. >> president chow: i will get another comment from commissioner chung. >> commissioner chung: it's more a comment than a question. i really appreciate the addition of values and leadership in that section because it really, you know shows a reflection of an organization, and it also shows maturity of an organization to be able to do. that. >> thank you. >> commissioner chung: and also the values make me smile. >> thank you. >> i would like to point out before we get to the vote, that we did try to clarify within the preamble and authority -- because i've gone through several of the joint commission surveys which always required more of a verbal discussion of how the city operates. so this formalizes -- directly it comes from both the charter and the charges to our director and our health commission itself. so this is helpful. for those that need to understand the authorities. >> director garcia. >> i want to acknowledge the attorneys back and forth so i really want to thank imfor this and also the staff who have been diligently working on this. >> president chow: yes. thank you. fu

he'll now face chung hyeon of south korea.ber 30 seed from uruguay, in straight sets. chung won 6—1, 6—3 to reach the last eight of a masters series event for the first time. in the women's singles, world number one and top seed halep is in the semi—final after beating martic in three sets but was made to work hard for her victory by the world number 51 from croatia. halep won 6—4, 6—7, 6-3 51 from croatia. halep won 6—4, 6—7, 6—3 and will play either ozark or pliskova for a place in the final. —— 0saka or. formula 1 champion lewis hamilton says he doesn't know how much longer he'll continue to race. the briton says talks with mercedes are relaxed as they look to extend his contract beyond the end of this season. but how for long can the four time world champion stay motivated in f1? everytime you get to the end of the season everytime you get to the end of the season you're kind of like, geez, i don't want to race any more, you're done with your year, you can't wait for your holiday break. i don't know... i don't want to stop

chung until friday.eard that the envoy was in the west wing seeing other officials, the president summoned him to the oval office, according to senior administration officials. after chung briefed the president on kim's desire for a meeting, the president immediately said he would do it, accept that meeting, and directed mr. chung to announce it to the white house press corps. meanwhile, perhaps the last known american nonprisoner to meet with kim jong un, dennis rodman, as you can imagine, he's praising the meeting's announcement. joining us live from seoul, kelly, good to have you back with us. let's talk about what the reaction has been like overseas to these extremely fast moving breakthroughs, fast enough that even the secretary of state perhaps did not even know about them. >> yeah. pretty incredible, ayman. i guess you could say we use that old familiar phrase cautious optimism in the region, russia, china, japan, south korea all saying that they welcome the news. south korea's president, moon jae

chung irlen has one hundred and sixty goats so in this impoverished part of china that makes her wealthy but a few months ago she was told to leave her farm by local government officials along with the rest of the village they left she stayed. taking people out of the countryside sometimes against their will is one of the ways the government's trying to end rural poverty but this is the only livelihood chung has ever known. there were no i don't know why the government wants us to move today most people already left but i have the scouts i can't leave where will that put them the demolition of the village has begun the rubble will soon be cleared away but other reminders of the primitive way people lived will be harder to raise some created a home by burrowing into the clay hillsides china is now a world superpower but until a few months ago people here were living in caves with little protection from the heat or cold. the only source of water was half a kilometer away in winter little grows in the dry fields the hut where june chung hsien lived has gone it was wedged into this hillside

it wasn't until a close friend of mine that i actually met through the pageant -- her name's sharon chung. she's so passionate about politics that that's what encouraged me to do it. and so sometimes social media is great to see all of that, but you really need someone -- a friend, a family member -- i think to encourage it to really happen. >> yeah, good point. and, lan, i want to get your thoughts. but first we have some video of your swearing-in ceremony as a san jose city council member. let's roll the clip. >> i, lan diep... >> do solemnly swear... >> ...do solemnly swear... >> ...that i will support and defend... >> ...that i will support and defend... >> ...the constitution of the united states... >> ...the constitution of the united states... >> ...and the constitution of the state of california... >> ...and the constitution of the state of california... >> ...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... >> ...against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> lan, you've spoke about wanting to make government more fun. we saw in that video you wearing your captain america shield. i ha

chung beat sousa in their fourth—round match, taking them through to the last eight of the masters seriesight del pots were talked up his 14th successive win, beating the serbian in straight sets to make the quarter—finals. the argentine won the indian wells tournament earlier this month. he will play milos raonic who beat chardy affronts. milos raonic has fallen to number 25 but has found a resurgence in form. in the women's singles, sloane stephens is through to the semifinals after a straight sets win over angelique kerber. stephens, the reigning us open champion, breezed into the last four with a 6—1, 6—2 victory. the victory guarantees she will move into the world's top ten. finally, i've been waiting for a long time. it wasn't easy and i'm super pumped. just to see where i am. i'm very excited about that. sloane stephens will play the winner of victoria as a rancour and pliskova. she is 2—1 up in the second set. also, the eastern conference leading toronto raptors are currently down at home against the devon —— denver nuggets in the third quarter. goodbye to now. hello. temperatures

