>>supervisor scott weiner: thank you very much, i strongly support this item. particularly section that will allow for the for the one stop shop and between yesterday and today the city attorney did draft them. we distributed them and movement. technical amendments just changing numbers to match other ordinance that will be coming to you next week. i also wanted to suggest the planning department staff has reviewed this ordinance and compared it to the other ordinances that are in the pipeline right now and wanted to suggest an additional amendment. also technical to the definition of homeless shelter so that it reads homeless shelter, a residential use defined as living and accommodations. just a technical clean up to match with the code. >> so, if i may madam president i will move both of the amendments that we distributed in addition to the oral amendments stated by mr. gibner. >>supervisor london breed: supervisor wiener has moved the amendment. can i have a second. seconded by supervisor mar. can we take that without objection? >> that passes. >> >>supervi

>>supervisor scott weiner: thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues, a few things. first as supervisors cohen and farrell mentioned we are doing a few things around public safety. first, we've requested that the city controller analyze what full staffing of our police department means in san francisco. we know that many things impact public safety but one important factor is how many police officers we have. and one of the most common things that i hear from constituents is why don't i see police officers in my neighborhood. and it is a frustration and a lot of parts of the city and if you, as we all know that department is under staffed. the charter sets full staffing at 109 1 officers due to years and negligence that was dropped to 1700. we would like to bring it back up to 2000 officers. even before it was put in the charters in the 80s. we have a larger city now and neighborhoods that didn't exist and more larger events in the city and it's not g egg to stop. we are going to continue to add more population and will have more events in san francisco and i don't t

>>supervisor london breed: supervisor wiener in >>supervisor scott weiner: i will be supporting the motion and i won't repeat the rational by supervisors kim and christian son. i would like

supervisor scott weiner says they are desperately needed because as san francisco grows, more and more people crowd on to public transportation. >> if we don't provide the vehicles for those people to actually be able to ride, we're not going to succeed and so this is a major, major step forward. >> the new vehicles will be built by siemens in a sacramento factory. >>> people are applying to the university of california system in record numbers now. about 194,000 would be freshmen and transfer students applied for the fall semester a 6% increase over the year before. uc officials say one reason for the boost was a publicity campaign about free tuition for families earning less than $80,000 a year. >>> 4:56 right now. millions of copies of the french satirical paper charlie hebdo hit newsstands in paris today and now new details are coming out on who says they are responsible for the massacre at the newspaper office. >> a bay area climber could be hours away from becoming a legend clinging to the wall of yosemite national >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good mo

and i would also like to thank the co-responsers, supervisor jane kim for district six and scott weiner from district eight and our former president, and who worked with the young people and empowering them as well and the youth leaders that i mentioned earlier from the tobacco youth reduction force and a number of them will speak in a moment. but i wanted to specify the arab american and also, to shaeb, and for giving us such great input and nick from my staff as well from corraling everything together and really crafting with our city attorney, and this important piece of legislation. and lastly, from the department of public health, the amazing leadership of susanna and derek smith as well. [ applause ] >> i wanted to just wrap up before turning it back over to supervisor campos, to say that this tobacco license reduction act will reduce drastically the number of tobacco sales outlets and it will advance health justice and health equity in a very common sense way and it will put our city back on the map as one of the strong leaders in the country that supports youth empowerment and h

san francisco supervisor scott weiner. >> when you have streets too wide you have faster traffic, more accidents >> the fire department likes big streets. they handle conventional trucks better. >> we need a rig that is going to hold equipment to do our job properly >> the truck suggests custom steined features for smaller streets. >> they are to carry enough tools for us. >> many homes are attached together unlike those in other cities where temperatures can surround a home from the outside without going in. not here. >> we've got to go in to put the fire out. >> there are hills. flat cities don't wire truck was big motors. >> supervisor weiner wants the fire department to look at how equipment is placed in the trucks. it may enable them to use smaller rigs >> if we start widening streets, how many more people are going to die on our streets? >> from firefighters it's not the size of a truck that is the problem. they're being told to watch out for dangerous traps. firefighters stumbled into it but was not hurt the homeless encampment project manager told us he's never seen a booby tra

