a member of the community that has in some way benefited fisherman's wharf. i myself was so honored to be recognized last year. this year was their 12th annual crab feed and the fisherman's wharf merchant's association chose to recognize the san francisco police department central station under leadership of captain david lazarr he has been posted as captain of central station for about two years, i think. and he has made a world of difference in the time that he has been there, together with officers john van call and officer ken warrell, who walk the beat in fisherman's wharf, among many. last night at the annual crab feed they were recognized for their incredible service to the community. as you can imagine the san francisco police department works 24/7, fisherman's wharf sees, we think, about 15 million people per year so they have a very busy schedule there. they have been incredibly helpful to the port and to the merchants and to the community and fisherman's wharf. captain lazarr himself has really brought a community spirit, i've been to the hospital

time and we're pleased to see them recognized so, please join us in congratulating the fisherman's wharf district that concludes my report. >> thank you any public comment on item this clort seeing none, public comment is closed commissioners items you wish to report on. >> again happy new year to everyone glad to be back i'm loortd to 2015 public comment seeing none, public comment is closed call the next item. >> the presentation of the lbe request for retail space located at pier 3233 on the embarcadero san francisco law business currently working with the community-based organizations. >> good afternoon commissioners congratulations to commissioner adams and commissioner president katz thank you for your leadership throughout it last year and continuing to carry on on behalf of the staff happy new year to commissioners and we're delighted to be starting off our presentation for this informational presentation as i said for this pilot retail community at pier 33 and a half this is a project that started back with an rfp in april of 2014 which went out to a number of community-based or

wharf j9 is a critical structural support for the foundation of many fisherman's wharf along the seawall. further deterioration from the seawall to cause spill to go into the bay and buildings along wharf j9 to have settlement. port maintenance is anticipated to start construction sometime in fiscal year 2015-2016. the estimated cost of material for these repairs is $2 million and is currently funded. the next project is our pier 92. pier 92 is a very important pier at the port. this photo shows an example of a missing pile at pier 92. all of the wood piles at pier 92 have uncured dry rot. port engineers has created the 18 were you not repair design and the project is currently on hold pending the issuance of a permit. the project material cost is $2 million and the project is currently funded with port capital funds. port maintenance will do these repairs. photo on the right shows a typical cruise ship call at fir 35. the photo on the left shows the underside of the peer. you can see the rebar corrosion from the caupb keet beams. port engineering has nearly completed the subtruck tour r

today she's the fisherman wharf's tourist attractions. still preserved in a cocoon. but there will always be a mystery, men who take her down to wage war beneath the ocean's wave. >> we had to do a little crazy to begin with because who would want to live in the subhuman situation that you live in a submarine. because it's miserable living. >> reporter: in september of 1944, the pompenito with a crew of 49 set sail on its third war patrol. this time they were in route to the south china sea in the vast waters between the philippines and formoso. the mission was as written to attack japanese shipping any where and everywhere. the pompanito's most memorable action did involve the sinking of the ship. early morning september 12, pompenito encounters the japanese convoy. at this moment a horrible mistake would reshape the history of the pompenito. >> two of these ships in the convoy were carrying british and australian prisoners of war. and they were on one of two ships torpedoed. >> reporter: 650 were picked up by the japanese and reshipped to labor camps. the rest were

was extremely happy to see the extension the late night neighborhood we've been looking fisherman's wharf and their reminding us their constituency and workers especially are not moped through friday kind of people the recent study shoud 6 hundred jobs on in the fisherman's wharf and the reasons those jobs are unfilled bravo if we can get those filled. >> supervisor breed. >> i had some questions about the pit stops and the ability to have pit stops instead of in other locates throughout the city is that being take into consideration. >> i'm not sure we can answer the question yeah, the department of public works initiative i don't think we have. >> the ta is helping to fund this project. >> correct it has not been proposed in other neighborhood for the lifetime funding and . >> and it's not at all possible. >> we'll have to talk to the department of public works to see. >> okay yes and we'll follow-up. >> okay thanks. >> thank you any further questions or comments okay. seeing none are we moving on to the next portion no sorry we think we have more pages a then here okay open this up to

