i don't know that we had a houser has mayor quite the way we have with mayor lee. for many of you, probably know this since the day he was in law school, representing tenants in chinatown, to make sure their living conditions were what they needed to be, he has been there from the very beginning and from the day and well before, no one had to explain to ed lee what affordable housing was for or why it mattered or what was important about it or why you needed to support it? so we have done something unbelievable in san francisco this past year under his leadership; which is despite the fact that the state has seen fit to remove literally a billion dollars in affordable housing funding from the dissolution of redevelopment agencies, no other mayor, no other board of supervisors stood up and said we're going to change the story. so with our board's leadership and with the mayor's leadership and with the support of many donors and many committed political folks, we passed an unbelievable measure that will provide funding for affordable housing here in san francisco. it

i understand the department is in a tough situation in the in law units but those are affordable houser areas of our city and i personally will have a hard time supporting the assessment based on someone beingpermits. - it doesn't give them the ability to fix it and we're potentially pitting two residents on the street because of that. i have concerns about this process overall and i'm not supportive of moving in this direction. it doesn't provide a solution over safety issues >> i want to concur as well. there's in my district on this list there are scores of in law units where you have whole families living in a single in law unit. we know that realty is there are people living there and the reeled in my district there are people who can't afford to pay their mortuary. it's not permitted. i think the city needs to figure out how we can understand how to create flexibility in our districts so we can maintain housing that's affordable for the property owners and other folks who couldn't pay their mortuaries. it's not always about making extra money. so i know it's not just this

syria's chemical weapons could become a catastrophic security houser to the west should assad's regime fall the ukase intelligence service chief says the most worrying emerging terrorist threat is if the callicles fall into the hands of radical jihad us who have been attracted to that conflict meanwhile the head of the un chemical weapon fact finding mission has up to the syrian government's invitation to visit a small part of that country this is after russia had said that it found proof that it was the rebels not the government forces who had used sarin gas in aleppo now lavrov are dismissed washington's claims that damascus was to blame claiming that it was actually based on flawed analysis meanwhile u.s. lawmakers are holding back on promised arms supplies to the syrian opposition and the weapons could end up in the wrong hands anti-war campaigner richard becker told us that moscow's findings should be enough for washington to reconsider its pledge of the lethal support to the rebels. it's totally should be an eye opener for everyone who has any doubts about what's going on the thi

>> reporter adriana houser has more information on injuries and what investigators are saying about the blast. >> reporter: maureen, good morning. the scene here is very different from the scene we saw last night. last night we saw huge flames. we saw a series of explosions and then a huge fire. it took more than 60 firefighters to control the blaze. about 20 ems workers and none of them was injured. we had the opportunity to listen to the fire chief for the city of tavarez. he confirmed there's eight people in the hospital. we don't known the extent of the injuries. but there's eight people in local hospitals. he confirmed that fortunately there were no fatalities. authorities here in tavares are calling this a blessing. they are calling it a miracle givens -- given the circumstances. we had the opportunity to see where this occurred. the blaze has been put out. it's thousands of propane cylinders inside the facility at the time of the explosion. we spoke to the mayor, mayor robert wolf, and he said the plant was operational, functional but had been shut down for now. the focus now shi

. >> cnn's adrian na houser is at the scene there in tavaras, florida.eporter: good afternoon, brooke. the scene here is different than the dramatic scene we saw late last night. the fire has been put out. we have confirmation from fire chief richard keith that the fire is completely out. he also said that eight people had been injured initially we reported seven. there is eight people in local hospitals. we don't know the nature of those injuries. we don't know the extent of those injuries. we also know that 20 emergency workers responded. 60 firefighters also responded to the scene. not one injury among the responders. so this community is actually relieved because this situation could have been a lot worse. now the attention focuses on the investigation, and they're starting to emerge some clues. >> we don't think that there was any act of sabotage or anything like that. we honestly think it was probably an equipment failure with the combination of maybe human error from one of the staff. >> reporter: brooke, authorities here in tavares said about 53,

the chair: pursuant to houseres. lution 312, the gentleman from colorado, mr. lamb born, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. mr. lamborn: thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment prohibits funds in this bill from being used to on environmental study intercontinental ballistic missiles. you might think that an environmental impact study or e.i.s. sounds inockwouse but let me lay out the facts. the obama administration has made it clear that they believe in nuclear zero, a world without nuclear weapons. it sounds like a wonderful idea but our competitors and adversaries will almost certainly never give up their nuclear weapons. until our adversaries have a change of heart this could be disastrous. nothing we have done today has made our adversaries reduce their nuclear programs. they've been increasing. countries like iran and north carolina. in president obama's second berlin speech a few yeeks ago, he anouned the desire to reduce america's arsenal by one third, regardless of what the russians, the iranians, or anyone else does. it's in this con