we would be in every urban city, any urban city, certainly the top 30 or 40 markets. >> this is an effortwhat you believe the adjustable market of one third -- >> at the most, a third. many people who sat in that cable programming and satellite programming is becoming much too expensive. and that they would prefer an alternative. a much less cost alternative. that is, by definition the younger rather than boulder -- t han the older. to me, i don't think we will reach a third come about that is the addressable. >> what about the threats from ves, and the like, they will turn their broadcast networks into cable channels and render your low-cost alternative neutered? >> it is very unlikely that a broadcaster who built their business on spectrum that they got for free. spectrum by definition blocks of the american people. they got it for free in return for investing in and building a direct system. if you could get the signal directly, you could receive it without anyone in the middle. it is very unlikely that they would be able to take that broadcasting away from that distribution of that si

the diversity of nature that exists in such an urban city, concrete streets, cars, we have this oasis of the natural environment. it reminds us of what the history was. >> there is a section for dogs and plenty of parking. transit is available on the 28 bus to get you very easily. the part is ada -- park is ada accessible. it is also a natural lake. this is your chance to stroll around the lake and let the kids run free. it also has many birds to watch. it is a place to find and appreciate what you -- a wonderful breath of fresh air. come and experience in this park and enjoy the people, picnics, and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take a stroll with your loved ones. in the middle of pacific heights, on top of these hills, it offers a great square, a peaceful beauty, large trees and grass and greenery. it features tables and benches, a playground, restaurants, and tennis courts. there are plenty of areas for football and picnics. it is very much a couple's park. there are many activities you can experience together. stroll on the pathways, bring your dog, or just picnic at one of

the comments will resonate in some areas like this in large urban cities and in the states that surround bangladesh. will it make any difference? we won't know until may 16th. >> 22 people have been killed at a gunman open fired in a hospital. anti-seleka rebels demanded money. three local staff of the charity doctors without borders were the victims. >>> iin a flaw of micro microsot explorer has been attacked by hackers. the bug allows the hack for take complete control of an effective machine manying they can view, change, delete data. microsoft is working on a fix, but it's unclear if it will be available to everyone. remember the company stopped supporting it's xp operating system this month and older pcs could remain vulnerable. if computer users are careful in their browsing habits they can keep the hackers out. >> you actually have to visit an infected website, so it will only take over your machine if you click on a link in, say, a spam e-mail or dodgy advertisement or link on a web page or you visit a weapon that happens to have been hacked and is therefore infect: then they wil

i think this urban shift in start ups is shocking and a dramatic example of our come back of our cities. >> it's the same reason why americans are urbanizing. they're liking what cities have to offer. companies, start ups can find the workforce in these cities. what else is it? >> well, our research shows we looked at this and did a statistical analysis that there are really three factors. the theirs one is the talented people who want to be part of the start ups. a growing share, not all of them some still want to be in the burbs, but many are demanding to be in urban centers. they're forming them in the urban center. the second thing and it relates to your previous guest, start ups need to be around diversity. in silicon valley historically anywhere from a third to 50% of the start ups had an immigrant, a non-american, someone from outside of the country. where do they head? large metro areas and the metro core. and the third factor is technology itself is changing. in the old days you were making a box. you were making a pass of hardware. you were making maybe a piece of software. no

it's also a very urban city with more than 100,000 people and he is there which makes it the biggest ty west of st. louis and its cosmopolitan. you have chinese coming europeans from different countries, some americans, mexicans, australians. the last reason san francisco is conducive to the literary scene is its isolation. it's hard to reach san francisco from the eastern united states and that gives a buffer to the culture but it's the city to and give it its own anti-u.s. democratic ultra low spirit of it guides plane and the rest of the bohemians. so i thought i would read a little bit of the introduction and then introduce you to the four characters. >> the civil war began with an outburst of patriotic feeling on both sides and the belief a few battles would result in a swift victory. it ended with the death of 750,000 soldiers in the nation shaken to its core. the wise men of the early era found themselves on = crisis and the great political military leaders in the past like john clinton ten and genital winfield scott in the previous century and into a forced retirement while th

we would be in any urban city, certainly top 30, 40 markets. >> this is an effort to reach what you believebe the addressable market of a herd of -- >> at the most, a third. i think there are a great many people who say that cable programming and satellite programming is becoming much too expensive and they would prefer an alternative that is a much less cost. by definition, the younger rather than the older. but to me, i don't think we will reach a third. but to me that is the addressable. >> what about threats from the likes of chase carey who recently have made broadcast networks into cable channels and render your low-cost alternative neutered? >> i think it is very unlikely that a broadcaster who dealt their business on spectrum that they got for free, spectrum by definition belongs to the american people, they got it free in return for investing in and building a direct system that, if you could get the signal directly, you could receive it without anybody in the middle. i think it is very unlikely that they would be able to take that broadcasting away from that distribution and that

but the major urban centers are two cities in the north, iquique and arica. iquique in particular spent most of the night without power.