now the winter paralympics are underway in pune chung south korea before the sporting action began athletes and fans were treated to the inspiration of opening ceremony on friday night it's the biggest winter paralympics ever with more than five hundred and sixty athletes from almost every few countries competing in medal events north korea is taking part for the first time but it's africa didn't work out with the south korean counterparts that's because the two teams just couldn't agree what you did foreign flag to use. and there's been some spectacular sailing in the import race in all clear new zealand conditions light in. the shifting patchy winds making for plenty of lead changes during the one a race the fan race team put on a demonstration of focus and resilience to emerge as the final winners the crew could not. close the gap on the volvo ocean race leaders met free to just three points. now don't forget you can always get g.w. news on the go just download from google play or from the apple store and that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as to

chung shing has a clear directive to turn away from the sea and look west. that's also symbolized by kilometers erode which marks the starting point of the new silk road. in order to supply this new route to the west with goods the city has built logistics facilities to replace the container ports on the coast. at this central freight terminal we send around a thousand contained as every day two of the chinese provinces and two other countries. and we're responsible for the safety of these operations and there are many here. every week three or four trying sleep or do spool up in germany. carrying around forty one can say. the for us sounds on. the electronic goods loaded on to the trains here arrived in germany after just twelve days instead of traveling eight weeks by sea. however transporting goods by rail costs twice as much two hundred and fifty trains like this one are necessary to carry the same volume as a single container ship. at the moment this train to germany has more of a symbolic significance but it's a symbol that's important to a china that'

before firing six rounds at his chest the killing led to widespread protests china's defunct spacelab chunggong one will fall back into earth this weekend it's been in orbit since twenty eleven the ten metre long space station will make an uncontrolled reentry and no one knows for sure where it will land china's space agency says most of it will burn up and probably won't cause any damage. repairing the east of pope francis has led the way of the cross procession at the coliseum in rome the torch lit ceremony next the crucifixion of christ a syrian family and an iraqi nun carried the cross during good friday press. at the coliseum in rome tens of thousands of faithful gathered for a traditional good friday service led by pope francis torches let the fourteen stations that catholics believe jesus made on his way to crucifixion assyrian family carried the cross at one of the stations jews who really don't need to do is unlimited. addressing the crowd the pope expressed shame seen for a world fractured by war and division you know. he won't let. the good friday service began in silence at st p

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. >> further comments to commissioner chung? if not we will proceed to the next item. there is no public comment for item five. 6 is the consent calendar with the contracts report that commissioner chung just noted. >> the consent calendar is before you. are there any extractions from the consent calendar? we will vote on the consent calendar as a whole. the concept calendar has been adopted. we can move on to item 7 the 2016 public health and safety bond update. >> mark primo. joining me is terry from zuckerberg. here is the presentation. the last time we were before you was in september. we tried to get in during the holidays, then the calendar was jammed. here we are in march. i am going to go over the financial part of it, then turn that over to terry to talk about the accomplishments in september followed by joe talking about the more details of each of the projects. this is just the recap of the first sale tha that we had in january of 2017. remember this bond was one of three other agencies together with the support of housing and the fire department. this shows

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peter chung, thank you so much. as we mentioned, u.s. a leg lower here as we approach the final 30 minutes of trading. you see movement in treasuries and therefore, that is pushing yields lower. a look at the most actively top -- youks, the don't have any financials until number six and you don't have any other kind of countries until november -- until the 13th, which is going. let's get you to julie hyman. >> as we watch the selloff theing steam, we have trading barton picking up today. it is already above average today. volatility picking up as well. i know we have a fixed curve -- showing on the bloomberg. has us how the fixed curve been changing. >> things are starting to sort themselves out. by last week, all was hunky-dory. we have a nice, sloping curve which is the green line and it seems like everything is fine. at the top is the life curve in you can see how we have gone to backwardation. when you get a surprise like we have gotten between facebook and trade war talk, people go running. >> scarlet and julie were talking about th

complaint to the world trade organization with agreement between major countries the trade minister kim chung already discussed this with the european union trade commissioner. eleven countries have signed a revised trans-pacific partnership trade deal in chile there hailing it as a move against protectionism after the us pulled out of the room and last year it will reduce tariffs for eleven countries and connected colonies around the pacific worth ten trillion dollars. seven people have died in a suicide bombing in afghanistan's capital kabul seven others were wounded in the blast of a police checkpoint near a gathering of the shia minority there is no immediate claim of responsibility almost one million people are without power after heavy snow in the northeast of the u.s. it's the second storm to hit the east coast in less than a week more than eight hundred thousand people are enduring widespread electricity cuts some of them without power for almost a week now both the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one o one east. head of the september twenty fourth national elect

