supervisor kim: thank you. >> we have been talking to supervisor of jane kim. watch for the next episode when we will be back. >> on december 28, 1912. san francisco mayor, sonny jim rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the city transit system like the city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people.

>> that's right, kim.e in beijing, north korea has had few friends for a long time, but china has always been one of them. western diplomats believe china could hold the leverage point to solve the situation diplomatically. because china could literally cut the taps off to north korea, with fuel and food supplies. but on the chinese side, they face this balancing act, because china wants the status quo to remain. they believe the dictatorship in north korea could help them here, and provide a buffer against u.s. troops in the korean peninsula. so while china should be the leverage point, they don't want to push too hard. let's hear from moscow and phil black. >> thank you, david. the russian government said its representative and all other foreign ambassadors in pyongyang have been advised by a north korean official to consider packing up their embassies and pulling out their people. this has seemed to taken russia by surprise. the foreign minister here said what is this exactly? is it a direct order from

you didn't know kim jong-un. do you feel the same love and devotion to him that you felt to kim jong-il, just by watching this television? yes, i feel the same. he looks like kim il-sung, exactly like his grandfather. he's the same. he's doing exactly what his grandfather and his father did. the power of propaganda on a people, the power of a regime. remember, this is a woman who risked her life to get out of north korea, to escape this regime. and she's still having this response. wolf, it is certainly a window into us understanding how north korea can continue to exist. >> it really is amazing when you think about it. kyung lah if seoul, thank you for that report. let's bring back our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour, and fareed zakaria. christiane, you see this love supposedly that even this defector still has for the kim dynasty. what does it tell you about that power, that that family wields over the north korean people? >> well, i think that it's infatuation. i've been there. i was in p

so thank you supervisor kim for having that.his is not a sprint we need the time we need to have optioned. thank you >> thank you. >> supervisors we're on record as supporting supervisors wiener's current legislation. this process i guess testament to the degree of importance that we all hold sequa in. it's the standard-bearer of laws in the long run. it serves a good purpose but it's if it's allowed to be abused it's bad. so the fact we're here having this conversation about codifying the process is a wonderful process. i would take a little bit of disagreement about sprinting to the finish line i think we're close to codifying rolls rules for projects and for mitigating the process is important. the sequa process impacts residents who are both neighbors of projects and it has to be fair to both currently it's not fair to either. i think supervisors chu's ideas but we hope in the next couple of weeks it benefits all the residents of the city >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i just wanted to i'm not going to reap the pre

supervisor kim if i can raise one issue. in our discussion before about our election you may have a different prospective. my understanding in reading our election is, in fact, under our legislation the current procedure would remain in place that one, the rec and park commission approvals it there are would be a thirty day window to appeal but in under your legislation the opponent could wait until a building permit was pulled and if there were 3 priltsz pulled would wait under it is employed. it seems like that is something that the facts being what they are we can at least have the same facts at hand >> thank you. >> does the planning did not have any presentation to may make before we get to public comment? >> we haven't prepared a formal presentation but we have not prepared anything. >> maybe i can ask planning staff on that issue we've been talking about the delores park what would trigger the thirty days for the appeal? >> yes, in our reading of the legislation an appeal could be filed once the negative declaration i

. >> thank you, supervisor kim. as i mentioned i'm joined today by our acting ero sarah jones, and you have a detailed case report before you that describes our department's recommendation. the recommendation before you is to support certain portions of the proposal, but not all of the proposal. as i mentioned earlier during my board report this week, on monday when the board committee heard supervisor kim's proposal and supervisor wiener's proposal, supervisor chiu made some amendments to supervisor wiener's proposal which he felt responded to the community concerns. as a result of those amendments, supervisor kim's proposal and supervisor wiener's amended proposal are much closer in content than they were at the time this case report was originally written. therefore, the commission secretary is now providing you with a supplemental memorandum today which compares and contrasts the two current versions. while staff will be available today to go over our detailed analysis as provided in your first case report, for

