in 1984, the number of visitors to the island was 14,000. 5, the number had risen to 80,000, climbing to 500,000 in 2005. over the next decade, the number nearly tripled. hotels, restaurants and other abundance to provide for t influx in tourists. as a result,f thforest was lost. >> the other very common factor which reduce coral cover is sedimentation, especially when the forests are cut and you have rains bringing the sediments and the soil down to the coral reef and corals have very small pores where they have living organisms and those spores are clogged by a silt, they die. >> today, the population of boracay is around 30,000. 10 times that of 30 years ago. however, sewage and drainage systems have not kept pace with the rapid population growth. according to a 2013 survey, more than half of households throw their waste water untreated into drains. in some cases, it flows directly into the sea. this contamination of the seawater is yet another factor, resulting in the death of the coral. currently, waste water on 35% of the island is bein

in 1984, the number of visitors to the island was 14,000. 5, the number had risen to 80,000, climbing to 500,000 in 2005. over the next decade, the number nearly tripled. hotels, restaurants and other facilities were built in abundance to provide for the influx in tourists. as a result, 30% of the forest was lost. >> the other very common factor which reduce coral cover is sedimentation, especially when the forests are cut and you have rains bringing the sediments and the soil down to the coral reef and corals have very small pores where they have living organisms and those spores are clogged by a silt, they die. >> today, the population of boracay is around 30,000. 10 times that of 30 years ago. however, sewage and drainage systems have not kept pace with the rapid population growth. according to a 2013 survey, more than half of households throw their waste water untreated into drains. in some cases, it flows directly into the sea. this contamination of the seawater is yet another factor, resulting in the death of the coral.ater on 35% of th

at the end of this month, 27th-28 will be the last treasure island flea on the west side of the island. starting in september they will be relocating to a new location on the east side of the island. as we prepare to move forward without demolition. on august 16, the navy will be having an event on the island to name new vessel after four first san francisco supervisor harvey milk. that will be the morning of tuesday, august 16. also, the department of environment will be conducting a workshop next week with our landscapers, i landscape contact with a con, as well as dpw. the developer staff, on cities integrated pest management program and ordinance. to help bring all of this up to date on those programs and requirements. the tida staff and pic staff will be meeting later this week with sfmta eight to begin planning for impact on muni treasure island 2025. locations. as we start moving into construction and how we will move those stops as we move through the construction. there was also a meeting held last week with san francisco dem, fire and police. to brief them on the upcoming ope

many critics of the bill say it still won't be enough to save the island. and here to talk more about this this morning, lydia valencia, c.e.o. and president of the puerto rican congress of new jersey, and franklyn p?rez from the national puerto rican agenda. promesa. ?le gusto o no? >> it's -- it's necessary -- >> it's far from perfect. >> it's very far from perfect. >> yes, i think we'll all agree on that. >> i think that that is something that we can all agree on. >> what are the, in a nutshell, some of the issues that you have with it immediately, off the top of your head? >> i don't have so much of a problem with an oversight board. >> yes. >> i do have a problem when it's a control board. >> okay. >> and, also, the fact that it doesn't have any guarantees that i think that that would play a very large role in its implementation. >> franklyn, same question. >> i am totally against the board. >> totally against it. >> totally against the board. i shouldn't say "totally against the board." i'm totally against the promesa act because of the many deficienci

see >> good morning and welcome to the board meeting of the treasure island mobility management my name is jane kim and chair of the committee and keith is our clerk i'd like to recognize mark and nona melkonian for broadcasting our meeting today mr. richie commissioner avalos commissioner london breed absent commissioner campos commissioner cohen commissioner farrell absent commissioner kim commissioner eric mar absent commissioner peskin absent commissioner tang commissioner lee commissioner yee absent we have quorum. >> thank you mr. clerk, call the next item. >> chair's report on information item. >> thank you this is our first meeting since january and i would like to recognize my committee members vice chair commissioner avalos and commissioner campos for serving with me on the timma committee there's been a ton of activity on the island and to see the infrastructure projects and mobility programs that the staff has led and coordinating it is incredibly exciting to see our transportation program take shape a commitment to the residents of the island over 10 years ago we're newly b

