i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the t

. >> reporter: smith was nominated to the rec and park advisory commission and says he was named ambassador. >> we want to make sure our parks is a safe zone, a safe space for people to come out and just have fun. >> reporter: they also took time here to celebrate mother's day. they tell me that planning is already underway for more barbecues this summer. christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thanks very much. >>> a crackdown on street racing on the peninsulpeninsula. several cars were racing last night. they say they will have zero tolerance for this thing because it puts others at risk. one driver was caught. that driver arrested. the car now being put in storage for a month. >>> it's an easier way to vote. the election division has launched an app which allows registered voters to get their ballot by mail. text cocoballot to 28683. a link will be sent where the user fills out their name, date of birth and address. a ballot will be mailed to you. officials are hoping the app will eventually lead to more people voting in the 2020 election. >>> still to come, a scary flight experience to sa

. >> afterwards, smith was nominated to the rec and park advisory commission and says he was named lake merit's ambassador. >> we want to make sure our park is a safe zone, you know, a safe space for people to come out and just have fun. >> reporter: organizers said really the point of today because not to focus on the negative but really to just come out and enjoy yourself. reporting live in oakland, christy smith. >> thanks. >>> now to a rude awakening in the south bay. a large tree slamming into a house. severe damage and shaken up the family that lives there. now crews are working to get that family out of there. marianne, it sounds like they're there. >> terry, i just spoke with the man who lives here. he said there are two families that live here. the adults were inside the living room around sk this mo1: morning. no one was hurt. but take a look at this huge tree. it was such a close call. now, this tree hit so hard that it ripped the front door. you can see crews are working on it right here. this is 60 feet in diagrammer -- or six feet in diameter. this section that broke off w

the advisory commission will not have any disciplinary powers. >>> we are just days away from metro rail's big summer shutdown. now alexandria is trying to help people cope with the major closure that starts saturday. at an open house, passengersk tal about possible work-arounds. free shuttle buses will be provided at the stations that are closed. they have south of reagan national airport on he blue and yellow lines. service is also being added on alternative forms of transportation this summer. >> the city of alexandria is doing lots of creative stuff. you know, boatsoi gng right over to the whatever wharf. the -- to the wharf. the lanes to the parkway. anything we c to get people into town. >> metro says it will have the stations back open after the first week of september. we have everything you need to know about the shuttle bus routes in the app, just search "metro shutdown." >>> new this morning, downtown silver spring willu ergo a $10 million makeover later this year. our news partners at wtop report the redesign includes new outdoor spaces, restaurants, and housing. another $15 mi

i see our delegate to the advisory commission. we are glad to know community organizing is part of this effort. i want to say on the ride this morning it wasn't a collision but there was a small accident and 911 was awesome. they came right out. the person he who went down was not seriously injured. she was attended to immediately. they carried her bike away. thanks so much for bicycling today. keep at it. i will see you on the road. >> in a dual capacity i want to welcome somebody speaking on behalf of supervisor peskin, the chair of the transportation authority and executive director of the transportation authority kelly chang. >> good morning on behalf of district three happy bike to workday. there is d3 contingent? we had a great ride this morning. there is more coming. they were going to do embarcadero. we have a lot of work underwear with partners at public works, m.t.a. thank you, mayor for your leadership. we are ready to partner with the city to get that done. i am grateful to collaborate on the text on the ballot this fa

she served two terms as commissioner on medicare payment advisory commission. she was a member of the technical review panel for the medicare trustees report a few years ago. she is currently a member of cbo's panel of health advisers. cori is going to look at one of the other big issues that is at least on the minds of some political folks, and that is, well, what about a medicare buy-in or maybe what about medicare for all? what could medicare buy-in mean in terms of long-term impact on the program. with that, paul, please join us. >> good morning. thank you. i'd like to start off by just mentioning i appreciate joe's introductory remarks as well as the title of this presentation today of medicare's perilous financial future. i will note those were joe's editorializing and interpretation and in no way represents the position of the office of the actuary or the medicare trustees. it is my pleasure to speak with you today about the 2019 medicare trustees report that was released yesterday. i'm going to be talking through the current snap shot and evolution of t

