this is a transit first city, after all. ~ railway this should be the top priority. unfortunately when cuts are made, it's always transit first. >> thank you. so, i agree, i think we do need more muni service and there's really three ways, at least which we're proposing to achieve that. one is by continuing to invest in the maintenance of the system so that at any given time we have more buses and trains out in the street as opposed to in the shop. that alone creates more muni service. second, the tep as i mentioned is recommending a 10% service increase, that's with the existing fleet. it's running more frequency, in some cases enabled by physical changes in the streets, that allow the bus he to make their trip and the trains to make their trip more quickly so they can circle back and they can provide more service with the same fleet. and then also as i mention and perhaps i wasn't clear, with the ballot measures proposed for november, that would also allow us to increase the fleet, not just the number of buses, in some cases he aside, moving from 40 to 60 buses he

this is a transit first city. we all support transit first but we don't want to take our cars. we want community service to continue on this route, the 35 and the other routes. this bus serves homeowners, elderly, housekeepers, families and school kids and commuters. your people have been good about talking to us, but they never asked to meet with the community organizations and if they had we would have met them just as they did with regard to the 35. but please do not take away this 36 bus. it's critical to this neighborhood. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> christine and maria. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, thank you so much for listening to the forest knolls. and i'm president -- i would like to take a moment to say some of the recommendations that you are using for the cut backs are based on the ridership for the line. i question the accuracy of these ridership monitors when i'm on the bus literately every night, i use it every -- i'm a rider of the 36 every night between 8:30 and 10:00 due to my strange work schedule and i'm on the bus between

flanagan who was another kind solely soul who was dedicated to the city and transportation in particular. i was really impressed when i first met i am he would get on muni and ride the muni lines throughout the city to get a first-hand knowledge of the experience of other riders especially seniors and folks with disabilities. and, you know, mr. flanagan your service was greatly appreciated we'll certainly miss you and lastly thank you supervisor yee. the memoriam for dennis i met him he was the director of the transportation for the unified school district. he made that system run with very little money and made sure that every kid had the opportunity to get to school. it is my duty it's hard to imagine dennis garden not being around but the children from san francisco benefited from his decades of public service. i appreciated his knowledge but more than imagine i appreciated his kind spirit and sense of humor. rest in peace dennis >> thank you supervisor campos all those items and mr. president, that concludes our

but there is going to be a referendum on crimea's future this city has already voted. this is the first place where activists lowered the ukrainian flag and raised the russian flag on city hall. this is the first city where russian troops arrived, taking over the ferry terminal, and russia is only three miles away. the family has lived in this spot for decades, and they have always looked east. >> i served in the soviet army, he said. i feel it's unpleasant when i'm forced to speak ukrainian. today he relies on a well. he accuses ukrainian government of letting crimeaens live in the stone age. >> i don't believe in any ukrainian government, not the old one. not a future one. not the current one. thanks to these men he now lives under a new crimeaen government. they leave the headquarters. he is a political organizer and militia leader. he said he has 4,000 fighters. >> we can mobilize a big arm within an hour. he wants to join russia because he feels that they're culturally different and spreads hate towards europe. that hatred targets this city's few pro-western activists. a journalist

but seek new ways to engage the residents through this motion we can do that and we will be the first city in the united states to enhance the information that will work better for them. i want to thank everyone all the people i mentioned as well as jess who put a great effort from my office the rest i'll submit >> thank you supervisor farrell. it's the good work the staff that deserves this praise >> supervisor kim. >> i want to submit a hearing request. on elevators in our single room occupancy hotels for you who are not familiar their multiple housing building that house multiple folks in one room and share restroom facilities. as of 2009 that are over 5 hundred residential hotels and 1923 units with 8 thousand or more seniors living in those s r o they're in the tenderloin and sprirnld throughout chinatown and the mission. most of the unit were built in the 20th century earthquake and in need of great renovation. a little of a month ago i joined the seniors and disability folks on the steps of city hall to talk about the serious situation faced by seniors and the people in our s r o ho