a news chopper is over a bakery at san francisco's fisherman's wharf. you see the firefighters on the scene. this is all because of a possible hazmat situation. calls for help came in at about 10:20 this morning. omps say people were coughing, complaining of a tingling sensation in their throats and that send firefighters to the scene this morning. >> this is the one right there on fisherman's wharf on the triangular parking lot in front of the mechanized museum there. >> exactly. we're hoping to hear from an official from san francisco fire department right now. mindy joins us live. so what's the situation there? do we know has anyone been injured and what caused this? >> okay so the long and the short of it is that it was confirmed that it was pepper spray incident. we did transport 11 -- oh, i'm sorry. we didn't transport 11 patients but there were 11 total people that were affected. and they all declined to be transported to the hospital. >> and who had the pepper spray? do you know? >> that i do not know. initially, they thought it may have been wo

the tour we're gonna try out starts right here at the world famous wharf sign. hit play. we'll give it a shot. >> look across the street to the crab stand. >> reporter: the app gives turn by turn directions using your phone's gps to guide you through a neighborhood and it takes you beyond the big attraction. >> so my tour guide now is telling me to take a left. right here there is a secret passageway between the two restaurants here. push these doors open. we're supposed to go down here to the waterfront. >> lean up against the railing when you get to the other side. >> reporter: looking out, i'm introduced to a local firerman who was been working here for 40 years. >> welcome to the lagoon. my name is mike. people call me candy. there are probably only 20, 30 boats working. the rest are show or charter boats. >> we try to find authentic people in the neighborhood to narrate the stories. >> reporter: and drew mason dreamed up detour. former ceo of groupon told me his goal is to give people an alternative to traditional tours. >> i started thinking about it just to somebod

someone with pepper spray created quite a scene at fisherman's wharf today. the person sprayed the chemicals around 10:00 a.m. about 20 people started to cough. firefighters then showed up. a evacuated the building thinking it was some kind of hazmat situation. thankfully it was not. police were never able to find the pern whoperson who used that pepper spray. >> caltrans is thinking about taking down the remainder of the old span of the bay bridge. they are considering using explosives to remove the foundation of the bridge. officials say it is the fastest cheapest and most environmentally friendly method, is to use hundreds of controlled charges under water to blow up the large main full per. engineers believe this november is the best time to use those explosives. that's when they will see the lowest number of fish and marine life in the area. caltrans is presenting this meth today several environmental agencies for approval. >> the grand vip opening today. stay with us. what's that thing? i moved our old security system out here to see if it could monitor

breaking news in san francisco with a possible haz-mat situation at a restaurant and bakery at the wharf. numerous people have been evacuated. >> officials say 20 patients are being treated and no word on the hazardous material. we hear it could be a problem with the refrigeration unit. a crew is on the way. >>> good morning, i am eric thomas here for cheryl jennings. >> the southern california city of carson wrap up a rally to show support for a proposal to build joint stadium for raiders and the san diego chargers. [ inaudible ] >> carson is located in los angeles county about 15 miles southeast of los angeles a small town, with a population of less than 92,000. the people there of excited about the possibility of build allege stadium for both nfl teens. they showed a video with a look at the proposed stadium and what it would look like. carson says it is committed although it is far from a down done. >> welcome, raiders. welcome chargers! >> we when the championers to know and we want the raiders to know if you cap work it out with your cities we welcome you with open arms here carson

. >> okay the tour we're going to try out today, starts right here at the world famous fisherman's wharf sign. go ahead and hit play. we'll give it a shot. >> look cross the street to the crab shop. >> reporter: the tour guide is telling me to make a left right here. there's a secret passage way between these two restaurants here. just push these doors open. we're supposed to go down here to the waterfront. >> lean up against the railing when you get to the other side. >> reporter: looking out to the wharf i'm introduced to a local fisherman who's been working here. >> welcome, my name is mike. there's only 40 boats working here, the rest are just for show or charter boats. >> we really try to find authentic people in the neighborhood to narrate these stories and take you through a walk in their shoes. >> reporter: andrew mason dreamed up detour. the former ceo of group on told me his goal is to give people an alternative to traditional tours. >> i started to think about it as someone who likes to travel and often let down about the ways to experience a place or learn about a place. >> r

