it's coming up at >>> a new report suggests overdevelopment of farmland could cost local economies. the report by the group american farmland trust says prime farmland is being overrun. it blames inefficient policies. fit continues rorkts said about 500,000 acre of prime land will be lost by 2050. that could cost local economies up to $190 billion. >> we know we're going to lose some of the farmland. cities are in the middle so this becomes important to develop it. not waste this good land. >> report says local governments need to fight to preserve best quality land. >> sacramento about to lose its only major sports franchise. seattle set to restore the team lost. the brothers have agreed to sell their 65% majority ownership to a group planning to move the team to seattle. they would revive the super sonics name and colors. a condition stit insisted on when the franchise moved to oklahoma city. this sale is now awaiting approval. >> san francisco jazz scene is thriving. much of the city has the only jazz music on the west coast. this is a music hall. the center is located near the s

they put money back into the local economy. they are buying houses, paying taxes, money is going into the school district, kids are being educated. we are raising help the community. >> thank you so much for joining us on sfgtv's "meet your supervisor." we will be back with another one of our 11 supervisors. >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what depa

because we're going to come back with another, another huge general fund support for our local economy downtown businesses and it's going to be the other part of what we're gaining in terms of [speaker not understood] increasing going back into the place where people feel that we have to provide the greater support for our local economy and our neighborhoods don't get that kind of commensurate support. i understand that's the reality i work in, we live in. i also thank -- i owe it to my constituents and district 11 that we need to be thinking about how we can be much more deliberate about supporting the needs and focus of neighborhoods outside of the downtown corridor. i would lump in the sunset and visitacion valley, bayview hunters point and the richmond a all part of that as well. i just think i felt compelled to say that, although i am supporting this -- these items before us today. and i voted on them so unbeknownst to myself. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. i kind of focused some of my comments on the design of the moscone expansion. i wanted to thank one of our district residen

>> a brand new forecast out about the state of the local economy. we're going to read the tea leaves for you about that in the next half hour. >> all right. sounds good thanks jess. >>> the n ra implies its white house meeting was a poor attempt by the administration of showing impartiality. that story is coming up. >> plus a case of hollywood turning into real life. a snake that really was on a plane. >> and ahead in sports, what rg3's doctors had to say after completing the reconstruction surgery on his right >>> just about ten after 5:00 on this friday morning. it's chilly out there now and it's dry now but it's going to be a wet afternoon as we've got rain and showers headed our way. pack a coat and umbrella. 43 by 9:00 and lunchtime 48 a couple of showers around. but more widespread showers for the afternoon. 48 at 3:00 your high today 50 degrees. back in a few minutes and we're looking at the weekend. big warmup ahead. here's monika. >>> in northeast an accident now route 50 outbound near south dakota avenue blocks the right lane here on 270 a

and i chose local vendors to support our local economy. as a district 10 to this and i committed my time to community involvement as well as an advisory committee member with the mission ymca, and supervisor avalos's district. we sponsor a food and wine event, any golf tournament in santa cruz; we raised over 1,000,000 dollars of those events. i volunteered to junior achievement of the network for teaching entrepreneurship where i spent time with high school children discussing finance and business. i have become engaged in local event to discuss the future of the district and i recognize their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity facing district 10 and the eastern neighborhoods to create iconic and lasting projects for the overall community. insum , i have a strong desire to serve the committee in his capacity and put the time to understand the issues. whether it is transit improvements to meet the need of rapid development, affordable housing, pdr< more open space, city services, i know tough decisions will have to be made by the board of supe

the impact of all that you do has an impact on our job situation and local economy, and to highlight all of the great work that we can do together to ensure that the sectors that you all represent, the sectors that you work for, that you employ people for connaught is one of the greatest sectors in san francisco. i hope we will take the opportunity of the america's cup to showcase our clubs, our restaurants, our nightlife events. as someone who represents the broadaway neighborhood, an area of town that i used to spend a lot of time in when i was in my 20's -- but actually, very few locals take the time to head to the beach on broadway. our neighborhoods are coming together to say that broadway is open to the rest of the world as well as san francisco. i want to put san francisco back on the map when it comes to music. to make sure that we have the type of entertainment that we used to be renowned for. and those of you that work in our bars and clubs, i want to make sure that we are trading the kind of destinations that we look forward to spending time with you. i know on behalf of m

