San francisco, that dress, donna will make santa claus stay up all night. Any way, i want to welcome everybody again to city hall, and to view our wonderful, wonderful tree of hope. It is something that i enjoy every year that it has been here and i tell you when it was announced that this was the tallest, largest tree of hope in the United States, if not in the world, i also wanted to say my very first thought was San Francisco has always the biggest hearts in the world, thanks to all of you. Thank you, donna, for your wonderful mc work here every year. And your beautiful presence. Jeff carter, thank you very much, congratulations and thank you on behalf of everyone in the city, we are so proud of your work. Karin that i have known for 30 years, thank you for you and all of the volunteers from the rainbow fund to put this together to place all of these 10,000 ornaments on the tree to give us the kind of attention that we would like not just because we have a great tree or city hall, b
I can tell by the smile youve been good, huh . Merry christmas there you go. And that theres somebody who cares. Its hard being away from home, for as long as ive been away from home, but its you know, weve got a lot done. Im so happy to see you guys. Here we go. Here we go. Okay. Perfect. Hi, dorothy. Hi. I have some christmas cookies for you. Well, thank you very much. Youre welcome. So thighs. So so nice. So lets see what we can do today. Okay, that looks good. There you go. And, does any of this stuff go along with that too . Child has a. California ford dealers. Visit ktvu. Com to make your donation now. Now we want to take you to an inspir rigsal community in san leandro. The people who live there are proud to call it their home. Its a rare and touching look b a group of individuals who through the magic of christmas remind that you say many of lifes greatest gifts are free. Here now is their remarkable story captured by our photojournalist. Hi, guys. Right here. Get some trees o
talents bring to life what makes this time of year so special. We begin with ryan who met with some of the citys finest. He shows us how they traded their uniforms for santa suits and gave new meaning to protect and serve. We brought together different kids from various backgrounds and try to share a christmas with them. Whats that behind you, guy . Being able to walk through the neighborhood as we do every day and see the homeless, see the drugs and the alcohol. I wanted to show them that, yeah, you live in the tender loin, yeah, youre in plight conditions, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. The boys and girls club and the Police Department have formed a collaboration to really make sure the kids are safe. And having fun. So today we get to celebrate christmas. Some of these kids will never have the opportunity obviously to ever have a christmas in this neighborhood. They had snow in the park today, at city hall, and got to experience what real snow feels like. They got to g
Special. We begin in the tenderloin district where we met some of the finest. They traded the uniforms for santa suits and gave new meaning to protect and serve. We brought together different kids from various backgrounds and try to share we brought together kids from different backgrounds, to walk through the neighborhood and see the homeless and see the drugs and alcohol. I wanted to show them that you live in the tenderloin, you are in plight conditions, but theres light at the end of the tunnel. The boys and girls club and the Police Department have formed a collaboration to make sure the kids are safe. And, having fun. So today we get to celebrate christmas. Some of the kids will never had an opportunity to have christmas in this neighborhood. They had snow in the park today. And they got the experience what real snow feels like. They got to go up and down the slopes. They went three or four times, they didnt know if they would see snow again. It was a blast. They got to expose th
With our snow day, december 15th and 16th, you are all welcome to come and bring the kids and all of the extended families. And if i may say again, these holidays and what the tree represent is the best hope and wishes. The holidays should never be about ourselves. What reminds us and what this tree will continue doing, is that you have to remember others that are less fortunate, and share our hearts and our minds and our resources with them. And it is just like japan, for what they have done. If you read the papers recently, you know, that japan suffered a very harsh earthquake and tsunami a while back. And they could have easily said, that we are victims of a national disaster. But, when the country heard that the debris was crossing international lines, all the way to the west coast, and they did not claim victim. They also said, we could help. And that is why we heard the news of japan donating 5 million to help the west coast also deal with the debris. That is a wonderful, wonderf