it necessary to even enter a compromise they don't want to discuss they just want to discuss the bill gray should recognize their independence and that is unacceptable for us we can have discussions on other issues we have an internal dialogue on how do you arrange the relations but albanians obviously think it's enough to have recognition from some western countries and i would make it a fait accompli they're wrong here they have a false list of countries that have recognized them speak of one hundred sixteen countries that recognize them and i'm sure it's in the interests of all to actually find a compromise but if they don't want to compromise we shall continue your struggle. what is. the serbian compromise look like i mean first after all begging us to engage with you in a dialogue to be ready for a compromise and then what is your proposal of a compromise what would it be. it's not in the media it should be discussed i mean with due respect to all i wouldn't like to engage in this publicly we could discuss these several times but i mean i gave my own proposals and we didn't come to a

so even enter a compromise they don't want to discuss they just want to discuss that bill gray should recognize their independence and that is unacceptable for us we can have discussions on all other issues we have an internal dialogue on how to arrange the relations but obey me and obviously think it's enough to have recognition from some western countries and i would make it a fait accompli because they're wrong here they have a false list of countries that have recognized them speak of one hundred sixteen countries that recognize them and i'm sure it's in the interests of all to actually find a compromise but if they don't want to compromise we shall continue our struggles. what is. this compromise look like i mean first step for all bands to engage with you in a dialogue to be ready for a compromise and then what is your proposal of a compromise what would it be. it's not an immediate it should be discussed i mean with due respect to all i wouldn't like to engage in this publicly we can discuss the several times but i mean i gave my own proposals and we didn't come to a point that

see, the water bill is graphed in blue, the sewer bill is graphed in green, the combined bill is graphed in gray, and you can see how those compare to the median household income over time. and we looked at this when we looked at the ten year capital and financial plan, but this is the launch point for the rest of our inquiry. and so now i'll turn the mic over to simone hudson who is a city hall fellow in the finance department and is now working in the community benefits group, and also, john scarpulla. >> thank you, eric. good afternoon, commissioners. i'm really glad to be with you today to share about our affordability work which has really been a collaborative effort across the agency to think critically about how we can serve customers burdened by their bills, low income customers, and take a holistic view of affordability as an agency. so we've developed four goals, calling these the affordability project goals, to frame a variety of work groups. so the first is to improve assistance to customers in single-family residences. as eric mentioned, we have a cap program to provide assistance t

gray or black market. >> reporter: think of it as a stimulus bill for an economy that's struggling. >> the regulations and fees they continue to keep slapping us with are not fair. >> reporter: we heard the complaints at a meeting in mendocino county. >> i sold my farm yesterday. i did not want to. but the overregulations have stopped me from being able to move forward. >> the cultivation tax is very difficult to administer and calculate. >> reporter: does suspending that help? >> i think it makes the numbers crunch for a lot more folks. right now there are tens of thousands of small businesses around the state, realizing it is just not going to work. >> reporter: there's another pay-off cooked into this bill. this one for consumers so to speak. >> reduces state excise tax from 15% to 11%. >> reporter: the idea is it will pay off at the register when your marijuana costs go down. >> we believe it will lessen demand for black market by 25%. >> there's a consensus around the knowledge that we don't have it right yet. >> reporter: in sacramento, wilson walker, kpix 5. >>> i just assumed he had a good family.

gray or the black market. >> reporter: think of it as a stimulus bill for an economy that's struggling. >> the regulations and fees are not fair. >> reporter: we heard the complaints this month at a meeting in mendocino county. >> i sold my farm yesterday. i did not want to. but be overregulations have stopped me from being able to move forward. >> reporter: so the bill's first tax cut is aimed squarely at businesses across the cannabis industry. >> it suspends the cultivation tax which is difficult to administer and calculation. >> reporter: so does it help? >> i think it makes the numbers crunch for more people. right now there are tens of thousands small businesses around the state looking at the proposition of doing business in the regulated market and it's just not going to work. >> reporter: there is another payoff in the bill this one for consumers. >> reduces state excise tax from 15% to 11%. >> reporter: the idea is the cuts will actually pay off at the cash register when your marijuana costs go down by as much as 9%. >> we believe that that will lessen the demand for black market purchases by 20%. >

