Lauren martinez is live in Mountain View with more. Good morning. Vice president mike pences trip includes a tour and a speech here. His trip will discuss the role the center will play in returning astronauts to the moon within the next five years. Last night the vp landed with his wife, karen, at monterey Regional Airport before heading to moffett field. Today the Vice President will be speaking to about 200 nasa employees after he speaks to nasa he will then head to washington, d. C. Reporting live in Mountain View, lauren martinez, abc7 news. And the second lady, karen pence, will be in alameda. Shes visiting military spouses at coast guard island. She is bringing attention to the sacrifices family members make and how that contributes to the strength of our coast guard. That visit is set to happen at 10 00. At the live desk, a big step towards recovery in el paso, texas after that mass shooting killed 22 people in august. The walmart where the shooting happened reopens today. Since
To generate extra income. People who want kids to move out so they want them to get their jobs to pay their own rent. That means that we have to continue to invest in these communities. We have to get out thereinto the community, and i have to tell you i am overwhelmed buyer the number of people here and so appreciative of the different city departments and agencies and the Public Sector folks. I just talked to a gentleman who got hired on the spot. That makes me feel real good. [applause. ] when we talk about income and equality, when we talk about the achievement gap in the public schools, when we talk about all these things, this is just one small way to do something about it. Today we are changing o how we o business in San Francisco. We are changing how we do business in San Francisco. I want to just leave you with one last thing. When the door is open for you, dont shut it behind you. Open the door for the next person. When you are in those Job Opportunities and you hear about so
Forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. You know why . Why . Because we are . Bayview united. Thats right. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local Services Within our neighborhoods, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . My name is ray behr. I am the owner of chief plus. Its a destination Specialty Foods store, and its also a Corner Grocery store, as well. We call it cheese plus because theres a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. From fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. You can have a casual meeting if you want to. Its a Real Community gathering place. What makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, its a great pedestrian street. Theres people out an
Were going to the project and talk a little about it. Fine, i will get started. Thank you everyone for being here today. I am excited about this project. This is the city and county of San Francisco working hard to fulfill a promise. A promise to so many people who live throughout San Francisco in Public Housing, in conditions that no one should have to live in. A few years back when i first started as a member of the board of supervisors, i met with mayor ed lee to talk about priorities. My number one, two, three priority as supervisor was Public Housing in San Francisco as a whole, not just my district. Mayor lee supported the fact that we needed to do Something Different because the kinds of conditions that existed for so many years and the amount of money that we received, there was no way to get to a better place. Over 20 years of my life in plaza east, i live in those conditions. The neglect, the bathrooms that didnt work, the mold, the conditions that you live in when you have h
Capture it. Those are a real reason why many of us are in this business and do the work we do. I will skip over the list of hundreds of people i want to thank. I would like to thank the dozens of people who will look after this building here on out and look after the health of the people in it. I am very proud what we accomplished together to be here today. We did so under budget, mind you. I am proud tha that we will accomplish all of this in the future. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you. I want to just offer a few reflections. One is that i hope you will hear from all of us just the expression of gratitude. We realize we are in a privileged position to do the work to serve others. That is what a lot of us are very motivated by while in this room. Seven years ago mayor lee and ed had a vision p. 29 properties. 2 billion and where was that going to come from . How was it going to happen . A new program that none of us knew or understood very well. I understand the housing direc