thank you. >> i have a question. >> president fong: are they finished? >> oh, yeah, are you guys fin h finished? >>clerk: you have 16 seconds. >> so we continued this case from a couple weeks ago. you filed the peal. is there a reason you did not submit a brief or show up at the last hearing. >> we did submit a brief. we didn't show up because we felt the brief spoke for itself, and we felt that the building and planning would support that, and they did. we're here today because we don't think the changes address what you guys asked for and we wanted to kind of hammer home why we think they don't. and actually, philip was out of town, so it was only one of us in town, and we thought it spoke for itself. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>clerk: thank you. is there any public comment on this item? >> hello. my name is patrick murphy. i'm a neighbor. i was going to come to the last hearing, but the night of the hearing, i was called by jeff and told that mark was going to withdraw his objections, so i'm here tonight to see how this process works and how long it

commissioner fong fong. >> commissioner johnson. >> commissioner koppel. >> a commissioner moore. >> a commissioner richards. >> a commissioner melgar. >> and commissioner president hillis. that motion passes unanimously 7-0. >> with that, the meeting is adjourned. thank you. >>> san francisco, 911, what's the emergency? >> san francisco 911, police, fire and medical. >> the tenderloin. suspect with a six inch knife. >> he was trying to get into his car and was hit by a car. >> san francisco 911 what's the exact location of your emergency? >> welcome to the san francisco department of emergency management. my name is shannon bond and i'm the lead instructor for our dispatch add -- academy. i want to tell you about what we do here. >> this is san francisco 911. do you need police, fire or medical? >> san francisco police, dispatcher 82, how can i help you? >> you're helping people in their -- what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life. so be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, it's really rewarding. >> our agency is a very combined agency. we answer em

commissioner fong fong. >> commissioner johnson. >> commissioner koppel. >> a commissioner moore. >> a commissioner richards. >> a commissioner melgar. >> and commissioner president hillis. that motion passes unanimously 7-0. >> with that, the meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> president kwon: good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the tuesday, october 9, meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. roll call, please. [roll call] >> clerk: we haval quorum. >> president kwon: as per rules of order, discussion to elect a new president and vice president of the commission, each to serve a one-year term. an incumbent president or vice president who has served one year is eligible for the same office. a call for nominations for president. >> i would like to nominate commissioner courtney as president. >> second. >> commissioner courtney: i accept. >> president kwon: is there any public comment? seeing none, all in favor. opposed? congratulations. >> commissioner courtney: thank you, mr. outgoing president. >> president kwon: i will hand it over to you. >> commissioner courtney

case, that dennis fong, you know that guy.got too warm outside. so i put it in the refrigerator. [ laughter ] so i take the hat and the bag. i go, "i'm no dennis fong." i put it in the fridge. then i called the authorities. then i waited in front of my house like this. because i was, like, "fellas, don't rry, it's under control." >> seth: well, you've pretty much done all the work for them. >> oh, absolutely. >> seth: yeah. >> yeah. i've done e sleuthing and the forensics already. and they're safely in my crisper drawer. so they show up and they go, "what's the situation?" i go, "someone broke into my car." they said, "did they break a window?"sa , "no, i leave my car unlocked." because people used to break in anbreak the windows. so now i leave it unlocked.d, they swhat did they take?" i said, "i have no idea if they took anything, because i have no idea what's in my car." know, i'll find, like, m wife's glasses sometimes and wear them if it's sunny.no so i hav- it's just a scavenger hunt in there. they said, "why havet you e

bigger until it improves internal controls and she says that that means removing chief executive tim fong. maria, back to you. maria: thank you, susan. as you mentioned it was another extremely volatile week for the markets. comments from the president about closing the border as well as the saudi conflict, worries about growth, getting impacted by the federal reserve raising interest rates. all impacting investors this week to. my next guest we go for reaction, bank of america global wealth and chief investment officer, good to see you. >> good to see you. maria: thank you for joining us, are you worried about all of these things? >> you get worried when you see a sizable fall. we call it a backdraft. it's pretty much hallmark of a reset. there's a lot of portfolio resets going on between equities and fixed income and specifically within equities, a lot of flow go from the ultraoverexposure to growth back into value. overexposure to u.s., some of the high market cap names not necessarily to non-u.s. but going down the curve, cash has gone up, long duration assets are going down. worried

