we've all heard that it's fun to stay at the ymca.york, is making sure that theme holds true. this is our "slice of life." ♪ >> the harlem ymca in new york city is a treasured institution where children come to swim, learn, play and make new friends. tiffany park is the executive director. it's also where young people are paired with progressionals who offer mentorship and career advice. >> welcome to the 42nd annual national salute to black achievers in the industry. >> this year, they put a spotlight on young achievers while raising more than $600,000. that's no easy feat in this economy. >> the industry is a circle of hope. we take seventh grade and eighth grade and ninth grade students and link them to mentors. the mentors are the achievers honored by the corporation. they are our achievers of the evening who are on stage. those are role models these children can look up to. >> since 1971, the black achievers in industry program is used to show african-american diversity in the corporate world. >> we're placing 20 students who hav

. >> it is the move to improve class at the bayview hunters point ymca.and stretching right alongside for classmate is gail bishop, a 12 you're breast cancer survivor. it is hard to believe that this was gail the day before. at a hospital getting her fourth round of chemotherapy. >> i am not a person to sit around and complain that i had breast cancer. >> she was diagnosed with cancer in 2000. the more questions that she had about the disease, the more she realized there were not enough resources in her community. >> i wanted to know why we, as african-american women, why we did not want to talk about this disease. >> so 12 years ago she founded the first chapter of the sisters network right here in the bay view. as part of the national organization for african american breast cancer survivor. >> i wanted an organization where, yes we would do things that can help us grow. things that can help us teach us how to eat better. teach us that we need to exercise, things mentally, that we can do to help ourselves. >> in addition to the weekly support meetings,

and coming up, eating healthier with the ymca.al invention convention to show us how they're doing it. it's 8:20 now. >>> the producers of "american idol" must be psychic. >> here's why. this is no joke, earlier this week you and i were talking, tony, about where they should go with the direction for the third judge for the next season. we decided it should be someone with a country background music. sure enough, the latest rumors say the show is setting its sights on superstar brad paisley. one idol insider says bringing in a country star as a judge makes sense, since the most successful winner to date, carrie underwood is a country singer. if it's true, he would join randy jackson and newcomer mariah carey. in full disclosure, i did say garth brooks. >> i still think would be a good choice. but that's a good choice, too. >> great choice. >>> more backlash for chick-fil- a. the president reiterated his stance against gay marriage earlier this month. the mayor of boston is outraged and sent a letter to him stating -- >>> it appear

to the extent that we can coordinated -- and we have in the past with the ymca and other organizations -- bring the services on site and make sure they are available for some time to work with the folks affected. the lack of some of the services at the housing authority site has been a real challenge for people because they do not necessarily access them elsewhere. sometimes with the youth, when the summer jobs were being provided, there was an assumption that they should go and look at some computer somewhere. not all young people have access to computers. there had to be all of this coordination around making sure that the huge -- the youth were qualified. i mean, just really basic things like having the application available to them so they could apply. then we coordinated some services there when we had the people from the ymca coming, you know, culturally competent people, people who looked like they lived there, who had support circles where people were talking about what they felt prevented them from succeeding in school or the various barriers that the youth had. it took a coup

francis episcopal, e ymca children from 7:00 to 8:40. i think that is the bell to say stop talking, is it not? but we ask that you consider our concerns. we do want to be good neighbors, but we are worried. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is john mitchell. i am a member of ninth church. i am a parent of a 7-year-old child. i know what it is like, finding a preschool for little ones in this city. it is very difficult, particularly in our neighborhood. i live across ocean, within 200 yards of this facility. i am chairman of the building and grounds committee. we have wonderful relations with the balboa terrace association, and we want to maintain that. they are our friends, and we are part of the community. my feeling is there is no material change that will take place. as was mentioned previously, the real problem is parking, as someone who is there literally seven days a week. a lot of the problem which we are having is people that are parking and leave their cars to jump on muni and go into the city. the teachers at the elementary

. >>> from trash in fashion to rocking robots, the ymca thingamajig convention is putting kids to theest. our own melanie alnwick has been in upper marlboro this morning. >> reporter: welcome back to the ymca thingamajig invention convention here in upper marlboro, maryland. you are looking at some of the talent competition. they're practicing and warming up. these kids have made it through their local ymca levels and they'll be showing off their talents and what a better environment to do it in. this is something that -- this is really fun. this is called trashin' fashion. they're learning about recycling, not only are they recycling, they are making fashions and clothing out of this. let me see what we've got here. come here. show me your dress. tell me what you made. >> i made a dress because i love dresses and when i was throwing all my trash bags away, i thought i can make one -- i can make a dress, because i love dresses. >> reporter: little cat walk. let's see it. show it off, honey! that is great. that is absolutely wonderful. it's not just about fashion. it's also about inven

