and galveston was the best natural harbor on the texas coast, and galveston was the large city. and so a lot of everything that involved trade and later blockade running went through galveston for the most part. and other small ports along the texas coast, but galveston was the primary one. even before the confederates fired on fort sumter in april of 1861 in charleston, the union was preparing and thinking about what happens if this becomes, if secession becomes a shooting war. and one of the things that they considered was creating -- establishing a blockade of southern ports. the idea of a blockade is to use -- it's an old, traditional technique that's used in warfare to blockade an enemy's port to keep ships and vessels from coming in and out to prevent the enemy from getting support from outside. the union, union forces declared a blockade on april 19 of 861. that was just -- 1861. that was just two days after jefferson davis had declared the confederates would authorize privateers to go after union shipping which is itself an act of war. but the union blockade was declared

ria was born in 1985 in a large city in sumatra. her father owned a chemical fertilizer plant.heir family was quite wealthy. she began dreaming of becoming a fashion designer in high school. >> translator: at first it was just a hobby. i liked to draw, and i was really into fashion. i'd copy the clothes in magazines. then i'd make sketches based on my own ideas. i thought how great it would be to make my own clothes. then one day a friend of mine offered to buy one of my sketchbooks for a couple of dollars. that's when i realized that people would actually pay money for my designs. >> in 2005, when she was a university student, ria went on a pilgrimage to mecca with her parents. of the journey prompted her to begin wearing the hijab. >> translator: i realized that women were meant to wear the hijab. i felt like i was under the protection of god. my family has always been devoutly muslim. and visiting mecca was the decisive moment. i started wearing the hijab. >> at university, ria majored in economics, but her dream was to become a fashion designer. she begged her parents to al

we're doing in this endeavor which leads me to the final speaker and not just the city family but the community at large that needs to embrace vision zero if it's going to become a relate and there is a coalition of community organizations that have come together to advocate for and think through and push the city in achieving this goal and some of our advocacy organizations in the city have been at the tip of the spear of that effort to rally community groups, neighborhood erkz associations and other associations to bring this forward and also to hold our feet to the fire and do as much as we can do in the city and in collaboration with all of the community partners to achieve this goal. i want to acknowledge the out going andin coming executive directors. leah and noah of the bike coalition and strong partners and their counter part that look out for us to get around the city. every trip starts with doo that and we're all pedestrians and advocating for us as pedestrians and important part of this effort working with the city and the pushing the city is the executive director of walk san francisco nico

this phenomenon just isn't in our largest cities, it's happening all across the nation in cities largend small. it's not just on the coast. some of the highest ridership happened in cities under 100,000. when you hear people ask i'm in a rural area why does this matter to make? the ridership increases in cities under 100,000 has doubled the national growth rate last year. this is extraordinary. there are great things happening happening. from san diego to nashville from harrisburg illinois to bowling green from wenatchee washington to new york city people opted for public transportation in record numbers. writers are telling us they want more public transportation. and now you need to let congress know that we need to make the investment in public transportation to meet this growing need. it's incumbent upon all of us to educate our legislators. they love to do -- they need to know that this nation must have a robust multilevel surface transportation bill. we cannot continue to have short-term extensions. over the last 10 years we have had 23 short-term extensions of the surface transp

we are a large city we're a growing city. ly, we are still trying claw our way out of downturn. we have a large boeing facility in mesa. we just added the announcement of a new, $2 billion apple facility. we're riding a good wave of economic development. i grew up in mesa in a downtown area that in my childhood was part of the old route 66, so, we had motels and a very vibrant interesting downtown in mesa in the '60s and early '70s. of course with the advent of freeways being built, the north and south of us, our downtown just kind of withered up and died and went to large big box malls. i think i see a lot of smiling faces. people recognize the scenario, so we're kind of a poster child for that whole, we had a great downtown. we built malls and freeways downtown withered up an died and i was on the city council in the '90s and we would find every possible way to try to pump life into downtown, that was literally a ghost town and we threw a lot of money at it and nothing seemed to stick and towards the end of my service on the

