and for companies who wouldn't fedexwithout an sba loan, participated in some sba funding so you canet a little bit of start to help small companies become big companies and that is what we like to do. david: you have the sba guaranteed loans and you have loans right now that i meant dodd-frank and liberalize rules with particularly smaller community banks. in big a role to that play greater access to credit for small business? lisa: when i talked to bankers association in washington last spring, they were looking at community banks and looking forward to having some relief from some of the regulation so they could get back to lending in their communities away they had before. i hope we see that because the committee banker is the person who knows you. sometimes you might be on the edge of the regulation. the committee back knows you and aey can make it alone -- loan, and character plays a part. works closely with committee banks and one of the things we like to do is continue to grow and establish our group of lenders so we can help businesses that would ordinarily get credit from b

if it weren't for sba, i wouldn't be here.togurt -- choban got its start with a small business loan. you can help small companies become big companies. >> from your deep understanding of this, you have the sba moves tod loans and change dodd-frank. how big a role could that play in giving greater access to credit for small business? >> when i talked to the bankers theyiation last spring, were looking so forward to having some relief from some of the regulations so that they could get back to lending in their communities the way they had before. i hope we will see that. your community banker is the one who knows you. edgeight be a bit on the of some of the regulation. the community bank knows you and your family. on --an make a loan based character plays a role. their hands are tied as much. -- aren't tied as much. one of the things we like to do is continue to grow and establish our group of lenders so that we can help those businesses that wouldn't ordinarily get credit because they might be a little riskier, they haven't had

we do support the opposition to this sba 827 and some people are menging the cousin 828 coming up alongsidet. i just want to deal with the fact that there is no effort to stop speculative behavior which is causing the housing crisis and particularly the affordability crisis. i think they should deal with the real problem, which is the speculative behavior which is increasing the valve the land. i'm going to write a more detailed letter. i have a short one here for the supervisors who haven't gotten it yet. please support peskin's resolution. >> i'm john, i wanted to commend the resolution to oppose senate bill 827. i think it's an attempt to rezone san francisco and i think it would incentivize speculative behavior. and as founder of a district, i would like to emphasize the impact on historic structures. these are old transit corridors. the impact the pressure would put on old buildings would be unbelievable. >> good afternoon. my name is jon cooper. live lived in cal hollow for 45 years. one of the things that makes san francisco a wonderful experience is the variety of communities. and s

chris: we have an sba loan we took out. lemonis: how much is that? chris: $390,000.just for this location? chris: yes. jess: i regret not knowing more about it beforehand. i agreed to open a second location when the idea was brought to me, but what i didn't know is that the location had already been chosen. lemonis: so, you did it on your own? chris: tony was involved with some of it, as well. jess: mm-hmm. lemonis: okay. and so why didn't you have a say in it? jess: i don't really know. lemonis: the fact that they didn't include jess -- it's just disrespectful. let me spend a minute with jess, just so i can understand this store a little better, okay? jess: yeah. mm-hmm. lemonis: what's going on here? jess: i found out when we were signing paperwork, and this guy says "i love the location," and i just looked at them, and i said, "we have a location?" said it was kind of in place, and i was just either gonna be on board or not on board -- these are my business partners. lemonis: you're on the team. jess: let's do it. i'm on the team, so that's fine. let's do it. lemo

zoning laws and now we're continuing that practice today, and that is a shame, so i urge you to support sba 27 and not -- 827 and not oppose it, thank you. >> hi, i'm a renter. i am not even middle income. i am here on behalf of the red stone temple associating. i just like to say that i think we need to make it easier for nonprofit developers to help build for poor and working class people and this bill goes in the opposite direct and doesn't address that. i've been hearing the rising tide since the 80s and have seen no evidence of that whatsoever. i think the mass problem has to do with speculative capital and the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm a renter in the richmond district. i'm able to live in san francisco because i live in a four-storey multifamily apartment building built in the 1920s when apartment buildings were legal in the west side of san francisco. today, my building is illegal to build because the parcel is r h2. and 72% of the city is zoned rh 1 or 2, which means only expensive homes can be built in the districts. i want

sba five oh, my gosh. delicious. >> jesse: you are making me hungry. >> juan: free range parenting.utah says he wants to do this. it's not illegal to let your can play or walk the dog but it's going to be harder to penalize parents by people who saw a kid walking by himself. >> greg: it is depressing you have to put this into law. that's how bad our society has become. the worst kids you can create are the ones entirely dependent on parents. they are the kind of children that other children want to avoid. if your kid is having problems with friends because you are being overprotective because they give off the wrong signs in public. they don't know what it's like to be around other kids. they will cry in public. you are not supposed to cry in public. you can cry at home. if you cry in public, you are going to set up signs of vulnerability that allows for bullying. if a parent keeps the kid close, that kid will never know how to act with other kids. that just destroys them. >> dana: they grow up to be the adults who don't want to hire or work with. >> kimberly: good points. >> greg:

