please welcome carmen chu. >> hello, everybody. so happy to be here with all of you and to see this day come forward. so many people who are here today from all different parts of mayor ed lee's life, his family, the community who loved him, and of course the city's family who adored him and saw him as a mentor for many of us. i think the trip that we took was spoken about. when you travel with him, just like in relationships, they say it really reveals someone's true character. can you travel well together, were they fussy, were they hard to get along with, and so on. i have a memory of mayor ed lee on that trip. on that trip we were walking through these beautiful gardens where you can see the scenery around. i see our mayor who wasn't mayor at the time, who was a city administrator, and he was looking at the trash can. he was looking at the trash can to understand whether the design of the trash can was something that we should mimic and bring back here to san francisco. so i think revealing the character that was our mayor and

i want to congratulate assessor chu and her team again. thank you so much for the partnership. [ applause ]. >> all right. so now i'd like to ask evelyn and amy from glen park and sunny side to come up and woody and nicole and david from western history project to come up as well. thank you. [♪]

i want to congratulate assessor chu and her team again.ou so much for the partnership. [ applause ]. >> all right. so now i'd like to ask evelyn and amy from glen park and sunny side to come up and woody and nicole and david from western history project to come up as well. thank you. >> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador. we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know. somebody might walk by and

i want to congratulate assessor chu and her team again. thank you so much for the partnership. [ applause ]. >> all right. so now i'd like to ask evelyn and amy from glen park and sunny side to come up and woody and nicole and david from western history project to come up as well. thank you. [ >> welcome to another episode of safety on today is episode we'll show you how 0 retroactive you're home let's go inside and take a look. >> hi and patrick chief officer and director of earthquake for the city and county of san francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt we'll talk about plywood. >> great thanks. >> where are we we if you notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they don't lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing we'll nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately you'll see a problem in a typical san francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood we'v

i want to congratulate assessor chu and her team again. thank you so much for the partnership. [ applause ]. >> all right. so now i'd like to ask evelyn and amy from glen park and sunny side to come up and woody and nicole and david from western history project to come up as well. thank you. [♪] >> when i look at an old neon sign that's working or not working, i feel the family business that was in there. >> since 2009, citywide, sf shines has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. >> you know sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of san francisco. >> sf shines is such an amazing program, and i can't think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners mom and pop owners and if they've got a neon sign they've really got a great way to advertise their business. >> this is a continuation of the sf shines program. >> focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. of the seven neon signs, we've invested about $145,000. >> a good

i want to congratulate assessor chu and her team again. thank you so much for the partnership. [ applause ]. >> all right. so now i'd like to ask evelyn and amy from glen park and sunny side to come up and woody and nicole and david from western history project to come up as well. thank you. [♪] >> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collectin

i want to congratulate assessor chu and her team again. thank you so much for the partnership. [ applause ]. >> all right. so now i'd like to ask evelyn and amy from glen park and sunny side to come up and woody and nicole and david from western history project to come up as well. thank you. [♪] [gavel] >> good morning, everyone. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the november 4th, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. we will be joined shortly by supervisor shamann walton,

we have a news alert on vaping dom chu has the details. hi, dom. >> tyler, u.s.officials are saying they are making a break through in finding the possible cause for the deadly vaping illnesses they are narrowing in on vitamin e acetate as a possible cause. they collected 29 samples. all 29 had that as a factor. more so than thc, marijuana relat related -- back over to you. >> all right thanks very much, dom chu. pli michael bloomberg reportedly preparing to enter the race. president trump saying today, there's no one -- no one -- he would rather run against and our own brian schwartz just spoke with the billionaire mr. couperman who said he would support bloomberg. remember he got very emotional on half-time when discussing the state of politics right now. >> these people cannot only see the emotion on your face but hear it in your voice when you talk about this, lee, why? >> i care. that's it. >> joining me now to discuss is ben white, politico's chief economic correspondent and a cnbc contributor and brian schwartz, cnbc.com politics and finance reporter welco

