i believe that the sharing economy should go beyond what we're talking about with home sharing sharing or cars we're sharing with the local businesses their employees and suppliers it's not just the other people being impacted thank you very much >> thank you, ma'am our time is up. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please >> i'm a former retired take care at all middle school and elementary high school levels of in oakland that was my wife the social worker we've been here in san francisco with an rb and b with two years of rb and b something that moved me today was that our neighbor who 6 years ago pointed out we might be doing something illegal and seems anti we were doing today as we were stepping out and my wife was waiting for me at the bottom of the steps they said hello and she immediately volunteered i guessed she's seen karen's picture in the newspaper and now felt positive about that and i guess part of it i think she shared that our guests had been so well behaved for that many years that somehow she'd changed her mind. i'd like to reiterate what my wife the social w

it's called fair to share and i think share is the operative word home sharing is not for everyone but it's fair to let visitors spend their time it's fair how i want to a share my space in san francisco and totally fair it's a level playing field to make that fair to everyone. i'm really proud proud to thinking be in a community that love the city who love sharing the city and making experience for your vufrt visitors a great thing and wanting them to come back again and again we are about creating great experiences. the long term versus short term this didn't seem to be the issue we create wonderful experiences for people whoa whether they stay for 39 days or less or more. the aspect of this i get refused if you do a poor job you get reviewed as a guest if you come in and are a nuisance no one wants you. and the problems i see railway happen. i think it should be fair to hear in the future. thank you >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm a resident homeowner and property owner landlord for the last 22 years in the city i own who did you police vehicles is in the valley there are pr

economy i'm a proponent of the sharing economy including the first shared thing that happened was the city car share it's 101 to priefbt i want to see san francisco be the leader i know the world is watching san francisco and looking for you us to create a fair balanced approach to the shared economy i'm concerned about the future of our city we know that 97 percent of our hotels are full 97 percent of the times and more people are coming look at the sty in phil there are 36 cranes and we have a series crisis of housing the shared economy is one of the what's-her-name to this crisis and can be a solution i'd like to say i hope this ordinance and other thoughts and input and other expert opinion can be included here in legislation. and i hope that the shared economy will be something that san francisco what about very proud of thank you. >> good evening. ladies and gentlemen, my name is bobby a san francisco resident. not paid by anyone to be here. i'm going to give a little bit of input what i think about that. my experience so far with air b and b it's been about doing it three or fo

, b shares or do you own both or would you buy both at $220,000 a share? >> we own the b shares and it's the largest holding and we think the best bargain we can find as we enter the sixth year. >> best bargain, that's really something. okay, thanks a lot, david. thanks for coming on the program. >> thank you. >>> now, as for the rest of wall street, stocks ended higher despite a sharp spike in first-time jobless claims and a mixed bag of earnings before the opening bell but soothing words from russia's vladimir putin about ending the bloodshed in ukraine seemed to give investors a boost. major averages closed the at the highs of the day, the dow up 61, nasdaq 19 points higher and s&p and nasdaq now on track for their biggest weekly gains since june. as stocks gained, bond yields fell with the yield on the ten-year bond hitting a 14-month low just above 2.40%. >>> some encouraging earnings from j.c. penney. they appear to be staging a solid come backe with shoppers and investors. they lost 75 cents a share but much less than the 93 cents that were forecast

we're here to share and learn and that's really all i can say is that home sharing some exist a have regulations but shared regulations that don't interruption other folks >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hi, i'm white hay man from marin and now live in san francisco. there are a few things that everyone is seeking feeling more and more connected is one section is critical to well-being in all types of growth home sharing is a metabolism for sharing i've got too close connections by doing this you'll continue to hear how home shire expires relationships but provides a way for new visitors to look at this city a community grows by building new i believe your job is to wise completely guide this community. please make sure that you support the growth to increase the connections something it's difficult and essential for height and well-being my hope is before making each the many decisions you ask yourself am i supporting connection or disconnection. thank you for dedicating yourselves to this community >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm emily i live in the heights. the no

and potato home sharing a real thing it's sharing our living space. people who do home sharing do it balls they need to do that in order to stay in their homes. or they needed to do say so to make it to the end of the month but another group who in it for fun and profit and from what i've heard a that's where a lot of the option comes if the real home shearers we stand with the opposition you should put real legislation because those are the people that are taking down the housing stock if i can't rent out my bedroom it is not going to go on the market it really isn't. a sharing economy is, in fact, as someone said earlier we don't have laws in place i support david chiu's legislation here's a suggestion take the tax revenue if home sharing and put it in a separate fund and take that money and put it towards affordable housing that's the real goal to get homes for people. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm susan my husband and i supplemented in the north panhandle in san francisco about 22 years ago we've been appalled by the

also i think home sharing has been happening for a long time. i know that a lot of my friends have empty nests they fill is with skids that are abstracting out on their own by having apartments b and b helps to fill the entry rooms. yeah, that's all i want to say if people have the foresight to see all the horrible thing i think that having the foresight to come up with the legislation to make it work for everything else thank you. i'm bryan a resident of san francisco a couple of quick points there's a prospective that everyone involved in home sharing and i'm for f it bay is making a killing when i divide the square footage by my place and what i charge fore people to stay there it barely covers the cost so there's no profit motivate but to offset some of my costs to maintain my housing the second thing the previous speaker is correct a it's not new, in fact, b and b has brought this on the radar it's frustrating only one hand but providing the infrastructure to make tax and regulation even possible. so that's something to consider and caution

