in the meantime, what about building cleaner, more livable cities? cities are being built every day, and they're being built in ways that are not cleaner, they're not more livable. so we're aggressively moving forward and saying, look, 70% of emissions happens in cities. if you can make them cleaner, more livable, denser with bus rapid transit, with all the other things that have been proven to lower the carbon footprint of cities, then it's something that we should do right now. and this is, in fact, what's really changed about the world bank group, that we're not straddling the fence anymore. we're saying this is a real problem, and instead of just engaging in political arguments -- because, see, people -- the thing i worried about is everyone would put everything on a binding political agreement for cop 21. that might not happen. i hope it does, but it might not happen. where we want to be is that by that meeting we will have worked out how we're going to finance both mitigation and adaptation activities or for the years forward for the poorest cou

what about building cleaner, more livable cities? they are not. 70% of the emissions happens in cities, if you can make them more cleaner and livable with all the other things that have been proven to lower the carbon footprint in cities, it's something we should do right now and this has changed about the world bank group that we are not strad willing the fence and saying this is a real problem and just engaging in political arguments, the thing i worried about is everyone would put everything on a binding political agreement. that might not happen. i hope it does. by that meeting we will have worked out how we are going to finance activities for the years forward for the poorest country and work out a plan for cleaner and livable cities that is much morrow bus and have an impact on carbon emissions. funding for renewable energy. in other words, we cannot wait for the politicians to change their mind. that's our approach and i urge you to read our documents. they are pretty frightening. >> let's close on that strong answer. president

con jeks and improving the pedestrian, and bike safety to transition into a more sustain able livable city. we support the next steps outlined to incorporate the datings and findings in the various places mixed in the presentation and last, berecommend that the city may be planning or the real estate department investigate the opportunity to obtain the rights or the potential for the future locations for the samples that we just mentioned. and this is important, as the opportunities potentially exists today, which can minimize the future neighborhood disruption at the time of the construction thanks so much. >> thank you. for your support of transportation throughout the city as well. any other comments? >> thank you, and very briefly, i have yours and that could not be quite as eloquent and the only thing that i would like to take to your attention and the loop and from my experience it is a safety issue, because you have got the single down in the west in the central subway, you have two bowls and so if anything happens, you head to one of the cross passages and you head for the other tu

the livable city letter brought up the idea of the bulb out extending around the corner to the cross street -- it looks like it's not necessarily in this? >> a couple of places we proposed including masonic but many of the cross streets the street was too narrow to make those turns and include the bulbs but we are going to go back in the process of going back and reviewing that based on his letter and seeing where during the detailed design phase where we could add those additional bulbs on the side street and obviously if we don't have daylighting at those locations might involve additional parking removal needs so we would return to the board at that time for those additional parking spots. >> and i know the parking removal comes up obviously all the time when we're working on projects i have a high level of confidence in our ability to manage parking so there is availability and remind me i don't remember -- is haight street part of the sf park pilot area? it's not so we haven't optimized parking yet at some point we'll have the opportunity to do correct mr. reiskin? i don't have

what about building cleaner, more livable cities? they are not. 70% of the emissions happens in cities, if you can make them more cleaner and livable with all the other things that have been proven to lower the carbon footprint in cities, it's something we should do right now and this has changed about the world bank group that we are not strad willing the fence and saying this is a real problem and just engaging in political arguments, the thing i worried about is everyone would put everything on a binding political agreement. that might not happen. i hope it does. by that meeting we will have worked out how we are going to finance activities for the years forward for the poorest country and work out a plan for cleaner and livable cities that is much morrow bus and have an impact on carbon emissions. funding for renewable energy. in other words, we cannot wait for the politicians to change their mind. that's our approach and i urge you to read our documents. they are pretty frightening. >> let's close on that strong answer. president

a central government support and encouragement for cities to transform themselves into being cleaner and more livable can reap huge rewards. rapidly growing cities can have urban planning that drives new development towards safe locations and into a transport planning improve resilience and achie achieve competitiveness at the same time. and hopefully indcs will lay out framework for how forestry and agriculture can achieve needs of food security, support of rural livelihood and relooduce remisss from land use. the signal to economic factors will be strong. but for these efforts to co-eless and bring zero net emissions we have to find sufficient financing. it is the critical component of a paris agreement. this compelling evidence suggesting that a countries use their regulatory capacity to get prices right incentivize clean investment and use the full range of policy instruments available to them. they will experience greater investment flows. month y month as a result, the country is becoming known as the solar power innovation hub. renewable energy investment grew from $297 million in to 2012 to $