results were better than year had investors concerned.t dominic chu looks into why the investors were saying "oh ar." >> reporter: it was a solid deere.gs report for aker of d's biggest farm and agricultural equipment beat analyst estimates for profits and revenues this past quarter. but it's the outlook for 2020 that hadnvtors feeling less rosi rosie. trade tensions and bad weather have taken a toll among big customers, american farmers. lingering trade tensions coupled with a year of difficult growing and harvesting conditions have caused many farmerso become cautious about making major investments in new equipment. a result deere says it expects profits of between $2 llion and $3.1 billion in the year 2020. the high end o that range would still put the company's profits below what it made in 2019 and below what analysts were forecasting. the moreas conservative for comes as deere prepares itself for sale declines in key product areas. worldwide sales of agriculture and turf equipment are expected to fall between 5% and 10%, and construction and forestry equipment sales are expected

samuel chu of the hong kong democracy council.lytechnic university. the university management warned them the campus was full of dangerous materials such as petrol—bombs and corrosive materials. students have barricaded themselves inside, up to 1000. many have either surrendered or escaped. the university, many of the facilities are in ruins. the university management has notified the police of the severe damage and also the campus has been filled with also the campus has been filled with a lot of dangerous items such as the corrosive petrol—bombs et cetera. —— corrosive petrol—bombs et cetera. —— corrosive materials. i think most of the public at would like to see the police and other government departments to solve the crisis as soon as possible. that is the view from the police there in hong kong. in the us, the thanksgiving holiday often involves a last—minute trip the store. but this year in some parts of the country they'll do better picking up a snow shovel and some skis. colorado has been walloped by the white stuff with s

the sponsor is deborah raphael, speaker is lowe chu, interim energy program manager. the explanatory document is electric vehicle road map for san francisco. this item is for discussion. >> director raphael, you may introduce this item. >> thank you. it's fitting we are having this agenda just after we thanked suzanne and zach and elani for their work. the electric vehicle working group came out of a desire from moi lee to figure out what do we need to do to accelerate the adoption of evs. we realized there were two big buckets when you are talking about e.v.s, there's the city's fleet and the public sector which is far bigger. we understood the department of the environment had essentially no authority on this, we just had mostly convening power. and so along with the city administrator and many other departments, we embarked on a journey to figure out what would it take to accelerate and scale adoption of electric vehicles. we created a working group, a working group of city agencies, of external partners, and we ended up with a road map of where we need to go. and

and is kristin chu or timothy mat hews here? please come forward. >> good morning. i'm kristin chu. i am the current chair of the general obligation bond oversight committee. i think this is my third or fourth term, over 15 years or so. you can do two terms and then you're off for a little bit and then when i had moved to the east coast and moved back, i wanted to get involved again. i feel passionately about good government and citizens' role in good government. i also feel passionately about investing in our infrastructure. i think the bond funding is an appropriate investment in that infrastructure. since being chair, i have tried direct the people, the fellow members in our goal, it's very hard to understand bond funding and how to govern it. and so i try to simple it by saying is the project on time, on budget, and does it meet the needs of the voters. so we're undertaking some experiments in trying to understand what the voters'' expectations are when they signed the ballot and to mr. walton's earlier comment, how this is written on the ballot is very, very important in the vo

samuel chu, thank you.ed hundreds of people in several countries in east africa. in the congolese capital kinshasa, dozens have died. un officials say at least 120 have been killed in kenya, where landslides and floods swept away homes. 0ur africa correspondent merchuma has been to meet some of the survivors. i am in a school that has just been converted into a rescue camp. hundreds of people have gathered here, most of them women and children, and they say they have walked for days to get to this facility. their homes and farms were completely destroyed by the floods and landslides. translation: i was running away when the waters were coming down. ifell and broke my leg and i have been in pain since then. my children carried me to this place. it's now that i have been attended to. a team of medical personnel have come here to help these people, and the doctors say most of the injuries they are receiving are soft tissue injuries, but there are a couple of people who are coming in with fractured limbs. the m