. >> it is the move to improve class at bayview hunters point ymca.and stretching alongside a for classmates is gail bishop. fate 12 you're breast cancer survivor. it is hard to believe that this was gail the day before. at a hospital getting her fourth round of chemotherapy. >> i not a person to sit around and say " i have breast cancer ... ". >> she was diagnosed with cancer in 2000. more questions that she had about the disease, the more she realized there was not enough resources in her community. >> i wanted to know why we, as african-american women, why we did not want to talk about this disease. >> so 12 years ago she found the first chapter of the sisters network right here in the bayview. it is part of the national organization for african american breast cancer survivor is. >> i wanted an organization where, yes we would do things that can help us grow. it things that can help us teach us how to eat better. teach us that we need to exercise. things, mentally, that we can do to help ourselves. >> in addition to weekly support meetings she tea

the ymca is set to operate them but said the economy has played a role in keeping them closed. >> it'sittle sad to see a pool full of green water. we started about go weeks ago looking for $17,000. >> about an hour ago we talked to the director who said that the ymca now has the money to run those pools. > >>> the 49ers asked a judge for a temporary restraining order to freeze $30 million first earmarked for the stadium. the city wants to redirect the money. the 49ers argue it's legally their money because it was set aside by voters in 2010 to help build their stadium. the city of santa clara where the stadium is being built agrees. >> the 2022 olympics will not be in tahoe. the hoped to be considered for the winter olympics in 2022n is video from the last time they were held there in 1960. today the united states committee said it won't bid for the games but look at the possible bid for the 2026 games. >> coming up next on ktvu channel 2news at six. >> they are common household products popular with teens for all the wrong reasons. the dangerous game that every parent should know abou

and from a local ymca to the world's biggest stage, the bay area olympians who have developed a rocktar following. >>> i'm jeff ranieri, some of the warmest weather in two weeks here across the east bay. we're expecting widespread sunshine with the fourth of july coming our way. some of you having fire works celebrations, we'll have a mild night with mainly clear conditions. we'll have more coming up. >>> in house matters tonight, it's been called a major milestone in the fight against hiv. today the fda aroved the first home test. it's as simple as a quick mouth swab and a 20-minute wait. the test is said to be no more complicated than a home pregnancy test. officials say it's about 97% accurate. the test will only be used as a screening tool and that a positive test should be confirmed by a doctor. >>> researchers in israel say they have developed marijuana that can be used to treat certain ailments without getting patients high. they created it by reducing the amounts of psycho active properties. they say the drug is an alternative for patients who work during the day and want to

we do that recapped -- capital grants, mostly in district 11 through the ymca, the lutheran church through supporting some organizations, such as the case management services for the omi begin that you heard about today. is it enough? i would not say so. you already know that we lost about 20% of our development block grant funds. we wish we could do more, but we know we cannot support it anyway that we want to. -- in a way that we want to. we do not have a specific area for violence prevention. we have tried our best not to overlap with other departments. you ever heard about the great work that dph does. we do try to find areas that support the general infrastructure through community and neighborhood centers, domestic violence, homelessness, areas of financial education, those areas that were to ameliorate the root causes of violence. -- that work to ameliorate the root causes of violence. you know some of the work that we do true compass point, to the california community loan fund, after our staff, three bta capacity building that we can offer to different organizations. mostly for di

breeze will be cut off and temperatures will start to warm up, especially in the east bay with day ymca highs -- daytime highs expected, upper 90s, speaking of hot stop, the gilroy garlic festival opens up. temperatures warm into the 70s by 4:00, mid-80s, and and then back the temperatures off later in the early evening. here's a look at the highs for sunday. a few degrees warmer. 80 for san san jose. at the coast, hopefully a little more clearing. half moon bay, 62. the peninsula looks terrific. san francisco, 66. hazy afternoon sunshine. 80, petaluma. 82, napa. oakland, 72. 77, fremont. entire east bay, temperatures, upper 80s, northeastern '90s. >> the next seven days, this trinsdz going to be warmer temperatures, especially tuesday, wednesday, thursday, inland highs, mid-up to ever 90s. le 0s around the -- 80s sd around the bay. all in all a nice next couple of days. >> ama: thank you, leigh. a nice date for baseball but the evil dodgers are in town. >> mike: very good, evil dodgers. dodger hacked away at the giants' game lead, winning their second straight today family difor the gi

