and rejuvenate their local community. and give it a new future. >> nhk world's komo takama joins us in the studio. seeing there are many communities on the brink of disappearing i imagine the candidates have a wide range of issues to discuss. how do you see the campaigns developing? >> candidates for 960 electoral districts in prefectureal facility s began their campaigns last week. electoral officials say about one-third of the districts need nod vote at all. this is because there were more seats than candidates or an equal number. voter turnout in japan has been declining. four years ago, the figure for the gubernatorial races was just 53%. these figures show more and more voters are losing interest in local politics. why do you think there's so much voter apathy? >> well one of the reasons is that local assemblies are losing their attraction. one-quarter of the japanese population is 65 years old or older. an increasing number of japanese people are leaving rural areas. and fewer are participating in local assemblies.

community benefits and local jobs and local union jobs and prevailing wages. it was the advocates that went to the lafco and insisted that we get the enernex report to happen and it would show what local community benefits would really mean to this community and even though enernex didn't have anything to look at with the behind the meter resources it's showing 4500 jobs in this area that about that are going to be going to people and we, as advocates, now that we know this program is moving forward, the main thing we're communicating about is making sure there's local union jobs and not the community benefits that communities like the ones that are underserved right now that you have been the champion for get these benefits and so what i would ask is that all of you unanimously support sending the communication to support the program but along the lines of what you said commissioner king i'd also include in that communication a request to the sfpuc and the staff to engage this department on what i was talking about before which is really getting the staff inv

local governments.t kind of stuff doesn't generate a lot of headlines because there isn't a lot of conflict associated with it. but during this whole task force the governor set up last year, you had the colorado municipal league and the colorado association of counties say we can work through these issues using the existing regulatory framework rather than turning -- rather than coming up with statewide policies that are being proposed by national ban fracking groups. rep. perlmutter: mr. holstein â >> we believe that the set of â mr. holstein: we believe the rules colorado has put in is the most comprehensive in the nation in terms of a range of issues they developed. we were delighted to partner with the three largest oil and gas developers in the state in coming together to develop a consensus that led to that comprehensive new set of roles. as a driver for that conversation, what brought everyone to the table, was the fact that colorado communities one by one, were adopting or considering bans, put

with it comes the threat of localized flooding. everybody but for some parts of our area mainly through the afternoon tomorrow. for now, though a nice afternoon and evening tonight. if you can get out and enjoy it go ahead and do so. 75 in allentown. 66 in atlantic city. still mid-70s in dover. for the rest of your evening tonight, we're going to see pretty decent conditions by 9:00 p.m. 64 degrees. more clouds. 61 by 11:00 p.m. then as we go into tuesday, at least tuesday morning, tomorrow 56 degrees. and some of you will be waking up to a rainy morning commute. and some of you will be ending the day with heavy rain for your evening commute. coming up who can expect that the timing of it and when we'll be back up near the 70s. that's straight ahead. >>> a thief apparently knew exactly what he wanted in a society hill restaurant and it wasn't a cheesesteak. philadelphia police released this surveillance video today at the heist april 1st. a man snuck into the restaurant and took money from behind a picture frame before he ran away.

they're a tourist landmark, locals consider them sacred. this man is performing a ritual, a greeting to his ancestors, whose souls are believed to live on in the statues. >> my message contains a melancholy melody. i feel sad when i see these moia that have lost their eyes. for some people they're just stone figures and a business opportunity. they're tourist attractions. >> recent years have seen a steep rise in tourism here. beautiful and remote, the island is a five-hour flight from chile and increasingly popular. it has 6000 inhabitants, many of whom resent the increase in traffic, although they profit from the tourists. there is widespread discontentamongst the rapa nui. they identify as polynesian rather than south american and many feel they suffer discrimiantion and are demanding independence from chile. >> the chilean government is no good. they are thieves! the chilean government is our biggest problem. >> chile annexed the island in 1888. it remained under martial law until 1967 and the inhabitants were not allowed to leave. even