area around the grain silos directly under the grain silos, the pier 96/terminal and then be pier 70 wharf 8. pier 70 wharf 8 we do have a federal request in through werda >> water resource --. >> yeah, water resources through the army corps of engineers, so we're hoping we may get some funding for that as well. but as elaine mentioned we have begun the permitting process through the army corps of engineers for removal and reanticipate that ideally to get a permit within the next 12 to 18 months that would allow us to do that removal. >> so approximately how much is still unfunded? >> i will need to get back to you on that and i can do that. >> i think you have come up with great suggestions on what to do with the funds, but i did request a few months ago that we consider making that a part of it, because that has been an outstanding issue for a long time. thank you. >> i think today was really great in terms of having everything kind of presented to us so i want to thank, the fact that we had the facility assessment to the 5 year financial plan, capital plan and obviously what you want to

. >> wharf 7j is a work in progress. >> are these from yellow to green, or green to --. >> yellow to green. i don't believe we've gone from green to yellow anywhere. >> green to yellow, not significantly, just in minor areas. >> that's good news too. >> then pier 31, which is a very big one, as you may recall you helped us to decide to spend bond funds on that one so that one is in progress and by the time we report to you next time it should hopefully go to green. >> thank you. >> kind of work that into the report, though, i think that's a good way to look at it going forward. >> commissioner adams. >> i want to thank you for the report. i really appreciate that you prioritized and made some decisions because sometimes you just got to make a decision which ones to go after. i was going to ask you a little bit about climate change and sea levels, how that's going to affect some of the piers and also i didn't see pier 30-32 on here. i know not all the piers are on here so can you say a little bit about it? >> in the exhibit? it should be under exhibit no. 2. >> load limit, no plan. >>

helps the economy has will if so a holistic eco system we've heard from the businesses in fisherman's wharf they were having a hard time with transportation issues that were hurting them we need to look at this is a good business to increase not only a social thing but explorers increase the affordable housing anyone have any concrete believable relationship on how to increase the avenue i'll be interested in hearings from them the second one many of the folks have seen or heard supervisor wiener introduced the heethsd we had 23 and 24 that came before us 23 and 24 were continued i think this is interesting he heard the issues of the neighborhoods talking about the heights and we'll be hearing about that from our supervisors. >> thank you commissioner moore. >> one aspect of housing we're not involved but housing is not included as affordable housing with the issue of homelessness someone forwarded an interesting oral this is john steinberg in the san francisco magazine why can't san francisco solve it's homeless problem this is i written by gary the author of cool city the article touches

. >>> authorities are searching for whoever sent pepper bay in the fisherman's wharf. we were there after it happened around 11:00 this morning. 11 people received medical attention. they said it was scary. >> my grand kids were coughing and couldn't catch their breath. ift was scary for a little bit. >> she says after getting checked, her grand kids are okay now. the restaurant has security video. it happened so quickly, it was hard to identify the man. ♪ >> san francisco ethnic dance festival kicked off with a special performance under the city hall rotunda. it will return as part of the yearlong celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of the international expo decision. this is the first year that international swedish dancers will take part. free performances will be held monthly at city hall. abc 7 news anchor will host it at the palace of fine arts tomorrow at noon. that event is free and open to the public. enjoy. >>> still ahead here on abc 7 news at 4:00, a late decision on the highly controversial sale of a local hospital group. >> the performance of a life

the tour starts right here at the world famous fisherman's wharf sign. hit play. a shot. >> look across the street to the crab stand. >> reporter: the app gives turn by turn directions, using your phone's gps to guide you through a neighborhood and it takes you beyond the big attractions. so my tour guide is telling me to make a left right here. there is a secret passageway between these two restaurants here. push these doors open. we're supposed to go down here to the waterfront. >> lean up against the railing when you get to the other side. >> reporter: i'm introduced to a local firerman working here for more -- fisherman working here for more than 40 years. >> welcome to the lagoon. my name is mike. people call me candy the there's probably only 20 boats working these days. the rest are show or charter boats. >> we try to find authentic people in the neighborhood to narrate the sawyers. >> reporter: andrew mason treatmented up detour, the former ceo of groupon said his goal is to give people an alternative to tours. >> i started to think about it as somebody wh

