board, madam interim president. congratulations on your new title. i am del seymour. i am reapplying for the potion of local homeless coordinating board. when i applied initially and started by job i didn't realize what this is and all of the issues and challenges in san francisco. i am a formerly homeless person myself and i thought i knew the ins and out of the homeless and governing of the homeless community and man i didn't know qawt but i am learning it. i thought this thing -- my involvement would be two, three hours a month and that's turn into quite a bit more. seems like i am down here everyday in the homeless communities because i have so much interest and concern. i take a day like today and windy and cold and i went by several providers this morning and everyone is full. we have a problem in san francisco and i am sure chicago and detroit can say the same thing but we have a problem in san francisco and it's not getting better. i would like to see it get better. i spend time now trying to build a community. we are getting an influxion i call them immigrants but from other parts of the country an

board. first i would like to thank you for inviting me to come down again and put myself forward for a position on the local homeless coordinating board. i come to this with -- my interest in coming to this board stems out of the last six and a half years working along the tenderloin and working with the homeless and low income individuals. i started this work in 2008 and leaving my job in biotech and going to law school and having a role in community development. i quickly began volunteered at the shelter and referrals through a student group. throughout school it snow balled there and i went into the homeless advocacy project and legal aid and worked with the -- what was then the good neighborhood coalition on the efforts to get a cbmc hospital project. upon graduation in 2011 i was extremely lucky to be offered the role much the executive director of the assistance advocacy project and an organization in the tenderloin around for 30 years providing services for low income folks in the neighborhood. we're unique as a legal services organization we have very -- we're unique in we're a drop in clinic and do

that was a 3-2 vote on the local school board. sort of tea party majority on the local school board decided that those books should be redacted. they came and gave a prentation to that school board encouraging them to do it. the senate president and two other republican state senate nors came toet school board meeting and encouraging to vote to cut those pages out of the biology textbooks. and they took that vote last week and it passed. they say they're gathering volunteers from the community who want to help rip out pages from the school textbooks. now, two things have happened. gill pert arizona voted just like the rest of the country did on tuesday night. as i said, they're back in with conservative republican state legislatures and conservatives. it was a conservative, republican romp there, just like it always is. kpept on the school board. that specific, local body that just voted to tear out the pages from the biology textbook, they just lost their tea party majority. >> meantime, in gilbert, the controversial school board

agency is expected to approve a long-awaited bus rapid transit project on van ness from michigan to local board. the plan would credit bus only lanes and shelters in the center of van ness and remove left turn lanes for two miles and reduce packing. the goal is to reduce bus travel time by 30 percent when bus only lanes open in 2018. they have been planning this a long, long time. >> we have been hoping for rain for a long, long time. >> we get some start tonight. we will keep those three chances in the fast through saturday. good morning, everyone, here is visibility: no fog, we still have an offshore freeze keeping all of the low level moisture away from us. coming through the ferry building it is 58 but at downtown or the financial district it is 54 and sunny side is 52 and coming across the golden gate bridge is 57 headed through crissy field and 57 in richmond, the warm spot. and 54 in san leandro and palo alto and santa clara and pleasanton and tracy at 42 and walnut creek and petaluma 41, and healdsburg is 48, so we have a spot below 40-degree threshold. from the east bay hills you can s

when the local board of health holds meetings, it usually happens here in this room, where you can gete about things like septic tanks and mosquito control. but not on this day. this meeting wednesday night had to be moved to the local elementary school because the town is up in arms. >> you people make me sick! >> reporter: why so mad? that board of health is proposing to make westminster the first town in the entire country to completely ban the sale of tobacco. >> it can be argued that the board of health permitting these establishments to sell these dangerous products that, when used as directed, kills 50% of its users, ethically goes against our public health mission. >> reporter: the town's proposal would make it illegal to sell any product containing nicotine within city limits. so, no cigarettes, chewing tobacco, cigars, vaporizers. you'd still be able to smoke or use tobacco in town, just not buy it. >> if we can prevent children from having access and exposure to nicotine and tobacco products and reduce the chances of them smoking or using them, then we've essentially saved l

