29 -- bode well for prop 29's passage. the big metropolitan areas in the bay area have gone yes on 29. they are already reporting a large percentage of their votes. it is the more rural areas of the state where 29 have done badly that have yet to report the majority of their votes. reporting from lafayette, mark matthews, abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> the only other proposition on the ballot is prop 28 which alters term limits from members of the state legislature. >> it has passed. it reduces the total number of years for legislators from 14 to 12, but allows lawmakers to spend all of them in the senate or the assembly. >> and here is a look at some of the measures voters in the bay area are deciding right now. san francisco measure a will open the city's garbage contract to competitive bidding and losing by a wide margin. >> and coit tower is getting support. measure b is leading. it would prioritize funds raised at coit tower to preserve the fragile frees scows there. >> and voters overwhelmingly voting for ut cking -- f

29 -- bode well for prop 29's passage. the big metropolitan areas in the bay area have gone yes on 29. they are already reporting a large percentage of their votes. it is the more rural areas of the state where 29 have done badly that have yet to report the majority of their votes. reporting from lafayette, mark matthews, abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> the only other proposition on the ballot is prop 28 which alters term limits from members of the state legislature. >> it has passed. it reduces the total number of years for legislators from 14 to 12, but allows lawmakers to spend all of them in the senate or the assembly. >> and here is a look at some of the measures voters in the bay area are deciding right now. san francisco measure a will open the city's garbage contract to competitive bidding and losing by a wide margin. >> and coit tower is getting support. measure b is leading. it would prioritize funds raised at coit tower to preserve the fragile frees scows there. >> and voters overwhelmingly voting for ut cking -- f

. >> reporter: chris hunt says prop 29 should go up in smoke. the money would be funneled into a new agency, not the general fund. >> this is going to send it out to the general fund, paying out those state pensions, which are huge, as well. it's going to be directed to another uncontrollable group, that no one has guidance over. >> reporter: they hope voters saw through the smoke and mirrors of the big tobacco ads and cast a ballot that will help advance medicine. if prop 29 passes, the cost of a pack of cigarette goes up as you see here. >> we'll continue to watch the race throughout the night. prop 28 would reduce the amount of time that a person would serve in the state legislature, from 14 to 12 years. right now, prop 28, with 32% of the votes in, is leading with a yes on vote, with 64%. it's pretty strong right now. and brings in the term limits. 36% of people voting against it. it would only apply to state legislators at 2014 after. less than 40% of registered voters cost a ballot.stered >> the supporters has changed. redistricting has ch

29 -- bode well for prop 29's passage.eas in the bay area have gone yes on 29. they are already reporting a large percentage of their votes. it is the more rural areas of the state where 29 have done badly that have yet to report the majority of their votes. reporting from lafayette, mark matthews, abc7 news. >> thank you. the ballot is prop 28 whichon alters term limits from members of the state legislature. >> it has passed. it reduces the total number of years for legislators from 14 to 12, but allows spawmakers to spend all of them in the senate or the assembly. >> and here is a look at some of the measures voters in the bay area are deciding right now. san francisco measure a will open the city's garbage contract to competitive bidding and losia wide by a wide margin. >> and coit tower is getting support. measure b is leading. it would prioritize funds raised at coit tower to preserve the fragile frees scows there. >> and voters overwhelmingly voting for ut cking -- for cutting pensions. >> abc7 news reporter quintana

you can adopt criteria -- i think kevin mentioned prop k applies to every party under recreation and park jurisdiction, so commissions could adopt criteria for parks where there currently are not any what we call budgets that have been adopted. those decisions are purely in the hands of the planning commission and recreation and park commission. commissioner moore: does that include those parts which have shadowed tolerance of zero? if that would be the case, why have it in the first place? >> the absolute limits that were adopted were things that were adopted by this implementation memo in 1989 by both commissions sitting together. at the time, it was determined what level of shadow at that time they felt was appropriate. i will read for you a paragraph which i think is relevant from a city attorney memo that was written in 1989. i believe it was shortly after the criteria, the implementation program was adopted. the original carefully considered cumulative limit and qualitative factors may have proven sufficient. however, if new information and experience proved that the criteria a

so our prop h funds, i was on the prop h citizen advisory committee for three years.w how precious those funds are. recently, the committee went out actually to school sites, spoke to a lot of people about how this impacts their education. it was profound. i think if you go into any of our schools, you will see at one time we had not a single elementary school library. now we are -- our lie brar iies now -- libraries after couple years prop h money been dusted off, old schools have been weeded out. books from the 1950's or some of them from the 1940's weeded out of the libraries. new books replaced old books and classrooms are using their libraries every day to complement their instruction in the classrooms. and they're funded by -- they're also prop h funded an elementary school library. for them these funds are crucial . they have helped us restore, keep our arts program. p.e., athletics programs, things we would never be able to fund if we didn't have prop h money. it's imperative that it's reauthorized in 2014. anyway, just to emphasize the issue of the money and