what the op that these two const fong weakness into chinese culture are leaving particularly and other aspects so us through how them merge with chinese society and also to us than the rootstock so-called terrorism. or what the authorities who are talking to you know. have not explained to the fact that these readers as many as one near the end internment in those. transient camps are being brainwashed yeah not being allowed to practice in and not aspects of their cultural and english they have. to do some comments being part of these. at the. last international human rights organizations there are. actions in this so called education. given that this is brainwashing given that people are talking about these people having to be force fed a belief system that they don't necessarily believe in of course otherwise they wouldn't be there what happens to them if they come out of the other end of this process while. the chinese have to be quite happy with the experiments. because it reveals. some of which at best they're mocking stock terrorism against its national government those. activiti

right, lizice -- all fong jones. is the online marketplace reaching a saturation point in the u.s.?uarter results point to yes. more ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. "activecore, how's my network?" "all sites are green." all of which helps you do more than your customers thought possible. comcast business. beyond fast. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology; i am emily chang in san francisco. amazon projects lower revenue in the busy fourth quarter, i report that could suggest a online marketplaces richard a saturation point in the u.s.. slow revenuehowed growth quarter over quarter including online and subscription sales and its fast-growing ad business. still come osha point out, amazon shares are still up 50% this year. job andgaro left his amazon in january and is now ceo of his new co

at this time, i'd like to bring up reverend norman fong, the executive director of chinatown community development, to say a few words and talk about the incredible work they continue to do to support our seniors. [applause] >> ok. first turn to the person to your left and right and say you are beautiful. you are beautiful. mayor's office of housing. all right. it's a beautiful day in san francisco and we're here at heart of san francisco. this is it. this is where our city grew from. until today, there are still many seniors that live in chinatown in single rooms. i think we can do better. today, we celebrate every -- the mayor. [laughter] and others who added some. of course we want more but today symbolizes the heart of san francisco's showing real compassion for seniors that should not have to suffer at the golden years of their lives. also i i want to celebrate the team. i want to celebrate c.p.a., the community tennis association, seniors themselves who said we need to get more affordable housing. this change of percentage from the 60 to 30% is a big deal. so we have to do more o

emily: all right, liz fong jones. alphabet. thank you so much for stopping by.ing up, is the online marketplace reaching a saturation point in the u.s.? third-quarter results point to yes. more details ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." i am emily chang in san francisco. amazon reported sales that missed projected estimates. amazon projects lower revenue in the busy fourth quarter, i report that could suggest a online marketplaces richard a -- marketplaces reached a saturation point in the u.s.. the company showed slow revenue growth quarter over quarter including online and subscription sales and its fast-growing ad business. revenue climbed to 29% down from 39% growth last quarter, and missing estimates. shares are still up 50% this year. bobby figaro left his job and amazon in january and is now ceo of his new company, gradient. he joins us from seattle. also with me in san francisco, our bloomberg tech senior executive editor, brent jones. is there a saturation in the market right now? >> no, i don't think so. amazon shares we

it is interesting fong the coach didn't mention coach durkin during his remarks today but expressed his support for the dathleticector instead. >> all right. we hopeor there's information coming soon about all of this. all the changes. thanks. >>> boston's notorious ggster whitey bulger found dead in his prison cell toda investigators say he was killed but did not say how. he took part in 11 murders. there was a warning about the hazelton prison in west virginia ere he died. there's been a report about the safety of inmates in hazelton. >> reporter: d.c. doesn't have its own prison so felons are shipped across the country to spen time. one of every six inmates in that prison are from here in d.c. ane weearned just weeks ago, there was a memo warning ofro safetyems at the prison. inmates reported daily beatings or stabbings. some security broke is notow folled and at least twice since april, inmates have be stabbed or killed. and it makes it difficult for them. they're concerned about staff shortages and last weeky they said tre concerned about the risk of attack. back to you. >>ll ghrit

i also want at that thank reverend norman fong for being here, and the edwin m. lee democratic club who has carried his honor as well. this is a really special time for us, and we have so many other elected officials who wanted to be part of this because he was so instrumental in each and every one of us that are up here this morning, so we'll be acknowledging our city assess or-recorder, carmen chiu, the press of the board of supervisors, malia cohen, and our very own mayor of san francisco, london breed. so thank you all for being here and joining us this morning. and we couldn't do so much of the work that we do without the leadership at the helm, so i want to it is thank our superintendent of schools, dr. vince matthews, who's always been supportive, particularly for this transition and new name change for the edwin and anita lee newcomers school. i just want to start with a few opening remarks because this -- this particular ceremony was pushed up because i'm going to be leaving for new york on october the 5 to start a new position in the new york department

emily merase helped with the naming of the anita fong centennial library. this is a language lab and library created by the rotary club of san francisco chinatown and which is located really right under our feet. it's on the second floor, and i welcome you to go and view it yourself. so these are two things that emily has helped make happen at this school, so emily, could you come up here at this time? >> i just wanted to being acknowledge that this representation here from the chinese consulate, miss lee, and the office of katey tang, thank you for being here today. i really wanted to come up here and give a huge shout out to principal victor tam, and anita louie who i call a force of nature for bringing us here today. so let's give them a big hand. it's really their effort that will ensure that generations of students will be writing book reports on anita and edwin lee, and that countless families throughout san francisco will learn about their school, whether they're picking up their enrollment guide or passing by in the alley, that this is an important

we do expect commissioner fong to be absent today. first on the agenda is case number 2017-the nx. at 150 executive park boulevard.

