changes from the obama administration, i think the decision today to eliminate the waivers of helms burton title iii is perfectly consistent with what the president has said before. >> so this isn't so much about venezuela as it is a disagreement with how the previous administration handled cuba policy? >> well, i think it's about justice for americans whose property was stolen from them by the castro regime. long overdue for them to be able to get a chance to get recompense. >> this policy of isolation on cuba was the law of the land for the united states for some 50 years, and the rest of the world over time stopped following our lead. i think the last time when you went for a vote in the united nations, i think only two countries essentially stood up for an embargo against cuba, the united states and israel. if nobody else in the world will follow the united states' lead on this, is this action going to have much teeth? >> well, i think it will have teeth in american courts for the american property holders whose property was stolen. and you know, sometimes you have to do what's right w

my name is jake burton carpenter.red to as the father of snowboarding, and i'm proud — immensely proud of that. as a kid, ijust always loved snow. it was something thatjust grabbed me, that whole winter mood and vibe was something that i loved. right as a very young child. i was 13 or 1a when i got my first snowboard, which was simply like a skateboard for snow. and it was nothing more than a piece of wood that was curved on the end. it had a rope on the front that, that's how you would sort of maintain your balance and not lose it. i bought one and ijust fell in love with this sensation of surfing in snow. and i saw a sport there from a very young age. i mean, i always thought that they would do it and it sort of was a fad that came and went, but it never left for me. but i knew that you needed to have your feet better attached to the binding. i had to make over 100 prototypes, before i decided on a production board. i mean, i was clueless. when i started, i knew nothing about manufacturing. i bought this fancy pin r

reimagined ta ke year, dumbo, tim burton's reimagined take ona year, dumbo, tim burton's reimaginedindividual names took 36 hours to render. and now, introducing our world —famous flying elephant. i think initially when i came onboard, mike lucas was, what's dumbo going to look like, what are the practical considerations as well as the design considerations, how does tim really want to realise him asa does tim really want to realise him as a character? even though tim wanted something that was completely photo real, his unusual design wasn't going to sit well within a perfectly real world so we chose not to shoot location, everything on stage, control the lighting in the set design, it was important we created this beautiful downtrodden character for the movie with the sort of unusual proportions but he lived in a world that was equally designed to suit his character and look as well. dumbo's animation is incredibly subtle and contained in most of his emotion is read either through his eyes or a subtlety in the body language so the icing quite a lot of work to sort of find the look

of course it can happen anywhere. >> reporter: she has two children who attend burton elementary. >> my daughter cried. she thought it was very scary so i'm sure there were other kids that thought it was scary as well. >> it is scary. it's a little child. it could be your child easily. >> reporter: parents are pointing to this recent situation in vacaville that was caught on under surveillance video. here you can see a man slowly driving up behind young girl. she was sensing danger, hiding behind a truck. she kept her distance, running away. tonight, lafayette police want to know if anyone saw the student running from a suspicious dark colored suv on tuesday between 2:30 and 3:00. they are also looking for under surveillance video. the school principal is urging parents to talk to their children. in lafayette, bay area news. >>> 4:36. a million there are mistake. the ecofriendly path way that winds through the rooftop park is already being replaced. it's less than a year old. they admit the decomposed granite didn't hold up. who is to blame? the can argumentontractor repea it would n

i'm with john burton advocates for youth, founded by former state senator john burton. we work to improve the lives of youth, those in foster care, the juvenile probation system. i'm here to speak in support of the project. this will provide critical support for former foster youth in san francisco. as you know, children and youth are in the foster system. in addition to the trauma, they experience additional challenges such as multiple placements and school changes. together, these experiences place barriers for foster youth to earn long-term financial security. this will provide five units for youth to live and provide a safe foundation for them to pursue their future. organization works closely with sf city college and san francisco state university. we expect youth will be benefit. a nonprofit housing provider will provide supportive services to ensure that youth receive assistance and support. this model has been implemented across california successfully. thank you for your consideration of the request. i urge your support for this proposal. >> thank you. next spe