at the end of this month, 27th-28 will be the last treasure island flea on the west side of the islandember they will be relocating to a new location on the east side of the island. as we prepare to move forward without demolition. on august 16, the navy will be having an event on the island to name new vessel after four first san francisco supervisor harvey milk. that will be the morning of tuesday, august 16. also, the department of environment will be conducting a workshop next week with our landscapers, i landscape contact with a con, as well as dpw. the developer staff, on cities integrated pest management program and ordinance. to help bring all of this up to date on those programs and requirements. the tida staff and pic staff will be meeting later this week with sfmta eight to begin planning for impact on muni treasure island 2025. locations. as we start moving into construction and how we will move those stops as we move through the construction. there was also a meeting held last week with san francisco dem, fire and police. to brief them on the upcoming opening of the ramps,

there was lots of sea plants they would use on the island, and then they would leave when the weather was bad in the winter. what happened next, when the spanish area was happening, there was a man born up the rio grande river who became actually a priest. they called him padre bali and the island is named after him. what happened is he got a spanish land grant and he got padre island, he split it with his nephew. what they started doing over 200 years ago was cattle ranching. that's how it started out with his name. and it actually did very well for him and his nephew. once he passed away, the land that was his was split between his other relatives. so his nephew and other relatives would have most of the island to ranch on and eventually they would sell it bit by bit by bit. and over time, the island went through many, many hands. it stayed mostly a cattle ranch. here i am in a huge prairie. you wouldn't know it by looking at it, but over the dunes there is the gulf of mexico. we've got all these great grasslands here. eventually the land ended up mostly in the hands of a man named

with the city and county of san francisco >> good morning and welcome to the board meeting of the treasure island mobility management my name is jane kim and chair of the committee and keith is our clerk i'd like to recognize mark and nona melkonian for broadcasting our meeting today mr. richie commissioner avalos commissioner london breed absent commissioner campos commissioner cohen commissioner farrell absent commissioner kim commissioner eric mar absent commissioner peskin absent commissioner tang commissioner lee commissioner yee absent we have quorum. >> thank you mr. clerk, call the next item. >> chair's report on information item. >> thank you this is our first meeting since january and i would like to recognize my committee members vice chair commissioner avalos and commissioner campos for serving with me on the timma committee there's been a ton of activity on the island and to see the infrastructure projects and mobility programs that the staff has led and coordinating it is incredibly exciting to see our transportation program take shape a commitment to the residents of the island ove

>> lambros: well, i mean, island hopping happens a lot during the summer. rranged to have like a two-, three-week vacation in greece will probably want to visit like at least two or three islands. >> anthony: mm-hmm. so how many islands in this island group? >> lambros: the cyclades? >> anthony: cyclades. >> lambros: is it about 15. maybe more. there's andros, tinos, mykonos, syros, paros, naxos, um -- >> anthony: tito and jermaine. [ lambros laughing ] >> lambros: and more. >> anthony: right. and the rest. >> lambros: and the rest, yes. >> anthony: a lot of history here in the greek islands. on naxos in particular, where zeus himself was said to live. where his son dionysus frolicked and presumably drank and threw orgies and dropped e, and danced all night to the bc version of edm. these days you have to go over to mykonos for that. anyway lambros here runs a bar in athens, but comes out here frequently to get away from it all. >> lambros: if you were a greek, you would definitely dig boarding a boat and leaving for the cyclades. you know, there's this air

