[applause] >> thank you, mayor newsom. i want to spend a couple of minutes talking about the program itself. let me talk about the goals of the program. it really is about building aspirations in the hearts and minds of every child who enters the san francisco public school system. think about it -- the chance to let every child know that they have the equal opportunity to be successful, like everybody else in our city. that is the most important thing we can do, and to do that, we are going to use some city funds. we're going to open accounts and used city funds to put an initial small feat deposit into those accounts to make them real. the city will be voting either 50 or $100 in the account, depending upon the situation of the family, and that is meant to get the account established. the account will be open automatically, and that is a key feature of the program -- automatically opening up these accounts. this is something that has never been done before, giving folks an opportunity to save in a fashion that is as easy

as mayor newsom said, we have supervisor bevan dufty. i also want to the knowledge and member of the other supervisors wanted to be here today but there are stuck in a committee meeting. i know that many others wanted to be here as well. next i want to introduce the man who represents the country of spain, here in tampa disco, and of course we cannot talk about spain without talking about the world cup. we are all excited about the victory, and thank you mayor newsom, to you and the rec and parks department for the work they did around the world cup. if you have the opportunity to watch the game in front of city hall, i have to point out, the man who scored the winning goal is someone who plays for the barcelona team. that is important. the council's general of spain. manuel pradas. >> i wore red for the spanish team. when we arrived for the first time in san francisco, they were flabbergasted by the beauty of the unique and beautiful city that overlooks the san francisco bay. if i am told -- many times i am -- no wonder this is a city f

a mayor who is making history, gavin newsom. [applause] mayor newsom: thank you. thank each and every one of you for being here. it is an honor to have you here, and you have been here many times with the flag raising ceremonies. this is, in particular, very important and appropriate that we ask all of you to be here. we share so much in terms of the respective histories. i am reminded every time i go down the hallway, of this history. the mayors who are here before the city of san francisco. the city was founded over 200 years ago. that connection in mexico and the relationship with spain, all the challenges that are good and bad. this is more positive with an engaging future. this is something that is indelible in the minds of the people of san francisco. particularly those who served as custodians of this great city. she is right to say that what makes san francisco special and what makes the bay area special, and the state of california so remarkable is the ability to attract people from every conceivable walk of life, regardless of race or ethnicity or sexual

i am here on behalf of mayor newsom. -- newsom. september and october are important times for us. this allows us to celebrate our culture and show the rest of the community here in san francisco what makes us so special. this is a great opportunity for all of us and many of you have exciting events happening. we are glad to have you with us tonight. i have that great opportunity to present one of our proclamations' this evening to mr. juan gonzales. he has been a pioneer in hispanic journalism. he works for the oldest bilingual newspaper in the bay area. we have a proclamation from mayor newsom. if mr. gonzalez can come forward, that would be fantastic. [applause] >> thank you. so, what the mayor proclaimed for tomorrow is actually latino [inaudible] bicentennial stay in the city of san francisco for theft -- the -- day in the city of san francisco. [applause] at this time five of life or health recognizing this special individual. rudy hernandez received the medal of honor on april 12th, 1952 whitehouse from president truman. if i could deaf your health -- if i could get your hel

mayor newsom would go to the u.s. conference of mayors, and he would tell the we had this great program. my office kept getting calls. we have been talking to states and localities all over the country and really, due to the mayor's leadership, this 250,000 no. i think is largely attributed to that. robert miller, who is here, one of our early partners with jobs now, well over 150 employees -- 145 employees through jobs now. he will talk about that, but he will talk about this innovative online campaign he has got going to get this thing extended. robert miller. >> i'm director of veterinary archives, and i want to thank mayor newsom for having the fortitude, the foresight, and the temerity to stay with a program for the very beginning -- since the very beginning. he took a chance on main street. we want to take that chance on government. our first higher was in june 2009, and our last was yesterday, the last day before the door closed. we believe the program benefits both sides of main street. the employee, giving th

