we believe like rich said and others the collaboration between strong city agencies and state authoritiesnd private enterprise can tablely improve the quality of life and this project exemplifies it so congratulations wells fargo for being a part of that i want to introduce christen she's with a bank (clapping.) >> thank you leslie. yes as leslie said i'm the manager of the community development financial group we do the witness grants for the affordable housing. we lend to the technical companies we have lend on affordable housing. the affordable housing is definitely the most important part of our business and our senior management supports what we do particularly in san francisco. so our involvement in the financing with a one million dollars h p from the federal home bank of san francisco so thank you if there's one here from the bank and we provided a $5.6 million participation in wells fargo construction loan. i'd like to thank my staff that worked on the project (calling names) and it's also one of the best parts of my job to come to the opening of one of those projects. the other

for me i'm wanting to make sure that we continue those fiscal disciplines that have kept us as a strong city so two-year budget, 5 year financial planning that we have imposed on ourselves, putting enough noipb reserves to get our credit ratings up so when we ask the public to fund special things they would be willing to because we know they will be able to complete them and complete them well just like the sf general hospital which is on schedule to be completed very soon and we're expecting to open it up. having said that, it's about an 8 billion dollar per year budget. and we are facing, surprisingly for a lot of people, and that has been surprised us that we've gone around different parts of the city that we do have a deficit, about $66 million dollars in the next fiscal year and the second year about $133 million dollar deficit. this is reflective of rising costs in the city. it would be two to three times more had we not done smart things like pension reform in the past or gotten some more confidence in our system to put in reserves. so we're looking at probably this year's being a yea

they were holding strong about livability in the city and about the things that they had to give up in the past and we reached that and we're going to respect their, hopefully, the rest of their membership having to ratify that and we're going to report that in detail to the board of supervisors so ta they know how we're negotiating and what that arrangement is. i do think that the board will be happy that we negotiated this one because we've seen other labor strive in the rest of the bay area region that didn't come this way and we'd like to avoid all of that and treat our workers with respect as we've always done. >> the big question, and i think kate just presented what for me was a surprising statistic and that's that revenues are only growing half as fast as expenditures, that expenditures are growing at a rate of 14 percent, revenue at 7 percent at the same time the city, although in better shape than it has been, still has a deficient -- deficit of over $60 million and it has to close that. how do you do that? how do you match those things up and at some point don't you have to

heavy clashes around sloviansk, the pro russian strong hold city of course. he's claiming up to 30 were killed on the other side. that's not confirmed by the fighters inside sloviansk itself. they did talk of loss of life today as well. heavy fighting around there. the interior minister claiming again these are not just local people. he was saying on facebook they're meeting russians, people from crimea and also czechs there yesterday. it's what the interior ministry and government in kiev has been saying all along, this was not a lo local rebellion but something now involving from outside ukraine or certainly outside this region of eastern ukraine. in terms of the airports, we understand internal flights in ukraine coming to donetsk and leaving donetsk do appear to be operating again. international flights we understand are still cancelled for now. slightly fluent situation around the airport. there's a lot of concern in the run up to victory day celebrations may 9th and may 11th which is when the referendum is due to be held in donetsk and neighboring regio

a deal was reached on friday to let the rebels leave the strong holds in the city. they are asking for supervisor withdrawal and wanting the wounded to be assisted. we have a report. >> the old quarters and the surrounding neighborhoods are the last rebel strong holds in the city. some thousand fighters are inside, but for months they have been under siege and now given a safe passage out as part of a deal with the government. they'll retreat to northern country side of the city but those areas are also under siege. the deal allows the state to regain the control of the city, the capital of the rev nuolutio. >> it is hard to take back to the city. >> this 24-year-old arrived a few days ago and the government's siege on the rebel held areas made the neighborhoods surrender one after another. the regime started to retake in 2012. activists appealed for help when international observers visited the areas at the time. but the world didn't act. the bomber was a symbol of defiance and he left. >> at first i thought we would return and the situation got worse. we lost over

