the sfmta and ed risken and his staff and stacie catalo, chief joanne hayes and her staff, chief bill scottfic station or excuse me traffic division northern and central. >> to be able t 168 years, about 168 years ago, people got together in a room and decide decided to celebrater irish heritage. i want to thank every one of you. i appreciate it and i know that if we continue to do this, the little ones will be carrying our torch for another 168 years. thank you. [cheers and applause] and i always all over this, thank my wife. this is a very busy time of year for me and i have to thank my wife and i just left for a couple of days to go skiing right in the middle of this and left my wife at home to handle the phone calls. so even though she's not here today, i would like a round of applause for my lovely wife, mary. [cheers and applause] this is the season to be irish and i invite everybody to be irish during this season as we celebrate women breaking barriers. thank you. [cheers and applause] i would like to call up crystal carlo who is representing the board and the volunteer's irish socie

i also want to take this opportunity to recognize our police chief, bill scott, who is here, and our sheriff, vicki hennessey. thank you both for joining us this morning. at this time, i would like to give our chief, joanne hayes white, an opportunity to say a few words. >> thank you, mayor breed. good morning, everyone. this will be even shorter and much sweeter. i'm thrilled to be here. i wanted to acknowledge mayor breed for her emphasis always and prioritization of public safety of first responders and the critical role that they play in our city. so thank you for that. and i'm also here to offer my heartiest congratulations to janine nicholson. she has worked diligently in over 25 years with the san francisco fire department. she gets the importance of teamwork, which is what we're all about. within our department and working with other city agencies. and i was really proud last year to promote her to deputy chief of of administration, where i think on top of her excellent career, she got a taste of what it is like to work and juggle different priorities. and you shined in that

he named bill scott and senator john veraso.e spoke with those offices and none of them mentioned the existence of a working group. one senator public aide who i spoke with said it seemed like the president was just listing off names of republican senators who he has spoken with on health care, because those senators had indeed been having conversations about health care, about drug pricing amongst themselves and with the president, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are running point here on coming up with an obamacare replacement. as you mentioned earlier, senator mitch mcconnell, the majority leader, he is trying to keep his caucus as far away from this as possible, so that's where we stand right now with neither the white house nor republican leaders working at the moment on a viable obamacare replacement while this case is still working its way through the courts. we will see if ultimately that judge's ruling striking down the health care law in its entirety is upheld. phil? >> thanks, jerry. keep digging on that. >>> s

. >>> the battle over the bay area housing crisis and a bill proposed by scott wiener was first and center. they don't want high density housing in neighborhoods of single family homes. >> state senator wiener said the goal is to help more people live near public transportation hubs. some think it would cause more problems and they don't want the state to interfere with local planning. >> at the or interesta or indah public likely they are interested the high dense tee housing. >> my worse fear is that this decision making will be taken away from our locally elected officials. >> owen murphy worries if it passes it would exchange the character of the city. his main concern is increased traffic, impact on the local school district and parking. >> we're not opposed to high density housing. they are talking about ridiculously high density. throwing away parking requirements. >> the senator is the author of sb 50 and says local jurisdictions would maintain some control. >> you can't ban apartments near transportation and jobs. >> the local community would have to approve or deny each project t

he says a new bill by scott wiener threatens the future of cow palace.lation would transfer control of the cow palace and its surrounding property to a new authority made up of members appointed by the mayor of daly city. san francisco. and the san mateo board of supervisors. >> right now it is governed by a board of directors appointed by the state. and it is completely not responsive to the local community. >>> the new authority would have the power to decide whether to continue to operate the cow palace or come up with a plan to build affordable housing on the site. it would also ban gun shows.? the cow palace gun shows are needing to be stopped. that is a good thing. but this is not the place to solve the california housing crisis. >> reporter: he says the bill is a thinly disguised plan to tear down the cow palace. >> the cow palace, morris the local community, and the gun shows or one example of that. they ignore the local community. they been wanting those to go away for decades. in the cow palace has refused to get rid of the gun shows. >>> he sa

