the chairf the housesing committee is senator scott weiner. a bit of a home court vaeng grere. >> what is yourp? the sill von valley leadership group stand on it? >> we support what the sno are is trying to do. we support senate bill 50. here's why. we are 3.5 million homes short in california. it calls for within a half mile radius of a fixed rail transit station ideally where we should be building around bart, cal train, sf, smart, ace, and vta's light rail system 250 stations and opportunities. that's where we should be making these investments to get people out o their cars on to railcars, helping with the housing crisis our commute and trafficcrisis. there are other cities aenainst thee bill, including the mayors of palo alto, loss althoughyoes, and beverly hills. tloofs a second quote that your group did that reveals what voters are willing to do in terms of tryin to support highway improvements and transit. what are they willing to do? >> what's wonderful about this area, and i'll quote the englisu hor samuel johnson. my friend, rid you

san francisco state senator scott weiner in february proposed legislation that would pave the way for a developer to come in and knock down the arena and turn it into housing and stores. keep in mind that gun shows taking place this year at the cal palace will go on as scheduled. >>> the san francisco board of supervisors is throwing its support behind a proposal to charge a fee to drive down l lombard street. it's aimed at straightening out the traffic problems on the crooked street. visitors could pay up to $10. >>> the effort to rebuild notre dame has reached mil as the ca later, the crown of thorns was received, reportedly won by jesus. >> 50 investigators are now trying to determine the cause, believed to be linked to renovation work. ♪ >> reporter: after an imcomprehensible day, scores joined together near their beloved notre dame and mourned a cathedral that has stood at the heart of this great city. new video offers a dramatic look at the scene that greeted hundreds of first responders monday evening. they fired millions of gallons but couldn't save the spire or the roof. >> t

. >> reporter: skate senator scott weiner has proposed a bill that he says will help with the state's 3.5 million unit housing shortage. >> sb 50 makes it possible to build more housing near public transportation and near where people work because that is where the housing should be. >> reporter: one group, the los angeles-based aids healthcare foundation is opposed and is running ads like this. >> san francisco is engaging . >> the black populations dropped in half by 1960 sb 50 would displace working communities of color. >> many people in l.a. and san francisco may have gotten flyers like these saying basically the same thing. starting in the 40s san francisco did engage in urban rule projects but tore up large parts of the western addition and the fillmore to make room for larger development. dramatically decreasing number of black people in san francisco. senator weiner says sb 50 does not displace people. >> we put strong affordability and anti- eviction and anti- displacement protections in the bill. >> reporter: but the director of housing isthe affordability requirements bake

> you don't take someone else's tragedy and then use it for your own political -- >> reporter: scott weiner was the author of a bill which seeks to put more housing near transportation hubs. it accuses him of making the housing affordability crisis worse for working class communities of color. >> we went through a terrible time period where we were pushing them out of san francisco and bulldozing neighborhoods. this bill is designed to stop that from happening in the future. >> reporter: it was paid for by healthy housing foundation which is based in los angeles and run by michael weinstein who spoke to me by phone. >> we stand by it. the truth may hurt, but the reality is that san francisco has become a place that only rich people, mostly white people, can live in. >> to think someone would be that unprincipled, to prey upon the pain of black people. >> reporter: reverend amos brown is president of the san francisco branch of the naacp. he received the flyier in mail. even those opposed like supervisor gordon marr oppose this flier. i'm kate larsen, abc 7 news. >>> california gas prices ha

