now, when he go to compare city's on a per capital basis san francisco is the red one there. you can see cities with fewer and more taxis including new york which is served by black cars in new york not taxis. we need to place e ourselves here to see how many taxis we need. one place that san francisco stands out is the low levels of vehicle ownership. a lot of homeowners can't food the vehicles. so a few points of interest on a scale diagram we're gop up and to the right have the highest level of non-car ownership. so san francisco is the red dot you see it's below that average line. as the line rises the higher the average number of taxis. if san francisco would move up to the average line the pink bar that would be a 90 percent increase in your number of taxis. but that's overstating your need because that's also cutting into the profitability. in washington, d.c. there's no value and new orleans it's very low. and that is not just this service it's affecting the driver. if we look at the color peers like boston and chicago have strong values equal but they have a lot of ta

through our litter audits that we have done, we have a higher rate of cigarette litter in our cities comparedo other cities in canada. expanded again in 2010 to include needle disposal and i said in the other session, this is what i am escaping from in edmonton right now. yay, san francisco. so we have a snow angel program where we ask citizens to voluntarily shovel the snow off their neighbor's lawns. so these are all the programs offered by the capital city clean up program. we started in 2005 as part of the waste management branch and this past year in 2012 we were moved to the community standards branch which is where we are housed now. so we have a very strong link with our programs between the programs that we offer and the community standards or community bylaw ordinances that we're operating under. the lation that we focus in on is 14614, that is the bylaw that governs litter pick up in the city. community standards 146400 is the graffiti standards bylaw. our bylaw is unique to other cities in that we don't focus on the definition of graffiti, we focus on whether or not graffiti is co

don't see the same level of rigor and when i look at new york, that has millions of people in the city, comparing to san francisco that where we have a million people in the city here in san francisco, so it's important to why when you scale it here to a terminal that is going to transit at the golden gate, at least for time being how to rises to some of the other buildings and structures we talk about. >> okay. let me try to address this as confidently as i can. first of all, as maria mentioned, when we were involved in the project about two years ago, we looked at the urs recommendations for security and they identified a broad range of what are considered rational and identifying threats by law enforcement and intelligence communities. these involve a series of events and many recommendations that have been identified will had been the building survive a seismic event and the emergency responder community of the occupants of the building in an enhanced position for life safety and then there is the use of explosives, potential arsonists events or someone introducing something into air. this is

don't see the same level of rigor and when i look at new york, that has millions of people in the city, comparing to san francisco that where we have a million people in the city here in san francisco, so it's important to why when you scale it here to a terminal that is going to transit at the golden gate, at least

probably higher than any other city. " we have spent on pedestrian safety over the last four years is close to $13 million. >> how to balance the needs of the district compared to the city? supervisor kim: it is interesting representing a district and a collection of neighborhoods. for me, it is interesting because i represent the city of san francisco. i mean you represent those who live in the district. i care very deeply about what is going on in terms of racial tension between asian and african american communities in the bayview or whether we're talking about muni were talking about public safety issues in other neighborhoods -- i think it is important for me to support the issue's going around the neighborhood. i think most san francisco residents do not identify themselves by their district. >> once again, the city is faced with tough budget decisions, including whether to raise taxes and fees or whether to make cuts. how will your approach these choices? supervisor kim: the budget is tough this year. even though our deficit is not as large as it has been, it is tough because we have made these cuts already, and did this point, we are cutting things w

cities. the san mateo county is comparing at 60 million in the city per year, and they will benefit about 675,000 year. >> the small percentage of sales tax increases for most purchases will just be a few pennies, but it does end up making bigger purchases. for example, the new tax rate will add an extra $5 and sales tax. in $25,000 vehicle without an additional 125,000 in tax. >> after a long strike the san francisco will company will begin playing again at noon. the contract may change once the board takes a look, but the agreements of this won't really look at until then. >>> with a series of free concerts for san francisco's elementary school kids. those who had tickets that were canceled because of the strike, continued to exchange them or donate them or get a refund. it wasn't all bad this weekend, but lots of rain this year around the bay area. tomorrow looks like it will be a day for the umbrella's as well but i think we will see improvement as we get into the afternoon. notice, we still have showers falling and the heaviest of that rain is into the east bay. notice that level, that is de

