work of senator feinstein and former secretary george schultz and former mayor my good friend willie brown say a happy occasion we match the dedication with fleet week we don't know how inspiring it is for the city we also made a promise over 82 years ago to get the dedication define i was reminded to remind i that charlotte shurts was not around 80 years ago to make that promise (laughter) but thanks to her and george and the incredible veterans committee raising all the funds a special thanks to steve and everyone on that list that you see today, this came to fruition over a year ago i mohammed in the eye and naomi he said we've got to make sure all the agencies honor our veterans by getting this memorial done not only did they go to work as a team with the arts and rec and park and the public works and the veteran war memorial committee and trustees they went to work almost as if they were called to go into the beach so thank you to all the city agrees for working so well together to honor our veterans this is another example as former interstate secretary george schultz said of our x f

commander is here (clapping) and jorp general colorado nays he's here (clapping) and former mayor willie brown we're going to recognize him he's here (clapping) i tell you i'd like to thank more than 2 hundred donors it the san francisco memorial that made this project possible the san francisco veterans memorial was funded entirely by private dpoomgsz and i'd like to recognize the leaders for this effort steven beck natural fund, the big one made this charlotte and george schultz and susan i didn't bechtel and her husband robert a day (clapping) charles and ann johnson foundation (clapping) the san francisco public utilities commission (clapping) and deedee wellscy (clapping) i am pleased and honored to welcome one of the co-chairs of our veterans steering committee and the honory chair of fleet week the honorable george p schultz (clapping.) first of all, mike read off a lot of people to get recognized but, you know who the driving force is michael so let's hear it for mike (clapping.) i'll tell you something in you put a marine general in charge things move this is a great moment and we're

. >>> former mayor willie brown kicked off good year, end of year telethon. >>> it is willie brown at the microphone and it features live music and cheerleaders to help people drop off unwanted items. goodwill wants clothing and computers and cars and the donations help the people to work by funding job training programs. >>> it feels good, the people are super nice and they dot loading and there is a band today. it is cool. >>> a donata thon going to five p.m. >>> 2014 was full of notable moments. a look back at the years that included the major bay area earthquake and a world series and some social media trending involving hidden cash and dumping ice water on ourselves. >>> 2015 in australia and this was the scene in the sydney harbor today. >>> >>> snow caused big problems last night. people were stranded in their vehicles and stuck in a foot of snow on highway 138 in the mountains. many people were taken by snow cat to the local church for shelter and some walked and no injuries reported. >>> in lake tahoe thousands will ring in the new year at the snow glow festival. because of c

the public that a new middle school is opening up in the bayview and parents want to learn more willie brown middle school is the result of a lot of community input and expertise from hundreds of architects many had a as a thought school and the school is the status quo technology for students and full science labs and extorts sports in he a 21st century cafe and supports we want to encourage all families to consider the willie brown middle school for your child that will be the spear of our stem initiative in our schools here in san francisco so to speak the stem talking about the abraham lincoln the jebicly team who won a gold metal and massachusetts dispute of technology they beat teams from listens to this our high school team beat teams from harvard and princeton and mit and can you tell me bridge and 2 hundred other teams from universities around the world house that? (clapping.) i gem is an under graduate bio technical program, however, the lining up are recent graduates of lincoln secretarial 2013 and 2014 graduates that are partnered with the sfaufrts they're currently attending com

. ♪[ music ]♪ >> former san francisco mayor willie brown joined in the fun with the goodwill band atsion street location. the goodwill hopes to fill 60 trucks with clothing and household items. the proceeds from sales go towards getting people back in the workforce. willie brown said he wouldn't miss the chance to contribute. >> i went through my closet and everything that i had not worn for a year i put on a rack like this and it was 40, 50 pieces. and they rolled it in here. >> he is a sharp dresser, too. the donate-a-thon ends at 5 p.m. >>> snapchat is breaking rules. the entire concept of the app is to share pictures that disappear after a few seconds but tonight, snapchat will compile photos of its users celebrating new year's eve around the world and they are going to share them. it will ask user permission first. and after 24 hours those pictures will also disappear. >>> many american cities new year's eve is all about something that drops from the sky at midnight. there is the ball drop in new york's times square. in atlanta they drop fruit, in the peach state, a big giant pe

