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first city. just. opposing the rallies over migration have taken the german city of by storm triggered by a local man's death and a leaked arrest warrant for the suspects we've got a left wing demonstration. in the middle of the right wing demonstration and they're starting to gets a little testy amongst themselves. pre-election polls in sweden showing a growing split over migrant numbers as euro skeptic and right wing parties the ruling social democrat. in the passenger jets gives off the runway. airport catching fire leaving eighteen people injured. by broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is our international certainly glad to have you with us. now the german city of kevin it continues to be the scene of right wing rallies which have been met with counter protests several anti migrant groups arranged a so-called silent march this saturday in protest against chancellor merkel's policies rival demonstrations have taken place throughout the week the protests started after a local man wa

in 2007, union city became the first city in the u.s. memorial specifically for the heroes of that flight. >> bound for san francisco, that flight crashed in pennsylvania. the memorial is inside sugar mill landing park. it includes 40 granite stones bearing the names of the passengers and crewmembers who died. most were bay area residents, including pilot jason doll. [ bagpipes playing ] >>> vallejo firefighters honored their fellow first responders who died trying to save lives 17 years ago today. local residents also joined today's remembrance of the september 11th attacks. >> a special event commemorating 9/11 was held today in san francisco. for the first time, the city joined new york, los angeles and phoenix in a unique program to turn a day of tragedy into something inspiring. abc 7 news reportr carolyn tyler has the details. >> at san francisco's pier 35, hundreds came together to remember 9/11. there was a moment of silence. a poignant rendition of "god bless america." and the ringing of a ceremonial fire bell. then the day of t

city clinic. he was the first time i came to city clinic was a little intimidated. the first time i got treated for [inaudible]. i walked up to the redline and was greeted with a warm welcome i'm chad redden and anna client of city clinic >> even has had an std clinic since all the way back to 1911. at that time, the clinic was founded to provide std diagnosis treatment for sex workers. there's been a big increase in std rates after the earthquake and the fire a lot of people were homeless and there were more sex work and were homeless sex workers. there were some public health experts who are pretty progressive for their time thought that by providing std diagnosis and treatmentsex workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in san francisco. >> when you're at the clinic you're going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. after you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. after you are called you come to the back and meet with a healthcare provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what sam

if the measure is approved to san francisco would be the first city in the country with such a program. >>> a mess on interstate 880 in oakland. a truck overturned on the on ramp. it spilled about 8 tons of debris on the roadway. a forklift had to be brought in to clean up the mess. >>> fire crews in sierra working to get the north fire under control. the blaze is burning through tahoe national forest. firefighters are battling the flames from the air and the ground. the blaze broke out yesterday afternoon and has burned 500 acres. several campers have been evacuated. >>> already california wildfires have caused billions of dollars in damage. now some neighbors are taking fire prevention into their own hands. emily turner is live in mill valley with that story. >> reporter: the last year, especially for the bay area, have been brutal. if there is a silverlining it is a fact that folks here are taking fire prevention, even more seriously. on a damp day like this one the threat of fire might seem far off but for him it is just outside of his door. >> we have trees opposite of us. they ar

city going all—out this evening according to manager nick cushing. as for chelsea, they should have an easier route through. they are 5—0 up against sarajevo after the firstlow all the action, kick off at 7pm. should be a great match coming up later. also coming up in the programme... we're with olympic gold medallistjoe clarke, as he prepares to make a splash at the world canoe championships. and we get a players—eye view of one of the most intimidating holes at the ryder cup. now some news that has come into us in the last hour — england and harlequins prop joe marler has retired from international rugby at the age ofjust 28. 0ur reporter patrick geareyjoins me. patrick, it's a very big surprise, why has he done this? he has been an integral member of the side for some time. making is debut at 2012 but at the relatively young age of 28 he has decided to give up international rugby saying he wants to spend more time with his young family. he says it is an incredible commitment and he believes if it is not able to make the commitment he should step away. he has had an impressive career but hit the headlines for the wrong reasons in 2016 because he was ban

