i am carmen chu, san francisco city administrator. as you can tell from the buzz of conversation the happy faces that we have here that we are so excited to be back in person to celebrate the lunar new year. [applause] on behalf of the city and county, on behalf of mayor london breed, board of supervisors and elected officials and department heads today we want to wish all of you a very, very happy year of the tiger. (applause). cheers. come on. [cheers and applause.] i want to give a shout out and thank you to jj and claudine who have worked tirelessly to organize this event to make sure we start the year of the tiger off right. claudine, please come on up. yes, you. [applause] here is the certificate of honor on behalf of the san francisco city administrator's office. thank you. [applause] >> i saw on your script it was five more minutes. co-chairs, please join me. we need to welcome former mayor. thank you for being here. let's start with celebrating lunar new year. trying to connect everybody with this celebration. this is februar

i am carmen chu, san francisco city administrator.tell from the buzz of conversation the happy faces that we have here that we are so excited to be back in person to celebrate the lunar new year. [applause] on behalf of the city and county, on behalf of mayor london breed, board of supervisors and elected officials and department heads today we want to wish all of you a very, very happy year of the tiger. (applause). cheers. come on. [cheers and applause.] i want to give a shout out and thank you to jj and claudine who have worked tirelessly to organize this event to make sure we start the year of the tiger off right. claudine, please come on up. yes, you. [applause] here is the certificate of honor on behalf of the san francisco city administrator's office. thank you. [applause] >> i saw on your script it was five more minutes. co-chairs, please join me. we need to welcome former mayor. thank you for being here. let's start with celebrating lunar new year. trying to connect everybody with this celebration. this is february 7th. it is

chu: the gentleman yields back. the chair now recognizes mr. davis for five minutes. mr. davis: yes. thank you very much. and commissioner, let me thank you for being here and answer all of this plethora of questions that are coming. first of all, let me thank you for your letter yesterday clarifying that payments to foster youth are nontaxable. mr. rettig: i apologize. i thought that went out to you previously. and you and i have had discussions in that space before. and the letter was to confirm those discussions. thank you. mr. davis: well, thank you very much. and i also want to thank you and your team for creating the materials to help foster and homeless youth understand the earned income tax credit provisions are relevant to them. and further, i want to thank the chicago taxpayer advocate, mr. andrew van single, an district leads for their help educating my constituents about the refundable tax credit. mr. commissioner, i know how life changing the tax year 2021 enhancements to the refundable credit will be t

i do understand the logic in brian chu's letter. it does make sense that they would have some problems delivering funds to an agency with an investigation open, but the investigation has been closed and the agency has been cleared. i would certainly urge the board to take that into consideration that the audit has been closed and the organization has been cleared. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is carla garcia, and i'm a board member of la raza. i've been a board member since july 2021, and i can tell you that this organization is really beloved by the community. it's an icon by the community, and i'm pleading to keep the funds that we have, because we need them. i mean, we, like martin said, we have conducted an outside audit, and everybody -- everything came out clear. mr. gabriel medina has done a wonderful job. he has raised salaries to all the employees, and also benefits. there was some rumors, too, but i would just ask the board of supervisors to consider fact

i do understand the logic in brian chu's letter.e that they would have some problems delivering funds to an agency with an investigation open, but the investigation has been closed and the agency has been cleared. i would certainly urge the board to take that into consideration that the audit has been closed and the organization has been cleared. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is carla garcia, and i'm a board member of la raza. i've been a board member since july 2021, and i can tell you that this organization is really beloved by the community. it's an icon by the community, and i'm pleading to keep the funds that we have, because we need them. i mean, we, like martin said, we have conducted an outside audit, and everybody -- everything came out clear. mr. gabriel medina has done a wonderful job. he has raised salaries to all the employees, and also benefits. there was some rumors, too, but i would just ask the board of supervisors to consider facts instead of rumor