restaurants, and residencal units are on the table for an previous land fill that is now the city's golf course. compare the size to santana row which is 45 acres. next week the city council will consider entering the negotiations with a global developer. >> it's the v.i.p. list no celebrity wants to be on but it is growing. ahead, the hattest target in swatting hoaxes. phony 9-1-1 calls drawing officers to the home of celebrities. >> taking a look outside, we had some light showers today. lisa will let us know if the rain will continue tomorrow, and here's a long at what it head at 5:30. >> coming up on world news, that developing story overseas. six americans killed. troops and civilians. we'll have the latest. bob woodruff on the korean border. have we lost track of the north cornan -- korean missiles on the move. and is hillary clinton going >> ama: shanghai health officials say two more people contracted the new bird flu strain that has killed six people in eastern china. the total number of those sick inned is now 12. health officials believe people are contracting the virus through direct contact

some compared it to what a nuclear bomb would look like with a city councilperson from west texas said a four-block radius completely decimated. others compared it to the oklahoma city bombing and, of course, this fertilizer plant making the kind of ammonia-based fertilizer that was used in the oklahoma city bombing. >> interesting note. the oklahoma city bombing, the 18-year anniversary is friday. >> also the same week as the waco, texas, branch davidian situation. waco is about 20 minutes from west texas. some interesting, strange coincidences. >> coincidences right now. nothing that we can say is connected and hundreds of first responders from all over texas did rush to help, and we have abc's jim ryan among the first to arrive at the scene. jim, describe what you're seeing. >> reporter: well, it's obviously dark and it's dusty and it's not smoky anymore. it was smoky earlier. of course, the wind is blowing in the opposite direction toward the plant and that's good news. it's blowing north, which is away from populated areas. if it shifts around to the south, as forecasters say it m

this is a friday night, possibly like no other in the history of the city, comparing to things you talkedbout. all day long, talking about this street, downtown boston being a ghost town with 600,000 people in the city and thousands more out in the suburbs told to stay inside, be safe, stay inside. when does that happen? that just doesn't happen. tonight, people are out into the street, coming down boilston -- boyleston street, carrying the american flag and banners celebrating the threat is lifted, honking horns, coming by here, cars packed with students, not just the students going to the state house, but students driving around. the restaurants may actually be opening here where they have been closed all day. also, shep, look, it's a celebration and mindful that just two blocks down the road here is still an investigation. there's still a crime scene. it's mindful that there is a growing memorial there to the three victims that were killed in that, and that there was a fourth victim killed in the shootout, and, in fact, speaking of the three victims, the richard family issued a stateme

i don't think that's a valid comparison >> that's my point your comparing my office to the city attorney. >> our mission is to make sure every one of the 25 thousand clients. >> can we move to different questions out of all fairness you were the one who brought the fairness in the da's office. >> let me just say i'm supportive of the recommendation and i think supervisor gonzales has already laid out the salaries. i think the december analysis shows the streamlining of our office and how you've been to meet up to the constitutional requirement inform the office. i think you started to say without those two or potentially investigator positions you myself may have to declare unavailability so i don't see it as a threat but as a realtor to our office i think it's largely a policy decision for this body and i think they need the staffing for the investigator positions. if i'm not mistaken supervisor gonzales says you're okay with the budget investigator recommendations >> and we accept their recommendation fully to make sure we stay within our budget. >> i see you just put on a few question

basis is higher than many because of the comparatively rich benefit that supervisor wiener mentioned earlier. prior to 2009 you weren't required to retire from the city prior to earning it. this number is comparatively large for us per capita. and that's been a rating weakness for the city. it's certainly offset by a lot of phenomenalv, but it is one of the things that structures our rating. ~ strengths. the steps the city has taken has played an important role in that conversation with rating agencies in recent years, but they continue to note in their reports even when they're upgrading our bonds that our large outstanding liability is a remaining concern and they expect the city to continue to take steps to address it. >> okay. thank you, mr. rose. any other questions? okay, much appreciated. at this point we'll open up to public comment. if anybody would like to step up and talk in public comment, please step forward. mr. muscat. >>> mr. chairman, members of the committee, i'm here today representing the labor council's public employee committee as well as local 21. i want to start out briefly by thanking the controller for his report and for his