extend just-cause extensions to new buildings here in san francisco following up on assembly member chu's 482. this allows us to extend just cause protections ending what can still be arbitrary evictions on buildings not covered under our rent ordinance, including ones that were built over the last 15 years, which member chu's legislation did not cover and i'm introducing substitute legislation today to add an additional piece, an important piece to this legislation and with the new rent cap, new cap on rent increases, state-wide and the expanded eviction protections, there's been a spike in evictions as landlords seek to evic evict tenants befot goes into effect. others have responded with eviction moratoriums to protect tenants before the new law goes into effect and today i'm introducing our new version of emergency eviction and substitute legislation to the just-cause expansion and the emergency protections effectively make eviction protections retroactive for some tenants and protect tenants during the vulnerable transition period. i want to thank supervisors fewer and ronan who are

i think that chair chu has designated herself, volunteered to be the liaison on this subject, and i think probably what will happen between now and your january meeting is i'll have some of my staff refresh and build on a matrix that we worked on before that shows the bond programs, the type of schedule they're providing, what their reporting period is, so we can see the variability that exists and we can explore how useful the committee has found the reports and where we may look for improvements. so you have a period now, november and december where you don't have an in-person meeting, so i think we should be able to find time to have a liaison meeting on that subject if that sounds appropriate. >> one other thing. can you ask them to go back and look at our previous meetings to you know, understand how we use it. brian was referring back to some specific information in some of the reports, so i think we can use that as facts on how we're using them, how that information is actively being used in a meeting. i know brenda also had interacted with the reports in an in-depth way. >> okay.

taylor: that was way chief mo chief product officer dan chu.son of formula e is happening in saudi arabia, where the slickest all electric vehicles battle outside every aunt, all powered by lucid. ed ludlow has the details. ed: zero to 60 in 2.8 seconds, and all from an electric motor, this is formula e. the all electric cousin of formula one. when street racing started in 2014, cars could not complete the race on a single charge, but since last season that has changed. thanks to this battery pack, built by a california company called lucid. >> we use our proprietary expertise, particularly modeling and thermal control, and structural analyses and packaging. we are manufacturing here in this very building at our headquarters in silicon valley. ed: season five was the first time lucid provide battery packs for formula e, but their involvement was kept controversial and they were labeled as a battery partner. this year, lucid is taking the spotlight and will continue to do so until their contract expires after season eight in 2021, so what can fo

i'm dominic chu.t is wednesday, november 27, 2019 and one story that you will be talking about today, the astonishing finish to last night's duke and steven f. austin basketball game, a big congratulations to the lumberjacks. they were i think a 27 point underdog knocking off the top team in the country. congratulations. stock futures indicating the dow will open up slightly higher again. it is coming off its 14th record close of the year. the s&p seeing its 25th record close year to date stocks are now on pace for their best month since june. as you see here, the dow would open up about 70 points if the futures gains hold ten year note yields still hovering right around the 1.74% mark you can see here a slight tick higher, 1.741 the last trade there. let us go worldwide. in the asian trade overnight w did see a bit of a mixed session but still generally positive hang seng up 0.1%. in european trading, positive there as well. pretty much green across the screen dax up half of 1%. and ftse 100 in the u

it's time for rapid fire julia boorstin and dom chu that's why i said sue and i go way back i used toou stuff from "the wire" that we had to rip off in 1989 and hand it to you as you read the breaking news. >> back when we were friends and we played golf, you got up at 4:00 in the morning to go to emerson. and lay the bag down. >> i did. >> to get us a spot. >> would you do that today >> if i could play with you? >> sure. >> no. >> i didn't think so. >> you know i would. i love you and i miss you. all right. first topic, got mcdonald's new ceo chris kempczinski has a big new job and that -- what he needs to do is buy some stock because about 7.5 million new problems, the freshly minted ceo doesn't own a single share of mcdonald's he unloaded his roughly 11,000 shares of mcdonald's back in may for about $4.4 million now, he needs to acquire $7.5 million worth of mcdonald's share in order to satisfy the company's rules on executive ownership. that might be a problem here if i had to buy $7.5 million worth of comcast stock could you help me with that? >> 69% of the s&p 500 companies out