. >> secondly i'd like to call your attention to something that willy brown wrote in the chronicle over the weekend and it's kind of interesting and significant originally mayor brown was working for one of these ride service companies he was their lawyer or consultant for a company now called wings and now he's saying just take a look at downtown san francisco where an ever expanding fleet of ride sharing drivers no longer content to wait for a call for their perspective services we see it all the time you need to to take control of your streets. this is in your ballpark. lastly let me just say about the taxi insurance issue -- a company like yellow cab, self insured and doesn't technically comply with the regulations and a collection of companies and multiple companies is not allowed to write insurance. thank you. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. my name is mr. singh and i'm a board member of san francisco taxi worker's alliance and i have some documents. we're filing an application they are filing a petition because they can not afford to make a payment because we lose 40 percen

we have mayor willie brown. he dropped by to encourage people to donate. here for the end of the year. and the head of the band, the leader of the band, he even got mayor brown to get up there and sing a tune. listen to this. ♪ ♪ ride sally ride ♪ >> that's wonderful. [laughter] >> he's having a good time. that's great. >> always. always. >> reporter: he was having an absolute blast. >> yeah. >> reporter: he really -- he started up slow but got warmed up really quick. he sounded good by the end. he was feeling it. >> >> are those some of this clothe -- of his clothes? >> reporter: i was mention, donations here for the end of the year. look at these gorgeous suits. these are straight from willie brown's closet. if you want to dress like the mayor, all you have to do here is come down to goodwill. >> love it. love it. you are in the spot. i mean for great things, great music and mayor willie brown. you got it. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> nice job. >>> 8:11. another thing happening right now, we want to take you to, a live picture out of vatican city. a little m

speaking of which you have the willie brown collection. and that is when we have a few samples.re items you donate to good will. what is the goal here? >> well, every year whatever i want in a year i give to good will. and this time it was i don't know 70 or 80 items. and jackets, shirts, suits, i do it if i ever -- >> reporter: if you haven't worn it this past year. >> you know people horde too much. and you never visited. i try my best to avoid that by sharing. my expensive items. >> i was just looking through them. what seize are these by the way? >> these are all 42. >> it is a very good cause. just a band itself people who work with good will. the training program. and the opportunity and the reason i chose good will a long time ago because at one time in life good will helped me. >> reporter: thank you for your time. good will donate-a-thon we are here at 1500 mission street in san francisco. they will be beginning to accept your donations at 7:00 this morning. a half an hour from now. the band is here. it's a big party. the mayor is here. it goes until 5:00 today. >> alex

i remember when willie brown junior was the mayor of this city, his statement was and i'm quite sure you remember. if you don't make $100,000 a year you don't need to live in san francisco. when i be looking at this ami, i don't make $100,000 a year, how many residents in san francisco that are working and those of us that are retired could even after to move there. when you said low income, i remember a group was put together called eight black ministers. if the developer did not want to be a low income housing, 25 percent of those funds would go to these developers to develop housing and my statement at the time was, i don't believe they can develop themselves out of a wet paper bag. you know where they would build housing? on toxic dumps, areas that have not been clean. it is very sad. you know every week 10-12 people are dying, people that are sick. i'm not here to stop the project. i want somebody to tell me who put this ami together. it has to be from this department because i haven't been to a hearing where i can testify where the income is in san francisco especially in the l

pleased to bring up a member of the board of supervisors i've known for 20 years as an interim with willie brown supervisor breed has been a strong advocate partnering with the mayor with our public housing not been able to be ready because of the conditions we've already helped 42 families move into those units this is the type things that supervisor breed talks about and knowing what families need to be successful and she's here to talk about the hampton families and many are in the districts i've stood with her another emergency family shuttles supervisor london breed (clapping.) thank you beven and i just want to start by saying when mayor ed lee gave $2 million to san francisco housing authority that was unprecedented and now because of the condition those 42 homelessness families will have a place to live when they move into those places it is their hematoma it didn't become a home without support they need furniture and listen especially and hamming kin has been doing amazing work isle i've got to tell you i couldn't think a better organization for golden to make a better grant rent when