since one thousand nine hundred six but was suspended since then and essentially what this house burton act allows us citizens who had property confiscated that they were given the right to file a lawsuit against those who are trafficked in these in these properties and that was suspended in order to protect the european partners for instance who were doing business with cuba but now the descendants and the relatives of those people who were whose whose property was confiscated are able to to get compensated for that and that is certainly a gift for a lot of cuban exiles in the united states who are now able to get money out of this definitely generate positive reactions in miami for the trumpet ministration what about the timing of this there are some who are suggesting that all of this is a response to the cuban government's support of venezuela and its president nicolas maduro. well certainly the dura regime is a very close ally of the cuban government and in turn cuba is one of the strongest supporters so the idea behind it is pretty behind it is pretty clear it is basically it will

[applause] >> in 1968, the burton act authorized all the lands that was created from our seawall was transferred from the state to the city of san francisco. the state, however, wanted to make sure their interests were insured. one of the first concerns they had was that the current or any future mayor would take the land and use it in ways detrimental to maintaining the court -- the port. to protect against this, this commission was created, okay. the port commission became the caretakers of all the lands that was formerly owned by the state, and the commission is being placed in the responsibility where they must take the interest of the state and put them above the interest of the city. at the second check and balance, there was an amendment process to the burton act that was allowed, and so that's been used 20 times, something that has been done regularly, and during that amendment process, the state land use commission gets to weigh in on if any amendments gets to be approved. so the port has actually been doing a great job here with seawall lot 330. they had an open meeting on

>> look, congress is perfectly free to repeal helms-burton if they want to to modify it. go to it. i haven't heard the slightest stirrings in congress there's any possibility they're going to change the legislation. >> let me shift a bit to venezuela but also with the issues in central america. how would you distinguish the current situation in venezuela when it comes to violence and the human rights conditions there versus what we're seeing in the honduras? >> look, i think that the situation in venezuela is near catastrophic, and it's why we are pushing for the peaceful transformation of power from the maduro regime to juan gaido and the opposition. i don't think the circumstances are at all similar to the circumstances in honduras which has a legitimately elected government. it's about as different within the hemisphere as you can imagine. >> are you concerned that as the united states pulls its aid from those three countries in particular, honduras, guatemala, el salvador, that it's serving as an invitation to china, and they have been coming into the western hemisphere essenti

i've actually tried this to tim burton.me of >> seth: yeah. >> it's very gothic stuff. >> seth: this one too. i feel like that is >> yes. >> seth: yeah, that's like a tim burton frame. >> yes.is s part of a series called "the plugs." >> seth: "the plugs"? >> yes, yes, it's a very interesting series. and i'd love to get it to tim burton. laughter ] >> seth: well i really hope he watches. >> yeah. et seth: and then, did you that bug from your mom? do you -- are you an artist at all? >> no, i'm a terrible artist. >> seth: okay. >> i think i did some as a kid, but i'm pretty bad now. >> seth: gotcha. and was that obvious right away? >> yeah, pretty -- yeah. >> seth: i thought i wanted to be -- i want to draw comic books when i was a kid, and -- >> are you good at it? >> seth: i was like i could do exactly what the other person had done, you know what i mean? >> yeah. >> if i was looking at that one, i could mimic it. but then i couldn't do anything else. >> nothing original. >> seth: yeah. >> but that's great. i mean i think th

this is tim burton's take which took something —— scenes 30 mr mentor sub involved now, introducing theng elephant! when i initially came on board, my focus was what will he look like, what are the practical considerations and design considerations, how does tim wa nt design considerations, how does tim want to realise him as a character? tim wanted something to a completely photo real, his unusual design was not going to sit well in a perfectly real world. we chose to shoot on location which was shoot everything on stage, control the lighting, the set design, it was important we created a sort of beautiful downtrodden character driven movie with a world that was equally sort of design to his character and book as well. dumbo's animation is subtle, contain, and most of his emotion is read either through his eyes or body language. so it was incredible important. we had to do quite a lot of work to find the right book and while with only we do every thing we can to get everything in camera as possible. and in his dumbo suit provided a back for the kids to stroke or something a deficit to

