My name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field Interview Police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in law enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. T 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. Cut. We are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. A place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and its beautiful and its been completely redone and been a Gathering Place for this community. I have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. That is not a joke. I live in an Apartment Building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. Let me tell you handout you how to build a community garden. You start with a really good idea and add Community Support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. This is great. Its about environment and stewardship. Its also for the we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. That is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. I dont know how they do it. There is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through Golden Community garden. We have it right in the middle o welcome to another episode of safety on today is episode well show you how 0 retroactive youre home lets go inside and take a look. Hi and patrick chief officer and director of earthquake for the city and county of San Francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt well talk about plywood. Great thanks. Where are we we if you notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they dont lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing well nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately youll see a problem in a typical San Francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood weve got to wind block between the studs and well secure this to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. I notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking well a xoich attach the plywood. The third thing well attach the floor framing of the house above so the top of the braced walls one to have a steel angle on top of this wall and types of to the top of the wall with nails into the top plate and the nails in this direction driving a nail it difficult unless you have a specialized tool so this makes that easy this is good, good for about 5 hundred pounds of earthquake swinging before and after that mount to the face of wall it secures the top of wall and nailed into the top plate of the with triple wall and this gives us a secure to resist the forces. So you now see the space is totally available to dots blocking that he bottom and bolted the foundation in corneas what the code in the next episode youll see you apply and finally, our next speaker for lending her support for this project, for championing the needs of h. I. V. Positive, the transgender, lesbian, gay bisexual communities, please help us welcome the one true queen of San Francisco, our mayor, london breed. [applause] thank you so much, brian. And what an amazing story. Its great to hear. When i think about, you know, sadly some of the discriminatory practices that existed in our country for so many years, i definitely relate to those challenges and we all know the history of this country and how so many people, the African American community and the discrimination in housing, the Lgbt Community and discrimination as it relates to housing and that just shows us that we have work to do. Because when we come together, when we come together for a common purpose, we can accomplish anything. And it i mean, the rainbow flag apartments and the iconic rainbow flag and what it has meant to our Lgbt Community. When you come to San Francisco, and you see this iconic flag that Gilbert Baker created in 1978, you know you can be safe. You know there is a place for you. And im just so proud of San Francisco. In fact, last week when we raised the rainbow flag at city hall, it was my first raising of the rainbow flag for lgbt pride month in San Francisco as mayor and i have been to those flag raisings many years before. Itself was so special. Because there were so many people who had pride in the city and so many people who were there who were not lgbt. So many folks from various communities celebrating what we know is important in our city. Is to bring people together. To provide opportunities and to make sure in the process, as we deal with many of the city challenges, we dont leave anyone behind. I want to thank bill jones for being here today and thank you so much for, you know, just creating a safe space for people. What you did, you may have thought im providing an opportunity. Your opportunity has led to not only thousands of people being housed, but other organizations that have changed and shaped the lives of so many people in the Lgbt Community and it will for generations to come. You started a movement with the rainbow flag apartments and now today the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments. How amazing is that to do that in San Francisco . And now that were just talking about housing and Housing Affordability and opportunities, im really proud that in this past budget, one of the first things we were able to do in listening to the blgts community and people who came to my office to meet with me, to talk about many of the disparities that existed around housing with our Lgbt Community, we were able to add to our budget an additional 3 million to help with subsidies and support. 2 million [applause] 2 million specifically for trans people in San Francisco because we know that they are 18 more likely to experience homelessness, more than anyone else in the homeless population. [sirens] we have to be deliberate in how we invest our resources and how we continue to provide opportunities for people to come together. [sirens] because that is whats [sirens] having an emergency is all about. [laughter] but the fact is, when we think about pride, yes we can think about our incredible Lgbt Community. We can think about inclusiveness. But having pride in our city so critical to the success of our city. Its about bringing people from all walks of life together, to celebrate, celebrate an opportunity to make us feel like we belong and we hear and you will hear us and we will be loud and we will be proud. Thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] and with that, im going to do what mayors do best. Im going to declare it somebodys day. [laughter] we know that just a few years ago, unfortunately, we lost Gilbert Baker and we also know that his legacy and the work that he has done in creating this incredible symbol will not only live on in San Francisco, it lives on throughout the world. It will live on in the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments and it will also live on in his estate, established in his memory to do the kinds of Amazing Things that will continue to advance the rites and love and support of the Lgbt Community. So with that, id like to present this proclamation oh, to you. Come on up. [laughter] hi. Thank you so much. Introduce yourself. Im charlie beal, the manager of the Gilbert Baker estate. And so on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, today we are going to declare it Gilbert Baker estate day in San Francisco. [applause] thank you for your work to continue his legacy. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much for being here today. Congratulationss to the residents who were so fortunate enough to be here and a little secret a couple of years probably about 15 years ago, during the pride celebration, i had a really great time during a party on the rooftop. [laughter] and i remember going back the next year and there was no party uhhuh. Reporter i dont know what happened, but i hope what this means is a chance to celebrate pride, San Franciscostyle at the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments in the heart of San Francisco have a wonderful time, everyone. Thank you. [applause] thank you, mayor. Thank you so much, brian. Thank you everybody coming here today. Again, my name is charlie beal. Im the manager of the Gilbert Baker estate. I really am just one of his best friends who, when he died unexpectedly a little over two years ago, we tried to pick up the pieces and had no idea in a way what we were getting ourselves in for. But we found out a lot of things about gilbert. We found out that he had a memoir hidden away on his hard drive. Its now published. And available just this past week. In that book, he writes a lot about San Francisco. And i learned so much about him from San Francisco. I came here with him many times. I came here i was here, the art director in the movie milk and we were looking at research and all thesen n banners from the old pictures in the 1970s and i sent pictures to gilbert and i said do you know anything about those and he said, girlfriend, i made those banners. Well, come out here and make them again because we have to make them again for the movie. My husband vincent here is also very active in the estate. We came out and made the flag for when we rise and ive held the end of the banner in more marches for Gilbert Baker than i can count don my than i can count on my fingers and toes. The heart of the rainbow flag is here. Im from new york and new york, you know, stonewall is our heartbeat of the gay movement there, but here it is the rainbow flag. The one thing he wrote about in the book that always gets me choked up because he talks about that time he was out walking with cleave and artie and harvey milk was saying we need a new symbol and he was walking in this area over here and he looked up at the American Flag and he thought about the power of the American Flags and what he had seen in the bicentennial two years before. And then a while after that, after thinking we need a flag to begin with, he and cleave were out dancing and looked at the diversity of the crowd and he describes in the book about how, in San Francisco, you just have everybody of every race, creed, color, type, sexuality, gender and he saw that and the swirling colored lights and he just saw a rainbow and that is how that experience that is the genesis of that symbol that we see around the world. And at that moment, he writes very passionately that the drag queens and the young transpeople at stonewall would finally have a symbol of their own. So, he felt like he had fulfilled a purpose and a cause in doing that. It still lives on. Were lucky here in San Francisco. We see rainbow flags up and down t