rate -- thank you, mayor newsom. we need to focus our attention on achieving 0 waste by 2020. to meet our goal, we will need the continued participation of all san franciscans in the mandatory composting and recycling program, making sure that everything possible goes into the blue and green bins, and as little as possible goes into the black. as the mayor pointed out, we sent the smallest amount of material to landfills since we have been keeping records. less than 15% the year before. we are right on track, and if we keep up achieve 0 well in san francisco well before 2020. .9 waste in san francisco well before 2020. we already accomplished this lovely to a degree with bans on hard to recycle products like plastic bagszek]Ñisr and a the. there are actions globally, but change does need to happen at the state and federal level, and that is why san francisco has been supporting extended producer responsibility legislation in sacramento and washington. taxpayers and local governments shell out millions of dollars ev

today, i'm very honored to be joining mayor gavin newsom. again, without his leadership, this would not have been possible. he was relentless, as he always is. using all the new technologies to make sure that we were never off the radar, grid, or any other screen in terms of moving this along. again, as i said, the foundation that was led by previous scenarios. now, these roots go deeper, and it is a sign of signing this endorsement agreement today, we ensure that this site will remain a source of jobs for our community for decades to come. all of you who played a role in this should take great satisfaction that part of your legacy of public service went to something that the mayor calls a big deal, a very big deal for our community, for our country. in closing, i just want to salute the navy for keeping treasure island safe for us so that we could come to this day of transition to civilian use that is also a sign of the strength of our country. thank you all very much. [applause] >> thank you. i would also like to acknowledge the tremendous

i think mayor newsom for your leadership from the beginning. hopefully, we can see some allocations after the first- round is moved around. that is important for congress to see the investment of this as not just an expenditure. the city of santa barbara has a little over 100,000 people. our funding was about $658,000. we did lighting efficiency projects in four parks as well as some heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning retrofits in eight city buildings. the park's alone are saving 140,000 kilowatt hours annually, a savings of $88,000. the eecbg grants, coupled with other funding we did with our municipal building energy audit, is sitting as $150,000 in our general fund. along with the jobs that are being created with this project, when i came in and met with a number of mayors this morning, the first question has been how is your budget going. what is going on with your general fund and your public works? in our city, if we are able to save $150,000 a year that would have gone to paying for energy bills, which can put it into police offi

speaker nancy pelosi, mayor gavin newsom. the mayor said some mighty nice things about me, but i tell you -- this would not have happened without the speaker and the mayor. i had been navy secretary about 10 minutes when the speaker called and said, "can we do something about treasure island?" i went up and talked to her, and and i talked to the mayor, and it was a group effort, a team effort, and we stood on the work that other people have done, and a couple of those folks are here today. mayor willie brown, and my predecessor as secretary of the navy, both of whom were here when this process started, and both of whom live the groundwork for what we are able to do here today, so thank you. united states navy in association with treasure island began 70 years ago, right after the completion of world expo, 1939-1940. the navy took this over, and from these shores, tens of thousands of sailors and marines left the fight in the pacific in world war ii, and a lot of those sailors and marines who left from here, this was the last

. >>> two prominent san franciscans, newsom and harris are hoping to make the leap to holding office. at least one of them has a pretty good chance. randy shandobil reports. >> reporter: according to a new ktvu field poll, gavin newsom's chances of becoming california's next lieutenant governor appear to be brightening. he has a five point lead over republican able maldonado. 42% for newsom, 37 for maldonado. >> i don't care. >> reporter: you don't care? >> no it's irrelevant. >> reporter: newsom told us what matters more is getting his supporters out to vote and he's worried. >> if the pundents are right, and voters do go out, people like me lose. >> reporter: voters frantically removed seats so that the room won't look empty for our cameras. young democrats were hoping for hundreds, but only about 50 people showed up. a similar problem for able maldonado who pulled up to a campaign today who pulled up in a giant bus, huge bus, small crowd, perhaps a handful. >> it's a pretty close race. >> we showed maldonado the numbers. the other big race involving san franciscans for attorney gen