. >> reporter: and then there's the willie brown rack, the former mayor donated some of his designerzers and jackets to the cause. they will be auctioned off online. in the past his collection brought in $10,000. >> the rule that anything he doesn't wear for a year he donates to us and encouraging his friends to do the same. >> reporter: here's a little more singing for you this new year's eve. i'm going to let you listen to this while i give you hard numbers. last year they filled 55 trucks with donated trucks. this year the goal is 60. here we are it's not even noon they filled 40. they are feeling confident they can hit that goal if you load up the car and come donate. they will be here until 5:00 this afternoon but not just in is san francisco but they are doing this in marin and san mateo counties. >>> all right. i love it. >> and the music adds to the amazing feeling. >> a celebration for a good cause. absolutely. speaking of the celebrations our meteorologist is ahead with your new year's eve forecast and plus making 2015 happy and healthy. ate resolution you can start today w

stayed here with the mayor ed lee and had the principle of working with 3 mayors the honorable willie brown when she was in office as mayor and gavin newsom and now my green good friend mayor ed lee i appreciate you being on my terrify today. >> thank you, dr. walker. >> i see commissioner la ambulance has come thank you (clapping.) our last speaker i'm looking right at you our last speaker dr. honeycutt and i have known each other over a decade when us was still a school person to work with her as closely as i had a fantastic wherever i think about how tired i am i remember she goes more than i do i shut up i won't want to do this work without here he's a critic so without further ado dr. veronica honeycutt. >> did someone say shopping who will will be the first one to this store. >> good afternoon to everyone thank you for being here on behalf of the citizens advisory committee for the chpd shipyard i want to thank the illustrious mayor ed lee and the equally illustrious could have i didn't business owner for their steadfast determination to make sure that the shipyard came to flutetion i

the annual toy drive was supported by people including former mayor willie brown and san francisco police chief greg sir. lefty o'doole's has been doing it for years. >>> glide family services will serve thousands today for a christmas dinner. yesterday the church hosted its annual prime rib lunch in san francisco. the house of prime rib due nated 2,000 pounds of meat for the event. some say it's become a second home, especially with family living far away. >> just kind of uplifts me and allows me to live a full life the rest of the year. >> yesterday the church was able to serve some 3,000 people, and that christmas day meal is a real boost, anthony. hopefully we'll all get to experience it at some point today. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. i love what glide's does across the community. everybody coming together this christmas to make the christmas spirit in full effect and very bright. >>> we'll see a bright day today, but we have rain in effect on the east coast. it's light rain, actually residual rain from what we saw the heavier stuff from yesterday. no airport delays,

groups around the city and our chief and other zig aniaries joined the chief and former mayor willie browng part in the festivities. lefty o'doul's wants to collect 10,000 toys for children who otherwise may not have anything under the christmas tree. >> we will be serving all of these all day long, they come in and they are going out. >> do show you there is still cases of toys. >> police and firefighters will deliver toys to children throughout the day and lefty o'doul's will accept gifts all the way until 11 o'clock tonight. >> other san francisco firefighters are also doing their part to spread holiday clear. >> starting at anyone they will team up with santa claus to collect toys from donors. if you would like to contribute stop by the hotel on geary street west of union square and the firefighters toy program started in 1949 and each year it provides toys to 40,000 needy children. >> the holiday season we invite you to join us and give where you live, our parent company disney donated $10,000 to toys for tots to help deserving bay area children have a brighter holiday. you can find o