it has altered local economies because so many manufacturing and technology jobs are moving, whetheratter of costs for going where the trained work force is. we're fortunate to have to governors here to talk about how that change affects their jobs and what they're doing to jump- start their economies which compete with one another. this could be fun. let me start with our guest. governor hickenlooper. i knew that was going to happen. most of us here are pretty much aware of california's budget crisis. can you give us a quick briefing on where colorado is and what you are trying to do to turn things around? >> our budget is just as dressed as almost every state in the country. we have been working trying to control costs, get our pension funds in line, our state employees have not had a raise in four years. it has been difficult all the way around. the real challenge has been to try and turn public sentiment and get people to recognize it without a strong economy. it will not solve any of these problems. we have been relentless in what we did, the bottom up process and we asked them

efforts to make sure that those that have disabilities can also shop and be a participant in our local economy. so, with that, joaquin, thank you for your leadership. we get to launch this wonderful program right here. there are three streets in district 4 that are going to benefit from this. we're going to roll this out to all other 85 neighborhood corridors in the rest of the city. it's that many? 25? [laughter] >> all right, christmas must be coming early. i'll talk to supervisor chu about any more monies we can release. thanks very much. >> thank you, mr. mayor. (applause) >> thank you. and now i'd like to bring up the supervisor, the district that we're in today, someone who is no stranger to the importance of supporting our small businesses whose family used to run a restaurant. and like to invite to speak now supervisor carmen chu. (applause) >> thank you, everyone, for being here today. i want to thank the mayor so much for coming out and launching this pilot here on irving street. as you know, when i came on board in 2007, one of the most important things we wanted to relay was how im

believe that these folks -- that is part of the generation that will not be successful in our local economy and we have to make sure that we are supporting san franciscans in this way, making sure people have the skills in the background to get jobs in the future and if we are not successful here we know that they will fall behind the cracks. it's really a no-brainer. we have a lot of wealth in the city. not everybody shares it equally and this is one way we can remedy that. colleagues i hope that you can support the supplemental. >> supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: my position is the same as it was in december when we voted on this. i won't repeat all of those reasons. although the fiscal cliff catastrophe was avoided at least for the moment we still have significant risks at the state and federal level and i am not comfortable appropriating from our arguably inadequate state, federal general fund reserve. i would like to make a motion to divide the question. one, about the 1.1 million dollars about the public education enrichment fund and separately 843 million dollars from the ge

this is going to help our local economy. >> one thing we've also been covering, mayor, the gun control debate. i want to bring in david sicilinni. gabby giffords testifying this morning, an emotional plea. you've become part of the mayors against illegal guns and congressman, i want to ask you, what's your reaction to having heard the testimony of gabby giffords today and the impact that she can make in having common sense conversation about the debate? >> well, i mean, i hope the testimony of congresswoman giffords is compelling to members of the senate. look, we need to enact common sense gun safety legislation. we need to fix the broken background check system to be sure that criminals and people seriously mentally ill don't have access to guns. we need to close loopholes at gun shows and fire sales when a gun dealer has a licensed revoked. there's things we can do. there's legislation to fix those things. no one is suggesting people don't have a right to a firearm, but we need to make sure people with no right to a gun, convicted of a crime, serious mental illness, don't have acces

you can diversify the local economies. you can go to a car repair workshop or a hotel. people will take risks if they have some predictability in their lives, some sense of security that was lacking under the previous u.s. model of forced eradication. >> there has been a sense of security that has been achieved. >> one of the main problems is that in bolivia coca leaves are a traditional and sometimes religious product. it feeds entire portions of bolivian society. it is hard to take it away and substitute nothing in its place. coca is the base of cocaine. it is that link is that has to be broken. if you can find ways to allow the coca producers to their own uses for chewing and altitude sickness -- these are legitimate uses that have been done for centuries. when more is grown then just for personal consumption, it often finds itself into the cocaine economy and that is where it becomes dangerous and crosses borders and becomes a concern to organizations like the united states and the bba. >> that is a legitimate criticism you are hearing over and over from the obama w

the local economy is based on coca plant growing these small green leaves are the raw material of cocaine. after years of anti drug enforcement cocoa farming is going through a crisis more and more pickers are leaving the fields to work in the gold mines. we penetrate into the mining zone in the four controlled mountains we get there by mule a two day journey with a good guide. marie c.e.o. is the president of the local small scale miners association. with the for all that used to be cocoa plantations. and the government has eradicated all the coke on the region. each day dozens of mules amble up and down these paths loaded up with cans of cyanide like mercury it's used to extract the gold from the or. we're in the heart of a rich gold bearing region. the mines are artisanal the techniques and c'est the gold reserves have hardly been tapped. the big companies rarely venture out here but they already hold all the mining permits. and all this land is already tenured by the company's compass you know whenever a small farmer goes to request a mining permit he's told that the land has already

