the untold story, mr mayor of the obama years, is it was make-america-red-again, right? how many governorships went republican? how many state house races went republican? - we lost something like 1000 seats. - right, right. - and we've got to do a better job there, we gotta pay closer attention to the different dynamics, and it's a signal that the party's in trouble, now, i don't think we're in trouble 'cause our values are wrong. on the contrary, if you survey americans, they're more and more believing things that are in line with what the democratic party has always stood for. i also don't think it's 'cause we don't have a message. i know people say that, to me our message is very clear, we're the party that supports and defends the ordinary people going about their everyday lives. - do you think that's agreed upon by everybody in the party? your party is a bit at war now. the bernie wing and the hillary wing, that could be exaggerated. - yeah. - but again, having witnessed the dnc race up close, i can tell you, that divide is a thing. - it is a thing but the fact tha

president, or mr. mayor. [ light laughter ] seriously, where would you rather work? the white house or city hall? look, new yorkers, we got to take one for the team here. trump can't do nearly as much damage as mayor as he can as president. what's he gonna do?

mr. mayor, and i just want to again thank the cosponsors of this amazing legislation. supervisor malia cohen, supervisor aaron peskin, and supervisor mark farrell, and with that, i'd like to bring up our leader to give us a history, abbreviated, reverend brown, we ain't in church. we trying to sign this today. amen? amen. amen congregation. reverend brown, our leader, come on up. >> good afternoon. madam president of our board of supervisors, supervisors peskin, cohen, to our city administrator, our friend, miss naomi kelley, i see other department heads here, but time would not permit me to name them all, and indeed to our fine mayor, my friend and servant of the people, mayor edwin lee, give him a big round of applause. and to all the members and our officers of 3rd baptist church, we have with us the chair person of our deacon's ministry, deacon alfonso campbell, chair person of our trustee ministry, trustee preston turner. this is a tender and touching moment for me, for i am privileged to

mr. mayor, you have a great team with the city, not only the planning department, but your economic development thinkers and workforce builders, and we need this. this change is moving and changing and we need to make sure we don't leave people behind. that is a fear that people have, particularly a little south of this project, and i think the mayor and team in this project has demeonstrated that we're not going to leave anybody behind, we're allowing everybody to speak and be heard on this project. it gives me great pleasure to be able to come out and to celebrate, to christen this project. it's been an incredible, incredible -- contrary to what the mayor said, he made it sound easy, and i'm sure from his vantage point it was, but i'm here to tell you this stuff was hard. it's hard. it's difficult, but you know, when you have a team of professionals, it makes it a little bit easier, so i wanted to just say thank you to everyone who worked on this projects, from the lobbyists on down to the pe

mr. mayorwe specifically would like to thank you for your ongoing leadership and partnership in helping us help local communities like the bay view community. your concept of having this event that we labelled clark on 3rd similar to the opera house's third on 3rd to help highlight businesses along the 3rd street corridor was very innohave ative, and that has now become a reality. with the help of other businesses, all of this has been made into a reality, so thank you. so we are here today because of you, mr. mayor, and we've assembled the small business from the bay view 3rd street corridor to showcase their offerings, while also showcasing their services for the renaissance bay view community, so without further adieu, let me introduce the mayor, ed lee. >> thank you, steve, to you and vickie bamba and others who were in the room when i said, hey, bay view is working in the community. why not expand it to clark on third, and people don't just invite anybody here. they invite people here if t

welcome mr. mayor. have you the floor. >> good afternoon, supervisors. glad to be here for the question time. i hope that all you had a wonderful thanksgiving. as we know the holidays bring out the best of people but with the spirit of giving there's hard times and the wintertime are the hardest for the individuals living on the streets. there's no simple answer to solving homelessness but we must continue to help every person in need for recovery and wellness. i set a goal for moving 1,000 people off the streets and indoors this winter. to do that, we need to build new emergency navigation centers. places to provide immediate respite for residents experiencing homelessness. to move forward we need to act now which is why i'm asking members of the board of supervisors to approve a resolution to declare a shelter in san francisco to construct emergency navigation centers. we're exploring potential sites across the city and i want to thank you each member of the board for your help on the matter and for identifying affordable housing locations across san f