use a local currency to shop local the effects to the local economy will be much bigger and it creates a lot of excitement and color all those benefits and more are win reach for the bay area with san francisco taking the lead bay was started at a grassroots san francisco project in 2012 and have been operating for more than two years based on volunteer effort it grew by 60 percent in 2014 and already has more than 2 hundred and 50 loophole businesses in this network we're not file to become a workers on cooperative and want to create the members into the cooper that's a great start with feasibility next step to it for it to take off it can't do so on hits own we need help to overcome some challenges people don't understand or are superstition of commentary currency they don't want to get involved because their front yard is there any way to partner with the city it will be very helpful i'm open to any suggestions from the commission on how to work together i would like to over administrative review as a expert resource for the commission on the currency i'm at our service to answer qu

trained up a few years ago by the justice department basically has a way to raise money for state and local police departments, which participate in these task forces. and the people, i have represented 54 these people in structuring cases and there is probably more than anybody else has done because it started in my district, and they eastern district of alexandria was an excellent program. so i got a lot of the cases. finally frankly i am taking some credit here because even though there were thousands of these cases being brought, nobody at a high level of the justice department was paying attention to these abuses. neither was congress because there's almost no oversight usually. finally i got "the new york times" to do an article that turned out to be a front-page article about this and boom everything changed. because a program like this just doesn't, can't survive scrutiny but there was no scrutiny going on. >> host: here's a chart. this is from the "washington post" by the u.s. u.s. states attorneys annual statistical report. asset forfeiture spike in recent years. why a spike in a

those are local issues. so that's where we encourage operators to really work with those local communities and be good citizens. but i'm not sure where e.p.a. or other federal agencies and we're blessed we don't have a lot of federal lands like some of the other western states do. most of us who have been active in oil and gas for a long time in the states already have rules in place and it would add another layer of bureaucracy is the biggest concern. thank you. >> mr. veasey. >> ms. craddick, it is good to see you. i wanted to just make -- ask you a question about just some of the recent activities that have happened in texas. i think it is perfectly reasonable that we would want to be able to produce any of our fossil fuels and natural resources that we have for energy here so we don't have to depend on the middle east now particularly with all the craziness that is going on over there, i think it is perfectly reasonable that we would want to be able to produce our minerals. i also think it's perfectly re

true e thought they might not got a compatible size to commissioner murphy's point there is a lot of local groceries in today is work or world there's kind of sweet spot is 75 to 10 or 12 thousand square feet is a garage selection, if you will or possibility we have not picked anyone it is a combination of all those things. >> thank you. >> any other questions. >> i have a couple of. >> real quick commissioner one thing i'd like to if tiffany and jeff one thing we can do i know that we talked about certificate of preference and would it be possible some point maybe in the next few months hold or sponsor a workshop for the public about certificates of preference where we could talk about how you know how to do better outreach to them but also if we're looking at workshops have to do around kuwait credit let's let people know we didn't forget about them but two get people prepared to be on is look out that things are happening and maybe we can get a pipeline of folks to be able to do that if we hosted somewhere i think it would be great impeople will see we didn't forget and we can probably

for me, the local businesses is really what it is all about and yes we want to grow local businesses to international businesses as well long term care for the couldn't a vital to our ability to delivery services to people that are challenged in the city we need a functioning body to give us the populated considerations whether it's more nutrition and food or more sports for the staffing or the people of the industry that is helping us do long-term care retirement board r rent board wow. what a commission but the careful ability to balance between landlord and tenants very, very important to the city it is a sensitive position one we trust of those we appointed to make the right decisions sf that hopefully in most cases is a win-win we can't have strife within landlord and tenants more harmony in the city there is a housing crisis we are doing something about that we are making sure we were the good k345e78gsz going on our conservatism core they're being called up because we video a drought and a lot of open spaces to rehab and change to make sure their drought tolerant work is being

local governments. that kind of stuff doesn't generate a lot of headlines because there isn't a lot of conflict associated with it. but during this whole task force the governor set up last year, you had the colorado municipal league and the colorado association of counties say we can work through these issues using the existing regulatory framework rather than turning -- rather than coming up with statewide policies that are being proposed by national ban fracking groups. rep. perlmutter: mr. holstein -- >> we believe that the set of --mr. holstein: we believe the rules colorado has put in is the most comprehensive in the nation in terms of a range of issues they developed. we were delighted to partner with the three largest oil and gas developers in the state in coming together to develop a consensus that led to that comprehensive new set of roles. as a driver for that conversation, what brought everyone to the table was the fact that colorado communities, one by one, were adopting or considering bans