the islands were run by overseers. beneath there was a small service class, agents, merchants, a few professionals. this is the class which hamilton's parents belong, james and rachel. he was a merchant. -- merchants agent. she owned a small store. but the vast bulk of the population was slaves. the population of nevis when he lived there was 10,000 slaves, 500 white people. the population of st. croix was 22,000 slaves, 2000 white people. the average life span of a field hand, brought to the west indies from west africa, was seven years, before he was work to death, or before he died from disease. the planters were not concerned because there was always another slave ship coming in. beekman and kruger dealt in slaves. when hamilton lived in nevis, he lived just down the street from a large pen, where the slaves of -- fresh from africa were held before they were sorted out and put on smaller ships, sent to the rest of the british west indies. so, this was the social system hamilton grew up in, heavily skewed, no opportu

out there is a tropical storm watch in effect for the islands of maui from the northern side of the islandpected to weaken as well at the moment category for it will gradually diminish to a category one by the time it reaches the island at this point in the tech the timing does friday night into the day on saturday that is not good news for the island because they will have the system. >>james: that is the big one to punch is going to be a story that we are tracking for the weekend. >>darya: they're going to be reassigning 50 officers to patrol the city's council decision declares an emergency in the comes as the number of murders and san jose is reaching a 25 year high. >>: i think it is also is intense and the feelings the the the some good things those feelings that you have i think he was successful on what he did. >>mark: freedom of speech was put in small for constitution for moments like this he said he dealt with the same backlash to the rally would others after dr. king was assassinated still does for the coverage of the controversy and you could look at his social media history h

that is a you entered the island. as the 19th century developed, the interior of the island became the more exclusive place to be away from the commercial exterior. jason: essentially the pattern is if you look at land values and land-use and land type, port use, with the exception of the low down seventh district, port, tenements, factories, and then high-end retail. it is sort of layered in this way. is more or less the island until central park. which i argue as a parenthetical note, a blocking point for midtown, what i would call midtown 5.0. this northward trajectory -- anyway, midtown, central park and zoning combined create a sort of dam from developing further north. that is my argument. >> within a short period with the turn-of-the-century, you have -- within a short period. doesn't that clustering along the timeline suggest that some phenomenon at play here, progression comes to mind, world wars which convert attention from certain industries? have you factor in that? jason: i have a couple of responses. i w

. >> japan controls the senkaku islands. the japanese government maintains that the islands are an inherent part of japanese territory. china and taiwan claim them. >>> thailand may hold a general election by the end of next year paving the way to a democratically elected government. an election seems likely after a national referendum on sunday approved a draft c constitutiony the military led interim government. the election committee announced that more than 61% of voters approved it. over 38% opposed. the official result determined that the charter was approved by majority vote. interim prime minister called for acceptance. >> he stressed that a road map is in place to allow general election by the end of next year. he said it included steps such as setting up electoral laws. there has been criticism of military powers laid out in the draft constitution including a requirement that all senators be appointed by a military backed council during the first five years of the transition period. >>> people in japan are lacing up

japan controls the islands. the government maintains that they are an inherent part of japan's territory. china and taiwan claim them. >>> officials in seoul have announced one of the highest profile defections in years from north korea. they say a senior diplomat in london has fled to south korea with his family. thae yong ho had been serving as deputy ambassador at the north korean embassy in london. a south korean spokesperson said on wednesday that thae and his family are already in the country and under government protection. the official declined to provide details on the timing of thae's arrival. the incident is the latest in a string of defections from the isolated country. earlier this year, over a dozen waitresses at pyongyang-run restaurants in china also fled to the south. >>> indonesia is stepping up its crackdown on illegal fishing in the south china sea as chinese ships are operating in its exclusive economic zone. the indonesian government installed a new monitoring facility with a radar system at

since the only bridge to long island was demolished. two firefighters assigned to a firehouse when a kid's summer day camp is in session on the other side of the island. we ran into a few more when fox 25 investigates took our own boat to get a closer look. >> erik rasmussen, fox 25. >> reporter: some told us they were off duty. what do you do out here now? >> for us the marines. >> reporter: it's not clear how much that's costing taxpayers but records show wages since long island was evacuated. but critics say the problem isn't just measured in dollars and cents. >> we all have an addiction and we all need help. >> reporter: cheryl and alicia waited for months to get help with their drug addiction they're now this this house in boston but the nonprofit has yet to recover all of the beds it left behind on long island and the waiting list continues to grow. >> we were blind sided. >> reporter: deputy director eileen mcgwire said victory had on long island before the bridge was condemned everyone and was told to leave. >> $2 million really

