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. >> the san francisco lafco has been approached by other bay area lafcos to be the hos city for upcoming staff workshop. every year the association rotates around through the different regions and do the staff and commissioners workshop. in april 2014 the coastal region which is the one san francisco is in is host to do the staff workshop and the other bay area lafcos asked if we can host the conference and he day and usually in april. dates are to be determined and i am giving information about it and seeing if this body would be interested in accepting the host. in discussion with the other lafcos they recognize they will join in and normally they put it on and to put it together. in this case several of the groups will get together. generally they get 75 to a hundred staff to come in as part of the conversation. san francisco ourselves we are responsible for making sure we have meeting space, personally given the size and the conference we could probably host it within city hall and not go outside to rent space. there is no cost to the host lafco and done through the state association

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caller: 45 minutes outside of the city. ho bank did you feel the impact of the town?- host: did you feel the impact of the town? caller: a little bit. my friends have a generator. ho bank freak storm or climate change? conveying i am going to go with climate change. we do not have a lot of hurricanes like that. like down a south there used to that but we are not. and more frequently we have been having hurricanes and tornadoes. i am leaning more towards climate change given that this is not just random but a reoccurrence. hoping to chris in it, mantegna, new jersey. -- host: chris in new jersey. what you think? caller: i think they should go and help them dig out from the blizzard in west virginia. host: the former president said this is due to global warming. caller: the rest and all of the eco nazis. it is an act of god. god did it. i know the storm largely affected the liberal northeast. maybe we should have a more civil unions and game marriages. maybe that will help. host: we must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. dirty energy makes a

city home openers. sherrie johnson joins us and people are going to want to know how to get aid hoed -- get ahold of thedit. >> reporter: it's a short application and city council members are afraid thousands will let it go by. look at. this this is a sample of the homestead tax credit application. homeowners need to answer five questions and mail it back by the end of the year. the credit limits the annual property tax increase on your main home. now it was automatic until a law was passed saying all home own verse to fill out a one- time --homeowners have to fill tout a one-time am dation -- fill out a one-time application. it's good for your primary home only and you've had five years to fill out the application but in baltimore city alone 25,000 people are at risk of losing the credit. on average that's $1,000 a year. >> so anyone who has not applied for homestead tax credit will not get it when the taxes come next july 1 property taxes, it will be without that discount. >> reporter: the city held a news conference but statewide home openers are asked to fill out the application. it's sim foal quest

ho ♪ green giant . >>> we're learning more about that nanny in new york city accused of killing two children with tiesbay area. friends and family of 50-year-old yoselyn ortega say she's been having financial and emotional problems but still don't know why she attack the children. the mother of the children found her 3-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter stabbed to death in the family's manhattan apartment on thursday. police say ortega was lying nearby with self-inflicted stab wounds. the krim family previously lived in san francisco for seven years. the children's father is a yahoo executive who currently works for cnbc. we're back after the break with more on that tsunami warning in if he can for much of the west coast and a change in the forecast for halloween as well. [ taste buds ] donuts, donuts, donuts! who are these guys? oh, that's just my buds. bacon, donuts. -my taste buds. -[ taste buds ] waffles. how about we try this new kind of fiber one cereal? you think you're going to slip some fiber by us? rookie. okay. ♪ nutty clusters and almonds, ♪ ♪ almonds. ♪ fiber one is gonna make you smile

two of the others, the two others will ho will be tried here in new york city are accused of taking partbombings of two u.s. embassies. one in insurance buy, kenya, and one in tans knee a the two who will be tried in connecticut are accused of setting up a web site trying to raise cash for fighters in afghanistan and trying to recruit fighters to go there. so these are going to be some very big, very significant terrorist trials right here in new york city and new haven connecticut, harris. >> harris: jonathan, thank you very much. here at home a meningitis outbreak. it is spreading. health officials are calling it a rare and deadly form of meningitis that has killed at least five people so far, doctors reporting the infection in the states you see here in yellow on the map. michigan joined that list today. clinic in minnesota is reporting at least four patients are showing symptoms of the disease. doctors say they have to perform more tests to confirm exactly what those people have the concerns for disease control injections for back pain. the federal food and drug administration is rer

ahead of sandy, so much attention paid to atlantic city, in and around the areas we have news, a dam has been breeched near the community, near the county. ho hoboken would be a good landmark. a thousand plus homes expected to be affected by this. >> closer to home, when you think about a storm, you worry about your safety and property. that includes power outages. the latest situation from bge, under 200,000 people are without power, they restored power to over 77,000, that is something to keep in mind. should you lose power, that's a possibility today. we will pass along a number to you, we are told time and time again from the folks from bge, don't assume they know you lost power. 877-778-2222. they have brought in 3000 workers from out of state to help with this and help get the power restored. they have restored power to over 77,000 people. >> talking about the power outages, we are down to 198,000 now. they were at 217,000 outages and it dropped down to 212. bge made a pledge to customers, they were not going to allow what happened then, to happen again. 750,000 people left in the dark back in july. you had the heat of the summer ther

