Public servant who is here is committed to. Adding with all come together as a board, as a city. We should come together as san franciscans, and, colleagues, at this time, i hope, and i asked that we unanimously vote for ed lee to be our next mayor. This is also a historic day for the asianamerican community. For a community that has been here in santa francisco, for over 160 years, i am a product of that community. I know the ed and all of us of asianamerican decent feel the legacy. I want to thank all of you who have been part of this historic moment to make this happen. And say that this is obviously not just about a Chinese American Community or an Asian American community. This is about the american dream. The idea that anyone of any background of any color from any part of the globe can come here and sunday be at the very top of what our community is about and someday be at the very top of what our community is about. To address these concerns, i have made a series of amendments
Sfmta. Com. It is the walking parking, and riding muni and it is all here in one place. Sitting in front of my computer waiting Transportation Options that is not exactly how i want to spend my saturday night. The new sfmta. Com is mobile friendly, it works great on a tablet, smart phone or a lap top, it is built to go wherever we go. Cool. But, lets just take the same route tomorrow that we always take, okay . It might be much more fun to ride our bikes. I am going to be way too tired to ride all the way home. Okay, how about this, we can ride our bikes there and then we can take muni home and it even shows us how to take the bikes on the bus, so simple right here on my phone. Neat. We can finish making travel plans over dinner, now lets go eat. How about about that organic vegan gluten free rest rft. Cant we go to the food truck. Do you want to walk or take a taxi. There is an alert right here telling us there is heavy traffic in soma. Lets walk there and then take a taxi or muni bac
Aid and other associated cuts. Just gets more and more expensive. Reporter most of the cuts will come at the expense of nontenured professors, less faculty, and more students mean larger classes and it may be tougher for students to get the classes they need. Its not easy because you want to do the best for the students. You want to be loyal to some extent to the employees whove been here for millions of years. And its just not a good way to run things. Reporter i reached out to the administrators today who confirmed the budget cuts but would not comment about them on camera. They do say theres a meeting scheduled here on campus tomorrow morning where faculty members and other Staff Members will answer questions about the cuts. Reporting live in san jose state, scott budman, nbc bay area news. Okay. Thank you, scott. Always bet on big. The Graton Casino opened its doors this morning. Thousands were feeling lucky. Crowds rushed into the new gaming mecca in sonoma county. Within a couple
And all the people down below. A big concern was traffic and they were right. Traffic on 101 not so bad, but traffic in the parking lot and inside the casino literally overflowing. There were so many people at one point the casino had to close its doors. Its been crowded since 9 00 a. M. Doors opened at 9 00. By 11 00 a. M. , doors closed. Too many people. Theyve been letting small batches of people inside. If youre in the north bay, you know this has been a tenyear project filled with controversy. Finally open for business. This is so cool. It is unbelievable. All the fighting that went on. All the court fights and everything else. People ready to gamble. The new casino created more than 2,000 jobs. And within a few years, it is projected to pull in over half a billion dollars annually. It has one of the worst on time records in the country. Were talking about San Francisco international airport. The reason for that, foggy delays. Reporter they have a new set of procedures in place th
I actually left the Loyal High School after my freshman year because the school of the arts was opening up and from the school of the arts, i was encouraged to go to act, the Summer Training Congress where i saw professional talent, and after i graduated from college, i auditioned for act and became an act graduate, and started my own theater company. And even to this day, we actually when we are called upon, we go and support school of the arts. And having a center at civic center is essential to the training because you need that energy and the collaboration and the students need to see the professional artists do what they do to in order to be inspired and to have careers of their own and i am very proud to say that i still stay in contact with some of the students at school of the arts that i corrected and raised another son and one young man, Rodney Jackson is on broad way tour for the more, the book of mormon, and he signed is own theater company. And so it is the kind of energy