hiring and local job development and since a gm cruz started since mr. cruz has been in his position there's been a noticeable and marked difference in the job development and local hire that's extremely important to recognize what the other item the drought some ideas on the drought come up in your previous meeting i want to make sure and reiterate sorry i'm eric brooks with san francisco green party this is the chairman that coordinates the same commission in 2011 when we didn't have a drought that strongly opted even a mirror appropriation and involvement in the burr regional deceleration plan project we have not changed our position on deslaths and the project the reason we've not done so as always all the groups that can. to you maintained the desalvation and the emissions that came from that and the environmental impacts and the impacts on the water treatment system you have to might have to put to the ground treatment for all those reasons desalvation remains the absolute last report all the things like much more aggressive conservatism and rain b

let's look at local hiring again. i need to take out some of these people like city build, oewb, these got together because they came and filed a lawsuit. there is plenty of jobs in the western edition. we are surrounding by buildings. it's too late now, most of them are built. we still got them but there was nobody monitoring. i have to go there. i don't get paid. what they tell me, go see city build. i go there and find out city build is revamping their leadership. i found out ms. simmons and autumn of those people, they are gone. we need to bring it back to the community. you have all of these agencies. the only thing missing is the community. we'll talk about that later. >> thank you, do you have a speaker card? that's okay. state your name for the record. >> my name is butler from butler enterprise. i work in workforce development. in 18 years i have done this work, this agency that is best program. i have worked with quite a few agencies in san francisco agencies in the east bay and also some work in los angeles

mohmed al mutawakel, is a prominent, independent local politician. i ask radiya to take me on a drive around sana'a, to show me how the city has changed since the houthi takeover. (giggles) >> al ahmad: the houthis had set up checkpoints all over the city, but at the time they had left the yemeni government bureaucracy functioning. their control was still tentative. abdulillah is a member of the so-called revolutionary committee, which the houthis have established to impose their control on the government. they are a secretive movement. they won't even tell me how many of them are in the city. after weeks of negotiations, they finally let me follow them in action. >> al ahmad: this is an unannounced visit to the ministry of finance. the houthis had put their own guards inside the ministries. >> al ahmad: abdu rabu al mortha is also a member of the revolutionary committee. together with abdulillah, they had come to confront the deputy minister about billions of yemeni riyals of government funds they said were missing. they walk right into the office o

and renewable; correct construction we're developing programs that induce the local construction of renewables and see at launch we will have a night energy program we'll have those present to encourage new san francisco solar customers to participate in our cca program we're developing a feed in terrace program that is where we'll have local generation under contract to us given those legislative reformed i've talked about under contract to sell the out put of the system and and use go solar and use those on city owned properties as we develop the financial track record our overall we expect to have an annual procurement process where we'll have the standardized procurement that marketplace will get use to us purposing for renewable electrical they'll accept that that will encourage further development responsive to our customers needs we'll also be providing energy efficiency in our response program relying on existing programs the energy watch and bay render that the department uses and the funded programs through pg&e we intended to begin working closely with the department of i

then you have a local who started what was the catholic caln, in conjunction with local law enforcement to stage violent resistance, brutal resistance to some of the activities that were occurring, including nighttime marches him a daily demonstrations in front of the slave market. it was very thing to see. -- embarrassing to see. it was people for harassing for the people of saint augustine to see young people carrying these signs. in the meantime, the doctor is losing business, his home is the shot into but they advertised clan meetings in the newspaper. so it was not intended to be a secret. african-americans were put on notice. one of the people who was targeted was what she called -- just south of town, he decided he would go for himself to see what it was all about. >> we were surrounded by klansmen, ordered out of the car and the physical punishment started at that time. they took our wallets and personal effects, and in my wallet they saw my identity and her thing else. they also go discovered a card read i understand the images for them to really start beating us. the meeting w

out of those work hours, approximately 8,000 hours were performed by local residents. this of course is a marginal change of about 3.4 percent from the prior quarter. what's also shown is the breakdown for the project areas. bayview hunters point showing a total agriculture debase of 46.8 percent. the candle stick point is 44 percent. mission bay at 25.7 percent. transbay at 24 percent and others comprised of about 25 percent. as you can see the additional resources that are lent to the specific