research came to this state to the efforts of mayor feinstein and then speaker of the assembly willie brown. we've had such a great support from all sectors of the community in battling this disease all the way through. i think this is just another stage. every mayor has contributed. every health commission, every director public health of all put bricks in the wall against this disease and made san francisco really that the global leader in this fight. it just so exciting with barbara garcia, with a commission, with supervisors engaged. the mayor that we can take this final step we can actually see a light at the end of the tunnel. after 30 years of really incredible suffering, but incredible community togetherness to get us to this point where we can talk about no new infections, no one dying of hiv and a limiting the statement is been so onerous for the people living with hiv. so, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you commissioner sanchez. >> i december, and it was an exceptional report. it's an exceptional commitment and again the whole mission is not very. it's a continuum of

so particularly the willy brown mentioned he sees people taking flags in the streets maybe your investigators can look into this. >> good afternoon. >> i'd also like to address the increased insurance requirements. the mta now you are requiring the the higher rating insurance really are you kidding? are you trying to get us out of business? these ride stealing services driving around? we certainly know during phase one they are not insured and i don't think they will ever be. so no matter what anybody says so no surprise they can offer these rides at half of ours and surge pricing ripping people off and allowing these services to operate fully we're the only city in city in the world without any restrictions. the medallion program has been suspended and find out people sold their medallions and they were told it slipped through the cracks how can that about? every day i see drivers that are qualified and they have been passed over and we never knew what the qualifications were actually it was never clear. last night's action at sfo some people may ask what were the cab drivers trying to accom

say yes, i worked on the [inaudible] and the library at ocean view under the leadership of mayor willie brown at that time and we're looking at banks who are supporting us so we strongly want you to keep it going. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> is there anyone else who would like to make public comment on this item only? seeing no one public comment is now closed. >> commissioner mcdonnell. >> i'm not sure if we're ready for a motion, so i have one more comment but i would also lead into -- >> well, let me say before you do that i want to join the chorus of commissioners and others thank you for the service on the task force. it means a great deal and very much appreciated. mr. ginsburg. >> i wanted to thank you do mcdonnell for all the time you spent on this and from my friends at merced heights and edna they have been -- you can be persistent and do that pleasantly and not pleasantly and thank you for your pleasant persistence and steadfastness on getting this playground done. >> commissioner mcdonnell. >> yes thank you. so one of the wonderful children that ms. james described getti

willie brown will be talking about that. >> first we'll look at the weather. >> let's take a live look outside right now. this is a shot of the bay bridge. partly cloudy this morning and take a look at your conditions in concord, 58 right now. 52 in livermore. warmer in san francisco. it is 58 degrees. a look at your headlines today. areas of dense fog this morning as you just saw. cloudy, though, this afternoon. we're in for a mild one and we have wet weather returning. we'll look at seven-day forecast coming up in a few minutes. >> what started off as a peaceful protest in berkley quickly turned violent. it started around five as roughlyhundred people marched downtown. some smashed windows and vandalized businesses in university avenue and martin luther king junior way. many demonstrators begged the vandals to stop. police deployed tear gas and smoke bombs. two were injured by a large sand bag and brick thrown at them. six people were arrested. >>> as protests against police violence continues, there were more personal observances october constantan island, eric garner's family laid

that trick as old as willie brown. >> that reminds me of the old gavin newsome, whether you like it or not. >>> new opportunities are in the works as the u.s. adjusts to the idea of cuba no longer being off-limits but there are still concerns including some from one local politician who was born there. >> i'm conflicted but i am pleased. >> san francisco district attorney george gascone left cuba with his family at age 13 and visited there last year. >> it's also important to recognize that the cuban government is a tatorship. -- dictatorship. my umpingle went to prison for his union activities. i also recognize what we have been doing for the last 50 years really hasn't worked. >> my hope is by having this kind of opportunity we'll -- will mean in the long term the people of cuba will be better off. >> that is the mayor of berkeley, a city that has been in support of recognizing cuba for the past three decades which is sort of interesting. berkeley is this liberal bastion that they would be in support of a dictatorship. >> it's a generational shift. when they started in their support

