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bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of san francisco we can also perform services. >> this program had tremendous impact to the region. in fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. this has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded $50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. and, i significantly helped the business. it is one of the major contributors to our success. . >> (clapping.) >> in 2013 san francisco legislators newsom agreed to allow the reciprocate of our soft story buildings those building house one and 20 thousand resident a program of that collect requires extensive outreach and this continuation of that process who is here and bill graham the perfect venue so in 2014 we have the first earthquake retrofit a huge success we're repeating this mo

bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of san francisco we can also perform services. >> this program had tremendous impact to the region. in fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. this has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded $50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. and, i significantly helped the business. it is one of the major contributors to our success. . >> things for joining us toy and thank you all interface council and public safety and department heads to the police commission to all those that are worked together 0 make sure our city is safe and successful for the most part let me personally change chief of police toney chaplin. >> (clapping.) >> tip line i didn't stepped up and led our department with grace and indirectly during a tryi

elizabeth warren questioned him about an investment in a medical bio mass company. >> i'm asking, didou buy the stock and did you introduce a bill that would be helpful to the companies that you bought stock in? >> the director was directed by a broker that was making those decisions. i wasn't. >> these are your stock trades. they're listed under your name, right? >> georgia senator johnny isaacson jumped in to say that a financial advisor buying a stock is something that could have happened to any lawmaker. so any questions about his belief on healthcare and questions about his finances, shep. >> shepard: thanks. more to come. president-elect trump's pick to head the epa, scott pruitt, said he doesn't believe climate change is a hoax. that's different from what president-elect trump has to say about climate change. he said the chinese came up with the concept to hurt u.s. businesses. he said he would keep an open mind on the issue. scott pruitt sued the epa more than a dozen teams. rich edson following that hearing. a lot of this was about climate change. >> it was. they're worried t

we have the bio mass potential. we have pioneered in so many different ways. we want to be able to utilize micro grids but the definition says you have to have the ability to connect and disconnect from your grid. if you don't have a grid in the first place you don't count as that. we need to work with you as the incoming secretary to make sure that we are not standing in the way, that our own federal government isn't standing in the way of this invasion that's coming from our national labs, that's coming from the innovators on the ground as we are working to help facilitate this. so we need you to help us cut through a lot that holds back the invasion and keeps the people in fair banks right now that are trying to stay warm and it's costing them a pretty penny to do so to give them the reassurances. one of the things we don't have is a nuclear. the prospect for what small modular nuclear reactors and he almost got to his question there. i would have you talk about the broader energy options. but the potential for small remote communities or whether it is our

bio-fire, a start-up still in his basement at his parents' house. >> there would be days i sat down, i would be sitting there 14 hours. >> reporter: he realized he could not stop mass shootings but thought he could still save lives. after all in one year alone, nearly 600 people died in firearms accidents. there were thousands more suicides, many committed with guns that do not belong to the victim. >> why did it take four and a half years to put a fingerprint reader on the side of a gun? >> well, it's not as simple a process as you may imagine, it's not really something that has ever been done before. >> his weapon not only locks like a smartphone but charges like one. and the invention has won him some deep-pocketed allies. >> ki is the mark zuckerberg of guns. >> reporter: this man is putting his money behind ki's smart gun. >> what ki has done is use all the latest technology available to us to innovative a truly authenticated gun. you could not do this five years ago. >> reporter: but a push for similar guns misfired memorably in the late-'90s. a cold prototype test failed, and the company was nearly bankrupt. >> what changed to make it possible to make a smar

bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of san francisco we can also perform services. >> this program had tremendous impact to the region. in fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. this has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded $50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. and, i significantly helped the business. it is one of the major contributors to our success. >> the office of controllers whistle blower program is how city employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in city government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of city government that. >> you can below the what if anything, by assess though the club program website arrest call 4147 or 311 and stating you wishing to file and complaint