he stars in the new live action "dumbo" movie, directed by tim burton.ver there's a major motion picture, we run it by our in-house movie critic, yehya. here is yehya talking about the movie "dumbo." >> action! hey, i talkin' about the new movie, the new movie behind me is called disney. and dumbo. the movie talk about the elephant flyin'. the elephant like the baby, he try fly through the air, you know? wow. and that movie, they have the guy, tommy devito. and he in the movie, get the short guy with john travolta. he's with the movie also. one is big and one is small. and the guy, collin farrell is in that movie also. he did the movie "alexander the greek." he got only one problem with collin farrell. one, my friend saw him. i don't see him. he go to the bathroom, and he come out. he don't wash his hands. and then he shook hand with everyone. wash your hands after you finish the bathroom. the guy, what's his name? michael kidd. he in that movie. he did the movie of the old batman and he did the movie also, the guy flight, and he did the movie like the g

designates those group as terrorist organizations that burton was director of policy for the u.s. special envoy to sudan under president barack obama is now a nonresident fellow at the brookings institution he says washington has an opportunity to give sudan a second chance. this discussion is not new it's been part of ongoing bilateral negotiations with the now fallen regime in sudan the discussion is happening again inside the administration here in washington as to whether that does ignition could be lifted more quickly so should some of the demands of the protesters be met should a civilian led government be put in place should the terms of a transition be articulated right now policymakers in washington are are trying to find a way that they could lift that designation sooner in many ways it prevents debt relief and foreign assistance and other forms of cooperation but above all it's a scarlet letter that really denotes sudan as a kind of pariah state the situation is fast and fluid and folks in washington are trying to keep abreast of developments in these really critical ho

once the station is complete, it will be dedicated to fire captain matt burton and fire engineer scott desmond. the two died trying to rescue an elderly couple trapped in a burning home back in 2007. the station will be put into station next spring. >>> the chorus -- house speaker pelosi says she's not there yet telling party members, during a conference call on monday saying quote, we don't have to go to articles of impeachment to obtain the facts. but democrats say congress should begin impeachment proceedings after the special counsel's investigation outlined ten different incidents that could be viewed as evidence of obstruction of justice. >> if any other human being in this country had done what's documented in the mueller report, they would be arrested and put in jail. >> i believe congress should take the steps toward impeachment. >> senator lee says it would be a mistake to try and remove the president from office with the 2020 election around the corner because it would strengthen the current branch. there's been a subpoena for testimony for former white house council mcgahn.

david: burton was a good friend of yours.hen she was on her deathbed, she asked you to run for congress. what did your children say? and your husband? speaker pelosi: i had no interest. maryland and baltimore , my father was in congress. he became the mayor of baltimore. when i was at trinity college he was still the mayor. it was the only life we knew. we were born in a family that was devoutly catholic, seriously patriotic and in love with america. proud of the italian-american heritage, staunchly democratic. between faithn and how we exercise believes in the gospel of matthew or how we treated people with a spark of divinity, each of them having worthy of respect -- we are all god's children -- that is how we were raised. never ever saw -- thought nor did anyone else around me i would want to run for office. i did volunteer to support other candidates. ala would want me to run for office. when she did, i was ready. power.o people know your count everything you have done, including being a mom. know your power. be yourself.

to hear him talk about tim burton, talk about our extras at today.com/sunday.o subscribe to the sunday sitdown podcast for the entire unedited interview with danny divitto. >>> next week, a sunday sitdown with john snow himself, kit harrington, as "game of thrones" returns for the wildly anticipated and speculated season 8. we will pry out some of the seasons of the show from kit harrington next week on "sunday today." >>> coming up this morning, morgan radford and i will answer your questions. use #sundaytoday on >>> live view now in san francisco. sunday morning, it's very calm and cloudy out there. however, that's helping keep our morning lows rather mild. we are in the 40s and 50s now. 53 degrees for the most part. but take a look at the micro climate highs today. 73 degrees in cupertino. oakland, 70 degrees. walnut creek, 73. as you get ready for the day plan for a warm-up into the afternoon with filtered sunshine by the evening. >>> next on "sunday today" ground breaking superstar misty copeland has helped to change the face of ballet, but we'll look at t