today this pro-palestinian ad began running in san francisco and other large cities across the country. the ads criticize israel for oppressive treatment of palestinians and american tax dollars are helping support it. [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: other buses will carry a different message. a pro israeli organization intends to run counter ads, featuring this sign. referring to hamas. >> if they want to put transit ads out we are not going to let them have that misinformation reach the public without responding to the very same people who would see the misleading ads. >> reporter: while the battle is playing out on public transportation many people don't notice what is on the buses. >> there is so much marketing and content everywhere that a bus ad i may not notice. >> reporter: in the past ads have been the target of graffiti. >> we apologize by people offended by the ads but we are required to run them. >> reporter: they will run till the end of the month. in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> california law makers are consideration a package of bills to regulate drones.

a couple of things first of all i grew up in a large city living two blocks from the transit station the other thing i know we've talked about the rental for sale i think that is just i personally have my own issues with the lottery systems for rentals that adds burdens to property owners that is how the bureaucracy works not the rentals for sale being better or worse or city government tiger's people it is less fair than that's for another day and again, because maintaining the fact that the developer maintenance the right to choose whether the paying the in lieu fee no matter what dpravm you interrupted me that's okay. the affordable housing fee is bans the number of units it raises the codes is based on the size of unit. >> you're both right. >> all right. >> the size and the number of unit that democrats so you have to when you're paying the fee have the fees match the make up of the building so if you have one or two bedroom unit calculated into the foe you pay certainly is if they center a compliant building fewer units in the building that reduce that maybe they'll have to pay

he's responsible for bringing crack into los angeles, one of the first large cities to be exposed, across the country. >> he showed and told me about it. i didn't believe it. he showed me something worth the size of a match head worth $50, how do this be, i thought. i'll get rich. i said i'm all in. he came over, and people said i'll have to cook it up. what popped in my mind was cook it up for them. >>> jessie cats is a contributing writer, featured in the documentary. he says between 1982 and 1989 ross sold 2-3 tonnes of crack cocaine. in a conversation with cats, he said the epidemic had a devastating impacts on black and hispanic communities. >> there's no question that the nation's gaols and prisons are full of young men of colour largely because of the drug wars. drug use cocaine, crack really knows know racial boundaries, it's everywhere in america. because it had a devastating effect on communities of colour, the areas were targeted by law enforce. and in the beginning, the communities suffered, suffered ..you saw it in the hospitals with crack babies, on the streets in los angele

. >> while new york city is the safest large city in america, and crime has been going down, one of the reasons that crime is going down is because the police do make a lot of arrests, and everybody who gets arrested and who doesn't get bailed out comes to us. >> get arrested in the big apple, and you're almost assured of a trip to rikers island, a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of laguardia airport. connected to the mainland by a narrow two-lane bridge, the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> -- is coming through here if they come from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they are tired. they're dirty. they're hungry. and you saw everything there, whether it was somebody who was from wall street who was charged with traud fraud or whether it was the lowest of the low of the drug dealers. >> get between 80, 90 admission a day. around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> what size

but, again, on our own pretty advanced large city. while there was recently i think a few months ago an interesting article in forbes that labeled mesa the most conservative city in the united states. i think and as a large -- if you look up here, there's not a lot of large urban cities that have kind of a consecutive bent to them.

