Page 38 - Fleet Week News Today

Tourists and locals alike were escaping the extreme heat in San Francisco Friday.

The Top of the Mark rooftop bar at the Mark Hopkins hotel is the birthplace of “The Squadron Bottle," where servicemen would buy and leave a bottle of whiskey in the care of the bartender, so the next member from their squadron could enjoy a free drink. That tradition stopped after World War II, but has been revived and lives on.

As Fleet Week's Parade of Ships entered the Bay, KTVU was invited along to enter with the crew and families of one of its own; the 418-foot-long Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, home ported at Alameda's Coast Guard Island.

Friday night at Fleet Week showed a different side of the U.S. Navy, as the U.S. Navy's rock band performed at Pier 39 for one of the dozens of community concerts scheduled throughout the city for the event.

San Francisco’s Fleet Week includes ship tours, air shows, a free concert series and more. Held annually in the fall, fans can catch the popular U.S. Navy Blue Angels performing acrobatic maneuvers in Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets during air shows along the San Francisco waterfront.

The Parade of Ships and the Blue Angels kicked off the 2023 weekend of events honoring the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces.

On Thursday, it was time for national leaders and the late senator's family to share tributes to the woman they knew. They did so with personal and warm anecdotes.

Dianne Feinstein was an eshet chayil, a woman of valor, Rabbi Jonathan Singer proclaimed in his opening remarks at a memorial service for the U.S. senator and former S.F. mayor. The event was attended by some 1,500 invited guests.

Inside today's funeral of the trailblazing California politician who died last week at the age of 90.

The most important stories for you to know today