san francisco supervisor scott weiner. >> when you have streets too wide you have faster traffic, more accidents >> the fire department likes big streets. they handle conventional trucks better. >> we need a rig that is going to hold equipment to do our job properly >> the truck suggests custom steined features for smaller streets. >> they are to carry enough tools for us. >> many homes are attached together unlike those in other cities where temperatures can surround a home from the outside without going in. not here. >> we've got to go in to put the fire out. >> there are hills. flat cities don't wire truck was big motors. >> supervisor weiner wants the fire department to look at how equipment is placed in the trucks. it may enable them to use smaller rigs >> if we start widening streets, how many more people are going to die on our streets? >> from firefighters it's not the size of a truck that is the problem. they're being told to watch out for dangerous traps. firefighters stumbled into it but was not hurt the homeless encampment project manager told us he's never seen a booby tra

san francisco supervisors scott weiner. >> when you have streets that are too wide, you have faster trafficeporter: the fire department likes big streets. they handle conventional fire trucks better. >> we need a rig that will hold enough equipment for us to do our job properly. >> reporter: this report from the supervisor's budget analyst concludes when the fire department buys new rigs it lacks policy that's considers street designs and pedestrian safety. the report suggests smaller fire trucks and customed designed features. but they say smaller rigs may not work in san francisco. the assistant deputy fire chief. >> they have to carry enough hose for us. to carry enough water for us. >> reporter: many home here are like rope houses. a task together unlike those in other cities. where firefighters can simply surround a home and attack fire from the outside without going in. not here. >> for a lot of other cities with different rigs, might just come out. we have to go up and put the fire out. >>> and there are hills. flat cities don't require trucks with big motors. >> the engines carry 50

. >> scott weiner gets ready for battles.l in the family. ♪ >> welcome back, i'm stephanie ruhle. the republican-controlled congress is about to gavel in for the first time. it will be mostly ceremonial but there is a bit of drama. to vote for house speaker. peter cook is on the hill with the latest. what can we expect? >> john boehner wishes we would not have drama. it is supposed to be a triumphant moment for republicans. john boehner expected to be elected to his third term as speaker, but he faces a republican rebellion. conservatives want to see someone else in the leadership position. john boehner can only suffer 28 defections and still hold on to the gavel. the question is, are there enough rebellious conservatives to stand in the way and force this into a second about? john boehner has been talking to members and trying to convince them to stick with him. >> what is your sense? >> we are probably at 18 by our headcount, and possibly more. i think they will not get the magic number, at least his opponents two blocks aw

supervisor scott weiner says they are needed because as san francisco grows, more and more people nowublic transportation. >> if we don't provide the vehicles for those people to actually be able to ride, we're not going to succeed. so this is a major, major step forward. >> those new vehicles will be built by siemens in its sacramento facility. >>> people are applying to the university of california system in record numbers. about 194,000 would-be freshmen and transfer students applied for the fall semester. that's a 6% increase over last year. uc officials say one reason for the boost was a publicity campaign about free tuition for families earning less than $80,000 a year. >>> 5:55. the family of a california teen charged with shooting a classmate may sue the school district. why the family believes they are owed millions. >> reporter: and san jose fire is on the scene of a three- alarm blaze in downtown san jose in an old industrial area. i'm kiet do with a live report on how squatters are a remarkable thing has happened. over a million californians have gotten something that's be

weiner. >> supervisor farrell supervisor wiener supervisor kim absent. >> supervisor mar supervisor avalos supervisor tang supervisor scott wiener and supervisor scott wiener. >> supervisor scott wiener. >> art and so the motion to elect supervisor wiener carries as the chair carries. >> okay. a new chair of the transportation authority congratulations to supervisor scott wiener (clapping.) >> colleagues before we moved i want to first of all thank you for your confidence it's a real honor to fill this position and to hold this trust i want to thank commissioner dooley's for his two years of strong service as the transportation authority chair as his vice chair i had the pleasure of working closely with him and even though we don't agree on everything we have a good relationship and working with the hiring process for the executive director it went well and professional and i think i'm appreciative of the work you've done commissioner to thank you so colleagues, we you know this morning i as posted on facebook the map of the originally plans of the bart system for 1956 if you've not seen that map keep a copy i think it is