he took 73 cities of the population of 250,000 or more so these are large cities calculated annual presip number of wet dates and cloud cover for each of the cities and he came up with only 15 cities are as dreary or more than philadelphia. so again, that ranks philadelphia pretty high, on the dreary list. if you look at a national level you can see map of the u.s., it is yes valley new england, pacific northwest. those are most dreary areas and would you think seattle sock in with fog and mist. least dreary will be mountain southwest where you do have the sunshine such as arizona and desert conditions where they have many days down there. i talk to people around philadelphia here and they don't think philadelphia is dreary at all. >> philly is not dreary. i mean during the summer philly is great, man. >> we don't get as much snow as boston get. we don't get as much rain or cold weather. >> no way, no way. today, yes. but from everything that we have known and seen, you know, no, it is great. >> reporter: can't argue with that. i met somebody from england and she laughed at idea philadelp

we think of it as being a 20th century state and area with large cities in land. but if not for the gulf coast this transportation and the viability of bringing in ships we would not exist. in galveston you have to think about it as being the point of creation in texas for what we see as a modern state. announcer: all weekend, american history tv is featuring galveston, texas. the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery and the united dates originated in galveston. on june 19, 1867, major general gordon granger and union soldiers landed at galveston with news the civil war was over and slaves were free. our comcast cable partners worked with c-span cities tour staff when we travel to galveston to explore the city's history. learn more about galveston all weekend on american history tv. ♪ [klaxon sounds] announcer: in 1917, the submarine force was battling public opinion as well as the enemy. both submarines were -- but war under the sea was unfair and inhuman. if we paid much attention to these protests, we would not have had that tough s boat an

can't be seen by trucks through no fault of their own and lastly perform an ongoing large vehicle working group city and private industry to talk about issues on both sides we are in the midst of setting that up currently. mid-term -- we looked at planning issues around physical and temporal separation between large vehicles and pedestrians. anywhere we can not have them mixing was definitely felt to be important and signal retiming and scrambles as an example of. long-term working on truck design issues these are issues that the city itself really has little ability to regulate in the private fleet. so the recommendation was to work with the national transportation safety board board who has made some recommendations requiring all new trucks to have side guards on the side of the trucks so pedestrians and bicyclists are not dragged under the truck and driven over which is a big problem and in in the uk they are requiring all trucks to have that and they have seen a 50 a 50 percent reduction in fatalities between large vehicles and road users. moving forward to the actual item and i want to recogniz

during the war the civil war in libya so when you have a situation like this, urban warfare a fairly large city, civilians you know living the and you have these two forces coming at each other i.s.i.s. on the one hand, iraqi security forces government militias on the other hand, simply the cross fire puts civilians at risk. so that's one issue. but the second issue is what we've seen in iraq in the last several months following operations such as a.r.m. amerlie in early september we see militias going in killing setting homes on fire this kind of thing really terrible acts of retribution. >> how widespread is this among shia militias going after sunni sunnies and iran is in charge of much of this. is there any iranian involvement? >> there does seem to be iranian involvement. whether it's in charge of these militias i don't know. if this happens again i do think that iranian commanders who are on the ground are going to have something to answer for as well as the militiamen who person trail these atrocities. >> how about iraqi government forces themselves, have they committed atrocities? >> we

they were able to get away after isis took control of parts of northern iraq including the second large cityople an ultimatum, either convert, leave the city or die and many were able to leave and they still want other christians in syria or northern iraq who are suffering as a result of isis' brutality. isa? >> i was moved by the dment made by the priest where he said it is the last chapter. it could be a last chapter of the book of christianity. we have seen time and time again isis really going, destroying desecrate canning churches across the country. indeed that really breaks down the cultural herrage, as well. how are people forming communities once they leave? >> it's inkredable. for years now it feels like this is a repeat of reports we have done years ago. for years we have been reporting out of iraq on the persecution of minorities, especially the christians, year after year. first alta inal qaeda and now isis. and talking to the priest they say for years they tried to encourage christians to stay. when they speak to people they would say this is their home and country and they sho