local law enforcement to help local fire to obtain the information. >> chief, i will tell you why.i know you've got lengthy testimony. i would like you to submit it as part of the record in who would be pleased to review it. i think your colleagues have statements to review as well. we would like is submitted as part of the record. if you would be kind enough to conclude and if there's anything you want to add, this is an important panel and i would like to give the advisory board a chance to interact with you. >> i will just wrap up by saying is important for federal local agencies to plan exercise using chemical or biological agents. the private her has a big role to play with the governmental agencies both a local, state and federal level and a vital component. the apartment again, some agencies that exist out there to provide them with the training. i can't stress enough the collaboration that needs to take place from all levels of government from the local level on up to be prepared for these type of incidents. thank you for allowing me to be here. but it got to answer the que

both at the local and state level, they are really facing tough choices. they can't enter into construction projects. that i need to demobilize once there's a federal long-term bill. this is so disruptive and we are fortunate to be cushioned from that or protected from that because of our ability for self help at the local level as well as state level. >> thank you. okay. and no comments from the committee here. thank you for the presentation and the updates. this is open for public comment. any member of the public who would like to comment? seeing none, we will close public comment and can we do the same inhouse call. >> we need to amend the item first. >> so colleagues we need to make an amendment to move from watch to oppose for ab 77 and can we have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> and we will take that without objection. and on the item underlying item we can take the same inhouse >> okay. gavel. >> we will approve that. next item please. item number five, recommend awarding an 18 month contract for planning and environmental at a-280 at balboa p

so this is a concern for local communities, as i said because of local air pollution and for the nation as a whole because its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. i would finally say that methane is a nasty climate actor. eighty-four times as powerful as carbon dioxide in the 1st 20 years or so after its release. the significance of that. and i believe attests to my testimony in the record you we will find a scientific article about this problem but the significance is that it creates a near-term problem with respect to greenhouse gas emissions in other words damage to the climate. climate. and that together with co2 is a one-two punch to the climate. >> thank you. i see that my time is expired. >> the dillman from florida is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for holding this hearing. i have a lot of concern about tracking and seismic testing. we get so much diverse information disseminated. today we today we have three people saying positive things in one person say negative things. it is hard to tell who was telling the truth and to my not the telling me the whol

and immigration, and local police departments. we understand that you have a new program that you have yet to unveil. c.a.p. i think you're calling it. we look forward to that. . i just want to state for the record, i think if somebody is selling drugs, somebody is gang banging, somebody is out there murdering, something is doing harm, somebody is creating or committing a serious felony, i think we should look them up and give them a fair trial, but if he's found guilty, sentence him, jail him and as soon as he's finished, he's jail time, deport him immediately from the united states of america. now that's very different than if i'm driving my children to school been here an extended period of time and they are american citizens and i have a tail light out which unfortunately secured communities and many local law enforcement departments were using. they were using secure communities as simply another way of going out and taking their immigration policies locally, and saying we're just going to arrest everybody that we know lives

on the other hand, local governments say they cannot make any concessions on development projects. they have taken steps to take water pollution and other problems, but they say development projects hold the key to the finances of local governments. an expert says against this background, it's becoming increasingly important for residents to speak out when they see development projects causing environmental damage. >> translator: civil activists and ngos shouldn't be left on their own. the central government has put powerful institutions in place at the local level to follow through on environment protection policies. >> china's leaders are keen to carry on with reforms to achieve their new policy, which they call the new normal. but they have to make sure local governments understand the larger issues at stake and are implementing appropriate measures to protect nature. >>> okay from china we move on to taiwan which has decided to tighten regulations on food imports from japan. gene otani from our business desk has the details. gene. >> james, we're talking about radiation fear. r