and not on kim jong-un.e've been hearing that and talking about that for the last several days since this crisis has ratcheted up. i've been speaking to quite a lot of experts, and mike chanoy, who used to be a cnn correspondent and visited there 15 times, who met kim il-sung, and who has been there very recently, he feels the game has changed in north korea. that they're no longer -- they've changed their calculation. they want to be taken seriously as a nuclear state. and so the united states has to come up with some kind of way to deal with this. as he points out and as we know, sanctions, and the, you know, the punishments that have been inflicted on north korea haven't actually worked when it comes to their programs. i mean, they keep testing nuclear devices. and according to the experts, they do get marginally better at it, including their missiles. the united states is not going to go to war over north korea with all those consequences that it would have. so what's the answer? so after this crisis, wh

even as kim jung un could order one missile to launch literally at any time. let's bring in our pentagon correspondent. >> officials just told me they were completely caught off guard that this revelation was put out there in an open hearing. the holy grail has always been able to take a nuclear bomb, which we know they have, and making it small enough to fit on the end of a missile. this assess. suggests they may learned how to do so. rev laxs from a new development show he may be capable of following through. the north currently has weapons capable of delivery. >> congressman quoted from a new intelligence assessment. >> whatever it takes to put it on top of a missile. there is some degree of confidence, moderate confidence, that that can be done by north korea. >> and to try to lower temperatures. nobody wants to see a conflict on the korean pe ninsz la. >> if true, the revelations give new weight. >> the u.s. believes north korea has one missile on the launch pad. u.s. officials say after initially raising the launcher, they lowered thursdays. but they're

plus, kim jong-un's family secrets. how he rose to power over his brothers and his insecurities right now and a clear and direct threat to america. very strong words. the troops are preparing for the worst. >>> a u.s. official tells us that a launch of north korea's missiles may be imminent and it may happen without the usual warning to planes and ships in the region. that's a very, very dangerous scenario. defensive missiles are now poised in japan, in south korea and on guam where there are 6,000 troops. the united states says it will track any missiles launched by kim jong-un and quickly decide whether to shoot them down. our correspondents are covering this from around the world. we're being joined this hour and being followed by every new development. first, let's go to our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence for the very latest. >> reporter: wolf, a u.s. official says north korea could test a mobile ballistic missile at any time. what happens after that depends on where that test takes place. the u.s. has been p

gradually though kim changed his tone.e made it clear that he would maintain the military first policy of his father. in december, north korean authorities launched what they called a rocket to put a satellite into orbit. but most countries agree what they fired off was a ballistic missile. then two months later -- >> translator: we've just succeeded in our third nuclear test. >> reporter: kim went ahead with another nuclear test, defying leaders from around the world. and he wasn't done. >> translator: we'll nullify the 1953 armistice that ended the korean war. >> reporter: kim was tired of foreign leaders telling him what to do. >> translator: the more they threaten us, the more we'll continue to obtain nuclear arms. >> reporter: those leaders have spent the past year trying to understand kim. but they agree they still don't know him. or what he'll do next. nhk world. >>> officials in pyongyang say an industrial part between the two koreas may disappear and they're blaming south korean president park geun-hye. she critic

who is kim's link to china? it has to be part of the family. >> reporter: he oversees some of the state-run trading companies which mine reserves like coal and iron othre. the profits come back to kim. >> he can cut the deal with china. he has a lot of credibility with the chinese. >> reporter: trade with china is booming, from $1 billion a few years ago to $5 billion now. >> we have counted for the weapons and the minerals. how else is he getting money? >> through ill lis it trast transactions. >> reporter: exporting illegal drugs, even counterfeiting old ben franklin. the north gets more from tourism and foreign investment. but wolf, he says in a country that doesn't get any taxes from its citizens and really is not connected to the international world trading market, it's the minerals and the weapons that are the cash cows keeping kim in power. >> chris lawrence, good report. thanks very much. >>> u.s. officials warn one miscalculation could lead to disaster. cnn's tom foreman, will break it down in our visua