. >> reporter: the naacp montgomery county branch, says we support the policing advisory commission bill as a step towards increased accountability. we believe it will bring about needed transparency to police policies. the sponsor of the policing advisor commission bill says it will increase transparency and trust in the montgomery county police department. >> the video is another unfortunate example why many communities do not trust police. that is the underlying challenge we need to tackle. >> reporter: saying montgomery has a good pice department but he believes a police advising co mission, ifapproved, will make it even better. he wants police to earn the confidence of parts of the community that marg feel tated by racial profiling. chris gordon news4.nt > mogomery county wants t community involved to replaceew the nolice retiring chief, tom. there is a community forum to be held next month. >>> tonight, a popular boating ramp and parking lot are shut down. solen wang was killed last week. and supervi voted to close the boat ramp and parking lot until safety changes are made. en's e

joining us in-studio from the oakland privacy advisory commission, appreciate you coming in, thanks so much, brian, for being here. lay it out for me. why do you believe that this technology is so dangerous? >> this is our opportunity to really keep the genie in the bottle. we know today that it has a really significant error rate. depending on gender or darker skin tone, it has a more difficult time identifying you. so when body cameras, vendors and others are trying to introduce it into real-time policing, and with a trigger-happy cop, you could see the concern we would have for the drastic consequences. >> a lot of the focus is on the misidentification here. testing was done by the aclu on amazon recognition software. and what did it find in terms of some of the perceived biases with the technology? >> yeah, they ran the members of congress through that software. and it misidentified 28 of them. and most of them were people of color. so it's going to disproportionately impact communities that have typically been over police. the largest concern, i think is long-term. what if the tec

paul n. 2000, he was appointed to serve on president clinton's advisory commission on asian american and pacific islanders. >> that put him in the history books, because it made him the first hmong presidential appointee in the nation's history. >> i have to up front admit my ignorance to the entire hamong culture. you know what i mean. >> i was telling people if you are buying nowers in seattle, they are grown by hmong growers. if you eat strawberries in the winter month, you are eating hamong strawberries, they're dominating 70% of the market. people don't know. today is the hmong new year's celebration. usually in laos, it's after harvesting. it's an opportunity for people to come together and young people to find me. >> really? >> you will see people in a courtship game. >> also speed dating. >> absolutely. speed dating. >> there is a part of our story. we came here. ball toss. >> is there a ball toss app? >> there is no tippnder. >> on the surface it looks like any heritage festival. food, clothes, a smattering of white people. i realize this takes on a much more significance fo

in 2000 he was appointed to serve on president clinton's advisory commission on asian americans and pacific islanders. that put him in the history books. it made him the first mhmong appointee in history. >> i always tell people if you buy flowers from seattle you're buying hmong flowers. if you eat strawberries, you're eating hmong strawberries because they dominate 70% of the market. people just don't know. >> today is the celebration. usually it's after harvesting and it's an opportunity for people to come together, for young people to also find mates, right? >> really. >> so you see people ball tossing which is a courtship game. >> speed dating. >> this is part of our story. we didn't come here for ball toss and all that stuff too. >> there's no tinder for ball toss. >> while it may look like a cultural heritage festival, food, clothes, some white people, this takes on much significance for the hmong so they have to keep it going. they have no home country to return to. >> wearing the old traditional clothing. all the new ones from thailand and china. >> it's all mixed up. >> about 5,00

in 2000 he was appointed to serve on president clinton's advisory commission on asian-americans and pacificslanders. and that put him in the history books because it made him the first hmong appointee in the nation's history. i have to up front admit my ignorance to the hmong culture. >> i always tell people if you buy flowers in seattle you're buying hmong flowers. they dominate 70% of the market. so we're everywhere. people just don't know. today is the hmong new year's celebration. usually back in laosit's after harvesting and there's an opportunity for people to come together, for young people to also find mates. >> oh, really. so valentine's day. a new year's celebration and also speed dating. >> absolutely speed dating. this is part of our story. >> is there like a ball toss after -- >> food, clothes, a smattering of white people, i quickly realized this takes on much more significance for the hmong because they have to keep it going. see, the hmong have no home country to return to, so this festival is kind of a tribute to the motherland. >> they're still wearing the old traditional

t advisory commission will notan have disciplinary powers. >>> we're days away from metro rail's big shurmummer shutdown. now alexandria is trying to help passengers cope with it. they talked about possible work-arounds. free shuttle buses will be st thetation closed south of reagan national airpon the blue and yellow lines. officials say extra service is also being adde on alternative forms of transportation this summer. >> the city of alexandria is doing creative stuff. boats going to the wharf. anything we can to do get people into town. >> metro will have the statio back open after the first week e in septemr. we have everything you need to know in the nbc washington app. several "metro shutdown." >>> new this morning, downtown silver spring will undergo a $10 million makeover later this year. our news partners at wtop report the redesign includes new outdoor spaces, restaurants, and housing, another $15 million spent on renovating the former discovery communications building in silver spring. >>> children, they love it hear the family stories about the day they were born. i don'