. ♪ david: sala burton was a good friend of yours.she was on her deathbed, she asked you to run for congress. have you ever thought of running for congress and what did your children say when you said you were going to run for congress, and your husband? speaker pelosi: here is the thing. i had no interest. in our family in baltimore, maryland, my father was in congress. first grade, he became the mayor of baltimore. when i was at trinity college, he was still the mayor. the only life that we knew. we were born into a family with devout catholic, seriously patriotic americans. proud of our italian-american heritage. staunchly democratic. that connection between our faith and how exercise our belief in the gospel of matthew were how we just treated people with a spark of divinity. each of them having worthy of respect for all of god's children. that is how we were raised, to have responsibility to other people. that is what our parents instilled in us. but i never ever think i would ever want to run for office. however, i did volunteer

hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week the aftermath of the mother report the stain it leaves on the reporting of news outlets who went all in on the story of the trump campaign and russian collusion julian assange and the ecuadorian government at odds at the london embassy once again ethiopia one year after the arrival of a new government what has it meant for the media there and take a deep breath yoga as a collective therapy for a united kingdom divided by bricks before moving up into a. rising nationalist. russia gate the theory that donald trump colluded with lot of mere putin to hijack the two thousand and sixteen us presidential elections was a story that was too big to fail but that's what happened and certain american news outlets now have some questions to answer the official summary of the muller report about alleged collusion says there's no clear evidence of it trumps people had many questionable contacts with influential russian nationals but not directly with the government having sold americans th

this we concluded fundamentally that the intent of the framers of helms-burton to give justice to americans whose property had been confiscated was a good purposand that this was the time to do it. so recognizing other presidentdi 't want to do it, we proceeded, as presidentrump has, other presidents didn't want to move the american embassy in israel to jerusalem, but we did i could go on with the list. i think this is clearly thedo right thing to justice for americans whose property was stole bin the castro reime is long overdue. >> european allies i talked to indahe lassaid this publicly they are concerned that these e effectively secondary sanctions on european companies to do business in cuba and latin america staffers from george. bush's national security council and h.rmcmasters sff, your predecessor, told me this opens a pandora's box of lawsuits, could gum up the courts, may even drain companies you're not intending to target. how do you respond to those criticisms of reublican former staffers and u.s. allies? >> i think they're badly with respect to our allies, we have been engaged

lafayette police are investigating a report of a man and a dark colored suv, stalking a burton valley elementary school student, walking along the road. the student said no, and ran away towards a stranger. the car sped off. >> i honestly didn't expect something like that to happen here, but it can happen anywhere. >> reporter: she has two children who attend the elementary school. >> my daughter cried because she thought it was scary. so i'm sure there were other kids who were scared, as well. >> it's kind of scary, you know. it's a little child. it could be your child easily. >> reporter: parents are pointing to this recent situation in vacaville that was caught on surveillance video. here you can see a man slowly driving up behind a young girl. she was sensing danger, hiding behind a truck. she kept her distance, running away. tonight, police want to know if anyone saw the student running from a suspicious dark-colored suv on tuesday between 2:30 and 3:00. they're also looking for surveillance video. the school principal is urging parents to talk to their children. in lafayette, ch

to hear him talk about the unique genius of tim burton, check out our "today" extras.bscribe to the sunday sit-down podcast to hear the unedited interview with danny devito. next week, a sunday sit-down with john snow himself, kit harrington, as "game of thronesu s for its wildly anticipated and speculated about seas eight. we'll pry out some of the secrets of the show from kit harrington next week on sunda "today." >>> coming up, morgan radford and i will answer your se questions, #sundaytoday on twitter, facebook or instagram and we'll get to as many as we can when we read our sunday mail at the end of e show. >>> first, let's turn and get a check of your local we >>> good morning, everyone. meteorologist clay anderson. for today, clouds have mov into our area. so for the rest of the afternoon, probably more clouds than you have sunshine. but look at thetu tempes for your sunday, everyone, for today. temperatures rise once again from 60s to the 70s. like warm temperatures? check out tomorrow. with a rumble of thunder, won't stop the temperatures from rising t 80 degr