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chung eui-yong/ south korean national security adviser: north korean leader kim jong un said he's committed to denuclearization. he pledged that north korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests."in a stunning turn of events, north korea's dictator has offered to suspend nuclear missile tests and invited president donald trump to meet.south korea's national security advisor delivered the message from kim jong un to trump thursday. chung eui-yong/ south korean national security adviser: "i explained to president trump that his leadership and his maximum pressure policy, together with international solidarity brought us to this juncture."catching many off guard... trump delivered the news by popping his head into the white house briefing room earlier to tease that a major announcement was coming from south korea.chung eui-yong/ south korean national security adviser: "he expressed his eagerness to meet president trump as soon as possible. president trump appreciated the briefing and said he would meet kim jong un by may to achieve permanent denuclearization."while the meeting

of nine candidates running for the 2019 gubernatorial race and include antonio viarigosa and shawn chung. >>> today, san francisco officials plan to announce a major step for homeless residents experiencing mental health units by opening dozens of psychiatric beds. >> this is one of the biggest issues facing san francisco. it is very evident on our streets and reflected often times in the homeless population and happening behind closed doors. today represents a huge step in the right direction. what the city is doing to work and to solve those issues. >> this will more than double the current number of beds in san francisco for mental patients who have been ordered by a judge into conservative ship meaning they must involuntarily accept round-the-clock treatment because they are too ill to live on their own opinion. >>> santa clara officials take a look at banning gun shows on fair grounds. the fair grounds hosts two gun shows a year and the supervisor says that shows conflict with the county's mission of promoting health and well-being of its residents. the board is expected to consider

this is south korea's national security head chung eui-yong speaking to reporters thursday night outside the white house after briefing officials on the recent talks between seoul and pyongyang. >> preresident trump appreciated -- said he would meet kim achieveby may to denuclearization. amy: thehe south korean n officl went o on to sayay the meeeetind take placece within two months. no sitting u.s. president hass ever m met with a north korean leader. kim jojo-un has nenever met another head of state. thursday night's announcement was a complete surprise. it came at a t time when trump s been besetet with escalating questions about his alleged affair with adult film star stormy danieiels, inclcluding questions about whether a $130,000 pay-off to her, sent by trump's persrsonal lawyer only days before the 2016 election , could have violated federal election law. thursday's announuncement of direct talks e even appepeared e a complete surprprise within the trump white house.e. only hours earlier, secretary of state rex tillerson said talks were a long way away. >> in terms of direct talks

we caching will continue to work at his chung kong group as a senior adviser and will remain at the helm of the li ka shing foundation. yell. well we trouble. in the future. i will act as the senior consultant of the group. a goal at the same time. ill a put all my efforts into the foundation's work. especially focusing on healthcare and education. michael you. mister lee began his career by making plastic flowers in the nineteen fifties and was rich enough to retire at age thirty. he then started diversifying his assets at first buying into the hong kong property market and later investing in energy and telecom capital in europe and north america. at the time chinese state media call the move unpatriotic. but is support for the chinese establishment never wavered throughout his career. during friday's press conference li ka shing handed a recent abolition of cha's to term presidential limit saying he supported the move. in recent years mister lee aggressively by six in technology companies like facebook inside. during his career li ka shing's nickname superman thanks to his mastery in d

for that we turn to moon chung- in. he is senior foreign policy and unification advisor to south korea's president. . moon, welcome to the newshour. the trump administration describes its policy toward rth korea as "maximum pressure." you said yestelday that it she instead "maximum prudence." why? what did yi mean? >> whaid is our president is taking maximum prudence in dealg with north korea and i dealing with the united states. we are hoping that ourdent would turn maximum pressure into some kind of dialogue and negotiation through prudent policy. >> woodruff: what do you thinkth the chances ar the u.s. and north korea will talk some time in the near future? >> right now, it is hard, but if north korea continues to show the behavior, test launching ballistic missile, maybe there's a good chance. north korea has got to show self-restraint behavior. >> woodruff: if there were to be u.s.-north korea talks, some denuclearization be the main focus of those talks? >> sure. because denuclearization ofh norea must be the goal