let's take, for example, state senator scott weiner's bill. this is getting a lot of attention. it will boost housing. sarnd major transit hubs and employers. it's facing opposition from a number of supervisors in senator wener's own hometown of san francisco. could thatype of opposition undercut this bill and what he is trying t do? >> this is an incredibly type of legislation. we saw last year it didn't even on the politiot, he hasn a lot of endorsement from labor groups, the chamber of commerce, the leadership group on board with this bill, and one thing, the housing committee, which on tuesday, will take up this piece of legislati o. the chair the housesing committee is senator scott weiner. a bit of a home court vaeng there. >> what is your group? the sill von valley leadership group stand on it? >> we spport what the sno are is trying to do. we support senate bill 50. here's why. we are 3.5 million homes short in california. it calls for within a half mile radius of a fixed rail transit stationhe ideally we should be building around bart, cal train, sf, smart, ace, andvta'

bill into law. it was a magnificent achievement. it, too, being led by george miller, the chair of the committee mr. scott chairs now, rosa delauro played a hand in that. rosa then introduced the equal pay bill then. we passed it in the house. it didn't pass the senate. 60 votes needed in the senate. but she has persisted and we're fortunate for that. we're grateful to her and to lily ledbetter and the groups, so many outside groups who have worked so hard to mobilize and make this different. some of them include the american association of university women, national women's law center, national partnership for women and families, national organization for women, national committee r pay equity, mobilizing ultraliberal center for law and social policy, the leadership conference both civil and human rights, naacp, league of women voters, u.s. women's chamber of commerce, the list goes on and on. the anti-defamation league, the american psychlogical association, and many more. bus that outside mobilization will be very important in passing this legislation and turning it into law, into an improvement in the

i rise in strong support of this bill, and i thank chairman scott for his tremendous leadership in -- and shepherding this bill to the floor. i want to thank congresswoman rosa delauro who has been a champion for women's rights her entire career. the paycheck fairness act is a testament to our tireless dedication to the eradication of the gender pay gap, and it's by her leadership that we are here today on the verge of attaining a more equitable workforce. i also thank congresswoman waters who has long advocated for and fought for pay equity and been a beacon for courage for women across this country. we passed the equal pay act in 1963, which made it illegal to discriminate based on sex when men and women are performing the same job that offers little effort and skill and responsibility. we followed that up with the civil rights act which made it illegal to discriminate based on sex and then 10 years ago, we passed the lilly ledbetter act, which made it clear that every single inadequate paycheck a woman receives is a new act of discrimination. and yet inequality persisted. today, wo

what they said was those senators, bill cassidy, rick scott, for example, john veraso, they are indeed continuing to have conversations about health care with the president and with their colleagues. one republican senator told me specifically that it appears that the president was simply talking about individuals he has talked to about health care. but as far as the existence of an actual working group to come up with a replacement, it doesn't appear that that is the case. and that is where we find this administration, pushing this position to fully invalidate obamacare through the courts without actually having any kind of a replacement ready to go. brianna? >> jeremy diamond, thank you for that fact check there. >>> president trump is now taking credit for saving the special olympics from a crisis that was created by his own administration. education secretary betsy devos has been squaring offe ining of congress on her budget which calls for limiting funds for special olympics. here are people questioning the decision? >> are you questioning the decision of the education secretary t

. >> reporter: the bill's author is scott wiener, he says we have a terrible housing problem and need stronger state standards to make sure local communities are allowing enough housing. b.a.r.t. is expected to vote to support this bill today. >>> live from the contra costa b.a.r.t. station. amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >>> thank you, amy. a shoplifting call at a popular san leandro thrift store ended with a deadly officer-involved shooting. alameda deputies shot at a vehicle speeding toward them yesterday. this happened while they were investigating reports of shoplifting at a store on east 14th street and 162nd avenue. a man and a woman were in the vehicle which knocked over a deputy's three deputies opened fire. the man died at the scene. the woman taken to the hospital. we don't know her condition. >>> now to the latest on that college admission cheating scandal. this morning, we're learning how the fbi uncovered the scheme. it was by accident. agents were working on an unrelated fraud case when they received a tip about a bribe paid to a women's soccer coach at yale and that helpe

scott minard. erik: at guggenheim. bill: right.t in the right environment, 20 years ago, he could've been a bond king. he has got a great long-term perspective, but i don't think he's got the market for, or maybe the willingness to be a king. remember that song, who would want to be king? who would? i guess i did. but in retrospect, it carries a certain burden. the crown is heavy. erik: think of it as the bill gross you did not know. the former bond king still has a lot to say. we will miss him in retirement. you have been watching "a conversation with bill gross." i'm erik schatzker. this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: this is "bloomberg etf iq," where we focus on the access, risk, and rewards of etf funds. ♪ scarlet: a big shift at the big board, doug jones joins us to discuss a move on etf's and the foreign exchange. when you invest in cannabis companies, is it better to be passive or active? and ready, set, ipo. with lyft and uber warming up for their debut as a publicly traded