. >> thank you chairwoman chu and members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to discussthe filing season . before i continue with my openingstatement , i need to address something personal which is this may be my last time testifying in front of this committee. my statutory term expires november 12 of this year but s every time i testify on the hill i have had the extreme privilege teof being accompanied by the same person who is sitting behind me. diane grant has been with the irs more than 50 years. that time with diane every single day that if folks think a commissioner comes in and makes decisions i want you to know how much i value this diane grant both as a person, as a friend, as a tax expert and an irs experienced expert and i think in many ways, diane minimizes the irs employee. she is all that. she's also extremely humble and i'm going to hear about this on the way back but thank you for affording me the opportunity because we have some truly spectacular employees. as you know the fiscal 21 gross receipts for the interna

i'm dominic chu.r chip stocks are moving high every with an etf that tracks the names smh in positive territory. every constituent of that it of up on the day with some of the biggest names like nvidia up 9% at this hour and intel, amd, broadcom keep in mind that the chipmakers not spared from the tech volatility and in fact nearly every member of this etf is still in negative territory for the year so far. the etf is tracking a worst calendar quarter since 2020. keeping out of the chip stocks back to you. >> all right see you later. >>> let's go to rahel solomon for a news update. >> hi. legal expirts are praising judge ketanji brown jackson on the nomination for the supreme court. the american bar association giving jackson the highest rating of well qualified saying a sterling reputation and exceptional competence. >>> americans are not rallying around president biden's leadership opposing russia's invasion and the associated press found 43% of people approve of president biden and similar amount a

i'm dominic chu. bumble are soaring after the company posted a beat with strong growth projections for full year 2022 and joining the growing list of companies shuttering the russian operations it was selling off with around 20% of the global workforce in moscow and app users in the region and expects a $20 million revenue hit from the crisis this year bumble shares up big in the headlines. back to you. >> helping match as we saw. >>> the restaurant stocks are higher today with a reopening feel in the market a rough ride for them. cheesecake down 10%. darden down 12% and dine brands outperforming down 7% for the month and soars 9% today following the investor day what's got the mood so bullish let's welcome in kate rogers with john pay tochb. >> thank you thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> there's strong projections but inflation as we know is top of mind for consumers and full service brands tend to be pricier than fast food how big of a risk is this right now? >> we are bullish and shared th

stocks, bonds, queks let's begin with dom chu on the market. >> we are down and not out not yet.n between 1 and 2% at this stage and above the worst levels of the day. the dow was down 541 down 280 there 1.5% down side of the worst levels of the session. s&p 500 down 179 the composite is the underperformer at the lows off 313. down 230 at this stage the biggest laggards where you expect them. given the developments on the war between ukraine and russia technology, communication services leading from a sector perspective. it is energy that is the best perf performer given the higher oil prices epa utilities and health care in the green today. keep an eye on the travel and leisure stocks hilton hotels, wynn resorts wit bigger hits as the war may cause them to reconsider travel plans and looking for a superlative look at booking holdings it whit a record high two weeks ago. today it is a new 52-week low. took 11 days from a record high to a 52-week low back to you. >> that is a cliff thank you. now the bond market. last friday ended with the 10-year yield 1.89%. today at 1.73. rick

after the first day pops for other stocks does it boost the stock beyond that period of time dom chus here looking at the big splits have reacted in the past. >> we know that splits in and of themselves don't do much the company has to do something and does do is increase sentiment and maybe accessibility a little bit and something that amazon says it was looking to do taking this step to make this split happen but it comes down to is whether or not it will help to provide a part of the story for more bullish narrative. recent events maybe provide a precedence we'll start with a big example and what we saw with apple back in 2020, a couple years ago, with that big 4 for 1 split they had up 35% over the next month 39% over sixmonths and 54% ove the next year. there's factors that going into that more sales and services revenue but might provide a tailwind and on the day of the announcement apple popped 10% in one session. another mega cap that's distant with the split is going back to 2003 microsoft. it was up about 6% over the next month after the split and then 10% over 10 months, 1