you talked about major corridor lines like sba-27.so, how do these things that re-emerging as ideas play into this? and how do we meet the fact that, you know, we're going to need more transportation because zoning is going to potentially allow for it? i just want to make sure that we're planning on what we any the horizon is going to look like. >> we'll have the chance to bring you in the late spring some analysis as we start to look at the 2040 and 2050 technical analysis. one of issues we're struggling with right now is how we think about potentially trying to test different 827 implementation scenarios because it could obviously shift development patterns that transportation would need to plan for and respond to. >> the only thing is -- and i don't know how eloquent i can say this -- the way we do things today, we buffer it with the way it's going to come. but the way the world moves kind of on demand. you know, i push a buttton, i get food. i push a buttton and i get a car. all this push buttton stuff is incredibly convenient. ho

frankly, that these new tariffs that are going to be slapped against chinese goods will ultimately sbaslly spark a tra. china threatening sharp retaliation once the president announces this. i spoke with a senior administration official earlier today and put that question to this official, will this move in fact spark a trade war. remember it comes on the heels of the president announcing several days ago that there would be new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. this official didn't deny, peter, that it is a possibility, but underscored i think the argument we're going to hear from president trump which is he believes china has been taking advantage of the united states, that the united states has been on the raw end of a trade deal with china. so this move is necessary. now we asked -- we just got a briefing from mark short and mick mulvaney, the omb director. i asked them about that, peter. they wouldn't weigh in. they said they're not going to get ahead of the president. again, the significant announcement we are expecting just moments from now. this is really a president follow

for anyone looking for additional help you can head over to the sba's website. >>> good morning. it is 6:09. our doppler radar is starting to show plenty of activity. this is that storm system that's expected to bring more rain into tonight with periods of moderate to heavy downpours, but right now sitting just off the coast is a couple of showers making their way through. you can see through the fremont area, doppler radar picking up light rain in san jose. near the san mateo area and just behind it sitting off to the coast the area further down near south san francisco might be seeing rain as well. over the next couple hours we will notice a change. we are expecting this cold air mass because of the post frontal convection. that will bring the chance of pop up thunderstorms into the evening and tomorrow morning as well. santa rosa 33. if you're waking up in the south bay and san francisco temperatures remains in the 40s. still on the chillier side if you're heading out there. for sure the wind gusts are notice clee calmer in the past 24 hours than yesterday. wind not a factor,

but if the sba, and i think it goes back to what you said, they will approve processes rather than drugs, and that will lower the cost tremendously for anyone who ends up with what i am in need this last drug that is a final cure. but you need to approve the processes rather than every drug. each one of them will be different. it will be a different molecules. it will be a different chimeric. so what we have to have is a flexibility. that is why cooperation with the fda, rather than being seen as a -- scott gottlieb has the leadership quality to give a talk compass that in my hope is so. he will do i think the relationship is already change between the fda and many drug companies. . >> do you think that is true, that the relationship is changed? the think that depends on division. >> also by the drug company. >> if you look at something like alzheimer's disease where we spent $3 billion on that alone, and we have nothing to show for it, five failed phase three readies. i would tell you that whoever ends up checking the numbers, which i hope is us, will have done it because we know so muc

regulations in order to get money into people's hands much faster, working with fema, working with sbaand local state governments and officials, that is one of our prime goals and i think with the disasters that occurred last year, we have already seen a vast improvement and we will continue to work on that to improve. >> i've asked governor edwards to get rid of this committee and just take control of this thing himself and put a select group of people in charge and call them in and say, start just riveting this money to the real people who are hurt. i've been in government long enough to know that if he brings in four or five of them, at least one of them was a governor, it's really complicated and i need more money for administration. that's the one you fire. than the other for kind of realize your serious and if you could help us on this cdbg money to make sure they have a plan to spend it and the money will actually be spent on people and not the consultants, the we can try to help these poor folks. >> you and i are completely aligned on that. we will be working very hard with you

