allows us to target our resources and the fact that these events are during the day allows us to limit city overtime as well. just to come back to the point on the last slide, the cash collateral escrow, i show that as the credit here, $2.4 million. that's again, assuming that doesn't again drawn on and comes back to the city to help defray costs. again obviously if some of those monies are withdrawn, that wouldn't come back in that full amount. we fully project we'll get that money back. with that credit it's $4.1 million for next year. this is probably the most variable slide of the ones i've shown. obviously it will reflect the actual efforts that are made to host the events. so, as spectator attendance goes up, we'll also see likely an increase in costs for a lot of the operational th y

. >>> speed limit on city streets is the same but the information super highway just got a lot faster. >> city leaders chain sawed through a weird ethernet cable as an action of its wickedly fast wifi. it's the fastest in the fashion. >> typically we see wifi deployments have a thousand or 2,000 miles an hour in layman's terms. we're upping that to about 10,000 miles an hour. >>> coverage is in the downtown area. the cities it cost $94,000 to install the equipment seen on light posts with more to come. it will also be used to speed up park and pay kiosks near the pavilion. not everyone is a believer. >> wickedly fast, i don't know. >> meet mohammed. he travels to downtown san jose while works in the computer world. we did a test right on the street. >> now let's see how fast it works. >> pretty good. >> wickedly fast? >> pretty good. >> faster than at the hotel. so, yeah, it's good. >> i'm impressed. >> in san jose, matt keller, channel 2 news. >>> a grand jury has in despited eight people for allegedly -- indicted eight people, loading items into approximate moving vans and charged c

direction of someone or he can be facing something as slight as discharging a firearm within the city limitss going to depend on the charging authority, and who they believe started this entire fight, but you can't meet fistfight with a gun that. sun equal force a that is unequal force and not the same thing. >> but what the two guys who beat him up? do they bear any responsibility, holly? >> well, they should be charged with their own charges. they are looking at battery and assault charges and depending upon how much damage is done, they could be facing aggravated assault which takes it out of the misdemeanor rank and up to the felony charge. everybody here needs to be charged with something here, don, because it is a broad range of possibilities. >> so they bear responsibility, because they tried to run him off of the road and then he instigated the fight. had he walked up on them, and say this, this is the question that i want to know, and had he walked up on these guys and instigated the fight and they had done nothing and beat him down then do they bear responsibility or just defending

the new price is part of a new program by san francisco to manage the city's limited parking meter spaces, and if you do the math, for two hours, at one of these meters, it will cost 14 bucks. the alternative is parking in a neighborhood parking garages, and i just checked out some of those. they're charging for today between 20 and $30. so the meeters are actually still a little deal compared to the parking garages. reporting live in san francisco, abc7 news. >> carolyn: thank you, sergio. new at 6:00. residents and merchants on polk street in san francisco have the choice of two meetings to attend about parking changes. at issue is the municipal transportation agency's plan to remove some on-street parking to make polk a more inviting place to walk and bureaucrat. one -- to walk and bike. one meeting is for support for the plan and the other meeting is for those who want to keep the status quo. >>> still to come at 6:00, a warning for drivers. the new crackdown on using the cell phone behind the wheel. >> big changes ahead on bart. what you can expect to see next week. >> a coverup in t

now we also have existing regulation that require anyone selling ammunition within the city limits maintain records of their sale which are required to be available for inspection at any time. but no city law requires any reporting of these types of sales by vendors that do not have locations inside the city and county of san francisco but sell to city residents. this is enforcing our existing our regulations. the first proposes to restrict not only the sale but possession of type of ammunition that is in lethal property designed for use by military personnel. anything sold black talent which was designed with sharp prongs to cause significant injury upon impact. any ammunition designated by manufactures to sale to law enforcement or military agencies only, any ammunition that serves no sporting purpose and any ammunition to disbanned or other objects that are intended to increase the damage of the target. now the ordinances also required by the police department to create and maintain a public data base of brands and product lines of ammunition meeting the definition of this ordinance. the

we are trying to be really consistent with the city's policy to limit the expansion of advertising on the city-owned property and so that is a part of what was taken into consideration when we moved forward with the mag only. i understand that the budget analyst has concerns with that, which you will hear about today. and i am sure, director martin will be happy to come back and answer more specific questions around his thinking in this. >> thank you very much. >> colleagues, do you have any questions of the airport at this time? >> okay. >> supervisor avalos? >> just i know that we are going to have this come back and maybe when it does, you or john can touch about how or whether they are inside of the rfp there was a question to support local businesses. because that has been coming up in conversation that i have with people that one of the contractors is better at than and i am not sure if that was part of the scoring that went on and if you could touch on that when you return. >> do you want me to tell you what i know now? >> sure. >> briefly, it is my understanding that there was

