who have confiscated ivory and other major chinese markets have ended ab is co-sponsored by speaker atkins and chair laura and leon no and assembly members i got wrong we thank supervisor wiener and commissioner chan for their leadership and san francisco's important support nor ab 9 of and protecting rhinos and elephants it is an clooit which i say the government has identified as an international contra costa choice and new york is been identified and by clarifying the i've very that will help to battle terry rich it is circle for terrorist groups like the michelle and other army in uganda it is increasing taking part in the lucrative that market the elephant and rhino population has declined we 50 percent and the elephant population is reduced to half of what it was more 50 thousand elephants were reduced to the second largest market in the world 1/3rd of ivory offered for sale was not - a staggering 2 thousand rhinos were purchased in africa and only 29 thousand left in the wild los angeles has identified as the top market for ivory for the illegal trade the ivory trade in california i

i want to thank speaker atkins and senator lara for being bold in this policy. i was telling supervisor wiener for making mistakes and looking at photos for situation where this happens it's completely devastating and we hope that san francisco leads the way and conveys a strong message as well. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, supervisor kim ? >>supervisor jane kim: thank you. i would like to ask to have my name added as a cosponsor. i thanks those that educated us on this issue when we 1st got e-mails in our office back in february i wasn't aware of how serious this issue was and also as california is a geographically an area where a lot of ivory is traded. i learned a lot about this policy and our campaign manager got involved in this issue and i really appreciate the work that the residents have done to bring this initiative an aboard. i'm happy to support this and support it's passage at the state level. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, colleagues can we take this same house same call, this motion is adopted. city clerk: item 8. planning code come

virginia with the senior day, and atkins didn't disappoint. the senior for the big-time slam. 16 points in the game for atkins. virginia beats virginia tech 69-57. ryan zimmerman played at third, left field and first base. this season all signs pointing to first. our jason pew at spring training to ask all about the plan. >> ryan zimmerman is making the transition from third base to first base this season. it's the same transition his manager matt williams made during his playing days in the big leagues. zimmerman says he is looking forward to this new challenge. >> people think that first base is kind of just the position where it puts someone to -- you don't have to be good at defense to be over there, and it couldn't be farther from the truth. i think it's -- you know it's a different position than i have played before. it's all about footwork. obviously it's on the corner still, but it's going from the left side to the right. just a few other responsibilities. i think i'm going to be okay. i'm going to work hard at it. >> zimmerman has dea

to implement a pilot program at the beginning of 2015 this is something else that assembly speaker atkins spoke in support of last week as well when is the rod charge an update you where you charge the drivers per mile of gas consumed he think it can be tracked from anywhere of a flat fee to a gps tracking system that lives in our very long and under the system one of the key points it is fuel-efficientcy vehicles will use the road so everyone paid transportation tax is based on the user fee it is meant to be a approximate i didn't when it was implemented there was basically a flat fuel economy across all vehicles some vehicles get 15 miles per gallon so the gas tax is easy to collect a part of the federal, state it depreciates worse from there without either a new funding or severe cuts in expenditures we're in trouble and so a little bit more about the gas tax the federal gas tax was last raised in 2003 and the inflation adjusted dollars it had more valuable to the there's in the last exactly to californians spend $108,000 per year due to the deteriorating roads so why not raise the gas

who have confiscated ivory and other major chinese markets have ended ab is co-sponsored by speaker atkinsaura and leon no and assembly members i got wrong we thank supervisor wiener and commissioner chan for their leadership and san francisco's important support nor ab 9 of and protecting rhinos and elephants it is an clooit which i say the government has identified as an international contra costa choice and new york is been identified and by clarifying the i've very that will help to

. >> think you david atkins -- thank you, david atkins. >> the ceo is saying elections don't interfere'm getting ready for the top of the hour. to join us on twitter. >> the ceo david atkins telling anna he is worried the u.k. election will cause a slowdown in spending. next, it's bar chart time. has the yen bottomed against the dollar? find out after the break. ♪ >> time for the bar chart. has the yen bottomed against the u.s. dollar? it is a question worth asking. it showed japan hobbled in the fourth quarter. the spotlight is firmly on the boj after bloomberg news reported some officials think further monetary easing to shore up inflation would be to have. policymakers are concerned it could trigger further declines in the yen to damage consumer confidence. let's look at the dollar again over the last 12 months. the hive for the dollar 121.46. -- the hive for the dollar, 121.4 6 -- high for the dollar 121.46. for the most of the time the yen has been stuck in the 116-120 trading range. analysts we have surveyed forecast the yen to weaken to 1.19 in the first quarter, 1.22 in the sec

atkins said this fee could be charged as part of the vehicle registration and car insurance >>> it city of san francisco is looking at reducing the speed limit in some areas just to make the streets safer for pedestrians. later today, a committee of a board of supervisors will hold a hearing about this plan "the san francisco examiner" says one idea is to reduce the speed limit to 20 miles an hour in certain areas. the city's goal is to have zero pedestrian fatalities in the next decade. >>> both republicans and democrats in congress are urging the obama administration to provide jordan with increased military stance. a day after meeting with jordan's king abdul la, all 26 members of the senate armed services committee called on the summation to quickly provide aircraft parts, night vision equipment, and other weapons to jordan. this is video of that meeting on tuesday when king abdul la was in washington. the push follows it release of a video showing islamic state militants burning to death a jordanian air force pilot. french authorities say a woman featured in the latest video releas