if there is going to be a referendum on crimea's future this city has already voted. this was the first place where pro russian activists lowered the ukrainian flag and raised the russian flag on city hall. this is the first city where russian troops arrived i taking over the ferry terminal. from the hill on the terminal russia is only three miles away. for igor, his family has lifted in this spot for decades. first he was soviets, they are ethnic russians, and they've always looked east. >> i served in the soviet army. i speak russian. it's unpleasant to speak ukrainian. >> reporter: in the 80's his life was better. at the very least he had running water. now he relies on a well. he accuses ukraine for allowing crimeaen to live in the stone age. >> i do not believe in the ukrainian government, not the old one, not the future one, not the new one. >> reporter: constantine is a political organizer and militia leader. he said he has 4,000 fighters. >> we can mobilize a big army within an hour. >> reporter: he wants to join russia because he feels that crimea is culturally different than u

first source ordinances. these changes would expand opportunities for those seeking a career pathway into the middle class. the changes proposed for the city's first source ordinance will give an even greater impact because for the first time it declares our city believes construction workers in the private sector deserve a family-supporting wage. it also calls upon developers to have apprentices from the state approved programs on their construction sites. i could tell you with certainty that there are active construction sites in our community being built by workers being paid next to nothing with no health care coverage and few, if any, additional benefits. on these projects, hundreds of opportunities for our youth, veterans, and ex-offenders to be in a state-approved apprenticeship program are lost since they simply won't use apprentices on these projects. these improvements to the local hire and first source ordinances are not only good for construction workers, it's good for everyone in san francisco because it means tens of millions in wages currently leaving our community will be spent here, generating sales taxes to support the soci

in terms of bringing or distributing or selling bottled water on city property without, i guess, appropriate permission? >> so, let me first make it clear what this legislation does. if there are city properties where there is access to water, by october of this year we're saying that if you are a vendor or you're using that property, you can't sell single use plastic water bottle on those properties. if it turns out a facility doesn't have easy access to water, those events or those places you get actually three more years before you need to come into compliance with this. on top of that, depending on specific venue, for example food truck or if you're a nonprofit organization holding a massive event of over a quarter million people, or in the moscone center, there are certain venueses where we know implementing this would be challenging. we add a little bit more time to that. so, the idea of this is to provide a renabv period of time for people to come into compliance with this. if it turns out that there is someone who knowingly violates the provisions of this ordinance as we have done with other legislation around plas

first, hundreds of new york city first responders are at the scene of a massive explosion in east harlem where two buildings have partially collapsed. two people are confirmed dead, more than a dozen others injured. alexis christoforous is there. >> reporter: a thick cloud of smoke and dust hovered over upper manhattan this morning following a massive explosion. >> all of a sudden the building shook. >> what was that? i hope everybody is okay. >> reporter: officials say two five-story buildings housing a spanish church, a piano repair shop and residential apartments partially collapsed. here's how the area looked before the explosion. there were reports that several victims were trapped under debris. >> came out, looked up. the building was just gone. it was just smoke. i seen a lady with a baby running. she had no shoes on. it was just crazy, people crying. it was like a war zone out here. >> reporter: it happened around 9:00 this morning on park avenue in east harlem. witnesses started posting pictures on twitter showing plumes of smoke. first responders wore masks to protect themselve

dellfour, 65-38, the first city title since 2003. >>> baseball, just two days now from barry bonds' returnthe giants. but right now, it's all about the starting pitching. they have given up just one run and 23 innings so far in cactus league play. vogelsong was not vogel-strong today. lit up by michael saunders and the mariners today. look at this drift away for a homer. vogelsong gave up five earned runs over a couple of innings. sergio romo tried to get some work in. romo didn't record one out, gave up five runs and three hits to the mariners. they beat the giants 18-3. >>> on the other side, former athletics brett anderson trade to the rockies in the off season up against the a's. here's simon with a gapper. callaspo scores. tied at 4 in the sixth. cory dickerson a stab in the outfield. but the green and gold of the a's, they go on to lose, final of 5-4. >>> quickly, in golf, something is going on in miami. here's the backdrop to the cadillac championship. tiger woods on the prowl. his putter was on, folks. here at 15, that's a beauty. best round of the year 6-under 66 eight birdies jus