. >> happening today in alameda county, the privacy advisory commission will talk about law enforcement's potential use of facial recognition technology. kpix 5's jackie ward is in oakland to talk about the pushback the software is getting. >> michelle, this is something that amazon is proposing to law enforcement agencies. but privacy advocates aren't too keen on it. some enforcement are starting to use it. they say the san francisco district attorney's office and sheriff's department, used the crime to fight technology already. he says this is dangerous. which is why we he wants to ban it. some we spoke to are worried the software would strip people of their anonymity. >> any time they run your face through the software, i'm sure it's going to log the address, the time and everything else. >> i think it's necessary, though. you know, in order to keep the crime rate down. and to keep our neighborhood, our environments protected. >>> should the bill pass, private companies would still be allowed to use the software, even though the city would not. san francisco is also considering a ban o

in 2000 he was appointed to serve on president clinton's advisory commission and that put him in the history books because it made him the first hmong presidential appointee in the nation's history. >> i have to up front openly admit my ignorance to the entire hmong culture. you know what i mean? >> i always tell people if you buy flowers from seattle you're buying hmong flowers because they're grown by hmong growers. if you eat strawberries from california during the winter months you are eating hmong strawberries because they dominate 70% of the market. so whatever -- people just don't know. today is the hmong new year celebration. usually back in laos it's after harvesting. and it's an opportunity for people to come together. for young people to also find mates. >> oh, really. is that what that is? >> yeah. you will see people ball tossing and a game. >> a new year celebration and also speed dating. >> absolutely speed dating. >> yes. >> this is part. we did come here to ball toss and all that stuff too. >> a ball toss app? >> and while on the surface this may look like any old cu

he was previously the executive director of the medicare payment advisory commission mekpac and held leadership positions at cms and the office of management and budget. he holds a phd on public health analysis from binghamton. thank you with that. i'm going to turn it over to karen to get us started. thank you karen. >> thanks sarah and good morning everyone. good morning to my friend on the panel. it's great to be reunited today. i brought a packet of slides that are not going to be broadcast so apologies. i'm not going to go through all of them but thought i would go through a few so we could talk about the bills we're going to be discussing today. the first packet discusses where we get our coverage from. 1/3 of us are covered by medicare or medicaid, some are insured and some uninsured. i will remind you there's a huge amount of variety within this chart. there's millions of different health group programs, thousands of nongroup plans. there are even thousands of private medicare advantage plans within the medicare program. there's become a large component of private coverage wi

in 1968, the national advisory commission on civil disorders, commonly known and well known as the kerner commission, concluded in a groundbreaking report that white racism led to pervasive discrimination and employment -- in employment, education an housing. in 2015, the black home ownership rate was just over 40%. virtually unchanged since 1968. over that same period of time, hite ownership increased 5.2%. 5.2 percentage points, to 71.1%. 30 percentage points higher than the black home ownership rate. as a result, president lynn ton b. johnson signed the fair housing act on april 11, 1968. one week after the assassination of dr. martin luther king. in fact, there are many people who contend that before the demise of dr. king, the fair housing act would not have been signed as quickly as it was. dr. king, as you know, was assassinated and for many of us, it was a sad and dark day in the history of our country. we were saddened by what happened to dr. king. not withstanding the fact that the fair housing act became law as a result of his untimely demise. the fair housing act was conceived

he also served on california's public infrastructure advisory commission in 2009 and he's also author of several books on transportation policy. so as i said, we're going to talk about this guide today. why did we write this report? we wrote it for one simple reason besides the fact that we really strongly endorse and support moving to a road user charge system and away from a gas tax. we wrote it because there is a wide array of mythology -- myths out there which a lot of people hold that are frankly just wrong and they get in the way of moving forward with an ruc system. so what's going on? why are people talking about the need to get a road user charging system? one is the shift towards electric vehicles. it's beginning to happen. as battery technology gets better, more and more cars are going to be evs and that means they're not paying the gas tax. the second reason why to do this is that the current system we have is an indirect user fee. it doesn't really charge users for the cost they impose on the system. when you drive on the benefit way in the morning, you're imposing a lot