public comment at city hearings as you know is limited to 3 minutes compared to the unlimited time given to city departments. what was needed was a place dedicated to free speech for a qualified panel of experts to discuss the complete picture of past, present and future threats to golden gate park. >> i was frankly appalled when i learned of the e-mails written by the rec and park department. i had suggested this panel discussion and by doing so, i had exposed respected professional panel members to personal attack. and i am shocked, i am really shocked that members of our city government, try to stifle free speech and to have this panel discussion canceled and denied that they had tried to do that. >> all that we were asking for was 50 minutes, to present our love of golden gate park. we are very grateful that the common wealth club stood by its principles and let the expert panel hold this discussion. >> i recommend that you go to our website ssocean edge as in san francisco, dot org and view the presentation and judge for yourself. >> free speech and transparency are vital to open go

but in boston they say that there is, compared to other cities, not that many. 655 cameras that are operated and of that they're mainly in the subway system. in new york, you have 6,000. in london you have 400,000 cameras operated by the government but crimes solved per thousand cameras in britain is only one per thousand. those don't seem like great numbers. and of course it has down sides. let me bring my principal to discuss all this. we have joe williams from washington, beth fouhy from yahoo news and kevin cirilli from politico. as we look at all this, let me ask you first of all too little surveillance in boston? too much surveillance over all in the country? what is your general thought? >> well, what was remarkable was they chose a site where they had to know there were thousands of people standing there with cameras recording the marathon. how they could elude being captured on film or video everyone has got a smart phone. i'm holding my smart phone in my hand. everyone has got one and everyone is taking pictures when their loved one or friend is crossing the finish line. pictures a

. >> and i know it's risky to compare us to new york city but new york's program i think is more miles per year. i think -- i have heard they are able to do some of the things less expensively if that's it than we can. any in sight there why they're able to do it faster and i think cheaper? >>i think new york has done a really good effort at putting their payment to parks program converting unused street space quickly and easily. they're slightly different. they have been able to find the space on one way streets where they did have a lot of extra capacity. streets that didn't have parking to begin with so they were able to claim that space. dpw is looking into efforts to reduce the cost of bulb outs and other improvements, looking at potential temporary improvements. we have done that through the payment to parks and our park programs so it's something that we're actively looking into. >> yeah, my understanding is also in new york it's much more -- as i asked, there is more of a person in charge. i can't remember her name. >> jeanette. >> yeah. and it just happens and there is coordin

city. there are 12 charters counties in california and compared to the state level to how to government runs. charter companies, you have no mayor, in the cities you have mayor's and counsel but not a board of supervisors. we are check to see where it's going on and we don't have an exact city. for board of supervisors and sacramento counties fill vacancy depending on how far the vacancy and how far it is from the election itself. the information is there. when we do a full report we'll break it out. we also want to look at how one of the things we did is for mayor's office that immediately steps in san francisco, that's now how they permanently set to replace the mayor's position. we won't be looking at that aspect of it. we are looking at how to mayor's seat gets filled. the one thing that we had initially intended on doing and with the permission of the commission we are looking at the 10 top cities nationally like new york and one of the things we realize that three of california's nationally top cities. if we wanted to we can go there but since they are outside of california they are di

sure everyone's united, everyone is there for one another, i think that boston being, i'm comparatively a small cityme together. >> meghan, enjoy it here. appreciate you talking to us. if you want to help any of the victims of the attack go to cnn.com/impa. there are so many ways where you can help the amputees or any of the other victims in this attack, go to cnn.com/impact, we'll be right back. >>> 67,000 tires, 951 refrigerators, 233 stoves, it's crazy what you find in the rivers. i grew up on the mississippi river. around the age of 17 i really started to focus on the problem. 18 million people get their daily drinking water from the river. i'm thinkinghis should not be like this. this stuff collects here and goes on for blocks like this. it's a bad deal. i said you know what? no one's going to do anything about it i will. i'm chad pregracke, with the help of 70,000 volunteers we've removed over 7 million pounds of garbage over america's rivers. are you guys ready? yeah! mississippi river.is the amazing two hours see how much stuff we get. >> we work on 22 rivers in 18 states. we do everything i

