we appreciate our focus and we certainly hope the st. city can take over ownership of all the street lights for the repairs >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm executive director of liveable city. thank you for having this hearing. when we were working on the better street plan it was missing a piece it says someday we'll add those but it's an embarrassing failure the puc that coincident get it together it's great to hear about the street light policy. the sidewalks need to be lit. until you have standards you're not going to be be able to do the industries. but if the standards don't exist i encourage you to keep puc's feet to the fire so we can have is city sidewalk standards. the other thing you might want to look at the governs of the program. there was an audit when mr. kelly was director and both of those looked at the street light lighting responsibility to the department of public works. it could help because public works has most of the elements and the thing that hangs up is to get a lighting component done it's a different agency.

it's st city's 40th traffic fatality of the year. can see the crumpled bicycle and badly-damaged suv. police say the bicyclist was struck near the corner of vista park drive. he died at the hospital. the driver is cooperating. >>> also tonight we are hearing from the military couple who once received a very generous gift from actor paul walker. they shared their story with reporter tom. >> it was an unexpected gift as eternal as love itself. the glittering symbol of christian and kyle's marriage was an anonymous present from paul walker himself. >> when i tell the story to people, they kind of just brush me off like, yeah, okay. >> it was back in 2004. kyle was in the army and set for deployment in iraq. before he left, the couple from victorsville got married. when kyle returned a few months later, he wanted a new ring for his bride. they made a trip to a high-end jewelry store where they would meet oo celebrity whose heart was as big as his wallet. in the store, kyle struck up a conversation with walker and figured out who he was.

looking at temperatures only reaching the middle 40's in the st city of dallas.et's head over to you. >> thank you so much live in the wint weather center for us. >> new york is behind florida in the 4th place as the most populus state. they released the latest population estimates and looks like florida will over take new york at some point in 2014 or 2015. immigration is an important factor. as a result they could gain congressional seats and new york could lose some. >>> the nfl regular season ends in dramatic fashion. first sunday night football eagles and cowboys to the 4th quarter eagles ahead 24/-16. backup qw to bryant for the score but they missed the two point conversion. still down two driving in the final two minutes pass intercepted by the eagles. eagles win the nfc east. >> packers at bears green bay down one under a minute left in the fourth quarter. 4th down aaron rogers with a desperation heave. on a 48 yard touchdown pass. packers win the nfc north 33-28. kansas city with a chance to win it, but ryan's 41 yard attempt is wide right. in ot he hit

the city of st george would encompass an area home to a quarter of the residents. if would control and run its own schools with tax revenue. >> this is not about starting a new city, it's education. >> it's totally about education. we want to take accountability of the schools. >> st george would take more than accountability. a report commissioned warns that the break-up could cost the city $53 million. 20% of its budget. it would further segregate the city. baton rouge is majority black. st george is the mainlyingority white. >> we we have white kids going to school on this end of the parish and at the other end and in the middle just of the black kids. >> members in baton rouge make an average of $58,000, in the st george area they make $90,000. >> i think we need to look at does that take us backwards where we are segregating ourselves. it's not a win. >> it's not a trend. the white and black middle class have pled baton rouge to look for better schools for decades. >> this is nothing to do with skin colour. if you have the means to leave baton rouge and the sch

the city of "st. orge" would encompass an unincorporated area that's home to a quarter of parish residents, making it the 5th largest city in the state. it would control and run its own schools with its own tax revenue. >> a new city for you guys, this is strictly about education? it's 100% totally about education. we didn't come into this saying we want to create the 5th largest city in louisiana, we came into this saying we want to take accountability for the schools in our area. >> but critics say st. george would take more than just accountability. a report commissioned by the baton rouge area chamber warns the break up would cost the city at large 53 million dollars, 20% of its budget. and it would futher segregate the city. baton rouge is already majority black, st. george would be a majority white by a 3 to 1 ratio. >> so now we would have white kids going to school over here on this end of the parish, white kids going to school over there on the other end of the parish, and in the middle, we'd

it's a financing structure that will allow san franciscans at no cost to our city st. to have refume upgrades to property homeowners in san francisco. it's the special pinsz that will help prevent energy efficient upgrade and a spreading e spraifd the cost recovery over the life the unit. it will help to finance upgrades through the property assessment and the capita will be priority by private entities would no financial risk to our at the center everyday we're here fortunately in lieu of to witness the clean up air energy economy we know this could trigger a market transformation for the evolution we're witnessing but in order to unleash the potential we must provide the cat lift for a are you unnecessarily product and services. that catalyst as i mentioned it green finance sf. we've seen other parts of the state here in california that have adapted pace programs like in riverside county and have each year the positive impacts. we know the stories of individual that have benefited from the pace programs. we know those upgrades can save money for crucial home improvem

