in minnesota teenagers have been taken to a bus stop, believing they need to be in a larger city. >> a solution is to put them in a truck stop. >> which is a venue where prostitution happens. >> why would they do that? >> it's indefensible, it's the response we find when there are no shelter beds, no appropriate interventions for kids on the streets. >> the resources - we'll send you to the truck stop hoping you'll find another city to go to. >> it's called greyhound therapy. many do this with adult homeless, using bus tickets to pass off the problem of the lack of shelter in their community to a larger city. >> the occasion we had, we talked about the homeless and homeless children in washington d.c., but then we looked to maine. suburban, world, we see high levels of homelessness among young people. >> we do, it's a national crisis. there are folks who are homeless. i have seen homeless people in afghanistan lunt community, in -- aff luent communities, in rural and poor areas, where folks live in poverty and on the brink of homelessness. there's problems there. >> jerry johns is na

housing is a hot issue in this country, because home prices in the larger cities have risen dramatically in the past few years. many people complain they'll never be able to buy their own homes, no matter how hard they work. i went to one of the public housing complexes under construction right now in beijing. millions of units are being built across the country, and the government has announced plans to build 7 million units. that's more than last year. but the plan doesn't address the issue of the urban poor. a lot of the homes subsidized by the government are being built near areas like this one. you can see it's not very developed, and people here are living in shacks. many of them are migrant workers who work in construction. and they say they won't benefit from the government's housing scheme. >> translator: the public housing units that the government is promoting are too expensive for people like us. we just can't afford it. >> helping those very poor is also a huge challenge for the chinese government. >> kyoko what do you think are the challenges for the government to push its

homeless, using bus tickets to pass off the problem of the lack of shelter in their community to a larger city. >> the occasion we had, we talked about the homeless and homeless children in washington d.c., but then we looked to maine. suburban, world, we see high levels of homelessness among young people. >> we do, it's a national crisis. there are folks who are homeless. i have seen homeless people in afghanistan lunt community, in -- aff luent communities, in rural and poor areas, where folks live in poverty and on the brink of homelessness. there's problems there. >> jerry johns is national director for the national coalition for the homeless. >> stay tuned for special coverage of our series "homeless in america." >> ahead in final thoughts - schooli school ties. the stream is uniquely interactive television. in fact, we depend on you, your ideas, your concerns. >> all these folks are making a whole lot of money. >> you are one of the voices of this show. >> i think you've offended everyone with that kathy. >> hold on, there's some room to offend people, i'm here. >> we have a right to kno

homeless, using bus tickets to pass off the problem of the lack of shelter in their community to a larger city. >> the occasion we had, we talked about the homeless and homeless children in washington d.c., but then we looked to maine. suburban, world, we see high levels of homelessness among young people. >> we do, it's a national crisis. there are folks who are homeless. i have seen homeless people in afghanistan lunt community, in -- aff luent communities, in rural and poor areas, where folks live in poverty and on the brink of homelessness. there's problems there. >> jerry johns is national director for the national coalition for the homeless. >> stay tuned for special coverage of our series "homeless in america." >> ahead in final thoughts - schooli school ties. >> start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america take a new look at news. >> the name on the front of the jersey is what matters, not the back. it's a he

family homelessness as you describe in new york, it's off the charts, not just in new york and larger citiesashington, d.c. family homelessness doubled over the last five years, homelessness in general is rising in places like los angeles. so we have a legitimate crisis on our hands. and it's getting worse for folks especially people who are in places where rents are rising. and there's just no affordable housing subsidy available to them. >> how are young people particularly vulnerable to this? this is a big part of the problem, underage people and homelessness rates. >> it is the most heartbreaking part and a lot of americans don't realize there are tens and thousands of homeless young people unaccompanied kids who are on the streets of this country. and there are very few shelter beds available for them. that part of the federal response is especially underfunded. there's only 4,000 emergency shelter beds for homeless youth, which means in most cities, the number of available beds is here in washington, d.c. is five. and yet there are thousands of kids on the streets. >> i think it's real

