you, you know, san francisco is is a very came pact city. we spent $2.7 billion a year a great bulk here in the general hospital and the public health department aid thanks to the classification of our fire and scheef and district attorney we pick up a lot of people own the streets and we know when the environment they go back perhaps a day of respite and they're back. while we, provide pride in moving some 18 thousand homeless people into shelters we see on the streets we have to do more and this is exactly the issue that supervisor farrell is addressing. i really want to signal my appreciation for his not only looking at this but diving into it and having spent considerable amount of time studying it and finding out what else we can do. while i say our past policies have been successful we have to do more. in particular when you talk with the da and our public health department and the fire department there are individuals that repeat repeatedly get picked up and sometimes too late. sometimes, it's in death. but for the majority of time we

that brings tourist and our nonprofits the great services that show san francisco to be the camp pact city it really is that. in, you know, i'll let the tom and bryan chiu make their presentation i want to make a designation between the source of funding for the nonprofit the nonprofit part of the supplemental that was driven around nexus for tax revenue we're doing it for the need is high and the artists side i talked talked to artists in larger organizations, you know, over especially, after i introduced the $2 million but before that several members of the communities were concerned about how artists were being driven out of the city once again and my conclusion of $2 million was based on a need greater than $23 million so we didn't have the revenue that was being generated viewing the tax break but we did it because the demanded was great and we supported the nonprofits based on a next us of revenue because of the nonprofit organizations there's a similarly to how great the need is to help the organizations to stay here in san francisco to support the arts in the city. look forward to

leading the pact is a city council man. he has raised 785,000.y supervisor is not far behind and he raised $567,000 the most money of all the candidates since many. the vice mayor and a city councilwoman rounded out the group. all candidates agreed to an expenditure cap of shy $800,000. >>> a state committee will hold a key vote in the battle over public access to a san mateo county beach. a senate appropriations committee takes up a bill sponsored by peninsula lawmaker jerry hill to force billionaire venture capitalist into a settlement. he owns a massive track that includes a small access road that is the only land access to more tip's beach. he said an old spanish land grant gives him the right to cut off access. the bill has the state seize part of the land under eminent domain to regain public access. separately, a judge will rule on a lawsuit in a couple of weeks. >>> now we will find out what the memorial day weekend will be like. >> good morning, everyone, the day planner as we breakdown the friday, spotty drizzle under gray sky with brea

pact did not last long. fighters backed by al qaeda turned on the mlma and took over the cities. the fighters began to push towards the government controlled south. in january last year the french were asked to intervene. they did so and pushed out the al qaeda-backed rebels. within a few months the government signed a peace deal to pave the way for elections. but the truth was fragile and broke down earlier this month. al jazeera's correspondent is with me now to talk about this ceasefire. now, we have been in the situation before but the previous ceasefire broke down and nothing happened after that. more violence conditioned. what is the difference this time around. >> the situation changed. when the ceasefire was signed in june, al qaeda was very strong in the north, and had already a presence there. and everyone was unhappy with that situation, and the rebels, the m l.a. rebels, the tower egg and the arab rebels felt that they had to give more so that they can five, and they give a lot in the ceasefire. they accepted that mali returns to the cities, and that the they will gro

city hall they had been pushed from. nato's secretary general warned they would take all steps necessary to increase the security of poland and other members formerly in the pact and leaders cleared the way for tougher sanctions. but ukraine's prime minister called for western military aid. >> translator: if russia has a bigger army, more soldier, we have something stronger. it is our will and our spirit. but we need to be equipped for war. >> reporter: senator john mccain agrees. >> vladimir putin operates on a cost/benefit ratio, equation. and the greater the cost, the less likely he is to engage in further. >> reporter: obama administration officials don't want to up the military ante, even by providing body armor. they say nothing we could give the ukrainians would enable them to defeat the russian army. mccain is not so sure. >> i'm sure people said that same thing when russia invaded afghanistan. >> u.s. officials are considering more sanctions and late today the white house announced an end to special trade benefits given to some russian products deciding not to renew a program giving a half a billion break on import taxes. >> live on the north lawn, th

cities like may be with the k2, spice and bat colts the most well known. the amphetamine like drugs are mostly made in asia and sold legally in stores in pacts like this, as herbal in sense or poe poor re. >> patients come in combative, psychotic, difficult to control, many times have to be put on life support in order to control them. >> between 2010 and 2011, visits to emergency rooms due to synthetic drug complications more than doubled to 28,500. one of these so called designer drugs, synthetic marijuana is popular among young people. according to a university of michigan study, one in nine high school seniors used it in 2012, putting it just below marijuana and hashish in popularity. dr. randy cast is the e.r. director at regional memorial hospital in hollywood, florida. he said the danger of these synthetic drugs is no one knows exactly how the combination of compounds being cooked up in a lab will affect the body. on top of that, each time the federal government bans one the product, the makers modify the recipe, change the name and back on the market itself. >> the d.e.a. just can't keep you have the with the number of different compounds out ther