i do feel i want to forward to supervisor kim's legislation. the real compromise is on land use and we want to help them make some determinations on issue areas. what commissioner antonini has suggested is staff's recommendation. let me try something out with staff. i would like to forward it with staff's recommendation with exceptions and i think there is a couple areas where i want to see further examination or i don't know if the commission wants to make hard line exceptions. for me i want to see further examination of the notification. what's feasible or under what time period it would be feasible to do more of what supervisor kim is requesting out of the notification. for me i also want to -- i would like to recommend to the land use committee to examine this question to recommend approval while the appeal is pending and also the amendment of the priority project. >> commissioner hillis? >> i would agree to recommend staff's moves recommendation and i agree to exploring. i would want to kick it down the curb and ask that we explore additio

is money to kim jong un?he keep the ee leets happy. >> reporter: north korea has its own version of the 1%. kim needs that money stream to keep them on his side. fortunately for kim, north korea has legal goods and a willing trade partner right next door. who is kim's link to china? >> it has to be jong. >> and jong is part of the family. kim elevated his ufrpg toll number two. he oversees some of the state run trading companies which mine reserves like coal and iron ore. he uses connections to sell minerals to china and the profits come back to kim. >> this is a man that can cut the dweel china. hae he has a lot of credibility with china. >> reporter: trade with china is booming from $1 billion a few years ago to $5 billion now. if you account for the weapons and minerals, how else is he getting money? >> he's getting it through illicit transactions. >> reporter: officials say north korea is exporting illegal drugs like meth, producing knockoffs of popular cigarettes and pharmaceutical drugs, even counterfei

so, i would like to support supervisor kim's ordinance. thank you. >> thank you. >>> good afternoon, howard wong. we want to commend supervisor kim for reaching out to as many people who wanted to participate in her process, and the over 40 organizations that helped guide her current legislation, which is still evolveinging. as several people mentioned, the two pieces of legislation are coming together. we'd like to see that the two legislations be moved together to allow them both to continue to evolve. in particular, many of us feel that the primary goal of an environmental review and public processes is not professional architects like myself, commissioners, legislators, or official, but for the average citizen and for the disenfranchised and disadvantaged communities. at monday's land use committee, i was struck by some testimony from people in low-income housing projects, people in the bayview and hunters point said, mr. mill et said they're not professional people. they have a very great difficulty even learning or understanding abou

jane kim is introducing legislation tomorrow. people by right would like to see both side by side compared and would like to look at this and [speaker not understood] the best part for both pieces of legislation could be combined . i think that would be a fair thing for the public to look at as this has been a difficult process and a quick process, and as howard wong said earlier, ~ people don't get it. i'm going to bring up what i think was extremely unfair categorical exemption. it's, the soccer field in golden gate park were listed under different lot numbers and they were supposed to be supposedly nothing more than another grass hill. turned out it was going to be a thousand-seat stadium with lighting. this was all found out by nancy warfol. so, i appreciate what she has done and you can see that this process can be abused. i think when i talk to citizens, they're very worried that a project after it has gone through the ceqa process will be changed. this gives people the right to sugar coat a project and then after the proje

he's the third of the kim dynasty. a man not yet 30. in charge of the ballistic missiles and the world's fourth largest army. but kim jong-un is an enigma and a dangerous one at that. the youngest son of kim jong-il he had a privileged upbringing while millions of north koreans starved. attending a boarding school in switzerland under a false name. a classmate remembers him as a shy teenager. >> he was very quiet. he didn't speak with anyone. he was competitive at sports. he didn't like to lose. >> he liked basketball and football and video games. his father had served a long apprenticeship before taking over the kingdom. but kim jong-un became a general in his 20s without serving a day in the military. when his father died in 2011, kim jong-un became supreme leader and the propaganda machine went into overdrive. >> they had been trying to establish his expertise, he speaks eight language, he's a military genius. >> reporter: and a leader with the complete backing of the military. in the first public remarks as leader he spoke of the he