mrs. napolitano: the mayor mentioned the percentage is 75% to 80% without restored power. how much longer do you think it's going to take? mr. zamot: ma'am, we really don't have an answer to that question. if confirmed by the courts, i plan to work closely with the corps of engineers, with fema, and our assets on the ground. mrs. napolitano: do you have an estimate? mr. zamot: we don't have an estimate. mrs. napolitano: and the question i have is the additional wave of people of people going to the states. is the oversight board taking this into consideration? ms. jaresko: yes, of course. one of the efforts in the fiscal plan development is to create an environment where people will be able to stay, receive the social support they need as families, whether that's a proper education, access to health care or living conditions. and so every effort is being made in the fiscal plan to ensure that the environment is such that people wish to stay at home and have the ability to stay at home as well as businesses staying to generate jobs. mrs. napolitano: but so far they haven't b

mr. mayor, thank you for all you do. imagine being a mayor or governor at this time. i know that there was a feeling , both there prepared mayor and the central government. back, is there something you as mayor could have done to be more prepared? and the central government could have done to be more prepared? or was so devastating that you never saw that coming? >> we are all going to learn from this and after this he will sit down and establish a new form to receive this storm. this is why we're asking you for help. we have to do things differently. >> i have one last person that has questions. >> thank you for calling this hearing. i am coming to this as someone who has experience and training in humanitarian disaster relief. i'm a graduate of the harvard school of public health. i focused on humanitarian exacerbate -- humanitarian disaster aid. for athe medical director displacement camp in haiti. i've seen firsthand the challenges that arise in the middle of a humanitarian crisis and the importance of having clear leadership. the importance of making sure everybo

thank you very much, mr. mayor, and to the entire city for working with us.ext i wanted to introduce senator weiner, who was a partner in this every step of the way, myself, senator weiner, and david chiu, so it is part of a team to make this happen. >> thank you, phil. so we have -- we are lucky that we have a very cohesive delegation, myself and david chiu in this era where southern california has so much population and representation, we really need to stick together so that we can -- san francisco can continue to punch up its weight class in sacramento, which we're continuing to do. so we look out for each other and we love to partner on these bills. he he want to thank phil for his leadership on 857 and i was happy to co-author it. this has been a terrific bill. i think in recent years the theme in san francisco and other cities, we're trying to rediscover urbanism, trying to get away from the era where it was all about housing sprawl and moving away from public transportation and focusing on the needs of cars, not people. and now we are refocused on den

mr. mayor, it was great to meet with you yesterday. can you talk about, either view, to discuss your thoughts on the state of puerto rico with infrastructure economy prior to the hurricane and how that has exacerbated -- exacerbated recovery? >> yes. i mean, i think in terms of electricity it's a very, very clear that it had been neglected for decades, the maintenance had not been done and investment had not been made. i think beyond that we have a clear sense of the same with regard to wastewater treatment and waste treatment on the island. in terms of infrastructure more broadly in terms of governance that flight was put in place. in terms of fiscal control and in terms of moving to structure balance i think that's why the congress put it here to try to work on those problems prior to the hurricane. >> after hurricane sandy, 95% of electricity was restored 13 days after. in new york 11 days after, 95% restored in new york. i believe it was 23 days after hurricane katrina, 140-mile per our wins as i recall, marie was 155 miles per hou

mr. costa: same as local government. you have been limited. mayor otero: yeah. i used to be a will be mr. costa: what would you ask to do in the short term and long term? realize we dotoryage in the short term. in the long term we have to be smart about our ability to get puerto rico back on their feet along with the u.s. virgin islands. mayor otero: in the longer term, we have to work with our infrastructure. before, if we id rebuild in concrete, we won't have this problem. if we just do the same thing, we are going to be here next week, maybe next year. so we have the solution. we have to work with it. mr. costa: mr. zamot, as the revitalization coordinator, i can understand where some of the questions have been asked. you won't have at hand. given the responsibility that you are going to have, you begin to develop an interim and long-term plan. and how you implement those long-term plans. mr. zamot: we want to make sure we have clarity of purpose between the agencies that are responsible for immediate -- mr. costa: you are working on that now. have you develop

president, or mr. mayor. [ light laughter ] seriously, where would you rather work? white house or city hall? look, new yorkers, we got to take one for the team here. trump can't do nearly as much damage as mayor as he can as president. what's he gonna do? declare war on north jersey? mess up our trade agreement with connecticut? and there will be no more tough questions. no one's going to ask him, when are you going to help puerto rico? or did you collude with putin. it will just be, "hey mr. mayor, you think the mets got enough pitching this year?" "i'll tell you, we're gonna look into it." he'll be so happy. [ light laughter ] [ applause ] so -- let's all unite agree to vote for donald trump for mayor and save our democracy by bringing him back to his hometown. he won't make new york better, he'll make it worse, in a way that makes it better. [ light laughter ] like the good old days. instead of the m&m store at times square, it will be three story casino full of hookers and broken glass. and the streets will be filled with checkered cabs, punk bands and serial kil

[applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. it is not just on time, it is ahead of time. so, we're trying to exceed expectation with this procurement. and speaking of exceeding expectations, we're extremely fortunate here in san francisco to have such great representation in sacramento and generally speaking to have such a strong and progressive state legislature and governor in california. this here in particular was really an extraordinarily productive one for the legislature and the governor in terms of transportation. two bills were passed and signed by the governor that will allow people in the region to vote for increased bridge tolls, to better fund transit in the region as well as potential increased sales tax across the three counties to provide cal trains for the first time with a dedicated source of revenue and even more significant, senate bill 1. again, like this rail car, a onces in a generation kind of change in the way we fund transportation in san francisco and in california. none of which would have been possible without the strength of our delegation, o

so, mr. mayorected mayor of the biggest, greatest, baddest city in america, and the world. we will all say. you're the first democrat re-elected since 1985. that's a pretty extraordinary achievement as well. >> thank you. >> you win by almost 40%. this is the landslide to end all landslides. and i got to believe when you woke up the next morning the greatest thing in the world for you was to see that you had finally wonover the city's tabloids. let's put those tabloids up. >> oh, come on. >> come on, man, what do you have to do to get a little respect here? come on! >> joe, i was not surprised. i was not surprised. i was impressed by the creativity. you win a landslide victory, what are they going to do with this, but they found a way. give them credit for that. >> so what is the challenge moving forward? and let's just talk about the one challenge. what is the one big challenge that you would like to accomplish over the next four years? >> look, the challenge in new york city and i think it's a ch

thank you mr. mayor. thank you. larry, what do you think of this as representative of united states coming next year? lodestar for 2018 politics? >> it's going to help democrats raise money, recruit candidates. what this legislative vote in virginia showed is, democrats have to recruit candidates to run everywhere. you never know where you might win. incredibly northam's coattails picked democrats from 34 to 50/50 split and in recounts might go over. key is having lots of candidates to catch on to a wave. could be a wave next year. don't know yet. it's too early. >> taught something important to those watching tonight. in elections next year, may run in seat that's never gone democrat and you may win. in 1964, 1974, 1990, all kinds of year where's the people who -- teachers just announce i'll run for it last day. tom foley ran last day. howard in maryland or new jersey ran the last day, he got elected. it's the year to put your name on the ballot. thank you mayor and larry sabato. >>> up next, president trump is in

. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, mr. mayor. thank you, everyone. distinguished guests. having affordable housing means we're able to maintain neighborhoods with socio-economic and diverse populations that makes our city the one that we love because of all of the community it has. among those diverse citizens are those adults with disabilities who,despite their disabilities, contribute to the work force, contribute to the cultural landscape and to their communities. as a long-time board member of a school of children with autism and now advice chair of the arc for the board of san francisco, i can tell you what people need and that they appreciate access to affordable housing here in our beloved city, which happens to be one of the most costly real estate markets in the country. achieving independence is what everyone wants. i know our clients want what we all want: safe housing, work, friends, and to feel like they are valued members of their community. without housing they can't be established, and they can't be part of communities. they end up living with their relati

i'm a block away, mr. mayorching kids stream into school right outside the police tape. they're walking right outside the crime scene getting back to their lives. but i want to ask you more about this is suspect. 29-year-old uzbek national, came in with, rented a truck, went down and took eight lives. can you tell us more from what you've gathered from the new york city police department about who this guy is? >> is look, willie, nypd, all our partners are working on this investigation. but to the point you made, we made a decision last night to keep those schools open, to keep people on their everyday lives because it's so important to not give in, to not blink when we're affronted. and i've got to tell you, i'm sorry those kids had to go by that site, but i also think it says to them, we can overcome this. we're stronger than this, we're better than this. and highways the toout attitude i've seen in new york. so we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened, willie, and we're going to also assess o