they are in the middle of a million strong city, million people here, too many civilians around thist of area and the targets that the ukrainian special forces will get for them to use for tactics we saw at the airport and it will be negotiation and that is certainly what the russians want. >> thank you very much, david. spanish police arrested six people in an operation to dismantle what it's calling terrorist organizations. security forces launched a predawn raid in the north african enclave of malia for people claiming asylum and they say asylum seekers here and hundreds stormed fences to cross in the territory on wednesday and lee barker is live from malia and what can you tell us about these arrests? >> well, as you rightly said there the arrests took place very early in the morning, about 4:00 a.m., in a part of the city that has really been the center of quite a lot of police activity in resent weeks and months. six suspects were arrested and brought here to this military air field behind me where they were processed by special forces. the suspects themselves were hooded in br

have all the resources but i need help the da is here i need help to figure out how to have a strong community city department approach to deal with a systematic problem and looking at it from a store front by store front basis doesn't help i'm reaching out to the district attorney and want the conversations for the strong approach for, you know, this commercial corridor that's, you know, an incredible neighborhood in san francisco but surfer from those conditions >> absolutely and, you know, we'll reach tout out to you for a conversation by specifically the kind of work lends itself to start connecting the dots early open you're not doing the ones and twos as an isolated incident and having the prosecutors

have all the resources but i need help the da is here i need help to figure out how to have a strong community city department approach to deal with a systematic problem and looking at it from a store front by store front basis doesn't help i'm reaching out to the district attorney and want the conversations for the strong approach for, you know, this commercial corridor that's, you know, an incredible neighborhood in san francisco but surfer from those conditions >> absolutely and, you know, we'll reach tout out to you for a conversation by specifically the kind of work lends itself to start connecting the dots early open you're not doing the ones and twos as an isolated incident and having the prosecutors have the arms and tools to have the understanding this is not only on a isolated incident this may be a way to funnel money into other criminal activities that's what we do in manhattan and hope to do here. >> i can tell you from manhattan that because we're the intel driver with the seminar ada person has spoken i gave you examples of violent crime but we have a huge count fiat ticketing proble

francisco and loma the locally owned merchants associations to keep the small property owners strong in the city. green apple books was given the prestige honor the leading trade association as the bookstore of the year their nationally known as well. many of the bay area to the local press uncommonly acknowledge them as the best independent bookstore in the area. also in the course among many businesses larger and small green apple engages in business practices they pay their employees strong health care benefits and generous other benefits and their union in his as well their unique i think. also i believe that the city should be doing much more to honor and incentive intents those high road businesses that respect their employees so co- owner pete pass has been involved in the ground level what the merchants association making clement street better as a dad, i know he rides with his kids often in the sunset where he lives and pete and green apple serve on the independent book ceilings association and they've revielthd the association with many, many family and other types of activities along

city's investment of $4 million of services of women survivors of violence. and also part of the violence reform, we have focused on long-term solutions to evaluate violence against women. in strong partnership with city agencies and specifically jail probation departments and city providers. we have greatly improved the response to violence. and the proposal prohibesented probation is a further step to strengthen san francisco's response to violence against women. the program is provided to be comprehensive. and to broaden the path of healing to victims. and the proposed plan for probationers is to provide against recidivism. and of all the departments we have worked with on the justice encouragement department, probation department is one of the leading to adjust challenges and better san francisco. >> thank you, i want to thank all various representatives from your departments, i know this is an ongoing part of the budget process, i for one want to work with you and move that forward and hope our colleagues as well. i want to go to public comment, first we have mrs. upton and cathy black. if other members that want to speak, step up. >> hi, i am cathy black, thank you for havi

plazas we're currently partnering with the city with our pavement to parks and very excited to have this additional space for perm or permanent spots. there's a strong need to the 40 in the city more housing created and along with that the need for new gathering places and there's also a need to repurpose much of the extra land area that's in dpw or center street right of ways that can be used to creates new spaces. the plazas program and the street parks and our pavement to parks helps to get people engaged it's got great outreach for the community design and implementation of the spots along with the stewardship and we have over one hundred and 40 street parks throughout the city and see that growing as the strong demand to sign up for new spaces. thank you, very much for your consideration >> mr. star. >> good evening aaron star planning department staffer i'll make my comments brief you've heard this on may 1st and voted to adapt it. i will take questions i'll leave it at that >> thank you. >> afternoon supervisors this is the main reason i came here robin invited the action for the last two months. very impressed even with the original proposal