son. >> kim jong-il was said to have been born on the sacred mountain. this is where by korean legend the korean nation began many thousands of years ago. >> the small mountain cabin where it claims his mother gave birth is today a shrine. >> in fact he was born in russia when his father was with the russian military. >> by the early 1980s it seems that he had carved out a really significant niche himself within the power structure. >> kim jong-il was a compare tore of funds to a lot of people in the western world because he was short and had the beau font hair and wore elevator shoes. he was in truth a very brutal dictator. >> he had incredibly expensive taste from everything from alcohol to cigarettes to expensive boats. >> it was often reported he liked american culture. >> he loved american film. he supposedly had a library of many thousands of films. he once had a south korean actress his favorite south korean actress abducted. she was kidnapped from the beach in hong kong and taken to north korea and required to become basically his actress slave.

okay, you can start. >>> supervisor kim's alternative needs to be considered. i'm also concerned about supervisor wiener's apparent use of horror stories and representative horror stories to make his case. watching this process, i was reminded of lord falkland's wisdom. he said, it is not necessary to make a decision where it is necessary not to make a decision. i encourage you to slow down, don't shut out supervisor kim's input, and let's dot right thing. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon. melinda sargis [speaker not understood], and i'm here to express our strong support for the legislation. >> speak into the microphone. >>> here to express our strong support fort light asian which -- legislation which is going to support the process. [speaker not understood]. first, this legislation is going to benefit smaller family projects in san francisco. there's been a lot of talk of larger e-i-r projects. but ceqa [speaker not understood] are issued more orphan for smaller residential projects than [speaker not understood]. unfortunately under

and not on kim jong-un.hearing that and talking about that for the last several days since this crisis has ratcheted up. i've been speaking to quite a lot of experts, and mike chanoy, who used to be a cnn correspondent and visited there 15 times recently. he feels the game has changed in north korea. that they're no longer -- they've changed their calculation. they want to be taken seriously as a nuclear state. and so the united states has to come up with some kind of way to deal with this. as he points out and as we know, sanctions, and the, you know, the punishments that have been inflicted on north korea haven't actually worked when it comes to their programs. i mean, they keep testing nuclear devices. and according to the experts, they do get marginally better at it, including their missiles. the united states is not going to go to war over north korea with all those consequences that it would have. so what's the answer? so after this crisis, which they believe will pass with the north koreans able to sa

is kim's link to china?> he is part of the family. he elevated his uncle to number two. he oversees some of the state run trading companies which mine reserves like coal and iron ore. he uses connections to sell those minerals to china, and profits come back to kim. >> this is a man who cut the deal with china, has a lot of credibility with the chinese. >> reporter: thanks to kim's uncle, trade with china is booming, from one billion a few years ago to five billion now. >> accounted for the weapons and minerals. how else is he getting money? >> getting money from illicit transactions. >> reporter: officials say they're exporting meth, knockoffs of cigarettes and pharmaceutical drugs, even counterfeiting good old ben franklin. a u.s. official tells us the illicit stuff is still pretty small scale, but the north gets more from tourism and foreign investment from south korea and china. in a country where residents don't pay taxes, and the country is not connected to the international trading market, the officia

welch. >>> supervisor wiener, supervisor kim, supervisor chiu. simple fairness would require acknowledgment of the efficacy of your proposals to deal with categorical exemptions and negative declarations. there's no question that that aspect of environmental review needs clarity. i'm not totally convinced that the way in which you go about solving them is the way to solve, but it is without question the right thing to do to put them on the public table to be debate and had discussed. cat ex and negative declarations need to be clarified, the process needs to be made transparent. however, simple accuracy requires me to say that it is simply not as you assert at the beginning of this, that this has nothing to do, your legislation has nothing to do with e-i-rs and it has nothing to with projects like cpmc. if it had nothing to do with e-i-rs,