that deadline particularly in shannon she province as our china correspondent interim brown explains chung has one hundred and sixty goats so in this impoverished part of china that makes her wealthy but a few months ago she was told to leave her farm by local government officials along with the rest of the village they left she stayed taking people out of the countryside sometimes against their will is one of the ways the government's trying to end rural poverty but this is the only livelihood chung has ever known so you don't know i don't know why the government wants us to move to the town most people already left but i have the scouts i can't leave where will that put them. the demolition of the village has begun the rubble will soon be cleared away but other reminders of the primitive way people lived will be harder to raise some created a home by burrowing into the clay hillsides china is now a world superpower but until a few months ago people here were living in caves with little protection from the heat or cold the only source of water was half a kilometer away in winter little gr

chung to go out and tell the white house press corps.nd that set off this very panicked kind of huddle among the president's aides about how you actually do that. i mean, this gentleman is an official of a foreign government to have him walk into the white house briefing room and announce something from the podium would be highly unusual so they sort of had this as the fallback position will send them out to the microphones in the white house driveway. and that's what ended up happening. so you have this rather extraordinary spectacle of the national security adviser of a foreign country announcing a major item of american foreign policy in front of the white house. >> and the president at one point saying to him, let's just do it and he's saying that his president had not agreed to it so they're dialing up the south korean president to get his sign-off. in the midst of this, tillerson had to be notified and they had to say something to prime minister abe of japan. >> that's right. and you know, president trump got to prime minister abe

chung said it was the president's maximum pressure policies on north korea that brought them to this point. the talks earlier in the week between south korean officials and kim jong un and the planned meeting now between kim jong un and which will happen after president trump speaks directly with him. now the promise of direct talks between the united states and north korea. the president is under no allusion though that this is going to be a real break through and this is going to lead some real concrete action. because he has cautioned for years now during the election campaign and as president that north korea are serial cheaters. and they lead to you believe that they are going down one road and then they are going down another road. it goes all the way back to 1994 when they signed that first framework agreement between the united states and north korea to get rid of its nuclear program and then north korea did nothing but cheat. but, we are at an extraordinary moment in history right now, sandra. the american president has agreed to meet with the north korean president, time an

chung to tell him about his meeting with mr. kim. when mr. chung said that the north korean leader had expressed a desire to meet mr. trump, the president immediately said he would do it. that's despite his own secretary of state's comments just hours earlier. >> we're a long ways from negotiations. i think we just need to be very clear-eyed and realistic about it. >> i wanted to see that again. to add to the confusion, sarah huckabee sanders is now saying the meeting may not happen after all. >> the united states has made zero concessions, but north korea has made some promises and, again, this meeting won't take place without concrete actions that match the promises that have been made by north korea. >>> the united states is actually having conversations from a position of strength, not a position of weakness like the one that north korea finds itself in due to the maximum pressure campaign. >> can we get that tillerson sound again? i need to see that again before the show ends. joining us now to elevate us, msnbc senior national security

will be former los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa and state treasurer john chung. the primary is june fifth. ( darya ) still ahead on the kron 4 morning news... some immigration attornies say the government is not following the law in the recent ice raids. you'll hear from them coming up. ( darya ) plus...local high school students rally against gun violence. hear what they are demanding from lawmakers. ( darya ) and after the break... the family of a man killed by concord police receive a cash settlement but the victim's family is demanding more changes. that story is next. ( dave ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. ( rebecca ) ( rebecca ) (ácommercialá)(áábreakáá) . ( james ) welcome back to the kron 4 morning news... taking a live look from tahoe this morning...this is a live shot from the tahoe city marina. ( james )( darya ) welcome back to the kron 4 morning news. let's get a check of the forecast. (dave)dry weather, along with a warming trend, is forecast for today and tuesday. rain chances return by late wednesday and continue through the end of the

the government demanded a retraction and apology chung refused and prosecutors have since commenced contempt proceedings against him. he's agreed to meet us today on condition we not talk about the case instead we discuss his grandfather's legacy there are two histories we could be telling ourselves twenty years from now there is a history where we say that my grandfather made a great contribution to singapore's development to help make it become a modern society with sort of a professional unimpeachable government and his legacy would be that you know unlike many models of sort of independence leaders who were big personalities right that he would have managed to create sort of good institutions that would outlast them and there is a model you know twenty years from now where we look back and singapore and say this is just one more country where it had a good leader and there are lots of early in the pendants leaders who did great things but a country and it still circling the orbit of what used to be i worry that in the years to come the government won't have the courage to step away from

