additionally, approximately 250 training exercises, workshops city-wide, have been conducted with first responders and other key city officials and many of these training and exercises have gone well beyond our government agencies. they now agree non-government, a eighth-based, and community- based organizations, businesses, and schools. we have revamped our city's outdoor public warning system, using homeland security funding. and today, there are 109 sirens with voice and tone capabilities located throughout the city. as part of our regular exercise on tuesday afternoons in our afternoon testing, we record announcements that are in english, followed by spanish and chinese in some of the areas that we have also enacted alert, saidsf anaya personal use on a weekly basis, to make sure that things are correctly being sent out to all of our citizens who sign up. that text-based system delivered emergency information to cell phones, pda's, e-mail account, and 16,500 have signed up for a largesf. we had our award winning website, 72hours.org to help create emergency plans, bill disaster

additionally, approximately 250 training exercises, workshops city-wide, have been conducted with first responders and other with first responders and other key city officials and many of

city. been focused on the development of places like central market, which is one of the focus areas of this workshop. without further ado, i'm happy to welcome up to the mike our mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, ed. morning, everyone! welcome here to city hall in san francisco. delighted to join this wonderful opportunity here and council general, thank you very much for bringing a wonderful team from netherlands to help engage us even better and to excite not only us who work here at city hall but our traffic engineers, our bicycle coalition, our educators and all of the bay area guests. we have guests from even san rafael council here as well to share in this experience. as ed mentioned, i am a very big enthusiast but i want to be more than just a cheerleader for this. leah knows this as well. i know that there will be times where we have to challenge ourselveses to go a little further because there are great secrets that we don't know today that will be unleashed. and one of them is going to be our own economy. that there are some great secrets to unleash when we have alternatives to

the city has held street fares in the past but want something more permanent to attract shoppers and new businesses, they are updating their downtown plan and tomorrow at 10:00 ama community workshop city hall. >>> housing activists and a san francisco supervisor came out this morning to support a woman who re-claimed her foreclosed house in the city's bay view district earlier this week. carolyn gauge took back her home on tuesday but said she is not yet live in in it again, representatives from the city urged others to come to them for help. >> this is not a unique situation, it is actually foreclosures have decimated the southeast part of san francisco and what is -- what is not commonly known is it is not just in the southeast part of the city but all across the city and county of san francisco. >> supervisor collin says she is working on legislation to hold lenders accountable when they defraud borrowers. >> good afternoon to you, it is going to be a cool brisk one outside our door for the afternoon today. we are looking at temperatures again anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees below normal. just a few residual clouds up over the higher elevations. but this storm now pretty much ou

. >> the city is holding three workshops. the encourage residents to come down and give their input about the budget. the first of the workshops is next wednesday. reporting live at city hall. >> as of 11:00 tonight there may be a new mega millionaire. the power of jackpot is up to $245 million. -- powerball jackpot is up to $245 million. the last winning ticket was bought at wine world on september 7. your chances at winning do not stop there. >> just this year, 2011, we have had 11 second-tier power baball winners. >> your odds of winning the grand prize is 192.2 million. >> baby, baby, baby. some alarming accusations against justin bieber. >> hundreds of students are moving into their floating dormitory. [screaming] >> this local soldier makes it home early, six months early. we until you hear more about his emotional surprise when 11 news comes back. >> we are monitoring what is going on at the occupied baltimore wall street protests. right now it does look like much is happening, but we do have a crew on the ground. the

workshop. we did this in other cities in the u.s. and we will be in that other big california city, los angeles, in a few other days. thursday, and -- thursday and friday. and i was convinced quite easily about the use to have these kind of work shops in l.a. but i thought san francisco, there's so much going on already. we had leah and for almost nine months in amsterdam and chairman david chiu and others for a week. and there is such great organization here and there are so many ideas. there are so many professional little here already about bike infrasucture and the future of biking. but it will come down to implementation and it's perhaps a bit like riding the wiggle. you have to push hard and hopefully we might be a sort of additional support, a sort of small electricity motor for you to push your -- up that hill. and it will come down to implementation and leadership and it's great to have a sort of down to earth approach during these two days. working in teams on i think three important places in town. market, mid market. ther

