brown, kids from steppingstones, charles, tim, lilo here at panhandle, and commissioner lowe and anna g. at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >>> i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san fr

brown, kids from steppingstones, charles, tim, lilo here at panhandle, and commissioner lowe and anna g. at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause]

brown, kids from steppingstones, charles, tim, lilo here at panhandle, and commissioner lowe and anna g. at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause]. >>> i would like to welcome you. this is the small business week's 15th anniversary. san francisco hosts the largest small business in san francisco. 15 years ago we started with a small reception at city hall and a couple of classes at the chamber of commerce with the small business administration. now we have grown to a full week of activity with this wonderful evening and our business organization hosting mixers. make sure you attend those and workshops throughout the week. i would like to acknowledge our small business commissioners who are in the room tonight. we have our small business commission president stephen adams, vice president mark dwight and commissioners william ortiz an and and irene. they are your representatives in city hall. please stand. [applause.] thank you to our sponsors and hosts committee members. each year we partner to work

brown, kids from steppingstones, charles, tim, lilo here at panhandle, and commissioner lowe and anna gat sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the transbay joint powers authority board of directors meeting for thursday, may 9th. call the role. >> i can call the role. i will note for the record that director chang is sitting in as director haney's alternate. [roll call] >> mr. chairman, -- mr. chairman , you have a quorum. shall i call your next item? >> yes, please. >> item three is clean occasions i am not aware of any. seeing none,

brown, kids from steppingstones, charles, tim, lilo here at panhandle, and commissioner lowe and anna gat sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >> good afternoon and welcome to the april 30th, 2019 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madame clerk, please call the roll. >> thank you, mr. president. [roll call]

brown, kids from steppingstones, charles, tim, lilo here at panhandle, and commissioner lowe and anna g. at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut. >> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. a place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. this is great. it's about environment and stewardship. it's also for the -- we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. that is made up o

anna: just briefly, the rationale here is about sharing cost burdens in research, development, and purchasing, is that right? >> going back to the famous confession of a ghat's the way to do it in terms of cost energy cost savings and volume duplicating investments. anna: thank you for your analysis and your time there, from milan. that wraps up our coverage on bloomberg markets today. u.k. markets are closed today, u.s. equity markets closed today. the rest of european equity markets are open. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> the following is a paid advertisement for time life's music collection. the 1960's was a decade of change, of new hopes and dreams, new attitudes, and a decade where love and romance were expressed in many new and different ways. >> ♪ wouldn't it be nice if we were older then we wouldn't have to wait so long ♪ >> ♪ these eyes cry every night for you ♪

anna: good luck with the week ahead. get the bloomberg business flash. >> softbank's vision fund is injecting $800 million into g reensillthe company offers alternative supply chain funding. fund willfrom vision help it accelerate its plan and develop new technologies. we speak with the company's chief executive at 8:00 a.m. london time. monsanto have a secret project to suppress criticism and lobby for the approval of pesticides, including roundup. that is what french media appointing bayer is a law firm to investigate. on company kept scores politicians and industry leaders. the german company has noted accusations that may have violated ethical and legal principle. thanks very much. minutes away from the open now. next, a look at your stocks to watch this morning, including , japanese broadcaster tbs reporting renault made a formal offer to merge with nissan, creating the world's second biggest carmaker. ♪ anna: six minutes to go until the start of the equity trading day. dani burger is looking at renault. annmarie hordern is focused on oslo bors. the first m&a story of the morning is renault. what are the details? >>

g tv . type that in and you can use the charts for your own if you like. annatition can be woefully inconsistent. political minefield. almost as difficult as predicting who is going to be the president of the european commission. the bond rally -- the bond rally continues. treasuries yields lowest since october 2017. 2016.ields lowest since debt levels dominating. yesterday, around italian debt they may be forced to tempe. dream,ifferent european reaching some kind of consensus. matt: that is it for the european open. today. stay with bloomberg television though because up next is "surveillance." if not, you can head over to bloomberg radio. anna and i are heading over to radio. are in new york or west of new york city, you can check us out on sirius xm as clouds build over london. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ francine: europe's next leader. candidates for the job jostle for position today. the uk's conservative party has its own game of thrones. the art of no deal. president trump says he is not ready to make a trade agreement with china, saying that tariffs could g

g tv is the function to use. up next, we speak to the ceo of continental. the manufacturer reports third-quarter earnings. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna minutes into the trading day. this line out of south korea saying the north koreans have fired an unidentified projectile. we see that there is appetite for the yen as a result. that is the macro story, let's get back to micro. the tire maker continental sees business picking up after a slow start to the year. joining us is the cfo. very good to have you with us. seem like others to have confidence in the second half of the year. others, to, like have confidence in the second half of the year. what do you attribute that confidence to? >> when we are talking about increasing in our industry, do not overestimated. -- overestimate it. we have seen months 13% less production, five or 6% less in europe. it is not difficult to be a little bit stronger in the second half of this year than last year has been this is basically the story. some numbers, overall expectations for production is 93 million. the second half of the year is probably 800,000 more. not so much, yet an increase towards th