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i'm dominic chu. happy veterans day to all those who are serving and have served our great country.ere's how your money and the global markets setting up. the dow will open down today by just around 120 points at this stage. the s&p off by about 12 and the nasdaq off by 42, as well. taking a bit of a pause from the record runs. stocks are coming off their third positive week in a row and the eighth record close of the year the bond market is closed for veterans day and that holiday banks, as well let's go now worldwide in the early trade for europe we are seeing the negativety carry over there the german dax off by 0.3. now, in asia red across the board as unrest in hong kong hit a new level overnight. cnbc own emily has the latest. >> hong kong as weekend unrest rolls into the citywide protests on monday. drops close to 3% with benchmark hea heavyweights off more than 1%. hong kong police opened fire this morning at protesters hitting at least one man, the 21-year-old is in hospital and is in critical condition protesters blocked major thoroughfares across the city, resulting in ma

. >>> all right, thanks, scott welcome, everybody, i'm dominic chu and here's what's ahead. a major deal on wall street could be announced any minute with sources telling cnbc that charles schaub is in talks to buy td ameritrade. plus, google lays out its political ad policy then one of the biggest names in media has a a warning for hbo. but let's start now with a look at t today's markets as you can see, they're moving with some marginal losses. the dow down by about eight points s&p just about flat and nasdaq off about .2 of 1% we're very, very near those record highs one theme that we're kind of keeping an eye on is what's happening with oil you take a look at crude oil that chart is spiking. we're up about 2%. this after headlines from reuters saying that opec may look to extend it production cuts when it meets next month with its partner countries, especially russia. those oil prices very much a focus there and of course happening with our stocks of the day, you got to say it's charles schwab and td ameritrade that's our opening exchange for today. take a look at these

. ♪ good monday morning i'm ndomini chu if for brian sullivan.onald's has fired ceo steve easterbrook. those shares down 2.5% at this stage in the early extended trading session. now despite the drop in mcdonald's shares, futures are still higher this morning. if you take a look at the picture overall, the nasdaq up by 38, dow 85. the s&p hit a record high on friday treasury yields again a certain big focus for investors these days look at the ten-year note yield ticking slightly higher, 1.75% the last trade there, two-year note yields 1.r8% as well markets in japan were closed for culture day. look at the overall picture and it's green across the board. a half percent gain for the shanghai the hang sang up 1.75% the asian side of things very much in the green. european trading is exactly what we're seeing there as well the ftse 100 up three quarters of 1%. we will get back to the markets in just a moment, but first, a major shakeup at mcdonald's as the fast food giant ousts its chief executive. rahel solomon joins us now with all of those detail

it's time for rapid fire here with their takes, dom chu, contessa brewer, robert frank. the first topic, alibaba setting a sales record on its singles day, world's largest 24-hour shopping event sales last year exceeded the spending by consumers on black friday or cyber monday what are -- >> hi. >> that's an entrance. i like that. >> yes, yes. what are the numbers tell us about it. >> this year's sales topped $38 billion. last year sales were about $30 million. so this is unparalleled. there's nothing really like it it starts with a star-studded concert. this year is taylor swift, last year was mariah carey. this has been a year investors have been watching very closely, watching to see the health of the chinese consumer and if there's any growing chinese nationalism toward american companies. this year american companies did pretty well. apple did well, nike did well, bissel did well, american jewelry companies did really well. >> so there was no backwash or backlash i guess against -- >> doesn't appear to be, no. >> -- american products. how global is the singles day o