i looked over this item and one thing you have to recommend regarding the speed limits for schools. in most cities there's signs posted -- first of all there are speed limits signed posted on the streets how fast you can go on the street, and in most cities -- for example cleveland ohio as an example. that's where i am from. they have signed posted saying "school ahead, speed limit 20 miles per hour". it's also in the driving test, this sort of thing when you take the written test, when they want to know the speed limits on different areas, this sort of thing. that's another thing you have to look into. post the spreed limit signs and have the schools post signs prior to coming to school saying "school ahead. speed limit 20 miles per hour" end of that and after they leave the school then they can go back to where they were before. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning everyone. my name is [inaudible]. i am aware that we're spending money again because just like the lady that was giving the presentation about traffic calming, which is good, so it brings to my point. we sh

. >> the goal is to better manage the city's limited resources and more aggressively address high crime areas. >>> carrying a messaged a the mail. postal workers protested in san francisco today. they rallied outside of a convention hosted by their employer. protesters are concerned about cuts to service which could ultimately lead to an end of the postal service. the post master general was attending the forum. it's a convention that got criticism lately because the cost they are paying about $2 million to host it. they have lost 27% of its total volume of mail and they can't sit back and do anything about it. >> the postal service wants to privatize the post office and one of the things they are aiming right now is to reduce from six day to five-day delivery and later on they'll try to privatize that. we do not want that. we cannot allow that to happen. >> we're seeing mail coming back a little bit but slowly. what we've lost has been bill payment. people pay bills online. it's free. it's convenient. that won't come back. so you have to react to that. we've reacted in a responsible wa

. >> this time the city limited the event to just six blocks. it hired extra unarmed security and decided to close the event early. this parking lot was the staging area for police tonight. but we didn't see anyone being arrested this evening. it cost the city about $15,000 to hold the event. reporting live in oakland, alan wong, abc7 news. >> nice that it went so well. let's stay in oakland. new at 11:00, the oakland police department has been overseer. but we don't know who that is. they would the no released the name of the compliance director until it is set. they will have sweeping powers and will satisfy reforms that were supposed to be completed five years ago. >>> new details on the marin county man shot and killed in sonoma county. police say it happened after a night of smoking marijuana with a woman and then turned into a kidnapping. 37-year-old richard shirkengost was killed following a police chase. his car was towed away today. last night a woman in the car with him started texting a friend she had been kidnapped. that friend then

or he can be facing something as slight as discharging a firearm within city limits. it's really going to depend on the charging authorities and who they think started this entire fight. but you can't meet fistfight with a gun. that is unequal force. it's not the same thing. >> it shows him instigating it. but what about the two guys who beat him up? do they bear any responsibility here? >> well, absolutely. and they should be charged with their own charges. they're probably looking at battery charges, assault charges and depending on how much damage was done. they could even be facing aggravated assault taking it out of the misdemeanor rank and put it up into the felony rank. it's a broad range of possibilities. >> they bear responsibility because they tried to run him off the road. then he instigated the fight. had he just walked up on them, let's say this -- this is a question i want to know. had he just walked up on these guys and instigated the fight and they had done nothing and these guys beat him down, then do they bear any responsibility or are they just defe

cities that they really need to figure out in their broader economic region, not just within their city limits. so how do you coordinate with the communities around you to advance some of these policy issues, whether it's transportation, environmental improvements, economic development, education systems, workforce training, etc. these are some of the issues that we really want to publicize the best practices so that practitioners such as ourselves can bring these ideas back home and really move an issue forward. i think here in the bay area, bringing this group of four european experts here has really been an interesting exercise for me, not knowing the city of oakland very much at all, having been to san francisco a few times, but it really is -- i do think that the communities here are poised to really be sort of going over the crest of the hill in terms of moving this issue forward. and i think hopefully these four will serve as sort of a catalyst in your community to get the community talking about what is possible and how some of these ideas may be adapted to your local community. nothin

there are lrp more than 50 homeless encampments in the city limits but many are along waterways hidden by thick brush not in the wide open like this one is here on spring street. reporting live here in san jose, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> what started as a missing persons case is now a homicide investigation. this morning san jose police are trying to figure out how a missing elderly san jose man ended up dead in his own apartment. the 69 year old was found stabbed to death hyde inside the hill top manor senior hill apartments near highway 87. this morning police say they do have someone in custody related to the death of stanley jacobson but they're not saying who it is or how they might be related to the killing. a few weeks ago when jacobson was first reported missing, police were reportedly looking for regina butler. neighbors say butler was jacobson's girlfriend. one neighbor says he saw butler being led away by officers in handcuffs. police say jacobson's family found his body yesterday morning on the floor of his apartment but just how long his body was there still a que