. >>> state senator scott weiner will hold a press conference with community leaders about a politicallier they're calling racist propaganda. many san franciscans received the flier in the mail. it equates a state housing bill written by wiener with, quote, negro remove, a reference to when the african-american population dropped from 15% to under 5%. wiener's bill would put more apartments and condos near b.a.r.t., muni and caltrain stations. the man behind the ad says it would lead to further gentrification. >>> the trump administration plans to tell five nations they will no longer be exempt fro or incl sth koa and tivs that pre. secretary of state mike pompeo is expected to announce today the administration will not renew the sanction waivers when they expire. >>> coming up, the new program launching today to protect our planet. >>> stopping sideshows in oakland. police ramped up patrols over the week and that's not all. how lawmakers are also taking tto harrison, the wine tcollection.. to craig, this rock. the redwoods to the redheads. the rainbows to the proud. i leave these thin

in a statement, a division of the aids healthcare foundation set out scott weiner should focus on the very real fear that sb 50 will hurt middle and working-class communities, especially those of color. >>> the san diego mothers in police custody after she walked into a church holding a gun and a baby. police said the woman went into the church, a nondenominational church about noon yesterday and made threats about blowing it up. that is when churchgoers stepped in. >> and so, i could see them out of the corner of my eye and i was having a conversation with her, they were able to come around and grab her and get the weapon away from her. >> it turns out the gun was not loaded. police took the 10-month-old along with the woman's five- year-old daughter who was found later the child welfare services the woman is due in court on wednesday pick >>> tesla is touting a plan to help self driving vehicles to be operational by sometime next year. tesla officials laid out their plans at an event in palo alto. he says the self driving system will include something called a neural network. proces

mailers have been showing up in san francisco and los angeles opposing senator scott weiner's bill 50he legislation is meant to make it easier to build housing near transit hubs. the ads say this could speed up gentrification and display -- displace minority residence but weiner says that's wrong. >> so we put strong portability, and anti-eviction and anti-displacement protections in the bill. >> the mailers and tv ads are produced by the la-based aids healthcare foundation. some who have received the mailers who are objecting to the use of photos of african- american author, james baldwin. >>>a milpitas grandma accused of strangling her young grandson today face the judge. 70-year-old phu is accused of first-degree murder. she did not enter a plea. the three rolled was strangled. according to court documents know it was a little boy, had been ill. the four-year-old girl in the home's told detective she saw the grandmother grabbed him by the neck and drove him to the ground. >> there's nothing we can do to bring him back, but we will do everything we can, to make sure that the person

senator scott weiner is both sad and angry. >> every time a synagogue is assaulted like this and people murdered, it just -- it dredges up frankly the trauma. >> reporter: it did for this woman who did not want to give her name. she's an orthodox jew who let europe decades ago because of anti-semitism. >> i am absolutely terrified by the news, and it's extremely sad to hear that. >> reporter: sharon spevak is afraid jewish people will be forced into the shadows due to fear. >> people will start meeting secretly in their homes. they'll have to be, you know, pretending, you know, not to be who they are and not to express nemanja selve themselves. >> reporter: police are upping patrol around synagogues. ai according to the jewish community, they pay visits to chabads where phones aren't used on the sabbath. governor newsome said an attack against our community is an attack on our entire state, who we are and what we stand for. our country has to be better than this. >>> and tonight president trump called governor newsome to express his condolences. in san francisco, lisa amin galesian, abc

scott weiner was voted to pave the road for housing development and to counter bureaucratic sprawl in transgets and encroachment. i oppose the requisition of the proportion of economic capital, such syphoning would be detrimental, undermining job creation, contractor development and hamper economic competition. commercial sales of industrial products, factory appliance and retail goods in general at a time when brick and mortar sales are anemic. sure planting a nonprofit mind-set over profit driven economy risks monetary profit, material values, purchasing power and macro economy in general. i am . >> thank you. are there any other persons interested in testifying before public comment is closed on this item? >> good i want to thank supervisor gordon mar of district four for presenting his resolution which i'm in favor of. i oppose sp50, senator wiener is a speer carrier for real estate investors such as the toronto investors that built the condos at 22nd street and mission. just happened to be the same day the grand opening of those condos was the suspicious seemingly arson fire at t