scott. we put together a group of four or five, and bill cassidy is a terrific health care person. they are going to work together, come up with something that's really spectacular. maybe we'll even get support in the house from democrats. but it's going to be far better than obamacare. if we win on obamacare, it will be terminated in the court. and we'll see what happens. [ inaudible question ] >> we're working on a plan now. there's no great rush from the standpoint we're waiting for decisions from the court but we've already won the case for the determination of obamacare, against obamacare. now we'll go to the appellate division. we'll see what happens there. i think we'll win. it's in texas. wait, wait. then it goes to the supreme court of the united states. if the decisions are held up, if we win on determination of obamacare, we will have a plan very better than obamacare including pre-existing conditions, which i've always been in favor of. >> what is the fbi going to do about jussie smollett? >> i think the case in chicago is an absolute embarrassment to our country. i hav

. >> a bill that would have allowed san francisco to impose those fees failed last year. state senator scott wiener says he is committed to renewing a similar bill next year. might get pricy. you hear that the bink, oh, that's $25. >> same with all the bridges going up and up and up. sal, it is friday though so we can celebrate a little bit. >> it is friday. especially this week, i think a lot of people are very much ready for the weekend. let's take a look at what we have with the gilroy commute. northbound 101 driving in from gilroy to san san jose, looks pretty good. the silicon sally commute on friday is sometimes a little bit better. a couple of minor accidents but it doesn't affect traffic at this hour. can you see traffic looks good all the way up into san francisco. let's talk about 880 north. it looks good past the coliseum. driving to the bay bridge, so far, so good. we are hoping that the volume today is just a little bit lighter. let's go to rosemary. >> happy friday to you, sal. and to all of you, we are drying out this morning. just a few residual showers a possibility. we shou

. >> jon: i'm jon scott for bill hemmer. democratic presidential candidates pushing for big changes on the campaign trail and former texas congressman beto o'rourke is in new hampshire holding his first event of the day now. >> sandra: the president says the democrats are getting very strange. they want to change the voting age to 16, abolish the electoral college and increase significantly the number of supreme court justices. you have to win it at the ballot box. >> jon: that's not stopping candidates from sticking to their talking points. >> get rid of the electoral college. >> no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who is the president of the united states. we need to deal with that. >> we have to make some kind of structural reform to depoliticize the supreme court. >> term limits for supreme court justices might be one thing. >> i'm open to the idea of a younger voting age. >> sandra: we've got live fox team coverage. kevin corke is live in lima, ohio, where th

scott wieber's bill could go to a full vote soon and it would let bars in select cities including san francisco and oakland sell alcohol as part of the a test run for the rest of the state and it would start in 2021 and run through 2026. each city would also have to vote to extend last call hours. a similar bill made it all the way to then governor jerry brown's desk before he vetoed it. >>> time to get back to our weather because you saw the dreariness come back in. >> and more is coming. meteorologist drew tuma is here with the forecast. >> and live doppler 7 is tracking some heavier rain for those folks in the east bay. that ribbon of moisture overhead is giving us downpours so down to street level we go, you see the bright colors. the orange is even -- and the red around emeryville and oakland and on skyline boulevard. live doppler 7 estimating the rainfall rates approaching an inch per hour so that is a quick downpour working through the east bay. so we'll track it for you. as it moves to the north and east, moving into walnut creek around 6:33 this evening around con court about

state senator scott wiener's bill made it out of committee and could be up for a vote on the floor soonbill would let bars in select cities including san francisco and oakland sell alcohol as part of a test run. each city would have to approve the last call hours. the trial would start in 2021 and go through 2026. by the way, former governor jerry brown vetoed a similar bill last year. >>> the giants promise their new $10 million score board will be up and running by their home opener on april 5th. you can see it from sky7. it's three times the size of the old score board. crews are still working on it so fans of game two bay bridge series oakland a's didn't get to see it in operation last night. by the way the a's beat the giants 5-4. >> impressive. next at 6:00 a.m., trash piling up in one area and the problem that's making it tricky to clean up. >> breaking news this morning. the surge for a missing swimmer off the coast of pack, arpacif. here is a live look from sk >>> breaking news from the peninsula. sky7 is over pacifica where a search is on for a swimmer missing in the ocean. we