burton as lawyer told us he thinks a dangerous precedent may have been set. i think it's impossible to separate from from the politics and i think that there is a an underlying crime that he pled guilty to which you can make out under u.s. law but i think the notion of this would have been investigated or and the rest would have been made for a typical foreign national who wasn't russian and wasn't in the car environment where in the us i think it's almost impossible to believe that southern politics has a lot to do with the atmosphere of the case and it's one of those things where if the elements of the crime are there they were selectively enforced in the sense and so i think it's hard to argue. the charges unregistered agent it's not foreign it's not secret agent it's not intelligence agent it literally is just doing something for someone else as being their agent not of maria maria's activities in the us were illegal in and of themselves so there's no classified information there's no political sensitive kind of information given she was not paid by by th

it happened yesterday after school near burton valley elementary. a man was short brown spiky hair asked the girl if she needed a love. the student yelled no and caught up with a mother who was walking with two other children. the man's car is described as a black colored suv with tinted front windows. police are hoping security video from neighbors help them find the driver. >>> after months of speculation former vice president joe biden is expected to announce he is running for president tomorrow. -- he is been a front runner in the polls but will be running against a large diverse group of democrats. the challenges he will need to overcome to become the nominee.>> reporter:expected to with 20 democratic candidates already name recognition will only take him so far. with the democratic party that might want to see a change.>> joe biden expected announcement thursday will no doubt make waves. that other candidates have been awaiting.>> >> reporter: biden as 76 has been a two-term vice president and served nearly 4 decades as delaware senator. early

important action to look at today is the reimpose a of this of -- reimposing of the so-called helms-burton act which has exexted since e 1996 but was suspended since then. this allowed u.s. citizens who have property cononfiscated, , y were given the right to file a lawsuit against those trafficking in these properties, and that was suspended in order to protect european partners who were doing business with cuba, but now the descendents and the relatives of those people who were -- whose property was confiscated, are able to get compensated for that. it is a gift for a lot of cuban exiles in the united states were able to get money. brent: definitely generate positive reactions in miami for the trump administration. what about the timing of this? there are some who are suggesting that all of this is a response to the cuban government's support of venezuela and its president, nicolas maduro. brent -- oliver: certainly the maduro regime is a close ally of the cuban government, and cuba is one of its strongest supporters. it is basically -- it will be less attractive to invest in cuba and as

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it will be named captain burton and engineer desmond firehouse. in their honor. in san pablo, don ford. >> the county says the new fire station should take a year to have to complete. >>> the san francisco port commission will vote on the proposed navigation center on the embarcadero. the meeting is going on right now with people for and against the plan sharing their views. residence of recon hill, south beach and other waterfront neighborhoods staunchly opposed the plan and they believe a navigation center will turn the taurus heavy embarcadero into a dirty and dangerous place. meanwhile, the mayor and homeless advocates say it is needed to address the city's growing homeless problem. >>> two brothers who say that they helped jussie smollett states that he'd come against himself are now suing the actors attorneys protect information. the suit filed on behalf of the brothers named the law firm as defendant and accuses them of making public statements that they lead a criminally homophobic violent racist attack against him even though they knew it was not true. >

bill clinton signed it into being back in the mid ninety's it's called article three of the helms burton act it would be the first time a president has not waived this particular clause the current waiver runs out on the first of may so two weeks to go for this the european union though not happy at all they are the largest foreign investor in cuba also cuba's second largest trading partner and they have very unhappy by this potential move by washington. that was able to get the extraterritorial application of the u.s. embargo is illegal it's contrary to international war i also personally consider it immoral we believe that this will harm us all but it will be self-defeating obviously this will create even more confusion more deterrence more confusion for foreign investments. well it's going to cause more confusion and all of these problems why not just extend it the reason is it has nothing to do with trade what we're expecting to hear later on wednesday is that john bolton the president's senior national security advisor will be announcing further sanctions against venezuela and nicar