lincoln wins it 65-38 for the first city title since 2003. >>> baseball, just two days now from barry to the giants. but right now, it's all about the starting pitching. they have been on a roll. they have given up just one run and 23 innings so far in cactus league play. vogelsong was not vogel-strong today. lit up by michael saunders and the mariners today. look at this drift away for a homer. vogelsong gave up five earned runs over a couple of innings. sergio romo tried to get some work in. romo didn't record one out, gave up five runs and three hits to the mariners. they beat the giants 18-3. former athletic brett andern is with the rockies now >>> on the other side, former athletics brett anderson trade to the rockies in the off season up against the a's. here's simon with a gapper. callaspo scores. tied at 4 in the sixth. cory dickerson a stab in the outfield. but the green and gold of the a's, they go on to lose, final of 5-4. >>> golf, tiger is roaring in miami! here's the backdrop to the cadillac championship. tiger woods on the prowl. his putter was on, folks. here at 15, th

as you know, in 1998 san francisco became the first city in the world to enact a local ordinance reflecting the principles of the u.n. convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, an international bill of rights for women. that the u.s. has not yet ratified and is the only industrialized country not to do so. so, this landmark ordinance was made possible by a group of san francisco women who attended the fourth u.n. world conference on women in beijing in 1995. so, believe it or not, next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the beijing conference. so, to commemorate the beijing platform for action, san francisco has been asked to serve as the peer leader to launch cities for ceda a national campaign to promote ceda. the campaign will be formally launched next week in new york at meetings related to the u.n. commission on the status of women. president nancy kirchner rodriguez, [speaker not understood] and i will be in new york for that launch. you will be hearing more about this campaign in the coming months. at this time i'd like to invite the honorees, th

we're joining a number of cities we're not the first but we would be the first big city with a strong regulation but we're joining richmond and boston and seattle and many states as well in regulating e cigarettes. those device are abandon in hospitals and most airports. i hope the urgency will give you some sense of how the industry is expanding and we need to act rapidly if this is passed today, we will be cooperating with chicago and new york to make sure we're working with the national orchestras is from the american cancer society and the america heart association and the smokers rights at the national level. i thank the tobacco coalition and karen and bob who are here and many others for their leadership but especially the young people are that are organizing to raise their voices to pass those important policies. with that would the doctor like to give the public prospective >> good afternoon. i want to thank the board of supervisors for role the leadership they've stone shown over the decades on this issue of tobacco produces. 195040 percent of people smoked sects and by 1990

in fact, it's so profitable, scranton is the first city to wave the convenience fee for the service. it can see increase in revenue by 20 to 50% in the first and second year. >> profitable and user friendly. pango sends text messages to customers when their meter is about to expire. it's a service a forgotful student can appreciate. >> i no longer have to search for quarters in my car and i don't have to go out to my car to check. it takes me out of the equation, sends the updates whenever i need to do anything. >> updates which allow him to think more about his studies and less about his parking ticket. >> that sounds like a win all around. >> coming to new york soon they say. >> really? >> very nice. come in handy. >> let nypd know that. there's an app for that. thank you, douglas. guys, incredibly lucky guest on wheel of fortune. >> what have you solved? your best tweets next. co: i've always found you don't know you need a hotel room until you're sure you do. bartender: thanks, captain obvious. co: which is what makes using the hotels.com mobile app so useful. i can book a nearby

san francisco is among the first cities in the united states to feature outdoor reusable bottle refilling stations. our stations can be found in golden gate park, crocker amazon park, marina green, ucsf campuses, yerba buena gardens, the california academy of scienceses and san francisco international airport. we have also [speaker not understood] tap stations at five public schools and are currently extending that program to 36 other schools. this legislation provides for prudent implementation plan by proposing a phased approach and relying first on reliability and feasibility analysis to assess the needs and develop recommendations. i want to thank supervisor chiu and your staff for working with us to develop this approach. these pro he visions give city agencies the necessary time to actually quantify their need ~ and allows the puc to -- the opportunity to determine the best mechanisms for addressing those needs. i do think it's important to recognize that the cost to fully implement this ordinance cannot be known until the feasibility study is completed and the recommendations are m