is that we've made an effort to work with the local agencies and the state agencies with fema, with sba. we've made an attempt to get rid of a lot of the regulatory burden so that we could get money into people's hands much faster. and we will continue to do that throughout the entire process. >> and mr. secretary, part of that which is kind of new, right, which i'm very proud of, is this mitigation. minimum of $12 million is appropriated to deal with mitigation activity. >> absolutely. >> it's one of the things we've talked about here all the time about talking about making sure we don't keep throwing good money after bad and the storms are coming again. >> i was thinking about when the gentleman was talking about his brother-in-law who was living on the second floor. and one of the things that we're look at is what kind of materials can we use instead of traditional drywall so that, you know, there are a lot of things that are aquaphobic. they push water away instead of soak it. in we need to start looking at some of those things. >> i look forward to working with you. and also, if yo

post-market issue is a genuine issue in people in the industry understand and part of the problem is that sba, the office of student safety is not funded and staffed to meaningfully do post-market oversight. there is not a source of data that can systematically surface issues in a timely way. there's some real gaps in post-market oversight of chemicals and food without question. the question you are raising upwards the ftc's information, is it too conservative in assessing the safety of other product on the market, chemical on the market meets the safety standard nerd i will let somebody else have that conversation. the people at nonoffice care deeply about what they are doing and it's a conscientious, serious job and there's always room for debate there. there are some legal thresholds and burdens going forward at evidence so you have to have sufficient evidence to raise a significant safety question. that is the issue often scientifically is there enough about evidence and i can again be in the eye of beholder. i'm never going to have complete unanimity about those issues for sure. >> great

i feel more free to say now than i did come and this is no-brainer for an sba standpoint because we have the authoritative bodies that we need to reduce added sugar. the question is do we have enough evidence and certainly what we had with respect to the contributions of added sugar to obesity in some parts of the population, nature density issues. we had plenty of science to require that declaration, even though we don't have all the signs that fully understands the contributions of added sugar to chronic disease more broadly. no reason to refer that science. >> i gather industry wasn't super receptive. >> some more end somewhere. it seemed to depend whether it's in the country's interest for consumers to no added sugar content and we were very grateful they said yes this is something consumer should have. some companies thought differently. >> kathy did you want to add to that? >> yes, i wanted to throw in this concept of significant agreement that the regulatory agencies have also evolved as they phased into having developed policies as they relate to labeling and other key decisions

we have to have more conversations with sba, with a governor to say what is the right mix, what are the swim lanes and capabilities we need. >> the gentlelady's time has expired. i recognize mr. perry. >> thanks, mr. chairman. gentlemen, thanks for your attendance that i'm over here. i will start as a guy who is worked in this arena a little bit, state disasters and federal disasters as the pennsylvania guardsman. i'm wondering us pleasure is broadscale disasters from fema's standpoint and from the army course standpoint, is anything we can do better? i know it's hard to pre-position, you don't know what you need sometimes until you need, right? your different states and different services whether it's the air, guard or the army guard with different requirements and so on and so forth adages wondering from your standpoint is or anything that we fall short on, anything we can improve state to state to respond and be helpful and responsive in a critical time of need? >> first of all, my hat is off to the national guard. here again that one of the most critical partners that we have and wh

for example, we have a longstanding government entity called the small business administration, the sba. here's the idea: in the united d states-- it's been going on for decades-- small business complained that there wasn't a level playing field. when they competed with big businesses, they had disadvantages. and they wanted to have a better shot at succeeding as a smamall business,s, so they wanted the government to set aside money and support to help small businesses--not available to big ones--to help them compete more success... and we have that. the small business administration gives grants, makes loans at a subsidized rate to help small-- the idea being, america's better off if it has more small businenesses than would otherwie be the case. we do the same thing with minority-owned businesses for the obvious reason. here's a thought: a worker's self-directed business administration. why? because the american government would like to see these kinds of enterprises develop and grow. and why that? here's a democratic thought for you: if the government supported that, helped to develo

guaranteed loans for banks that think some of the small besides that are starting maybe riskier when sbaital to those businesses that are starting or in a position to grow. they just need a little help. maria: so the president is headed to boeing plant in missouri today, to talk about the benefits of the tax overhaul he said this week that there could be a phase two of tax reform do small business owners think more cuts are needed. >> i haven't heard yet from small businesses that they are looking for a deeper tax cut, they are anxious to grow their businesses, and take advantage of this tax cut i think what i would like to see probably until the future is some tax cuts that we already have, made permanent. and i think that would give even more security in the marketplace and i think that optimism would grow even faster. maria: where within small business do you see most vibrancy can you identify sectors anything that strikes you in terms of growth? >> well i think clearly in service business health services industry those businesses are growing the tech industry. those are those are big