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Lop der. Scattered showers and gray skies over the bay bridge doppler. Were taking you back over the last three hours. Right now scattered showers positioned along the peninsula over the Santa Cruz Mountains and moving into portions of the south way. We may get the rain shadow affect so you may stay dry in san jose. Scattered showers north over the top of the peninsula. San francisco, southern parts of marin seeing showers this morning as well as richmond and vallejo. Light scattered showers hea...

Pmorning, this does involve a edestrian. Pright now we have a very heavy pLaw Enforcement presence here, pessentially all directions of pthis intersection are blocked pexcept for westbound which is pmoving slowly so drivers if you pcan avoid the area completely, robably for the better if not, pof course, you have a couple of palternates for you here. Plinebaugh, waters, florida pavenue as i mentioned before, if pyou dont, youll see some pdelays in the westbound pdirection of bush. Pwell get you ...

Going to help our neighbors because its the right thing to do. But its also an opportunity to learn from the latest things that are happening around the country and the world so that we know when something happens here that, a, were going to join up with our partners from catholic charities, Salvation Army, the city, the county, and make sure that people are going to be cared for in the best possible way. We are honored to be a part of this fabulous community, and know that we are in such good c...

That went viral because libyans were amazed at the site of a senior Government Official doing mundane activities without a huge entourage and demanding vip treatment. Chris had a great knowledge of libyan history and culture. He would often crack jokes with government counter parts. Not just in arabic but in the libyan dialect, which the libyans loved to hear him speak. Another told me when i saw him in may as newly appointed ambassador in tripoli he had not changed, despite the promotion and ac...

On 800 bush street and the chase ensued and taken them to Treasure Island. They laid down spikestrips and disabled the car. Suspect fled the car with a firearm in hand and went to the water and put the gun to his head, setting up a stalemate. None of the pursuing officers were cit, this being a critical incident, hostage negotiators are basically that the cit plus. So hostage negotiators behind Ballistic Shields from a distance of no more than 15 engaged the armed suspect for a period of about f...

The Salvation Army San Francisco center is a state licensed [speaker not understood] recovery program. At any given time upwards of 200 people are here onsite, go through the program and get their life back together. Our residential capacity is 106 single adults with up to 30 families and up to 52 kids with those families. Youre not likely to find many treatment programs with Child Care Program and also a licensed detox facility, but we have them here. We are truly a place for new beginnings and...

One of our biggest pin points or struggles has been with the legislation and the old models of the [inaudible] the regulations and laws which are being slowly worked on through the legal departments and the San Franciscos legal department. But essentially we found the experience through Innovation Office has been driving the initiatives through and helping us develop and the data sets have bon become cleaner. They have become easier for us to use and the process has become a lot more efficient. ...

Fund the position from my salary savings for this current yearv, placing the full salary in the draft budget, for the board then to determine the efficacy of the position in june with some measurements and we will show you in advance to get your approval on. And then come june if the position does not hold as much value as you would expected it to, that salary could be removed from the departments budget. That is a problem i see. Once you hire someone, it is very hard and very difficult to actua...

All of our wonderful bureaucracy to help open us up even more. Thats, of course, our director of the red cross. Harold. Come on up, harold. applause now that i know im a city employee, im hoping for a big pay raise. [laughter] you know, any time youre in a room with ed lee, you know that there are going things going on. What a wonderful leader he is for the city of San Francisco and the entire bay area. Were so very fortunate to have in this the best place on the planet, some of the best leaders...

Well, thank you, everybody. And welcome. Happy thanksgiving and happy season of sharing and caring for each other. I just spent a wonderful morning with the Interfaith Council and their 15th anniversary of breakfast with quite a host of wonderful, wonderful people who care about the city and about the world. And while the theme was articulated as a very rich greening theme, i think we found out from many, if not all of the speakers, that the way we care about our earth is reflected in the way we...