first city. will show you this new earth and learn from listens so. you're going to move to the jetsons to. do most in store some good. news and some good news and sure. no i'm still most of those who refuse to shoot your good clothes in your boobs or to solicit you but you also co-host of the recently it's nice to look was an old small. groups low post presence known posters to most of the listeners from. the closer to the stop. field or your chicken took his first flight at the age of forty three eleven days at the space station was preceded by four years of preparations for the good good all the way. he didn't even get his own cabin and had to sleep in a sleeping bag. for us. it was. his second flight lasted six months he accompanied charles simile a space tourist it was a tricky mission the cosmonauts were almost evacuated back to earth the computers in the russian sector crashed after coming back to earth your chief in was sure it would be his last flight. of the earth. written. to the school students and. lo and behold fielders back at the space

last week berkeley became the first city in the nation requiring that vegan-only food be served at events once a week. >> i'm not asking people to give up meat. how we can reduce our meat consumption. >> reporter: kate harrison, author of the resolution, calls for a public campaign to inform businesses and residents of the environmental impacts of meat production. >> almost a third of your climate change problem comes from animal husbandry. >> reporter: eating tpwraoepbs for this family is important, but so is their meat. >> i do think it's important to have a good resource of all foods available to us. but having a mandating thing from somewhere higher above, i think it's the individual's responsibility to have that awareness >> reporter: there is still no date when green mondays will begin. they are working with the city manager to figure it out. they hope to stare the awareness campaign by the end of the year. abc 7 news. >>> happening today, when the spacex plans to launch its first space polite to the moon. elon music will reveal who the first tourist will be to the moon. it appears

first city. all of the main part of the u.n. general assembly gets underway later on tuesday some key meetings have already taken place on the sidelines like talks between the five signatories in the iran deal as a result the european union's foreign policy to. said the broker will continue to trade with iran and make sure financial links are maintained that the move does come in defiance of the us where the deal with iran and reimposed sanctions. now reports from new york. with the very important people arriving in tallinn it is time to get things sorted just a couple of hours after surrogate landed in new york he was sitting behind closed doors with the ministers representing the international players who once made the iran nuclear deal possible that's the one donald trump called garbage but diplomat federico. a late on monday came out and said that iran is fully complying with all the terms of the deal so everyone besides washington will keep supporting it plus europe will protect its businesses that are keen on dealing with

translation: this was the first time in the ussr that citizens got to choose the name of their city inevolution and in 1924, it was renamed in honour of vladimir lenin, revolutionary leader and founder of soviet communist ideology. now, his ideology has been rejected by the reformist leadership here, they no longer want his name stamped on their city. translation: rejecting lenin's name meant a complete turnaround away from totalitarianism, towards a new mentality and towards europe. it is the most european of all russian cities. its founder, peter the great, said it was russia's window on europe. the hardline communists are fighting to keep leningrad and on this issue, there were undignified scuffles. the old guard outraged at the challenge to their historic struggle. translation: no-one, not even ourselves, believed we would succeed in changing the city's name because the opposition was very strong. this was the last stronghold of communists, lenin and his legacy. i remember 24—hour vigils outside our home where old communists shouted, "we will not allow you to dump lenin's name" and

first city. in a world of big new things.and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance i'm bart chilton in washington thanks for being on the board coming up today we take a look at the currency crisis in turkey argentina and india we do so with the help from john grace the founder and president of investors advantage corp and from paris our chief charlotte dubinsky takes a look at the parisian stock market index that cap. and some of the french companies which are part of that french market barometer plus china and russia are coming closer on economic and military matters as chinese president xi jinping and russian president vl

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first city. russia and turkey agreed to form a demilitarized zone between syrian government forces and militants. saying syria's operation against terrorists will be on. the russian defense ministry tracks the serial number of the missing link by the official investigation for the downing of the mh seventeen boeing these top secret documents unclassified of course for the sake of the probe the rocket to ukraine's forces. public frustration and.

