los angeles went to gross receipts tax exemptions 10 years ago. we retain the payroll tax. their gross receipts covers all the businesses coming into los angeles city. they have a higher threshold before you have to pay the tax than we do on the payroll side and this two-year exemption. i think we do need to look and the supervisor has requested for legislature to be drafted and we look forward over the next year of working with the board of supervisors and the mayor's office to look at a tax structure that is not anti-job development. we have a system now that really hurts job development in the city because we have a lot of businesses trying to stay at that $249,000 per year payroll level. if you bridge that, you go to 100% tax on your wages. we support this and we support working with you on tax reform generally. the small business community does as well. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning. i'm from the tenderloin neighborhood development corporation. i am here to speak on behalf of our executive director who is unable to be here today due to a conflict. we support the proposed payroll tax exemption. we have been involved firs

recapitulate all that, but i do think it's important to bring it back to the meaning for the city of los angeles and for other cities as well that when we record record high temperature, we also record record high use of our power system, which means we also have record high numbers of outages and we have record high hours of overtime being worked by our employees and we have many other impacts that are felt greatly by the citizens and by the rate payers. our city also receives a very large quantity of water and certainly our best quality of water from pristine area in the eastern sierra known as the owens valley and that's what feeds our aqua duct. we have been seeing summer runoff over the last 70 years showing a decreasing trend during the peak flow months which means although there are ups and downs in terms of the water supply, that during the times of highest need, the water yield is at its lowest, and going down. and this finding is consistent with what we've seen from the california department of water resources for the sacramento river and the san joaquin water heads as well. so we are

as a result, the city of los angeles, in order to protect future flooding in the city, they decided to take the los angeles river and make it a flood control channel. they concreted the walls of the river in order for water to get to ocean much faster. narrator: cities throughout southern california converted natural rivers to these concrete channels, part of their storm drain systems. this allowed expanding development without the need for large flood plains. kharaghani: the los angeles river is approximately 51 miles. concrete reduces the size of the river that you need to carry the water because it speeds up the flow of water. if you'd like to remove all the concrete and to have natural system to carry the water to protect you from flooding, you need to have almost one mile on each side of the river set aside for transport of rain. so in order for the city to have use of those lands around the river, concrete made it possible to have minimum land so the water can be carried to the ocean in the fastest possible way. but, unfortunately, because of population growth and poor housekeepi

it happened this morning in the los angeles county city of el segundo. the helicopter was trying to lift an air conditioning unit from the roof of an office building when something went wrong. it clipped the side of the building and crashed. the pilot was put in the pop with serious injuries. no word on the cause. >>> new orleans police say someone opened fire in a bar this weekend killing an 18-year- old and wounding four younger teens. police say it happened during a party at the bar. the other victims girls, ages 14, 16 and 17 and a 15-year-old boy. the 16-year-old girl is in critical condition. all the other victims stable. there is no word on a motive. >> it's unclear who caused a tour crash that killed several people. the driver said he was hit by a big rig. police say the truck driver contacted them shortly after the crash and now is contra districting what the bus driver said. they are trying to determine what was at fault. if one city it's art for art's sake. a special show of. >> and coming up mark is tracking the current rain and will say what

what they pay in oakland, san jose -- for a chief of police, we will look at sacramento or los angeles or maybe cities outside of the state. what we will do is look at what information we have and be responsive. some of it would fall more on the comptroller cited we will try to come up with something that addresses the issues you are raising. for the public safety -- supervisor chu: we talked a lot about compensation levels that different classifications. what is your thought around the number of classifications we have? is there an opportunity to evaluate that, whether we are in general good practice or do we need to look at different types of classifications? >> for a number of years, we have been trying to reduce the number of classifications. it makes some sense that some level -- we recently had the classification of the homemaker and typewriter repair. we also consolidated our management series so we gallagher have these single incumbent classifications. we have been consolidating that way. for layoff purpose, it can be -- it can increase the job of discussion because the likelihood an employee