addiction programs were moved off the island, almost two years ago. critics tell us tonight, they are concerned that the city has no long-term plan for the build, since its bridge to the island has been destroyed. fox 25 investigates eric rasmussen is put together some new findings, that's coming up tonight for the news at college baseball from massachusetts killed while playing pokemon go over the weaned in california. calvin riley is a lowell native and standout ball player who moved to the san francisco area, just about five years ago. >> blair: fox 25's crystal haynes went to lowell and spoke with people who knew calvin growing up and remembering him tonight. >> he was fun loving, he was very, very outgoing boy, friendly kind of guy, a guy you would like to have as a friend. >> the reporter: 20-year-old lowell native calle republican lawmakers vilely being remembered as a guy's guide, even in middle school at witnesses say he spent his last hours with friends, before he was shot and killed playing pokemon go in san francisco's aquatic park around 1

that remains on the island. sometimes we forget from the american side that there were a a strongs amount of and troops involved. i keep waiting for industry into write a review of my book and say, for a yankee did not do too bad of a job of reminding folks, oh yes the us trillions were involved and allies. in newur's operations guinea, the bulk of the troops are australian. the final operation of combined operations,s the the kind of intelligence that permit george kenney to find that japanese convoy that is bound for lady. for leyte. drug, macarthur knows where a lot of japanese forces are. -- ise it was relatively don't what is a easy -- but it was relatively telegraphed in terms of what he has to do to make the leap over the concentration of forces. in retrospect, sometimes it is written about and looks like strategic genius but it is really the fact that ultra has provided a lot of that information. think, suffice to say, that macarthur really evolves during these four years as a commander. let's use the ter

they're heading towards the islands. madelei madeleine, but the big island has never been hit directly by a hurricane. >> reporter: trouble in paradise tonight. hawaii under a state of emergency. two hurricanes -- madeline and lester -- bearing down on the big island, where people in hilo, nearest the bull's-eye, are boarding up, and getting ready. >> i just got some flashlights, batteries, some candles and some first aid stuff. >> reporter: just in case. >> just in case. >> reporter: all of the big island's schools are closed. the port, shuttered. madeline's leading edge has already brought huge waves and intermittent torrential bursts of rain. >> we got rocks over the road, some houses flooded out, i don't know what's going to happen. >> reporter: unlike florida, some of the infrastructure here far from ready for a strong storm. you're literally hoping this strap, holds this whole part of the house down? >> yeah. >> reporter: the worst of madeline is expected to blow in overnight. the big concern, the storm surge and po

a hurricane is actually never made landfall on the big island. waves up to 25' are people and the next hurricane, lester, is apporaching the islands on friday night. meteorologist mike nicco is tracking the storm. i am not so concerned about the wind as all of the rain. hurricane is never hit the big island they always seem to weaken but that does not mean they will let go of the flooding possibility. can you see right here the radar shows a heavier shower with yellows and i saw originals earlier rotating from necessary to southwest and you can see the better radar returns with the hurricane itself. we will look at both of them, you can see madeleine is falling apart with wins down to 75 miles per hour and lester is up to a category four. in the evening you can see the heavy flooding rain up to 15" and waves up to 18' and storm subject of -- storm surge and more across the northern part of the island. >> 9 height of the summer season is over but it is hawaii and a lot of folks are still going. >> amy hollyfield is joining us are oakland internatio