city's most vulnerable. this might seem technical and dry, but i think it's extraordinary important. and also just a strong statement of the value that muni and the mta are placing on achieving equity goals in the city that are important in the environment we are in today. with that julie has a presentation to walk you through and it's thick and technical. but she does an outstanding job to take difficult concepts and make them understandable. >> i will do hand gestures. thank you for that introduction, this work is meaningful and important, and speaks to the core value in our strategic plan of equity and core access. it builds on the project that we looked at the service needs across the city and particularly in low-income neighborhoods. and it takes it a step forward in experiencing the way that people experience transportation. i am a service provider, i experience the 22 fillmore from end to end, that's my job. but someone that lives in the western edition experiences a handful of routes, the 22 and the 2 and the 5 and the 31. and the routes take them to different places including the grocery store and

plazas we're currently partnering with the city with our pavement to parks and very excited to have this additional space for perm or permanent spots. there's a strong need to the 40 in the city more housing created and along with that the need for new gathering places and there's also a need to repurpose much of the extra land area that's in dpw or center street right of ways that can be used to creates new spaces. the plazas program and the street parks and our pavement to parks helps to get people engaged it's got great outreach for the community design and implementation of the spots along with the stewardship and we have over one hundred and 40 street parks throughout the city and see that growing as the strong demand to sign up for new spaces.

it comes as rebel forces have handed over their strong hold city of homs. >> the city was once consideredhe capitol of the syrian revolution. rebel fighters are leaving as part of a truce that ends a two-year siege of the city. their withdrawal effectively hands the city to the government. >> syrian rebel fighters boarding buses to take them out of the besieged neighborhoods. this might be the final chapter in a story of hope, violence and tragedy that was the battle for homs. it started in 2011 when demonstrations against the assad regime took hold in syria's third largest city. government forces moved violently against them, but an increasing number of defectors from the syrian army began protecting the demonstrators. they formed small units and called themselves the free syrian army. >> i had sworn to protect civilians but when i saw what the government forces were doing to the people, i defected on june 2nd. >> reporter: the rebels held homs and it was the epicenter of the uprising against bashar al assad. regime forces launched a brutal assault including artillery shooting and sniper

>> let's speak numbers, one of the cities strong host of credit separatists, is a city of six or 700,000 people who live there, polling stations. is it the proper way to represent the way the people feel there? my feeling is people are really horrified with all the events happening there. they want to get all the armed people away from the streets and then they will have the chance for dialogue. it's a good time to consider distribution of powers between kyiv and the local complunts. i think everyone. >> ukraine is ready for that. we are ready do grant all the possible necessary things for those who speak russian language but the proper way to approach that is to get those armed people away from the streets and for russia it's really important to stand that it is absolutely clear for everyone in ukraine that russia is standing behind these terrorist attacks and it's not the way to build relations between the countries. >> president terchof says kyiv will only speak to are separatists who have no are blood on their hands. the dialogue with the separatists possible at this stage? >> i thin

they had been battling with the city of urban dale over that strong smell of the city and they have voted to declare them a public nuisance, despite promises to deal with the smell. in the meantime gubinatorial candidates are trying to keep them here in california and they are asking fans of this company to take a stand against government regulations killing jobs. >>> subway leaves as far as government pay and hours. subway violated fair labor standards 17 times between 2000 and last year. they had to pay 3.8 million in overdue pay and subway is not commenting on that report. >>> hot temperatures and strong winds are playing a big role and what is due, what happened in a huge fire that is threatening hundreds of homes. >>> and a frightening situation by a woman who said a man was trying to kill her and what she did when the man tried forcing her into the trunk of her car. >>> and the drive time in san francisco is less than 8 minutes and the toll plaza, we will give you that time as well. >>> it was howling and we will show you if it's still warm and we will show you if there are any reco

