war ii now the largest public housing project in san francisco but this long time resident. >> right now having problems with the plumbing because all of the pipes are connected so if one tub backs up the rest of them back up. >> we don't want to delay people. >> more than $20 billion budgeted in city funds towards a massive project to rebuild the 750 units and add more affordable housing here. >> we also owe it to them to make sure that, you know, there's basic decent running water and that they don't have mold and you know infestation. >> the project is expected to take years but this long time tenant likes the idea. >> we're people too. we're out here. this is the last step before homeless. and knock on wood, we have a place. >> it was here where the $12 billion budget for the next fiscal year was announced, the largest budget ever in san francisco. the second year of the two year budget plan is pegged at $11.9 billion. proposing spending $120 billion to buy land and affordable housing and financial help to hun

up next, more from palo alto as we visit the silicon valley archives at stanford university which holds material related to the development of technological innovation. archives is aley project that started in the mid-1980's.

valley. with help from our comcast cable partners, for the next hour, we visit historic sites in the city as well as stanford university. we will begin with the stanford barn where the university town of palo alto originated. we are at the stock farm that he purchased in 1876. you could spend your whole time at stanford and never get out here. this is why he purchased the land. he had been living in san francisco and needed a place to raise horses. 1876.ght this property in he also bought the world's most famous horse, election-year. he was the secretariat of his day. he also. . had trotting horses. he was curious. whoebated with another guy was a photographer about whether or not all four legs got off the ground at the time. up a70 sais, edward set series -- in 1870 sais, edward set up a series of cameras. they found that -- the pictures were assembled into the first motion picture that was shown in the stanford house of the trotters. motion pictures were developed here on the stanford palo alto stock farm. today, it is still in use. the people rent out stables. there is writing ranks. it i

lastly and maybe most importantly having just visited the central valley of california which is bearingnt of climate change consequences we're going to make sure those communities, very often low income and communities of color, are able to be lifted up in this plan to be made more resilient against future fires and floods and droughts and storms and have a leading role in making sure this country meets this challenge with the most ambitious, aspirational response possible. >> i haven't gotten a chance to talk to you since you did announce you're running for president. we've talked before in your senate campaign and as a member of congress. i want to ask you a question i've asked every candidate i have on the program which is of the tens of millions of adults constitutionally eligible to be president of the united states, over 35 and u.s. natural born citizens why should you, beto o'rourke, be the president of the united states? >> i think the series of challenges we have before us, the gravest of our lifetimes, millions unable to get health care, millions living in the shadow of deport

and visitation heights and valley and excelsior and are represented on captain hart's advisory board. i want to make note of a couple of really important members on his board who really have been instrumental in promoting and advancing and is a member of the asian pacific american community center to partner and establish the drop-in center with our officers and under the leadership of captain hart. marlene tran who was up here earlier and spoke is a prominent member of the community in ingleside district to help prioritize translation of public safety material during the time that blessing scams and phone scams were happening in the district in an effort to raise awareness to prevent further victimization. she was also very huge driver in ingleside being the first district to beta test this video with the language app and transitioning to the district and consists of a population of about 159,000 residents and is comprised of 33% caucasian and 48% asian. 9.8% hispanic. and 9.1% which identify as others. now, the station demographics at terval station are 36% caucasian, 10% african-am

up next, more from palo alto as we visit the silicon valley archives at stanford university. this is all material related to a rn

valley. now the hit and miss shower visit. the upper low for this time of year is a powerhouse. i would not be surprised if there are reports of hail and thunderstorm activity and temperatures remaining unseasonably cool today with >>> the u.s. has given extensive family members already in the u.s. a leg up but that could change under the president's new proposal. >> all of this is a very comprehensive plan. it will go before congress, it will have tremendous republican support. we can get enough democrat support to get it passed. >> reporter: so, who would get across the border legally? those with employable skills could be given a higher priority with less emphasis on family or chain migration. >> what it is is laying down a marker for republicans. it will give them a starting point for negotiating with the democrats. if you look at it none of do wi immigrants that came here as children. as we approach an election year neither side may be inclined to take on an issue that has stymied lawmakers for decades. >> there have been so many aborted efforts when it comes to immigration

valley, the newest city in the universe. home to 1000 people — builders, engineers, farmers, doctors — and every year, over 10,000 more come to visit leaves me with just one important question. how on earth did we get here? moon valley is the vision of someone we have met before. japanese company ispace were one of the companies competing for the google x prize, which offered $20 million for the first team to land a rover on the moon by the end of march 2018. no—one managed to be ready in time but several of the projects are still ongoing. the israeli team recently did reach the moon but crashed into the surface. and as i found out when i visited their new headquarters in tokyo, ispace also haven't given up their lunar ambitions. in fact they have expanded them. we have already made a completed rover, so we have moved to the lander development. ispace has secured extra funding to put japan's first lander on the moon. deployed by a spacex rocket, the first one will orbit the moon in 2020, and the second in 2021 will land and deploy two rovers onto the lunar surface. this is the control station for the rover. you have all your readou