. >> this time the city limited the event to just six blocks.hired extra unarmed security and decided to close the event early. this parking lot was the staging area for police tonight. but we didn't see anyone being arrested this evening. it cost the city about $15,000 to hold the event. reporting live in oakland, alan wong, abc7 news. >> nice that it went so well. let's stay in oakland. new at 11:00, the oakland police department has been overseer. but we don't know who that is. they would the no released the name of the compliance director until it is set. they will have sweeping powers and will satisfy reforms that were supposed to be completed five years ago. >>> new details on the marin county man shot and killed in sonoma county. police say it happened after a night of smoking marijuana with a woman and then turned into a kidnapping. 37-year-old richard shirkengost was killed following a police chase. his car was towed away today. last night a woman in the car with him started texting a friend she had been kidnapped. that friend then call

francisco would be a treasure to have the razz room or live at the razz room remain within the city limits. i'm looking forward to playing the base, and i understand that tonight i have gotten an education on the sound restrictions and the problems and i am sure that we all know my band is going to rock the house. so, i really want them to do the best that they can. i want you guys to give them a chance and let them play it and do the sound proofing and make this another great san francisco landmark in this great and wonderful city. thank you very, very much. >> thank you very much and thank you for speaking to us. i love confunction. >> thank you. >> personally. >> commissioners, my name is durf butler and i also love confunction and i did not know that was michael cooper. >> he will be signing autographs at the end of the commission hearing. >> no need because i enjoy him when i go to the razz room that is why i am here it was kind of interesting that he was before me. because my point is i don't know the owners, i only know that i have... this venue has been one of the venues that play

francisco when people were growing-- i heard up to 40% of the city's food was grown within the city limits. and i feel like that's totally realistic. >> we're starting trails of new agriculture of new things. we have peach trees. >> my mother-in-law always says she wants green beans and things like that. i'm like, "don't go to the store! i'll bring you some." you know it's right in the garden. she loves the organic beans as opposed to her beans. so, you know, everybody's just getting healthy around here. we need this in our community. >> if you know what nature is, you can survive through nature. >> the u.s. department of agriculture says there are thousands of community farms and gardens throughout the country. >> being a small little market garden, it's not as if we!re growing a tof of food. but we are showing people in urban places like san francio how they can be their own food producers. >> this was just like perfect for me. so, it was just a garden. we can grow it ourselves. and we can eat it. and it's fresh. it's organic. so, absolutely, this really has been, you know, it's been won

policies that contribute to that responsible fiscal management including the increasing the city's reserves, limiting the use of one-time sources, and codifying some of our debt policy, so, as you know, the five year financial plan is essentially a road map for the city's financial outlook over the city's next five year plan, it is a collaborative effort that are jointly -- it's jointly done by the mayor's office, the board's budget analyst swes the controller's office, so i would like to thank ms. campbell and [inaudible] for all the work we did together on putting this together. the plan itself highlights key financial issues specifically drivers of any gaps between revenues and expenditures and then monitors our overall progress on the city's structural deficit. as you'll also remember, the five-year plan, it requires that we both present what that gap is and then propose financial strategies about how to eliminate the gap between revenues and expenditures. so, what i thought i would do is kind of walk through some high level assumption and then talk about in more detail about what's going on in t

a city building inspector declared the store off limits until repair crews can repair the damage. >>> developing news in vallejo tonight where police are investigating the shooting death of an elderly man. someone called police around a 5:30 tonight saying they heard shots fired. officers found the victim dead inside a garage. they have not yet released the victim's identity and no arrests have been made. >>> a wildfire is still smoldering in the east bay tonight. a giant plume of smoke from the blaze filleds this afternoor hours this afternoon. it was visible throughout the bay area. the crews are just letting it burn out. it is happening on lower sherman island where the sacramento and san juaquin rivers come together. abc7 news reporter sergio quintanna is live in antioch with a look at how people living nearby are so worried tonight. >> yes, the fire was burning a few miles north of here, and the firecrews tell us that because it was on that isolated island they didn't really have a worry it was going to spread. but since it did burn for several hours it pumped a lot of smoke into