. ♪ >> tulsa, oklahoma, is ranked as one of the nation's most livable cities, but that doesn't make itmmune to crime, as both the employees and temporary residents at the tulsa county jail know all too well. on any given day, there are about 1,800 men and women incarcerated here. while some have been convicted, most are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial or resolution of their cases. >> let me see who's winning. >> chief deputy michelle robinette runs the jail. >> when i first started 18 years ago, public drunks were coming in every weekend. now and then you would get a murderer. today, a lot more frequent. the public drunks and the simple charges aren't coming through anymore. now we're looking at charges of meth, assault with a deadly, shooting with intent to kill and it's hard to see, but that's what we're dealing with. >> joseph giroux could serve as an example of an inmate who goes beyond the public drunk. his alleged crime spree made local headlines. he is accused of being high, stealing a car, attempting to kidnap two people at a convenience store, firing a gun at an

to london and buying soccer teams, drying up the cost of living in cities in really nice, livable citiesgeneration of oligarchs, can they ever go back? controls areital to be imposed, can they give up the good life they had in europe? >> i do not see how that is possible. just having witnessed firsthand, i will tell you my father -- i was in my mid-20's when i went back to russia with him for the first time. he had only been one other time to try to get his nephew out of there, which he alternately did. there was just a certain -- he was done with it. it is a little bit different for folks that have made a lot of that money on the back of that country, but i think it is hard to go back once you have tasted the good life. >> mo, this has been incredibly good to hear from you, the personal life -- >> we can talk all we want to talk about rubles, but this was a row point on it. let's get to the agenda. tom, you get us started. >> look at the market tou urmoil. i am watching for someone to blink. it always happens, we have seen this, remember bearings came out of nowhere? a world away in ano

they are not. 70% of the emissions happens in cities, if you can make them more cleaner and livable with all the other things that have been proven to lower the carbon footprint in cities, it's something we should do right now and this has changed about the world bank group that we are not strad willing the fence and saying this is a real problem and just engaging in political arguments, the thing i worried about is everyone would put everything on a binding political agreement. that might not happen. i hope it does. by that meeting we will have worked out how we are going to finance activities for the years forward for the poorest country and work out a plan for cleaner and livable cities that is much morrow bus and have an impact on carbon emissions. funding for renewable energy. in other words, we cannot wait for the politicians to change their mind. that's our approach and i urge you to read our documents. they are pretty frightening. >> let's close on that strong answer. president kim, thank you for your great remarks. thanks for your leadership. as this challenge is a practical one

the mayor continued that that effort will continue for years to make the city livable for residents andcontinue to follow that story throughout the morning. live in the digital operations center, i'm vai sikahema, nbc10. >>> the head of the cia will respond to the senate's report on the cia report. cia director john bernen is expected to dispute the report. saying that report of useful intelligence came from waterboarding and enhanced techniques. brennan acknowledged mistakes were made but he said information from detainees was vital to preventing future attacks. >>> the secret service is warning retailers to be on alert for counterfeit money. crooks will bleach $5 bills to look like 100s or they'll print fake money. >> when they hold the bill up, they just see there's a water mark there. they don't examine the portrait to make sure it's the same portrait. >> all the cash i've received was taken and deposited successfully at the bank in that no rejects so far. >> that's good news. at the village at center city, there aren't any reports of fake money being passed along. but police tell n

it will basically make the city more livable and it will help the agonizing trips that some people have to take from market street to north beach or bay or however far north it goes . my brother lives in the in the upper haight and he used to go to school around around pier 39 and he said it was agonizing and this would do a lot to improve it. i don't know i don't know what else to say. i'm in favor of this. i'd like to see it happen. >> thank you. next speaker please? >> i thank you directors. i'm ruth naught the director of education at the san francisco opera. . regarding the grove street stop being eliminated not only because many of our patrons are older but we're making extra efforts in partnerships with schools and families to have more people coming that way as well so we appreciate you considering that as a possibility. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> my name is michael smith and i'm a long time transportation professional. i've tried to use data and information to improve the health of their transit systems and unfortunately the current system is not so hea

she says her trailer is still livable and blames the city and lamar's owner and manager for the crisis. >> they could have given us more support and they did not give us the support. >> reporter: tonight, we track down the manager. she pointed the finger at the city for not maintaining the canal next to the park. >> i was right there yesterday. and i seen it pouring over the canal so hard that there was nothing to do. once that canal comes over, you are stuck. and we are in the middle. where do we pump to? you know, we can't pump anywhere. >> reporter: so, this sits between highway 101 and salt pond so every time it rains, they get slam. the city says that was not the case with this storm. it was just the nonstop rain that created the mess. city workers will be here tomorrow morning to pump out the rest of the water. live in redwood city, betty yu, kpix5. >> before we get to more bay area storm damage, look what the storm did in southern california. this is a tornado. a tornado in south la. debris flew in all directions. national weather service said it packed wins up to 85 miles an ho

are philadelphiians fired up about change that needs to occur in their city to make it that livable attractive >> that's going to be a big question that i guess we'll find out in the election next year. there isn't anybody running right now who looks that much like a change agent. but the schools are a huge concern here. they are by almost any definition, they understood -- under funded. and if you are somebody who -- you are a young middle class person maybe having a family, or thinking about having a family the question obviously is where are you going to send your kids to school? there are options. there are private schools. there are some charter schools that do well. there are some public schools that do well but, you know, it's hard to count on anything because of the funding situation. you just -- from one year to the next you kind of don't know what is going to happen. and at a certain point i think a lot of people are going to give up on that. the millennials love city life. they want to stay. they are going to try to stay but the education system makes it hard. >> larry thanks so muc