they didn't let you in the ymca. >> just hurt. >> jimmy: it really hurt. yeah.op. [ light laughter ] >> it's weird we never met. >> jimmy: it's weird we never met. exactly. yeah. you're staying at a hotel now? >> well, i'm staying at the -- you know what's weird, they don't tell you about the sheraton. >> jimmy: oh, the sheraton. >> the key word is share. they ask for you to share a room with another family. >> jimmy: is that right? i did not know that when you go to a sheraton. is that true? >> well, it's -- i got a dentist and his lovely family. [ light laughter ] children. it's more cramped, but it's half the price. >> jimmy: oh, that's worth the deal. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> i got some dental work done. >> jimmy: is that right? you don't look like you're in pain. congrats on being inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. [ cheers and applause ] you deserve it. >> thank you. >> jimmy: you deserve it. gosh. >> well, the weird thing about that, what i heard is that i was going to be in the hall of fame i said, "hall of fame," i says, "how long to we have to w

that looks like inner-city youth, ymca programs, as well as the case management program. i would like to invite a program director as well as the director of justice program to answer any questions or provide expansion on any requests. >> my name is denise coleman, and i am from clark, and thank you for giving me this opportunity to present before you today. some of you i know, and some of you i do not. i wanted to start off by giving you an idea of and why it was created. there was nothing at the front end of the system to intervene in a young person's life, so what we do is we provide interventions of the point of our rest, so when the kid is arrested -- the point of arrest, so when the kid is arrested, we do an intervention, and through the assessment determine a case plan, and through that we will follow of to help about a young person may better decisions for themselves region to help the young person make better decisions for themselves, to do whatever needs to be done with respect to getting them back in school, going through expulsion hearings, so we go through th

i'm here at the mount vernon ymca.e are inviting children of all ages to come in and hang out with me and get to know me a little bit and also just to be educated on being safe around the water. >> the statistics are alarming. ten people drown every day in the united states. it's the second leading cause of death for children under 14. unfortunately, 60 to 70% of black children and hispanic children don't know how to swim, making them three times more likely to drown. >> on top of that, if your parent doesn't know how to swim there's a pretty good statistic you're not going -- your child isn't going to learn how to swim either. >> but make a splash is the big push in 47 states. their goal is to get kids prepared for the water and summertime fun. >> there are three main barriers that stops a lot of kids from swimming. the number one is fear. whether it's a generational thing passed down from their parents. the second one is physical appearance. a lot of kids -- mostly females don't want to get into the water because of

the ymca, could well, somebody like that. you are overlooking african- americans. how many homicides have the police department's stop? open cases, open cases. commander holder, god bless him, years ago, he would kick in doors and get stuff done but he was kicked out. this is by design. they do not one but people here. all the development happening, there is no revenue. all they are doing with that money, why is there no revenue- generating businesses? they have a downside because they expect the black people to be there. it is a charade. bring in some private funding and let us get something going

there is a ymca program year- round we are impacted by. the other issue in our neighborhood is street cleaning. we only have street cleaning every other week. with the amount of people going through our neighborhood, there is a large amount of trash. at the church, they spend a lot of time picking up trash -- fast food, etc.. we are impacted by that as well. parking permits -- we do have permit parking. we have parents backing of their students. there is enough parking limit, but it is not enforced. we see a lot of people picking up their children who may be parked there an hour, trying to get a spot. during those times, picking up their children, if there was an emergency that have been, there would be no way a vehicle could get through that. thank you so much for your time. president fong: any additional public comment? commissioners? the public portion is closed. commissioner borden: it sounds like this project can be done, and potentially, speaking with our commissioners. there are not any conditions to traffic congestion or flow on th

the ymca, could well, somebody like that. you are overlooking african- americans. how many homicides have the police department's stop? open cases, open cases. commander holder, god bless him, years ago, he would kick in doors and get stuff done but he was kicked out. this is by design. they do not one but people here. all the development happening, there is no revenue. all they are doing with that money, why is there no revenue- generating businesses? they have a downside because they expect the black people to be there. it is a charade. bring in some private funding and let us get something going to help these kids get their life going, show them how to run businesses. we have city departments looking over our shoulder. we are trying to be a positive influence but they want to look at us by the numbers. we are superseding the numbers but they will not come up with any creative stuff. we are going to help you all do this. we are looking for you, supervisors. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker please. >> i am the coach executive director of inner