. ♪ >>> good morning welcome to the show i'm dominic chu in for brian sullivan.e is how your money and the global markets are setting the day up after the dow closed 28,000 for the first time ever on friday breaking above the key level just in the last few moments of trading on that day you can see there the time lapse of the moves this morning, stock futures indicating the dow will open up slightly higher. the dow is coming off its longest win streak since february the s&p seeing its longest win streak in two years at that stage. as you can see the dow jones up by another 40 points if these gains hold into the opening bell, the s&p up by 3 points and the nasdaq up by 17. if you take a look at the overall picture, also bonds a key focus as they keep moving higher those yields you can see the ten-year benchmark yield 1.85%. the two-year, 1.62%. we continue to watch the interest rate complex move slightly higher. now as we go worldwide, in the asian trade, china cutting a short-term interest rate for the first time since 2015. the surprise move sparking talk that m

. ♪ >>> good morning and welcome to the show i'm dominic chu in for brian sullivan it's monday, novemberh, 2019 your deal of the day lvmh buying tiffany for $135 per share in cash after weeks of speculation, much more on that deal coming up but as you can see here, both stocks reacting well stock futures incaindicating the dow will open up by 80 some points this after handing in its first worst weekly performance since around early october, but again the dow jones had opened up by 88 points. the s&p by about 10 and the nasdaq by 32 if these gains hold into the opening bell for regular cash equities trading. with regard to the bond market, look at that as well we are seeing a bit of movement there to the upside for yields the ten year note yield 1.75 note yield you can see that difference between those two, that yield curve between the 2s and 10s, 15 bases points we have seen the yield curve flatten a bit over the course of the past couple weeks. let's now go worldwide look at the trade overall within europe, it is generally positive take a look at the dax, up .5% and ftse almost .75% ger

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i'm dominic chu in for brian sullivan on this tuesday, november 26th, 2019.ming off another record high-making day with the s&p and nasdaq both hitting those rarefied levels. the dow surging triple digits early on in the session, and it really never looked back, as you see here in that time lapse, partly due to a huge merger monday more than $50 billion in deals are sealed in one day alone. topping that list, a $26 billion deal between charles schwab and td ameritrade in the u.s. retail brokerage business on the heels of those numbers, here's how your money looks as we are halfway through the 5:00 a.m. hour in new york trading. stock futures right now showing what could be just a marginal loss at the start, again, coming off these record-high levels the dow would open down by 11 points, the s&p off about one and the nasdaq off two to three points as well on the bond side of things, we're seeing a slight tick down in yields. the benchmark u.s. treasury note is currently yielding just below 1.75%, and just a little above 1.59% for the benchmark two-year treasur

back to you. >> interesting dom chu, thank you. >> what will he be the ceo of?eliberately sardonic but what is this? because these -- they're not going to be able to hold on to the leases with the current capitalization structure assuming the bailout from the vision fund -- excuse me from softbank, a bailout of the vision fund, this is not the same business it was two months ago. >> it gives them a presence with investors, both on the debt side and the equity side, a commodity they know that's taken the company that was in a troubled industry, cellular and going to this. >> what else it gives them -- >> i don't know the assets -- >> we could debate -- yes. and it gives them a salesman like few others. >> but that's not the issue. salesmen is the problem. >> you could debate. >> you're right. >> salesmanship is why we're here. >> maybe more deemed legitimate salesman. >> the issue is where is the capital coming from that's going to sustain the amount of millions of square feet that have been leased all over the world, how is this possibly going to stay the way it

civil engineer dino chu morning explains the principle was the father will be in order to stabilize the building substrate wouldn't piles were driven into the bed in each area. if sufficient piles are used in the areas then so that with water the mud between the piles becomes compressed and thus more stable than everything outside the area the piles keep everything together and prevent the substrate from being washed out that's the principle behind ground stabilization of the body. in this way the venetians created man made areas on which an entire city could gradually be built. because architects had discovered that the wooden piles did not bronze in the mud. the poles. underneath the buildings in the mud. that had been playing in oxygen free environment certainly none of the microbes that would normally think a word can get into that. the wood undergoes a process of mineralization it turns rock hard and remains intact for centuries. the most famous the nation buildings were constructed on this building ground of mud and wood. said not square with its balance how it stands 110-0000 woo