the citizens in the larger cities would be split but in the smaller cities they would be pro-ukrainianrussians know that well. i think the russians would rather use economic leverage beyond crimea to get what they want and they will be able to do it including on a presidential election than directly invading. having said that, if there is violence against russian -- ethnic russians living in these cities in the next few days, and not set up by the russians, just something that happens from local ukrainian nationals, some of whom are in the new government, if that happens, the likelihood the russians would respond with force is pretty high. >> thank you so much, ian bremmer. it is our twitter question of the day. we will switch gears because we want to talk about airlines. the flight carrier of the united arab emirates has now recorded a profit for the word straight year. part of that profit is money collected from its alliances with other carriers. we are talking air berlin, lingus.ustralia and aer i want to start with setting the scene. for those of us who do not fly to abu dhabi oh r

you did not talk about the program, i assume because it is more important to the larger cities and larger states. but would you be supportive if we looked at a program that was expanded to make it easier for rural and small communities to get the grants? if you do not know what it is, it is transportation infrastructure financing program. , for example, you pass a local measure, and it is money coming in over 20 years, we can come up front, or give you that check right now, and you pay us back over that 20 years. raise your hand if you would be interested in working with us toward making that program -- adding a component that helps towns,ller cities and and rural -- i see everybody said yes. i also want to towns, and say how important -- exactly what you said. people want to be able to walk and ride. they want to be able to keep the cities, the young families. that is what they are looking for. in the old days, in california, bill said, -- people said, i want to live on a mountain top. raising the kids in the hills -- it is a beautiful area. the trouble they found is that the kids wanted

there's a matter that the city larger than has said there was no permission to take those pictures and it violated state law code >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, mr. president and commissioners, i live on the street light deficit street. i rise to continue offering some personal biennium that incorporates my philosophy in the middle 60s it offered philosophical and stimulation i was in the middle of my own saga at complaining high school. the chemicals were simple the hormones of publicity. it is my philosophical and political narrative. while i was in high school any father was serving in the united states army core and was the senior listed. my father was the one who operated equipment and while he was overseas when a memorial candle stick park was good morning. i was also president of the young california democratic's club for those of you who remember the historical democratic's were the next best thing to the communist sz. two many of the members were from military clubs and some of the soldiers being called killers were our fathers and brothers we knew although they wer

to tell your story and tell the story of cities all over the country whether smaller cities or larger cities. mayor cornyn in oklahoma city you used this money for transit and for other alternatives and it's good to see that the local input is being done the way that we anticipated it being done. this is a partnership and the federal and state government and these transportation alternative programs to me are critically important. in my city of oldsmar i was able to get federal transportation funds through the surface transportation reauthorization to complete glens falls trail. for those who are familiar with baltimore baltimore was designed by olmsted. he designed the communities connected by greenways. as we became more urban and as time went forward that green space was built over. the glens falls watershed was one of those trails that have been built over. we have reclaimed the falls nl 30 communities are connected where people can walk and get to know each other. these were communities that were in many cases trapped because of the economic of the circumstances. .. >> i come from my ho

. >> looking at us in comparison to larger metropolitan cities is the response time. i'm proud to say officers that we have get to calls quickly. and see the crime as it's occur, which is not the same situation in other metropolitan areas, you have the majority of the officers on foot patrol, so the response time is slower. they won't actually catch a crime in progress occurring. when you have a violent crime at hand. officers that arrive on scene are reactionary process to the actions that the person that they are dealing with set forth in motion, and knows what he wants to do. >> thank you stephanie lopez, and the albuquerque police department pledged to cooperate with the justice department investigation. thank you for your time. >> now it's time to see what is interesting on the web. let's check in with harmeli that. >> the fight for social media access in turkey is ramping up. on monday a claim was filed arguing last week's twitter ban violated constitutional rights. people were using alternative servers, but turkish courts moved to block that access. google deni

larger than the city of chicago at a cost of more than $100 million. fire that is destroying hundreds of square miles of sensitive ecosystem habitat, for assistance in controlling this inferno, firefighters are turning to the u.s. military for help. called into service and flying high above the flames and smoke of yosemite is the m 1 drone. following tours in iraq and afghanistan, the predator's eye in the sky, remotely piloted aircraft starts its mission east of los angeles. on first thought it's just a completely unusual piece of technology. it looks like a strange alien bug. it's extremely ea aerodynamic from almost a different planet. >> it is an mq 1 drone aircraft. 55 feet long, bigger than your average general aviation ition plane. >> i see one camera here and one here. >> and this is multiple cameras and he can control it and move it. >> and what are the specs on the cameras, are they intended for different uses? >> a daytime, nighttime, infrared camera, detect body heat and temperature. >> is this sensor the most expensive piece of equipment o