selma, alabama is not a large city by any means. w prepared is the city for all of those people and are they welcoming all of those people to their city. >> oh welcoming, yes. prepared? who really knows. you are right. this is a city of 15, 20,000 people, it's one of the smaller cities here in alabama. folks are familiar with the bigger cities obviously. but -- but selma is a small city and a neighbors city marion is a small city as well. so you are right. there are thousands of people at this moment converging on this very tiny city. will the people, the locals here be welcoming? absolutely. is the city prepared for the influx of people? we'll find out. >> tony harris live in selma, alabama, we'll go back to tony in a few moments. >>> wall street took a slight tumble today despite a strong jobs report. the dow fell about 1% down to 17,856. the s&p and nasdaq's also lost ground. >>> we have more evidence today that america's economy is creating plenty of jobs but not much in the way of wage growth. ali velshi joining us now, and this

murmansk is a large city the ice-free harbour sporting an industry. an icy grip developed the trade, a political one. since the pictures were filled two years ago, the fish factory stopped operating. buying fish from norway is banned as part of the embargo. that is pretty much all this place did. it was vulnerable. not all plants are exposed. supply lines have been disrupted disrupted. >> translation: fish is more expensive every day. rising prices mean people pay less. the suppliers called but we reject older fish. there is no one to buy. >> two of the popular fish herring and salmon were imported in quantities. customers saying that what they found in a shop these days - the quality is worse. >> it has represented opportunities for some. restaurants started to farm trout much the decision paying off as people replace salmon with cheaper. >> there's an alternative. the crisis is a time of now possibilities. we were trying to figure out if our own trial breeding would be possible. we see that it works well. >> it's a small silver lining and representa

dolce and gabbana's base of clientele is either individuals in large cities who have progressed in their lgbt issues or gay men and women. those who support them. so i think it's going to be a wakeup call to them and i think they probably deserve it. >> i agree. i also think they need to come forward in a much more meaningful heartfelt way if they want to repair any damage that they might see on the brand and really do a big mea culpa maybe right here with you. >> clay and kelly, thank you both very much. i really appreciate it. >>> next here on cnn, we are hours away from a major election in israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu fighting for political survival making bold last minute promises before voters head to the polls. we take you live to jerusalem next. [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we've always been at the forefront of advanced electronics. providing technology to get more detail... ♪ ♪ detect hidden threats... ♪ ♪ see the whole picture... ♪ ♪ process critical information and put it in the hands of our defenders. reaching constantly evolving threats before they rea

in all the large cities and the state of alabama and in most of the black counties.roes are not serving in any elected capacity. they have been robbed of all political participation. we are here to tell mr. wallace and mr. johnson we know the state government, the federal government was apart in disenfranchising negro people and we are not going to tolerate a disenfranchising -- we want to know that and understand that. all the negroes of alabama must know and feel that not only must be cheer people in selma for marching but we must much until every -- march until every negro is registered in alabama. mr. wallace, thinks we are going home. he thinks it is all over. we want him to understand that if we come back, we plan to come back. we do not plan to go home after two hours. mr. wallace -- he's part of the whole political system that is filled us in franchising negro people. and that system must be broken. two years ago we were in birmingham, alabama, where four girls were killed in a church. and there were killed not by rabble-rousers but they were killed by the lo

farther to the south, another large city where it screams across the south pacific, comes in close proximity to auction land and the bay of plenty does not directly impact for them but tens of thousands without power across new zealand because of powerful winds in place. 325 kilometers per hour were the maximum gusts across the region leaving significant damage. here what's left on satellite as it's fizzled across the south pacific. it will go into the books as one of the most memorable storms. and the numbers and fay tals unfortunately you would have to imagine would be far greater than what we're initially seeing because of the remote nature of the slanz and the air strips on the islands are so small. you will imagine eight, nine-foot -- eight, nine-meter storm surges would have washed this away. getting to them by air would be challenging. >> luckily the islands aren't as densely populate as where typhoon hay haiyan hit. >> it will be a terrible situation for people. many of the more primitive homes that can't be rebuilt. i don't know where people go from there. thank you very much. >> th