a 10% approval rating in charge of making every single child in every school safer than the local school board can, than the local legislator can, than the local governor can, than the local community can, than the parents can. if we want safe schools, that's the job of parents, communities, school boards, states. it is not a duty to be bucked upstairs to the united states senate and the united states department of education. that doesn't make the sam houston elementary school in maryville, tennessee, any safer. i don't think many parents would go home feeling better in my hometown if they knew it was the united states senate they were counting on to make their child safe in their school. of course this is the right goal, but there's a better way to do that. there's a better way to do that. the reason that the senator from iowa and i offered to the senator from pennsylvania and the senator from west virginia an opportunity to have an hearing and a markup in september on this bill was we think we have a better idea and that was simply to take the well-meaning impulse that they have and change t

and when they didn't work in the off.e, they were they lived in local boarding didn't get more fall schooling. begins to change at the same time we have progressives laws in or child labor the u.s. and for a -- for a formal education system. there were some progressives who looked at the pages and said, know a lot about becoming a statesman, a representative for a senator, almost devoid of any ruseful knowledge other than that. push in gin to see the the early 1900s. s, the mid 1920s, parents of some of the pages who increasingly from across the country, they're no longer just washington, d.c., parents become involved and they a private school in the capitol. man who starts the first formal education system for the in the earnest kendall early 1930s. he establishes the capital page the basement of the capitol. it's both house and senate pages. historiesnderful oral of the capitol page school. to bartlett who would go on become a marine general, he would become a reading clerk in he house and have a very long house career. he was a page in the early 1940s. has reminiscences of his page chool a

if other, local school boards say we want to adopt this they are free to do that but the federal department of education should not say, you don't get no child and the federal department of education should not be using tens of millions of dollars for a smart balance -- and under the 10th amendment, under the federal statute has never been allowed to interfere with this againstis why i am common core. >> i feel like everyone is too sensitive to the criticism. we all take this very personally but at some point we have to agree upon something. or am i wrong on that? high standards at the local and state level which is why i oppose common core. we are in the process of changing it even more in the state of wisconsin. >> but what good are high standards without a national standard? have gone up -- and the graduation rates have gone up five years -- four years in a row. i would say that the reason why we have schools in many parts of our states in this country that are failing is not because we don't have a high national standard, it is because we do not hold our schools accountable for what the

local board members had to be escorted out of the meeting by police.risingly tobacco industry groups are calling this proposal a bad policy that would harm local employers. smokers and shop keepers wills fuming. local merchants say smokers will make their purchases in other towns and probably buy their gas and groceries there as well. it's not just economics that upsets the critics they say it is a classic example of government over stepping. one local resident a vietnam veteran says he is forced to show people have a choice. no others are planned but some retailers are reexamining their policies. cvs became the first drug store to pull all of the tobacco products from the 77 stores. they will take written testimony no more public hearings and vote on the tobacco ban and later look at the more at a different date. >> go to foxbusiness.com/channel finder to find more from ashley. >> time for the 5@5:00. ways to fly for free using your airline miles first. be flexible. it will be hard to find tickets. be willing to travel on different days. next consider

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state, and maybe this is different than other states, but in my state it is local school boards that develop the curriculum to meet the standards. there is nobody from washington or in columbus telling the local school district with the curriculum ought to be. it is purely local control. no i just -- this is what i looked at. if there is information out there that somehow somebody else is setting the curriculum, i would like to know about it because i do not have any complaints from anybody in my state that they are not able to set their own curriculum to meet a higher standard. my problem with parc is back to what bobby was saying, and even test ought to go out. but higher standards for every in america with a process were local school districts set the curriculum to meet the higher standards, we have sats a nd acts to measure people, that is a national test. when i am saying to you is that maybe i did not get the message from the 45 governors that came out with this, but they did not have these people. this was governors doing it. that is what i thought we wanted. but i will look at

cigarettes is not the only one, alcohol does, as does fatty food, junk food, and the think the local board has the authority to make the decision. i'm not a lawyer. i suspect it's the case. i wish they wouldn't. i can be an accused of ideology zealotry, but people should be allowed to do what they want, other than in imposing bans. >> patrick how far should governments go, when is it a nanny state, over reg ute lating and telling people what to do. if you consider one of the reports about the story, about tobacco products. they could have a role. >> not everything - i do want to have patrick respond to the nanny state question. how much do we want the government to get involved in our lives? >> well, i think what we are looking at here with phrases like the nanny state is right wing ideology. problems are complex. we need to look at every problem, case by case with its own issues, and tobacco is its own unique issue, we need more prague matrix, less -- prague matrix, less ideology. the town has the right to ban the state. at the national level it would go to the supreme court. we have 40 m