pdr users want to be and that's one of the things we're looking at when we look at this larger pdr question in the city right now. >> commissioner pearlman. >> i appreciate that, but this is called showplace square. you know, it's not that you could be down in dog patch and have mr. dixon's business because then he's completely disconnected from 50 or 60 or 70 other businesses that might be at a smaller scale. so, you know, i'm just worried about losing that. and i think i said at the other hearing, we're going to have the change the name of showplace square if all these businesses move out into a different area or disappear entirely we're not showplacing. relating to what president hasz said about the other 150,000 square foot of other space, and mr. dixon, i don't know if that's useful to you, if there are spaces that meet that scale of your business, but, you know, i think it is part of the larger question of if you're two blocks away from 2 henry adams that won't be particularly useful. /kwrorpbgs you know, if they could meet the zoning of the pdr d, if that's the current zoning, if some of these m

-- that is close to damascus and hasn't been an avenue for feeding arms to damascus and other larger cities in syria. and the country today remains divided between opposition and alled north and east government-controlled south and west. that's where we are today. host: as far as the united states in the position it has taken on syria, what has it been and what are our options going forward? guest: well, senator mccain -- there are a number of supporters of the syrian rebels -- they believe they have found moderate up and overwhelm the assad state but president obama has clearly decided, at least it seems apparent today, three years ago, he did not want to get sucked into the syrian quagmire. he has not given -- the united states has not given lots of arms to the rebels. we have given them no military support and over $2 billion has been spent on syria and the neighborhood a, a lot of itide and a lot of nonmilitary support. the saudi's have been the main donors in terms of arms and so forth. united states has resisted, allowing them to get what our command paths, these shoulder held antiair

we're also seeing that, you know, taking part in the discussions about our larger events in the city things like conventions and america's cup the arts organizations have been told you'll see real benefits from the revenue that comes in from tourism and we haven't seen that so i wanted to address that lack of investment through this process >> thank you. supervisor kim anything else >> the 2.515 doesn't include anyone so the 12 point plus million was specified for the arts. >> so, now supervisor tang and thank you. first of all, i do want to recognize what everyone has said the immediate pressing need to help the nonprofit communities. the contributions they make to the city is incredible and we couldn't do much of our work await them i wanted to thank the sponsors. you, however, i want to point out a couple of things first of all, how this measure started out as 2 point e million dollar and grew to be trice that. i do believe the original measure had a clear nexus between the property tax and the payroll sales tax was established so generally speaking i don't think it's good practic

economy in central america and is hoping for big things from the free trade deal with its larger neighbor. panama city looks promising. currently the country only bring some attention on mexico's list of trade partners. most president therefore not only wants to strengthen twenties but also hopes that mexico will tell you what it brings to the nation. the couple said little the disagreement will be of great benefit to buy some lights. we are sure the deal will result in increased tourism and investments places and infrequent in the quality of life to take countries. what about the timing of the humble place. in recent years. panama has made huge investments in infrastructure and buildings. the country's construction industry in particular is booming the biggest project is the multi billion dollar expansion of the famous panama canal. the world health organization's decision shocking figures indicating air pollution contributes to the deaths of millions of people every year stroke heart disease and lung cancer. some of the illnesses related to bad air quality report also cites long term consequences th

in many of our larger cities, rail transit is already or at capacity. at the same time, the nation is facing a serious infrastructure deficit, the numbers again that fta rolled out with conditions and performance report, $86 billion and if we do not change our investment levels that is going to grow by 2.5 billion a year. the program changes we saw were to meet the challenges and to some extent we have. for example, 21 did create a more needs based state of good repair formula program to fix our fixed guide way systems and established a national transit asset management system to ensure that all of the grantees will adopt a strategic and individualized approach for managing their capital assets. and that they'll be held accountable for leveraging all available resources to bring systems into a state of good repair. this is one of the foundational pieces that map 21 brought to bear and i've been very grateful for the cooperation and good ideas we've been hearing from the industry on that. we have issued or in the process of issuing, new regulations in gu

as far as today, the larger cities will be in great shape, getting in a little bit of sun shine. that much colder air will be rapping in behind it. it's not on the tale end of it. we'll see wintery precipitation. we are watching it closely. as far as temperatures, they'll drop. here is a look at the next push of arctic air. it will make its way cross the north. by the end of the week, across the ohio, and by monday, it looks like the colder temperatures will return. today you can parliamentary secretary '60s. >> syria's war is having a spillover effect in lebanon. tripoli has strong ties to the bashar al-assad regime, as charles stratford reports, syria's opposition has been dealing with major blows from the regime this week. >> this video was filmed by a journal lift in the town of rab rude -- rab rude. al jazeera cannot independently verify the video. it shows journalists, fighters and weapons. this is reportedly a nearby village. the army regained control here on march the 19th. those residents interviewed on camera at least, expressed relief that the military is in control. >

