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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

this is a mix of state contracts and funding that we received and local subsidy dollars invest td. we fill in the gaps with the local money and want to make sure we maximize the state resources first. there is 50 million in state contracts that go dracktly to 28 state contractors who operate multiple sites and so everything we do has to keep in mind what that system looks like and how we work in tandem with that system and comp lment that subsidized child care system in the city and there are part ners in delivering services. those are a total of 5 providers. one of the things in terms of the policy issues kw response strategies that we are working on, we manage san francisco pilot that allows us to have a higher state reimbursement rate. the state has a single rate throughout the state which is a problem for us because our cost of care and i have a sloyd to show the rate disparity for title 5 contractors. it is our number 1 policy problem because as we try to support those providers if the state isn't paying their fair share it is a problem. it is a problem for them to keep their

now turning to the local hire ordinance , we have had 14 projects that have been subject to the local hire ordinance passage in 2011. all 14 projects either comply with the ordinance and requirements or have received exemptions or waivers to bring them into compliance. three of the 14 projects remain open. currently open projects must meet a 30 percent local hire requirement. the blue greenway signage contract, though under 30 percent, has provided off site credits to come into compliance with the law. the office of economic and work force development monitors and enforces the local hire ordinance. their goal is to raise the mandatory local participation to 50 percent by year 7 of the program in 2018. finally, in december the board of supervisors passed and the mayor signed into law a number of q reforms to the lbe ordinance. they include an aspirational city pf wide goal of 40 percent, creation of the san francisco first program, this is a program that will require city departments to fir solicit s from lbe's before going out to non-lbe's, there is also an amendment that increases th

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

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

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

today, a local community learned important lessons in preparing for the worst. it's not something we think about every day. but today, the topic was front and center in montgomery county. >> those who lived through the biggest attacks and disasters in recent years were in our area talking to local police. new at 6:00 nbc 10's deanna duran durante shows us the lessons they learned being on the scene of the unexpected. >> for the first time in america, police officers been shot at and had bombs thrown at them and here it was in the back street in my community with my offices. >> it was april 15th 2013 an officer was dead. days earlier, two bombs exploded at the finish line at the boston marathon. and officers were being shot at by the suspected bombers. >> i could hear the radio in the background and another explosion over the radio. and i realized, you know i said lieutenant, you don't have to tell me anymore, i'm on my way. >> and for the next 20 plus hours, the chief would lead his 65 officers and thousands of local and federal officers who all descended to the

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

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

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

trying to support local food producers. local organic food is extremely important in terms of the water footprint. helping find energy sources that do not hurt water. all of those are incredibly important. it is that sense of knowing that you have a role to play that is most important. you are ready are there. you are thereby being here. you have to make that kind of conscious decision. i really appreciate it. i think i spoke earlier to some of the high school students talked about a 95-year-old friend of mine who has been involved in every single fight including the vote for women. she said when any of us gets tired, just cut that out now. she said the comment and activist is a lifelong commitment and you do it every day and not a fashion you take off. she will say, fighting for justice is like taking a bath. you do it every day or you stink. [laughter] maude: having made the decision to be part of this, you are part of the answer and you will come up with answers i have not gotten. give something back, new technologies, w

grow that's why we're here we're going to it only a grander level to help small businesses thrive locally i want to introduce joe who runs the global streams for us. >> thank you, commissioners it's an honor to be here he want to talk about how google is hard working for the love of our consumers especially our small businesses they have a lot of challenges that large business don't have they can hire specialists with people with skill sets when it comes to matthew or h.r. mathing opportunity we're trying to make our products easy and understand when small businesses can handle using technology and making it simple on the front end our guiding anyone a hydratraffic to win the moments that the small businesses interact with the community to make better decisions giving them represents for the success of their business and to constantly innovative that are things in the business community to improve the life of the business owner those are the areas we focus on i'll show you our larger and other programs to help small businesses and the focus primarily in community like san francisco so fir

