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Couple of showers and storms off to our south and west. But this is what were tracking for tomorrow. Lots of activity right now across minnesota and wisconsin. This will be diving to the south and east pressing into our area and its certainly means business tomorrow night. So, it will stay hot and humid as we get into the start of our weekend. Thunderstorms will bubble up early in the day. The main complex moves in tomorrow night damaging winds and the possibility of hail is also a big concern. ...

Havana on sunday. Now reporter Chris Martinez shows you what the president hopes to accomplish in this historic three day visit to the communist nation. President obama brought his family to cuba. A big step toward normalizing cold war adversary. Hes the first cuba in nearly 90 sot obama this is an historic visit and an opportunuty to with the cuban people. The president greeted u. S. Embassy staff and then toured old havana. For weeks work crews have been preparing for the president s arrival. ...

Celebrate and pay tribute to all of the wonderful folks that are making it happen. So without further ado, person that not only has prior director of public works, city administrator and now wonderful mayor for our city; who has been terrifically supportive of our city, mayor ed lee. [ applause ] how is everybody doing . [ applause ] [ applause ] well let me begin by saying luis, congratulations but you know, when you are as successful as you are have been with the Library Commission its like wi...

Friends of joe dimaggio, julie christinsen, lizzy diaz and lizziehurst, thank you for all you have done. [ applause ] and i also want to take a moment and thank all of the parents who are here of all the different schools that we have. Yes, franklin middle school, garflied, st. Peter and paul, what am i missing . Sherman, Telegraph Hill. Thank you all for what you are doing. I also want to thank those who have been advocating for our seniors and disabled, our parks advocates, our library advocat...

To spec. Dennis oats, please let everybody know and if you have questions about this library, that is the man to talk to, dennis oats. [ applause ] lastly, i wanted to especially thank luis and his staff. Luis in so many meetings had the opportunity to change the course or do Something Different and he stuck there all the way. He continued to encourage us. This is what i want. We need to get it and all the battles that we went through, luis was there and made good, sound decisions along with the...

Mayor lee, supervisors, come on up. And while they are doing that, lets get started. What a beautiful, beautiful day, give yourselves a round of applause. [ applause ] fantastic. This is like winning a pennant and how about those San Francisco giants. I actually want to Marco Scutaro wanna be, but its not going to work and today i will settle formality city librarian luis herr ra and i would like to welcome each and every one of you to our ceremony today. This is indeed a milestone because its n...

Battle and you all stood with us and were here today to break ground on this great library, big hand for all of those who put that effort in. [ applause ] this project is the 24th library that our agency has been involved in. We have renovated 16 libraries, and we have built 6 new ones. The 23rd is in the bayview in my neighborhood and that will be ready for groundbreaking in january and for completion and opening in january and now were groundbreaking on this project. As part of this project, y...

As our librarian just said, the very first meeting i took, even before he was swornin, after i was elected was about this library. And i got to tell you, that was only four years of a tenyear struggle. There have been hundreds of meetings coming together. There are High School Students today who were preschool students when we started this conversation. And i have to tell you as we all know, it takes a village to raise our kids, but it has taken many villages to build this library. I want to sta...

Group that better defines partnerships for the city and support and the Publicprivate Partnership than the friends of the San Francisco Public Library and have provided the funding for all of our furniture, the fixtures and all of the equipment. It truly owns our library in that regard. Its my pleasure to introduce of the executive director of the friends of the San Francisco libraries scott. [ applause ]. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. As luis said we had this fantastic Publicprivate Par...

Struggle. There have been hundreds of meetings coming together. There are High School Students today who were preschool students when we started this conversation. And i have to tell you as we all know, it takes a village to raise our kids, but it has taken many villages to build this library. I want to start first and foremost by thanking three mothers, who helped to lead friends of joe dimaggio, julie christinsen, lizzy diaz and lizziehurst, thank you for all you have done. [ applause ] and i ...