according to prop h, that money is supposed to be paid back in 2015 at the end of the prop. h funding. . my hope is it is revised by the education community. until that time, if we have additional surplus funds or other types of resources, we should be paying some of that back right now and not wait until 2015 given the dire economic crisis within the school district. that is some of the questions we were to be asking to money from the comptroller's office. -- monique from the comptroller's office. we will wait until she arrives. i would like to invite members of the public, not community groups, and teachers. i will ask the first couple of speakers to be the representatives from the youth commission. we have the president and vice president, so welcome. >> hello. good afternoon. the use commission heard this hearing on june 18 and we supported during request. we are really excited to be here and seeing that the city is taking a commitment to our public schools in san francisco. one of the things that are commissioners came up with was how was this money going to be spent in

poll showed support for prop. 29 is high as 67% also on the ballot prop. 28 would change chairman the rules for the state senate legislatures could serve up to 12 years but allow all those years it served in one house wisconsin voters are headed to the polls now to all republican gov. scott walker remembers state workers after the strip away their bargaining rights meantime president obama's but did the white house after a big fund-raising events in your city last night with former president bill clinton events raise more than three and half a million dollars for the obama's election campaign the ron uhaul to that this afternoon in taxes steering here for cbs five it csi said dot com for up-to-the-minute primary results that today's primary day the standoff is over early this morning and armed suspect the spends about seven hours hole in the house on high st. patrick is on the scene as police continue their investigation is in office from the over tonight following a dramatic night in oakland to alameda county sheriff's deputies pulled over three suspects in the stolen car about 8:30

i did find other critics of prop 29. they said smoking may be bad, but that didn't just few a new tax. >> it's a tax increase in a state that already pays the highest taxes in the nation. it's ballot box budgeting that basically puts a group of nine unelected individuals in control of billions of california tax dollars at a time when california is facing a $16 billion budget deficit, and it's another example of nanny state legislation. >> reporter: there's no question that california has a rep taking as a leader when it comes to healthy living, but the cigarette tax is here are among the lowest in the country. just 87 cents a pack. on tuesday voters will decide if they want to keep it that way. joining me now to discuss this further, dr. mercy and opposes the law and laurie bremnor, a volunteer with the american cancer society. thanks to both of you for joining us. obviously a big week here in california. laurie, i know you have been busy as a volunteer with the acs. you've been making a lot of phone calls to voters abou

up the economy does it do anything at this point even to prop up banks. no this most recent f.o.c. decision was punting i think they did it to look like they were doing something really it didn't expand their balance sheet so it's not the equivalent of printing all they're doing is taking shorter dated maturity treasuries and swapping them one for one with longer dated maturity treasuries so if they take the ten year and they drag it from one point five all the way down to one point three percent is that going to reignite the animal spirits in the las vegas housing market i do not so you know i don't see how this is really going to do much incrementally at the margin it does nothing and very little and so i think that the federal reserve is nip it in as some people think they are miss placed there because history says quite often we find that they're a little behind the times that they go a little bit more slowly they're waiting for data to come in to support their decisions some of that data is a quarter old or two quarters old so it's driving through th

the time results for prop 29 just came down about an hour ago. this was close all night here are the final results. prop 29 did not pass. just barely by 60,000 votes is the difference. prop 29 would have added a one dollar tax to a pack of cigarettes the money was slated for cancer research. cigarette makers contributed 47 million dollars to advertising that claimed the measure would create a government bureaucracy and the money wouldn't have to stay in california. >> it comes down to is this or not a bad measure? it is bad no matter who pays for the advertising. >> you have american cancer heart and lung associations, live strong, on the side to pass it. the only person putting the only group putting money into this is big tobacco, the only one. >> reporter: on the other side, you heard a lot of major health organizations supporting the proposition. he told us last night he did expect this to be a tossup. again this cigarette tax has failed. >>> the only other proposition on the ballot is prop 28 which alters term limits for members of the state

howard about prop h. i saw that the mayor proposed pulling the trigger, which i think reduces the cash contribution fo. i know in the past we have done that because of awful budget years, not at this year is perfect, but it does improved. maybe i could get the mayor's rationale for pulling the trigger once again. >> i can mention the role and then ms. howard can comment on the policy implication. the voter mandate for proposition h. did allow for the mayor and the board of supervisors to reduce the voter adopted funding allocation to the school district. the shortfall exceed $100 million. that leaves this option open for the board and mayor. >> supervisors, a kid howard. budget director. the threshold was met. as you recall, the projected to shortfalls at the time of the report were $170 million and $312 million. for that reason this seem to be an appropriate part of balancing. you will note the budget does on the full transfer of the rainy day fund to the school district. supervisor wiener: i am not expr