he is whether you are from a large city or a small town, or a large county with few people or a small county with lots of people, you want your future generations to stay. you want them to come back. you want them to say, this is my special place. i want my children to have the same kind of experiences that you had when you close your eyes about those special places. that has something to do with how we create an environment around our cities, that has to do with parks and open spaces and public lands. so when i was preparing for this, i asked a couple of my colleagues what their special places were and what their parks and open spaces meant to them. my colleague david who is here and has led my youth initiative at the department of the interior. the only person i brought with me from rei. david is the only child of immigrant parents. parks where where he learned to speak english. they were very important to him. emily, also here on my team, is in her mid-20's, and she said she played in the creek and i cannot remember if it was her house or her grandparent's house near king of prussi

, he foresees a country that's going to have banks and stock exchanges corporations factories, large citiesy that we know today. >> ron wrote the biography that inspired miranda. >> i think that this is a classic immigrant story in terms of someone recognizing the opportunities in this brand new turbulent, wide open society. >> he's kinda the ultimate immigrant. >> the original immigrant. made greatest contribution of any immigrant in the history of the united states. >> ♪ mr. hamilton. ♪ >> mir dan radio for the 2008 is the son of puerto rican immigrants. >> your parents are immigrants was that part of what connected you to the story of hamilton? >> my father came here same age as hamilton. already graduated college. he came with full ride to nyu post-doc psychology program. didn't speak english. learned it here while he was studying. >> he learned english while getting a post-doc that is ambition, that's drive. >> i can't begin to aspire to that level of ambition. writing this story helped me understand him. >> ladies and gentlemen you could have been anywhere in the world but you're here

we think of it as being a 20th century state and area with large cities in land. if not for the gulf coast, if not for this transportation and the viability of bringing in ships, we would not exist. in galveston, you have to think about it as being the point of creation in texas for what we see as a modern state. >> throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring galveston, texas. our staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. learn more about galveston and other stops at www.c-span.org/ citiestour. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. join american history tv next saturday and sunday for live coverage of a conference focusing on the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. topics include the surrender and legacy of appomattox. that is live next saturday and sunday in virginia on american history tv on cspan3. >> each announcer: each week, american history tv's american artifacts visits museums and historic places. next, we travel about 15 miles northwest of washington dc to great falls 10 visitors

he's been councilman at-large, representing the whole city. a progressive voice who'll be a mayor for our neighborhoods. bringing philadelphia together... expanding pre-kindergarten improving our schools... ...and partnering with businesses, community colleges and universities to create jobs jim kenny, the block by block mayor we need to move philadelphia ahead. >> police say a taxi driver was drunk when he drove the wrong way on columbus boulevard and crashed in south philadelphia. the incident started when an officer spotted the white town car stopped at delaware and race early this morning. the officer tapped on the window. when the driver did not respond, the officer broke the window fearing the driver had some type of medical issue. well the driver woke up and started driving southbound in the northbound lanes. police say he drove over the platt bridge and back again before finally crashing into a fence. well, the driver was taken into custody on suspicion of dui. >>> a south jersey man has been charged with murder in the death of his nin

ploegs ploegs >>> iraqi forces say they may have the upper hand in the city of tikrit recapturing large parts of the city driving the group out of the nearby town. the irane army are feel appearing for a final sult and are -- assault and are considering similar missions if this is successful. >>> a similar offensive takes place around kirkuk footage showing peshmerga fighters launching a ground attack much the operation was supported by coalition air strikes. >> at the boston marathon bombing, scribbles made before dzhokhar tsarnaev has captured appearing in the boat, reading the u.s. government is killing incident civilians, i can't stand to see uch evil go unpunished. >> the bodies of 10 killed when two collided. three of the dead were world class. they were taking part in a reality tv show. >> the accident happened at the end of filming. the video capturing the moment the helicopters crashed. there were no survivors. the victim including french singing star camille muffat, who won cold silver and bronze apt the 2012 olympics. >> you don't really take it in. true i won by 400m title.