my name is carmen chu, and i serve as the san francisco city administrator, and i am so glad to see you hope that you will indulge me as i just give my greetings in chinese. [speaking chinese language] >> i think, as many of you know, we celebrate so many of our wonderful communities in san francisco city hall. the lune or new year holds a very special place for many of us in our communities. it's a time of the year that we all gather with relatives and friends, some who we haven't seen for a whole year, and i think especially as we enter into a new phase, we hope, of this pandemic, it's time for us to come back together, to connect with community, to rejoice, celebrate with one another, and to rebuild, and i think with that, reengaging in all of the civic celebrations that we're going to see all across san francisco. i want to thank all of our community members, our community partners, who have continued to make sure that our celebration continues to be uplifted. in the year of the tiger, we can't wait to come roaring back into the year with our lunar new year parade that's coming up t

gabriel gatehouse, henry chu, vera, thank you all very much. vera, thank you all very much.etting longer and the sunshine is getting stronger, and we will see some of that as we go through out week ahead. there�*s going to be a lot of dry weather in the forecast. pretty mild, by day, in the sunshine. chilly at night still, with some patchy mist and fog, and there will be some rain this week but it is most likely to be through wednesday. now, for the here and now, we�*ve got rain clearing to the east, this little area of cloud bringing showers into scotland and one down into the south—west. now, these showers in the south—west may be heavy and thundery and they�*ll drift along the channel coast during the early part of the morning. at the same time, some showers moving out of northern ireland into central and southern scotland, along with northern england, with the best of the sunshine perhaps a little bit further south, into central parts of england and wales with highs of 1a degrees. now, there�*s going to be a good deal of dry weather around on tuesday as well, with light

i believe that brian chu is on the line to present this item? >> yes. brian chu with the mayor's office of housing and community development, and i believe we have a presentation that we can put on the line. thank you. so we can go to the next slide. we have two items, item 7 and 8. item 7 is to amend a portion of the administrative code to administer funds that are placed in specific created funds in the emergency rental assistance relief fund that would allow us to be able to offer rent funds directly to tenants as well as landlords, nonprofits, and c.b.o.s to distribute the funds. item 8 is a resolution to deploy a certain amount of city funds that are aimed at emergency rental assistance. this is a combination of funds that come to us from the prop c a year or so ago in addition to moneys given to us in the mayor's budget and in that rent resolution and relief fund. we're coming to you for item 8 because we have two grants that would exceed $10 million, and for those that exceed $10 million, we need board approval in order to execute those grants. n

aren't you dom chu, over there. >> right next to you >> there he is. >> so, anyway, to your point you'reig et state in america requires all high school financial literacy before getting a d.iploma signed into law by governor ron desantis yesterday can't get much more bipartisan than this. unanimous across all houses and everybody there. happening starting 2023-24 academic year students have to take one semester in a course teaching everything, manage a bank account, establish a budget, lessons in management and how to pay taxes florida law, 11 states now in the union requiring some sort of personal finance education required before graduation they are alabama, missouri, tennessee, utah, virginia, mississippi, nebraska, north carolina, ohio and rhode island and now florida, guys. interesting move here, but still requiring it is pretty much a good idea given what we have with youngsters and money these days. >> a good experience. >> speaking from experience, yes. >> fact they could agree to that -- >> unanimous. >> yes all members of houses. >> thanks, dom. >>> thanks for watching "power l

i'm dominic chu. let's get straight to the market story. a volatile week.down had 4 points and nasda down 25. very muted compared to what we have seen the last week or two treasury yields showing signs of stability. ticking slightly higher. especially on the long side of thecurve with the ten-year in particular a shade above 2.35%. the two-year treasury note is 2.195% the 30-year bond is a slight tick lower for the long end of the treasury yield cryptocurrency bitcoin gaining above $44,000. ethereum up to $3,124 at the last trade >>> the last week showing the technology trade showing signs of life. if you look at the last week, the vaneck semiconductor segment gained 2.5%. it has been volatile just yesterday, we saw nvidia and intel do well. check out cloud computing stocks if you look at the big etf that tracks that. clou is down in the pre-market trade. up 3% in the last week cloud computing is a focus cybersecurity stocks are very much a focus the first trust nasdaq cybersecurity flat on the pre-market trade up 4% over the last week in the chinese intern