. >> the local election board certified their results today. the state will certify november 24th. >>> president ball invited congressional leaders to the -- president obama invited congressional leaders to the white house today to talk about how to move forward with republicans taking over congress in january. both sides agree there's a lot of work to be done. >> finding common ground will be hard work, but it will be even harder if the president isn't willing to work with us. >> they're frustrated by the gridlock. they'd like to see more cooperation. i think all of us have the responsibility, me in particular, to try to make that happen. >> there is potential for compromise on trade and perhaps immigration, but there are some big differents over healthcare, the keystone excel pipeline and other things. this new partnership could get an early test because today the white house announced plans to send an extra 1,500 troops to iraq and wants more than $5 billion to aid in the fight against isis. >>> president obama has picked his neck attorney g

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school tate, it is local boards that develop the curriculum. there is nobody from washington telling what the curriculum has to be. it is purely local control. inverse information out there, somehow somebody is sending a curriculum i would like to know about it. because i don't have any complaints from anybody that to set their able own curriculum. my problem is that that test have to go up, but high every kid in with ca with a process local authorities assert a curriculum. that is the national test. maybe i did not get the message him the governors back out with this, but they did not have these people writing this. this is governors doing it. but i'm going to look at what these guys are saying. the states are being lavatories. three of you chose to not use medicare money. start with governor kasich. >> i think first of all we got a load of people who have made promises to and they have been ignored. the drug addicted and the mentally ill. i want my money back in ohio because i do know they're doing with that in washington. if i get free money

contact your local election board.hey will even help you if you forget the name of your vice president. >> is today's power politics. i am david shuster. thanks for watching. >>> this is "al jazeera america" live. i am richelle carry. here are today's top stories: sharp criticism of russian vladimir peaten from other leaders gathered for the g20s summit. the russian leader pushes a plan to upgrade his country's military. an anxious be community awaits the grand jury decision a doctor who con traltd ebola in west africa arrives in the united states for treatment.

a local water district board, a race down the santa clara valley is really heating up. >> one candidate is spending an extraordinary amount of his own money in hope of winning a seat. >> have you ever been to a santa clara's water district board meeting? >> it is no nice way of saying it but it is kind of unsexy of these meetings. >> i think people think of water and they think it is something really boring. >> this is far from a boring election year for district 7 due to a historic drought and a lot of money going into the race. >> and he's also an mrur who an entrepreneur. he spent nearly $400, 000 on his campaign and much of is is out of his own pocket. >> nearly $400, 000 for a job that pays $30, 000 a year. it seems kind of crazy. >> well, i am not doing this for economic reasons. unlike my opponent, this is his only job so he's living on the fee. >> we met brian smith. >> there is the main head quarters right there, the dining room table. >> he's an environmental lawyer by trade and running for a second term. >> smith says concerns about his opponent's money is not sour grapes. >>

. >> local businesses are boarding up, and there is a run on guns. for now, ferguson can only brace and wait. >> still ahead -- questions grow over allegations that bill cosby sexually assaulted several women. here his response. and new developments in the jerry sandusky abuse scandal. the president of penn state want >> bill cosby's upcoming appearance on the latshow with david letterman has been canceled following allegations from several women. cosby is refused to comment on the accusations. npr, hen interview on became silent when questioned about the scandal. >> you are shaking your head no. business, i have to ask the question. the you have any response to those charges? shaking your head no. there are people who love you

a hearing to consider appointing three members terms ending october 21, 2018 to the local homeless coordinating board. there are three seats and five applicants. >> okay. let me call the applicants in order of the agenda. del seymour. >> good afternoon members of the board, madam interim president. congratulations on your new title. i am del