this is part of outward bound california's first city skyline challenge. >> do you know who likes heights>> yes. spencer christian. he's back. >> yes. i love to watch other people with the heights. state wived will be raeny in the bay area, sunny, mild down south. will start to sweep south ward and eastward overnight into saturday. but before that happens we'll achieve high temperatures around 70 degrees. then exhibition baseball at at and t park. temperatures mid-50s and here is the accu-weather forecast. rainy, soggy messy day. rain again monday have weather next week >> larry beil is off. mike shumann is here. >> it's a sad afternoon >> yes. >> giants hosting a's game this evening will have players and managers looking ahe >>> a's and giants headed back here to the bay area. game one tonight at at and t park. after 30 games, down in the desert players are always ready to get back to the comfort zones of their respect rif ballpark asks get the regular season underway. nothing like coming home with any sport both teams have a final decision to make. this is a good test before the season

people around started to come along that then people were able to move out and move out of the city so at first it was a mild than two miles and then for miles and eventually six miles and the city started to expand and grow. that was critical to get people further out from the downtown area where they were living. that was sort of a big moment in the second half of the 19th century that happened with the expansion of cities. the book sort of developed from that pivotal moment when city started to expand and what happened was a couple of pivotal pivotal -- pivotal moments happen. it did blizzard, storm like nothing we have ever seen since then cripple the entire northeast. for at least 400 people but some estimate more than 1000 people were killed in this lizard. it just devastated the entire northeast. new york boston and everything in between ground to a standstill. when that happened new york especially took a look at the way they were moving people which was elevated trains and they said this has to change. we can't be at the mercy of the skies any longer. boston at the time had already sta

this is part of outward bound california's first city skyline challenge. >> do you know who likes heightsn. he's back. >> yes. i love to watch other people with the heights. state wived will be raeny in the bay area, sunny, mild down south. will start to sweep south ward and eastward overnight into saturday. but before that happens we'll achieve high temperatures around 70 degrees. then exhibition baseball at at and t park. temperatures mid-50s and here is the accu-weather forecast. rainy, soggy messy day. rain again monday have weather next week >> larry beil is off. mike shumann is here. >> it's a sad afternoon >> yes. >> giants hosting a's game this evening will have players an managers looking ahead next in sports. female announcer: what will you get with your new sleep train mattress? man: i'm getting a camera! - i'm getting an espresso maker! - i'm getting a new smart phone! female announcer: through sunday at sleep train's big gift event get a $200 best buy gift card with purchase of selected beautyrest, posturepedic or tempur-pedic mattresses. or, get 24-months interest-free finan

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responders to be living in san francisco. >> reporter: city hall is offering first responders up to $100,000 in down payment assistance to purchase a home inside the city limits. the initial pool had enough money to help out about ten applicants. so andrew is one of the lucky few who have benefited from the program. >> a lot of them were cash offers, so i was just lucky to get a house in san francisco today. i just moved in about two months ago, so i'm doing a lot of little projects here and there on my days off. it's two bedroom, one bad small house on the hill. >> reporter: the city recognizes it would have to significantly impact the program for any impact. andrew would like to see the loan assistance scheme grow so more public servants can also have the opportunity to live in the city where they serve. >>> coming up on al jazeera america, there is history buried under all of that ice, some of it still buried from the ice age. >>> and it may be spring, but it certainly doesn't feel like it right now. we'll be back with a very chilly national forecast and your hea