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first city. in other words you know which schools out there both issue should go in with you on the can speak with you what you. it was look you. get posole cause. as up and as long as story when you know it's not a need. for you when you go to use some of those artful but it gets on this list and it's good to go. slow to slow it is when you know only three in the destroying important it is over. step on the. slow play. the hero status of step on bond was short lived in two thousand and ten victoriano covert each was elected president this time the international community had no doubts about the legitimacy of the elections. in january two thousand and eleven victoriana coverts repealed the hero title of bond era. almost four years into his presidency though another revolution shook ukraine unfortunately this one was anything but peaceful. night. mr yanukovych which i'm an american i'm an outsider to the situation and it's very complicated but i would like as a as a filmmaker just to jump into the

school board member, the first city councilwoman or man, the first aid representative and so much more. this has been a very tough few years with the latino community. have to tell you why, but they're also a lot of things to look forward to and so many issues that we have to work hard on. as i i mentioned we've never sd away from talking about the thorny and important issues in our country you will notice the title of a panel today, racial equity, structural racism is of course one of the most important things that we have to talk about. talking about race in the united states is never an easy conversation. it's often a conversation that is fraught with sometimes anger, resentment, defensiveness,, denial, all of those things. but it's one of the most important and consequential conservations -- conversations we can have one we need to have. when i look at the title of the panel and thought about everything that are moderate and a panelist will talk about, please let's give them a round of applause for participating on the panel tod

health advocates are pushing for governor brown to sign a bill to allow san francisco to become the first city in the u.s. to open safe injection sites. last week, a state legislature passed the bill to create a three-year pilot program. also last week, a first look at what a safe injection site would look like here. the site would provide supplies, education, and also resources, but not drugs. the governor has until the end of the month to sign the bill. >>> also today, a north bay school district with a controversial name that some say references the confederacy will consider a name change. >> this is the dixie school district. it's located in san rafael. critics of the name say dixie is a reference to the confederacy and slavery. the board has previously declined to change the name. several community members pushing for the change plan to address the school board tonight. >>> this morning there is new controversy swirling around former 49er colin kaepernick. >> he's back in the headlines and this time for being one of the faces for nike's latest ad campaign. reporter amy hollyfield is at th

first city they. both think you know we need to go back to invite more form for something that's self-sufficient that's also the position of the government that's the mission to the song goes in any case even if there is a number of contingency they've got to go back to the to this country so. good to have you with us today but returning to the headlining act of this year's general assembly donald trump it isn't just foreign powers he's been here to kowtow to socialism is coming for a talk as well as caleb maupin reports as an argument we have heard from him before . trumps un general assembly speech this year contains some old material not long ago venezuela was one of the richest countries on earth today socialism has bankrupted the oil rich nation virtually everywhere socialism or communism has been dry it has produced suffering corruption and decay all nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it brings us to everyone stops at roughly the same thing in last year's un speech

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first city. john mccain and his republican cohorts like the bush family and others they will break cozy with ken lay to finance the bush campaigns of the bush presidency and when they got caught committing massive fraud on the same scale as the savings and loan crisis the machinery was already in place thanks to john mccain as a bag man for wall street for decades yeah to bail those guys out and make them all at the expense of the democracy slash economy of the united states which is disintegrating. if i say artificial intelligence and you think the jetsons your late if i say alexa and you're smart speaker just answered you're already using what's nonchalantly called a i to access so called big data now if i say medical testing and you picture people in lab coats injecting rats that could happen less thanks to artificial intelligence how let's ask dr john pippen director of academic affairs for the physicians committee for responsible medicine it's a nationwide organization that promotes preventi

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first city.nnis kucinich was taken up with obama's plane he came down and he was a convert to obamacare he was the last man standing course bernie sanders was like oh yeah you know medicare for all be great but we're just going to. progress and we're going to progress to something some point you're not progressing. as far east next day to with the largest military drills in the country since one thousand nine hundred eighty one big thing this more guys it is the vostok twenty eight is gold with the army showcasing its best. days to a football still two thousand and eighteen will games and we found ourselves in russia's far east with this is to a pitched battle it simulates on the one hand you have detachments of russian ed the feds fending off a simulated determined and advanced enemy which is being represented on the battlefield by. down the mid-south and they're throwing everything they've got the russian cruise missiles jets as well as. the russians offending them off. and defense is a complic