also constitute billions of dollars every year can be used to support our local and small businesses. three decades ago this board of supervisors recognized that local governments passive and sometimes active practice of discrimination no longer had a place in our city and that millions of dollars that our city spends for goods and services could be a powerful tool to invest in helping disadvantaged minority and women owned businesses enter the economic mainstream. that first law represented our city's now long-standing commitment to economic development in this area. chapter 14b has fostered an active network of small and very small businesses in our city. chapter 14b now helps all small businesses offset their often higher costs of operating and paying taxes in our city. the current law can help level the playing field as small businesses compete against larger businesses that are not often located outside san francisco. when this law works, our city's public contracting practice that favors local business enterprises can help tax dollars at home where they will do the most good for our city. this legislation w

the local school board holding corrections of whether thinks should have access to loaded guns and emergency the moves might discourage would be shooters but they won't approve anything without community support. another school district in ohio already has a similar program. >> a pennsylvania town could soon get back into the holiday spirit. the town council is about getting a new christmas tree to replace in troopy 50-foot spruce. they demanded the ugly tree be replaced. a bigger better tree should be ready by this weekend. >> it is time for your 5@5:00. we have been there a family dinner that can be a little over bearing. >> we are all socialists here. that experience with a dog? no, no. >> nonsense. >> i am a urologist. >> here's how you can survive thanksgiving dinner with your family. you need to invite buffers to the table people you consider outsiders who will be at the table. maybe your republican uncle doesn't need to sit next to your republican -- democratic sister. shawshank, set up escape routes with volunteers in the kitchen. you can celebrate your thanksgiving dinner maybe with

affirmative action programs that break in groups of people who had been locked out, that would allow local school boards to have more control and authority over the way the desegregation was going to happen. so he had a structural view about which rules needed to be made so that people on the local level could actually use them to bring about transformation. that's what's being lost now. i think he would be worried that at a higher structural level, the gutting of the voting rights act, for example, the gutting of affirmative action through heavier rules and responsibilities on the part of universities to prove that they've tried everything and only at the end of trying everything could they possibly take ruse into -- take race into account. all of these would be concerns of his because they trick down to the local level to make it exceedingly difficult for attorneys to actually galvanize social change on the ground. so i think number one, what he would be concerned about is trying to mount an effort at the legislative level to correct for some of the cases -- some of the cases that the supreme court ha

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a local school board is aim to go change that reality in their town, why some parent say it is not going>> ultimate doppler telling the tail this morning, it is too mild for snow. and it may be a while before we see the change-over. once you see the temperatures, you'll see what i am talking b but most of the state of delaware looks like it is raining right now, where you see the lighter green up around philadelphia, north of us, few sprinkles. let's zoom in little closer to few places it, looks like the green is getting darker around haverford this morning, so starting to see your showers there, it is just rain in allentown, around reading, as well down to the jersey shore, not only heavy rain now, expected to remain heavy all day long. jersey shore point, there may be some flooding, probably get some watches, warnings, out later. here we come to 8:00 in the morning. our future cast, and we see the change over happening in the places where we had the winter storm warning, in lancaster county, in berks county, parts of chester county. see how cold air will come down, start the change ove

some local school board adopts new legislative districts that -- are at least alleged to weaken minority votes. the justice department under our old system had responsibility for reviewing all those changes and either granting preclearance, denying preclearance, or as it did in many cases requesting more information. and so i think that the preclearance requirement of section 5 was a pretty effective check on minority some of these cases. it did impose burdens but they were modest burdens certainly to the comparison to the burdp of actually marshalling the expert evidence necessary to bring or to defend against a voting rights lawsuit. so i do think that something important was lost by the elimination effectively of pre clearance. brendan and i may disagree on that point but i do think that we agree that that's for better or for worse the main work that the section 5 preclearance requirement was doing before shelby county. and i think what's interesting is the burden of proof almost always is on the plaintiff in an election case. so i think in most of the countries that we work around th

balanced representation on the science advisory board, setting up parameters regarding whom the administrator can choose and ensuring that state and local governments have representation on the board and not simply relegated to environmental activists which unfortunately has been the case for some time now. indeed, current regulations exclude industry experts from serving on the science advisory board but not officials from environmental advocacy groups. the new regulations are necessary tone sure against any appearance of impropriety on the board. becomes even on more critical when one considers the new mexico routs regulations the environmental protection agency is currently contemplating, which could have significant impacts on the nation's economy from proposed carbon regulations to ratcheting down ozone regulation thegs science advisory board has been tasked with reviewing the science to back up some of the most expensive rules in the environmental protection agency's history. it is critical that the american people have confidence in what their federal government is doing and coffedtchaveed is justified. i fear that absent any sig