. >> thanks governor, thanks mr. mayor. just to reiterate what the governor and the mayor said. now is not the time to live in fear. not the time to be fear less. to be strong as we always are. right now chief carlos gomez, chief of the department will talk about what we are doing to increase security throughout the city. carlos. >> good morning everyone. immediately following yesterday's attack in lower manhattan, the department quickly mobilized and deployed additional resources, additional police officers, aen additional heavy weapon teams throughout the city. last night halloween parade which attracted over a million participants, security at that parade was enhanced. we added more vehicles to the side streets that led onto 6th avenue. and assigned more heavy weapons team not just to the parade but to the surrounding area. new yorkers and others who utilize our transit system will see a lot more officers and a lot more uniforms. you'll see more officers on the trains. you'll see more officers on th platforms. they should expect more bag checks at more stations. th there will

shall we get started, mr. mayor? wonderful. so good morning, everyone. thank you for being here. ndrea miller, and i'm the president for the national institute for reproductive health, and i would like to say thank you to mayor ed lee, director garcia, who i believe is right behind me, and supervisor yee for joining us today, and i know we may be joined by some other tremendous elected officials here in san francisco. i'm also thrilled to be joined today by our partners at planned parenthood, gail gonzalez, who will be here in a woman, and some other members of the women's health advocacy from here in san francisco. there many others behind me who represent such a tremendous wealth of activity and positive momentum here in san francisco for women's reproductive health in lives. i love being in san francisco. this is a beautiful city, and as i said today, she put on her prettiest dress here, and i love it. i'm especially excited to be here with positive news, which i think we all need these days. we are a local organization that works with cities and states to galvanize policy supp

thank you, mr. mayor. i'm really excited to be here today.hen i first became a member of the san francisco board of supervisors, i would get e-mails and phone calls from people who were trying to find out exactly what happened when their loved ones passed away. they wanted closure. they wanted to know what happened. because of the if a will silts the medical examiners was in, we were almost at risk of losing our accreditation. this is why this building was born to build. this is why we needed to build quickly. and, yes. as the mayor said, we needed to move rapidly in getting people out of the hall of justice. we know that no one should be in that building. here we are a step closer to moving one of those departments at least out of that building and into a state-of-the-art facility. members sometimes will have to make that journey to this particular place in order to find out exactly what happened. and the great news is that they will have a warm, welcoming, beautiful facility, incredible public art. i think that the staff will probably feel

. >> thanks mr. mayor. just to reiterate now is not the time to live in fear. it's not the time to be fearful. now is the time for new yorkers to be strong. right now chief gomez is going to talk about what we are doing to increase security throughout the city. >> hi. good morning everyone. immediately following yesterday's attack in lower manhattan the department quickly mobilized additional police officers and additional heavy weapons teams to kilo casey loc throughout the scene. we added more sand trucks and more vehicles to the side streets and we also signed more chevy weapons teems to the surrounding area. they will see a lot more officers on the trains and platform rjs expect more canines in our subway system and heavy weapons teams as well as critical response command will be deployed to other stations throughout the city. there is some traffic closures that remain in effect. i would like to point out that is the west side highway from 14th street down to the tunnel. it still remains an active crime scene. we anticipate it will be closed until early thi

.) >> sew mr. mayor think what is really special about this project the fact over 60 percent will think two bedrooms and three bedrooms apartment we know there a sdaerth of family housing no inform has an incredible impact on the economy and, of course, on the communities if you can't have families that work here afford to live in the city they living live and work we have much, much more to do across the country to make sure we're housing the middle-income and working-class this supplement will help to solve the problem thank you for making that neighborhood healthy and congratulations to tndc for the groundbreaking this >> on december 28, 1912. san francisco mayor, sonny jim rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed pr

thanks, mr. mayor. just to reiterate what the governor and the mayor said, now is not the time to live in fear. it's not the time to be fearful. right now chief carlos gomez, he's our chief of the department. he's going to talk about what we're doing to increase security throughout the city. >> all right. good morning, everyone. immediately following yesterday's attack in lower manhattan. the department quickly mobilized and deployed additional resources, additional police officers, and additional heavy weapons teams to key locations throughout the city. last night's halloween parade which attracted over a million participants was also security at that parade was also enhanced. we added more block of vehicles to the side streets that led onto sixth avenue. and we also assigned more heavy weapons teams to the surrounding area. new yorkers and others who utilize our transit system will see a lot more officers. they'll see a lot more uniforms. you'll see more officers on the trains. they will see more offic