modi's can comments will resonate in large urban cities and in the states that surround bangladesh. will it make any difference? we won't know until may the 16th. al jazeera new delhi. >> tries to stop a top engineering firm going offshore. the details on that from lauren in london. >> arfrancois hollande has spokn to siemens, jacky rowland reports. >> french government owns less than 1% of alston stock, which begs the question why is it getting involved? it's a matter of frer french pr. this major company working in high speed trains is french. advantage of having chrome and independence over the production of energy again one of alston's major fields. for all of those reasons there is a lot of resistance of the idea of g.e. an american company taking over alston. on the other hand, the proposal of siemens is more attractive. high speed training expertise that would combine alston and siemens, and under the siemens banner we would see an energy conglomerate that would dominate these two spheres. that is something the german government and the french government have expressed a lot

half the people live in cities. urban areas are vibrant. kabul was a city of less than 2,000, is now over 5 million. it has undergone change. the tribal dynamics exist, but they are different to so years ago. the afghan people are making choices on their own. what will be important on this seat are the afghan people who go out and vote. that voting in and of itself, regardless of who they choose will send a signal to the taliban. that the rest of the afghan people, 80 plus% of the people that -- 80 plus per cent of the people will go forward. the afghan security force has done a good job. there has been some isolated attacks, reported too much in the press. the afghan security forces are taking high casualties, but they are saving the lives of their compatriots. >> we have to hit a break. u.s. forces are ready to step down. is the military ready to step up. someone back from afghanistan. her account of what is happening on the ground next. . >>. >> thanks to our military, our allies, and the brave fighters of afghanistan, the taliban regime

>> in detroit blight hit the city hard. the urban decay has been insightly and become dangerous. 20% of the city's housing is vacant. 80,000 homes, 60% of the 12,000 fires involve blighted and abandoned buildings. bisi onile-ere is in detroit with more on what the city is doing to get rid of the blight. >> here in detroit dollar thousands aned of abandoned -- thousands of abandoned structures. they are eye scores. the city is looking at getting rid of all of these blighted structures. it's a monumental effort that would change the face of detroit. >> 80,000 abandoned buildings fill detroit's landcape. a result of 50 years of decline. race riots in the '60, a dying auto industry, and a great recession fuels the exodus. the population down to 700,000 after a peak of 2 million. >> we saw folks walk away. i have folks saying "i can't afford it, i'm leaving." >> neighbourhoods are plagued by crime. the abandoned burnt out, rotted out homes speak to the decline. >> it's tough to see it go down this far. >> we are hanging in there. i will s

we have real problems with our urban inner city public school education. we have the capability, what fixes it? is it a policy mix? a cultural visit? how do we take the ape capability that we have in the united states and narrow the income wealth gap. >> the program for international student attempt, the united states comes out, comes out in the average whereas the united states spends two to three times more than the average. therefore in terms of bang for your buck you're not getting what you need to get. arnie duncan said that this was a massive wake-up call. he said that he was quoting the president of the united states saying this is a spud nick moment that we need to realize that what is at stake is our future competitiveness and productivity, and future market shares, and therefore the future well-being of the people in the united states. so the implications are high. >> secretary general we appreciate that the ocd has always been sounding this warning bell for some time. it must be interesting and it's fashionable to talk about income inequality. >

we have real problems with our urban inner city public school education. we have the capability, what fixes it? is it a policy mix? a cultural visit? how do we take the ape capability that we have in the united states and narrow the income wealth gap. >> the program for international student attempt, the united states comes out, comes out in the average whereas the united states spends two to three times more than the average. therefore in terms of bang for your buck you're not getting what you need to get. arnie duncan said that this was a massive wake-up call. he said that he was quoting the president of the united states saying this is a spud nick moment that we need to realize that what is at stake is our future competitiveness and productivity, and future market shares, and therefore the future well-being of the people in the united states. so the implications are high. >> secretary general we appreciate that the ocd has always been sounding this warning bell for some time. it must be interesting and it's fashionable to talk about income inequality. >

cities. we would be in every urban center. we would be in any urban city., 40 markets. >> this is an effort to reach the market of a third -- >> at the most. i think there are a great many people who say that cable programming and satellite programming is becoming much too expensive and that they would prefer an alternative that is of much less cost. younger, rather than the older, by definition. but to me, i don't think we will reach a third, but that is the addressable -- >> what about the threats that the likes of chase carey have made -- they will turn their broadcast networks and cable channels and render your low-cost alternative neutered? >> i think it is very unlikely that a broadcaster who built their business on spectrum that they got for free, spectrum belongs to the american people, they got it free in return for investing in and building a direct system, that if you could get the signal directly, you could receive it without anybody in the middle -- i think it is very unlikely that they would be able to take that broadcasting away from that dis