mayor newsom: is very important. you have heard about the 99 yea'ers who will lose benefits m the federal government. they end up on county welfare rolls. those of the county assistance programs. we already saw when the unemployment debate occurred and there was still a question of the unemployment benefits being extended, you saw substantial increases, and double the number of applications on the county program. underbudgeted, subsidized by the county. two things happened. people go on the federal rolls. some may have already had experience on the rolls before and did not get the natural extension benefits. then they go on the county rose. the county has to subsidize it at a time when the counties are already financially strapped, versus a program that cost less money to keep people employed and creates economic output and sales growth. that generates more sales tax revenue and gross revenue. it has a multiplier with the stimulus. there is a physiology behind this. i am mesmerized that it is not so obvious to the fo

and if that trend continues i don't think newsom's necessarily out of the woods yet on this. >> newsom has issues in the central valley and conservative areas -- >> he has much higher negatives. he's seen as more partisan. >> and i think too, guys, keep in mind in that new poll that the decline to state voters, the non-affiliated voters currently are breaking for maldonado. so there is still time there to see how that one plays out. >> let me ask you, what can candidates do? belva asked this before as well. just with a week left or so of a campaign, what can they do to kind of -- what are voters looking for that they haven't seen already? >> i wish i knew. >> the great equalizer. >> a flip of a coin. >> belva: so let's turn to something we do know something about, a congressional district where there's a hot race going on. but everybody expected that. >> to put it in context, the 11th congressional district is the most competitive congressional district in california. it is also one of the top 40, 45 targeted house seats in which the republicans believe they can use to tip the balance

gavin newsom and jerry brown are the californians running for office, but bill clinton was still the big draw and i think tonight with this crowd he'd be running for anything. he came here to spread some of his drawing power with one time political opponent for the presidential nomination jerry brown who is running for governor and gavin newsom running for lieutenant governor. newsom started off claiming credit for his initiatives in san francisco in education and healthcare, but he made a frank observation before introducing brown and clinton. >> i'm the guy that you'll forget that was here tonight. thank you for taking the time to be here just 15 days away from real change in california. [ cheering and applause ] >> i love you, too. so don't worry about it. anyway hey, look, we got the president coming next, okay? [ cheering and applause ] >> he's here in solidarity, president bill clinton. [ cheering and applause ] >> thank you. let's hear it for jerry brown and gavin newsom. [ cheering and applause ] >> we were raised to believe if you were fortunate, you were supposed to give ba

gavin newsom casual, speaking to employees. once inside the two made opening statements, newsom stressing the economy, maldonado ease family's migrant worker background. >> they didn't have wealth. they more than made up for it with their values. the values of integrity, honesty, trust. >> top priority for me and top priority for the lieutenant governor should be to get the economy back where it should be. >> reporter: maldonado said ab32 was a potential job killer, newsom calls it a job creator. >> if ey hurt and they stifle job growth in california, i support a one year moratorium. if you believe incalifornia's worse days being ahead of us if not behind us, you believe in a carbon strategy. >> he would let them go. and then after that, if that didn't work, he would send him to san bernandino. >> we have very different views when it comes to our community. he opposed not once but two times. >> reporter: they will take their disagreements to another debate in los angeles on friday. live in sunny vale. >>> california lawmakers f

