important. thank you for your due diligence. i would ask that you pass this project forward and unanimously of votes the turf project forward. thank you. i understand there are some more youth speakers. [inaudible] we have lots of kids and folks with accommodations. we have let kids and folks with accommodations. we have had two hours or so of the kids speaking. maybe after this next group, we can just kind of left of the speakers speak. they have been here a long time. they just keep coming. since i am disabled and you have graciously provided this opportunity, i thought i could quickly filled this space. i think i know some of you from different works that have done with the city. are retired from the mayor s office in 1999 i retired from the mayor s office in 1999. i was the first founding director of the mayor s child care. i have a daughter that is a third grade teacher at spring valley. she was the only girl on be a varsity soccer team in san francisco. i
utilize these fields year round, from morning to night. we don t have to close these facilities like we do natural turf fields because of rain, rest, and regrowth. they re extremely safe, they re a lesm playing surface. they don t have geoffer holes or irregular surfaces creating problems for our youth on the fields the in 2008 we went through a very exhaustive task force that found that the synthetic turf was a safe product. also the e.i.r. process we went through identified that it s a safe program. there are other side benefits to our program that have come to light as part of it, as far as environmental improvements. obviously synthetic turf we don t have to water. we estimate we save 1.5 million gallons gallons of water on a single field, roughry 75 million gallons saved annually. we don t have to put herb i kidsed on the fields. and as part of our turf purchasing standards which we worked through very closely with the department of the environment we require that the
just to be clear, upward spiral, anti-gravity thing. that s right. it is monday! 4:31, thanks for joining us i m eric thomas. and i m kristen sze. new twist in the domestic violence trial of sheriff ross mirkarimi. the prosecution has called a surprising witness as attorneys prepare to question potential jurors. amy hollyfield is live at the hall of justice. reporter: phil bronstein is coming to the trial. the former editor of the san francisco crown full. the chronicle is reporting this new development saying bronstein spoke with the prosecution s star witness that is ivory madison. she is the next door neighbor who investigators say ross mirkarimi s wife confided in. the chronicle is report that madison call bronstein at least twice before she went to police and the two spoke a day or two after madison took a video statement from eliana lopez and videoed a bruise on her arm. which she told madison came from mirkarimi when he grabbed her. the defense tells the chroni
where this line actually goes. hopefully we ll have more information soon. the hoop patrol says it s going to take at least an hour longer for the crews to finish their work and they can open up all four lanes of highway 280. so anyone that wants to take highway 280 is being advised to take 101 instead and avoid delays. abc-7 news. now to the occupy oakland movement and the heated protest wednesday night. alan: a car hitting two pedestrians during the march was caught on video, and today the protester who was hit is speaking to abc-7 news. sergio talked with his this afternoon and joins us from oakland. sergio? it has been a painful week. the protester who was hit by the car during wednesday s demonstration tells me he spent 24 hours in the hospital, and now he is trying to find some answer. he is trying to figure out who the person was behind the wheel of that car, and why that driver was not arrested. lance says he and a friend were on their way to get something
i m dana king. i m ken bastida. pretty eerie resemblance to what we saw after hurricane katrina. an army of tornadoes razed entire communities and tonight 297 people are dead. the most devastating twister cut across four states, it started in eastern mississippi and ripped through alabama, then through georgia and tennessee. it carved a deadly path 370 miles long. more than 2/3 of the casualties are in alabama and that s where kendis gibson is tonight. kendis? reporter: and dana, that tornado was so devastating and so widespread and it did not discriminate. from churches like this, to hundreds of homes. it s all gone, everything is gone. you can hear the despair and disbelief in julie add kips voice. i never seen anything like that in my life. this section of birmingham is virtually wiped out. they look at what s left of the house they moved into just two months ago. willie was at home when the twister struck i jumped in the bath tub. jew 0 road out the