we have talked about cosponsoring some water workshops on the east side of the city and we have invited members of the cac to work at a time to make sure the presentations are rolled out. that is dividing of commentary and present -- and questions and is presented in a way that engages people and gets feedback and hopefully we will be working on those over the next couple of months. a second thing i wanted to note is this is the passage of the community benefits policy. one thing that i have thought, the environmental justice policy adopted a number of years before that falls under that same rubric. i have been talking with some of the members and we are going to be establishing an ad hoc committee benefit subcommittee, transforming the subcommittee that had been on hiatus to work with juliet and work with other staff to try to provide guidance and then could. right now, the san francisco foundation has worked on a lot of community benefit steffens we don't have any meetings set up yet. that is something i think we will be seeing more of in 2012. we have a meeting tonight embargoing to

city farmers' market. we collaborated in doing workshops for after-school programs and supported housing to provide a welcome to the market as well as give people nutrition information so that they can learn how to cook the healthy foods they are able to get here. it has been a wonderful opportunity to highlight how this market brings people together in a way that makes it possible for them to remain healthy and live better lives. we also offer tours of the farmers' market so that people can meet the farmers and learn about the things we have available. we look forward to future collaboration. i want to thank the farmers' market and staff for all their hard work. [applause] >> that concludes our formal program. please go shopping. get all the wonderful food that is here. enjoy the music and activities planned. the day is not over. just this part of the program is over. thank you very much. ♪ please tell me somebody didn't just drop th there? ...it's like a foot away from the trash can. man, i'm like this close to throwing it away myself. i don't blame you. i mean who would...

workshop. we do rely on recreation and parks had to do recreation in the city. we do things like golf courses but we do not do things like rowing clubs and those kind of activities. that is a larger policy call that you have to make. president moran: and they are actively -- and there typically ancillary to what we are doing it. perhaps we can do a few things in terms of staff work. one is work on what it would like to tighten that up. the other is some discussion as to, if we were to take this on, what would it demand of us and what other policy questions would pose? how would we deal with a foreign purpose within our structure and how would the rate-payers be protected? that could come back to us whenever it could come back to us and the commission could review it. it may be very clear from what you come up with what the answer is. >> we can do that. if i could clarify a few statements that the public brought up -- this does -- the mou, has written right now, says any funds earned at the lake merced golf club and would stay with him like merced. everyone agree

. @ >>> pop singer lady gaga's holiday workshop is up for everybody to see at barney's in new york cityrobin roberts got this look at everything gaga. the flagship of the madison avenue store has turned all 5,500 square feet of its floor over to the singer. inside a candy shop, closet for clothes and accessories, jewelry and cosmetics. some of the profits will go to a very good cause. >> part of this collaboration with barney's has been centered around giving 25% of all of the gifts sold to the foundation which is my mother and it's charity focused around inspiring bravery and kindness in youth all over the world. >> you can watch lady gaga's thanksgiving special with katie couric here on abc 7 this thursday at 9:30 p.m.. >>> >> we'll be sure to shop there right? >> i don't know. >> you know somebody who would like that? >> i'm not sure would it work for me. i could try. let's look outside. i wonder if she has anything for rain? goes to a good cause. let's move on. 11:19, northbound from is -- from sutro tower, most of the sprinkles today have been in the north bay where i think they wi

workshop. it's going to be on three critical areas for our city. polk street, dewiggle and central market. our expectations are very high. we're very grateful to the nether land consulate and the folks who have come here, some of who you'll hear from this morning for bringing their time and expertise and lover and passion for cycling to us here in san francisco. we do have a great advocate for cycling here, although sometimes he says he needs a little bit of an electric motor to get up that hill by his house. he is 100% supportive of increasing the bicycle use in this city. been focused on the development of