this is a display of china's new role of china's new power the burton road initiative is a signature project by cd and paying by the president who has been advocating or promising that he will lead in a sense of china as a world power now having all these word leaders traveling to beijing on a summit on a for a project that has been funded founded and is run by the chinese government is of course a display off this power. but not report they are critics of the belt road initiative as some say the project effects china's ambition to expand its influence and become a global superpower how does maging respond to such criticism. this yassin a lot of criticism on the belt and road project that you specially from countries that were previously kind of that were joining this project western countries have been wary for some time but a lot of countries in the global south have canceled projects have renegotiated projects governments that were embracing this project were voted out of office so china how to address this at some point they promised more sustainable ecologically and financially

within the deal what donald trump is proposing is stopping the wave of article three of the helms burton act the current wave is set to expire on the first of may so just a couple of weeks to try and sort this out the european union is cubism biggest foreign investor and also its second largest trading partner as you would imagine with this news brussels far from happy. a little to the extraterritorial application of the u.s. embargo is illegal it's contrary to international law i also personally consider it immoral we believe that this will harm us all but it will be self-defeating obviously this will create even more confusion more deterrence more confusion for foreign investment. so why not just extend a see if it's going to be so confusing for everybody and cause such a tsunami of lawsuits well the reason for that is the decision to do this has absolutely nothing to do with trade john bolton the senior national security advisor to donald trump is expected later on wednesday to announce fresh sanctions against venezuela and nicaragua what this threat of lawsuits is intended to do and

this is tim burton's reimagined take on a disney classic where some of the individual frames took 36orld—famous flying elephant! i think initially when i came onboard, my focus was, what's dumbo going to look like, what are the practical considerations as well as the design considerations, how does tim really want to realise him as a character? even though tim wanted something that was completely photo—real, his unusual design wasn't going to sit well within a perfectly real world so we chose not to shoot location, we shot everything on stage, controlled the lighting and the set design, it was very important that we created not only this beautiful downtrodden character for the movie with the sort of unusual proportions but he also lived in a world that was equally designed to suit his character and look as well. dumbo's animation is incredibly subtle, it's very contained and most of his emotion is read either through his eyes or a subtlety in the body language so you are seeing quite a lot of work to sort of find the look and while we were filming, we do everything we can to make sur

the burton. bar and. the building.that's right they will be trying very hard to tackle this place to try and bring it under some control we know that the roof has collapsed we know that the fire has destroyed. of the structure of this but it is a building that is ancient it's historic it's very precious and firefighters will be doing. to try and salvage. whatever might be possible we know that they have been trying to rebuild this site to restore it it has been rebuilt and restored many times. through thing is it has undergone restoration work as many older buildings do and it's not clear if that perhaps is as played a role in. how easily a building of this age can possibly catch fire obviously when you have renovation what going on back home with risks and the indication is at this stage that it could be linked to the renovation work we know that there will be an investigation into precisely what led to this the power prosecutor saying that the inquiry has already started. emergency services saying that they are now t

that poisoned the script she then showed a photograph of ducks the british officials said were in a burton lee killed by the sloppy work of the russian operatives this is what was written in the times this apparently had a staggering effect on the president with the photos of sick kids and dead ducks ultimately pushing it can trump to take a strong option in choosing to expel sixty russian diplomats thing is. anyone who's actually kept up with this group all cases there were no sick kids and no dead bugs as the guardian reports reports that according to help the business no children or animals were harmed in the know which aka tak in wiltshire of last year . so. now the question is just where oh where did these supposed the dead ducks and sick kid pictures come from where they supplied to the cia by british intelligence that the cia simply invent them to manipulate the donald so many questions the tragically no one is asking us we start watching the hawks. to. get the. real thing it's good. for the bottom. but they like you that i got. was that we. would. welcome our own watching the hawks