." ♪ >>> good morning i'm dominic chu in for brian sullivan futures looking for some more gains rightow at this point. the dow has climbed higher by roughly 280 points the s&p by 45, and the nasdaq by a whopping 218 this is coming after a nearly 600-point gain for the dow just yesterday, as you see there picking up steam throughout the course of the day. the wind streak is now two days, the s&p, the nasdaq, the russell 2000 cap indices all coming off their first winning session in four days. the move's higher in equities coming on the heels on a continued drop in oil prices you can see here, oil up modestly 1.5%, $98 per barrel, but it's down despite some gains we're seeing right now. >>> keeping a close eye on treasuries, trading at its highest levels since 2019. you see the benchmark a hair below 2.17% at this point. the two-year, 1.6% on the treasury trade, all of this as the fed prepares to wrap up its fed policy meeting at 2:00 p.m. today with an all but certain basis point, one quarter percentage hike, its first in four years. >>> oversees a relief rally in asia with hong kong a

i'm dominic chu tracking a rebound in sectors including the industrials and some leaders there are namesins engine, deere, each of these up between 4% and 6% on the day in firmly positive territory after drops yesterday. seeing a pause in the outperformance of many defense contractors in the sector namely northrop grumman, lockheed and raytheon up between 9% and 20% given the russian war in ukraine >> let's get to rahel solomon. >> good afternoon. the white house is detailing a new national strategy to test and treat covid. official says it's designed to get the nation back to a more normal routine allowing pharmacists to prescribe treatments as soon as someone tests positive >>> united states is expanding sanctions to belarus for enabling russia's invasion of ukraine preventing russia from importing technology from u.s. is coming. just moments ago a powerful exploes reported near the city's railway station. >>> a billion for an oligarch facing western sanctions said he'll sell the premier league soccer team he owns. he is not planning a quick sale. the team is valued at more than $3 bil

monday, march 14th, 2022 you are watching "worldwide exchange" here on cnbc >>> good morning i'm dominic chu in for brian sullivan we start off with u.s. futures hoping to turn the tide after the slide last week. the dow futures are pointing to a 250 point gain at opening bell s&p higher afternt 26 this after the dow saw its fifth down week in a row the nasdaq and s&p coming off the worst weeks since january. checking the bond trade ahead of the week's fed policy meeting. ten-year treasury note 2.059% the crude is ticking lower brent is $109.41 and west texas is down 3.5%. >>> let's get a check of the trading overseas with julianna tatelbaum in the london newsroom good morning, julianna >> dom, good morning european equities on a strong footing. green across the board extending the gains from last week it was a volatile week of trade in europe. ultimately the stoxx 600 broke a three-week losing streak to end higher we are seeing investors continue to put money back into the market we have the german index out in front 2.2% vw shares out performing after delivering strong results. strong in d

i'm dominic chu in for brian sullivan stock futures here through the 5:00 hour.ow implied lower by 152 points. s&p lower by 20. nasdaq off 38. we are off the worst levels in the pre-market futures trade we have troubling stats heading into the trading day today with more than 12% losses year to date, the s&p is seeing the fourth worst start to the year since inception. with a more than 2% loss yesterday and more likely losses today, the nasdaq composite is now just three days away from its longest correction phase since the great financial crisis now let's recap the overnight action in asia as investors continue to punish china stocks and tech sector broadly and specifically hang seng is off 5.765%. hang seng technology is down 8%. 7% declines for hang seng etf. plus we have another dramatic drop for the price of oil. u.s. benchmark crude is 9$97.52 you may recall we hit a near-term high of $130.50. we are now down to $97 in less than two weeks ice brent crude is $100.21 now to the latest on the situation in ukraine >>> delegates from ukraine and russia expected

i am carmen chu, san francisco city administrator.z of conversation the happy faces that we have here that we are so excited to be back in person to celebrate the lunar new year. [applause] on behalf of the city and county, on behalf of mayor london breed, board of supervisors and elected officials and department heads today we want to wish all of you a very, very happy year of the tiger. (applause). cheers. come on. [cheers and applause.] i want to give a shout out and thank you to jj and claudine who have worked tirelessly to organize this event to make sure we start the year of the tiger off right. claudine, please come on up. yes, you. [applause] here is the certificate of honor on behalf of the san francisco city administrator's office. thank you. [applause] >> i saw on your script it was five more minutes. co-chairs, please join me. we need to welcome former mayor. thank you for being here. let's start with celebrating lunar new year. trying to connect everybody with this celebration. this is february 7th. it is a prize if you c