tell their stories and tenants ho have come out to our bedbug working group meetings to make sure that we're getting it right and the input that we're giving to the city and county is the input that reflects what tenants really feel and the experiences that they are going through and some of the solutions that they have come up to make this process work better. my name is josh vining. i'm a community organization with the sro collaborative at dolores street services. dolores street and the sro collaborative realized that tenants were confused and that landlords were confused and people weren't quite sure what their responsibilities were and their role in getting rid of bedbug infestations. so we started to meet in the mission just to start of make that clear who was responsible for. what and we started to identify some gaps that were in the system. and when we looked at what was happening in other parts of city and talked to some of our other community advocate groups we found there was confusion there as well. so to identify some of the gaps that this were and to see what sort of recommendations we could put forth as suggestions for city policy. and

ho hopefully make peace. >>> welcome to the special show. it's no denying that there is a rift between the san jose city hall and the san jose police department. i want to bring both sides together to kind of talk about the issues at length. stay away from 10 to 15-second sound bites and hopefully discuss the issues in-depth here. i'm not sure when the last time was that both sides got together table like this without consultants or anybody else and shook hands and said let's settle that. >> it depends on what you mean by both sides. the city manager is responsible for negotiations with the various unions including the police union over contract matters and so those meetings continue on a regular basis because we have a contract coming up that needs to be negotiated. those are ongoing. there are a lot of issues to talk about in contract negotiations. >> at some time you would imagine the manager would say let me meet with them and discuss the issues and get to the nitty-gritty. >> that's not the way it works in san jose. our charter sets it up differently. our charter gives responsibility for bargaining to the city manager under the direction

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ho ♪ green giant >>> good morning. i'm kris sanchez. we have a lineup f events in the bay m up to a million people expected to head to the city for the italianrade. let's go to mike inouye if traffic details. >> we deal with all the traffic activity. here is the bay bridge, light at the toll plaza. look at this. we have reports of one and possibly two cars with flat tires as you approach the "s" curve. another major concern is camel state park. we are expecting the tailgaters to arrive early for the game. kris, there you go. >> thank you very much, mike. stay with us, we have complete coverage at www.nbcbayarea.com. also on facebook and twitter. >>> they are this year's recipients of the la familia award. judy and with us is michael gross, a board member for the santa visit foundationlet welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> judy, you and i spoke last week when we were doing our exclusive report on your family and success. your reaction, first of all to be honored as this year's family of the year. >> over whelmed. >> tell us why? >> i thought we were a small portion of the event. to be acknowledged like thi

. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant >>> oakland is showing its pride in the a's. the team flag is flying atop citylot more oakland colors, as they compete in the division series. >> i can't remember the last time i heard a crowd like that at the coliseum. >> truly one of the great comeback stories in baseball. with 9 games to play, they were 5 games out of first place. tonight, they're american league champions. it all came down to game 162. the a's had battled back from a 5-1 deficit, then got a gift here in the 4th. josh hamilton nonchalants the ball. it's a 6 run inning, and the a's lead 7-5, if there was any doubt, they put it away with a four run 8th, brandon moss singles with the bases loaded. three runs come home. texas falling apart in the game that would decide the division championship. for the second time in three games, the a's had a chance to celebrate on the field. today, it was to complete one of the most unlikely division championships in major league history. 12-5 the final. as the team picked by many to lose 100 games at the beginning of the year, instead wins 94. >> hope and bel

city and county of san francisco. and thank you all for coming out. (applause) i have a motion to... call to order. >> >> roll call, dorine woo ho? >> here. >> kimberly brandon? >> here. katz? here. >> approval of the september, 25th, 2012. >> move approval. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> item three, public comment and executive session. no one is here. executive session. >> so moved. >> second. >> >> move for executive session. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> be advised that the use of cell phones and pagers and similar sound producing electronics devices are prohibited at this meeting. the chair may order the removal from the meeting room for any person responsible for the use of electronic device. please be advised that the member of the public has up to three minutes to make comments, unless they adopt a shorter item >> item a. executive report. >> good afternoon, members of the public, port staff. thank you for joining us today. the very first one is to announce the addition of a new open space in the ports portfolio which is one and a half acres at herron's head park. this was a park that was awarded by the 2

ho ♪ green giant >> and now weather and traffic together. >> good morning. let us bring you up-to-date. one problem. traveling in the cityaski street, a crash of there. otherwise of to speed. a problem free toward 795. a trip on the west side -- 57 miles per hour. 57 on 295 as your perch 100. 64 miles per hour on a southbound i-95 through howard county. problem 48free on 32. continuing to move well down toward 32. and a live view of traffic and harford county. checks out ok here. problem free on the rest of the major roadways. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. nadya latest on the trains. >> happy friday. we are moving along nicely with no delays on the marc train. metro on schedule. 311 buses diverging at charles and 28. major bus diversions tomorrow beginning at 7:00 a.m. and last throughout the day. mta encouraging you to ride light rail. for more information -- visit mta.maryland.gov. >> thank you. another chilly morning. it is born to get even colder. 50 degrees downtown. 41 at bwi. 44 currently in pikesville. if you clouds today. it will be breezy. winds northwest, 10 to 20 miles per hour. up to 30 miles per h