. >>> san francisco mayor gavin newsom had this to report. >> the next elected lieutenant governor. >> classic californian topics -- politics. >> this is the people of california's house and everybody has the right to come here and tell californians what they are going to do in the future. >> democrats surrounded bold enough though and among them former san francisco supervisor tony hall and they said that they are crossing the political aisle and endorsing the republican candidate. >> some friends may be surprised to see me today. >> i can speak on behalf of many san franciscans we are tired of those who use politics to advance their own political careers. >> the mayor and gavin newsom. >> considering everything that san francisco has been about. >> newsom's lead dwindled late last month's. >> you want to do something to differentiate and leave no stone unturned to. >> use the chair of the university science departments. >> if it's a close race you do not want to give up any vote preview want to give it your best shot. obviously slightly been a best shot -- slightly better than a bes

brown and newsom joined clinton on friday night for a rally on ucl's campus. that one drew 6,000 people. clinton delivered an impassioned speech that night saying everyone who doesn't vote is committing malpractice on your future. president obama comes to the bay area on thursday for another democratic party fund-raiser. arizona senator john mccain is up for re-election in his home state, but he's spending this weekend in california trying to build support for republican senate candidate carly fiorina. at a rally in san diego, mccain told the crowd that fiorina's challenger, barbara boxer, has tried to undercut the military in iraq and afghanistan. that's no coincidence that the focus was on the military. we'll get to that video in a minute. a few days ago senator barbara boxer received an endorsement of the veterans foreign wars political action committee, mccain said he was stunned by it and then lashed out at senator boxer. >> barbara boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the united states state today. i know that because i've ha

newsom is running for lieutenant governor. the latest on these stories at 6:00. >> the president and mrs. obama are campaigning together for the first time since the presidential election. the latest example of republican parties bringing out their big guns in fight for control of congress. emily reports from washington. >> with control of congress up for grabs in washington, the political push is well outside the beltway. >> hello! >> first lady michelle obama made her first campaign appearance with the president since 2008. polls show she is more popular than her husband. he's working to convince voters to stick with democrats through tough economic times that he says began under republican leadership. >> it is up to you to tell them we do not want what they are selling. we've been there before and we are not going back. >> in the next two weeks before the election, both obamas will campaign separately across the country including washington. >> i voted to put in place strong wall street reform to protect you. mr. rossi's go

>> reporter: on the front steps of city hall also known as gavin newsom's office. >> this is the people of california's house. and everybody has the right to come here and to tell californians what they are gonna do in the future. >> reporter: he was surrounded by bay area democrats. both announced they were crossing a political aisle and endorsing the republican candidate. >> some of my friends might see me surprised here supporting maldonado for governor. >> we're so tired of those who use politics to campaign their career. >> reporter: san francisco mayor and lieutenant-governor candidate, newsom. >> this is rather curious, considering everything that san francisco city hall has been about, he's fought against. >> reporter: according to the poll, newsom's lead dingled to -- dwindled to just a four- point lead late last month. >> patrick murphy is the chair of the political science department at theist of san francisco. >> if it's a close race, you don't give unany vote. you want to go across the state and give it your best shot. obviously you -- he had better than a shot. >> reporter

. >> mayor gavin newsom newsome a lifelong giants fan and baseball player himself talked about the excitement of having the giants back in the postseason as his office term is winding down. >> as the guy who could even through the first pitch over the plates this a big thing for me. i love baseball but grew up literally falling asleep watching the game. i was drawn to being a professional player and to be the major city near the end of my term as mayor and have a chance to watch my home team and a long time heroes in the playoffs is about as good as it gets for me. >> we have kron 4 crews all over the bay area covering stories important to you here are seven more top local stories in less than four minutes. >> here in fremont police say they now know the identity of a man wanted for the attempted murder of a police officer. he's identified as 36 year-old alexander d. as a prole had a loss angeles. he remains at large tonight please say he deliberately drove a stolen van into the motorcycle cop on monday afternoon. but officer patrick brouwer at 10 year veteran suffered serious but not life-th

and that's, again, in the lead-in you talk about mayor newsom. a lot of people want to make this the 49ers against mayor newsom. it's not mayor newsom's fault that the city hasn't invested in infrastructure in the last 30 years in the bayview hunter's point community. that's really why the 49ers had to look outside of the city to figure out where can we build a stadium that all of our fans can get to? >> we were joking, actually, recently about gavin newsom and whether or not he would actually buy a suite. are you still on good -- are you on good terms with him? could you pick up the phone and call gavin and say hey, what's going on? >> we haven't talked in a fairly long time. but we'll certainly -- >> now that he's running for lieutenant governor that might not be his highest priority, the 49ers and sfribs, do you i? or do you think his priorities have shifted? >> i know there are a lot of people in san francisco that have a priority of trying to get the 49ers to built a stadium there. and again, it's a little bit out of their control because yo

