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Francisco. My name is is mohammeds and im the director of public works here in the city and county of San Francisco and i want to welcome you all to this great event. There are s. P. So many students from carr Michael School. And the partners are here giveng back to the community. We have some volunteers and, of course, many city employees. Today, were going to giving back to San Francisco and undertaking a project cleaning our buses and to get started i wanted to introduce our mayor a man who h...

The latter is the giant sweep how many know about that. Last year the giants one the world series and the way they won it was through tomato te teamwo teamwork. With your help were going making San Francisco being the cleanest and greatest city in the world. Let me introduce our mayor, may i mayor ed lee. Thank you mohammed pardon me morning lou sell and sweep i didnt you how you doing laughter well everybody thank you for being here at the civic center its cool to be squad car. That he betsy ca...

The way weve run the poverty housing in the past didnt work. People lost the vision of what theyre doing and they didnt integrate the needs of the residents to the rest of the community. We stopped investing in the very people we were housing. And to me if you keep that in mind, i think we find new solutions. Thats why promise and choice are to invaluable to us how you invest in the people and make the connections for them to succeed inaudible . The Housing Authority capital budgets has been cut...

If it was fiercely then urgent, it certainly is now. 50 years ago there were only five africanamerican members of the house of representatives. There was no congressional black cauc caucus. Today there are 43 members. We want more but there are 43. Theyre led by congresswoman marsha fudge who you heard from and they are the conscience of the congress. In that blauk caucus we have the privilege of serving with john lewis, some of us for over 25 years in the congress, and arent we proud of that. I...

January 22nd, 1963 by the president and west german chancellor and ushered in a new era of peace between these two neighbors who had started three wars between each other in the beliethe previous 75 years. For all their problems, france and germany have come a long way. Thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. Ill see you next week. Stay tuned for reliable sources. He sparked a furious debate over guns, violence and football and this was before newtown. He is a sportscaster w...

Thing like Lehman Brothers to do a crazy carpooling startup. Did you have any inside information things were going to blow up. Because he left. Thats probably why. When you left and started, what was the timing . This was back in 2007. Before the economy had taken hold. You and other competitors and we touched on other businesses as well get their start in San Francisco. It seems to me like San Francisco and the Mayors Office kind of goes out of its way to make sure you have a fighting chance. N...

protesters run for cover. this morning, the smoke has cleared and frank ogalla plaza in oakland. people behind the movement are not giving up, and neither are the police. christie smith is following this story for us. she joins us in oakland with the latest. >> reporter: its fairly calm out here right now in downtown oakland, barely any sign of the clash between police and protesters where police end ed p lobing tear gas into the crowd. frank ogawa plaza still closed off this morning. ...

>> reporter: her on broadway, heather. on youth radio here oscar grant is remembered. but notice his image is plastered on plywood, put up for protection. when officer grant was shot and mehserle was charged protests erupted. >> what do we want? justice. when do we want it? >> now. are. >> reporter: later when mehserle got a ten month sentence protests again. >> we are not sure how this will play out. >> reporter: these merchants say they will be here whatever happens and that oscar gr...