just outside thfrno city limits is where you'll find this 20-acre family owned operation that has grown 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables for more than00 years, and doesn't looc to close shop atime soon. especially if the lion of fans the place has earned over the years has anything to say about it. >> oh, my god. just for people to see it. i don't think they've ever seen anything likthis. toee the beautiful blossoms, and the colors, and thcountryside, and what--what it really takes to doing farming. i mean, i think--god, i just-- i just think they get a lot out ofhis. >> blossoms are one of the most visible signs a new crop is on the way. and for about 6 weeks out of the year, you can see this spectacular sight, trees flushed full of blossoms. some have as many as 20,000 per tree. but the one thing yo discover quite quickly about the blossom trail is, besides highlighting the beauty of the area and the bounty of agriculture the county has to offer, the trail is really all about one thin..eating. >> we have lots of the products. everything that is here, we offer in the store. >> ma

the judge says the ban limiting sugary beverages to 16 ounces was arbitrary. the citythe ban is important for health since obesity related illness kills more than 5,000 new yorkers each year. arguments are set for june. >>> many relatives of 911 victims are opposing a new search for human remains. a group of victims' families want an outside investigation of new york city's medical examiner's office and its handling of previous 9/11 dna samples. city officials plan to start sifting through debris at the site come monday. >>> when road rage turns violent. was this self-defense? or was it assault? we'll get to the bottom of it next. first this. your home can be a money pit but come april 15, tax day, your daily shelter can be your tax shelter. here's christine romans with a list of deductions that make a difference come tax day. >> first, you can deduct mortgage interest. it's worth nearly $100 billion a year. when you look at your house the biggest deconduction is interest for the mortgage. >> there is a limitation. the first $1 million of debt on a property is tax dedu

as an alternative he recommends making dreet suburbs and make sure municipal employees make the city limitst's the unions destroying detroit and they need an emergency manager because those currently running the city aren't going to make tough decisions needed to get the city back on track. we will keep an eye on this one. >> thank you so much. it is 47 minutes after the hour. coming up some schools are trying to take away part of your kid's lunch. we will explain what the bullies are done. she was travel secretary of state in history. what has hillary clinton been up to recently. we will have a sneak peak. >> great show as usual ladies. first off i am going to name drop. condoleezza rice will be live on the couch after she goes governor jeb bush will be live talking about immigration. weighing in on dennis rodman is he the next wave the dip plats in this country. senator coal burn got a call from the president are they going to make progress and go beyond leadership. i hold on my ipad my two girls weighing in with questions for us here on fox and friends so is gretch en's children have que

a city building inspector declared the store off limits until repair crews can repair the damage. >>> developing news in vallejo tonight where police are investigating the shooting death of an elderly man. someone called police around a 5:30 tonight saying they heard shots fired. officers found the victim dead inside a garage. they have not yet released the victim's identity and no arrests have been made. >>> a wildfire is still smoldering in the east bay tonight. a giant plume of smoke from the blaze filled skies for hours this afternoon. it was visible throughout the bay area. the crews are just letting it burn out. it is happening on lower sherman island where the sacramento and san juaquin rivers come together. abc7 news reporter sergio quintanna is live in antioch with a look at how people living nearby are so worried tonight. >> yes, the fire was burning a few miles north of here, and the firecrews tell us that because it was on that isolated island they didn't really have a worry it was going to spread. but since it did burn for several hours it pumped a lot of smoke into the s

an aid convoy has gone to a syrian city that has limited access for the last six months. the teams brought food, supplies.tions and medical gets a difficult path to supplies to the syrians who need this. we have this report from the syrian border. >> getting food to the people inside syria is their main priority. the population suffering the plight of war. the turkish humanitarian relief is one of the main aid groups that is leading the effort to help people inside syria and in refugee camps. >> the total of the aid we provided reach 25 million u.s. dollars. we get donations from people in charity groups across the world and operate in difficult circumstances. we have to provide syrians with help that they can provide themselves. >> other aid as muslim countries send more aid and clothes are among the many items that are ready to be transported. and much-de flour needed fresh bread. >> 8000 pieces of this turkish red for the syrians every day. aid workers will have 6000 pieces for people inside syria and the rest will be given for free for the wounded syrians treated here

. >> this time the city limited the event to just six blocks. it hired unarmed security and decided to close the event early. >> it cost the city about $15,000 to hold this event. this parking lot was the police staging area, but we didn't see anyone arrested. >> katie: it is 8:08 and lisa argen has a look at the forecast. >> lisa: this morning, we are 55 degrees outside. here is a look from the roof camera. the clouds will win out today. that will bring slightly cooler temperatures and the rain, in the seven-day outlook. >> katie: also next, new concerns about a sinkhole that swallowed up part of a house in florida, what engineers are saying this morning about the danger. plus, a bay area lawmaker >>> good morning. welcome, thanks for joining us on this saturday morning. you are looking live from mount tamalpais and gorgeous morning that is developing neither the bay area. it's mild out there and a little bit cloudy which should help us all transition from the sunshine we saw in the last couple days what might be some rain in the forecast. lisa

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