temperatures were cooler 50s through daly city compare that to the '70s and concord, pleasanton. '70spa. 65 in oakland. taking this live look outside some slivers of low cloud coverage. still shrouded in that low cloud coverage even getting worse by visibility impacting the bridge towers. let us take a look at current visibility. we're in it is reduced. the fog is expected to return tonight some high clouds with a system well offshore. it will impact us on thursday. cloud coverage and rainfall. timing it out on futurecast. >> this just in to the kron 4 news room this car crashes into a home in palo alto. this is a video. this is aerial video shot by our partners at abc seven news. this happened just a short time ago an elderly man the car read off of this avenue and a man was hit in front yard. the driver is being questioned. you can see that the vehicle and a person was taken to hospital. no word on the individual's condition we will keep you posted. a car hits a person than a house in palo alto fairfield police arrested a are planning to do to make sure the new span is safe. new det

in 2012 there were 10 homicides, compared to 2 homicides in 2011. if the city we are working hard to ensure that appropriate services and resources are provided to this neighborhood. we are making great efforts provide better alternatives for youth and young adults we do this by offering case management services and targeted job opportunities. dept. of children and youth and families provides funding forbes alterable agencies in the 9411 zip code. 13 percent reside in the -- the dept. of children youth and families recently issued a request for proposals and services for 2013 through 2016. as part of this process, dcyf is committed to funding agencies that serve youth and young adults, and encouraging groups like united players to provide management services to high risk and high at risk youth. the department of public works will increase its outreach to recruit youth to apply for the summer youth program. and as you know -- is committed to working in partnership with the mayors office in your office and violence prevention agencies to ensure that opportunities

the working class industrial areas which she didn't really a bunch of sympathy for compared to her friends in the citythe financial sector the south of england her own middle class values tributes will be coming in condolences will be coming into the british people how will her legacy as a leader influence decision makers of the scene setter. very very important the present government the present prime minister most of his ministers would all proudly say they are the children or maybe the grandchildren of mrs such and they came to age politically when she was prime minister they entered politics because they were impressed her style of leadership and even though she stood down twenty three years ago some of her passions her pro americanism the fact she became increasingly hostile to europe calling at the end virtually for britain to leave europe that really is the position the problem is david cameron is it it's a paradox it today should have waited frog starting a week of visits to european capitals to try and win friends for his idea of a very different europe but that chariot was just such a type o

to see how your school compares go to www.ktvu.com. we posted a link. >>> city planners will reconsider a list of 41 potential locations for new affordable housing. they must come up with a plan according to a state mandate. the next meeting is 5:00 p.m. on wednesday at the counsel chambers. >>> all the winds today may have bane factor in a nest full of baby owls falling. the baby birds were in a nest high in the top branches of a tree and they plan to reunite the babies with their parents by rigging a stronger net. >>> we are all feeling theenths from the winds and the winds -- the effects from the winds and the winds are unusual. >> yeah. blows -- sometimes it is windy but last night was one of those nights, wow! it is really going. 50, 60 miles per hour. winds right now in the fire zone of ventura, 45 miles per hour. this is an area near ventura, you know how hilly it can be. a wind warning in effect for this area. the winds are not going to let -- not going to let up tonight. it is tough to fight the fires when the winds are blowing this hard. you are not go

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city is down to 13 degrees. but denver, a little bit of a milder temperature compared to yesterday we had minus 2 degrees. the positive really. los angeles, 27. mexico city, already in the 30s. in asia, we're looking at heavy rain across the peninsula and southern and china peninsula. it has been an ongoing story for a week and flooding risk is very high. flooding is going to be very high due to the amount of rain pouring in southeastern areas. that will continue to the weekend. towards the north of that, things are pretty dry. looking at temperatures, tokyo, 22. seoul at 16 for today. that will be dropping in towards the weekend. we want that warmth in the weekend but i guess it won't work that way. here's your extended forecast. >>> that is all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us.