gray hooded sweatshi sweatshirt. coming up, we're looking at another key piece of evidence that police may have in their possession. >>> the judge in the bill cosby sex assault case will likely hear from the defense team about why several cosby accusers should not be allowed to testify. that's what they'll say. yesterday, cosby's lawyers tried and failed to get the entire case tossed out. prosecutors argued that andrea constand and 19 others should testify against the comedian. the defense will also try to keep the civil suit involving constand from being mentioned in the upcoming retrial. retrial is scheduled for march 29th. we'll following that from montgomery county later this hour. >>> 5:05 right now, two u.s. senators from our area are making a bipartisan pitch for new gun safety legislation following the florida high school massacre. republican pat toomey of pennsylvania and democrat chris coons are sponsoring that bill. it would require authorities to be alerted when someone who isn't allowed to buy a gun tries to purchase one. >> we're looking to demonstrate that you actually can make progress, can find common ground. >> our simple

. >>> kind of a gray monday around the bay area but changes are in the works. we are going to back over to billher center to figure out what's in store. >> it started off sunny. and the clouds came in. that's how it's going to be. we are cloudy until the end of this week, with showers in the forecast on and off. nothing really staring us down. i'll show you why. look at the big picture. you can see the big spinoff the west coast. that's us, right? this is our extratropical storm. look at this. usually when you see that low, you see it way up here. look how far south it is. that means the strongest dynamics which are typically in the lower right quadrant. those dynamics are going to go right into southern california and we are going to be mostly on the north end of the strongest dynamics, which is the lift and pressure gradients and things like that. with that said, big-time rain for southern california. rain we could certainly use. this thing was six degrees north. again, it would be a 3 to 4 inch rain producer for many locations. but we are going to miss out and get light, scattered showers, s

gray or black market. >> it suspends the cultivation tax which is very difficult to administer and calculate. >> reporter: one of the goals of this bill is to encourage more people to buy pot legally rather than illegally. right now there's a 15% excise tax in addition to the taxes on cultivation and regular sales taxes. if it passes, this bill would bring the excise tax down to 11%. the situation has happened before. colorado, washington and oregon all began taxing legalized marijuana at one rate then lowered it to keep consumers buying marijuana from dispensaries. in the newsroom, jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> 6:13. let's get another check on the roads on this very wet commute for some people. >> it's wet and it's messy and it's slow. the friday morning commute is slow. no friday, march 16th this morning. this is 80 at carlston and you can see the brake lights westbound. over 30 minutes from highway 4 to the maze. and we have had a couple of problems, most recent right near powell street. it looks like they finally cleared the two lanes and everything is over on the shoulder. but you will be in for a slow ride and this is likely to stick

bills to come out. so their plan wasn't good. they could have come up with a disguise on a computer for something like that. this was some exceptional reporting down there by kerry sanders, jay gray, gabe gutierrez, that's really been exceptional. second, law enforcement really gets an "a" plus for this across the board. every agency, every cop, every trooper, all the surrounding cities, the bomb squads, great, great work. and fedex. let's not leave fedex out of this, i think they need a pat on the back for really ramping up quickly and helping law enforcement. google, who responded to a warrant, helped the authorities. and every single citizen in austin who helped, who was watching, you know, gave a tip. everybody needs some credit here. >> i like that, working together. it took a village. and luckily they got this guy. take me through where the investigation goes from here. you worked on the unibomber case, you worked on the atlanta olympic bombings. what happens to the investigation now? >> we're going to have a slow roll, post-blast investigation, on i-35. because the bomber blew himself up, so that's going to be a pretty big mess. he's got a lot of fragmentations, probably,