>> we are not thinking of using our prop h funds to fill our prop. 10 declined. although that would be great if we could. we also are jointly funding, so we will continue to make our contribution to the prop 10 side. hopefully, we will raise some revenue to make sure our services are continued past 2020. we do call to cut another million dollars -- three years, we will fund at a similar level. and then we will have a new strategic plan three years from now. we will see what we can afford to fund then. we were not going to come and go the funds. -- comingle the funds. supervisor kim: or week funding at that level in fiscal year 12th? -- were we funding at that level in fiscal year 12? why is it that we waited to do that expansion in the next three years? >> we were always called to expand so we are not fully enrolled yet. every year, we are expanding by about 100 children. we said we would serve 3600 children by the end -- before it sunsets. we are still ramping up. supervisor kim: part of the rationale behind keeping a strong reserve under prop. a to is because y

there is approximately $57 million in prop k supporting that. w expect a full update in the next quarter. the next project is more to the next list, bicycle facility meat and products. this is a project we have reported on for every district. this was a project behind schedule. we worked with mta to select a new list of projects. we will be working with mta on the new list. the first lists are on your slide here. the next project is a broadway street scape and friedman project phase three. this is one of the final connectionof the fall five what upgrade from broadway to grant street to batteries street. this is connecting in the middle -- a metal block of the street. this is replanting, streetscapes upgrades and pedestrians daylighting. this is supported by a prop k sales tax. the next project is a federally funded project. this project is moving forward into construction. it is currently in caltrans for review for construction application. mta anticipates beginning construction in early 2013 and completing the ojec by december 2013. the bottom

prop -- 58.-- it would have add a one dollar tax to a pack of cigarettes.ntributed 47 million dollars to advertising that claimed the measure would create a government bureaucracy and the money wouldn't have to stay in california. >> it comes down to is this or not a bad measure? it is a bad measure no matter who pays for the advertising. >> you have american cancer, heart and lung associates, live strong, nobel prize winners on the side to the only group putting money into this is big tab o'tobacco, the only one. -- >> reporter: you heard a lot of major health organizations supporting the proposition as well as lance armstrong. the tax seemed like a sure thing for a while, again the cigarette tax has failed. >>> 5:30 right now. the only other proposition on the ballot is prop 28 which alters term limits for state legislature it passed more than 51% voted yes, 39% no. it reduces years from 14 to 12 but allows the lawmakers to step all in ear the senate for assembly. >> why in san -- in san jose workers say it is illegal 70% voted in favor of measure b with

. >>> breaking news out of california, a major decision on prop 8. pete williams has been all over it. pete, basically this was the 9th circle and the decision as to whether the entire circuit would take up that case in overturning the prop 8 ban. >> right. and the decision is no, andrea, at least four judges would have taken the case out of the 11-member court. there may have been more, we don't know. those are the only four that noted their dissent. so that means a majority of the court did not want to hear this case. the court said it will put a hold on its ruling for at least 90 days to give the backers of prop 8 time to appeal to the supreme court. if they do file and ask the supreme court to take the case, then the stay will remain neskt until the court decides what to do. that clears the way for the backer of prop 8 to ask the supreme court to take this case. the question is will the supreme court take it? it doesn't have to. when it struck down prop 8 in february, said said this is an unusual situation in california because a court decision g

the state frankly torn apart that year by something called prop 187. it was more or less the arizona papers please laws of the 1990s. proper 187 was a ballot initiative that said people who were in california illegally there as illegal immigrants could not use basic social services. they could not go to the hospital, for example. you could die on the streets instead. if you were a kid, you'd be ripped out of school. prop 187 was supported by california's thence republican governor pete wilson, and california voters passed it at the ballot box. that brought forth a long and loud and very, very, very emotional political battle. but it also brought forth some truly excellent political satire. a guy calling himself daniel d. portado and he founded a fake group and then naturally put an the end of it. it's halt-on. the daniel d. portado character founded hispanics for wilson. it was described as formerly it was described as formerly governor wilson's top latino official. his landscaper and personal groomer. the group said they would support republican gover