neal: let me recognize the gentlelady from california for one minute, congresswoman chu. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentlewoman from california is recognized for one minute. ms. chu: i rise today in strong support of this bill to isolate and stop sending our money to russia. russia's unprovoked invasion of ukraine has already caused countless deaths and nrs while forcing 1.5 million innocent refugees to flee their homes. there must be consequences for this belligerence. that's why support cutting off russia's oil and gas imports to the u.s. seeking to suspend their participation in the world trade organization and extending our ability to implement further sanctions. global trade, the wealth it helps generate, and the needs it helps to meet is a benefit of the very international order that russia is trying to undermine. and so if putin is declaring war on global peace and stability, then he should also not be able to benefit from global peace and stability. i believe that the promise of being able to once again profit from global trade is a powerful incentive for pu

i'm dom anyone chu over the past 12 months, communication services is the worst performing sector inh span. parts of that we picked up from its concentration in a handful of stocks. the folks over at y chards, a data analysis firm, took a look at the spyder communication services, ticker xlc it found that just seven of the company's index makes up more than two-thirds of the waiting in the total holdings. those seven stocks are silicon giants, alphabet, meta, verizon, at&t, comcast, and activision blaze ard. only two of them have outperformed the broader sector overall. alphabet is the big winner, up roughly 40% in the last year in a distant second place is t-mobile, just about 3% there. it's still trailing the overall s&p 500. but, again, the real story of the sector's underperformance is in its laggards for sure the two worst performers in the past year is meta platforms, the facebook parent company, and at&t, down 20% in that span. activision is down 15% while comcast and verizon are down 13% or so so with the sector being so heavily waited by less than a third of its total member

i am carmen chu, san francisco city administrator. that we have here that we are so excited to be back in person to celebrate the lunar new year. [applause] on behalf of the city and county, on behalf of mayor london breed, board of supervisors and elected officials and department heads today we want to wish all of you a very, very happy year of the tiger. (applause). cheers. come on. [cheers and applause.] i want to give a shout out and thank you to jj and claudine who have worked tirelessly to organize this event to make sure we start the year of the tiger off right. claudine, please come on up. yes, you. [applause] here is the certificate of honor on behalf of the san francisco city administrator's office. thank you. [applause] >> i saw on your script it was five more minutes. co-chairs, please join me. we need to welcome former mayor. thank you for being here. let's start with celebrating lunar new year. trying to connect everybody with this celebration. this is february 7th. it is a prize if you can explain why we chose that day

dom chu over with the numbers. >> red today and reversal, but haven't given back all of them not close. fraction of what we got in yesterday's session overall. dow jones industrial down nearly 400 points 1.25 declines here 32,891 and s&p 500 off nearly 1.5%. nasdaq below13,000 2% losses there. real undersized moves here in the nasdaq composite real under performer in the trade so far technology growth nasdaq trade could be driven in part, a lot of narratives out there, by interest rate picture. believe it or not, back up to 2% in fact, north of it ten year u.s. treasury note yield 2% last trade there. if you remember, about 206, high for this recent round here 168 with the low again, tilting towards the high end of that range. people are again, getting rid of some of the safety of u.s. government bonds forcing prices lower yields going higher. see how long that lasts given issues we have with the war in ukraine and russia then stock of the day has to be amazon bucking the overall trend. very specific narrative goes along with this. at this point we know 4.5% upside for amazon driven in