chinatown, the ymca in the bayview, we have just established relationships in the tenderloin. and we're looking for more. and clearly with all of the activity in district 11, the omi and sunnydale are districts that we are interested in reaching out to as well. supervisor avalos: thank you. we appreciate your efforts to go into those neighborhoods. >>supervisor olague: and we need services in the western addition and still more. >> we are reaching out to more communities. supervisor olague: thank you. >> there is a question as to whether there's anything additional that the city can do. one area i want to raise has to do with our relocation services and the ability -- many of the individuals on the relocation services are also on public housing or getting public assistance. the conversion from relocating to relocating with public assistance, we could use some help with that. it is a difficult road to navigate for individuals, and even more difficult for agencies. supervisor olague: i have a question. can you be specific about what type of help you would need in terms of reloca

if you take the kids, maybe the ymca for the afternoon.sure they have the water bottle with them. dress in light cotton as it will be hot. lots of sunshine with little marine layer. yesterday we woke up full deck of clouds all the way through your inland cities and that's why yesterday was so nice in the afternoon and evening hours. especially down in san jose. today hotter by 5 to 8 degrees but we're starting without the best of the best with. our overnight lows have pen on track with seasonal averages. 61 degrees, 55 to start out in san francisco, 46 in novato and 61 degrees in sunnyvale where we're in the upper 50s here in san jose. so as we head throughout the day, temperatures on the mild side for first part of the day by noon getting hot possibly too hot for outdoor activities if you want to go for a job better in the early hours. mostly cloudy conditions by 11 a.m. that means great beach weather 74 degrees in santa cruz today. 84 in los gatos, 83 in oakland. we're talking about the 90s, 95 degrees in livermore today. so it remains w

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other community-based contracts include funding for the ymca, the boys and girls club, and catholic charities which keeps our child care services open. the remaining expenses are work order-driven with work orders with gs, dpw, pc, and the city attorney's office. next year, we will focus on quality of life issues. a number of enhancements are proposed, in addition to improving safety and risk. including residential street paving projects. funding for youth to attempt -- to attend camp mendicity no overnight. the key priorities for the staff include the conveyance and transfer of the first phase, agreements for the expansion of the marina, and to begin their ramp improvement projects. again, we received no funds from the city to meet these obligations and capital needs. i request your approval of our bet -- of our budget. staff is available for any questions you may have. sueprvisor kim: thank you. sorry. i had a quick question. in terms of the relocation of the residents of treasure island, which i know we have been planning for for a long time, i was curious, with financing for the developme

that looks like inner-city youth, ymca programs, as well as the case management program. i would like to invite a program director as well as the director of justice program to answer any questions or provide expansion on any requests. >> my name is denise coleman, and i am from clark, and thank you for giving me this opportunity to present before you today. some of you i know, and some of you i do not. i wanted to start off by giving you an idea of and why it was created. there was nothing at the front end of the system to intervene in a young person's life, so what we do is we provide interventions of the point of our rest

and while the average swimmer doing the crawl down at the ymca can propel themselves around four feetr stroke, gold medalist rebecca soni goes 50% farther. and when our friends at espn's "sport science" put sensors on her hands, they found out why. each stroke generates up to 24 pounds of force, and while the average person has a stronger side that causes them to veer off-course, her stroke is almost perfectly balanced. over in track and field, jesse williams can jump higher than any person on the planet, almost two feet higher than he is tall, thanks to a step that generates 1,200 pounds of force, almost enough to lift his own body weight eight times. and his technique pushes the laws of physics, spinning so fast, and arching so far, 140 degrees, his center of gravity technically stays outside of his body. >> it's tough to beat gym mist like gabbie. she has spun around that bar almost three times per second. and it's still able to relocate that narrow target. 2,200s of a second. >> but before they get to run and jump, these superhumans get to march into that stadium behind me. direct

live shot of 101 southbound past the marin ymca, lucas valley road into the civic center area trafficno issues towards the golden gate, a little fog over the wall , no visibility issues traffic light on the -- light on the golden gate bridge through and into san francisco, san jose virtually no traffic headed 280 northbound this is 17 junction coming out of the santa cruz mountains, san jose into cupertino light and no issues there. wanted to look at mass transit, taking everybody checking in on time, on schedule, great way to commute this wednesday morning, mild so far. >>> :39. >> that means trade something underway on wall street. bernanke will be testifying today on capitol hill some attention will be on that live report from the new york stock exchange, straight right now the dow is down 25 points. >>> first, new health update from "good morning america's" robin roberts as she battles her latest health care. -- health scare. >>> whether it is with chicken or fish get ready to raise a glass of wine. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> welcome back. 6:44.

