supervisor catherine stephanie who you will hear from in just a little bit. supervisor connie chan who you will hear from as well. let's get excited! school board member lani (inaudible) is here. city attorney david chui. public defender manoah here. there he is. sheriff paul mia moto. city college trustee shellby and we will talk about other department heads too. our da is here. where is our da? thank you for being here today. and so with that, let me turn it over to alcon on allison go the league of women voters and a partner in the w challenge many years and will tell you more about the day of action. part of the challenge isn't about bringing people to remember the right to vote and motivate people to vote and take concrete action to get people to the polls. i want to talk about the sunday 28, august 28 day of action to make sure we are going door to door to register voters and allison will speak more about that so let's give a hardy big equality day welcome to allison go. [applause] >> hi. my name is allison go. i'm the president of the league of women v

i also want to thank catherine stephanie who is newly the supervisors of this particular over this particular building because the, because the lines of the supervisorial lines changed. that's great to see you supervisor. and i want to thank steve goode in five keys thoer their incredible work. both from the shelter side but also in permanent supportive housing. and they're the ones who are responsible for managing this building .d this is a building for 114 adults. right now, it's got about over 90 people moved in. one of the reasons that we chose it is because of the location. one of the other reasons is because it's a building that was easily renovated and it had a low vacancy rate so there was only about 30 legacy tenants. so that gave us the ability to move a lot of people in. so today we're going to start by hearing from mayor reed, and then i will come back and introduce our next speakers. thank you. >> thank you, sharenne. let me start by saying it's so great to be here. we fortunately have acquired a number of these properties over the past two years, increasing our permanent support

supervisor catherine stephanie who you will hear from in just a little bit.chan who you will hear from as well. let's get excited! school board member lani (inaudible) is here. city attorney david chui. public defender manoah here. there he is. sheriff paul mia moto. city college trustee shellby and we will talk about other department heads too. our da is here. where is our da? thank you for being here today. and so with that, let me turn it over to alcon on allison go the league of women voters and a partner in the w challenge many years and will tell you more about the day of action. part of the challenge isn't about bringing people to remember the right to vote and motivate people to vote and take concrete action to get people to the polls. i want to talk about the sunday 28, august 28 day of action to make sure we are going door to door to register voters and allison will speak more about that so let's give a hardy big equality day welcome to allison go. [applause] >> hi. my name is allison go. i'm the president of the league of women voters of san franci

supervisors matt dorsey, catherine stephanie and rafael man delman revealed the plan this morning.lars from opioid lawsuits, settlements to address the crisis. their plan includes recommendations and direct city departments to report back with solutions to ending overdose, deaths, addiction and open air drug use and drug dealing. many people pointing to climate change as the reason behind the algae blooms we've seen pop up in the bay area and in oakland's lake merritt, but the experts tell the san francisco chronicle that's only part of the problem . they say algae blooms need food to grow, and in this case that comes from nutrients in treated wastewater from sewage plants around the area that most plants the water is treated, but nitrogen and phosphorus and human waste is not removed. so that gets dumped into the bay, where algae feed. on them. there are discussions about requiring treatment plants to reduce the nutrients in the treated water. very beaches were crowded again yesterday with many people off work for the labor day holiday and looking to beat the heat people, of cours

i also want to thank catherine stephanie who is newly the supervisors of this particular over this particular building because the, because the lines of the supervisorial lines changed. that's great to see you supervisor. and i want to thank steve goode in five keys thoer their incredible work. both from the shelter side but also in permanent supportive housing. and they're the ones who are responsible for managing this building .d this is a building for 114 adults. right now, it's got about over 90 people moved in. one of the reasons that we chose it is because of the location. one of the other reasons is because it's a building that was easily renovated and it had a low vacancy rate so there was only about 30 legacy tenants. so that gave us the ability to move a lot of people in. so today we're going to start by hearing from mayor reed, and then i will come back and introduce our next speakers. thank you. >> thank you, sharenne. let me start by saying it's so great to be here. we fortunately have acquired a number of these properties over the past two years, increasing our permanent support

stephanie: every year, such a confluence of crises we're seeing there in california. catherineauthor of the new book "california burning," and wall street journal reporter, thank you for joining the news hour. >> thank you very much for having me. i appreciate it. ♪ judy: the midterm election season is now in full swing, and both parties are vying for control over what is currently an evenly-divided senate. right now, democrats hold 48 seats, plus the two independent senators who caucus with the democratic party, while republicans hold 50 seats. this year's 36 senate midterm contests could change that balance of power. following this all closely is jessica taylor of the cook political report, with amy walter. jessica, welcome back to the newshour. we looked at the house yesterday and we will look at the senate now. two months out, what does the senate look like? exit looks better for democrats then democrats ever thought. historically, when presidents have a first midterm election, their party loses an average of two seats each midterm cycle. what we have seen, i would put repu