currently our city's law requires that we hold 10% in retention for every single progress payment made on public works contracts and we're withholding a large amount of payment to contractor [ho-z/] are completing work on time and in good condition. what this proposal would do would be to decrease the required retense from a rate of 10% to 5% for all contracts moving forward. for those contracts that are already in place begining from january 12th through the effective day the retention can be step down to 5% if the contractor requests it and the approval -- the department approves it. the legislation also preserves the flexibility for complex projects, so the city can do that so long as it's no more than 10%. so colleagues i think this is logical and makes sense and really helps the smaller businesses who can't afford to really carry the cost of retention. thank you. >> colleagues can we take this item same house, same call without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading item 23. >> item 23 is a resolution responding to the presiding judge of superior court on the findings and recommendations contained in the 2011-2012 civil grand jury report entitled "surcharge

ho. even after the pipe was repd and service was restored, officials warned people whoe on the island to boil tap wr before drinking it. the citysting the water to find out if it's contaminat. results won't be available l monday. tomorrow new recruits with e san jose fire department wie begin their trai . >>> tomorrow new recruits with the san jose fire department will begin their training. 33 new firefighters will train for a year-and-a-half. that is large east number the city has ever instructed at the same time. that is being made possible by a grant from fema. soon the department will have about 680 firefighters, close to the number it had four years ago before the budget problem set in. the giants on a roll. you may have heard. >>> this week is the world series. >> yes. they shout out the detroit tigers in game 3 last night 2- 0. degeneres has more -- dennis o'donnell has more. >> reporter: yes. not since 1986 had a world series had back-to-back shutouts. prince fielder here, scutaro, crawford, double play. the giants got out of the inning unscathed. scoreless in the 2nd inning , hunter pence is on base. drive to the gap o

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ho. now it is time for traffic. >> no major major issues. the other issues we were seeing have cleared up. but still two problems bought one and gwynn oak, and other in the city. we will carry live look outside. this is the west side of the beltway at baltimore national pike. the outer loop is coming towards us and starting to increase in volume. pretty typical. the harrisburg expressway is open and a fine. >> keeping an eye on a sandy. >> we on track to see two elements of two storms come in. a cold front from the west. regardless of where it makes landfall, we will be involved. sunday late into monday it will get to windy, times of heavy rain and chilly temperatures. just buckle down and we will fine-tune that through the weekend. >> thank you for joining us for 11 news today. >> we are back for an update

ho ♪ green giant >> live from the kgo broadcast center, this is abc7 news. >> topping our newscast this half-hour, five terrorism suspects appeared in court in new york cityed to the united states from england. take a look at some video of the suspects' attorneys leaving court yesterday. aaron has the latest. >> radical person stood before the judge facing federal charges of conspiring to set up a terror training camp in oregon and kidnapping 16 tourists in yemen, two americans. >> very dangerous individual. not just inspired but worked operationally. charged having terrorist attacks being carried out against americans? >> the the 90s, the prosecutor said he turned the mosque into a breeding ground for extremists, attracting men like the 9/11 terrorists and including richard read, the shoe bomber. >> he was preaching hatred and preaching jihad and probably terrorism week and week out to thousands of young british muslims. >> he fought extradition to the united states while jailed in britain for inciting racial ojeda threat and encouraging them to kill anonymous leams. he was on a plane and bound for the u.s. a waiting trial with him are two other suspects

city right now. >> just down the street from this location, amazing pictures from this unlicensed ho ed hote was torn apart. just down the road is headquarters. we were allowed up into their war room. they call it the situation room. he told me that south of 29th street is blacked out with a few little spots. and on the east side is 39th street. it could take up to four days to get complete restoration of power. those areas could take as much as ten days. so unusually long amount of time. he said this is the worst he has ever seen it. worse than irene. this is a frustrating situation to him. it has all to do with underground infrastructure. i shouldn't say only because that would be a record breaking storm surge. we had one that was higher than that. that's the main reason that it will take so long. >> some of those areas deliberately shut down power out of precaution. explain what happened. >> it is convenient because you don't have wires aboveground. but during a flooding situation that can spell big problems and it did. so they will shut down some of the stations as a precautionary measure and sae

ho many storms he's seen. this one caught him by surprise. unbelievable. >> it was the perfect storm. sandy fueled a massive fire in queens, one of the most destructive in the history of the cityis beyond heartbreaking. the wind-driven flames ripped through block after block, destroying more than 100 homes, 111 are the latest count. firefighters managed to rescue two dozen people, but the floodwaters kept them from tackling the blaze full on. before it was over, the neighborhood was unrecognizable reduced to nothing but smouldering ash. part of your life got ripped out of you? >> that's a good description. >> i have over 34 years on the job. i have never seen this before. this amount of devastation. >> amazingly there only a few minor injuries. breezy point was also devastated on 9/11, losing 37 residents, including firefighters in the world trade center. also the home currently to a representative in congress as well. >> and just take a look at that video. it's apocalyptic, the scenes there. in all, 111 homes all burned. they don't know the cause just yet. that is look a movie scene out of there. out of all the horrible scenes we are going to see from the aftermath. the fire