los angeles. the hardest hit city so far. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, david. health officials here in los angeles were stunned to find this brand new infection spreading. it is deadly and it is now surfacing across the country. and even our most powerful medicines, like this cipro, are unable to stop it. it may be the most dangerous super bug to date, spreading through hospitals, nursing homes and short-term care facilities. officials in southern california now identify more than 350 cases. people becoming gravely ill from this new infection known as crkp. steve winters knows just how powerful super bugs can be. he took his 80-year-old mother to the hospital for pneumonia. she was getting better. >> two days later i get a call saying that she's terminal. >> reporter: she had ten different new infections, all caught in the hospital, which would eventually take her life. >> i had been telling her, you're going to live. she just looked away. there's really no words for that, so -- she knew she wasn't coming home. >> reporter: the new bug is even more vicious than

because experts now say the massive quake released enough energy to provide electricity to the city of los angeles for an entire year. >> at the time it was terrifying. i've never felt a quake that strong. you know, my japanese coworkers haven't experienced anything like this, either, in their lifetime. >> reporter: the earthquake that hit japan this morning was actually the 261st aftershock. it was located about 200 miles north of tokyo, but we could definitely feel it here in the city. the ground started shaking, buildings were situation. clearly keeping people here on edge. russ. >> mitchell: ben trace netokyo. take care. thank you very much. attention was focused for most of the day on an explosion at the fukushima nuclear power plant where officials say the containment vessel is intact with no imminent threat of a meltdown. sea water is being pump in to cool the core and an engineer was declared tonight at another reactor nearby. celia hatten is there with more on that part of the story. >> reporter: at the fukushima nuclear complex, radioactive smoke billowing from one react reactor, the pow

paul, forcing twin cities commuters into a scramble. brad wheelis, abc news, los angeles. >>> and for much more on this extreme weather and what's in store for us today, you can stay with us for "good morning america," coming up later today. >>> and to overseas now, where there's been an outbreak of violence in the middle east. overnight, israeli aircraft bombed palestinian militant targets in the gaza strip. this comes in retaliation for a deadly bombing yesterday in jerusalem. 1 woman was killed 20 others were hurt in the first such attack in seven years. no group claimed responsibility. but israeli authorities blame palestinian militants. >>> and president obama is facing new pressure from congress this morning over the u.s. role in libya. a leading republican has now demanded that the president outline his goals there. there's been concerns about the mounting costs. predictions are that the no-fly zone military actions could cost coalition forces $1 billion. the tomahawk missiles launched by the u.s. and britain, could cost about $200 million alone. >>> in japan, rest

and recorded very grainy video of the los angeles police department beating an unarmed motorist now here's a clip of the beating of rodney king that changed the city of los angeles and the u.s. forever four police officers were later found not guilty in the beating of king and that set off days of rioting across l.a. where more than fifty people were killed because since that video shot by george holiday citizen journalism is now an all time high and today's high tech world smartphones allow all of us to record video take pictures of course it's illegal in your state to do so now video taken by everyday citizens has become a valuable part of the criminal justice system cell phone cameras are rolling in oakland on a transit officer shot and killed an unarmed man. oscar grant was killed by a bart police officer on new year's day in two thousand and nine video recorded by several people at the scene eventually helped convict the officer in the shooting but only of involuntary manslaughter not guilty of second degree murder but this video by citizens prove that the officer had no reason to kill oscar grant now in some cases even police video can come

i was elected from my city counsel district and individuals from los angeles. we were to pose a new charter for the city. i don't know local government law in arizona, so i don't know if you function the safe here as in california, but a charter for a city is much like its constitution. it creates the entity of the city government, the city controllers, al gaits powers among them, says how government operates, includes things like the civil service and government workers, and it can provide more rights than the u.s. constitution or the state's constitution. we worked hard for two years to draft this constitution, and then in june of 1999, the voters of los angeles adopted it. almost as soon as it was adopted, i began to get phone calls about what we meant for specific provisions. almost always we just never talked about the issues that arose. we just hadn't thought about it. occasionally i can say, well, my recollection was -- if they like my answer, the mayor says, can you write a declaration to the effect? if they don't like it, they call other commissioners i

region that supplies almost half the water we use and then through one of our member agencies city of los angeles the east si' ras and this year is it's becoming depress ingly clear and 07' is shaping up that all of them are well below normal. every single area. hoping that it's not a trend and a depressing state for me as my first years general manager. , brad will talk first hand he's on the faculty of university of colorado the director of university water assessment and was

region that supplies almost half the water we use and then through one of our member agencies city of los angeles the east si' ras and this year is it's becoming depress ingly clear and 07' is shaping up that all of them are well below normal. every single area. hoping that it's not a trend and a depressing state for me as my first years general manager. , brad will talk first hand he's on the faculty of university of colorado the director of university water assessment and was one of the great names in western law and politics. our next speaker doctor dan will repeat that entire lunchtime presentation except he'll talk really fast and do it in ten minutes. our third speaker barry nelson, codirector of national resources defense council and working on an interesting project water law