the government maintains the islands are an inherent part of japan's territory. taiwan and china claim them. chinese vessels entered waters earlier this month although not in the past week. japan's foreign minister launched a protest with china's ambassador last week. besides the videos, japanese officials have also made public a record of the incursions and photos of the vessels. observers say the government's aim in releasing them is to call for restraint from beijing. >>> three students who led a pro democracy protest in 2014 in hong kong have been spared a jail term. the umbrella policy marks the most turbulent time. they led a series of rallies that sparked a more than two-month-long street protest. they demanded democratic elections. the three students were indicted without being taken into custody for participating in what the authorities called an unlawful assembly. last month a court found all three guilty. on monday their sentences were handed down. alex chow is sentenced to three weeks in prison suspended for one year. the two seen on the left were give

hurricane madeleine looms 200 mile of the island. locals in hilo boarded up windows and doors they are under a hurricane warning with strong weapons hit this afternoon and a second storm is headed to the hawaiian isles and is not expected to hit until the weekend. >> mike nicco is tracking the storms and i mentioned my sister lives in hilo and is preparing. >> here is a look at the radar from the big island, you can see only light showers. nothing out of the ordinary. it is picking up and high surf advisory and it will be more dangerous through the difficult. by showing you first how it is loaning more disorganized and yesterday it was category four and now category one with 90 miles per hour. when it hits this evening it will drop to 80 and when it purrs through tomorrow morning it will continue to weaken. we turn our eyes to lester weakening also, a "1" at noon on saturday when it hits and then all the islands will get rain but not flooding rain of up to 15" of madeleine but dangerous surf and a couple of ins. it is the lesser of th

two strong hurricanes churning toward the hawaiian islands tonight. good evening. >> the first one madeline as you saw in the center screen. you are about to see. >> expected to pass dangerously close to the big island tomorrow. lester on the right there. just behind. double whamy as we said. >> lights check in with sandhya and radar. >> it's double the trouble for the hawaiian islands. let's look at the hurricane right now. the one that is closest to the hawaiian islands that is the one that is madeline here and it is not as strong as the second one which is lester. so let's go in a little bit tighter here and show you the latest raid ash. you will notice the rain dance approaching the big island. hurricane warning until friday afternoon for the big island. other island under a tropical storm watch. now you take a look at those two storms and they are major storms. hurricane lester category 4 on the scale. madeline category two. here's what happens with madeline. expected to weaken to 1 wednesday night as it approaches very close to the hawaiian, big

of course that depends on how close the storm comes to the islands. we will watch the progress. >> thank you so much, spencer. >>> firefighters put out a vegetation fire that sparked near capital expressway around 12:30 p.m. sky 7 is over wind driven flames burning two acres and structures were destroyed and no one hurt and investigators are looking into what caused the fire. >> new details about the charter bus that caught fire. 16 passengers escaped and part thanks to the driver. abc 7 news reporter has an update. >> the chp says a driver reported the engine on the tour bus caught fire at about 9:40 last night while heading to a casino in sonoma county. the driver first noticed flames on highway 101 while connecting northbound 8 will 80 in san jose. a person in passing car took these pictures from flames on the bus pulled to the side of 880. >> he was able to pull over to the side of the road. get all of his passengers out. he attempted to put the fire out with his fire extinguisher, which he is require to carry, and he had. but wasn't able to exting

japan controls the senkaku islands. the japanese government maintains that the islands are an inherent part of japan's territory. taiwan claims them. the foreign minister has been discussing this with top officials in the philippines who have their own disagreement with china in the south china sea. fumio kishida met with his filipino counterpart perfecto yasay. he told yasay that maintaining maritime order on the rule of law is essential for the stability and prosperity of the region. he said japan will urge china to accept the july ruling by an arbitration tribunal in the hague. in a case brought by the philippines, the tribunal dismissed china's historical claim to most of the south china sea. kishida also spoke about the increase in activities recent will in the east china sea. the rule of law at >> translator: it is important for the international community to work together to maintain the rule of law at sea. >> yasay expressed his willingness to work with japan to urge china to abide by international rules. >> the