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commissioner chung? >> not at this point. i think this is great that we finally see behavioral health as being reported the same after having them merge for so many years. i think this will help streamline the reporting definitely. >> right. certainly we also comment that the public health division aside does help in understanding what the support is for the ph.d. >> that is one we wanted to clean up for a long time. >> thank you for that. any further comments? if not. i know the finance committee discussed with mr. wagner some areas four clarification, but he is satisfied with the report, also. thank you very much. no public comment? >> we can move to item 11. the other business. commissioners a note on the calendar next meeting are your elections. any other comments or questions about the calendar? >> comment on the calendar? we have any suggestions or comments on the calendar? if not we can proceed to the next item. >> item 12 is report back from the february 27th meeting. i believe commissioner chow. >> within open sessio

chung to tell him about his meeting with mr. kim. when mr.hung says that the north korean leader had expressed his desire to meet debtmr. trump, the present president immediately said he would do it and directed mr. chung to announce -- to announce it in the white house press corps. mr. chung said he first needed approval from mr. moon, who granted it in a phone call. then, dazed white house officials were discussing whether mr. trump would invite mr. kim to come to the united dates. that seemed entirely likely, according to senior officials, americanrth korean -- officials doubt the north korean leader would accept that. south korean officials have first been made this by telephone this week, but mr. kim's offer of a leader to meeting accelerated, if not upended the administration's plans. sean in hawaii, independent. we are talking about this week in washington. what are your thoughts? caller: good morning. that this meeting is a show, two years things are stable, china gets both marks -- good marks on both of their countries. [inaudible] w

chung to tell him about his meeting with mr. kim. when mr. chung said that the north korean leader had expressed a desire to meet mr. trump, the president immediately said he would do it. that's despite his own secretary of state's comments just hours earlier. >> we're a long ways from negotiations. i think we just need to be very clear-eyed and realistic about it. >> i wanted to see that again. to add to the confusion, sarah huckabee sanders is now saying the meeting may not happen after all. >> the united states has made zero concessions, but north korea has made some promises and, again, this meeting won't take place without concrete actions that match the promises that have been made by north korea. >>> the united states is actually having conversations from a position of strength, not a position of weakness like the one that north korea finds itself in due to the maximum pressure campaign. >> can we get that tillerson sound again? i need to see that again before the show ends. joining us now to elevate us, msnbc senior national security

of this data scandal he said it was the race for the white house that made him go public she don't chung kind of makes it click in your head that this actually has a much wider impact i don't think the. military mission operations is conducive for any democratic process whether it's a us presidential or a local council race political campaigns have changed christopher wiley worked as a data engineer for london based cambridge on a letter the farm boasts of its ability to run elections on the cheap mark in twenty fourteen they paid for millions of facebook profiles and are accused of using them to build psychological programs to micro target voters right moment more important than ever this is where cambridge analytical in our revolution and help them swing votes in elections around the world including donald trump they deny using the data break voters. the company's co-founder disputes that claim really it is how do we. categorically untrue that came in general has never used facebook data. it is one silicon valley billionaire who could surely shine a light on this and many other questio

chung mentioned, the actual administration of this entity is extraordinary with john and his extremelyable senior staff. our goals are to continue to administer this billion dollar to generate as much care as we can for the citizens of san francisco, to maximize the reimbursement to the extent we can to the various providers, whether it be hospitals, pharmacies, clinics or physicians. i look forward to working with my fellow board members to do that. thank you for your time and consideration. i appreciate it. >> supervisor safai: any questions? you've currently been on the body? >> i have for nine years. and chairman of the board for two years. >> supervisor safai: what has your attendance record? >> as chairman of the board, it's pretty good, almost perfect. >> almost? >> i missed one. >> supervisor safai: ok. any other questions? no. i have one, since you're the chairman of the board, what do you think is the most vital purpose of the body that you sit on? >> so effectively streamline the distribution of state and federal medicaid, medi-cal funds to the various providers, whether it'

fun young last month by kim jong il and sister kim yell john goring the opening ceremony of the come chung winter olympics movement took a step back and says that some conditions would have to be met first and those are the conditions we can presume are being worked out right now in north korea and the south wants the north to talk directly to the u.s. about easing tensions one of the prospects of that happening. right well you know both north korea and u.s. are sitting very far apart from each other right now the trumpet ministration has said that it will not engage in negotiations with pyongyang unless the regime is committed to denuclearization meanwhile north korea has said while it's willing to hold dialogue with the u.s. it's not going to get rid of its nukes so unless some sort of compromise is reached i don't see how negotiations could go ahead right now jason briefly the north korean u.s. north korean monitoring group called thirty eight north says it's detected signs of renewed activity at north korea's main nuclear reactor what can you tell us about that what does that mean well