cities in lebanon, jordan and turkey. this is another reason why the u.n. security council needs to take strong action to ensure that humanitarian aid gets into syria, which the syrian government blocked, as well as some opposition groups. there needs to be a solution to the conflict involving accountability and the international criminal court holding people accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity. when wars end, is it part of the global settlement that everybody goes home? is syria necessarily going to want the back. >> one hopes so. the people of syria deserve to be able to return to their villages, sis and communities, the rite of return is an internationally recognised right that needs to be uphold. other countries need to facilitate resettlement. in 2013 the united states allowed the resettlement of 36 syrian refugee. >> 36. >> 36 in 2013. >> if bashar al-assad for the near term remains in charge, do those 2.5 million people become something like a hammer for him? almost a useful tool of state craft as he moves his chest pieces around the geographic limping pin of the roman

populations in their district and certainly right here in this district a extremely strong presence and with the citye clear obligation we must be able to make sure our vital services are ones that reach all our citizens when they have a language barrier by many who don't have english as the first rang indicate to the american survey under the under the circumstances keens bureau over 10 thousands of them reach the point they're not having english as they're first language we have to among services accessible to them. that means was we down for chinesespectro and spanish speaking residents we work with all our safety departments to make sure very have accurate information that's trailed and kaebltd on site when people need that service and our human services whether health or other important things are translated when that's right written materials or big meetings we provide translators and electronically or physically or make sure that every outreach program is culturely competent. when you reach f that mask 10 thousand person level that's important to know that treld that we as a city will then mak

city. soon, strong winds gusting over 20 miles an hour fanned the flames, turning the small fire into bigger problems. >> the wood chips are not only on fire but spreading. they are also flowing through the air and setting small fires. >> there are no hydrants where the fire is. >> reporter: crews have to come down here to fill up. 2,000 gallons for each trip takes about 4 minutes. when the tanker trucks get to the fire line they dump the water in a huge tub and firecrews take aim at the hot spots that seem to multiply by the minute. there are no structures nearby but flying embers carry concern that new fires would spark across the surrounding area that is dry as the desert. this fire may be only the beginning of a long hot and dangerous fire season. >> we are very concerned. we are concerned obviously but we are getting ready for a tough wildfire season. >> people have to be careful. >> reporter: for george, who volunteered to bring food and water to the firefighters, what is burning now is bad enough and stinging his lungs the longer he stays, this volunteer mission is going to be a quick

certainly culturely and with the presence of our business community and sister city that's a strong reflection. over a year ago i had an opportunity to go on my first visit to cork a year and a another thing. we had a great time representing san francisco and being the the chairperson the master person of the parade for the stds in coverage we're talking about where we got the responsibility name of the lee river in coverage this was one of my first invests and i also met a group of kids there when i was brought to the black castle center where they teach off-street parking projects on science my technology. i made a mental note i had a great time watching the kids and being kathy how they draw in a 3-d way and seeing the excitement. i made a mental note if we're lucky enough i ended my trip meeting with the chamber of commerce and conner reflected open that we were he will hopefully a decision to regig this direct flight and i really want to be gracious and grateful to the a airline for making this appropriate decision i want to welcome not only the crew and ceo but on this integral flight th

i mean i this is even how bogus thousand strong marched through the city there of the u.p.a. in the central bank policies to while it was protesters throwing bottles at the police they responded with water cannons to disperse the crowd several injuries reported. in addition to the blocks powerhouse germany the protest movements also reach spain one of the worst hit countries of the economic recession thousands flooded the center of madrid to join the so-called fifteen m. movement against the government's repressive policies spending cuts and rampant unemployment artie's mattresses there as well. fifteen m. movement a coalition of political activists is staging this upon authorized rally in this mannish capital they marched here are going to thousand strong from the city hall here into the classical salt where they're receiving a statement of political action to talk about lots of different issues some of them can european for example austerity have crossed the continent you're also taught many issues that are near and dear to the hearts of these activism in spain for example