develops they'll have a transit center on treasure island and the muni will start bringing ac transit asia they'll be a shuttle in for island shutter. >> got it thank you. >> colleagues, any other comments or questions. >> okay. seeing none this was an informational item open up for public comment thank you very much for the presentation. >> any public comment on items 7 please come on up. >> i'm danny a campaign assistant and i on behalf of the members we're saved it is near completion for people to bike on san francisco and landing on the edge of city of yerba buena island that will be completed but approximately a year later but the project to create vista point making sure that people are welcomed and can take in the views of san francisco with the projections of 10 thousand people on the bay bridge from the west side connects the bay we know how popular this landing on yerba buena island is a piece of the puzzle we thank the u.s. coast guard and the bay bridge is one of the hopes and dreams we look forward to celebrating of the opening of this portion with our partners at the bik

and both taken in a track in a general direction of the island. by tomorrow and into thursday we expect hurricane madeline to arrive near the big island as a category two, dealing a glancing blow and moving away on thursday as a category one. it is going to produce up to ten inches of rainfall generally and perhaps even locally. heavier amounts of rainfall which could produce extensive flooding not only on the big island and to maui and beyond and that is closely followed by hurricane lester, by the time it arrives close to the islands it will have weakened down to a category one hurricane, by saturday still packing sustained winds up to 75 miles per hour. a rather strong storm expected not to make a direct hit but to move north of the island chain and driver more rain on top of the ten or more inches expected to fall from madeline and that could produce even further flooding. so this is the picture right now. we are tracking both storms closely and will tip continue t update you on their progress. larry. >> and a reminder, you could keep up with d

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you can see them slowly making mayor way towards the islands. 'll have much more on preparations under way later in the show. >>> time check 4:33. roberta, hawaii has had a lot of close calls over the last couple of years with those hurricanes. >> they have. this one is going to be close. it will be grazed by hurricane madeline and lester taking a veer more out towards the open waters but let's go ahead and track them. a lot of people making labor day plans heading for the hawaiian islands. the first one on approach is madeline. right now wind gusts up to 115 miles per hour its movements to the west at 12 miles per hour grazing the big island near hilo and we will have it downsized to a cat-1 by then which is good news. we are anticipating 5 to 10" on the big island in the highest elevations. looking at sfo we have mostly cloudy skies there. a layer of low clouds and fog that will break up today. very mild in oakland. if you enjoyed tuesday, you'll enjoy wednesday because temperatures are close to where we were 24 hours ago. 70 in pacifica to 89

so might quit the big island. but it's on its way. it was looking like it was going to take a northerly track here and a couple little systems rushing us, continuing to move through, the delta breeze has cranked up, and fog is not much of an issue. just patchy clouds. the 70s and a lot of 80s. >>> good morning. it's 4:01 am. that's right. we have to remind people how early it is. boy, you are up early. i have a lot of company on the freeway. we are just doing traffic and weather. good morning everybody. what the we can see that commute. it's going to be okay, tracy super commute, no major issues here, driving for as a matter fact, the traffic is moving along very nicely on 580, and it will not stay this way for long but that's the way that it is. let's take a look at the toll plaza, that doesn't look too bad. and onto 80 and san jose, you can see that on the right got off to a good start. >>> oakland police are investigating two people killed at cesar chavez park. officers are not saying much about what happened or the victims but we d

, a tropical storm for some of the other islands. le can expect heavy winds, rain, and high surf. and this passenger was not flying to hawaii but owns a home there. >> i have friends that are looking after it. you have to. the amount of rain in a short amount of time, it's staggering. >> hernandez hopes he's not forced to cancel the trip. >> one airline told us their planes are practically empty, suggesting some have cancelled their plans. >>> well, abc7 news weather anchor spencer christian tracking both hurricanes. >> much of hawaii is under a hurricane warning, especially the big island, there. you can see the first is hurricane madeline. and so madeline, now category 2 is probably dealing with a glancing blow that could dump five to 10 inches of rainfall that will be followed by hurricane lester, expected to pass just north but could add more rain to saturated ground but not expected to make a hit. so we'll let you know about the changes. >>> the people who live in one berkeley neighborhood will be without water while crews repair