on the flip side, scott wiener and former senator doug chu were recognized for their efforts on fossil fuels and clean energy. >> we've been doing a lot at nbc bay area. you've been covering climate change. >> we're learning so much stuff as we see the side effects coming in. it's been eye opening to everybody as we continue to follow what's been happening. how about the rainfall this morning? >> last night a 11:00, i was like, i got to cover my patio furniture. >> we have two more chances. let's take you into the microclimate forecast, and you can see the blue sky starting to rebound after a couple of drops, and what you're seeing here is reinforced on storm ranger. otherwise, we definitely on the drying side of things tonight. now the one thing we will have to watch out for as we move through tomorrow morning is just a little bit of fog. the best chance of that fog forming would be down here through the south bay from san jose to gilroy and a little bit over the santa cruz mountains, otherwise plenty of sunshine, and we'll continue to see the sun as we head through the day. a nice re

markets today as fears grow over the future of ukraine the dow dropping 2% roughly 700 points dominique chu is standing by with more. we have rick san telly watching the plunge in the 10-year yield today. and brian sullivan covering the historic spike in oil prices dom, let's start with you. >> all right the markets with, as you can see, in the red. and we can point out and focus on the dow specifically. for the first time in awhile, the dow has become the center of the out or underperformance. in this case, underperformance we're currently down about 1.2%. we were down roughly 756 points at the lows. down 23 points at the highs. so call it relatively flat we're tilted more toward the downside today the s&p 500 down nasdaq compos it down about 1% or 132 points. we also want to look at the macro market you mention the oil prices seven-year highs for u.s.-benchmark crude at $104.56 is off the session highs. still up 9%. over $106 at one point today you can see the spike higher in in the last couple of hours. by the way, the gap between world benchmark prices, brent crude, and wti narrowed sig

ever some that were in weak position only got weaker and some had a huge boom and then huge bust dom chuser look at those boom and bust stocks for us dom? >> jon, while the shift is staying at home presented opportunity for select group of companies, some of those pandemic winners have still struggled to find their post-pandemic life, their footing, so to speak that includes names like stitchfix which allows buyers to try on and buy clothing without ever entering a store. now that stock hit a pandemic high of around 113 bucks a share back in january of 2021. but has fallen roughly 90% since then with shares now trading roughly $11 or so. freelance marketplace fiber still up significantly from the start of the pandemic but the exuberance waned a bit with that stock off 80% since its highs in february of 2021 then there's peloton, which quickly became a household name as gyms were closed around the country and people looked to continue their fitness routines from their homes that declaration of the pandemic to its peak, the peloton trade was up nearly 650%, you can see, but that stretched

year of the tiger is created by chu after the director. the lunar year stamp. you will agree the result of the coloration and design that captures the beauty and strength of the tiger and fresh. the design is comtemporarily take and. [indiscernable] lion or dragon dances performed during the new year parades. it is symbolic meanings of blue, orange and gray. the tiger's head purple to reflect the chinese zodiac. this is from the third series of new years. 1993-2004 and 2020 to present. this event is for celebrating the 30th anniversary announcement of the stamps honoring the chinese asian contribution to this country. announcement was first made at the national convention in august of 1992. former and vailing of year of the rooster in the same year. add to your collection or mail your new year's greetings. it is our hope it brings you pros pair be, peace, -- prosperity, peace, good luck and much joy. the mayor will join me in unveiling the stamp. (applause). [ music ] >> when i first started painting it was difficult to get my foot in the door and contractors a

. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give [♪♪♪]

i am dominic chu from cnbc global headquarters. stocks are set for a mixed open as investors look ahead to a very busy week of economic data. the dow and the s&p 500 rose on friday's session to close out the second consecutive up week they've had, while the nasdaq finished lower, but still ended the week in the green. meanwhile, believe it or not, oil prices are falling this morning as a new lockdown in shanghai over in china boosts fears over weaker fuel demands. we've got a lot of jobs news. the job openings and labor turnover survey is on tuesday and then private payroll data comes out from adp on wednesday, all ahead of that big closely watched government monthly jobs report that comes out on friday. china's financial hub and biggest city began a two-stage lockdown on monday to control the country's worst covid-19 outbreak since the pandemic began. public transit and ride-hailing are suspended in the city and work from home orders are in place. tesla is suspending production at its shanghai factory for four days, this after tes