>> los angeles is a really fun city, or chicago.ould go to london because i've never been there and a lot of my camp counselors are from there. i'd love to visit them. >> i know where i'd like to go. wherever shia labouf is. for t/kn, i'm sam. >> this season we were invited to do some behind-the-scenes reporting on the new york yankees. here's this week's segment. >> tyler here with the field report. today we're getting a tour of yankee stadium with tony morante. let's go check it out. >> how's it going? tyler. >> good morning tyler. how are you doing? >> good, nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you! >> we're going to visit some sites, like the museum, monument park, and talk a lot about yankee history, and whatever else comes along. >> great. >> right now we're in the museum. this is where we have some of the artifacts and memorabilia. you'll see the trophies. trophies didn't come about until 1967, and the tiffiny people introduced them. we're very proud of the fact that we do have seven in all. great ball players, icons, legends th

as for the top cities for gps usage, not surprisingly, los angeles is number one followed by dallas, chicago, houston and atlanta. various -- bay other cities are not in the top 15. >>> if you are searching for >>> today on "oprah" at 4:00 tom brokaw and the first lady introduce us to the bravest families in america living with the wounds of war. and then at 5:00, what a girl is doing to inspire. and she is lifting the spirits of troops overseas. that and more on abc7 news at 5:00. >>> from jimmy hendrix reimagined to a classic musical. dawn sanchez has what is hot. >> the jimmy hendrix version of "hey joe" played by this quartet. the 27th floral extravaganza has designers em blazed in color through saturday. it is tradition. "fiddler on the roof" is a time less music classic. they offer up a guarantee of laughs. they bring their comedy show to the art gallery on saturday evening. they present a vision of the future in a match up of athletic dance. drama between a middle eastern high school student and his vice president, theater works presents "the north pool" a psychological thrille

as for the top cities for gps usage, not surprisingly, los angeles is number one followed by dallas, ago, houston and atlanta. various -- bay other cities are not in the top >>> today on "oprah" at 4:00 tom brokaw and the first lady introduce us to the bravest families in america living with the wounds of war. and then at 5:00, what a girl is doing to inspire. and she is lifting the spirits of troops overseas. that and more on abc7 news at 5:00. >>> from jimmy hendrix reimagined to a classic musical. dawn sanchez has what is hot. >> the jimmy hendrix version of "hey joe" played by this quartet. the 27th floral extravaganza has designers em blazed in color through saturday. it is tradition. "fiddler on the roof" is a time less music classic. they offer up a guarantee of laughs. they bring their comedy show to the art gallery on saturday evening. they present a vision of the future in a match up of athletic dance. drama between a middle eastern high school student and his vice president, theater works presents "the north pool" a psychological thriller. and enjoy the family

lateen opens had a large presence, and their presence increased such as los angeles, where almost half of the the population in the city of los angeles is hispanic background. so we see this growth in the hispanic population in all parts of the country. it's not just along the south, but it's also in many other metropolitan areas around the country. >> suarez: is the america of the future taking shape in these numbers? one piece of data that stuck out at me, the young population in this country grew by three percent, and minority youths grew by 22%. >> that's right, and there's an absolute decline in the young white population in the united states. and a small absolute decline in the african-american young population. so it's other minorities fueling all the growth. >> 46 states with white children had a decline. and only the half the states gained children. and the reason they did is because they were getting more hispanic kids. so our future labor force, and the future electorate and all thf is really not the aging white population anymore. not only because they have fewer children. it's because they have an age stru