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last week berkeley became the first city in the nation to declare green monday. only food be served at city meetings once week. council woman kate harrison authors the resolution which also calls for a public campaign to inform businesses and residents of the environmental impacts of meat production. >> almost a third from our climate problem comes from meats aproduction and the metha. >> having a mandating thing from somewhere higher above, think responsibility to have that awareness. >> reporter: there's still no date on when green mondays will begin. the council is still working with the city manager to figure that out. but they hope to start the awareness campaign by the end of the year. abc 7 news. >>> one of america's former top diplomats echoed what many leading scientists are saying about climate change and that major steps need to be taken to stop it. abc 7 news was at san francisco's grace cathedral when the former secretary grace schultz took part in a forum this weekend. >> because it brought out the great variety of people from all over who see that

first city. welcome back across like you are all things considered i'm peter about to remind you we're discussing some real names. ok before we go to some other news mark give us about a two minute update what's going on with syria yes it's a mess but that has a new that's nothing there so russia and syria are preparing still preparing for their all fence of an igloo but they have at least temporarily put it off and the big reason for this is after the failure of the austin summit in tehran is turkey gone has sent huge numbers of convoys into it carrying arms for his proxies of course h.t.s. controls all the checkpoints which is al qaeda here all shot so he's he's essentially i mean literally arming al qaeda he's sending tanks a.p.c.'s by some reports. air defense and i don't want yes i did what is turkey's defense of this because when you say he's no one is protecting terrorists giving them supplies eccentric cetera he wouldn't say it that way what is his justification his justification if he's

cities are , laboratories for innovation. carol: some of this is about common sense. jason: our reporter brought us two stories. the firstout nuisances everyone is familiar with. >> garbage takes up a lot of space. in new york city, it takes up space and attracts rodents. it is smelly. it is bad in every way. some cities have been doing innovative things with the way they are dealing with trash, and how they are putting it underground, creating smart systems that are connected underneath the sidewalk, with smaller bins above the service connected to technology that tells them if the bins are full and what time of day to be collected. this is big and portugal. euro: all i can think of is walt disney. fantastic?that sound jason: especially during august in new york. dimitra: the company that did it in portugal has been doing a lot of work in israel. several cities have the system. beirut introduced a similar . there is a space and a cleanliness issue and a smell issue and a quality of life issue. how can we save money based on when this needs to be collected and when these trucks can collect so they are not creating traffi

in july, san francisco became the first country in the -- became the first city in the nation to stop charging administrative fees to people who are exiting jail and the criminal justice system. >> whew! [applause] and i was really proud to sponsor this legislation when i was president of the board of supervisors. the public defender was working so hard with the committee of folks to come up with a way to address this issue and i want to thank him for his tireless leaderships on pushing to reform the criminal justice system. [applause] but we didn't stop there. today we are proud to announce that we have taken this even a step further. people have been charged these fees for years and a lot of the debt has built up. this burden has been bearing down on thousands of families across our city. [motorcycle engine] today we are announcing that we are eliminating this debt. $32.7 million of debt! [applause] again, thanks to the advocacy of our public defender jeff hadachi and the d.a.'s office. this debt is owed by over 21,000 people. in our community, an average amount of $1500 per person.

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allegedly cruised through the towering haunts of the windy city one for the bucket list but any first time visitor. the city that loves its sport and with a special passion for baseball at the headquarters of the chicago cubs kristie implicity and maximilian phillips stopped by for a bits of practice. it's great being back in the us with you know with or showing some mighty rates around yeah just for them to you know going to face of the u.s. like with. the bundesliga team long tall first and foremost it's always going to be about the factions and they win for a top ten treats at chicago's famous soldier field stadium. the next installments of the international champions cup. against manchester city. christian policing too hot to handle for the city defense and in the penalty good to dispatch to win the day. they lie still well it was a decent performance from both teams we gave a run out to a lot of young players on national some very positive stuff. manchester city came flying out the blocks and we also dealt with that really well. with good come out. to european clubs playing again

