experience of conducting a similar audit of the last couple of months of the los angeles city housing authority, looking at their financial condition. that was looking beyond what hud would look at. we have that as a model. if there are other questions? or requests or comments? >> chair: supervisor cohen? >> supervisor cohen: thank you for the presentation. i'm going to thank you and the front side for your thoughtful -- the amount of energy that is going to carry through this management audit. thank you very much for raising to our attention the importance of the responsibility that we have to ensure that we are providing safe, and habitable housing for people in san francisco, and a supervisor that represents four other cities largest public housing development i know well the challenges the housing authority and residents face. i left an hour and a half meeting with residents over at alice griffith; we deal with many of the challenges on a daily basis. not a day goes by when my staff or i are contacted or personally affected -- when i consider that i have family members that stay i

policies, we do have experience of conducting a similar audit of the last couple of months of the los angeles city housing authority, looking at their financial condition. that was looking beyond what hud would look at. we have that as a model. if there are other questions? or requests or comments? >> chair: supervisor cohen?

policies, we do have experience of conducting a similar audit of the last couple of months of the los angeles citysing authority, looking at their financial condition. that was looking beyond what hud would look at. we have that as a model. if there are other questions? or requests or comments? >> chair: supervisor cohen? >> supervisor cohen: thank you for the presentation. i'm going to thank you and the front side for your thoughtful -- the amount of energy that is going to carry through this management audit. thank you very much for raising to our attention the importance of the responsibility that we have to ensure that we are providing safe, and habitable housing for people in san francisco,

los angeles. you are running for mayor but that the los angeles city council members $78,000 per year? had a councilwoman to the house of representatives to take a cut in pay. >> there each given a car? >> something else they get a car that has a license plate that says exempt so the park at the meeting without a ticket for parking tickets are through the roof with all of the fines and fees that they keep wanting to take, it is not good for business and chase's customers awaynto neighboring communities where they are not abused. john: $170,000 per year verses 37,000 in dallas or san antonio 1,400. >> those are part-time. john: but they get it done a day and come up with this into perspective nationally. is this a mind set? >> during the boom years for decades people were pouring into the state government could charge more to get the great climate but at some point* we hit the tipping level it is just too expensive to create jobs or the bloated work force or maintain the pensions but if more tn 50 percent are riding on a the wagon government welfare beneficiaries, how do you change? tha

los angeles. you are running for mayor but that the los angeles city council members $78,000 per year? councilwoman to the house of representatives to take a cut in pay. >> there each given a car? >> something else they get a car that has a license plate that says exempt so the park at the meeting without a ticket for parking tickets are through the roof with all of the fines and fees that they keep wanting to take, it is not good for business and chase's customers away into neighboring communities where they are not abused. john: $170,000 per year verses 37,000 in dallas or san antonio 1,400. >> those are part-time. john: but they get it done a day and come up with this into perspective nationally. is this a mind set? >> during the boom years for decades pele were pouring into the state government could charge more to get the great climate but at some point* we hit the tipping level it is just too expensive to create jobs or the bloated work force or maintain the pensions but if more than 50 percent are riding on a the wagon government welfare beneficiaries, how do you change? that ma

in los angeles during the late 1980's and early 1990's, there were 1000 homicides per year in the city of los angeles, not the county, the city. now, we have between 203 hundred homicides per year. people talk about the gang problem having been addressed. i want to share with you, what i experienced, what i have learned, i am not a typical academic. i will not quote statistics to you or talk about theories. i will talk with you about practicality. pragmatic approaches, and i will talk about reality. san francisco, like los angeles learned, will never saw or deal with its gang problems effectively unless there is true collaboration. i will talk to you about what this looks like and feels like. i will speak to you about the lessons that we have learned as law enforcement had to come off of the high perch, in los angeles, law enforcement learned, to their great fortune, that collaboration is the answer. i am going to talk to you about some of the lessons that were learned. i can tell you first that the people -- we have learned lessons from have been gang members themselves my research is

los angeles city council is just as bad. we can give you free stuff. >> mayor bloomberg this is full employment for lawyers. lawsuits all over the place. impact. >> impact freedom. >> businesses will move out of new york city. we're tired of getting sued by unemployed people. we're going down to texas and where this madness. but with 44 to 4. the council can override the veto. >> so we're stuck with one more. dumb law that will hurt people hurt the city of new york. businesses, particularly small businesses. connecticut. going to go to jersey. >> it's reasonable to say i can pick between the guy who is working and the guy who is not. >> you just can't. >> going to be a pro bono situation because the unemployed don't have any money to pay a lawyer. lawyers say i will take a contingency, we will settle. all of that crap. in vermont they will have assisted suicide. kill yourself if it snows more than 12 inches. that's a new state law in vermont. i love vermont. okay. you, as a libertarian, you want to be able to kill yourself st

the los angeles city council, they are paid $150,000 a year and they meet all the time.xas, for the whole state, they only meet for 140 days every two years. >> neil: really, but there are more state workers in texas. >> that shocked me. more state workers but they pay them so much more in california, that is why california is going broke. it's not just the pay. and the pensions, you put up the number unfounded liability per government worker in california is more than $400,000. >> neil: they just promise them stuff. >> they don't have it and going broke. >> neil: i don't know if john will be able to go back to california after this special but texas will be a good option. not raising the debt ceiling does not mean we default faulty. why does the president keep saying that? why does the media let him keep saying that? [ male announcer ] ok, here's the way the system works. let's say you pay your guy around 2% to manage your money. that's not much you think. except it's 2% every year. does that make a difference? search "cost of financial advisors" ouch. over time it real

in march 2006 1 million people marched to los angeles city hall. on that historic day 1 million people threw off the yoke of suspicion and fear and stepped out of the shadows. moms and dads, kids, grandmas and grandpas. people who worked hard, who were humbled, who were tired of being scapegoated, tired of being told to go back where you come from. they were home. they are not leaving home. they wanted a response from me, the mayor. some -- in fact, many on my staff said do not go out there. "your job is to fix potholes. leave immigration to the fed's." but when 1 million people marched to war front step, they deserve a welcome. i said "i do not see illegals here." that got me in trouble. sometimes you have to say it figuratively before it becomes true. and no human being should be "illegal." that is our moral imperative. that is our political challenge in 2013. to fix our broken immigration system, we will restore a basic american covenant. we are a nation of immigrants. we have a long history of welcoming people from all four corners of the earth