. >> i'm reading the d.g.o., and it provides for two members of the police commission to be on an advisory capacity. e.c.w. review board composed of, just reading, two members of the police commission advisory, deputy chief of the administration bureau, deputy chief of the airport bureau, deputy chief of the field operations bureau, and professional standards bureau, deputy chief of the special operations, commanding officer of the training division, commanding officer of risk management. director of police accountability and others. >> and also -- ok. well, it's wonderful when we actually read our own d.g.o.s. thank you, commissioner taylor. so it sounds like in place a capacity for this. is that accurate? >> yes, sir. and so go back to what i said earlier, this was a lot of work went into this, and a lot of input went into this, and it's spelled out in the d.g.o. in terms of the structure. we were tasked with building it out and putting it on paper from this point forward. >> and may be in the d.g.o. as well, apologize for not reading it, i did previously but a long time ago. is there a

he was appointed to the human right's commission, lgbtq advisory committee working on senior issues, providing lgbtq resources and marginalized neighborhoods in sanfrancisco and appointed to the visitation valley, citizen's advisory committee by the mayor to advise the redevelopment agency and city in their consideration of establishing a redevelopment plan for the survey areas and visitation valley and to review policy documents to determine the need for and the potential effectiveness of a redevelopment programme for visitation valley. he eventually became the pta president coordinating for parents and teachers and continued to advocate and educate the community on lgbtq issues. prior to activist, he was a former licensed cosmetologies in 1975 and worked as a stylist for five years and currently he worked with the community development center as a coordinator for the initiative, an organization serving the islander community for the last 25 years. he worked with fa sill stating a healthy cooking and eating class once a week. thank you for all of the work that you do for our neighbo

commission. i've worked on advisory groups since i've been on the commission. we have our own sort of community good neighbor policy, and we intend to continue to fulfill that commitment. i don't think any of our commissioners here would disagree with that in the long run. i think that nobody here -- i don't any that anybody here is a nimby or a racist. i think there's been a lot of rhetoric. at the basic, we are all humans, we all have compassion. i believe, as i said, there's no victory for any side. this is just the beginning of a long journey, a hard journey to a destination. it's not going to be easy. but i would say for some people, somebody said it earlier, let's not have the fear of failure, let's have hope. i would say it's like the power of and. it's not the neighbors or homeless, it's the neighbors and homeless. let's work together for a solution. i've thought about this long and hard because i have taken the neighbors' considerations, and i do know that disrupting people's lives, disrupting quality of life is important. i mean, you -- it's very impo

i think congress has a proper role they can exert in the makeup of boards, advisory boards, or makeup of commissions. and i think this is reasonable legislating around that. we constantly hear from both finanancial firms and their regulars that cyber security and insufficient data privacy standards are significant threats to o consumers and financial stability. moreover, as employees of the federal government, we know federal government data breaches federal employees. we have to do more to make sure we stop that and stop malicious state actors from these cyber attacks. billions of people were impacted by data preaches and cyber attacks in 2018 alone. the problem's on growing and the threats become -- are becoming much more sophisticated. given the borns of this conversation, ensuring one member of the consumer privacy board has privacy expertise offers a reasonable solution. i commend my colleague from hawaii for offering this amendment. irge my colleagues to support it. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from hawaii is recognized. mr. case: thank you

continuing to work on our reframing aging campaign, and many people, some people in the commission, the people on our advisory council have been involved in the workgroup to think about what it means to reframing aging in san francisco , and we have struggled a little bit because we learned a lot from what the framework institute has put out about how they talk -- how they tell us, rather, that we should talk about aging, how we should talk about aging with a larger community, and it is hard to figure out how to take the research and put it into a real campaign, and that is what we are doing now. we have, through the community living campaign, our partner on this, we have brought in a creative agency to work with us. i love this because it is not anything we normally talk about in our world, but their name is most likely, two. we are looking forward -- they are working on some collateral, some messaging now, and they will roll that out with us in the next couple of months, and then we'll be talking about how we all do some outreach with the messaging and the collateral materials that we will develop based on

commission, and the mayor's office. i believe that the inclusion of an advisory committee comprised of residents, clients, and service providers other neighborhood stakeholders is a critical piece that i understand the port has had initial discussions about but has not yet finalized, and we encourage you to do so. there are also some additions that i would like to see added to the reporting metrics, like the rate at which services are being utilized to ensure the highest level of support and services possible consistent with other navigation centers. i and my office are committed to monitoring these metrics to ensure the success of the center and want to underline the importance of this reporting to a new advisory group and making the center available to the neighborhood. i also understand we need to address homelessness citywide. i understand that's not your jurisdiction here, but i propose building navigation centers in every district of the city. i also understand after today, this process is not over, and through the work of the advisory group, the port staff, and department of homelessness, the process will continue to be