rafael, russian hill, nabil, both lower and upper and middle, middle upper, lower you know, fisherman's wharf, the financial adjuster, the waterfront, it's incredible diversity that makes up this district. that's why when i had a many many chats with david chiu before he successfully left his position to kind of understand what he had gone through as a supervisor for this district, it's no less important that every other district in san francisco. i say to you with great gratitude to the members of the board because i know that for the last 30 days i spent some great time here and i kind of put myself a little bit in what a supervisor would do on a daily basis. i was down there at lombard street on the backside making sure that cliff wasn't going to be following when we got those heavy rains. i reordered myself for what i did many years ago i'm just walking the streets as i had copied with different people of different interests. to talk about what this district needed. and quickly came to the conclusion, after so much great input by people, that they wanted someone who recognized the strengt

the bank took the wharf and they're still stuck with the note. where is our government?ce between a hurricane where federal help has to come in, you know or any kind of drought or anything like that. this one has just lasted five years. >> again, great reporting. ed shultz thank you for your time. waffle "the ed show" tomorrow for more on his series "the gulf today, five years after the spill" 5:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. >>> still ahead, why can't gop leaders denounce rudy giuliani's ugly comments about president obama? >>> also should we tax sugar the way we tax cigarettes? >>> and what has the 25 years of photoshop done to the way we look at celebrities and ourselves? conversation nation is next. there's only one egg that just tastes better. fresher. more flavorful. delicious. only one egg with better nutrition... like more vitamins d, e, and omega 3s. and 25% less saturated fat. only one egg good enough for my family. because why have ordinary when you can have the best. eggland's best. the only egg that gives you so much more: better taste. better nutritio

continue for the next four summers in a permanent f-line that would extend all the way to fisherman's wharf, by 2000 the f-line was in place. and in 2007 muni extended the third line to the southeast corner and returning to third street. for the first time in 60 years. in the course of last 100 years, muni's diverse workforce forged by men and women of innovation have reflected the many cultures that flock to the city. muni's ground-breaking antidiscrimination has guaranteed equal opportunity for all. the city's policy mandates the course for the future as they work diligently to increase options and increase multialternatives, and deduce -- reduce the carbon footprint. it continues to improve the systems. during this sen -- centennial year we reflect on the transit system. driven not >> all right. is this cyc? make some noise. cyc. [speaking foreign language] is cyc here? yeah. community love right here. [speaking foreign language] hey good job, good job. smile, smile. it's not that heavy. you make cyc proud, the community. oh yes. all right. i don't know if they're going to fit on stage.

15i789 we statute the possibility and the feasibility of going forward two more stops to fisherman's wharf that project was released and found it was very cost effective in high performing jobs and rolled into the sfmta study through the transportation plan prioritization plan in charge the prop k denies with the transit center making a tremors transformation in our downtown on the land use side we have loaded over $178 million of prop k funds being the transit center itself that is below both ground construction with the new terminal slated for completion in 2018 and phased two the downtown extension of the caltrain trains with the lir leadership of our sfmta our commission supervisor yee h supervisor wiener and supervisor campos it's been happening with the supervisors land use committee we've championed this project to work together with our go j.b.d and supervisor cohen thank you for serving on the transbay joint powers authority and the blended high-speed rail project to insure we have a downtown extension that will maximum high speed rail and future caltrain on the platforms in terms

. >> this wharf in florida was a thriving business. spill took place and almost instantly lives were destroyed, things changed, and future dreams just erased. these folks just think life has played a dirty trick on them. >> my wife is 75 and still working because our income was affected. i'm 71 and still working because our incomes were affected. our retirement goals are affected because bp hasn't come to the plate and fixed things. >> you look at rusty's place here. they built this blood, sweat, tears. 15 of their lives went into it. after the spill, their lives were taken away. the heart and soul of everything they built was taken away from them. >> what hope do you think that this is all going to be corrected? >> very little. >> very little? >> this is never going to be properly corrected. >> what has life been like the past five years? >> it's like starting over with a mountain of debt so that you can't start over and being in limbo and waiting for bp to do the right thing and make us whole, so to speak, so that we can start over.

>> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square.ve space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products tha

directed as well i'm not sure that if we had better signage to tell people who are going to fisherman's wharf, don't take embarcadero, take some other route to get there so we could divert some traffic. within the cruise ship terminal itself it was a bit chaotic in terms of traffic flow and numbers of people and whether the terminal operator, the cruise ship should think about how they are going to plan if people are going to the airport, if they are going to the east bay, instead of individual cars could they have shuttle service, how can they get people to bart? i don't know these are just ideas. i'm not asking you to act on any of them, but somehow what i'm suggesting is someone needs to really pull the onion here step by step and see what they can do. i think we shouldn't accept the situation as is and once we get the arena and it's not on the embarcadero, but there's going to be more points of pressure on traffic around here and i think we don't want to keep waiting. i just hope that we can have a study of some kind. i leave it up to you to figure out what would be some of the best next

it's different or the same as ours i want to bring that into alignment we've worked at fisherman's wharf and continuing working up against the sign that don't fit the character the official quality of the area has to do with the signage and it's greater than other parts of city that's part of the excitement of the area how do we address that and we also have different needs in the southern waterfront that our guidelines don't address how to meet the scale and recognize the first types of uncles we've come up with an approach that starts out saying let's be capable with the city's structure how he write the code sharing the definition they use for the structure organizations to what a document what about to making it easier for people that do busy on both sides of the line looking at developing specific career to aid the criteria and how businesses get their visibility down our pier patrons and recognize the southern waterfront industrial buildings and incorporate the signage guidelines programs that interesting have been established such as at ferry building and the ball park and for the

talks about the corridors one area of the city we have 24 hotels and the treatments and fisherman's wharf that adds another layer of issues when they godfather go to market street have routes for visitors that use last night i want to thank you for your leadership we'll continue to be port of the group and get to a place where we have additional winds sound like we're having it with the additional buses

talks about the corridors one area of the city we have 24 hotels and the treatments and fisherman's wharf that adds another layer of issues when they godfather go to market street have routes for visitors that use last night i want to thank you for your leadership we'll continue to be port of the group and get to a place where we have additional winds sound like we're having it with the additional buses thank you very much >> thank you very much, sir. >> next speaker. >> and good afternoon robert director for transit i'd like to echo some of the comments ac transit fully supports the study and the recommendations that's been nearly a decade since the network as the person mentioned and there's a couple of things one it is 10 years since we last looked at this and the land use has changed the region if you look at the downtown coordinator and oakland that type of land use in the night time didn't exist so one thing i want to nevertheless that was a transit issue the region looked at as a whole and m t c took a lead and the pilot service that the operation t is in mrs. jordan or participati

. >>> a popular restaurant in san francisco's fisherman's wharf was cleared out a couple of hours ago because of a hazmat situation. fire trucks lined up outside the boudin restaurant on jefferson street around 10:30 this morning. authorities say someone sprayed pepper spray at the front of the building prompting an evacuation. 11 people were treated at the scene. >> see if we can catch video in the area of someone matching the description, seeing if we can identify the individuals. >> no one was hospitalized and the scene has since been cleared. >>> the archbishop of san francisco has sent out a letter to state lawmakers who criticized new morality clauses in faculty handbooks. archbishop salvatore cordileone says, quote, i respect your right to employ or not employ whomever you wish to advance your mission. i simply ask the same respect from you." the morality clauses provoked a big public protest this week outside st. mary's cathedral in san francisco. the clauses say teachers in the diocese are expected to conduct their lives in a way that is consistent with church doctrine. that

experience for the port and positive eating experience for all the people that walks up and down the wharf so our the owners of queens are here today as well some of their references and we are certainly available for questions if you have them. >> thank you and that concludes my presentation. >> thank you. do the owners of queens want to make a short presentation? or introduce at least stand up thank you i have been to our restaurant on san bruno i'm a fan any public comment on this item? seeing five to six yes. i have some >> marcus toward and good afternoon and congratulations on tour new nominations or recent nominations for the record marcus toward the stewardship center in the bayview inch delighted and honored to be here as a person born and raised in the boifrpt i can't tell you how great it is to have neighborhood business being located in the prime location of one the greatest cities in the world not only is it great but great for the other community businesses that work tooirls everyday in that 0 community this is a beacon of hope if they can do it let's other businesses in the