tony atkins announced a proposal that includes a road user charge. for most californians it would work out to about $52 a year. atkins says if approved it would raise $2 billion a year to repair roads and bridgesment the state is looking for new ways to fund transportation projects because gas tax revenues are falling. >>> ahead of a major change in our weather. a winter storm is going to bring wind, and possibly several inches of rain in northern california over the next three or four days. that rain will hit the north bay first, starting late tomorrow. >> chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking the rain in our weather center. >> reporter: showers and rain in the forecast, but not really right away. it's going to to take a while for the rain to get here. now it's a multiple systems, as they move in. you can see three of them lined up here. they're all stemming from the subtropics, so it's very moist right now. focus is up here. that's where the rain has been. as we head into the next 48 hours, the focus drifts south, and 2,000 miles of moisture

atkins underneath.d the cavaliers continue to chalk up wins. >> virginia 8 in a row. over tech. in wichita, the shockers hosting northern iowa. >> missouri valley conference regular season title. came down to this game. the last of the regular season. wichita state was outstanding from behind the arc. they were 11 for 24. looked like they were going to blow it open. northern iowa came back. fred van vleet and 14 assists and cotton and the shockers are the missouri valley conference champions. >> xavier hosted villanova. >> xavier up by 9 in the early going. early in the second half. villanova. jenkins finds ochefu inside for the layup. here come the villanova wildcats. 10 straight wins now. arcidiacono from downtown. and the outright big east regular season champs for the villanova wildcats. my partner thinks they could be a number 1 seed. >> could be. >> 14 and 2 in the big east. at phog allen, under way in the second half. 5 minutes in. 42-38 the texas longhorns with the lead over 8th rated kansas. ja

dare yen atkins gets it to go. and later in the game louisville they're within 6. huge block for the cardinals. they're on the break. check out this you guys. harold. finishing off the alley-oop. huge play for louisville. under 30 seconds to go. virginia with the lead. chris jones. taking it to the rack and somehow he gets it to fall as he's fouled. back and oh! yeah. off the glass. louisville down three. virginia they escape closing it out on frort. 53-47 they win the final. >>> john thompson iii and hoyas in trouble against villanova. first half. hoyas down 13. trying to get back in it. ljp baseline off the glass for 2 of 15. georgetown down 11. later in the half turnovers hurting the hoyas. hill yard comes up with the steal on the break. all the way for the bucket and the fo. he had 15. wildcats up 14 at the break. not much better in the second half. villanova avenges an earlier loss this season to georgetown. the 3. they would put a hurting on the hoyas. 689-53 the final. >>> smart and the 18th ranked vcu on the road against st. bonn venture. burgess attacks th

termination and first of all, thank the advocates it is going to be a long fight and want to thank speaker atkins and senator laura for taking the leadership to move this bill forward i know in the legislation this is been floating around inform a while and not gaining traction seeing the leadership in the legislator that's taken on the bill it has a shot this time and i think we have a diverse coalition so mr. taylor given san francisco's status as one of the leading centers of illegal irony trade in the country i think it sends a loud megs message for us as a city to say no and band it so colleagues, i ask for your support and madam chair i make a motion 20 forward item two to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you charger cowen i want to second that and thank the advocates that have done a lot of hard particularly the last year to bring this to surface and reach out to our office in march or april i hadn't known about this issue i know one of the policy interns was working with this group as well to support it i've learned a lot over the past couple of m

. >> reporter: welcomed new option that atkins will have to wait longer for. jeanne ellie, nbc way area news. >>> well the wait and the new systems are not cheap. the technicians say that replacing the system is $2,500. >>> and now, a new change by the lgbt company is being praised. they are having a fill in the blank option to fill in their own gender identity including transgender box. >> sacrifice and smiles in the face of a deadly disease. a young boy fighting leukemia at sff hospital and his dad are teaching the nurses about the father of a dad. >> ian kole is showing us how they are managing. >> okay. i'm ready. >> reporter: when you meet kayden holmer, you will see the bundle of energy. if you show up that you want to film him, he will want to do it himself. these are the zoom skills he has, b uut you also might notice the feeding tube he has. he has autism, and 6 years old, and battling leukemia. >> i got a phone call saying that he has leukemia. >> reporter: his father casey is a single dad. >> i just tell to my knees. >> reporter: he has been transpo

youth i've been working and supporting our school health program and both doing peer education at atkins and in the middle school jr. school and helping to implement our lgbtq relationship at this presidio and james middle school and from the youth prospective we've been doing this our second year implementing the lgbtq program and there limping and on to having the conversation they just need that space those health educators and health teachers to know what in their talking about and confront talking about it the firefighter we weren't quite sure but they're showing up we have a volunteerly lunch time and the second year we've had an increase in numbers and attendance and the youth are willing to have the on contestants it's important we have people that are comfortable having those conversations and who are as inclusive as possible. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm alexander with the health inches one of the coordinators and had the pleasure of work with the health group that is happening in 7 holidays as well coordination around high schools i want to echo one of the com

. >> it needs to be ongoing and we have a great speaker in the assembly, tony atkins, who has championedhis as her cause, and she's got the big city mayors behind her. >> let's shift gears, because i want to make sure i want to talk about policing. mayor, you met with u.s. attorney general eric holder yesterday about building trust with communities. you said your city needs to do more to build that -- to mend that trust gap. how do you plan to do that? >> i just want to say i'm very proud of what my city has already done. and yet we need to do more. and we can do that by utilizing the camera, for example. body cameras on police officers not just that officers wear them. >> very good. great minds think alike. >> i'm guessing we agree on this, community policing is an essential tool here. it's a lack of a relationship between the beat cop and the individual who is being served on the street. that creates the conflict. where you can develop relationships and a familiarity -- >> let me ask a different police question. you've been dealing with police tensions. it's been very contentious. all