home sharing and have a friendly traveling experience most won't take a trip airbnb are supporting local businesses and paying tax adding a cap from the primary residence is unnecessarily inpuffy won't rent to long term owners this is not southern california the housing crisis other solutions are needed i'm i've been in compliance with the new legislation that was passed by number 5 at best it was a little bit confusing i'm being harassed by the tax collector and the sf official told me to ignore the notices from the tax collector i urge you to keep the fair legislation that was already approved and resolve issues with fascinating hosts registration with the planning department please support us we can easily survive thank you. >> good evening ever good afternoon. i'm a registered airbnb host living think potrero hill concerned about the changes their disappoint not 3 whole most not 90 days and many hosts are going through the somewhat multiple step process of getting registered might have we signed up for this with the new perimeters in the legislation and the changes will fundamentally

the local joint terrorism task forces are working to build strong relationships with local law enforcemento help local fire and emergency medical service departments to obtain this information. >> chief, i'll tell you what. i know you have lengthy testimony. i'd like you to submit it as part of the record here and we'd be pleased to review it. i think your colleagues have significant statements to review as well. we'd like those submitted as part of the record. and if you would be kind enough to conclude, chief, if there is anything you want to conditionally to add. this is a very important panel and i'd like to give everyone opportunity to really interact with you. >> i'll just wrap up by saying, you know, it is very important for federal, state and local agencies to plan, exercise for potential incidents using chemical or biological agents. the private sector obviously has a big role to play in that as well, as working with the same -- with the governmental and agencies both at a local state, and federal level., state, and federal level. and continued training obviously is vital componen

it's locally it could be the local police they have been taking them to the hospital. there have been complaints about some phone lines are jammed. trying to figure out exactly what's going on. devastation around. >> sabrina, was there any type of warning that something like this was coming? obviously, it's difficult to predict these things but sometimes, there is word that you should -- that something like this might happen soon. what do you know about that? >> earthquakes, what we know in the past there has been an earthquake that is every 100 years. it's about 80 years since the last earthquake which devastated kathmandu and thousands of people. we never knew exactly when it was going to come. as people were aware but not totally prepared. all right sabrina, we will be reaching out to you again shortly as it is now night fall in nepal. thank you so much. tremors were felt in bangladesh's capital dhaka. tell us about the extent of the damage there. >> reporter: well so far, we have one confirmed dead in the country. local media reports say there are three deaths in t

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

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

number one, make it local. okay. you have local here. number two, talk about economic benefits and commerce. talk about how transportation does what it's done in utah. talk about how it will affect your community, and lastly, perhaps most importantly, investment saves money. now is the time to make an investment, because it will pay dividends in the future. you won't be borrowing. it will cost you less. and i think the mayor will talk about that as we do some local efforts in that record. you're hearing from three, strong, conservative, fiscally responsible, energetic, motivated, fast-growing communities. each of which have a passion for transportation and transit. these mayors have a vitality of their own, and they are developing a sense of place in a these mayors have a vitality of their own, and they are developing a sense of place in a community like no others. i like to say that the cities that are surrounding them, salt lake and dallas, and phoenix are suburbs to their cities there. so, let me have you buckle up your seat belts bec

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

reduced rates increased customers or we then take the savings, if you will that center money into local bills; right? i mean, that's the design today. >> so today's design assumes any load this is contributed they'll will be margin to contribute to the rates but on the default product prides are really low and the supply costs effective we could go 50 percent renewal for that product or even higher in the commission deserves to do that but your pointing out we could stay at 50 have additional contributions to march because of the supplies are lower and take that margin and invest it in local build or rate stabilization or other policy objectives of the program. >> and it is on the reverse we talked about the rosy picture what if supply costs radio larger that's example wear asking for the authority to build it at 32 or 50 percent if the prices are hire and the program is costing more we want to slide down the scale to meet the affordability target. >> that includes the pg&e fee absorption would be in there as well. >> that's all the numbers i'm showing you factor that in and they assume