kimberly terry is in san jose where a rally for glavine newsom just wrapped up. >> reporter: bill clinton was here tonight. he was clear and to the point. he says republicans are counting on democrats to stay home on election day. he says the challenge really is to get voters out, especially young voters. >> president bill clinton! >> reporter: former president bill clinton urged democrats tonight to put aside their disappointment about the economic climate and the state of politics and do something about it. turn out to vote november 2nd. >> i am telling you, your future is on the line. you've got to show up. but you can change the outcome of the congressional elections in america from this campus if you use the social networks. >> reporter: mr. clinton ended his day in northern california at san jose state university, asking voters to cast their ballots for gubernatorial candidate jerry brown and the candidate for lieutenant governor gavin newsom. both are in tight races with their republican opponents. >> i'm in awe that he cares enough to want to be governor again. >> reporter: the fo

gavin newsom has been a leader of the environment before it was the sexy thing to do. he has been responsible for putting solar power at moscone center; responsible for putting power at san francisco international airport; responsible for putting solar power at the waste water facility in the bayview hunter's point. he will be responsible for putting power on our libraries, on our schools, and everywhere possible in the city and county of san francisco. we're very fortunate that this mayor has been the first mayor to create a climate action plan that will reduce the green house emissions by 20 percent by the year 2012. this mayor has also been a leader and innovation and we're looking at creating -- in harnessing paddle power below the golden gate bridge and that will be done under gavin newsom's leadership. so please put your hands together and give a warm san francisco welcome to our mayor, my mayor, gavin newsom. >> thank you. newly elected so i've got to now call him mr. president. thank you, president brooks. i want to thank the commissioners for being here and of

in the race for lieutenant governor, san francisco mayor gavin newsom has a slight lead over incumbent abel maldonado. in the attorney general race, steve cooley has 39% and carmelo harris has 38%. and don knapp on how the analysts are reading the results. >> reporter: san francisco mayor gavin newsom is five points ahead of state lieutenant governor abel maldonado in a new field poll. that's beyond the margin of error but not so far ahead the mayor can relax says the poll director mark decamillo. >> we've been seeing that gavin newsom has had an advantage over maldonado in this race in each of the previous polls that was the case. and we're seeing it again in this case. but the lead is not comfortable. it is very close. but it is a lead nonetheless. it is outside the margin of error. >> that's why i'm going the route of the public utilities commission. >> reporter: maldonado won public support in his role as acting government in the aftermath of the san bruno gas line explosion. and decamillo says maldonado may benefit from late movement among latino voters but the contest between the

mayor gavin newsom made a deal with the atlanta's mayor, if the braves win newsom will fly the braves flag. in turn, the atlanta mayor agreed he would fly the giants flag. >>> a highway patrol sting today was bad news for some drivers on four wheels and also 18 wheels. chp officers say the main goal is to catch speeders but this part of i580 is one of the only interstate highways where big trucks are not allowed. some truckers who miss or ignored the signs were reminded of that fact when they were cited. >>> right now people are not allowed to have firearms in parks and the city prohibits the sale of firearms by home businesses. now if police department is recommending additional laws for gun dealers. the additional rules would require the gun dealers get an additional license from the police department. and gun stores would have to give police an inventory report every six months? here in the bay area and around the country, americans are marking this day. nine years since the start of the war in afghanistan. tonight the work continues here at home about how it should end. >> today a