you had republicans take a senate seat from bill nelson, with rick scott winning.to the governor's mansion. had ron disantis defeating gillum. florida is one of the states trump sort of won in 2016. i'm sure he would prefer not to have to spend a large amount of time there. florida is one of the ones i would be less concerned about if i was president trump. >> dana: i'm sure that's welcome news to them. your firm, you talked to voters. 2020 prospects, what place represent the rest of america the best? tell me who you saw at number one. >> sure. so we took a look at every county in the united states and how demographically representative it is of america. does it look like america? and then we looked at where all of the democratic presidential contenders are from. number one was the mayor of south bend, indiana. found that where he comes from in south bend, that is the place that looks the most like your average american town, which i think considering most democrats, most voters have never heard of him, gives him an interesting advantage in that race. he can say, i

. >> jon: good morning, i am jon scott in for bill hemmer. bombshell comments during a town hall last night, the 2020 presidential candidate has been critical of the electoral college before about last night she took it one step further. >> come the general election, president candidates don't come to places like mississippi. they go to places like california and massachusetts. because we are not the battleground state. my view is that every vote matters. in the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the electoral college. >> sandra: chris jenkins is live for us. >> moran was responding to a question at that cnn town hall about disenfranchisement when she took it further calling for the ditching of the electoral college is not the first time that the massachusetts senator has been critical so what >> sandra: suggesting in the wake of hillary clinton's 2016 lost when she won the popular vote. warren said it was a sign of an unhealthy democracy. for context, republicans have won the three of t

passed legislation from the criminal justice reform bill that i've already mentioned, even a bill with tim scott, your senator across the aisle, on something called opportunity zones to make sure areas of our country that have not gotten the investment in jobs they need, the lowest income areas, many of which are in this state, have different tax treatment to attract investment, to create jobs and opportunities in communities that have been denied that. so give me the chance to fight for all of america and to deal with these disparities that we have in our economy, in our health care, even in education. [ applause ] >> so an issue, senator, that has been a hot button issue on the campaign trail, reparations. would you be in favor of direct monetary payments to black americans who are descendants of slaves? >> can i tell you why i'm frustrated by this reparations conversation? it's because it's being reduced to a broox to check on a presidential list when this is so much more of a serious conversation. so do i -- [ applause ] do i support legislation that is race conscious about balancing the eco

>> president yee: item 26 is a resolution to support california's state senate bill 281, authored by scott wiener to prohibit the sale of firearms and ammunition and to require the formation of a joint powers authority to develop the property for implementation to commence january 1, 2020. >> president yee: okay, supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, president yee. colleagues, i support senate bill 281 to ban began show gun , because we have been trying to do this for years, not just san francisco but elected officials. this is the eighth time that we have tried to do this. we've had students, mothers and fathers, who have lost their children to gun violence out there protesting these gun shows over and over again. and they are protesting because there's more schools, theatres, churches, bars, and outdoor concerts and every other place in america that continue to be shot up in mass shooting after mass shooting. the reality that the glorification of guns and the widespread availability of them is a sick problem in this country that cannot be denied. today we are mourning oak

. >> clerk: item 34 is a resolution to support california state senate bill no. 23 authored by senator scott weiner and co-authored but multiple assembly members including members david chu and phil ting to expand the definition of vehicle burglary to include any unlawful entry. >> president yee: colleagues, can we take this -- supervisor brown? >> supervisor brown: yes, thank you, president yee. i just want to thank senator weiner for bringing this bill, sb 23, forward and also my co-sponsor on the board of soups, supervisor stefani, supervisor stefani, mar, and walton. i just wanted to give a couple of facts about this particular sb-23. san francisco has the highest rate of property crime in the state, and in 2017 there were over 32,000 auto burglaries in san francisco. the city's property crime rate is over double the statewide average. i receive calls every week from my constituents asking what is city hall doing about the car break-in epidemic and i imagine other supervisors are getting the same kind of calls. my constituents are frustrated and want us to do something to help them get r

bill 281. it was introduced by state senator scott last month. made up of representatives of san francisco, daly city, and san mateo county. >> this is about making sure that the local community can actually have a say in what happens at the palace and what the future holds. >> reporter: one of the reasons there is so much interest in the property is its size. it is almost 70 acres. it has 250,000 square feet of event space and a 14,000 seat amphitheater. >> it is right now being very underutilized. the community has wanted something to happen with that land for a long time. >> reporter: paterson worries if a local board takes control, they will only look at the value of the real estate that hosts everything from the dog shows to the christmas fair. then there is history on the box office wall. the signatures of some of the greatest of our time. all performing at the cow palace. >> there are lots of other places to build houses. you don't need to bulldoze history and an important community asset. >> reporter: state senator wiener says there could