to sneak through right now that will be on the way into the bay and many of the valley's overnight tonight to pay a visit for the first part of weekend. i think a little more sunshine as we head toward the latter part hairs the shot for you over san francisco, the sun setting what turned out to be a very nice day outside with a lot of sunshine around the bay and the temperatures warming up quite a bit. still kind of active out there we've got the patchy fog that's moving in along the coastline right now get ready to move in here southern been a different story they've been dealing with some stormy weather. some lightning strikes and look at that the rain moving through santa barbara also in los overn tonight and it's tomorrow morning we start out with some clouds early on in the morning as we head toward the middle today, becoming mostly sunny out there temperatures go to world nicely in the 50's and the 60's by the afternoon just going to be gorgeous mid 70's, inland, 60's and 70's around rd bay will be a little bit the coastline. the fog low clouds will likely hover there the better part of the day. >>

visit or click today. >>> early uber investor and silicon valley, insta work, a start-up that matches restaurants and hospitalityters, cooks and dish washers and more. just this morning announcing a new round of funding joining us is benchmark general partner and board member bill gurley and samere, the ceo and co-founder of instawork. good to have you >> thanks for having me on. >> we love when you share your ideas and talk about what's important to you how does instawork fit in? >> long time ago one of benchmark's first investments was ebay which helped connect people with goods that were dispersed across the country and, you know, people didn't know exactly where they were and by providing that matching, you were able to create money out of nowhere. you were able to allow people to have trades that they wouldn't have had otherwise you know, many years later, with uber, you had the same thing you have a bunch of drivers and cars sitting around and people that need rides but until you have that layer and fabric that brings them together you don't really unlock the wealth and stude opportunity for both sides to

there were no site visits given this month, but that was by planning. senior valley day is may 7th, i'm not sure -- senior rally day is may 7th, i'm not sure how many people will be going. the main focus this year will be on the master plan on aging, and that will be headed by members of the scan foundation. state senator jackson and assembly representatives. all i very active in this area. this was our -- all are very active in this area. this was our first meeting where we are looking at the bell city mentioned briefly last month. we are now up to 45 from 36. we lost one. i will provide a detailed report by topic. we thought that that might be easier rather than just listing them. here are all the medi-cal, here all the alzheimer's, a little bit easier. we are looking at one federal bill and some budget issues, as well. cfl has picked up some additional support for their ten pieces of legislation. they actually almost have all of them with a sponsor. so that is pretty much my report >> any questions from the commissioners? what is the time for the may senior valley

valley donors on venice avenue. he is campaigning through california including a visit to west hollywood, one of the most famous lgbt bars in america. >> i am certainly conscious of the responsibility that comes with the historic nature of the candidacy. at the same time, i'm responsible for being there for everybody.>> the mayor appeared with the los angeles mayor to support a local tax that would pay for education. mayor pete will be the guest on our weekly political show, "the issue is." you can watch it saturday mornings. >>> and, kamala harris is making appearances in san francisco. senator harris gave a campaign style speech last night to a packed house for the sun reporter newspaper's 75th anniversary event. the paper has cover the bay area with a focus on the african-american community since 1944. senator harris and this upcoming election is a chance for voters to decide on the future for the country. >> this is an inflection moment in the history of our country, to look in the mirror and ask a question, that question being, who are we? >> senator harris is working to build momentum ahead of primary voting,

like researching for a less known but still high valley are or explore why then for pick asses and bottle chalice well it depends busy i found back to visit caught stone will you have stolen from a church in spain world heritage and not many people know about that the physical arts but when you start to read about it and. it's that was really dumb brown story in there was stolen from a church that dated from the 7th century the church was forgotten 4th out more than a 1000 years and it was rediscovered in 1021 so it was a time capsule so when you start to read about antiquities of odds every piece has its own beauty some people prefer because of above rembrandt or whatever but there was always a story attached to it there was always a history when you read about it every pieces is beautiful i can tell you $11.00 example there was this porcelain service which i'm normally not interested in that was stolen in world war 2 from a jewish family and i we trace it in the collection of the royal dutch family which was quite a big scandal. and no money i was not interested in parcel in but when you start to search such a beautiful piece and you fi

they had shed valleys but there was little meeting of minds beyond that policy towards iran is the main cause of friction between the 2 allies. it took mike pompei 0400 days to find time to visit berlin and then officials scheduled only 45 minutes for talks with chancellor angela merkel on trouble spots afghanistan and syria libya and iran. in the world is in great turmoil above all the question of the run and how to prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons the visits what not. nor did pump ayos discussions with germany's foreign minister bring the 2 countries closer together washington has been raising the pressure on iran well european countries struggle to save the nuclear deal iran signed 4 years ago this of this is also no secret that we are pursuing different approaches towards that and. at the rate at why from our point of view instead of europe as a whole preservation of the nuclear deal increases international safety and that's important to us but time is running out iran is threatening to stop complying with parts of the nuclear deal if signatories don't find a way to soften u.s. sanctions iran is primarily dependent on income from the sale of oil washington sanct