the city is holding three workshops, giving citizens the opportunity to weigh in on the budget. the first is next wednesday at edmonson high school. new this morning, election day is less than a week away and already accusations of fraud. according to the "baltimore sun," a baltimore city councilwomanless the city's election board mailed out incorrect absentee ballots to voters in her district. she claims at least seven voters in her seventh district received sixth district ballots in the mail. two-term councilwoman is running a write-in campaign for the november 8 election to try to keep her seat in the council, which is now for a democrat. >> thousands of u.s. military veterans are joining occupy wall street. they say corporate contractors in iraq made big money while the troops defending them came home and now can't make a living. former u.s. military men and women marched in the formation at the new york stock exchange, chanting, "we are the 99%." meanwhile, more than 1,000 anti-wall street protesters gathered in oakland for a series of demonstrations. sporadic vandalism was

. >>> pop singer lady gaga's holiday workshop is up for everybody to see at barney's in new york cityrobin roberts got this look at everything gaga. the flagship of the madison avenue store has turned all 5,500 square feet of its floor over to the singer. inside a candy shop, closet for clothes and accessories, jewelry and cosmetics. some of the profits will go to a very good cause. >> part of this collaboration with barney's has been centered around giving 25% of all of the gifts sold to the foundation which is my mother and it's charity focused around inspiring bravery and kindness in youth all over the world. >> you can watch lady gaga's thanksgiving special with katie couric here on abc 7 this thursday at 9:30 p.m.. >>> >> we'll be sure to shop there right? >> i don't know. >> you know somebody who would like that? >> i'm not sure would it work for me. i could try. let's look outside. i wonder if she has anything for rain? goes to a good cause. let's move on. 11:19, northbound from is -- from sutro tower, most of the sprinkles today have been in the north bay where i think they wi

and the city departments are also involved, with feet stakeholders. they have had committee workshops like the work force development, with the neighborhood meetings there, and the police department that supports them. you have a lot of non-physical labors that will also be impacted. they support the opposition of this development. i would also like to mention that we have not also been part of the conversation and we would like this input, and the owners should get their names and numbers from the organization. this is a community-wide opposition. and i was also like to let you know that we have over 2885 signed petitions against this development, and we will have over 3000 in the near future, thank you. >> if you heard your name, come up. here are two other names that came up -- >> i represent arriba huntos. personally, i know workfare -- -- work there, arriba juntos, to serve others. being an employee is a great experience and we serve the people, and most of them -- they want to get a job and they want to -- new immigrants, low- income. they have language barriers and are not fami

. >> the city is holding three workshops for citizens are encouraged to provide their input. the first is next wednesday at edmonson high school. >> a federal grand jury has indicted nearly two dozen alleged members of a prison gang on racketeering charges. this gang is called dead man incorporated, or d.m.a.i. police say they're behind violent activity inside and outside of maryland prisons, including baltimore county, baltimore city, and anne arundel county. 22 people are listed on the indictment, which includes four murders back in 2009. the defendants face federal racketeering, murder, drugs, and firearms charges. meanwhile, the man suspected of murdering his wife and son before fleeing to north carolina is back in maryland. 45-year-old curtis lopez was extradited back to montgomery county on wednesday. he's charged in the murder of 51-year-old jane mclean. officials also expect to charge lopez in the murder of her son, 11-year-old william mclean. his body was recovered from a wooded area in clarksburg after a six-day search. >> this week's massive fire that destroyed the

city leaders their plans for the downtown area. and some of those who attended today's community workshop called for more walking areas. thers say it's important to make the downtown more of an entertainment center with restaurants and theaters. other suggested that the city should work with cal state east bay to put student and faculty housing downtown. they are hoping to get money from the sustainable communities grant from the state to further fund the plans. >>> a young woman is in the hospital after she was struck by a tractor-trailer in petaluma this morning. 23-year-old heather kotbos was local couldn'tos heather couldn'to was ton to the hospital. >>> the gmez no problems have been reported because of the issue. >>> former 49 terrell owens may get a knock on the door from police. an arrest warrant was issued in contra costa city after owens failed to show up for a child support payment hearing. the free-agent wide receiver tried to reschedule the october 24th hearing himself to attend a televised workout that might land him a contract. owens spokesperson says his new attorneys will deal with the warrant. he is tr