we are a large city. where a growing city as well. e still trying to claw our way out of of the downturn but we got a lot of things going for. we have a large boeing facility in these they are quick announcement of a new $2 billion apple facility so we are right in writing a good wave of economic development. but at the same time we have i grew up in mesa in the downtown area that my child is was part of the old route 66 and so we had modell's edit very vibrant, interesting downtown in mesa back in the '60s and the early 70s. of course with the advent of freeways being billed to the north and south of us are downtown just kind of wizard up and died and went to large big box malls but i think i see a lot of smiling faces. people recognize this new that has been duplicated all over the country so we're kind of a poster child for that whole, you become with a great downtown. we build malls and freeways downtown would up and die. i was on the city council back in the '90s and we would find every possible way to try to pump some life into o

city in the next few days. this is a size -- a 30,000-large force that is taking this city. sts we're witnessing here. first is how the iraqi army does. they melted away in the face of isis when they took large swaths of the territory last summer of the country last summer. we'll see how they're doing now with their new training from the u.s. advisers as well as their new weaponry. but also very -- we're watching very closely as when they do if they do take the city how the shiite militias treat the local inhabitants. they have a poor track record when they go -- when they went into previous sunni-held areas. there have been claims of rights abuses. so we'll be watching to see how these militias treat the local inhabitants. and this will be crucial for the future of iraq as we saw isis exploit the rift the sectarian rift between sunnis and shiites. that's what helped them gain much of that territory. we'll be seeing when they go into tikrit if they treat the locals benevolently or try to seek revenge, john. >> that's important for the country's future. ian lee, thank you so m

it's happening across the nation in cities large and small. it's not just on the coast. of the highest ridership happened in cities under 100,000. when you hear people ask, i'm in a small town, why does this matter to me? the ridership increases in cities under 100,000 was double the national growth rate last year. this is it ordinary. there are great things happening. from san diego to nashville from harrisburg, illinois to bowling green, from washington to new york city -- people opted for public transportation in record numbers. riders were telling us they want more public transportation. now you need to let congress know that we need to make the investment in public transportation to meet this growing need. it is incumbent upon all of us to educate our legislators. they need to know that this nation must have a robust, multi modal surface transportation bill. we cannot continue to have short-term extensions. for the last 10 years, we have had 23 short-term extensions of the surface transportation bill. this is not how you build the greatest country in the world area

that's a large city. every man woman and child is wiped off the face of the earth every year. positive parts with look look at the record of the city, what the traffic lights are like maybe enforce laws. that's good. the overall perspective and look at the bigger picture. we look at ways to instead of building automobiles to better withstand the crash build automobiles the don't crash in the 1st place. have sensors that react thousands of times faster. you can't -- one single car company, government, nation can't affect the type of massive changes at that level of infrastructure. has to be a big global movement. we can reduce traffic fatalities to zero for literally zero worldwide. if we did that and incorporated smart traffic, things like that but to get rid of traffic increase fuel efficiency reduce fuel consumption etc. that looking at the big picture. access to healthcare and water. we all take a big picture. that would enable everything else. the 1st one is about 17,000. okay. time for one more. >> the big picture. [inaudible question] [inaudible question] [inaudible quest

he is whether you are from a large city or a small town, or a large county with few people or a small county with lots of people, you want your future generations to stay. you want them to come back. you want them to say, this is my special place. you want them to have their children have those same kind of experiences that you had when you close your eyes and imagine your special places. when we create an environment around our cities, that has to do with parks and open spaces and public lands. so when i was preparing for this, i asked a couple of my colleagues what their special places were and what their parks and colleagues -- parks and spaces were to them. my colleague david is the only child of only -- of immigrant parents, and so parks are where he learned to speaking with. my other colleagues, emily, is in her mid-20's, and she said she played in the creek and i can remember if it was her house or her grandparent's house near king of prussia, pennsylvania. rei looked at putting a store there because of the retail magnet, but like so many of those places like the hobo jungle wh

