laura marshall from the controller's office, and emily: from the mayor's office. our first presenter will be from carrie abbott from the department of homeless supported housing. >> thank you. >> carrie is on her way in, but i would jump in and her place until can you please identify yourself? >> i am emily cohen, with the mayor's office. thank you for having us here today to discuss hsoc. i want to start with an overview of the challenges that we are facing, in our communities. this is not a secret to anyone. i think we all understand we face a crisis of homelessness. our most recent.in time identified over 8,000 people in our community expensing homelessness, about 5,000 of whom who living unsheltered. about 3,000 staying in shelters or other residential programs. what folks don't always see every night is the successes that we have. last year we exited over 2,000 people from homelessness, and to housing. a very successful year. 2018 was the year we had the most exits out of homelessness of any year in the recent past. it was good in that way. the outreach team

my name is laura marshall, and i'm with the controller's office, and we were brought in to hsoc to help measure the impact of this initiative, and the next few slides are largely pulled from a report that we produced this last spring to largely document the first year of hsoc, 2018, and some of the data and operational changes that occurred from this initiative. you can see one of the biggest impacts from its first year was related to the reduction of large-scale encampments throughout the city. prior to that, we didn't do record keeping, we didn't have any data about what the city was. 2018, we did reduce 25 large camp tents. another piece of that was the sort of engagement that goes along with the encampment resolution team's work, so a. one of the other big pieces was the streamlining and enhanced coordination across departments. i think commander lozar was commenting on it earlier about how departments working together earlier, but there were also significant changes how calls are routed, how they're responded to, how they're dispatched, so those changes help create certain improvem

. >> laura: your reaction to that? marshall plan plus no consequent as if you come here. but there will be civil penalties like jaywalking. >> if you want to make illegal immigration illegal, that's just going to cause a problem on the board. it's going to increase. his plan -- it's ridiculous. i guess he's admitting now they're not coming here because of fear of persecution from the government because that's what they're claiming, right? if it's really a poverty issue, then none of them qualify for asylum. let's shut the door right now. he just admitting it's a big fraud. they are coming out because of fear of persecution, the economy -- it's about poverty and about a better life. that's not asylum. >> laura: such as economic circumstances. but that does not qualify as a condition for asylum. otherwise millions and millions and millions of people would want to, right now because they live in places where maybe they don't have a good income. >> i would like to hear one thing. i would like one of the commentators to ask them this question, if you don't want people deported

. >> laura: your reaction to that? marshall plan plus no consequences if you come here. it'll be civil penalties like jaywalking. >> if you want to make illegal immigration legal, that's just a problem on the border. it's going to increase bring his plane is ridiculous. i guess he's admitting now they aren't coming here because of fear of persecution from the government. because that's what they are claiming, right? if it's really a poverty issue none of them qualify for asylum. let's shut the door right now. he just admitted that asylum is a big problem but not coming because of fear of persecution they are coming because the economy, poverty, better life. >> laura: that's economic circumstance. that does not qualify the conditions for asylum. otherwise millions and millions and millions of people would want to come here because they live in places where they do not have a good income. >> would like to hear one thing. i'd like them to ask them this question. if you do not want people deported, after they had due process in front of a federal judge, what is your option?

>> shepard: laura ingle live in new york. u.s. marshallsw offering a $20,000 reward in the search for a husband and wife accused of murder. police say blaine and susan barksdale overpowered a security guard in southern utah while on the way from new york to a prison in arizona. now the marshalls say the pair may be driving through arizona and that they are expected to be armed and dangerous. the couple accused of killing a man and burning down his house in tucson back in april. william la jeunesse has more. >> here's what happened. rather than fly a few deputies back to new york to pick up these two alleged killers, pima county arizona hired a private company out of kansas to pick up the barksdales for a 2,202 four-day drive with two inmates and three unarmed guards. in so the couple faked a medical emergency. when the van pulls up, the barksdale sources said overpowered the guards, tied them up and locked them in the van. a friend nearby gives the couple his truck to get away. they did not, we're told, find a firearm hidden in the glove bo

marshal and are set to be destroyed. >> but advocates are trying to provide another solution for the residents there. laura anthony is live at oakland city hall with the story tonight. laura? >> reporter: well, hi, dan. oakland city officials have taken a hands-off approach when it comes to many of the homeless encampments around town, even providing services like garbage pickup and porta-potties. but when it comes to these unpermitted buildings right underneath the b.a.r.t. tracks, the city is now saying they have got to go. for caesar, his self-built structure underneath the b.a.r.t. tracks is the only home he's known for the past eight months, but now his makeshift house along with a dozen others between 81st and 85th avenues will be torn down, after the oakland fire marshal declared them a danger. >> the fact is building an unlicensed, unregulated wooden structure out of materials you find in the street is not safe. >> reporter: we first showed you the row of tiny homes tucked under b.a.r.t. last month. some even stretched all the way up to the tracks themselves, more than two stories tall. there have

laura? >> shep, well, police in tucson, arizona, told us today that they're working with the fbi, the u.s. marshalleral law enforcement agencies in multiple states to track these two down. 56-year-old blaine barksdale and his 59-year-old wife, susan barksdale, managed to overpower two security officers while being transported. they were going through utah and this happened monday night. they were in the process of being extradited from upstate new york near the henrietta area where they were taken into custody in mae. they're facing charges of first degree murder, burglary and arson in connection to the disappearance and the assumed death of frank blye. his brother called police from out of state that day asking for a wellness check after he hadn't hurt from his brother in over a week. investigators later discovered his vehicle abandoned leaving to believe that he was the victim of foul play. his body has note been found, shep. >> shepard: the investigators are saying this couple, the barksdales may have had some help with the original crime? >> yeah, detectives working the case said they identifie