by breaking away from east baton rouge parish and creating a new city. st. orge would b would be theh largest city in the state. >> is it all about education? >> it's totally all about education. we came in to this say be we want to take control of our schools. >> it would take more than just at accountability. the city could cost the city at large $53 million, 20% of the budget. and st. george would be majority white 3-1 ratio. >> then we would have white people in the middle coast and in the middle would be the black kids. residents of baton rouge make an average of $58,000 a year. in the more affluent st. george areas make $90,000. >> we have to take a look, does that take us backyard. i don't see it as a trend. >> but it's not a new trend. those who looking to breakaway, they say it's not about race. it has to do with education. >> this has nothing to do with skin color. if you have the means to leave baton rouge and leave the school system, you would have left. >> but for those who are not able to leave like jeffy lee, you're going to have one side bette

st. louis, kansas city and columbia. it's going to move through new england.ries through the ohio valley. there's a mix area, too. a little bit of ice in kentucky, southern indiana. north of that, all snow, indianapolis, detroit, chicago and areas of pennsylvania. as far as the snow totals go, this area of pink grew overnight. six to 12 inches north of boston to hartford and outside new york city. as far as the big cities go, new york city around three to six. hartford, eight to 12 and boston, four to eight. significant snow event. saturday evening is the worst traveling. avoid the roads then. >> getting a clip. don't get much. it's all i care about. >> i think you will get a solid eight inches. >>> coming up on "morning joe," budget deal sails through the house of representatives. it didn't stop speaker boehner from lashing out at groups. is this the beginning of an intraparty battle? poler and fey to host the golden globes. we'll have a peek of what to expect. [ male announcer ] for every late night, every weekend worked, every idea sold... ♪ you deserve a c

at a baton rouge louisiana where little municipalities want to break free and start their own city called st george. there's a lot of talk about the fashion around the u.s. these days the latest comes out of baton rouge louisiana residents of the city's southern unincorporated municipalities want to break away from baton rouge to form their own city called same dillard's because they are fed up to have it it started out as an effort to create a new school district say george organizes for sit in their kids being in the school district where kids recently knocked out a bus driver's team when advocates couldn't get their own school district that's only got the idea to just say how all of this and form their own used city entirely the problem is that baton rouge has spent a bunch of money is pissing up the would be city of st george and st george wants to take some of the things. best schools and highest revenue generating shopping areas away with them so if st george were to become a city they'd be taking about thirty percent of the city's money and the best schools and many say that would hav

the city of st george would encompass an unincorporated area home to a fifth of the residents, it wouldontrol and run schools with its own tax residence. >> it's not about starting a city, it's about education. >> it's about 100% total about education. we came into this saying we want to take accountability for the schools in our area >> critics say st george would take more than accountability. the break-up could cost the city at large $53 million - 20% of its budget and would segregate the city. baton rouge is majority black. st george would be a majority white at a 3:1 ratio. >> now we would have white kids going to school over here on this end of the parish. white kids going to school on the ordinary end of the parish and in the middle the black kids. >> there's an income disparity. residents in baton rouge earn $58,000. residents in st george make 90,000. >> we have to go back to where we are segregating ourselves. i don't see it as a win. >> it's not a trend. both the white and black middle class have been fleeing baton rouge in search of new schools. those breaking away say it's

i've effectively built partnerships with city's and st. mary's hospital. as part of the i pc we partner with immigrant organizations including san francisco organizing projects and san francisco based coalitions which i am a member. on the national level we work with the richest reform those collaborations have included the grassroots on capital hill for comprehensive reform. and i think this year i've managed to have 6 trips to d.c. to advocate on behalf of our immigrant community an capitol hill and have support from the members of the board and as we continue to struggle to effect change to monthly a broken immigration system we have an amazing ability to be the voice for a voiceless undocumented community. we live in the shadows and to bring their issues and concerned and needs to the mayor and board of supervisors. along with recommended to improve the programs and city policies. as vice chair of the commission i've proud of the work we've should very well together as a group and all my colleagues bring something interesting and varied to the table. s

st. louis to kansas city had to declare an emergency and return to the gate. the flight 1091 struck a bird open take off from lambert st. louis airport and 102 passengers were put on another flight. >> parts of new england and missile are cored in ice making holiday travel treacherous, the storm is blamed for 11 deaths since saturday and the power is still out for more than 390,000 homes. at the peak, the outage left 500,000 homes and businesses in the dark and canceled or delays thousands of flights across the country. in college we had a similar situation with no power for six days. >> mike? >> i can see the national map it is not looking too good? >> it is clearing out with the big storm pulling off, but there is snow headed to denvers minneapolis and lake effect snow through the chicago area, but, so far, all of our national airports are running on time. we have our own issues back here related to winter. can you see from the east bay hills it is looking hazy this morning looking across emeryville to san francisco. all of us can expect poor air quality so t

we have seen massive federal and state cuts, for us to hold the line locally and stand up in the city of st. francis for our seniors and our nutrition programs and families. i think we have a lot of challenges right now. we are still in the midst of the great recession. we all know way too many folks who are struggling in a minimum wage jobs pirouette of folks who have been laid off at work. i think as a city, we need to do much better at creating an environment where we have more jobs and more economic development. i know that all of us are committed to ensuring that we have a budget that not only provides basic city services that we have come to expect but make sure that we take care of our most vulnerable. whether it be our at-risk use, our seniors, are disabled, our working families, folks who are out of work. i know something that every 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. thi

. >>> take a look outside at san francisco, the trans america building and the city of st.rancis it is friday, december 20th, this is ""today in the bay."" >>> good morning, everyone, it is 4:30, christmas almost

and with that, we keep ensuring everyone that we continue to be the city of st. francis, so now let's proceed with questions, thank you. >> thank you, mr. mayor, our first question will be asked by our district 1 colleague, supervisor mar. >> thank you, mayor lee for being hair, the displacement is on the minds of many san franciscan, from the budget analyst report on the eviction crisis between 2009 and 2013t richmond district adds a whole has had 79 el sack evictions and 202 no vault evictioness placing my district among the highest of all neighborhoods in these categories. we also have a very high percentage of renters who are seniors and people with disabilities, many with serious mobility issues. the richmond district and the entire west side of the city lacks tenant focus services that are concentrated on the east side of town. given the tremendous need for tenant services and the geographic inequity in their distribution within san francisco, i would like to begin exploring hopefully with your assistance the possibility of providing a multiservice center i

three inches of snow from oklahoma city to st. louis. snow begins tonight and lasts through friday and also looking for significant ice including little rock, dallas especially the morning commute on friday will be dangerous. also widespread power outages. back to you. >>> accu-weather also saying it has never ever gotten this cold in central valley parts of california where so much citrus is growing and it's going to dip below zero again in fresno and las vegas. have you ever heard of las vegas getting that cold? >> that is horrible. not so cold that it will potentially kill the fruit, the crop this year. the last time it was cold in the '90s, not even this cold it was killing citrus trees themselves. the tree dies, not just the fruit on the tree. that's how crazy cold it is. >> it goes deep. my goodness. >>> here's a look at the rest of the thursday forecast. freezing rain and sleet in parts of northern new england. scattered showers from northern virginia to the southern appalachians. mix of rain and snow for new mexico and the southe

three to six inches of snow from oklahoma city into st. louis, starting tonight. ice for little rock and dallas. john and diana, back to you. >> jim, thank you. >>> stay with abc news for the latest on this cold snap. "gma" will have team coverage. a look at what's happening out there and what is still to come. >>> investigators in mexico have recovered a stolen truck loaded with dangerous radioactive materials. but they warn those thieves may be in grave dangers themselves. mexican troops are standing on guard of that recovered truck around the clock until the experts can safely dispose of a hazardous cobalt 60. >> this is material that could be used if used properly, in a very dangerous dirty bomb. they need to know how to handle the material without giving themselves incapacitating doses of radiation. >> it appears the thieves may have done that. investigators believe they cracked open the device and removed some of the cobalt 60. they could be at risk of dying within another day or two. >>> connecticut state officials have lost their long legal battle to keep

st. louis to oklahoma city, memphis, arkansas and louisiana.ind of okay on the eastern seaboard. no problems weatherwise. but this arctic blast will quickly spread south throughout the next two days. by thursday we're expecting an ice storm from oklahoma to arkansas, even areas of missouri, including a coating of snow on top of that, too. so, snowfall totals will be very impressive if you're traveling salt lake city or denver, billings, fargo or even minneapolis. be prepared for some serious delays tonight into tomorrow. and look at the temperatures fall. tomorrow's temperature map's kind of amazing. the high temperature in denver's going to be 10, where in san antonio, it's going to be 80. >> wow. wow, that's quite a spread. >> yes. that's a good sign that we have a large storm. >> thanks so much, bill. >>> well, the battle over sales tax for internet purchases heats up. >>> the most and least corrupt countries around the world. >>> plus, an eighth shark attack off the coast of maui in hawaii this season. this one is fatal. we'll have the deta

. >>> take a look outside at san francisco, the trans america building and the city of st. francis it is friday, december 20th, this is ""today in the bay."" >>> good morning, everyone, it is 4:30, christmas almost here. i'm jerry mcsweeney. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. let's check that forecast with meteorologist christina loren. >> good morning to you august a lot of people have very high interest in the weather, a lot of people traveling, a lot of people have family coming into town if you are one of those people, going to get spoiled this year, comfortable conditions, not just today, all the way throughout the next five to seven days. here is what we are looking at. you are going to find strong wind in santa rosa, napa, double digits. elsewhere, the single digits to start the day in terms of your wind speed. not as windy for today, nice, clear start, see a nice warming trend that is the weather story i want to tell you coming up in my next report. good morning, friday, probably not going that light with the travelers, mike. >> maybe later on, people don't leave the house

city's main jail was at stake. there was no home after the storm. st paul but he was a city in shock people who just lost everything. turning to the building to survive. then came news that he meets a woman seeking to have escaped freezing here and driving thousands out of the city they're close to seven hundred inmates here in a moment to the gym gave the storm came about a hundred sixty of them escape more than three weeks after the killer typhoon forty eight are still missing authorities say they're working on finding the remaining fugitives even as security remains tight rope the city. didn't actually take much an effort to search for those who escape. many have returned on the role. you must. most of us when doctors to check our founders which didn't have the intention to skate. i just want to make sure my family was ok eric says he could see the water rising just begun the sparklers. his family lived just across the president. and they had all survived. in a matter of a few hours every prospective jail. so was edgar martinez has been in jail for

st. peter's basilica in vatican city, this is monsignor tom powers extending to each of you a warm welcome you join us here live for christmas mass during the night with pope francis. this is pope francis' first time celebrating christmas mass as bishop of rome and supreme pontiff of the universal church. we see the procession beginning led by a

spill onto the street as part of a celebration known as kegs and eggs a students eagerly await the city's sts by surprise, thousands of young people were involved. it was upsetting to see what was going on. and we had never experienced that. >> everybody is on every inch of the street and every inch of the sidewalk and all of the porches, kmeetly wasted. it's just a sea of green mayhem. >> the crowd is whipping itself into a frenzy. and then things take a destructive turn. >> i was walking at one point. i remember hearing "charge" and look up and see a tv coming out the window. fantastic. now it's raining appliances. >> people are taking microwaves and throwing them into the streets. taking couches and pushing them out there. beer bottles, anything they can get their hands on. >> everybody is completely belligerent. >> at what point does somebody look around in the kitchen and go, i'm going to throw everything in here out the window? when somebody gets to that point it can only go downhill. >> once things started to get really crazy we moved on. we wanted no part of that. >> after destroying

seven assist nation agreement with the eu and instead joined a moscow to a customs union the city spoke to st to demonstrate to try to reach government buildings the local media reports that more than a hundred arrests made albeit seconds of the east west conflict in ukraine the visiting russian leader went on the offensive was the thought of the putin said he told events in ukraine will more like a pogrom been a revelation. and that demonstrate to swim pretty well prepared and trained militant groups. in my view this is an attempt by the opposition to shake the current among want to emphasize that it's an adult parties in the country he said. it is the number was and what small what's taking place right now it's absolutely not the revolution but a well planned protest that in my view is aimed not today. that is directed at the presidential election campaign in march twenty fifteen. critics of the command of the kids pitched in a pressurized former soviet republics such as armenia and ukraine to reject deals that would lead to greater integration with the eu. the russian president increased w

well, this will make its way further to the east across kansas city, st. louis tonight with snow. and the southern ernd. we have the icy mix for washington, d.c. and baltimore. this will be the first major snowstorm for the northeast bringing in a couple of inches between one to three inches across washington, d.c. and new york. >> jennifer, thank you very much for the update. we'll all be bracing for that cold stuff coming our way shortly. thank you. >>> caught in the act, new video this morning appearing to show two men stealing parts of the porsche belonging to actor paul walker. that one he was in when he was killed in that horrific crash. tmz is reporting that walker's fans reported the whole thing. men running up to the tow truck and taking off with some of the parts. one of the men is 18-year-old jameson witty posted the photos on instagram. witty is behind bars being held on $20,000 bail. the other man is expected to turn himself in soon. >>> south korea is preparing for large crowds and a host of world leaders for a paying tribute to the life and legacy of celebrated anti

russia's security forces from their preparations and maybe even a more serious attack on a major city such as moscow, st petersburg, or maybe even an attack on the olympic sites in sochi. >> what does this mean for the olympic games? what are security forces doing in order to make sure they are prepared for the tens of thousands of spectators that are expected when they begin in february? >> president vladimir putin, this day, again called on security agencies to take every possible measure to make these winter olympic games, the first ever to be held in russia, maximum safe. he promised that many times before. because authorities are well aware of the threat from the northern caucasus, from islamist rebels, analysts in moscow say the games itself will be sure, because there are more than 30,000 police officers and soldiers already deployed to the region to ensure security during the games. immediately after the games, many here in russia fear that violence and bloodshed will increase extremely. >> thank you very much for the latest. >> you are welcome. >> as we have just heard, the attacks in volgograd

, and an issue that came up as a concern was the 800 block of kerney where the chinatown, city college is and stey had a white zone in front of that facility. they said that in february all of a sudden no parking from 3-6 was posting and they are having problems with that now. they have been in touch with the staff since february, and it seems to be unresolved. can we have somebody look into that? >> we'll have the director to do that. thank you, any other new or unfinished business by the board? seeing none. >> director's report. >> director reiskin. >> good afternoon, board, members of the staff and we'll start with recognizing some of our employees as we do at the first meeting of each month. first, just kind of a follow on, i had mentioned last meeting that we had held our 2013 safe driver award event which is honoring muni operators who have 15 or more years' of safe driving. it's something that we did in collaboration with the transport workers union local 258 and today we wanted to recognize a couple of those operators who are in the 35 plus years of safe driving category. so i want to as

city. thank you. >>> 120 byu football players are helping serve thousands of meals at st. anthony's in san francisco, as well. the players are in town to play washington in a couple of days for a bowl game. they were joined by community volunteers and residents of the foundation's job training program. and if you are looking to help out, drop off a ham or some socks for the gift bags for those in need. >>> san francisco police and firefighters are delivering thousands of toys to kids. the toys were donated to the 13th annual christmas toy drive at lefty o'doul's bar at union square. more than 10,000 toys were donated yesterday. >>> now to some other top stories on this christmas day. alameda county sheriff's deputies are investigating a murder-suicide in san lorenzo this morning. deputies were called to a home on via amigo and via lucas to find a husband and wife dead. he allegedly killed her and then himself. >> we don't believe there is any danger outside to the community. we believe it's confined to the home. there were other people in the home when this happened. >> sh

can use toronto motorsports we begin in the lebanese capital larry how awful call home school st on the city's downtown area only on today killing a prominent politician least five dollars the homemade choc top and former finance minister and senior aide to son grady was amongst the dead missile he was the target of attack for strikeouts and i am sometimes the boy getting off the las night. as emergency workers can still be dead and wounded to hospital. after i come home to me today breaks these nasty streak. during the morning rush. security sources say a stolen vehicle was made that up to sixty kilograms of explosives and remotely detonate it. leaving behind the screen to in the middle of the streets with it and soak them in the desk of them. the looks of that stuff so that's when we knew it had all gone the bonus trac its target sunni opposition leader mohammad top. on his way to much fourteen police in the team when he's called lee was hit by the deadly toons a former finance minister said that was an outspoken critique of the sea remains demon and its ally hezbollah and declares aide to f

st. nicks invaded had city for the bar crawl and brawl bringing the opposite of. >> to all who encountered them. in new york thousands took to the street jamming up bars and leaving a path of piss and puke. the santas were a group caught on camera beating the crap out of each other on 17th street and third avenue. that's the best place to get your ass kicked. >> this is a [bleep]. >> oh! that guy got [bleep] dropped. >> oh. >> it is like a scene from "the wanderers". it is a gang of santas wandering the streets. there is definitely somebody in the cab going i can't get out. i can just stay here. the santas will be gone soon. wk, you actually were involved with santacon a couple years ago? >> yes, but not to this capacity. it is more party friendly. yes, my nightclub, my friends and i have called santos party house. our mascot is a santa and we were fortunate enough to host santacon, big night on a saturday, and just two days ago on saturday i djed at a warehouse party in brooklyn and saw no shannanigans of th they were gleeful with good cheer. no satanic santas. >> i don't want to smear th