has flown 1,000 migrants from the rio grande valley, ground zero frr illegal crossings to san diego. >> our own brian kilmeade got a first-hand look visitingh acting chief of the rio grande valley. take a lack. >> what are we seeing? >> it's a parking area for the border patrol station. but instead you see multiple military tents. >> you're looking at a facility that should be handling 300, 350 people max. it is now handling multiple thousands of people. take a look. these are people being held, just picked up off of the border. in fact this whole tent complex came up in the last 36 hours because there's no place to put them. >> currently we're holding over 8,000 people. we've already caught over 1,000 today as of noon. we may set another record for apprehensions today. >> and the reason why this is full is because of where you're taking me now. >> we're in the station area of responsibility, the busiest station in the united states border patrol. we're going to an area called rincon village, ground zero on the entire united states southwest border. >> have you had a caravan situation? >> we have a care von come through here every five day

valley this summer. and in sonoma later this year. the venues have not yet been announced. >> president trump on his way back to washington after a four-day visit to japan. during his stay he met japan's new emperor and had been what's being called serious discussions about trade-in global hot spots with prime minister shinzo abe. in addition to a quick round of golf, the president visited a japanese destroyer as well. he also spent part of his memorial day with u.s. troops stationed in japan on the uss wasp. >> back here in the u.s., vice-president pence spending the dayon honoring fallen servi members. he led today's ceremony at the arlingtonth national cemetery, laying a large wreath of the un. the vice-president's message to every american, remember the sacrifices of those who came before us. >>> in the south bay, nearly a thousand people showed up at the oak hill cemetery on this memorial day. the annual san jose gathering is among the largest in northern california. we found a child placing a penny on each headstone at the cemetery. the idea is to make sure the family of each fallen serviceman knows someone came to pay their respects. you

another system to pay us a visit by tuesday and after that finally more sunshine and warming temperatures.>>> this month most recent storm brought almost a foot of snow. the valley said it received 11 inches of snow in just 24 hours bringing the season total to 700 inches of snow that makes this the third snowiest season there on record. you can stay with ktvu for the latest on this may storm. you can download our free weather app for the latest conditions.>>> today lawmakers approved a bill that would mean in your total ban on abortions. the missouri governor is expected to sign a measure that outlaws abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy. we have more about the bill that was passed in the state house by a vote of 110-44. >> reporter: final approval to a strict antiabortion bill banning the procedure after eight weeks of pregnancy. the legislation allows exceptions for medical emergencies but not for pregnancies caused by incest or rape.>> if your body is used against you you are rich. i want to be forced to be used against you for nine months.>> reporter: it doesn't target women that undergo the procedure instead penalizing doctors who perform them with a p

. >> when you are chief for the rio grande valley, the secretary border patrol, i remember visiting the checkpoint in berks county, senator chris has said the same expense i have. one of the starkest memories i have of that in the regions around the checkpoint where the coyotes leave the migrant to circumvent the checkpoint so they don't get caught in the vehicle as a transfer them into the interior. the local official will find a number of dead bodies in effect the berks county officials have asked us to somehow find whether they reimburse them for taking care of the remains and bearing these bodies. what i really wanted to ask about, other countries that are exploiting the vulnerability at our border, i assume that people can get her from such america they can get hear from anywhere in the world. and i do remember now to get around the area, the scene some of the rescue beacons in spanish, english and i believe in chinese, do you actually have chinese individuals coming across the southwestern border into the united states? >> absolutely senator. they mentioned that 140 so far differe

visit a store today. >>> a convicted killer not only paid for his crime, he turned his life around. >> the central valley man spent 25 years in prison. but as reporter ruben contreras shows us the fresno state masters graduate will use his degree to help others. >> reporter: from ex-con to dean medallist, that is how arnold described his journey in life. at the age of 21 he was sentenced to life in prison for the crime of murder. while being transferred from a state prison to another prison he nlgtsed what he was missingu missing -- missing out on. >> i saw mcdonald's and kids on the skateboard and mom and dad with kids and pushing stroerl -- strollers and it woke me addiction behind him and soon after he realized he a passion to learn. while in prison near tracy he earned his high school diploma and an aa degree in liberal arts. >> i saw the raiser wires and bars and i no longer saw it. i -- it was oblivious to me. although the prison madness continues around me, i didn't see it. >> reporter: he was released in 2011 after a year as a welder he went back to school to earn another aa from porterville coll

visit to japan. i am doug luzader. we will have more from washington coming up. >>> and a crash on westbound 580 in the castro valley area we will look at that coming up. in the meantime, here is a look at the drive on the golden gate bridge. no problems there as the sun rises off in the distance. >>> off in the distance also low clouds. and inland temperatures are bumping up a little bit. we will tell you how much, coming up. during our memorial day sale. it senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. it even helps with this. so you wake up ready to hit the ground running. only at a sleep number store. don't miss the final days to save $1000 on the new queen sleep number 360 special edition smart bed, now only $1,799. ends sunday. sleep number. proven, quality sleep. >>> well, welcome back to mornings on 2. i am dave clark. >> and i am pam cook. what are we seeing out there, steve? >> well, we are seeing the fog out there this morning. 40s, 50s and plenty of low clouds in place. 52 at the berkeley lab, 54 in the city. alameda is 65. in the oak hills upper 40s low 50s. the low cloud deck