city clerk: yes. please shutdown any electronic devices. any speaker cards shall be submitted to the clerk. items will be listed on the agenda. >> madam clerk, please call the first item. city clerk: agenda[collective bargaining agreement, arbitration award - international brotherhood of electrical workers, local 6 - fy2013-2014]1400321.sponsor: mayorordinance adopting and implementing the arbitration award amending amendment no. 2 to the 2012-2014 collective bargaining agreement between the city and county of san francisco and the international brotherhood of electrical workers, local 6, by implementing special terms and conditions of city clerk: sf 11234 >> >> >> okay. we are martin grand the employer relations director who is going to present on this item? >> yes. good morning supervisors and to the chair i'm martin grand employee relation for the department of human resources. this is for the last bargaining unit for 2012. it involves powerhouse operators and hetch hetchy and involves very complicated staffing patterns that we felt needed to be addressed off cycle and we had negotiations which ended up in arbitration. these involve powerhouse arbitrators and

part of outward bound california first city sky line challenge.er to get low income students throughout the state involved in out door learning activities such as repelling. >> what is nearly 300 years old extremely rare and sounds like extremely rare and sounds like more than 45 million dollars the ♪ the those are the sounds of a 17 19 violin. one of only 10 complete known to exist and now going on the market. they are offering it for private sale here and expected price is more than 45 million dollars. now this one is called mcdonald one of only 2 made by antonio that are still in private hands. potential buyers can submit sealed bids until the sale ends some time in june. nothing sounds at all quite one. >> coming. another half hour of news at 9:00 moments away. controversial report on the new jersey bridge scandal. abc news anchor diane sawyer interview the governor about the findings of the report. >> new lead in the search for flight 370. why they are moving this search to spot hundreds of miles away. >> and historic meeting at the vatican.

and this is the first city where russian troops arrived. an activate recorded russians taking over the hill. for igor, that same view is painful. his family's lived in this family for decades. first they were soviet and ethnic russians. and always looked east. it's painful when they make me speak ukrainian. today he reliance on a well. he accuses the ukrainian government of letting crimeans live in the stone age. i don't believe in any ukrainian government he says, not the old one, not a future one, not the current one. thanks to these men he now lives under a new crimean government. they leave the local headquarters of the party that recently took over ukraine's parliament. constantine says he has 4,000 fighters. we can mobilize a big army within an hour he says. he wants to join russia because he believes crimeans are culturally different than ukrainians. >> we see homosexual people we don't want to live like those people. >> that hatred targets the city's few pro-western activists. irina, last week, withstood a fears crowd. but not sure

city. at first it was a mile, two miles, then for miles and eventually six miles. the city began to expand and grow and that was critical to get people further out from the downtown area where they were living. that was a big moment in the second half of the 19th century that happen with expansion of cities. the book sort of developed from the pivotal moment when city started to expand. what happened was a couple pivotal moments happened. the blizzard of 1880. in 1888 a storm unlike nothing we have ever seen since then crippled the entire northeast. at least 400 people but some people estimate 11,000 people were killed in this blizzard. it just devastated the entire northeast. new york, boston and everything in between ground to a standstill. when that happened new york especially sort of took look at the way they were moving the people in the city, the time was an elevated trains and carriages on the streets and said, this has to change. we can't be at the mercy of the skies any longer. we have to change this. boston at the time had already started to look at ways

he becomes the first city leader to sit out the parade, why? because organizers refused to let participants carry pro gay and lesbian signs. guinness beer dropped its sponsorship. maria is back with more. >> reporter: tony, lgbt activists said they would protest against the parade and in midtown they did. you see here some activists with this banner saying boycott. i'll show you the rest of it. it says boycott homophobia. this was put outbly glad, an organization that supports gay and lesbian rights. now, the boston st. patrick's parade also saw similar controversy. the mayor there did not attend because gay and lesbians could not march openly. but there was this float that was called the diversity float that was able to get into the parade. and you'll see here that they have colored banners here. now as far as guinness dropping its sponsorship of the st. patrick's day parade, on their facebook page they have seen comments pro and against. thousands of people that have commented on this. susan writes, even though i seriously do not like beer, i

