presentation by iris hue who is the chair of spark sf public schools, genera jenna who is our and cole haggerty who is our director. i want to give people some background. you'll see in front of you, you have our annual report as well as the presentation that we are doing here as soon as i can advance the slide deck. so we started spark as a district. there have been several ways over the past that private philanthropy have come into san francisco unified to support specific efforts. spark began after the district did a comprehensive visioning process with the community. that visioning process asked the question, what do our students need from their education? what does sfusd need to look like to make that happen? part of that visioning process, we looked at the major shifts that would need to happen in order to arrive at our vision 2025. one of those big shifts is to align our investments. so that is a big task both to align all of the investments that are public resources but also to really align our private and philanthropic resources because we know that the public resources alone are not e

if you want to know when it last rained during beta breakers, charlie haggerty is a good person to act. >> probably 1909. it was a tough one, rained all race. '98 was another rainy day. >> reporter: how does charlie know this? >> this is my niece breyona and she's running with me as i run my 35th consecutive beta breakers. >> reporter: that's right, 35. in those three plus decades, he can only remember it raining twice. in 2011 he said the rain stopped just before the race started. >> here's hoping that happens tomorrow. >> you bet, absolutely. >> reporter: even if the rain gods aren't on their side, runners don't really seem to care. >> it's so alive, the race itself. there are so many people. 'sart of it, too.e the naked op. >> the whole san francisco culture. this is what california is about. >> reporter: right now the only change organizers have made is the time people should arrive here. instead of the crowds opening at 6:00 a.m., it's opening at vef hour more to stay dry. >>> some runners are making changes. they're no longer going to bring their 2-year-old son. >> might get wet,

the united states ambassador to japan, william haggerty, and commander of the united states forces in japan as well. >> the president on this trip, certainly the issues of trade. trade will be front and center. also the issues of national security. the alliance between the united states and japan with the threat of north korea, other threats. let's bring in gina reinhart, gina again with us to give us perspective on what is happening. and we're seeing japan roll out the red carpet for donald trump. ivan watson pointed out there will be golf, sumo wrestling, this as natalie pointed out will be more about ceremony than substance. but here is the question. how important is this for japan? because we've seen other nations, we've seen france roll out the red carpet for the u.s. president and relations deteriorated to some degree. so does japan run the same risk of france in courting this u.s. president? >> i don't think japan -- i don't think this japan runs the same risk. and i think that is because abe is much closer to donald trump in terms of some of the things that he would like to ac

ambassador haggerty and i co-authored an editorial in a japanese newspaper about the importance of partnering. virtually every one of our major allies has a development finance institution, so the idea that we alone would be financing development is something i really try and push back on to the skeptical middle americans who say, well, hang on a minute. $60 billion, that's insane. this is a federal guarantee of new private capital investment and if it's syndicated, if it's done in partnership with the japanese and australians or koreans and indians, norwegians and germans, we could do a lot in a -- we could do a lot of good in a lot of countries demonstrating development deals positive for our partner country and meets sort of environmental trends and what they look like. we're not going to match the announced numbers of belton road, but we can certainly put our best foot forward. how do you i explain to our applies the attention between -- applies the tension between some of the president's recent trade actions and how i talk about values. it's a fundamental challenge. we have ideas where p