our ears in sawdust doing tenant improvements and mayor ed lee came to take a look around and scott weinerlooked around and look me looked me ins and realized i'm one of the few people scott can look in the eyes. [ laughter ] >> he looked around for a couple more minutes and looked at me, really, really? and as rafael will tell you, i'm a follower of rules. i couldn't think there would be another way i could go about doing those tenant improvements and this was my baptism in the san francisco local government. it's been an honour and privilege to serve all of the businesses in the castro upper market neighborhood but especially the small independent ones. i've had the pleasure of working with supervisor weiner, supervisor shihe mendleman. small businesses face challenge, sky-high rent, taxes, regulations, lack of workforce, house, be empty storefront, the homeless and mentally ill that roam or streets. and those are easy to see, but i tend to focus on the positive. the real positive is a miracle that takes place in this town every single day. thousands of businesses open their doors, barbe

bay area state senator scott weiner is sponsoring the bill to force presidential candidates to publish five years of tax returns in order to be on california's ballot. but it only applies to the presidential primary. >> for example, if mister trump fails to comply with sb 27 in 2020 and does not appear on the primary ballot in california, so long as the california republican party nominates him he will still appear on the general ballot. >> so far president trump has no mainstream republican opposition. as for democrats, some candidates like kristin jill brandt and elizabeth warren have already disclosed many years of tax returns. others have not. cory booker,, s, bernie sanders and beto o'rourke have released little or no tax information. >>> meanwhile, another hint he might challenge the president in 2020 eric swelled well said i will release my taxes, no questions asked. he also emailed this flyer to support us announcing a rally this saturday at dublin high school. he could jump into the crowded democratic pool as early as today. he plans to announces 20/20 bid on the late show wit

think the most important climate bill in california today is more homes in sacramento from senator scott weiner. i hope that san francisco will endorse this bill. i know it is an issue that is going out right now. we can also accelerate our own info housing and protect the bike lanes and transit. a bonus is both of these solutions, both the carbon dividend and more homes and general housing will reduce poverty. california has the highest poverty rate in the whole country. that is abysmal given our economic success and it's really because of housing costs and san francisco has the highest rate. the dividend will help people pay their bills, it will be a lot of money for low income families, and reducing the shortage will make housing more affordable. these solutions are a win-win, and i'm excited we have the opportunity to really infuse them into the debate in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment? >> good evening, commissioners. san francisco clean energy advocates, green party and california strategy choice. i started working on the climate crisis policy way back in

. >> hi, i just wanted to highlight briefly something that scott weiner said at the beginning that when you do this type of ordinance, it is not enough to get the votes to get it past. you have to follow up. so i think that is completely true, and i was sort of surprised by the general feeling of the department presentations were they said, well, we're not quite there, were not quite compliant, we are working on this computer system, but we will get there and get back to next year and do a little better i just sort of wonder, like, is there a point soon where the attitude from the board of supervisors will switch from okay, we're glad you're working on it, keep going, to, hey, you are not complying. this is the law now, how will we make this happen? because this data is important, not because of the data itself, but because it is going to drive change and drive us to fix all the problems that everybody has been talking about. i guess that is my question. when is this going to switch from an informational thing to, okay, we will hold you accountable, we need to fix this , we need to have

i want to thank senator scott weiner now and also supervisor mandelman for calling this. i'm also, trent rohr and shereen many, many years ago when this thing first got under my skin, i went up to him and asked them to start collecting sogi data, and i pushed, and i pushed, and i pushed, and he said yes. i knew in that moment that he was a man of his word and that we were going to make this happen. for people who are not, who are maybe used to being counted and used to being seen, it might be hard to understand how important this is. this is still part of what coming out of the closet, and it is being seen by the government, when we are not seen and we and we are not counted, we are not treated equally, and also i want to thank the departments for putting up with my pushing and pushing and pushing to get the kind of reports to give us the data that is useful. i know it is sometimes uncomfortable, but change is always uncomfortable, and i'm really proud of where we are at right now. i wasn't happy at first, but we are in a much better place and a lot of that has to do with