but at the same time the cities and the brothers had competition with each other and when boston opened first, there was a great thing in "the new york times", new york took a lot of pride in being a much more bold and inventive leading city in the country is not the world. and yet they had to sort of stand by and watch as boston was this tiny little podunk town. they said so conservative and american city would be the first to open a subway in this country. and it was a hint inside the minds of new yorkers. a little bit of galling to them that boston would be first. they would catch up in due time. the boston certainly did get there first and it's a fun story to tell. hopefully that gives you a little bit of insight. but the book is not just about the big lairs but about the little people who built the tunnel. that is what i hope comes away from it. a special appreciation for not only are subway but that of new york and london and paris and all of the great underground cities that exist today. in 1863 new york and boston didn't come until almost 30 years later. so there is a big gap between

. >> he introduced the cities first 10 year plan and he's been either in the city and county since 1989 and at the first asian-american mayor. welcome sir, we're god to have you (clapping.) to his immediate left it princess laef i'm kidding haley who is the founder and ceo of rock health one of the most creativity thinkers as you know they have the fund for the digital fund and she's responsible for the building of partners and overseeing the strategic direction. she has been named one of the telephone enterprise for cnn's and one of the 15 women to work in the tech and she had an odd title. she is a harvard mba and she imagined would could be. and finally, i want to introduce the moderator and editor and i'm going to turn it over to him from harrod and mit and come to san francisco. well everybody it's an honor and pleasure to have you here (clapping.) it's an honor to be here to moderate our latin america panel we've got 15 minutes. i'm recordings this because i'm going to a share it. but i'm going to start with you mayor ed lee. the board of supervisors designated mission bay as a de

city. thank (clapping.) first of all, let's give horn to god alleyway mighty for bringing us here today today is a historic occasion. this sermon is dedicated to the memory of doctor george davis the man that actually brought us together here today his vision to take our issues to the bayview he's no longer with us but we know your presence here today says a lot about his legacy and passion. i'm honored to be standing here knowing that speaker pelosi is here with us the number one advocate for children and women and seniors in the entire country of the united states is here (clapping) in spite of her tight scheduling schedule her passion is here so we're 4u7b8 and i'm honored to have a hitters activity and great mayor mayor ed lee is here with us today (clapping) on the stage we have mr. salazar that actually, the developer that helped us to put all those things together to make that happen washington and senator leno who is here for things we do in our county. we couldn't have gotten this done without wells fargo

we're not going to do that anymore in this city. >> reporter: today mayor lee announced walk first, annitiative to throw some $17 million at reengineering the city's most dangerous intersections. the police department will ramp up traffic enforcement as an awareness campaign kicks off in three languages. >> we were all raised to look both ways before we crossed the street. now i would ask you to look both ways and make eye contact with the driver nearest your intersection before you venture across the street. >> reporter: the money is an advance on a $50 million transportation bond set for the november ballot. starting now, it will bring new lighting, better paint jobs and curb extensions to the 6% of city roads that the 60% of pedestrian accidents happen on. >> it's preventable. every one of these deaths, every one of these serious injuries, is preventable. >> reporter: walk first is a step toward vision zero. that is the city's goal of zero pedestrian fatalities within 10 years which the board of supervisors is discussing today. in san francisco, anne makovec, kpix 5. >> the mayor sa

city clerk: please silence all cell phones and electronic devices and please include in the copies into the file to the clerk. >>supervisor london breed: thank you madam clerk please call the first item. city clerk: agenda[hearing - implementation of audit recommendations status]1310431.sponsor: cohenhearing on the update by the city services auditor on the status of implementation sf 11234 >> good morning supervisors. my name is tonya, i'm the director of city audit of the controllers office and with me is cat skog an. we are going to talk about our follow up process for audit and memorandum issue. the benefit from audit work is not only in the findings or recommendations made but in the implementation of those recommendations. by conducting audit follow up ensures our department to enhance change and city agencies and city management and assess the value of our work. our office does two kinds of follow up work. regular and field follow up. our regular follow up procedures are done for all of our reports and memorandums and auditees are required to report at 6 months, 12 months and 2 years. after 2 years, the department if they have not yet resolved those issues we will include