. >>> the ymca has a new breastfeeding policy, all thanks to some action by outraged moms in north carolinazen women held a nursing-in act. thurp yet set bay a worker asked a mother to stop nursing her baby at the center. the y says it will now provide a comfortable environment for breastfeeding mothers. >> we're thankful that the nursing mothers were able to bring this to our attention. we realize we had some inconsistencies in some of our nursing policies, so it's really helped us to be able to look at those across all of our branches. >> this is an important issue, and it's good they're handling it this way. hopefully this will be the start of something really great for breast 2k7 feeding women. >> there would be a national breastfeeding event here in washington, august 4th on the mall. >>> there's more to come on "news4 at 4." >>> how santa got into trouble for taking a trip to dilled anyworld. >>> the politician using the song "i'm sexy and i know it" you. >>> let's check out the deal on living social. you pay $56 for a two-person dinner or lunch. it's a $112 value. the deal comes with

this shows an after school program offered by the south valley family ymca.tion. this video shows a partnership between san jose state university and the most holy church in santa clara. it also won an honorable mention. now we can tell you all the contest winners will be invited to the white house to meet with the first lady. >> happening now, a wild fire happening in the sierra foothills forced more than two dozen evacuations. it started around 3:30 yesterday afternoon in placer county 40 miles northeastern of auburn. this is new video of the fire in to the news room. triple-digit temperatures, low humidity, and dry conditions caused the fire to spread quickly. the fire has burned 2200 acres and is about 20% contained. a much larger fire is burning in amendecino national forest. the fire is 35% contained. firefighters hope to have the fire fully contained by next friday. >>> two suspects have been arrested on suspicion for stealing copper wire. they found the two suspects friday morning hiding inside the building. officers say the suspects had wire pulling

his mom used to bring him to the local ymca and take it to the hoop. >> getting bumped by another onebut i always wondered like why am i doing this? at the end of the day, it was for my own good. it helps me to get balanced in the area and try to finish with the contact, year mom. >> my dad's more of the football guy, but he played basketball as well. >> my mom was the one who taught me how to shoot and play basketball. >> were you the mama's boy? >> not really. actually i am now. i didn't used to be. she had used to favor all my other brothers, but she'll probably get mad if she sees this. it will be funny. >> love the kid. he's an artist, he designed his own tattoos, a 3.8 gpa during his first year at florida. his two older brothers -- >> they sound kind of rough. >> they'll be living with him. nobody will be messing with bradley beal. he hayes built-in bodyguards. i love the kid. he was pleasant to talk to. we'll have more with him on sunday on "sports final." >>> where dwight howard will end up again is anyone's guess. venus williams is in town on business and to play for the wash

the ymca's thing ama jig convention is all about building muscles and minds.e are live in prince georges county with more. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] virtual wallet can help you be that person who's good with money. see what's free to spend. move money with a slide. save with a shake. feel good about your decisions. >> reporter: where can you get fitness, science, fun and nutrition in one place? it is the thingamajig convention. it is better than ever in its 18th year. kids are competing in obstacle courses. they're also exercising their body, too. they're trying out bottle rockets, a cool invention competition they're also having. i think we are going to have some fun here today. it is free and open to the public. people can come on down. >> looks like they're going to have a good time. thanks, melanie. good morning to our facebook fan of the day now. good morning to robert smith. he writes, the crew here always helps get his day started. is that an air force uniform? >> i'm not sure. >> looks like it is. anyway, congratulations, robert. thanks for being our fa

ymcas mostly look the other way.d'angelo settled outside a hospital emergency room. >> d'angelo coates: and we knew that, through being there, we could at least brush our teeth in the morning, go to the bathroom if we need to in the middle of the night. and i'm sitting on the cooler in between our vehicle and another vehicle just to make sure they're okay. >> pelley: standing guard all night. d'angelo coates: yep. >> pelley: d'angelo, what does a man think about, sitting on a cooler all night with his family in the car next to him? >> d'angelo coates: at that moment, i guess i feel less than a dad, i guess... i guess i can say, or as a husband, because i'm not able to provide for my family. >> victoria coates: going into that car really did something to me. i felt helpless. i felt like i couldn't help my children. >> pelley: i am willing to bet that the whole time you were in the car, you didn't cry once, did you? >> victoria coates: uh-uh. >> pelley: not in front of these guys. when it came time to put the girls in