i'm dominic chu. check out shares of chewy heading to the worst day ever.re at the lows of the session right now. reported a wider than expected loss on revenues that missed expectations the company's first quarter and full year guidance came in below expectations it was a strong performer early on in the pandemic over here but it lost the momentum in the year or so since down 60% from the levels check out chewy. frank, back to you. >> i have to buy some dog food myself. >> are you out of everything >> i don't know if i need a garbage disposal i want a better one and i don't want to do the dishes either let's get to seema mody for a news update. >> the white house is expected to end covid related asylum limits at the u.s.-mexico border by may 23'd. critics say the limits have been used to get the u.s. out of international obligation president biden said he will have a decision on the limits soon. >>> in arkansas several storms and a possible tornado causing heavy damaging and injuring at least seven people why this is an elementary school gym in springdale

former landlord supervisor of the united irish cultural center, now our city administrator, carmen chun the back, so recognize her. [applause] >> a good friend of san francisco's irish community and a good friend of san mateo's irish community, kevin mullen. thank you for joining us, kevin. [applause] >> so we're going to begin the program with san francisco's own, led by mary mckeever, celtic voices. [applause] >> thank you very much, mary and celtic voices. our next speaker is the dean of the consular general in san francisco. without further adieu, consular general robert o'driscoll. [speaking native language] >> thank you very much for that kind introduction. guests here, we're graduated to the big room, and thank you very much, mayor breed, for that. it's a phenomenally big room, so very thankful. those who know me will know that this week was a very special week for me personally because our second native san franciscan child was born here in cpmc. killian lochlan o'driscoll. he will ask me one day, where am i from? where am i people from? and i will say, you are from san francis

joining us this week — henry chu, an experienced foreign correspondent at the la times who, as the usast sleeps, is ensuring its readers are kept up to date on what's happening in ukraine. vera krichevskaya is a documentary film—maker. she helped to found tv rain, an independent channel in russia which has now been shut down. and joining me in the studio, gabriel gatehouse, international editor for bbc television's newsnight programme. good to have you with us. good to have you two with us as well, thank you very much, and to vera, forjoining us for the first time on this programme. vera, i would like to start with you, if i may. how are russians finding out about what the kremlin calls its �*special military operation�*? good evening. can i start with the latest news? in one hour and 30 minutes, instagram in russia will be officially banned before, on this week, twitter and facebook was banned, so but all this started two weeks ago, the first day of the war. the new law was enforced that restricted to say the word �*war�* and to call it, this war, as a �*special operation�*. and anot

cries out for her sentence significantly belong an emotional hennepin county, minnesota judge regina chu, explaining why she gave potter the sentence that she gave or not because she's a crime white woman. it's up because the judge hates blacks. and by the way, with hate crimes against asian americans on the rise, as we discussed in the previous segment, claiming that judge chew, who is asian american hates blacks is not only responsible but might turn out to be very dangerous. shame on miss stall, joy read and of course that dump known as emma nbc for allowing more racial hatred to be spewed at will. e nough. and that's our show for today. folks. be sure to check out see time with steve. and my give me 5 features as well as episodes of the press on demand exclusively on the portable tv app. download it now from your app store, and don't forget to head over to my new website, which is still a work in progress. steve m talk that. com. stay curious. stay on. great. i'm see balls very go see a next. i righty. i need the breath. martin . dwayne said it's easier to fool people than to convinc

on page 25, assistant captain ed chu, on the research and planning assignment office, in parentheses, line two, are you there, chief, with me? line two of the emswdo, and then line eight? so line two talks about advanced creating continuing general office, and it says prehiring 75% of open ambulances seven days in advance. i quite don't understand what that means. >> so traditionally, we've had people sign up for an overtime shift on the time they're working the following day, but we found out we could incentivize people signing up early, and we could find out where our shortfalls were and we could reward them for signing up early for the weekend. they were trying to incentivize the positions out there as quickly as possible, so they could minimize the impact on everybody. it really helps a lot, and especially, the rough, rough winter we had with omicron, so we could get people signed up to minimize the impact on our other workers. >> commissioner nakajo: i appreciate that, chief, and then, section eight, in terms of the 50% description? >> right. same policy. we're just trying to min