city. >> ring extends down to los angeles or up to sacramento. >> the woman rented a storage locker and used it to store the stolen items. investigators do not believe she worked alone. they are also searching for several male accomplices who are suspected of stealing more than 100 items. >>> pg&e could face fines of up to $1 million a day for missing a deadline to turn in some key documents to the state's safety commission. the cpuc requested the documents following last year's deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno. pg&e did turn over thousands of documents, but the commission says it did not produce records for pipelines under some of the largest cities. the puc is expected to vote on the fines next thursday. >>> the crisis in japan is now sparking new food safety concerns here in the united states. there's been some worries over whether food imported from japan has been exposed to harmful radiation. the world health organization says there has been no evidence of contamination outside of japan. one doctor from san francisco says it's not just the radiation though that can harm the food c

and then you have the palmer versus city of los angeles case and again, it goes back to the issue of whether or not there is a waiver here that can happen. and this case raises concerns. so i don't think that we should delve bought -- into the specifics of the analysis but i think there are enough issues here that, again, raise questions about the adequacy, completeness, and accuracy of the e.i.r. analysis which ultimately is what's before us. [applause] president chiu: in response to supervisor campos' comments, he was reading from the case law but probably think it's not appropriate for us to discuss the underlying legal arguments and how they might apply in this case but agree this might be a appropriate topic for a future closed session. supervisor elsbernd. supervisor elsbernd: to the president, supervisor campos or to the city attorney's office. the two cases you referred to, did those analyze the density bonus exemption in costa hawkins or did those analyze the waiver exemption in costa hawkins? and with the legislation that will be in front of us, the development agreement, i

>> reporter: in eight states plus new york city and los angeles the issue now is tenure-- lifetime jobotections that prevent good teachers from being fired on a whim but also, critics say, protect bad teachers from being fired at all. into this battle, unpredictably, has stepped randi weingarten. >> we wanted to fix the problem. >> reporter: last week, weingarten, the president of the american federation of teachers- - a union with 1.5 million members-- proposed new rules to evaluate and fire incompetent teachers. any teacher judged unsatisfactory would get one year of guidance called an improvement plan. teachers who then failed to improve would face a dismissal hearing within 100 days. >> we want to make sure we're focused on teacher quality, on student instruction and on fairness. >> reporter: weingarten insists this is not a response to the fight in wisconsin but it is an answer to the biggest complaints about tenure. >> it has effectively become, in some places, a job for life, which is wrong. >> reporter: are you saying that unions aren't at all responsible for that? >> i'm sayin

one i'm leaving all the way out to california small towns like silver city new mexico big cities like los angeleswere all over and people are fed up and they're taking action against corporate tax dodgers going to their front door saying there will be consequences to your brand there might be legal consequences we're showing them that we're really fed up and i think we're going to see an enormous backlash beginning now extending as long as there are still budget cuts in america people are going to be fighting back and that's eventually how we're going to get the president and get the congress to respond is one of the companies see that it's going to hurt their bottom line is going to hurt their image then you're going to see the dynamics in congress and with the president shifting as well how have you found the media the media coverage to be so far the u.s. and the protesting because of course you run into a little bit of a problem when you have corporate media when companies like m.s. in the sea and n.b.c. are oh and by g.e. do they talk about these stories. of course i mean and we've actually b

community is also done by law enforcement outreach coordinators group which includes the los angeles police department, the city of los angeles, the california emergency management agency, the fbi, the united states attorney general's office, the transportation security administration, and our most supported federal partner, the department of homeland security. in america, we are obligated to protect all citizens in their respective religions and to effectively detect and find extremists. police leaders must have trust in and understanding of all communities. the muslim community is no less or no more important than others as no one can predict with complete accuracy who and what will pose the next threat against our nation. simply put, police need public participation and to accomplish that, strategies such as public trust policing need to be a priority in our nation. simply our enemies cannot thrive or even survive when a majority of people share common goals and pledge to be an asset for each other in the fight to counter violent extremism. thank you for listening to my brief testimony on a subject that is v

community is also done by law enforcement outreach coordinators group which includes the los angeles police department, the city of los angeles, the california emergency management agency, the fbi, the united states attorney genel's office, the transportation security adnistration, and our most supported federal partner, the department of homeland security. in america, we are obligated to protect all citizens in their respective religions and to effectively detect and find extremists. police leaders must have trust in and understanding of all communities. the muslim community is no less or no more important than others as no one can predict with complete accuracy who and what will pose the next threat against our nation. simply put, police need public participation and to accomplish that, strategies such as public trust policing need to be a priority in our nation. simply our enemies cannot thrive or even survive when a majority of people share common goals a pledge to be an asset for each other in the fight to counter violent extremism. thank you for listening to my brief testimony on a subject that is vital t