. >> reporter: many families spent theidate at fisherman -- spent the day at fisherman's wharf but for san francisco public schools students it was business as usual. >> it was unfair. >> the school district shifts the holiday to friday to follow thursday's lunar new year holiday. >> this decision is very much a reflection of the community that we sever which is asian and we know that thursday is a important day for them. >> the lunar new year school holiday has been celebrated since 2006. the plan to shift the holiday has been in the works since 2013. officials say while it may inconvenience some it makes sense to give students a four day weekend. >> we knew they had off monday and again on thursday but not on friday. we would see a high level of absences on friday. >> reporter: she says she will have to take off two days from work. >> it will be a problem and then if we can't take the day off then you have to pay a sitter. you know? >> reporter: other parents called it uplifting. >> we will get the chance for the children to learn about the chinese culture. take time off on thursday

thieves smashed a box truck into the patagonia store at fisherman's wharf stealing high- end clothes. and another av store was hit just two weeks ago in west portal thieves taking stereos without their matching pairs. and one employee at this store thinks that may provide a clue after a red flag here last week. >> we had a customer come in and inquiring about the value of components who did not fit the usual profile. the line of questioning was very out of the ordinary. >> reporter: police can't say if the crimes are related. >> we're looking at, um, all of the incidents that have happened, um, trying to track them and see whether it's one group of individuals or others. so that's still ongoing. >> reporter: now, this store does have insurance to cover much of this loss. they are going to try to re- open as soon as they possibly can. ironically, they only moved to this location within the past five months. live in san francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. >>> san francisco police shot and killed a robbery suspect after they say he pulled out a knife and refused to drop it. police got a cal

division staff has involved in other activities that meet the overall goals in legislation fisherman's wharf the staff addresses those and the department has successfully implemented the tracking system i mentioned earlier and the italy's staff continue to maintain the up time and help to respond to requests in a timely manner yesterday, i delivered the same presentation to the historic preservation commission and today in front of you february 4th i'll be going back to the historic preservation commission for their recommendations of the proposals and on the fifth i'll be coming back to this commission talking about the changes we've made to the budget over the past few weeks including feedback you've offered and come back on february 12th asking for your approval of the departments proposed budget for the mayor's office for the march 23rd that concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> before we close commissioners a couple of things to mention one is that the process for especially for the new commissioners it will be helpful after i give us feedback if

. >> reporter: michael searcy and his wife made their way to the fish market on the wharf in d.c. tonight where employees joked it's colder outside than in the refrigerators. >> this is the coldest it's ever been. >> reporter: pete hill has been here 18 years. cold might hurt but not as much as a pinch from one of these crabs. so tonight cold actually helps. >> we don't get bit as much. >> being cold like this it locks them up. you can see how they're doing. they're moving kind of slow, but they're alive. >> reporter: alive and cold, maybe not as cold as tasha mccarty's house. her place might be colder than most on the potomac river like actually on it in a house boat. >> we have a roof deck. we have amazing sunsets. it's totally worth it. >> reporter: the winter is when she pays for it, though she insists -- >> we're ready. you got to be careful how you heat your boat, make sure your pipes are warm. >> reporter: even president lincoln is cold and probably wondering where four scores of people came to visit tonight. you're doing a lot sight seeing? >> we're from oregon. we don't k

dad and the kids were enjoying the day at the wharf when the pup jumps on board and family did not seem to mind. we don't know what the sea lion was whispering to dad but he keeps whispering something. >> it was comfortable. the sea lion stayed for 20 minutes. a news reporter spotted the sea lion getting comfortable and took the video. it is just amazing. >> lucky dad. >> what a great experience. thanks foreign joining us. this is jim. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but now, with once-a-day xarelto®, jim's on the move. jim's doctor recommended xarelto®. like warfarin, xarelto® is proven effective to reduce afib-related stroke risk. but xarelto® is the first and only once-a-day prescription blood thinner for patients with afib not caused by a heart valve problem that doesn't require regular blood monitoring. so jim's not tied to that monitoring routine. gps: