new york city's mayor michael bloomberg is leaving, too, after more than a decade at city hall. >> new york city has never been stronger than it is today, and i think it's fair to say that our future has never been brighter. >> reporter: in the final speech of the term, he said his city today is drastically different from the one he took glover i think it's safe to say that it's clear that the golden age of the suburb is over, and it is being replaced by a new urban renaissance redefining the future. >> reporter: violence, governmental dysfunction, decay. in the 1970s new york lost more than 10% of its population. it was a center of a growing trend of cities around the country where middle class residents were fleeing fast to the suburbs. >> if you want to change the world, run for mayor. >> i, michael r. bloomberg do solemnly swear... >> ly after the september 11th attacks he took over investing . it would be his legacy and inspiration to other metropolitan areas around the country. today crime is way down in new york. perhaps in part due to a tough and controversial policing policy c

americans live in cities. there are small cities in kansas, but they live in cities. city dwellers have to start voting their urban interest. never mind republican or democrat. the interest of cities is the interest of nations. if urban citizens both their interest the national government will be giving them back the resources. it is only because the american government is in the hands of a minority right now that the urban minority is not being well served. worldwide, the majority are in cities, and if we follow democratic practices, in time that means national governments will be controlled by urban majorities, and the national government will work with, not against, cities to get the job done. tavis: detroit, now that we know the bankruptcy is official, but there are other cities that are teetering on being detroit. armed big their cities and small cities that maybe the next detroit. chicago comes to mind immediately. give me some sense of what happened in detroit and how we keep other cities from going the same route. very important example. the bankruptcy of citi

it's letting people understand as we start to shift how cities do change, cities are resilient and cities can come back. the way that pittsburgh came back is very different from the city that my grandfather came to in 1921 from city italy. it's not that same city but it does have the opportunity to be better. >> i think when people think with oakland, the polarization between black and white community, but today oakland is a city that is equally divided between blacks, asians, latinos, african-americans. we're diverse racially and economically and makes it one of the most interesting cities in the world. we won over 20 accolades being one of the most exciting cities to being one of the greenest cities, and portland and oakland are similar, we're both old port cities. oakland is more diverse, we have the best weather. there are some things that people think they know, but when they come, i have walked with many groups, many say i didn't know it was this beautiful. that you have the redwood forests and we have every micro climate for gardeners. and we're a city of innovation. i have very po

we know when this law has worked our city's contract practices can keep tax dollars here in the city which will do most good for our residents. we know when 14b works we know that san francisco is doing all we can to end discrimination and to ensure that we are not contracting with businesses that discriminate. the hearing that i'm calling for will help us chart a progress in full filling our cities policy on discrimination and we hope in the light of legal adjustment to better award and administer a contract that is better and fair and effective to provide equal opportunities. as san franciscans we all must do a better job and i like -- look forward to working with. you my third item is an environmental ordinance. with recent typhoons and we've all seen an impact of global warning and we have seen our efforts to reducing greenhouse gases and reducing addiction to plastic bottle water. in the 1990s the industry experienced an enormous growth but before that everyone managed to stay hydrated. in 1996, the average public drank 1.6 billion bottled wear -- water per year. today americans

it called for data coordinators to be established in city agencies throughout city government. but none of these things after many, many months have occurred and this is why supervisor farrell has moved forward with his legislation. i do hope that all of the agencies throughout the city that have data can understand that we are serious about wanting to modify our open data standards. we are serious about releasing every open data set that we have. this is how we improve our government. this is how we make our government accountable and transparent and colleagues i also ask for your support. >> thank you, president chiu. so, colleagues, can we take this same house same call? thank you. [gavel] >> >> item 32, madam clerk. >> item 32 is a -- >> i'm sorry. looks like there are a couple comments. >> i apologize. i actually wanted to go back to item 29 and rescind the vote. i apologize i need to make a minor amendment. >> okay. supervisor kim would like to make a motion to rescind, seconded by supervisor campos. without objection, the vote for item 29 is rescinded. [gavel] >> supervi

commitment to making this city a safer place. we know that you are more likely to be hit if you are a child, if you are a senior, if you are low-income. this is an important public safety issue for everyone and we also know that this is an equity issue. and i think there are three things that our office will be looking at along with several of my colleagues here on the board who i know will be speaking after me about what we can do. number one, we must look at fully investing and funding the pedestrian strategy. this is not just an issue policy. this is an issue of life and death and critical injuries here in the city that are absolutely preventable. there are so many ways to go in the city, but this is the one that is 100% avoidable and 100% preventable. and often made by reckless driving that could have been prevented just by yielding to pedestrians in the crosswalk or turning carefully when making right or left turns. i think it's also important as we look at driver education and r. of course street redesigns of our most dange

as our city continues to grow in density, particularly in the eastern half of the city, i think there will be more pedestrians, more drivers and more cyclists on the road and we have to learn how to share that together. new york city has recently announced a zero tolerance campaign to end all pedestrian fatalities by 2021. nothing make these numbers more real than attending the memorial services of the victims who have passed and meeting friends and families who are mourning their loss whether it is ms. mulak, mr. lie, mr. lasi, and ms. lou. there is a big commitment i would like to make to ensure that we are continuing our efforts and i look forward to working with my colleagues. i do want to, if possible, defer both to supervisor avalos and president chiu so that we can talk about this issue. thank you. and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor kim. >> colleagues, if i could without objection, proceed to -- a number of us have had a number of pedestrian facilities in our districts and i know there are others that would like to make comments on this subject. i would like to rec

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maintain and create jobs in the city. i'm here to say thank you jose to really let everybody you know how appreciative i've been 0 o and lucky to have you as a leader in our financial literacy captain. ooip i've been lucky to inherit a movement gavin was there before me and a visionary and i still get his council as he goes across california doing great things in education. gavin i say thank you that f in your new really as lieutenant governor everything we've accomplished we get a national and state audience because of the work you've done. with that our visiony and former mayor now lieutenant governor gavin newsom. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. obviously, we have the same speech writer i have nothing else to say about jose wonderful work and thank you for covering the base is. i ran over to college and wondered what happened to terminate limits that's been 10 damn years you're not over this yet, huh? . i was thinking what was the world would it be like. but it is remarkable to go back in time as the mayor was reflecting

engaged in the hauling of solid waste generated by the city in the course of city operations, pursuant to a contract with the city; and workers performing moving services under city contracts at facilities owned or leased by the city. civil service commissionn12341234 president david chiu: same house same call. this resolution is adopted. item 20: 20.131092[lease termination agreement - literacy for environmental justice - lease no. l-13816 - ecocenter]sponsor: cohenresolution authorizing the mutual termination agreement between the port and literacy for environmental justice for lease no. l-13816, for the ecocenter at heron's head park, located at jennings and cargo way, item 20: 20.131092[lease termination agreement - literacy for environmental justice - lease no. l-13816 - ecocenter]sponsor: cohenresolution authorizing the mutual termination agreement between the port and literacy for environmental justice for lease no. l-13816, for the ecocenter at heron's head park, located at jennings and cargo way, pending item 20: 20.131092[lease termination agreement - literacy for environment

goes outside of the city, captures tooks revenue, and then brings it into the city and spends it on cityervices. richardson's report has been paid for by the opponents of this movement from day one. this area currently pays for all of the constitutionally funded offices. it currently also pays for essential services which will put the city of baton rouge between a 10 and $22 million shortfall. so i didn't understand how a 1 to 2% cut within the city of baton rouge on an $800 million budget is going to be the answer at the end of the day. if we do what we say we're going to do, and pay for what we're going to pay, and we do what we say -- >> can i jump in -- >> i want to know from dr. richardson, if we do what we say we're going to do, will it adversely effect the parish? because -- >> professor richardson why don't you answer the question is it going to bankrupt the parish. >> couple of points. lionel said they are taking our money to send on city services. first most of that is sales tax money. and also people who live in baton rouge shop there as well. you have that problem. the other

we will make this one city. and that mission, our march towards a fairer, more just, more progressive place, our march to keep the promise of new york alive for the next generation, it begins today. thank you and god bless the people of the city of new york. clps. >> bill deblasio giving his acceptance speech as the first democratic mayor in two decades in new york city clps with a very, very forward-leaning pretty boastful discussion about the progressive ideals that he has, promising that they weren't just political campaign slogans, but he promised to really try to change things and make new york very, very different place. we're going to talk a lot more about this and about the man who introduced him. swore him in, bill clinton and what this means for the clintons, not just bill deblasio. stale with us. we'll have a lot more of this on the other side of the break. deblasio. >>> welcome back. we just witnessed the ceremonial swearing in of the 109th mayor of new york city, bill deblasio. it was quite a moment

our city. having said that we wanted to make a coordinated effort to capture for information to work with the companies who's employees are on those buses and work with the shuttle companies themselves why with them at a higher level coordination but happenstance b will get you into dallas and having conflicts in those muni zones and causing problems for bicyclists or causing buses to stop if the transport lanes without coordination. i know the more recent voices have been identifying those for the purposes of political agenda and rhetoric the buses are symbolic of other things i know our transportation experts and people in the city see this as a contribution to preventing for congestion on our streets. so today, we're here to announce an agreement with the city with the participation of the company's and the bay area council and want to thank them and the corporate leaders announce an agreement for the next 18 months we will have an agreed upon approach to the use of our muni zones with a sha

san francisco is a great city because of it's multiculturalism in this city. this possess a threat to that diversity, economic strength and even our competitive edge. that's why we have marshalled our resources and invest in our neighborhoods and advance in education and public safety. we are reporting to african neighborhoods and businesses in this strategy in mind. with this strategy in mind. we need to focus on providing people with opportunities, job opportunities. i was proud to work with many of you with a program that employees thousands of youth. our interrupt, predict and organized strategy that is not just decreasing the number of shootings and homicide in our city but helping us organize in this community and providing us with job learning opportunity and get better outcomes for our people and our families . we also recently opened the contract in bayview which will allow small business owners to access millions of dollars in the near future. also we are partnering with non-profits that provide loans throughout the city including fillmore neighborho

system inside and out, coming from outside the city i didn't get the city processes at all. so, to have somebody who really understands it, of how to continue to move the work forward and how to continue to operate a successful and thriving department. so, just lastly i wanted to thank former mayor gavin newsom who appointed me to this position and our current mayor, mayor lee for the opportunity to serve the city and county of san francisco for the past 3-1/2 years. and thank you. best of luck. and i look forward to seeing you in other venues, continuing to support san francisco as a sustainable city. so, thank you very much. (applause) >> we have at least one member of the public that would like to speak, [speaker not understood]. >>> she's wearing a disguise. [laughter] >> to keep the lights off of my eyes. i'm [speaker not understood] and i just want to take this moment to thank melanie since i haven't been able to be at any of her other going away celebrations. melanie, there's one thing i want to say to you and that is thank you for being a champion of the environment

this is a city-wide issue and we need to tackle it as a city-wide issue, not district issue. i, too, been a friend of isabelle hughey over four decades and seen her work throughout those decades. not only from the places she worked, but also sitting on various boards and organizations. i hope that we all could ask people to support the lou family in terms of helping them with their financial difficulties to deal with this situation. i think the sherman school is collecting funds, as supervisor mar mentioned. as i mentioned at the beginning of the year, this issue was already important to me. one of the things i never talked about -- actually, my grand to they are got killed by a car, too. so, i started this year really focusing on capital improvements to make our streets as safe as possible. and the other pieces that supervisor kim has mentioned, we need to be more aggressive in this city. it's one thing to try to have traffic calming. but if enforcement is not there, it's not going to work and we just need to raise our level of enforcement. at the same time, when we talk abo

our city is a major purchaser of prescription drugs. our department of public health spends over $23 million a year to purchase pharmaceutical drugs for our patient populations. unfortunately drug pricing is often murky and secretive. many have trade secret protected and are subject to other regulatory prohibitions on disclosure. public entity purchaser such as our city essentially have to take the word of manufacturers that we're getting the lowest price even with discounted drugs covered by federal programs. there have been several attempts to increase price transparency in today's cost. the federal 340 b drug price program allows entities like the department of public health to purchase drugs for outpatient care at greatly reduced rates. a 2011 attempt to expand this to inpatient care was devoted by counseling. last year our city took an official support position of senate bill 746 authored by senator leno which would have required health plans and insurers to disclose more information on a variety of aspects of charges and rates inc

cities are not out of the woods.hey still have a ways to go despite your accurate report for the fiscal continue of the national league of cities. they're up turn in terms of revenues but their seven years of decline in revenues, so rebuilding programs especially for the quality of life, neighborhood beautification. going back to that is going to be difficult. public safety as well. >> james brooks stay with us. we'll bring th others in the conversation after this brief break. this is inside story. stay with us. >> an exclusive "america tonight" investigative series >> we traveled here to japan to find out what's really happening at fukushima daiich >> three years after the nucular disaster, the hidden truth about the ongoing cleanup efforts and how the fallout could effect the safety of americans >> are dangerous amounts of radioactive water, leaking into the pacific eververyday? >> join america tonight's michael okwu for an exclusive four part series, as we return to fukushima only on al jazeera america >> scholars

city and county of san francisco ~. item number 3, resolution approving a mills historical property contract, under administrative code, chapter 71, between pacific heights, llc, the owners of 2550 webster street, and the city and county of san francisco; and authorizing the planning director and assessor to execute the mills act historical property contract. ~ city and county of san francisco. item number 4, resolution approving a mills act historical property contract, under administrative code, chapter 71, between 1019 market street properties, llc, the owners of 1019 market street, and the city and county of san francisco; and authorizing the planning director and assessor to execute the mills act historical property contract. ~ item number 5, resolution approving a mills act historical property contract, under administrative code, chapter 71, between brian jackson and thomas ranese, owners of 3769 20th street, and the city and county of san francisco; and authorizing the planning director and assessor to execute th

the city accepted the proposal by san francisco. in 2011 the city negotiated. one of the competitors sued along with the groups from the county. in 2012 to allow the review process of the recology proposals to take place. at this point there are no agreements and three lawsuits have been dismissed by the courts or by stipulation. one plaintiff has filed an appeal of dismissal. the legislation in front of you dated january 27, 2014, will do three things. it will state that any landfill agreements resulting from the competitive selection process used here will not be subject to administrative code chapter 21 which is one of the arguments made in the remaining appeal. chapter 21 establishes rules for city and services itself. in the current landfill agreement under the proposal, the city does not buy or pay for the disposal of refuse and the disposable site for san francisco and established charges for disposal that recology in turn in a separate capacity and the city may charge it's customers and the rates for customers must be approved by the director of dpw. al

a spectacular investment on our cities future. i know rick is here today and rick we're behind you for another successful playoff season thank you. we'll continue to invest in our neighborhood within our 25 investing corridors throughout the city places like gary boulevard in commissioner antoine: district and other districts. i'd like to thank our 2010 and 2011 along with the heads for giving back to the city for the giant team last year. thank you giant (clapping) and in 2013 we brought 3 w if any, to our city thanks to supervisor farrell and in 2014 we'll continue to connect our folks to the cloud. and we'll continue to invest in the quiet machine of our small businesses with our ata assistance program our job squad and on line business portal. we must continue to support our nonprofits they provide vitality in front line services to our resident. and just like many of the clients on low income it's tough to absorb an there in rent so i applaud supervisor kim and supervisor chiu and look forward to working with them for practic

this is the story of our city. our port has really defined our past as i think that we all know, the first 49ers came right here to this spot to build this city, during world war ii, our military ships were recommissioned, right here from our port. we know that our friends from labor as the mayor said, built our city, starting here with this water fort and this is the story of our city and we also know that the water front in the port defines who we are and it is amazing in 2013, if you just walk along the water front in my district, you will start at the fisherman's wharf street scape improvements and to the cruise ship terminal that we just cut the ribbon for and you walk down to the terminals and the ports where america's cup will entertain a million, international visitors within a few months. walk down a couple more blocks to piers 15, 17, where we are going to see a half a million kids come to go all the way down to what we know that will be the next site of the warrior's arena and down to the ballpark and th

also because it's such a diverse city use.t's over a quarter of a million people walk this corridor on an everyday basis. it has a huge diversity of population. it has small businesses, large businesses, as well as financial as well as restaurants all along the way, established and new. we wanted to signal this was part of that revitalization. i know supervisor wiener is very happy with this because he along with supervisor chiu has been asking to do more with communities of ethnic diverse backgrounds. this is a demonstration of what we can do in a major corridor. we have a vision that other corridors in other of our diverse communities can also benefit similarly as this will be. and again, it's the right way of doing it. it is the kind of public private partnership that we've been seeking with companies like ruckus wireless to help with us, dt will be maintaining it from here on to make sure it is accessible to everybody. like i said earlier, it's one that we will keep market street as something that department of technology

is also the city which goldman sachs has chosen to open its cost of city hall but what do you think about this lake well i think it's interesting because you know some of the other cities are a lot bigger than salt lake city that are in the in the top that i think it's more about innovation in those cases because all they see is not just about you know the innovation but it's also about lifestyle you know the compactness of the city the walkability of the city the fact that it's not a huge city and one of the big things i think about salt lake is that it's very close to the mountains you have like park city which is really close by so you can do lots of different things yeah it's a great quality book and john are our line producer knows a lot about and he says that it's laid out like a grid kind of a grid like you mentioned walkability but i want to get to some of the other top five now number two is san jose california number three san francisco. oh number four seattle washington and number five san diego california now ed given california's financial troubles what do you think it

the second largest city in new jersey is jersey city. and jersey city, too, is starting to become known for its rising star of a democratic mayor. his name is steven fulop, he is 36 years old. his parents were immigrants to this country. he grew up working in their deli in newark. he worked hard, went to college, got himself a great job after college working on wall street. he was working at goldman sachs. but then in 2002, he gave it all up to enlist in the marine corps. he signed up and shipped off to iraq. when he came back, he ran again -- he ran an against-the-odds campaign for city council in jersey city and he beat the incumbent and got himself a seat on the city council. then this past year, steven fulop ran an against-the-odds campaign for mayor of jersey city and, again, beat the incumbent. part of what makes steven fulop seem like a rising star, what makes him a high profile local politician, from whom big things are expected, jersey city like newark is famously corrupt. jersey city is where frank hague ran the mayor's office

city by city we can do this. even though the pg & e and puc will tell you you can't do that in the state. you can do it and germany did it and a book about how germany fought the city. it's called germany em period of -- imperative and how they passed the tariff city by city. it's spread all across europe now and china has just adopted this which is shocking for me that a country would be paying a high rate for home owners feeding onto the agreed. this creates jobs, it's an effective policy and more effective than community choice aggregation. thank you. >> good afternoon. any -- my name is george angle. i'm here to ask you to save my grandmother. my family has lived in san francisco for almost 2 years. as far as we know we are the longest standing property owners in san francisco. currently my grandmother is a deed owner of the property. i subsequently became wear of the building and it became my goal to renovate the building itself and i immediately began to work with a n architect. i began to look for investor

and make the affordable housing possible for more people in this city. thank you. >> i am an organizer and i am here because we are living in a housing crisis, this is ridiculous, like i don't know anybody who can afford, 2,000 for a studio, and i don't know anybody, i don't know if i have met anybody. and so i think that it is really important to acknowledge what the city has made really bad decisions in which the highest bidder has been the one that has been able to develop. in a city that our families have built and my dad was a laborer for 30 years and i have been a community organizer for 20 years and all of these people have the same story and help to create this beautiful city that we live in and so i think that the most beautiful thing about being here is seeing the school district and the office of housing and we need to have all of the departments of the city come together and address this crisis, because it is not fair that kids don't have a place to do their homework and a place to cook and a place to feel safe, you know? and so i think that

trees in new york city. ason new york city.wth in demand, ibm is moving from westminster not far from our project in the east village to open their watson computing center for cloud computing. just anyou say -- even example of what i just mentioned with greenwich village and the amount of demand. some peopleside, might say this is why i am worried about moving to manhattan or being in new york. i might get squeezed out by everybody who has more money than me. beauty of this city. what the mayor has done in the last 12 years and the new mayor will focus on in the future, creating opportunities in other boroughs. look at brooklyn. took over 2000 feet for manufacturing. the power of this city is diverse marketplace. you have the high-end, medium and, and the low-cost alternatives for companies. a company that has grown to almost one million feet of space with shared workspace for entrepreneurs. that is the dynamics in the city. >> there are many competitive cities. we have had many entrepreneurs on who are all trying to lure compa

our city can do the same. in fact our city has already invested enormous resources to identify how collisions happen and to prevent it. we have already studied and identified the most dangerous high injury corridors and areas in the city and the most dangers driving behaviors. we have information and we need to act on what we know and the incredible data we have already collected. supervisors avalos, he and i are making this commitment to our residented zero traffic fatalities in 10 years. as we ask our residents to absorb residential density and more pedestrians and drivers to share our roads, the city need to step up our efforts to make this work with our infrastructure and to make our city safer. we are asking to create san francisco's vision zero based on a three part strategy focus is on engineering and education and enforcement. we believe this will make san francisco a safer place to walk and bike as we ask san francisco to make this their primary and preferred method of transportation. while engineerin

, that brings people to the city. and i have employees that live in the city that need to get to work i have folks that need to get to court and go and go. i need transit. and i want to just say that on market street, i bought a building between polk and van ess where you need the courage and the bullet proof vest to get to work every day and i stayed there it seems to be a great place, twitter finds it to be an ideal location to be but it always wasn't. and what made the difference is the way that market street has evolved. and one of the most important going to collapse. transit is like water, if you put in a block in one place, it will move another place if you give that need another avenue it will take it and as a small business person, thank you for holding this meeting and thank you for helping my people get to work and my clients get to my office and to keep the city alive, thank you. >> thank you. >> next? >> mary lauren hall. swarts, and kaplin of >> i am with the alliance for biking and walking and an organi

but there's many, many thousands of people in our city and in cities across this country, 80,000 people in san francisco that have difficulty reading or cannot read. and i think amazing projects like project read help to address that challenge for many, many people in our neighborhoods. that's about roughly -- what is that -- one in -- one in ten of our city's population we're talking about. people to people approaches addressing this issue are i think the most amazing and inspiring, and project read has lived up to that example. i just wanted to say also that as a teacher i was a learner of [speaker not understood] and i know he said that once people learn to read the word, they learn to read the world. and it really opens up your eyes. literacy and reading, but also in seeing things in new ways. and i think project read is a great example of opening up the world to so many, many people and families in our city. the event tonight will highlight this at 5:30. the project read provides trained volunteers;, i think there's been about 4,000 tutors over the years that you've trained to help

and the city maintenance them. currently the individual homeowners are in order to planet 50 thousand trees because homeowners won't be liable. right now the liability is stopping people >> i can walk around my block and find three or four city blocks. there's another issue is the roots to damage the sidewalk >> only sidewalks that are damaged by the trees are included in the $20 million number. >> thank you very encouraging. >> anything else? all right. thank you very much. commissioners that will place you on item 9. t the, 2013 you want upgrade to the general plan. >> good afternoon you commissioners sue with the planning department staff. i'm here with a great team of folks. my colleagues and then my partners at the other agencies from the rec and park department and from the port. i'm sorry to turn it over at the at the end. as was mentioned we're here to ask you to adapt a resolution to initiate amendments to the general plan for the updates of the recreation of the various elements. i'm going to pile up the

city so this year i mentioned we suffered consequences of inaction. we have seen that as we advocate to make our streets safer that kind has been addressing other issues as well. i wanted to just wrap up my introduction remarks by saying i think the report from mr. rose's office is the result of an incredible amount of analysis and work and thinking of recommendations that hopefully will dialogue on today and beyond. i wanted to say to that as a member of the bay air quality air district and the bay area association of districts and as we increase growth and transportation goals we have to absolutely improve bicycle spending and infrastructure in the city. reaching the goal of 50% of the trips by transit biking and walking is an ambitious goal but i think we can achieve that by not looking at the muni system which is heavily burdend and how we get a good bang for the buck and increasing spending in the bicycle infrastructure as well and as i said muni can't do it alone and infrastructure is a key part of meeting the city's goals. very low maintenance

lucia iraqi government forces continue to battle against al qaeda militants taking over two strategic cities in the country secretary kerry says no troops will be sent but we'll tell you how the u.s. plans to get involved just ahead and in chicago the battle over gun control rages on a federal judge has just overturned key legislation banning the sale and transfer of guns within city limits but what does this mean for a city with high crime we'll take a look at that debate coming up and cruising down the highway of life the american public has long had a love affair with the automobile buckle up later in the show artie will take you for a spin in the cars of the future. it's tuesday january seventh four pm in washington d.c. and then you're a david and you're watching our t.v. we begin today with iraq where clashes have erupted between iraqi special forces and al qaeda linked militants just outside the city of fallujah that's the latest outbreak in a standoff that's taken hold of the sunni dominated province of on bar according to the associated press the fighting resulted from the capture o

limits but what does this mean for a city with high crime we'll take a look at that debate coming up and cruising down the highway of life the american public has long had a love affair with the automobile buckle up later in the show our team will take you for a spin in the cars of the future. is choose a january seventh for him in washington d.c. and then you're a david and you're watching our t.v. we begin today with iraq where clashes have erupted between iraqi special forces and al qaeda linked militants just outside the city of fallujah that's the latest outbreak in a standoff that's taken hold of the sunni dominated province of on bar according to the associated press the fighting resulted from the capture of an army officer and four soldiers in the area just a day earlier also in on barre province earlier today in iraq a government airstrike killed twenty five al qaeda linked militants the clashes also followed a deadly attack in which a suicide bomber rammed his explosives laden truck into a police station in the northern city of kirk uhc the attack killed two people wounding

that tale of two cities that i think so many cities have become in this country and i felt like i could stand side in a word inequality came through loud and clear to me your busboys and poets restaurant opened a new street is in the the renaissance harlem area as you know right around from ben's chili bum you know iconic famous place absolutely. and yet. gentrification is going on in this city like nobody's business there's there's piles of money being thrown into washington d.c. we've got you know defense contractors outside the city in thirty five bedroom mansions and then you. you know i think would reagan came in office or was a couple hundred lobbyists now there's over thirty thousand and they're starting pay is one hundred two hundred thousand a year there's just a lot of money in this town what he'd do about that and what you know the social impact of that the. i live down in the southwest i'm in the middle of it i'm seeing it happen right now live down the waterfront. what is this what does this mean how do you handle how does a city and all people who are just i mean just thro

the quality of life in this city.we have to have that level of confidence, that level of confidence for contractors to be here for them putting their money in the resources, the hiring goals and training for all the future and present construction workers, men and women and people from all different backgrounds investing in their time that they want to build and be a positive force here. this particular project has so much meaning, mr. gallup to all of us. it's not just a reflection of a great family which i'm very glad to be introduced to but all of these partnerships that we are putting great confidence in the city. san francisco is successful. we have an unemployment rate lower than almost every part of this country. it's because we are putting partnerships together, we are introducing ourselves to different partners, building the right way, designing them the right way. it takes a lot of great confidence and partnerships to do this. and do it in a way in which we respect public lands and get out of it as much as w

and the city determines what is covered and while these funds technically revert to the city after 18 months, an individual has a right to react vait their account at any time and so technically they are available to an individual in perpetuity. >> maybe you just want to clarify the 18 months is after... >> after contribution? >> okay. i thought it was after no activity. >> oh, i am sorry, you are right, it is after no activity. >> okay. >> so this is, and we have changes to how these common compliance methods after the aca and the only change that you will see here is the orange box on the right-hand side called accepted benefits, or integrated hra. and so health reform says because individuals have to have minimum essential coverage, these hras don't qualify as minimum essential coverage any more and they are no longer allowed. and what is allowed, though, is a different kind of hra and a hra that does not cover those minimum essential benefits, those things like vision and dental that are not part of everyone's normal health insurance plan and so if you have an accepted benefit, hr