newsom. >> thank you very much for coming out. big round of applause for daniel homsey and his hard work bringing this together getting all the staff and volunteers the mayor's office of neighborhood services and other departmenting that are here we are very thankful. daniel has been talking about this for what seems a millennium. you imagine being the mayor's office of neighborhood services how demanding that job is. the calls you get for service. we got the liaisons to the districts and how overwhelmed some of them are. we added budget cuts. the office had 2 or 3 people representing each district now you have one person representing 2 or 3 districts because of budget cuts. the expectations are rising in terms of what you xch out of that department. and so in an effort to meet those expectations daniel's looking at best practices and different ways of doing things. trying to find an entrepreneurial approach to face the challenges that exist in our diverse neighborhoods. he came with with this idea of a summit and picked up on the

they want to talk about jobs. >> newsom says it attempts to appear moderate, something newsom claims he's not. >> i don't know any moderates that got zero rating from planned parenthood that opposed our landmark air quality bill. and that oop yosed not only same-sex marriage but opposed two resolutions urging the end of don't ask, don't tell and opposed domestic partnerships four times. >> and we should report newsom fired hall and endorsed joe maigs's opponent in a state senate race. >> newsom will square off tomorrow in a debate along with a silicon valley leadership group. we'll stream it live for you. at 3:00 and then, rebroadcast it sunday at noon here on abc 7. we'll have candidates for state school superintendent live online friday at 11:15 and on television sunday at 1:00 p.m. >> and leaving politics moving on to money scope headlines. apple may be ready to end its exclusive iphone deal, reporting apple plans to begin making an iphone that work was technology by early next year. and they're also by the way working on a fifth generation iphone. cisco announced plans to sell a

san francisco mayor gavin newsom and able maldonado went face to face in sunny vale. robert handa reports. >> reporter: intentional or not, the two very different candidates arrived at the debate in different ways. able maldonado formal, surrounded by staff members. gavin newsom, casual, strolling in, chatting it up with staff. >> top priority for me and the top priority for the lieutenant's governor's office will be to get the state's economy back where it should be. >> reporter: maldonado said b32 is a job killer, newsom called it a job creator. >> if you believe california's worse days being behind us and not in front of us you believe in carbon energy. >> reporter: newsom said he was tired of race in gender being used to pitch voters. and maldonado sited farm workers. after the two will take their disagreements to another debate on saturday. >>> and the state senate has not been able to muster the necessary votes. ktvu's amber lee is live at the capital once again. she just spoke with the legislative insider and joins us now with her report. >> reporter: frank we

mayor newsom: 90 for being here. welcome to san francisco. why are you not out shopping? -- thank you for being here. it is always great to see these big ships come in. fills me with a sense of pride because of the adventures i know people will have when they make it into our diverse neighborhoods. it is a city that continues to be the no. 1 tourist destination in the united states of america for a reason -- the number one tourist destination. thank you to our friends at the epa and bay area quality management district, the pub, and -- the puc,óa% named jared bloomfeld who just will not go away. jared used to be our director of environment. he left us for a better job. it was sharon and money back on in 2005 the first came into office -- jerry and monique in 2005 who first came into my office to talk about this. i want to make this point -- we are not just celebrating a $5.2 million contraction you see behind me. we are celebrating a new approach to shoreside electrical management that allows us to do something remarkable, and that is a source of our electricity from hyd

mayor newsom: i think this is the completion of your first week on the job. melanie was with the speaker's office doing similar work, so that we could be successful in san francisco and but in a position to make a lot of the announcements we have been making bore over the last number of years. i happen to think this is a big deal. i think that other cities across the country that struggle to deal with the issue of their diversion rates with landfills that are literally filling up, that are becoming floating regattas of landfills that are being pushed up and down rivers and across the coast and around the continent, that this represents an important milestone, the cities can think differently and act differently and do some of them substantially differently -- do something substantially differently as it relates to their waist. what we know, we do not think, is that 1 million to 1.5 million people are moving into the urban cores and consuming roughly 80% of the earth's natural resources in these urban centers. what do you do with that consumption? what do you