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And all the president s critics. How do you make obamas eyes light up. President obama reading mean tweets for laughs friday, march 13, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Matt and natalie have the morning off. We have carson and tamron here and 10,000 of our closest friends. Were going to hold our own mini tournament on the plaza. Especially with the bands ...

Bringing tourists into San Francisco and we have to do our part and there is no way that our agent or rec and park or all of the agencies together and get the city cleaned and your extra hands are very much appreciated so give yourself a hand for coming out and keeping our community clean. [applause] i am going to introduce someone who i call a cheerleader of neighborhoods and someone that taking care of neighborhoods has been his priorities, and also former director of public works but now our ...

Welcoming in the new year. I want to give a hearty thanks to the Chinese Chamber of commerce who are here today. Thank you very much. [applause] eddy raise your hand. I see a lot of the Chamber Members here and i wanted to thank the Chinese Benevolent Association who are here and thank you to all of the departments here represented. How about a hearty hand for these department . Ses yeah and we have our special guest that are performing all day long. Theyre going to remind everybody not to trash...

All right. Good morning everyone. How about a big hand for our dancers . I cant hear you. [cheers and applause] yeah, give it up to them as they head back to the hilton. Let me begin by thanking all of you for coming out today. Its such a Beautiful Day in chinatown, is it not . I see larry excited to go clean. First of all i want thank all of you for coming out. Its very important and from our department, the department of public works. We are so excited that you guys have come out today to join...

Raising event successful let me acknowledge the adult wendy and the District Attorney in favor of the Domestic Violence unit at the doofks. Our juvenile probation chief and Police Commissioner and the depth cohesive Paul Henderson and port director monique and the status of women julie sue and today would not 45e7 without my colleagues i want to call up any partners in this project dr. Emily murase for 9 department of the women and the Beverly Upton with the San Francisco consortium of San Franc...

Needles can pick through them or whatever so we learned as we went along and then the mayor got walgreens and also hilton then holiday inn to get involved so i didnt have to raise all of the money. Then we embarked on the clean Toilet Program where our members went and painted owl of the and remodeled all of the bathrooms in chinatown for all of the restaurants so we could offer the facilities to the tourists, so we came a long way. The only thing that i feel we still need to do is for the city ...

I met secretary castro along agree as mayors and ill tells you this im thankful to president obama who picks mayors to be cabinet secretaries wherever you met a former mayor in a position you only have to talk half as much they get it laughter i know that secretary castro was picked by president obama not only do we get things duplicate when he saw the challenges we were all under months and months of discussions with the staff at hud he went to work like mia any mayor and god bless him the expe...

Want it here in chinatown and north bech as well. And how about that more house something yeah, we can work on this but during the holidays its about celebrating the culture and sharing and making sure peoplend chinese folks have a long history here and we want to share it with everybody in the city and i am proud of our public works and the rest of the city departments joining the volunteers. Have a safe day today. This is the 19th year . 15. Wow 15 years of cleaning. I know muhammad has all of...

Months from now brand new operating elevators that has thats right units done in a way that people with disabilities can get in and out of shoulders quickly and have safety bars and have a management they can speak to thats robust and fouls on challenges in their life not only whats happening around here in the community were proposing this from a Community Pro apprehension as hud wants us to do theyre about setting examples like San Francisco how are we developing community so for our residents...

It is a fantastic place, check it out. It is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities. It is as good as anything you will find out why mca. Parents come from all over. There are not too many pools that are still around, and this is onestop shopping for kids. You can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. If you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout San Francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basket...