-- that is close to damascus and hasn't been an avenue for feeding arms to damascus and other larger citiesria. and the country today remains divided between opposition and alled north and east government-controlled south and west. that's where we are today. host: as far as the united states in the position it has taken on syria, what has it been and what are our options going forward? guest: well, senator mccain -- there are a number of supporters of the syrian rebels -- they believe they have found moderate up and overwhelm the assad state but president obama has clearly decided, at least it seems apparent today, three years ago, he did not want to get sucked into the syrian quagmire. he has not given -- the united states has not given lots of arms to the rebels. we have given them no military support and over $2 billion has been spent on syria and the neighborhood a, a lot of itide and a lot of nonmilitary support. the saudi's have been the main donors in terms of arms and so forth. united states has resisted, allowing them to get what our command paths, these shoulder held antiaircraft

look at how the controls are working but what is the roll the formula retail play in the city they tend to be larger stores therefore maybe ate a more appropriate area to be in union square and other places. but >> prayer by the chaplain. >> the overall picture it's well noted. >> i want to share a couple of comments. one i want to remind myself not to jump to conclusions that is a phase one of part 4 series but it's easy to start to jump to conclusions. i will pout if i'm reading this right that 12 percent of all businesses in san francisco are formula retailer whether you think that's you enough i'm not sure that number was available before. picking up on sxhargs point i think it's okay. we have areas that allow for formula rail but you recall we actually this commission in a split vote disapproved of a hardware store and they're not looking at fisherman's wharf. we're pushing them to search for parts of san francisco that are applicable but not practical. well fisherman's wharf i think there are 0 folks in the city that maybe use that that's the least the area with the few it bedrooms and garden

so the larger picture is about public and private pifrpz with our city with successful companies likend i think as popular the companies are beginning to exhibit their floifb floifb goals and what kind of society do we want to lead. this is a question for every tech company i'm glad to these those companies here today, you'll notice ann display with an a and as you sit here now good with a z. every tech company that has a letter in their name a there z are going to be part of the journey of not only transforming our education system as described as struggling in the past with a lot of different barriers and opening up to our effort to involve a larger picture of what our residents and their families really want to do in the great city of san francisco and how do we attract those families to stay here. i go to technology visits every tech tour tuesday and meet with thirty or 40 employees of those companies and many of them know their ipos won't come in like other families they want to be here and work in jobs by the first thing is what are we doing that the schools. that's the birthing

real estate agents realize they need to advertise on the larger sites in their city.w is the largest site in every city in the u.s. >> you only need to be in one? >> yes. that's why our revenue is so high. >> let me ask you about an ethical conflict, there are agents who advertise, can an agent who advertises get special preference be able to move a negative review that someone who doesn't pay couldn't touch? >> no, they can't. i get a lot of angry e-mails from agents. that's the rule of the game. we have over 500,000 reviews of agents, not all of them are good. that's okay. we empower the consumer with information. >> the lender advertises goes with your new lender. >> be a better lender you won't get a bad review. >> okay, let's say, i look at it, i want people to understand the negatives because this is what people short. if you want to take on the shorts, other people say, listen the better way to get leads for agents is through google. that has the highest. how do you explain they have 11.4 lead versus your 8.3. >> for a to advertise on google, it drives you to w

city council member. so he's had his fingers in both sides of local government. now, as a county supervisor, he has a constituency much largerany single city council district. so wow. you know, i'm a kid in a candy store here. there's a lot to choose from. >> so, it's early. three months until the election. you know, depending on which side you're on, that's a lot of time or that's not enough time. >> or if you don't have a side. you know. yeah, it's very early. we do have one poll. it's sponsored, let's disclose it here, it's sponsored by -- i checked this out personally. the methodology is pretty straightforward with one caveat. it was conducted in english only. leaving out spanish and vietnamese interviews. that's something we might want to think about in a city where both groups are well represented. but that's notwithstanding, we do have some findings. you can see what happens. dave kortase is at the top. one person outside the city council. the county supervisor. followed by madison nguyen. sam licardo, the great fundraiser, hasn't transferred into votes. 10%. pierre, 8%. rose herera in fifth place at the moment at 6%.