but there were people including willie brown who wondered allowed. there were no african-american judges. no black lawyers in california. who were qualified. but you know that's classic jerry brown. just to do something that no one expected him to do and peck ho out of nowhere. >> want to bring it back to san francisco. the city unveiled the bid for the 2024 summer olympics. what stands out about this bid? >> couple things. one it is frugal saying $4.5 billion. compare that to $44 billion china spent on summer games 2008. bay area bid. not just san francisco. the warriors arena. looking ahead to that. san jose. berkeley. and a brand new facility. temporary facility in brisbane. >> want to talk the bay bridge. it would of course be crucial transportation system if the olympics come here to town. the new eastern span has been criticized for faulty engineering and bolts. but this week, official study contradicted that. >> yeah, a state study. looked at, the chronicle and the bee were really doing very difficult investigative reports. rust in places. the

. >> former san francisco mayor willie brown visited cuba many times, most recently in 2011. he says it's about time. >> the whole business this is a communist country frankly made no sense when we were doing business full-time with china, full-time with russia, full-time with every other country in the world. no matter what their frame of government. >> coming up at 5:30 on "world news tonight with david muir" david muir sits down with president obama in an exclusive interview about this historic move. >>> people at mobile home parks on the peninsula are still drying out after last week's flooding. and the rain we had yesterday, too. this one on bayshore road in redwood city was evacuated during the downpour. in all, two in redwood city and one in belmont were just swamped. now they are getting some help. abc 7 news reporter carolyn tyler is live in belmont with the story. >> reporter: the families living here in belmont at this mobile home park were evacuated as well. they are still displaced but now the belmont community is reaching out to try to make their lives a bit eas

. >> that was from the police chief and mayor willie brown. >>> the san francisco police department fell short in its toy drive and that's why lefty or duells decided to step in and help. this was the 14th year of the toy drive. i hope your kids are waking up this morning and getting everything they want for christmas. we see it every year people rushing around stores trying to get the last-minute present under the tree. because santa can't buy everything and we know mom and dad do a lot. some of the stores are even open today, even right now so at 6:12 a.m. and i guess if you really need to and the kids are still asleep, go now. so where can you go? denny's? mcdonald's? pizza hut? a pizza under the tree? i have to tell you, walgreens is open, add walgreens everyone knows walgreens has everything. so i'm going to keep it down right now, ... go to walgreens they have everything you get a gift card everything you need. there are a few other stores open so go to where website at kron4.com for full list and i recommend you do that asap. we have what's more had on our christmas day edition of

see the police chief who is here, the fire chief, and right here you may see the former mayor willie brown they're having a fun time. last chance toy drive. the goal is to collect 10,000 toys on christmas eve. that's what they're trying to take in today from generous people in this community and all these toys that are collected today will go to various groups around san francisco and make sure the kids have a brought christmas. one of the groups that benefits is mo magic and i want to bring you in here. who are you going to give those toys here today? >> we'll be giving toys to some of the public housing developments, we'll get two or three of those. we'll work with some of the programs that i've worked with the kids. >> these are kids that might otherwise wake up on christmas and not have anything under the tree? >> right. and it's great the places are really committed to making sure every kid feels special on christmas day and wakes up with an experience of joy on the holiday season. >> people are rushing around. >> it will be a busty area on union square. what would you like them to th

former san francisco mayor, willie brown's daughter sidney was also singing backup. >> much more aheade abc7 sunday morning news. north korea responds to accusations the country was behind the sony hack attack. and the new watchdog group set up to keep an eye on gas prices. why they are concerned about what might happen after the 1st of the year. you've been part of this family for as long as i can remember. and you just mean so much to all of us. the holidays wouldn't be the same without your crescent rolls. we got you a little something. we got you jeans. it's about time. pipin' hot pillsbury crescent rolls. make your holidays pop! [ female announcer ] holiday cookies are a big job. everything has to be just right. perfection is in the details. ♪ pillsbury cookie dough. make the holidays pop! >> live from the kgo tv broadcast center. this is abc7 news. >> welcome back. we are starting this half-hour with a look at the whether with our meteorologist lisa argen. >> hi, carolyn. good morning, everyone. we have very mild temperatures. you may have noticed plenty of upper 50s and low 60s.