is the sidewalk project and that is the friends of the urban forest and all of these will help with stewarting the public realm. >> and the city's developed stewart ship partnership that support the sidewalks and the medians and transforming of parking spots in the urban oasis but the city has yet to develop a similar approach, and so we thought that we will tell you more about what we mean by the plaza to begin with. >> it includes that they are generally spaces over 2,000 square feet and city owned right-of-way or property and they, again are outside of rec and park jurisdiction and located in the active areas, like commercial corridors or other activated areas, and they also need to have an existing community process around this public open space as well as a need for activation and maintenance, and i would like to point out that they invest in the neighborhoods and the business improvement program, have worked with merchant groups city wide to address under utilized spaces such as these plaza and have heard an interest from these groups in activation to bring vitality to the small, urban spaces and enhance the strength of th

apply for, accept, and expend the city's fy2014-2015 emergency solutions grants program entitlement in the amount of $1,393,730 from the u.s. department of housing and urban development, for an unspecified period starting july 1, 2014. >> item 4,resolution approving the fy2014-2015 community development block grant (cdbg) program; authorizing the mayor, on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, to apply for, accept, and expend the city's fy2014-2015 cdbg program entitlement from the u.s. department of housing and urban development (hud) in the amount of $16,627,564 and to expend program income and reprogrammed funds in the amount of $3,463,354 for a combined total of $20,090,918 for a period beginning july 1, 2014, without an expiration date >> okay, thank you very much. mr. chiu, thanks for being here. >> good morning, chair and members of the committee, brian chiu the director of community development for the mayor's office of community development and i am here before you to make our annual presentation of our accept and spend resolutions for the four different federal funding sources that we administer and as you may recall, we put out an rfp

i want to share the word from our company the national real estate company that builds urban homes around the city we've build one hundred and 68 housing in rough areas around the united states. we went to cleveland decades ago when everyone was leaving and after hurricane katrina we've built 15 hundred units there. (clapping.) the city of detroit declares bankrupts and we were there the next day we go where not only wants to do we built one hundred and 68 developments in those communities and built them for people that need descendent affordable housing. that's what we choose to do and those are the kind of developments we want to do. this is the only development i've done that has chosen me (clapping) and that's the gospel truth. 6 years ago i got a phone call from michael by an a mutual friend of george davis who calls me and says i have a friend looking for a developer i think you're the guy that can get along with him and meet his dandy live in la i flew up and met we talked about and he introduced me to his lovely wife and we had lunch and through three done some dominos and played cards ii

the rockefeller foundation resistant foundation requirement this is to rebuild the urban resistance in one hundred citiesund the world-class they were the only cities in the satire global network that are piloting a resistance i'll talk about that in a minute but first, let me give you just a brief description of one hundred resistant cities is what we aim to achieve. everyday somewhere in the world a city has their functions disrupted to deliver the services to their receipt and maintain capacity over the long-term. they're not hard to images where the next big earthquake or a health pandemic or a atrocity attack. those shocks are becoming more frequent and intermittence their impacts ripple across the regions macon city completely don't think another. they deal with chronic distresses as well and chronic sprez are constrains on the water supply or rising sea levels and inequality. those stresses make it hard for cities to respond effectively to shocks and it's difficult to restore functions in the wake of catastrophe. despite the technology we can't also precinct what it will be but cities can take act

city of san francisco. it's owned by our u.s. housing and urban development properties. but what the city has done over this last year or more is really stepped up to try to provide resources to the population that lives in the housing authority properties. and remember that many of the people who live in public housing are our older adults and are people with disabilities. and, so, our mayor today announced in a press conference that through the mayor's office of housing that they have identified $4.5 million worth of money to do these incredibly critical elevator renovations to make sure that those elevators are going to be reliable in the future. and there are nine specific properties that they have identified as being buildingses where they're going to be making those improvements. also over the next few months you're going to be hearing more from our office about the housing authority because the housing authority properties taken under the umbrella of the mayor's office of housing are going to start contracting out the management of the housing authority properties