even though it's a larger organization that helps youth across this city, i'm speaking from my very humble perspective from the corner of the city in the haight. item -- i'm from a tiny space. each day i would serve about 75 youth. i'm speaking on behalf of the disconnected transitional age youth and the need for additional services and funds directed for those individuals. around buena vista park and golden gate park we are ready to make bold steps and looking to employment and which as you have already discussed which i'men encouraged to hear conversation around the hot team that a lot of those issues that are important to the work that i'm doing i have already discussed that we are ready to meet people who are ready to take that step. right now there is a dearth in terms of mental health services. everyone knows with my staff, for everyone that comes there is a waiting time for maybe to get into a treatment facility might be a matter of months and anyone in the works would know that you would have to work very quickly who is ready to make that action step. as well as for employment, the

and rather than taking his business to a larger city as it grew, mack chose to build a successful stable business that will bring employees and customers alike to his hometown. hunna. as a result, he is a household name and recognizable to customers up and down the east coast. the cork certainty has remained in the same location since it opened and grown substantially s its customer base increases. throughout his life he focused on providing the best product and outstanding service and hard work helped put it on the map. business was second to family and community. if there was an opportunity to volunteer, mack was first in line. for over 70 years he was a member of the nahunna friends meeting where he served in many capacities. and at his search he served as an elder and finance committee member and sang in the choir, taught sunday school, and mentored young folks at the church. in the community, mack was a founding member of the fire department, served as a trustee at the nearby mount olive college, and he sat on the board of directors of the bb and t bank. at home he and his wife, spe

philadelphia is a poorer city than when it was the manufacturing powerhouse. it lost a larger share of the tax paying middle class residents. america starts to split along haves and have not. philadelphia is not benefitting from the trend. it has not seen an increase in the upper class the same way the rest of the nation has. that can only mean one thing, between 1970 and 2010 the share of lower class grew from 30% of the population to 47% making it the single biggest part of the population, the least able to support the cost of running the city. the study says most of the haloing out of the middle class occurred before the year 2000 and before the great recession. ali dug deeper into the report with larry icall the project director for pew's philadelphia program. listen. >> one of the fascinating things we found was in 1970, 44% of people we considered middle class did not have a high school degree because there were the blue collar jobs available. that's not the case now. you need a college degree or a lot of college education to be considered part of the middle class. it's

we believe we could get a substantial amount larger and do more work here in the city. >> thank you. >>> other than that, we participate in the regular proceedings at the cpuc which if any of you know what that regulatory process is about, it's very tedious and complex and ever more complex. the other thing is that we're not compensated for that work and so we get that money out of our overhead and a little bit out of the puc work order and it's a very difficult task, but we've been very successful at working with local governments across the state, and particularly in the nine bay area counties more recently in leveraging these funds. >> thank you. any other member of the public would like to comment? and seeing none, we'll close public comment. [gavel] >> commissioner breed. >> i just wanted to thank the advocates and thank barbara hale for putting this rfp together and you, too, jason. i see you. [chuckling] >> yes, i apologize. i'm looking dead at you, too. [laughter] >> but thank you all so much for putting this together so quickly. i think the point of this, as had been mention

city has yet to dpw develop a systemic approach. to let you know about the general criteria. you can see the plazas criteria so we're talking about the spaces that are larger than 2 thousand square feet not large sidewalk but plaza like spaces and city owned property that be located in active areas like bicycle hubs or another nationally activated areas they have to have temporary intervene and or maintenance those plaza has the transformation that kwo could be structural in providing benefits in neighborhoods has our city grows. in addition in many cases those spaces could provide more opportunities to visitors to relax and enjoy the farmer's markets and local feed and retail stunts and the opportunities for this plazas. some of the plaza like spaces e measurable that clearly enhanced those but the management plans are not always clear. those spaces fall outside of rec and park department jurisdictions. in addition their distinct from other initiatives they're not temporary. they have been in san francisco but usually the city vice presidents are trying to resolve the cases often reintending the whole and not coordinating with other city efforts. i have a