bill. tammy, thank you. sandra scott moore. >> we appreciate that. completion of the mueller investigation showing an overwhelming 80% of voters. the report should be made public. let's bring in senior clinical correspondent at the "washtington examiner." david, good afternoon to you. and when you could join us on a sunday afternoon. let me tell you what jerry nadler said in the interview this morning because you have been tweeting about this. the full report underlying evidence. he wants both. anything less would be a cover up. he says the job of commerce is much broader than the job of the special counsel. we have a much broader mandate and we must exercise the mandate. what did you take away from him and were democrats will go next with this? >> democrats ever be shown what they're doing next because they've aren't even doing that are beyond the scope or the concepts of possible collusion in the 2016 elections. this is what you would expect from any house majority in terms of conducting oversight of a president from the other party. it's what we s

. >> clerk: item 62 is a resolution to support california state senate bill number 281, authored by senator scott wiener prohibiting the sales of firearms at the cow palace in daly city, and. >> president yee: supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: yes. i'd like to move to continue this item for one week. >> president yee: okay. there's a motion to continue this item for one week. is there a second? supervisor mandelman. without objection, then, this item will be continued for one week. >> clerk: to march 12. >> president yee: to march 12. [gavel]. >> president yee: item 64, please. >> clerk: item 64 is a motion that the board of supervisors convene in closed session on march 19 regarding existing litigation that the city is a defendant, howard jarvis taxpayers association, building owners and managers association of california, versus the city and county of san francisco and all persons interested there in. >> president yee: okay. supervisor brown? >> supervisor brown: yes, i'd like to move this item to continue to april 2. >> president yee: so this amendment -- well, supervisor brown, to co

i have asked john barrasso senator, bill cassidy a terrific healthcare person rick scott and others took, form a really great plan. we're winning the lawsuit to terminate obamacare in texas. we are winning the texas lawsuit and right now we are on the winning side. hopefully we will win at the appellate division and go to the supreme court to terminate obamacare. the cost of obamacare to people is far too much the deductibility is ridiculous. it averages more than $7,000. meaning it's unusable. so obamacare has been a disaster. we will take care of pre-existing conditions better than they are taken care of now. and i have already gotten rid of the individual mandates, which was the worst part of obamacare where you had to pay for the privilege of not getting bad insurance. so, wait a minute. so, we are working very hard on that. john barrasso, rick scott, we have some great people. you look, i mean, we have put together a group of four or five and bill cassidy is a terrific healthcare person. and they are going to work together, come up with something that's really spectacular maybe we

currently the project is working with senator scott wiener to pass bill 233 we have a resolution to support that as well, shields sex workers from the threat of prosecution when reporting violent crimes. this bill would extend local protections that we already have here in san francisco for sex workers to the state level and also prohibit the use of condemns as prosecution for sex work. thank you for your work to advocate for the rights of some of the most vulnerable women and gender nonconforming people in san francisco and throughout the state. we honor your 20 years of service and thank you for your 20 years to expand safety for everyone in our society. [applause] >> thank you very much, supervisor and all of you. we are very proud that the city of san francisco, where there is a strong sex worker rights movement, is working on ending violence against sex workers and we are the three groups that make up, sydney from women in dialogue, i'm from the u.s. collective, and attorney, and the three of us collaborate. we had a celebration in a city room before this hearing, and we look back at,

so senate bill 50, was introduced by senator scott wiener in december of last year and amended in the senate just a couple of days ago. the memo we prepared was before it came out. we have printed summaries released by the senator's office here. we anticipate the bill will be amended further and heard in committee in the senate in the next month or so. so in many ways, sb50 is similar to 827. like 827, it's to increase the amount of housing built near transit stations and stops. however, sb50 adds a job rich geography which would expand where the bill might apply. the actual areas that will be considered jobs-rich have not been fully defined yet. recent amendments to the bill do define that jobs-rich areas will be in places across the state with high access to jobs and positive educational and economic outcomes. so, basically what the bill, what it proposes, near frequent bus lines and jobs rich areas, qualifying projects would be exempted and parking requirements higher than .5 spaces per unit. near rail and ferry station, qualifying projects would be exempted from density controls a