transform physically transform these major areas in the city and produce vast community benefits not only affordable housing, but parks, livable streets and job creation and doing so. really under like that is our ability to operate from a sound fiscally prudent bases and in a transparent basis. so we have for your consideration we have completed our financial audit due to the great work of our finance staff and we have of course deputy director eleven son and i want to mention ms. torres who is our account manager and to context for the solution we have 7-8 audit due diligence reviews which is a tremendous alt of will egg -- legwork and documentation and we have the documents and that is critical to any agency's operation and i want to acknowledge rose's great work. you may not see the accounting staff. rosa leads that effort and in terms of why you are over all accomplishment is a brief overview of the significant accomplishments over the course of the last year which in fact are significant and range from again the physical catalyst ationation that you have seen from hunters point. we've seen from several hundred homes from

it saves money and livability for the people that will be living there. also in the response initially the city has repeatedly said that ceqa authorizes the city to mitigate and adapt, but it never says they actually do that and i was wondering if anybody knows of any projects in the city where the authority to mitigate for rising see levels has actually been used because i don't know of any. the warrior stadium is going to be in michigan bay, which is a flood zone. will the permits be released and signed or whatever without these mitigations. it seems a shame it's very short term thinking. also i noticed that fema met with city officials for rising sea level workshop in september and i was wondering what those results were. also one more thing, mr. chiu was representative from the city to bcbc and i was wondering, since he's now gone if there will be a replacement for the bcbc. i wanted to remind you they have authority, not only other the shorelines of the bay, but marshes, creeks, tributaries, to 100 feet landwork so they're a very imposing presence on what we may do. >> thank you. are there

what we're seeing is they're migrating to cities that really pay attention to walkable, livable communitiesconnected to research universities, emerging cities. we've seen that in austin, for example. >> great city. >> and we've seen that in seattle. on the other hand we've seen some older cities that have neglected that quality of life and that cost of living. cost of living is a great big factor here. older cities like boston and san diego who had it are beginning to lose that and other cities are anxious to seize that opportunity. and business leaders, i think, can have a big role in helping elected officials get there. >> san diego screwed it up. they deserved it. how could they possibly screw that up? we appreciate having you on. >> thank you. >>> from call of duty to madden, how did video games fair this holiday season? plus it's been a year of rumbling and bumbling. we'll take a look back at the highs and the very lows of the year. we're back in a moment. 's right. it's just that i'm worried about you know "hidden things..." ok, why's that? no hidden fees, from the bank where no branc

livable and pleasant space for everyone and installed street lighting for security. sparks supports the immediate neighborhood by installing trees which was not required for city permits and removed graffiti in all direction of our facility. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> public speaker: hello, my name is steve. i'm a father and grandfather. i have noticed a blighted area near the mcdonalds for 15 years. i'm a medical user. where policemen say all of a sudden this person is an economic development specialist. this is a coffee, lively area, bike area across from the sparks club. ask is the pizza people how many people come in and buy from them and i never smelled smoke outside of the sparks facility, thank you. >> next speaker. >> public speaker: good evening, my name is bob madela. i have lived in the excelsior district for 25 years. i'm a patient of sparks and i'm here to show my support for this project because sparks is a non-profit organization that focuses on patient centers and deserves to be in the neighborhood. further more i believe that sparks is in full compliance with the board of supervisors ordinance for medical cannabis lines and medical cann

livable wages. in a union, it's not too much. >> san francisco voters approved a hike. the current minimum wage, the city will see increases through july 2018 when it will reach $15 an hour. san jose and richmond also voted to increase wages. but at the state level, workers have to wait until 2016 to see it hit $10 an hour. state senator mark leno recently introduced another bill with the hopes of increasing the state's minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2017. >> the public policy question that my colleagues and the senate and assembly will deal with should a californiian working full-time live in poverty because they're paid poverty wages. >> leno also says increasing their pay would mean extra money in their pocket to spend on consumer goods, therefore, fueling the economy. some employer groups have said raising the minimum wage would cause layoffs and some businesses would go under. betty joe of the california small business association agrees. >> economic climate hasn't really come back for small business. so there's apprehension on how they cover any additional costs. >> four states recently voted to in

cities are built in ways that are not cleaner and not more livable. we are aggressively moving toward an saying look, 70% of the missions happens in cities. if you can make them cleaner and more livable, denser with the bus rapid transit, with all of the other things that have been proven to lower the carbon footprint then it is something we should do right now. this something that really changed about the world bank group that we are not straddling the fence any more. we are saying this is a real problem and instead of just engaging in -- because see people, the thing i worried about is that everyone putets everything on a binding political agreement for cop 21. that might not happen. where we want to be is that by that meeting we will have worked out both mitigation and finance activity for the year forward for the poorest countries that we will have work ietd plan for building cleaner more livable cities. it is agriculture would have taken off and funding for renewable energy and in other words, we cannot wait for the politicians to change their min