we will see a large swath of cities under water we could expect more intense than frequent extreme weather events and attractions two global agricultural sector to threaten job security for millions of farmers to undermine food security for millions of families. if with resources shortages of have the potential to fan the flames of conflict in areas there already troubled by longstanding ideological sectarian disputes imagine when complicated by absence of water or food? these are the consequences of climate change and this is the magnitude of what we're up against national -- measured against the threats of today terrorism, extremism, of challenges the respect that climate change belongs on the same list. indeed it is one of the biggest threats facing our planet today and even top military personnel have designated it as a security threat not just to the united states but to the world. no one was truly looked at the science of national security experts would reach a different conclusion. yes. this is personal to me. but it should be personal to everybody. man woman child business person s

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chunk of money from the city and county and we just had built up a very large reserve. so what we have been doing for the last 7 years is spending down that reserve. it all came from the city and county of san francisco, that's our only funding source when you take away the cca funding stuff. when you take away all of that, all our funding comes from the city and county of san francisco. >> but part of it comes from the puc >> that's a separate item. that has nothing to do with the budget that's presented today. >> and i do understand that and i think in terms of the context of what we're actually spending. as far as i'm concerned they are still all public dollars and just having a better understanding of the full context of the budget and where the sources of funding comes from as it relates to that full context is basically what i'm looking for here. >> okay, i think i -- so there's this budget and the money that's not being spent here, this previous year has really been three things. it's been the intranet report that was done, that cost us $210,000 to have

there are 10 district station in northern station is probably one of the fewer destinations the city large enough if accommodate 50 officers some have exchanged by the size currently, we have not one hundred and 50 but one hundred we have the ability to add locker rooms and park facilities that the stationed may not be able to so we moved further west the second reason right now if i stand in the a parking lot at northern station and throw a rock across the street to martin luther king that is not our district that's the park district when we are looking at responding to calls for service many of us know where park station is located at 8th and for the officers to get to this area didn't make sense to the chief and a lot of of us us one the positive things behind that we will be adding two housing developments to the area that is important currently have 4 housing police officers police officers that are 10i7bd to the housing win the northern district by addressing martin luther king and marcus scaring i didn't my officers will distract with the youth to have a quick responses and alleviat

city. jim kenney. son of a firefighter. first in his family to go to college. he's been councilman at-large, representing the whole city. a progressive voice who'll be a mayor for our neighborhoods. bringing philadelphia together... expanding pre-kindergarten improving our schools... ...and partnering with businesses, community colleges and universities to create jobs jim kenny, the block by block mayor we need to move philadelphia ahead. >> good morning, it is 6:00 a.m. on this friday, march 27 we're following breaking news. >> a walk home from the gym turns into a nightmare for a philadelphia woman. she was attacked and sexually assaulted. >> we have the video showing the moment an explosion rocked a new york city neighborhood causing massive fire and building collapse. >> we have david and karen here for with the weather and traffic. >> good morning let's go over

legal experts say it's expected to effect all large california cities. >>> the father of missing teenager sierra lamar says weekly serges will be ending. sierra lamar vanished on her way to school on march 16th, 2012. since then dedicated volunteers have gathered every saturday to search for her. now sierra's father have told us they have run out of good search areas and says that saturday march 14th will be the last formal search. the suspect in sierra's disappearance antolin garcia torres remains in jail. he is awaiting trial for her murder. >> reporter: trying to balance everyone's needs and create a safer bulk street. people on both sides cyclists groups and business owners are expected to pack a san francisco municipal transportation agency this afternoon. public works is planning to repave polk street which prompted the redesign. ben jose explained why the places are needed. >> the plan adds crosswalks and other safety measures. >>> a campbell pet clinic will have a lot of cleanup. campbell police say it happened last night about 7:45 at the universitied veterinary hospital. a spoke