i appreciate that supervisor kim wants to see the sequa approved. especially owners of older homes we also talked about family flight and while personally agree that financial forms are the reason for flight. and many people talk about protecting rent control but creating more bureaucracy is going to encourage flight from our city. this will lead to blithe neighborhood we can't afford those processes. am i done? >> that is the bell. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> afternoon. the legislation i have 3 concerns we want clarity definition circulate. the legislation is based on the issuance of a basis vague description and i want you to see some of those vague descriptions. this is a project and it's new single-family residents and it's vaguely. now those are all scopes. vertically extended feet those are vague considered scope of the project. as you know it permits a building permit. some of the things are mechanic and electrical projects and it's adena for that one. etc. when you have no addendum and vague descriptions you're going to disagree

the rooms tenants association we support supervisor kim's legislation. we support it among other reasons because it's superior noting requirement. and show more respect for historic buildings. we were blind sited by the installation of two humanely signs on the post office recently. this is a gem of a building and was designed by the architect of the hotel. those signs demonstrate the clear need to strengthen the planning process and improve noting and respect historic buildings. we live across the street are from the long shore building where the developer wanted to destroy. i understood a planning commissioner said he would have voted against the building if he'd known the history. we need adequate noting of the show stopping information that's known throughout the planning process. we live directly across from the water front at the 75 howard street. this project would exceed the height limit by 70 percent i only found out about this project with when i ran into a port office on the street. the sequa process needs to be strengthened not weakened. >> t

and you see kim jong-un's finger on the red button.ms up the ngs ati of the world right now. at a point where there are unprecedented threats. we simply have not heard these kind of threats from the north korean leadership for, you know, more than 20 years or so. so they are very concerned. i was fascinated by senator levin and indeed the admiral in charge of the pacific command, admiral locklear, who testified today, that they would not necessarily recommend shooting down a north korean missile unless it was aimed in anger and targeted either at the u.s. homeland or at allies like japan or south korea. that they wouldn't recommend shooting that down, because they are terribly afraid of miscalculation, and generating a wider conflict. they're worried also, because obviously the pressure is on south korea and the new president precisely because of what you were discussing, because they did not respond the last time their ship was destroyed, 46 sailors were killed. they didn't respond when the island was attacked. and so now they're conc

i'm happy that supervisor kim has put forth a different prospective. what that looks like is something i think everyone in this community should have a say. this is too important. >> thank you supervisor campos. i want to make a few comments before i turn it over to president chiu. just to be real clear supervisor campos made a comment to changing sequa. as i stated really if even if we wanted to change sequa locally we certain lack that power sequa is a state law. and sometimes as much as san francisco wishes we could change sequa we couldn't nor is anyone advocating we were trying to change sequa. this is putting in place rules for the first time on those appeals. roadway we're operating from a 16 page memo from the county clerk's office. that is what we're doing here today. so c pmc would have gotten to this (writing on board.) or with supervisor kim's process it would have been the same process. it's important not to bring in items that are not impacted by this legislation like sequa itself or c pmc. the main goal of my legislation is to my the pro

of course, supervisor kim's legislation is closely related, deals with the same topic. so, it's perfectly fair for a member of the public or committee member to mention ideas in supervisor kim's legislation as a counter point or suggestion for amendments to this legislation. >> okay. i think that's very important. i'm glad to hear that. i think some people may have thought otherwise. so, just to be clear, we are allowed to talk about supervisor kim's legislation today. if folks could please -- this is a hearing that is run in a certain order. everyone will have an opportunity to make public comment. please no outburst from the chamber. yes, mr. givener, just to be clear, we can discuss that? >> you can discuss it. again, to the extent it informs decisions about this particular legislation. >> okay, thank you very much. okay, next speaker. >>> [speaker not understood], a member of the sun site heights association [speaker not understood], which strongly supports supervisor wiener's ceqa legislation. our neighborhood association is 100 years old and we thought we saw it a