. >> i thought prop 29 was a good idea, then i read it. >> i really wanted to talk to dr. porter, but she wouldn't take our calls. i did find other critics of prop 29, and they said smoking might be bad, but it doesn't require a new tax. >> it's ballot box budgeting that puts a group of nine elected officials in charge of billions of california tax dollars in a time where they're facing a $16 billion tax budget and it's an example of the state legislation. >> they have a reputation as a leader when it comes to healthy l living, and the cigarette taxes are among the lowest in the country. just 87 cents a back. on tuesday, voters will decide if they want to keep it that way. joining me now to discuss it further, a general practitioner in california and laurie bremner, a volunteer with the american cancer society. laurie, i know you have been very busy as a volunteer with the acs and making a lot of phone calls to voters about this. give us a little bit of the sort of atmosphere right now in california. what's the mood like regarding this particular proposition? >> well, it's

prop 29 would raise $700 million for cancer research. but opponents tell me it is a flawed law that could send those california tax dollars out-of-state. >> the supporters of proposition 29, including the american cancer society, the american heart association have raised more than $12 million, much of it spent on tv advertising. >> i started smoking as a teenager, and after 20 years of smoking i suffered a heart attack. so if i can stop one child from having a heart attack as result of smoking, it will be worth it. >> the opponents of prop 29 have raised nearly four times as much money, $49.6 million from big tobacco. >> i'm against smoking so i thought prop 29 was a good idea. then i read it. it raises $735 million in tobacco taxes, but not one penny goes to new funding for cancer treatment. >> chris hunt is a spokeswoman. >> it comes down to is this or is this not a bad measure? it's a bad mesh you shall no matter who pays for the advertising. >> former state legislator is co-chair of yes on 29. >> you have the american cancer and hea

that means just as prop h money was deferred, we are looking to using prop a money to supplement what's going into the payoff deficit now instead of going to furlough days. now, the city rainy day fun i think you need to appreciate one of the factors about city rainy day fund. two ways you get rainy day fund moved over from the city to the school district. that is if there's a substantial cut in the per-pupil allocation from the state such as anticipated if the initiatives do not pass in the fall. or if there's a significant number of layoffs. at this point having not had that cut previously, we have had the school district have to budget for layoffs. they budget to get the rainy day money, which means they have to budget for layoffs every year. even ghoting rainy though getting rainy day funds means they rescind layoffs. that means a total destabilization of schools as teachers receive warning notices in march, termination in may and gradually brought back into the school district. any money the city can find to move to the school district should be used to eliminate the possibility of

this morning, it looks like the verdict is in on prop 29. that would slap another dollar tax on cigarettes. >> it certainly will. close one after being ahead in early counts. now falling behind by about 60,000 votes. taking a look at the leaders. marla tellez is live in san jose with an update for us. >> reporter: good morning, laura and jon. it looks luke $65 million spent by big tobacco to see proposition defeated almost paid off. lance armstrong's live strong foundation and the american cancer society. now one of the authors of prop 29, former state lawmakers says it is essentially a user fee. if you don't smoke withdrew pay. it would tack on a dollar tax to a pack of cigarettes, bringing the total tax to $1.87. money generated, we are talking close to $800 million a we are, would have been used to fund cancer and tobacco related research. our very informal opinion poll out here, we are finding mixed reaction. >> hrts the guys that smoke. i don't see that hurting anything. >> that money used in the state i don't think they should pass it.

competitive, pointing out it was just on prop 16th making it harder to enter the power business. prop 16 lost but the company still makes donations. >> we think it's important that the viewpoints and concerns of our customers and of our employees and shareholders are all represented to lawmakers and regulator autos besides the law, big money didn't mean victory every time. there is steven bing spent $50 million. and this is still, california watch found campaign almost always got their way, giving nearly five times as much to winning candidates as they did to losers. 55 cents of every dollar went to initiative that's won. sometimes, california watch saw voters contributing to both in the same rate but different party autos simply to hedge their bets. they have influence. >> common cause says one thing do you have is a vote that. is why it's important to cast a ballot in every election, even tomorrow. >> thank you. and california watch is part of the noon profit center for investigative reporting. and she mentioned the burlingame based teacher's association found to be the biggest

right now prop 29, also known as the cigarette bill is neck and neck.8 would reduce the number of years for term limits. right now it looks like it will pass. if it does it will reduce term limits from 14 years to 12 but unlike the current once, lawmakers would be able to serve the entire time in one chamber >> and no news here, feinstein is the top one. another presidential visit for the bay area and after the break, why president obama is coming to san francisco and where he will be speaking. graduate, now that your journey begins, you're going to need a powerful connection ! felicidaaaadeeeees ! with this droid 4 by motorola on verizon 4g lte, you can stay in touch on skype with your loved ones. staying connected with your family... ... in more places, on america's largest 4g lte network. that's real value ! get $100 off any motorola 4g lte smartphone, like the droid 4 now just $99.99. verizon. felicidades ! >>> it's graduation time and high school pranks are common for students but parents at heritage high school say the punishment doesn't fit the c