the latest fighting on the outskirts of the city, the pro russian strong hold of eastern ukraine.of casualties is not confirmed. there's fighting again in and around sloviansk. the operations intensify. >> two have been killed in pakistan after an attack on a supply convoy as we were told from officials. according to the official, a group of 30 militants opened fire at the convoy and torched three trailers. there are no claims of responsibility so far. >>> the murder trial of the south african olympian oscar pistorius has just been adjourned in pretoria. he insists he shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp by accident believing she was an intruder in his home. the first two people to arrive on the scene have been giving evidence to the court. the estate manager of the community pistorius lived claims he arrived to see pistorius in extreme distress. >> it's difficult really to describe. his commitment to save the young lady's life. when he put his finger in his mouth and tried to keep the air way open to breathe, how he begged her to stay with him, how he begged god to keep her alive.

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strong police presence, city center has been sealed off.nd public transport has been suspended as well. >> unions say this is the constitution right. today is supposed to be a day to mark a may day labourers, rallying, so it's been overshadoed by the divisions in turkish society. >> we know that may day protests happen every year, around the world. why is this protest in thaksin square so significant? >> this is not just a fight about rallying in that's correct sim square. if i talk to people about opposition, they are supporting them. they say that the government for them has been abusing its power. >> yes, the government is democratically elected. the ruling party won in local elections and it is popular. but the government has its critics, they say that the government is not accepting dialogue and is abusing items power, the judiciary and the police. the government is saying that they don't want the rally held here. they have information that the groups my disrupt the process. they have resurfaced the problems and divisions in society. >

strong winds. this morning kansas city has more storms. there's rain in iowa.no tornado threat like we saw yesterday. and how about colorado? it's snowing this morning in colorado. that's crucial. that's all snow there. for today the areas of concern if we're going to get any tornadoes, northern missouri, eastern iowa and it's a lot of heavy rain in texas. we need the rain. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," voters in eastern ukraine hit the ballot box to show their support for independence. we'll tell you what this means for the future of the country and the standoff between russia and the u.s. >>> and we'll huddle around the walter cooler. barbara walters is talking shop. back after this. the was a truly amazing day. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. for over 18 years we've helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today at angieslist.com allthat's it?go out to dinner. i mean, he picks up the tab every time, which is great... he's using you. he probably ha

picked up in activity as the santa ana winds have continued to grow in intense city. stronganta ana winds. very active fire behavior. >> 9 different fires. i assume that nine different reasons or maybe the same reason everyone started. any suggestion any one of them are arson? >> at this point our investigators continue to follow up on several leads. there is nothing at this time though that points to one direction over the other. when you have santa ana winds though, when you have conditions this dry. it doesn't take much for any open flame, any simple spark to quickly ignite into wildfire with the santa ana winds blowing so heavily, those fires quickly grow out-of-control like they have the past couple days. we continue to aggressively fight these fires. not only on the ground with bulldozers. also in the air helicopters and air tankers doing everything they can can to keep this fire away from the more urban areas. the subdivisions that it continues at this hour to threaten. >> i should have asked you first, any firefighters injured? that should have been my first question

richmond we came up to polk street but improvements like this are needed throughout the city and mayor ed lee has strongupport we need to increase the funding for bikes lastly i was a student at the uc davis and as what we look at another city and counties cities our city can't be left behind whether the mta or other agency we need to make sure it's a biking city for everyone thank you. >> (clapping) >> thank you supervisor mar. >> i'm thrived next to bring up our supervisor from district 10 yesterday we're honored that the bierlg coalition joined by mr. levy restoring more than 40 bicycles we'll be giving out in the bayview hunters point so welcome supervisor cowen. >> good morning and happy bike to work we had an opportunity to continue to build and bring more bikers here it's critical we give a lot of rest and conversation insuring that the bike community is as difference as any community we're not only providing survivalist pamphlets in english but spanish as well as chinese to reach every member of the community and for i that live on the southeast part of the city it's been a challenge to connect