san francisco was one of the first cities to make a commitment to 100% clean energy, but i'm really proud and excited to be here with y mayor breed and other leaders from the city to talk about accelerating that commitment. how do we turn words and ideas and principles and commitments and values into that? how do we use one set of solutions to solve multiple problems? what we know here in san francisco is we can look at how do we take tangible steps to move away from all fossil fuels? how do we move away from buildings and buses and pipelines and use it to transition away from fossil fuels towards clean energy and cut the pollution that's making us sick and create the jobs that we all need? i'm excited to be here right now on the eve of a global climate action summit to be helping to announce and to celebrate a series of thoughtful, progressive, ambitious, and even daring actions that we desperately need across the city, across the state, and across the country, not just to increase the amount of prosperity that we need here in the city, but to show leaders all around the world that we ca

but he was an eisenhower republican and it was dallas, the city we moved to that became the first city in -- in texas to elect a republican congressman. the first since reconstruction after the civil war. so i remember the turn -- now, texas is already far more liberal or progressive than our lengted representatives would lead you to believe that demography and the politics are at odds with each other. there was a figure and people who really count in politics is the primary voters in the republican party. up until recently and may change but we'll see -- it is been republican votesser that has determined the -- outcome of the election now wendy davis who was a -- previous candidate for governor against greg abbott who was crushed she -- he beat her by 20 points. she made the observation that texas is not a red state it's a note nonvoting blue state. and that she's absolutely right about it. texas has been always at the very bottom or near the bottom. in voter turnout, now, why is that? people often blame the hispanics in texas for note voting and it has true that they -- tend not to.

san francisco hopes to be the first city in the country to open the sites. >>> firefighters trying tois wild fire. it is the north fire that started yesterday and forced campgrounds to evacuate. the fire is burning to the south. it is burning out of control. there is zero percent containment. >>> happening today walnut creek leaders there, long-term plans surrounding downtown. today's meeting covers neighborhoods south of walnut creek bart station. there is also a plan to modify the area north of downtown. >>> check out the newest addition to the family in santa rosa there. this is remi. she was born two weeks ago. she was already 120 pounds and six feet tall at birth. >> just like marcus. >> she has been playing, sleeping and eating. you can see her there along with other animals. you can go check out so many animals. today would be a good day to get out there and see all of that too. we have issues with air quality especially for parts of the north bay. today reaching to the upper 80s. low 90s towards the end of the week. >> all right. we want to take a look at the traffic. >> we ha

bureau issued its final decision which is banning the hong kong national party now this is a first in the city's history it's a first since the city was handed back from the u.k. from the from great britain to china in one thousand nine hundred seven at chance high profile speech back at the foreign correspondents club in august it drew criticism from the place and was deemed further evidence for the case however he stated at this event that his party was not advocating violence that security mysteriously agreed with the place today and has issued this ban now ask for reaction from andy chan the hong kong national party that stated that they'll be no comment if he or one of his party's members do speak they could attract a penalty of up to twelve thousand dollars now the proposal when it was initially used to have this party outlawed it drew criticism from pro-democracy groups and the british foreign press he stated that hong kong people should have freedom of speech and they should be respected. a second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against us supreme court nomin

first," we will talk about it. ♪ jillian: a rainy start to the morning in new york city. ve shot of times square, quite a busy day yesterday. you are watching "fox and friends first" friday morning. thanks for starting your day with us. let's begin with that and fox news alert, fireworks, supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and christine ford undergoing hours of questioning in any emotional and explosive senate hearing. >> i'm here today not because i want to be. i am terrified. i am here because it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me when brett kavanaugh and i were in high school. >> it took the committee 10 days to get to this hearing. those two long days, as was predictable and as i predicted, my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false additional accusations. >> the details of that might that bring me here today are the ones i will never forget. they have been seared into my memory. >> this confirmation process has become a national disgrace. the constitution gives the senate an important role in the confirmatio

we were the first city to offer curbside composting and bad single use plastic bags.hen i was on the board of supervisors, i helped push forward our clean power s.f. program which has unrolled over 100,000 customers since 2016 and has resulted in greenhouse gas reduction equivalent to taking 17,000 cars off the road. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: pretty amazing just a few years ago, i pushed legislation to enact the strictest strictest styrofoam band in the country which have prevented over 40 tons of pharmaceuticals from going into our bay and landfill. since 1990, we have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 30% and cut our landfill disposal in half. all while growing the economy of san francisco by 111%. we have shown that you can be a sustainable city while maintaining a thriving economy. this week, san francisco stand strong with the cities represented here today and so many from around the world to build upon the commitments made at the u.n. climate change conference in paris that was held in 2015. we are adopting new policies to meet our goals of bei