when the city grew, farming was pushed to the edges of the urban center and these fields were coveredences. archaeologist dolph widmer has studied teotihuacan for more than a decade. one of the amazing things about teotihuacan is that it's a city. and even though right now it's an agricultural field -- you see cactus everywhere -- you can still tell it's a city because the surface of the ground is littered with artifacts. they're everywhere. we can see that we have a site. here i have cultural material, like this piece of obsidian. i have a piece of ceramics. all this stuff here tells me that people lived here. and by noting the artifacts on the surface, i can get an idea how big their residences were, how many residents there were in the city, as a whole, and get some idea of the size and number of people that lived here. keach: during the 1960s, archaeologists surveyed the entire city, revealing an urban grid as deliberate as the streets of manhattan. a total of 2,600 buildings lined densely packed streets. 80% of these were residential compounds. these compounds enclosed numerous s

an awful lot like china in the 1930s before mou showed up, the government controlling the cities and major urban, war lords in the northwest >> at each others throats -- >> yes, and making money and doing what war lords do. and then along what is called the duran line that separates the [ inaudible ] from the pakistani and afghan pastoon is going to be a disputed area between the government and the taliban. i don't think the taliban is capable of taking over the country, but i don't think the government is capable of eliminating them. >> i would like you to talk for a minute about the composition of the taliban. as we noted these folks are young. younger actually than the taliban itself, quite young people with a very different mind set. >> that's right. we're talking about 20 and 25 year old commanders. in some cases their only experience has been living in war. they have no memory of what life was like before russia invaded. so the things that motive them is very different from what motivated the original taliban. and i think that's one reason why they have blended themselves to easily to crim

rather than creating jobs in the suburbs and silicon valley has been migrating to the city to areas of greater density, urban which are a tremendous example for other cities that to revise their cities as well. >> why should anyone care about your study? why should anybody outside the bay area care? are two reasons. san francisco is a very large, story. tech success there are a lot of cities such as new york and other cities like boston and austin, texas that are traveling the same trajectory. to understand how to understand the challenges that a large community, what kind impact they have on the overall city is instructive. the other i and while there has been a lot depressed over the past several years or months -- overas been a lot of press the past several years are much about the bus, the view is more nuanced than read in the paper. >> one of the most interesting things is during the dot com bubble, it was a focus on finance and and i seem to get meted out to the rest of society. spreads to other disciplines and types of jobs. >> there are two separate points. it turned out san francisco was very heavil

city of san francisco. it's owned by our u.s. housing and urban development properties. the city has done over this last year or more is really stepped up to try to provide resources to the population that lives in the housing authority properties. and remember that many of the people who live in public housing are our older adults and are people with disabilities.

we saw this on the fillmore redevelopment when the city was trying to urban renewal and displaced a population. these are serious impacts. there is mitigation available in terms of housing and low and moderate funds. whether these residents are city of san city san franciscans or not. i'm from chicago. i live now in west portal. people come in. every new wave of immigrants is rejected by the old. that's how things go. >> that doesn't make it right. >> i'm saying it's a natural thing, but when the government takes action that will result in mass displacement of people which this will. ceqa requires that that impact be analyzed and mitigation measures adopted and implemented. >> my next question is going to be about whether these shuttles are cause a displacement that we are all concerned about and the displacement is happening and goes well beyond the communities described as happening in my district as well that we see because of the explosion of housing prices with significant displacement and we are all concerned about addressing the housing issues that have caused that displacement. i do th

they want to have the city, the urban experience, and parents who raised their kids. they don't want to have the five bedroom house. they want to move back into the city and have a condo by the lake. one of the things about moving back into the city is there's not a lot of parking. if you have a three-car garage in the suburbs, you may move to a condo giving you a parking spot. doesn't mean you give up the car, but you don't have multiple cars, you have the one and this new urban life, lending to a lot of alternatives to automobiles. >> is there a negative side. we saw the near disaster. we grew up hearing that what is good for general motors and america, this trend cannot be good for g.m. or other car makers. >> one of the things that i say in the e-book published is that the car makers have to embrace solutions and a thing that they are doing is they are making cars expensive. >> they are loading them up with technology. the idea is that instead of trying to sell a bunch of cheap cars, they sell fewer but more expensive cars, you don't make it up on volume, but you g

city of san francisco. sure you have it in the urban areas but not right now in the city itself. but we will have more dicey weather again today. good morning everybody, at this hour, we have a lot of unsettled conditions especially right there that 580, 680 corridor. a new cell developing right there. that area of yellow and orange is of concern. that's moderate to heavy rain. oak dale union city along highway 29. we've got heavy downpours at this time. you will need the umbrella again today. into the 40s and 50s. later today unseasonably cool with numerous showers and a thunderstorm will develop. we will have some areas of small hail. 50s and 60s. we begin to take a breather for our wednesday. and then a slight chance of rain showers return thursday night to friday morning. otherwise we're talking about sunny skies but look at the hi- def doppler radar elizabeth, more rain for the morning commute. >>> more is on the way. brief dryish break right now because no huge accidents out there. couple ones earlier and they're actually being cleared. so we're mostly dealing with is a lot