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

in los angeles during the late 1980's and early 1990's, there were 1000 homicides per year in the city of los angeles, not the county, the city. now, we have between 203 hundred homicides per year. people talk about the gang problem having been addressed. i want to share with you, what i experienced, what i have learned, i am not a typical academic. i will not quote statistics to you or talk about theories. i will talk with you about practicality. pragmatic approaches, and i will talk about reality. sanion. an example of an interpretation might be with the original condition which refers to paths, public accessible pedestrian paths. somebody might say that means three. somebody might say that means two. the zoning administrator exercises discretion to say two. the zoning administrator does not have discretion to interpret that condition by changing it to something that does nothing for people trying to get to the muni railway, and i will reiterate no notice of that change, that modification, was given to us, but if it came to a letter of determination 2007 look at who we gave notice? e

city hall. the contract bringing former los angeles chief into the city to help lower oakland soaring crime rate. he supports stop and frisk policing allowing office dwrorz detain anyone who looks sus spishus. some believe it will lead towards racial profiling. >>> a community college in texas remains on lock down after a fight turns into a shootout. authorities say two people got into an argument at lone star community college this afternoon. one pulled a gun and started firing. three people were injured. wets say once shots were fired everybody scattered. >> everyone was standing there, running and screaming. >> rescuers searched all afternoon long for a surfer missing off the monterey county coast. the surfer vanished near sand dollar beach. officials say high surf and rocky coastline make this area very dangerous. cal fire expects a fire to be fully contained. this photo shows how heavy smoke is thanks to gene for that. the fire spread from a controlled burn near a vineyard. firefighters have a 50% control as we speak. google's net income $2.89 billion. the company added net revenue of more

supporters say bratton improved new york and los angeles when he worked in those cities. and needs his help. >> crime went down in los angeles and he helped to get minority people working. the complaint levels went down in that city. it was a change for the good and for the better. >> you keep pouring money into people from identified of our community to solve the problems of violence in our community. violence is a language of the unheard so you need to start listening to the people who actually live here when they are telling you what it is they want, what they need. >> this city will pay the consulting firm that brat were works for $250,000. an oakland police chief and mayor says that brat were will will -- says that bratton will not support available profiling and the city will make the final decisions. they decided to hire 11 alameda sheriff deputies who will work two days a week in an effort to stop the rise in violence here in this city. live in ocean -- oakland for abc7 news. >> a suspect is in police custody after a police chase that started in hayward and ended a

in north america, san francisco, among 20 cities ranked as the 11th most congested city, which was led by los angeles followed by vancouver, canada, and some other city somewhere -- seattle, toronto, new orleans, san josÉ, month recall, andu#nnnyñ chicag- month raul and chicago. chicago was much lower congestion than we are. while we are a transit-first policy, we are still struggling with congestion, which is very, very similar to what other people experience as to not getting to work on time, break down of emergency services, and on and so. i think it's a well-presented point, which we should keep in mind as moving forward relative to discussions on parking, and discussions on transit and i'll pass this article around so people can see the methodology by which to alive is interesting. >> i want to thank my fellow commissioners for the vote of confidence. look forward to the work we have ahead. >> president fong: commissioner antonini. >> commissioner antonini: thank you. i introduced to the commission last week, some -- a plan by captain tang lin,, and it's a matter of public record. i don't know h

cities. los angeles is working on it. berkeley is working on a project. washington, d.c. is, too. cities are looking at parking management differently than the have in the past. >> later this year, we are gathering all the data we need to evaluate rigorously all our expectations of how this can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, congestion, improve transit speed, reliability, reduc. [applause] >> good evening. i'm the director of transportation. for me, this is not the academy awards. this is the all-star game. the folks sitting over here are truly the all stars of the city. i've had an opportunity to work with ed, harlan, and jocelyn. behalf of all of us. we are also very lucky to have a bunch of people from sfmta, many of them are here. my job is to introduce the awardees. please join me and give a hand for jay primus, george reynolds, steven lee, and lorraine fuqua. >> thank you. this is a tremendous honor. it really does feel fabulous to be recognized. one of the relief fund things about this project is that it is just complex enough and just big enough that it is truly a case wh

the oakland city council has voted to hire the foam top -- fr top cop of los angeles and new york as a police consultant the city council listened to public comment and debated until 2:30 a.m. before deciding to hire bill bratton known for zero tolerance strategies including controversial stop and frisk which gives officers, and say, too much discretion and leads to racial from files. supporters say bratton brought crime down in los angeles and will help the city of oakland. we will have a live report with more on this coming up in 30 minutes. >> the council approved another crime-fighting measure, bringing in alameda county sheriff deputies to patrol the streets. when deputies and one supervisor will help with the duties two days a week. the oakland police union opposed the plan but city leaders say something has to be done do put more cops on the street to deal with rising crime. >> secretary of state, hillary clinton, right now, has sat down and wearing green and is about to testify about the deadly attack in benghazi, libya, in september. in is a live picture from washington, dc.