the local business enterprise ordinance was adopted in 2006. it's a race and gender neutral public contracting program that replaces its predecessor, the mebe-webe program. the ordinance is designed to level the playing field for small local businesses. the board of supervisors found that small local businesses experience higher costs and competitive disadvantages when competing for publicly awarded contracts against large businesses or businesses located outside of the city. these competitive disadvantages faced by small local businesses are reduced by the ordinance through discounts, subcontracting goals and microsatisfied contracts. the contract monitoring division certifies firms as lbe's as small and local firms and also further classify he is them as either minority business enter pries, women business enterprises or other business enterprises. currently there are over 1300 actively certified lbe firms. prior to 2006 during the mebewebe program the chart on the left was comprised of only minority own end and women owned firms. today minor

on any given day, you will run into a few locals. hop on a 37 bus to get there with that any parking worries. locals can bring their dogs to run with other dogs. there is also grass for small dogs. >> it is a great place. it is a wonderful place for the city to provide these kind of parks. the dog owners appreciate it. >> take time to notice the wildflowers on the grassland. and keep your head on the lookout for hawks and other bird life. take your camera and be prepared to review the city in a way you will not forget. it is prominent with beautiful formations that are perfect to watch the sunrise from the east over the bay. this is another one of our great look out. we are at mount davidson. it has the highest point of elevation in san francisco 92 this is the place for you to bring someone special. enjoy all of the pathways, trails, and greenery that surrounds you. it provides a peaceful oasis of public open space and great hiking trails. the spectacular view offers a perfect place to watch the sunrise, or sunset, with someone you

you talked about grant programs, preparedness, and local first responders and local agencies, and i certainly agree with that as governor after september 11th i can tell you directly what a difference the department of homeland security grants have made to our preparedness, and that's why i was concerned when i saw in the budget that you were proposing an 18% cut to preparedness grants, cut to training, and 1 preponderate 5% cut to firefighter grants and the recent fema preparedness report found eight areas where communities are still in need of improvement, and i know that one of the proposals is to consolidate many of these grant programs, and while i appreciate that there are places where there can be efficiencies, i can tell you that those grants as i said made a huge difference in new hampshire, and we leverage a little bit money to make it go a long way, and the firefighter grants, the other preparedness grants have really been critical so can you explain why the proposed reductions and i know my understanding is that the authorizing committee is not going to take up the consolidation i

house free supply we'll envision the rate and cost to be set to say a margin to fund building new local and regional projects renewable projects at a price eventual to penguin tariff offering targeted to be 3wu7bd in state local rpr compliant resources and really be able to lock to this part of the product offering to where we'll build the revenue stream to build local renewables that doesn't maple we have to wait for 80 that will have purchase electrical in locally constructed renewable contract and have it a standard oh. okay yes i'm going to do this this is the contract i'll sign for it we're envisioning go solar to encourage the customers and issuing rfps for controlled property we envision those as program compliant with annually going out to bid for additional supply so so routine and procured cycle in order to support the program we also expect to have energy efficiency as part of the program launched they'll be matured as the program engross initially focusing on the energy watch and bay run programs that are offered here in san francisco by the vice president of investment and

however, depending on the time of year more cost effective to source locally. you can't source locally in toronto in the dead of winter but in the summer that's the most cost effective way to do so. we can bring local produce in for half of the year at a price point that allows us to maintain an aggressively low check average for our guest. >> you're 33 now. >> yes. >> you started this when you were a young pr executive with osc oscar dela renta. >> the first day we opened was the first day in the restaurant business. in our first month and i'm not exaggerating, we were robbed twice by employees and had to two kitchen managers slice their thumbs off. carried by ambulance by stretcher to the ambulance at 6:30 in the morning. and very terrible food review and customer who was threatening to sue us because of a bug in the salad. >> it was a good start. >> it was a great start. i opened a second location. and two grew four grew into ten, which is in 13 countries. >> if you had to do it again, would you open a restaurant chain? >> that's a tough question. i will say

with the component agencies with state and local law-enforcement. your and important player to combat trafficking and violence associated. so to experience the most violent year in 2011 there were 1,146 homicides that is three murders per day every day. there is the same as texas that is a population seven times greater. said to appear as witnesses on a campaign since 2009 for agencies to increase attention and resources from p.r. so that these resources are commensurate with the threat. the reality was that level of attention was clearly deficient in too often the constituents would pay the price with their lives. but then the tide began to turn. with the substantial increase and for example, the coast guard had dramatically has those hours that will completely replace with faster and more modern vessels by 2016. in 2013 the agency sent to 30 additional agents where day arrested in cs narcotics and weapons. with the multi agency local officials but furthermore but his other p.r. from 2011 i led the successful effort from elimination in then to be t