a private survey finds property values in 20 cities jumped 9.3%, compared to the same time last year. phoenix led the pack, where home prices jumped 23%. new york posted the smallest gain with a 1.9% rise in prices. americans are feeling more confident about the economy, thanks to a recovering job market. the monthly survey shows people are confident companies will hire more workers and that salaries will increase over the next six months. but weak earnings held back stocks. pfizer pulled dow lower, after the world's second largest drug maker reported disappointing earnings. but avon's quarterly loss was not as deep as expected. the cosmetics seller has been cutting jobs and scaling back its operations in an effort to turn around its business. >>> and good news for ibm shareholders. for the 18th year in a row, the tech company is raise its dev dends. ibm is also buying back up to $5 billion of its own stock. that's your money watch. for more, go to cbsmoneywatch.com. in new york, i'm alexis christoforous. >>> well, if you have ever picked up children from a lacrosse practice, or any p

city. and so this gentleman at least is comparing the plant explosion there in west texas to the explosion in oklahoma city. our affiliate kxas has reported that there are hundreds of injured. at least 200 injured. at least 40 in critical condition. we are hearing that area hospitals are receiving patients, that several are being treated for burns. they're treating burn victims, which again would be consistent with the nature of this accident. a massive fertilizer plant explosion. now, that explosion took place reportedly just before 8:00 p.m. this evening local time. there was a fire burning at the time that the explosion took place, and so firefighters were on the scene battling that blaze at the time of the explosion. there are of course a lot of concerns about the fate of those firefighters at this time given that they were on scene at the time that that massive explosion took place. just to give you a sense of how big this explosion was, it was felt as far as 70 miles away. nbc's own charles hadlock was about 58 miles away, and he says that he felt something at the time that this explo

certainly, they feel as though the enormous amounts of money they are making city group compared the wealth in america to it 16th century spain. this is the bank, itself. and yes, i was surprised myself. and i am talking about the jewish community center on monday night, uc-berkeley on tuesday. i've spoken to labor groups, and some extremely wealthy people in florida, north in virginia. almost everywhere were all i find is that it is deeply trouble is that there's something really wrong in this country. yes, there is an exception and acceptance of inequality of income but now, it is 400 times the top one person is getting thicker% of the capital gains from the capital market. that is they're getting to percent-of the capital gains from the stock market --. and people in washington they do not seem to care. with the top 1% are getting 50 percent of the capital gains. >> a good example would be the gun control that 90 percent of americans wanted some type of background check but the senate turned a deaf ear. >> we see that again and again and on economic issues and what is interesting

more broadly how do you think san francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data? >> i should be clear. when san francisco is third, we have a pact. i'll add to that actually. what's great in san francisco is there is not just going to be a chief data officer. there is also the office of civic innovation. jay's team, shannon's team. by having both of those units in place i think there is going to be a really powerful team. because you can't just open up the data. you have to do things like this, where you get the community together or you have people actually talking about it because the demand side, as we were talking about it, will be there because there is going to be someone there. there have to be people working with it who are getting out there. i think this is what this city is going to be really powerful. in terms of other cities doing as well, chicago is doing some really interesting stuff. scary cool stuff. they're taking 3 in 1 data, pothole request and crime report and matching it up with social media. they're getting

year the american freedom defense initiative sponsored an ad campaign that compared muslims to savages those in new york city's subway stations jewish organizations in the majority of new yorkers criticize that campaign as. a tone of speech that does nothing to assist in cementing a permanent peace plan in the middle east. reporting from new york. artsy fartsy time here on the program the latest round of international talks on a bronze nuclear program just wrapped up in kazakhstan no breakthrough there have been reached however western delegates praised the quality of that for the negotiations saying there was a genuine exchange of opinions for the first time the u.s. china russia the u.k. france and germany have all proposed easing economic sanctions in return for iran stopping uranium enrichment at twenty percent tehran says it's responded with its own set of proposals but those of not being with the. thousands of teachers protesting against education and labor reforms have clashed with police in mexico around eight thousand demonstrators marched through the streets of the capitol police barriers outside gov