former san francisco mayor, willie brown's daughter sidney was also singing backup. >> much more aheadrning news. north korea responds to accusations the country was behind the sony pictures hack. and the new watchdog group set up to keep an eye on gas prices. why they are concerned about what might happen after the 1st of the year. >> welcome back. we are starting this half-hour with a look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. >> carolyn, it is foggy and damp outside. we are looking at the exploratorium camera where the buildings are lit up nice and pretty, but you can see the clouds and mild temperatures. it's 59 in fairfield, 58 concord. santa rosa, good morning, light showers at 55. most of the fog has been situated in oakland but we have delays of 46 minutes at sfo. and the coast is very, very foggy. santa rosa six-mile visibility and hayward just two miles. so here's the plan. we will hold on to all the low-level moisture, isolated showers, mist, fog throughout the morning hours. then by noontime breaks in the overcast. we will get into some sunshine. this is a look

. >> willie brown and o duels.ope to collect 10,000 toys, that's how many they got last year and set a record. >>> still ahead tonight at 6:00, what's in a name. why some of yosemite's most famous lankmarks could soon have new names. >> as protests pile up over the use of police force, will the anger turn to action? we look at the critical criteria for promoting change. >>> and an honor adam sandler won't be proud. the list he just topped. we'll go back outside to some holiday lights in palo alto. this is on fulton street near walter hayes elementary school. we'll be right back. >>> former president george h.w. bush remains hospitalized tonight after experiencing shortness of breath. an ambulance rushed the 90-year-old to a houston hospital last night. a spokesman says he's staying there mostly as a precaution. a year ago, bush had a two-month stay at the same hospital for bronchitis. a white house spokesman says president obama and his family have sent their well wishes to the former president and his family. >>>

willie brown's daughter sidney was also singing backup. >> much more ahead on the abc7 sunday morning north korea responds to accusations the country was behind the sony pictures hack. and the new watchdog group set up to keep an eye on gas prices. why they are concerned about what might happen after the 1st ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac. ♪ ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac. ♪ ♪ look here, daddy, i'm never coming back... ♪ discover the new spirit of cadillac and the best offers of the season. lease this 2015 standard collection ats for around $329 a month. >> welcome back. we are starting this half-hour with a look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. >> hi, carolyn. we have mist and drizzle, light showers. it's situated above all of that moisture. so we aren't picking it up. we also have fog to speak of. from santa rosa into oakland and hayward where it is damp out there and also around san francisco. the airport is at 60 degrees. five mile visibility. just a half-mile in oakland. three mile santa rosa. actually the mix questioning are getting with

the annual toy drive was supported by a lot of folks, including former mayor willie brown and san francisco'sice chief greg sur. >> the creis charity drive has going for 14 years. >>> the bay area is showing its holiday spirit by giving back to those in need as we're reporting. "today in the bay" stephanie truong joining us where volunteers are busy cooking up christmas meals. merry christmas, stephanie. >> reporter: talking about tradition, we're talking about more than 40 years of a christmas meal served here. >> the glide memorial church one of the organizations getting involved trying to help folks out with meals today. we lost our live shot with stephanie. we'll try to get her back soon, though. >>> well, if that christmas ham does not go as planned or you just want something easy, several restaurants are staying open today. denny's will be serving breakfast, lunch and dinner all day long. applebee's and some boston markets will be open, too. but times and locations vary so call ahead before you head out. golden corral and ruby tuesday restaurants will also be open today. and if you need