then kim jong-un put his forces onldz stand by to strike the u.s. mainland, guam and hawaii and declared a state of war with the south. u.s. stealth fighter jets joined those war games in the region and the threats went nuclear. north korea said it would restart a closed plutonium reactor. and the regime claimed plans for a nuclear attack on the u.s. were ready to go. the u.s. has ordered missile defenses to guam, as fears grow that north korea may be planning a launch soon. we've assembled our own security council here in "the situation room," including some of the more knowledgeable folks about north korea to try to break all of this down for you. joining us now is tommy vietor, he served in the obama white house. he's a former spokesman for the national security council. also joining us, christopher hill, the former u.s. ambassador to south korea. he's now dean of the school of international studies at the university of denver. and retired u.s. navy admiral william fallon. he served as the head of the u.s. pacific command and u.s. central command

but definitely heading in the direction of the kim approach. and, so, we would urge you to support supervisor kim's legislation with the modifications that supervisor kim is willing to accept as far as comments from planning staff. but otherwise, we need to stand firm and send this forward with your approval. the key here is that in 2006 we opposed any changes. and in 2010 we opposed any changes to this process. because, quite frankly, with a little bit of hubris on our part, this is working well enough for us. let's just stop any changes from going forward and keep it the way it is. but since 2010 what we've seen is that it's not working for us either because the staff and the city attorney and the city, county clerk have to make up rules as they go along. so, we finally have come to the table and said, yes, we are willing to do this with the developers, with project sponsors, with city sponsors. we agree now that it's time to make changes. and the key things that we are giving up are the ability to appeal a project multiple times . under kim'

and kim jong-un's new pal. dennis rodman have any influence at all on the north korean leader or on his plan of attack? >>> i'm wolf blitzer, and this is "the situation room" special report, the north korean crisis. >>> the obama administration is struggling right now to calm an explosive situation if north korea. as we reported, kim jong-un may be gearing up for a new missile launch soon after weeks of warmongering. take a look at how he's ramping up tensions if the region. >> tensions began to sky robert if mid-february when north korea went ahead with its third nuclear test. imposed punishing new sanctions a few weeks later. the u.s. planned war games with south korea, and the north said it was pulling out of the agreement that ended the korean war. direct threats against america intensified. north korean tv aired a video simulating an attack on the white house and the capital building. in a show of force, the u.s. added nuclear capable b-2 stealth bombers to its military drills with south korea. then, kim j

the kim amendment is a necessary and a balance approach on city planning and development. the current legislation >> thank you. thank you. thank you, mr. c. >> good afternoon i live in district 6. i look back and i didn't really pay attention to this issue when it first started 10 years ago because i didn't come to city hall because the prior commissioners i - i try to stay in the middle on issues so i can look at both sides. so in saying that i'd appreciate if you'd consider to weigh it out because we do drag our feats on others things because we're not spending all the time i don't believe in it. if you could hold it and give it another month because 2 weeks isn't enough time. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm the the community of housing organizations. i want to foil with what my colleague peter said earlier. i want to thank you for reading up on our amendments and thank you for some of the amendments that were introduced today. i want to talk about b the point we raised earlier. what we see is central? this discussion. when we got together and talked with the communit

supervisor kim. >> thank you. wanted to appreciate all the members of the public that came out today. i thought it was a really good dialogue and discussion on multiple perspectives around what we can do to reform ceqa and also showcases how passionate i think members of the city are on the merits of the current process and what we can do to reform it. i did also want to commend supervisor wiener and his office because i know he has been working on this for many months and has been pointed out by our former president, this initiative of reforming ceqa has been taken on by several supervisors to no avail yet. i do want to respect that this is the legislation that is before us today, and tomorrow i will have an opportunity to speak more at length on the legislation that we are introducing tomorrow. and i do look forward to all the members that are here today in terms of their comments and feedback on our [speaker not understood] currently supporting supervisor wiener's legislation. just a couple of things. i think t