you know that i will put your interests first at city hall. i will bring a balance to the board of supervisors of common sense. thank you. >> thank you very much. and now, i ask all of you, please give a great round of applause to all these persons who want to be your representative in district four. [applause] >> and now, on behalf of myself, the sunset park side education and action committee, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods, and the league of women voters of san francisco, our thanks to the candidates for participating and unfortunately, and you might have noticed that there was one empty chair. miss jessica ho unfortunately could not attend this morning, although i'm sure she probably wanted to. but thanks to each of you for taking time to inform yourself about your choices on november 6. have a great rest of your saturday, go home safely, have a good time, enjoy. thank you very >> president cohen: good morning, ladies and gentlemen. welcome you to another edition of budget and finance committee, our fall edition. welcome you bac

we had healthy san francisco and we are the first city in the country that committed to providing health coverage for all of our children and then for all of our citizens and then along came the affordable care act and we were in a position like no other city in the country to be able to enrol our citizens in san francisco into the affordable care act and into the medicaid expansion based on the structure that we have put in place, beyond that, the community response to h.i.v. and aids is something that ended up being the basis for the ryan white care act on the national level. you are seeing over and over again, san francisco being bold and innovative and being entrepreneurial spirit we have seen results. we just had a presentation on our h.i.v. new infection rates where we, if you look at the data over the last few years, san francisco has made more progress in one year than the rest of the country made in over 40 years in reducing the number of new infections. there are still very important and persistent disparities when it comes to the african-american community, transgender women,

bureau issued its final decision which is banning the hong kong national party now this is a first in the city'shistory it's a first since the city was handed back from the u.k. from the from great britain to china in one thousand nine hundred seven a chance high profile speech back at the foreign correspondents club in august it drew criticism from the place and was deemed further evidence for the case where he stated at this event that his party was not advocating violence the security ministry of the agreed with the place today and has issued this ban now as for reaction from anti chan the hong kong national party that stated that they would be no comment if he or one of his party's members do speak they could attract a penalty of up to twelve thousand dollars now the proposal when it was initially used to have this party outlawed it drew criticism from pro-democracy groups and the british foreign press that hong kong people should have freedom of speech and their rights should be respected joseph chang is a professor of political science at city university of hong kong he says this ban sets

surf city, you're the first location.beach, you have the strongest rain band and wind. you're in that eye wall currently. so is the kirkland area. the topsail beach area is up here. this is the location that looks hike we' ee like we're going to get the official landfall. if i want to track and say how long, remember it's moving at about 6 miles an hour. this is the center of the eye. it's only about six or seven miles away from making the official landfall. that would be approximately one hour from right now. it's a little earlier than projected, but these things wobble a little bit and it kind of sped up. let's get into some of the geek numbers here because we still have to worry about the storm surge. this is the beaufort area, this is carteret county. the record of hazel was 6.9 back in 1954. then we're supposed to be going now to the low tide. that should be the red dotted line. it's all the way up here. that's because the winds are out of the south and the water levels are already running about two feet higher than

we talk about one's city specifically and how it is getting a lot cleaner and quieter. the arrival ofg the firstd of technology taking noise out of the city environment. nzhen is a huge city with 20 million people, and imagine taking out all of the noise out of the cars in new york and you get a vision of what this is like. this is missing from the audio fabric of the city. take us back to 1980, because i feel like that is where some of the development again. aron: this is not ancient history when you go back to the automate of times -- pre-automotive time. pre-automotive zone happened in shenzhen because of its proximity to hong kong. of allu saw the arrival kinds of modern infrastructure and transportation turn what was basically a fishing village into , where thereacity is now 20 million people. city isn'tre of the centered around this old village centered around this old village structure. a lot of people don't have cars, which made it easier for it to transform. how did china make this shift from electric to combustion? of the motivations was how terrible pollution conditions got. we have s