local shops are mostly boarded up but still open for business. some gun deal less are reporting a spike in sales as fearful residents await the grand jury's dig. at king metro shooting the owner says sales jumped by almost 300% in the last three weeks. he's selling roughly 30 to 50 guns a day. >> every single person has come into the store including the one we've just sold this morning buying firearms simply because they're afraid what's doing to happen after the grand jury makes their decision. >> reporter: still fresh in the minds of the community and the nation is the violence that erupted in ferguson this summer following browns toes death. windows were smashed, stores looted, several businesses set on fire and police responded with tear gas and rubber bulle bullets. already missouri governor jay nixon declared a state of emergency and called up the national guard. law enforcement officials say with 5,000 hours of specialized training since august, they're prepared for any violence that may come if the grand jury decides not to indict officer

all the things we care about doing politically, at the federal level, sometimes even the local level, the school board level, are not going to be able to deal with all of this money. provide health care for all, invest in our country, in our schools. none of those things are really going to happen until we deal with this problem. >> so how does the money, then, get in the way? >> if you've got billionaires and corporations buying politicians, effectively, that's who those people owe their allegiance to and they're going to carry out the corporate class. >> most american people will never have the kind of cash that the corporations or the elite have. how, then, do the american people who don't have that kind of capital exercise their agency? >> we're going to have to replace the system. overturn other supreme court cases that have made it possible for the rich and corporations to spend so much money. and then we're going to replace the current system with the system of public financing so that we, the people, pay for elections through small donors and politicians owe their wt allegiance to us, not to t

in historic districts two years ago as you recall i introduced legislation this board passed unanimously to reform our local process around the miles act i worked with the san francisco historic heritage and other advocates in drafting that long overdue legislation miles act for people to maintain their properties in a historic way the intent of this legislation that we passed a few years ago was to increase access to the miles act that helps homeowners to make costly improvements to roars structures we prioritized the historic preservation around the architecture of the thought city we want our historic building to be maintained as costing hass as that would be the miles act provides for property tax credits for owners to restrict a 10 year maintenance for a deliciously in terms of what the owner has to do to the building the miles act applies to property that are contributing to a local state or historic building or landmarked we've put a lot of maintenance and want them to be done the miles act provides an incentive to maintain them in an appropriate way in 2012 other communities for example, la had a ro

. >> even so, local businesses are boarding up.nd there's a run on guns. >> we sold over 100 guns in three days. >> for now, ferguson can only brace and wait. rebecca jarvis, abc7 news, new york. >> missouri isn't the only place where police departments are bracing for demonstrations. officials from boston to los angeles are planning for the possible of violent crowds like those that erupted in ferguson following the august shooting. >>> a chp officer and a sonoma county sheriff's deputy are recovering from injuries after a car slammed into a tree last night on northbound 101. investigators say the unmarked car the two were riding in hit furniture in the road. the car spun and slammed into a tree. the car was totaled. both officers were taken to the hospital. both are expected to survive. >>> happening now. boats are out at sea nor official start of dungeness crab season. the crabbers prepared traps this morning. we caught up with fishermen loading traps on to their boats at pier 45. first catches are expected back on the docks aro

embarrassed to admit that those other offices, the members of congress, state legislature, local school boards grabbed my attention or interest. but the dismal performance of the current congress, the 113th, really got my attention. between shutting down the government -- >> mr. speaker it is now midnight and the great government of the united states is now closed. >> countless times to repeal or change the affordable care act after it became law. >> on this house floor we voted over 50 times to repeal it. >> and being on track to be least productive congress in 20 years, i finally realized that those little local representatives i never paid attention to play a huge part in running the country. the ledge enterry tip o'neill, former speaker of the house said, quote, all politics is local. i thought i got it. but now i get it. bills that become law on the state or local level often have national impact from restrictive voter i.d. laws to raising minimum wage to, new gun laws and not to be forgotten, gerrymandering, the drawing and redrawing of local districts to help ininsure that a particular