does it have something to do with prop a? i said it has nothing to do with prop a. recology is a good example of a large company that is very successful because the partners with small companies. 78% of all of the trash in at this city is diverted away from landfills. that is because this company works with all of you. we have finally figured out in this city -- it took a while, what goes in the blue came in, what goes in the green can, what goes in the black can. [laughter] it took a while, but we figured it out. now we are number one in the country. [applause] yes, thank you. we are probably the no. 1 in the world. if we say it, it is real. [laughter] congratulations to recology. which brings me to the final point. tonight is not about politics. it is about celebrating award winners. i cannot help myself. we have the most successful operation of recycling and composting in the country. there is a proposition on the ballot, prop a, that will undermine and destroy the reputation. i encourage all of you to vote no on prop a. it would break

supreme court will make a decision on prop 8.yesterday san francisco's ninth circuit court of appeals voted against reconsidering an earlier ruling that found prop 8 unconstitutional. this means a majority of the active judges kid not think it was worth revisiting the issue. supporters of prop 8 say they will now take the case to the high court. >> marriage has been seen as a fundamental right. it would be difficult for the supreme court to say there is a fundamental right to everyone. >> first the supreme court must decide if they will hear the case. that decision is expected to come this fall. >>> astronomers hope the latest event will attract more kids to science. big crowds packed observatories to see the transit of venus live. that's what they call it when you can see venus pass over the sun. the sun had set by the time venus finished its pass. the next time it will happen will be 2112. >>> san jose schoolteacher accused of molesting five students. now we are learning there may have been an earlier report that was ignored. >

prop 29 has too many flaws. >> prop 29 will fund cancer research. >> save lives. >> and keep 200,000from smoking. >> prop 29 says no. >> to big tobacco's lies. >> those were television ads from the war over prop 29, a california ballot proposal to raise cigarette taxes by $1. in advance of the vote tomorrow, state residents are bombarded with a nearly $50 million c campaign funded by the tobacco industry, and each year, private companies spend over $500 million a year to raise questions if voters are in control over a process that is meant to give them more process. joining now to talk about ballot initiatives is former california governor gray davis. >> hello, alex. >> my first question before we get into the substance of prop 39, is the controversial efforts are put in there to gin up the bases. and given your time in the state, what do you make of the efforts like prop 29? h. >> well, both sides try to do that and try to get the voters to come out in the general election, and sometimes the primary, and sometimes it is successful and sometimes it isn't. i happen to believe, alex, t

prop 29 did not pass. opposition had 60,000 more votes and 50.8% of the vote.prop 29 would have added a one dollar tax to a pack of cigarettes the money slated to go to cancer research. cigarette makers contributed 47 million dollars to a lot of advertising that claimed the measure would create a bureaucracy and the money wouldn't have to stay in california. >> it comes down to is this or not a bad measure? it is bad no matter who pays for advertising. >> you have american cancer heart and lung associations live strong nobel prize winners on the side to pass it. the only group putting money into this is big tobacco the only one. >> reporter: you heard the list there of the opposition alot of major health organizations i should say the supporting side supporting the proposition as well as cycling star and cancer survivor lance armstrong. the cigarette tax has failed this morning. >>> the only other proposition on the ballot prop 28 which alters term limits for members of the state legislature. it has passed. more than 61% voted yes 39% voted no. reduces total nu

prop 28 is passing by a wide margin but once again these are early returns. the proposition could reduce the time a congressional member can serve. >>> let's go back to ken wayne at the big board. >> one of those big districts is pete stark's district he went back to congress in 1973 and he's fighting for his political life. he's in district number 19. the fremont area right here. let's see how he's doing right now. there are only 2% of the votes and this is one of the closest races we've seen to far tonight. pete stark ahead. 43% over his democratic challenger eric swawell. and the independ chris pareja has 21%. now we're in the heart of san jose down here, this is mike honda's seat. he's had the seat for a decade. he's doing fine. way out in front. 67% in front of evelyn lee. and that's anna eshido's seat. this has changed quite a bit. just a little pocket here mountain view, palo alto area but look at all of this goes downright into santa cruz county. so this is really a diverse district. but anna eshudo still hanging on. finally we want to go to the 19th