we could see localized flooding. the potential for heavy rain that lasts for quite a few hours, that is going to be in the forecast. not for everybody. just for parts of the area. in the meantime temperatures are still hanging in the 70s. mid-70s for lehigh valley. 74 allentown. 73 in reading. 72 philadelphia. 67 wilmington and millville. so you can enjoy the rest of this evening. we won't see the rain this evening. 6:00 p.m. 71 degrees. breezy, warm outside. by 8:00 more clouds around mid-60s. by 10:00, we should still be dry. 62 degrees until tomorrow morning. tomorrow afternoon, we have heavy rain moving in. could lead to localized flooding. coming up who can expect that. that's straight ahead. >>> now to decision 2016. senator marco rubio of florida is the latest candidate to announce running for president. he told top donors he is uniquely qualified for the job. he is promising to put politics beyond the past a jab at hillary clinton and jeb bush. he is set to hold a rally this evening in his hometown of miami.

most of the search and rescue has been done locally. the army personnel everybody political parties ngos, hospital staff everybody is helping in the operation as much as possible. people who are trapped in the republicin the rubble. the most important thing is to be able to provide the operations locally. as long as we can do that we will worry more about we'll worry more about the operation. >> nepal's minister of information and communication thank you so much. let's go to arbina the minister said that he wanted to get the word out not to panic but do you feel a sense of panic among people there? >> thank you so much. let's check in with neighboring countries effected by this as well. let's check in with new delhi. they have needed the help and support of other countries and many are stepping up to try to help. first of all india was affected by it as well, but you're reporting that they're trying to reach out and help as well. tell us more about that. >> yes absolutely. just in the last few minutes as we've been coming to air i've be

we're trying to say all work force training is local. we know that. it's not something that can be driven nationally. and it needs to be driven by the demand of business. what does business need today what are they going to need over the next five or ten years in terms of skills set from the worse force in the community. what our partner ship is doing -- the reason the economic development administration is a perfect partner in this is because we work with communities every day helping them develop economic development strategies, comprehensive -- called ceds, comprehensive economic development strategies elf we have now inculcated into our strategy planning with communities across at the country, work-force training processes need to be part of that. we have guidelines. now. what we're doing in our partnership that is so important is bringing regions together, but if you think about it, work force training in a region is made up of business leaders made up of your universities and institution's of high here learning, community colleges, local governm

. >> the government of nepal took hem in along with more than 1,000 local refugees.of them watch coverage of the rush of worldwide aid and disaster relief, and they see how badly people are suffering. the desperate search for survivors and the widespread damage and destruction. >> i cry literally when i saw the news, when i heard when i saw people. many people i knew one of my colleagues who was teaching in a college together his house completely collapsed. >> reporter: the earthquake shook so violently it triggered av larchlgz and landslides. people jumped from buildings to avoid being crushed. the quake rattled sections of five countries and as night fell in nepal, thousands are left outdoors during more aftershocks. >> you can learn how to help with the disaster relief by heading to the nbc 10 news app. we have a list of organizations sending aid. look for the latest live updates from overseas tomorrow on nbc's today show beginning at 8:00 a.m. >> never hurt nobody. >>> a south jersey family is mourning the loss of their grandson, son, and cousin. the high school

in my local house i don't have any benefit of that other than, you know, a minor effect in my energy bill. so, yeah, i think there's a lot of different areas for renewable areas and demand response energy efficiency technologies. >> in 2012 we passed the proxy housing trust fund and there's actually a section of the housing trust fund that used to be called, before it went to the ballot, the home owners housing stablization fund. it has a fund available for various things to serve mostly single family homes if that's there and available, it's not necessarily being used for that, but part of it is for energy efficiency work. i think it's important if you would be on this committee to look at some some of the sources would be like the housing trust fund that could be used to support neighborhoods. we could look at neighborhoods en masse, a lot of old homes, not a lot of income there to make them energy efficient but if you have strong programs to do that you can change the stock across neighborhoods that could create a lot of jobs and actually help a lot of households, you have afforda