community is also done by law enforcement outreach coordinators group which includes the los angeles police department, the city of los angeles, the california emergency management agency, the fbi, the united states attorney general's ofce, the transportation security administration, and our most supported federal partner, the department of homeland security. in america, we are obligated to protect all citizens in their respective religions and to effectively detect and find extremists. police leaders must have trust in and understanding of all communities. the muslim community is no less or no more important than others as no one can predict with complete accuracy who and what will pose the next threat against our nation. simply put, police need public participation and to accomplish that, strategies such as public trust policing need to be a priority in our naon. simply our enemies cannot thrive or even survive when a majority of people share common goals and pledge to be an asset for each other in the fight to counter violent extremism. thank you for listening to my brief testimony on a subject that is vital

every one of you for taking the time to come here from seattle, los angeles, new york, all across the country, interestingly those coastal cities, appropriately those coastal cities that are taking the time to be here, and begin the process not only of identifying the problem today and working through the consensus again, sort of sharing the same set of facts which continues to dominate the dialogue, but then begin the process of resolving what we do about this reality tomorrow. that being said, in san francisco i'm very proud to be a resident of a city, fifth generation city, of a city that has always been a city of dreamers and doers, a city of entrepreneurs, a city that doesn't just identify these larger global problems but begins to address strategies to solve them. indeed, san francisco is very proud of its leadership to begin the process of mitigation so that we don't have it adopt and as some have said suffer the consequences of global climate change. more mitigation, less adaption, less suffering. this city decided a number of years ago after the united states did the obvious and that was decided not to participate in t

passengers on an alaska airlines flight from mexico city to los angeles became alarmed when three jewish businessmen started praying out loud. according to the airline spokeswoman, the men, all mexican nationals, were praying in hebrew and appeared to have something strapped under their clothing. the jewish prayer ritual involves tying leather straps and small wooden boxes to the body. the men were escorted from the plane, where they were searched and questioned by the fbi. they were then let go without being charged. >>> still ahead, it's common after a tragedy. scammers taking advantage of people just trying to help the victims in japan. >>> plus, we're going to check in with our own george kiriyama who is in tokyo tonight, where people, miles from the disaster zone, are still preparing for the worst. >>> i'm marianne favro. could anderson dam sustain the same-sized earthquake that we saw in japan? and what could that mean for these homes below? i'll have that story, coming up. >>> and social responsibility in a social networking world. twitter and facebook helping victims find their f

narrator: issues facing new york city are very different from those in los angeles. and challenges facing small towns are very different from those in metropolitan areas. man: we have to have water supply for health purposes, for fire protection, and the economy. without it, things simply can't exist. woman: we have good health in this country, in part, because we have clean water. and we shouldn't forget that, and we shouldn't take it for granted. melosi: in the late 19th century, serious waterborne disease epidemics were having devastating effects. roy: but then, in the early 1900s, we began to treat our water. and since then, we've seen a rapid decline in the incidence of waterborne disease. narrator: most cities treat drinking water through filtration, chlorination, and sometimes ozonation to kill pathogens in the source supply. these are complex treatment plants that cost millions of dollars to operate, but are necessary for our wellbeing. the treatment of drinking water has been called one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century. the wate

los angeles on sunday. >>> today, san francisco mayor ed lee is unveiling city's plan for getting yachting fans in and arounde city during the america's cup. some 200,000 people a day are expected to watch the big race in 2013. the mayor promises to provide smooth service for everyone heading to the big event. that include people on bikes, buses, cars, and even those on foot. and we got reaction to these plans in san francisco this morning. >> it's going to be a crush. i don't see -- there's an awful lot to do here in just a few years. i don't -- you know, it's gonna be a great effort, big effort on the part of people involved. >> san francisco's massive transportation plan include a new streetcar running the length of san francisco's embarcadero. closures on the northern waterfront and all new muni routes will handle the big crowds. >>> environmentalists are worried about the big yacht race and how it could spell disaster for the san francisco bay. the concern is about an invasive algae that could attack native seaweed. the fear is the algae could spread when ships are move and algae spores could be release