. >> commissioner fong: if you don't mind, can i ask a question on that point, please, mr. may? is there the potential of getting as many units in one floor? >> if they took off a story, is that what you are saying? >> did i understand your question correctly? >> if you eliminate the ground floor retail. >> if you eliminate it all together, i don't know off the on the of my head. >> 6,000 square feet. >> it doesn't occupy the whole floor plate. so no. and i think the project -- >> i understand there is a concern about, you know, height, but respectfully van ness is not a great location for ground floor residential use. in fact, i used to live around the corner from this site. incident tally, i had to move because i couldn't find a place to buy, but the character of the ground floor along van ness here is retail or parking or lobbies. and we actually think that retail would enliven this areaened i understand the comment there isn't a lot here. maybe we should add three spaces between 1.8 and 2.2 and see if we can get three tenants. i would say that the building across the street

commissioners fong, melgar, and hillis voted against and subsequently continued that matter to today. >> good afternoon, commissioners. david weissglass, planning department staff. the request before you is arequest for -- a request for conditional use authorization -- the location -- located in the divisadero street commercial financial district and currently vacant, but most recently occupied by health haven, a grocery store. as commission secretary stated, it was previously heard on september 6 and a motion of intent to disapprove was made. it was continued yet again on september 27 without a hearing. in total, from the -- before the previous hearing on september 6 and since, the department has received a total of 29 letters of support. a support petition signed by 359 residents, and a petition signed by 30 local merchants. in addition, the project sponsor has provided additional documentation regarding the wage disputes as well as documentation on their work trade programs, and i have some of those documents if you would like to see them. the department has received a total of 120

we do expect commissioner fong to be absent today. first on the agenda is case number 2017-the nx. at 150 executive park boulevard. a design review was originally proposed for continuance to october 18th, 2018. it is now proposed for continuance until october 25th , 2018. item number 2 at green street. discretionary review as proposed for continuance until november 29th, 2018. further commissioners under the regular calendar. items 13 a and b. at 3140- 315,016th street conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance to november 15th, 2018. that comes from the project sponsor i have no other items proposed for continuance. >> president hillis: thank you apologies for getting started late. we had a closed session before this that went longer than we expected. any public comment on the items being proposed for continuance including a 1013? i have one speaker card. but if others would like to speak, now is your opportunity. >> i've never done this before. so i missed what you said. the continuance date. >> clerk: october 25th. >> president hillis: it is different then what is

commissioner fong? >> okay. well, it seems maybe in a scale of city, a minor thing. this is an important piece to san francisco, and i'll start off by the union square in the central business district to me, and i think in the history of san francisco has been about street vibrancy, and whether that's shopping there as shopping, a tourist, taking someone up stairs, taking someone to the tailor or somewhere in the area is what's brought the street life. you go there tonight, and you see some pop up performance at union square, a musical performance, and so i think that's important. i think also -- these are just kind of random thoughts, that union square, we've actually made it suitable for office largely because of transit. with market street right there, central subway kind of putting through perpendicular, it's a perfect place to put some office. i think we have to be careful when we say office, that can be a very different type of use than a floor full of cubicles and people going away. i do think we need some controls, and i'm not opposed to a fee, but i do think

. >> just rolls off your fong. >> it does. >> it rolls off two people's tongues who we're about to talko very smoothly others say they would not favor a restrictive policy without clear signs of an overheating economy. joining us now cnbc contributor richard firer, senior adviser at barb claes and former president of the dallas fed and also with us fresh mishkin, economics professor and former fed board governor richard, if i start with you, let's focus in on that lines, modestly restrictive what do you make of that i mean, the dollar jumped a little bit, so slightly hawkish. >> well, first, wilfred, you silver-tongued devil you you say things so beautifully. we'll try to repeat this fred mishkin is one of the most articulate people i know so i'm third base here but not home run. first of all, obviously they are where they want to be or better where they thought they would be in terms of the economy. we have 3.7% unemployment. the inflation rate is hovering had a little bit above 2%, but that's acceptable. they undershot it for quite a while. if anything the signs tell you that the pres