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san jose is banking on the 70 plus million dollars pumped into the airport and local economy each year. nbc, bay area news. >> the forecast now with christina loren. it's bad when 36 is a warm-up. >> wow. >> it is going to be dreamy later today, keeping with the theme. temperatures in the 60s in some cities. we have a good-looking rebound. another cold start. however, with that said i'm happy to report this is the first morning in four days we don't have a freeze warning in place. 38 degrees in san francisco. although it's not that much warmer. 30 in napa. 28 degrees in navado. throughout the day we have a nice rebound. high pressure building in quickly. you have to take the good with the bad. as temperatures come up, the air quality is suffering. it's a spare the air day. we'll put it on the table right off the bat. so if the wood burning stove isn't your only source of heat, please postpone the fire until maybe, i would say we'll get better air quality tomorrow. a stronger on shore flow. temperatures will be comfortable. 61 degrees in fremont. 60 today in san francisco. santa cruz wi

our local economy will take a big hit and some folks are going to lose their jobs.gary is staying employed by explaining what is ahead. >> reporter: what we have seen in the last few weeks in congress derek we will see in the next few weeks as congress struggles to figure out how to cut spending. government agencies were funded for six months until march 27th. the sequestration of the fiscal cliff was delayed two months. the country will reach the debt ceiling. >> we face three more fiscal cliff, where, the only questions asked will be what programs do we cut and how deep do we cut them. >> reporter: congress avoided the fiscal cliff by cutting taxes and delaying decisions about difficult spending cuts, setting up the one, two, three punch >> we will get hit hardest of any congressional district in the country. >> we dilad i but haven't avoided much -- delayed but haven't avoided much. >> reporter: uncertainty ahead has business on hold. >> we will still have a hold on hiring, a hold on new investments. >> reporter: even as business knows. >> there will be people fu

>> obviously in a shrinking economy it's going to make local economies not do as well.ing to be a negative for any municipal bond, but, remember, and this is something that's really important for people to bear in mind, is that every municipal bond has a backing, it has a reserve fund that's actually used to cover interest rate payments so it may be one times interest rate payments or maybe more. and you have bonds that have specific ref knew streavenue st are tight and municipalities are a small percentage overall of a budget. >> in terms of all the money you're talking about sitting on the sideline, what would be the catalyst to actually put the money to work? >> i think the catalyst will be when you see the municipal versus treasury rates go higher. i think that -- that will be the real thing. you know, i do have concerns about tax reform. i think the general consensus is that nothing will happen to munis in the debt ceiling talks, but there is a lot of talk about tax reform having some form of tax or limit on deductions for municipalities, and i -- i definitely thin

the estimated 70-plus million dollars the non-stop service will pump into the airport and the local economy each year. stephanie truong, nbc bay area news. >>> another cold start to your day but warmer temperatures. >> a heat wave. >> relatively speaking. i'll take it. >> come this weekend you might be sending me thank you letters. you can address them, nbc bay area, we're accepting those areas. we do have a warmup. it's gradual. it will take some time. marla is right on point as usual. it is warmer out there today, we'll hit the mid 60s in some cities. a murky layer of haze over san francisco. it is a spare-the-air day. it's illegal to burn the fire wood unless it's your only source of heat. the temperatures right now, you don't even need that fire wood. sunnyvale just hit 50 degrees. 48 in san jose and 49 in livermore. hazy sunshine for today. temps in the 60s. we'll see more 60s than 50s. by tomorrow, four to six degree warmup after we get through one more cold start. then as we get through the weekend, the 70s are possible. some of your beaches, we'll talk about which ones coming up. >>

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. >> a severe blow to both the national and local economies with the military being very hard hit.ll be hearing a lot more about this one in the weeks ahead, and it it could affect all of our pocketbooks. gary nurenberg is here with more. >> reporter: derek and anita, the fiscal cliff really isn't behind us. it's just lurking in the shadows waiting for three guaranteed congressional fights. automatic spending cuts known as sequestration still kick in unless congress stops them. the country is approaching the debt limit and it won't be able to spend any more sometime next month unless congress raises the debt ceiling. and government agencies are only funded until march unless congress gives them more money, they're essentially out of business. >> the fact is looking at all three of those, we have no idea what the hell is going to happen. >> reporter: the defense secretary is seriously worried. >> this fiscal uncertainty has become a very serious threat to our national security. >> reporter: and fears the pentagon will be forced to make budget cuts -- >> which is to hollow out the de