our home this destroys our plan the planning commission go needs to understand that home sharing we can't afford to stay in our home without that we're having those rooms empty i ask you to please consider who are we hurting we bring them to restaurant they use public transportation and real human connections are made our friends and neighbors love that we share our home. earlier this year we hosted a buddha event for two years weeks she sat at her friends bedside and hugged us this was the only way to be there for her friends passing i ask you to please allow the home shareers to >> your time is up. >> thank you for considering president chiu's legislation. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm overview my husband and i live in a dui perplex and share ore he hour home edward reiskin there's been count license benefits but it makes it financially possible for me to visit my mother every month she's frail and older and lives in boston her mind is great but at 85 she needs assistance i'm on the west coast to be with my brother to spend time assisting my mother with chords and driv

which shares would you buy, a's or b's? >> the share class goo gl that is most friendly. so not too the long ago, earlier this month traded 570. that's an interesting place to nibble and the best place to buy more is where it's shown great support to the 200-day moving average and that's 564. >> real quickly, do you think google will ever pay a dividend? >> i think they will but in the near term, i'm pleased they don't because they have enough opportunities to reinvest the cash flow and high return on investment projects. when you see a company particularly in a tech sector start to pay very lavish dividends and buy back stock regardless how high the stock has risen, they are probably mature or slow down. >> very quickly, what's the biggest risk it faces? >> i think the biggest risk, tyler, is that i'm wrong and fails going forward to continue to recreate themselves, to continue to be visionary and miss the next trend. >> all right. very interesting conversation. paul, thanks so much for joining us. paul meeks. >> thank you. >>> since google began trading ten years ago, s

shares of tech mira fell 7%. biochris saw its shares rise. it's worth mentioning that both of these are small cap stocks. >>> tenet health care posted a narrower than expected loss late today. the hospital operator raised its full outlook. shares were volatile in after hours trading. the stock was nearly 2% higher at 53.30. >>> p. f.chang's asian bistro is the last to admit card numbers may have been stolen. they got the cardholders name and card expiration date as well as the number. >>> sales in china are getting hit by last month's food safety scare which forced it to halt sales of certain items. in a regulatory filing, the world's largest burger chain said the affected markets account for 10% of its total revenue. most outlets in china are expected to offer the full menu options again. >>> safety on the roads, why is the number of fatal accidents involving long haul trucks on the rise. and what's being done about it? the first of our three-part investigative series, collision course is next. >>> if you're someone who enjoys the cell phone

and prefer to stay in home sharing rather than a hotel. they like to spend their money not on pricey hotels but enjoy spending their money in our local knew they buy an extra suitcase or two their shopping from chains and independent store owns they frequent our restaurant and i think this makes it very differable for this clinic tell to verified united states the second have been older adults that come to the theatres and restaurants this makes it possible for them to spend their money where i like to see them spend their money in the local economy not with hotel changes. thank you. >> hi i've been becoming a host has changed my life in positive ways the money i another person helps me to pay my partial mortgage and property taxes i'm an artist it's difficult to survive in places like san francisco. as a host i have international travels to bayview i live there a lot of people don't know that area a lot of cab drivers do know the area because because of international travelers they're coming in that area and as a single person it's nice w

they are sharing homes. they are sharing clothes. in past weeks we have been hearing about couch surfing. we now have millions of people who are sharing their purpose and their homes on this collaborative commons. for air bnb it's zero marginal cost. if they have done to the hotel industry what cloud sharing did to the recording industry if you were air bnb once you are fixed costs in place in you set up your web site the marginal cost of putting in an additional apartment or home who wants to lease their property is near zero. if you have a home or or apartment anyway to lease it out for short-term rental you have already covered your fixed costs and that is your mortgage's main page, your property taxes are being paid to the marginal cost of renting out your apartment or home to travelers is near zero. so in new york alone last year at air bnb was responsible for eliminating 1 million hotel nights in hotels because millions of travelers rented out spaces put up by a small apartment owners and homeowners. car sharing, we now have 80

kohl's are seeing pennies take back market share but seeing market share losses to other channels of retail. the online channel, the math channel, off price channel. kohl's is stuck in the middle and i think that their value proposition isn't as strong as it has been. >> the big elephant in the room is walmart. i saw a headline today that said walmart would belly flop on earnings thursday. what is going wrong with walmart? >> well, i don't officially cover the company, so i can't comment specifically, but they sounded cautious on the consumers and the that low-end consumer that is walmart's is having the hardest time in the recovery. they are not seeing job growth. they are not seeing wage growth and that's a challenge and they are seeing cuts to entitlement programs that walmart benefits from like programs like snap and so i think that consumer is challenged. i also think walmart competes head-to-head with some of the online retailers on price and there is a lot of price competition right now, and so walmart is challenged by, you know, players like amazon to sharpen the pencil when

and city car share as many of you know is the oldest and the non-profit car sharing organization, in the bay area. and we along with the other people who are participating in this, and would like to see these spaces approved. and for the last 13 years, city car share has worked to promote the responsible car sharing solutions and i think that the testament to that is our access mobile program for wheelchairs and as well as our low income programs through our community share programs. and so, we take the public right-of-way very seriously and we never do anything that would jeopardize that with either our members or our communities. for the past few months, we have worked tirelessly, with a number of groups, both personally, and with merchant associations in those cases, we have got to talk to a lot of people when there has been objection and we have moved the spaces where we like it and worked best for the neighborhoods and when there are general objectives we are not able to call on some of our own data from the 12, on street, spaces that we had for the last two years and say that o

disney pulled $1.28 a share in the third quarter, the highest earnings per share in the company's history beating wall street estimates. $12.5 billion revenue topped the forecast with a gain from the studio division. "frozen" was the highest animated film ever with strong results from parks and resort. shares were initially higher in after hours trading. julia boorstin spoke with bob and has the take away. >> reporter: disney's results on a range of the businesses, especially the movie division on the strengths of the "marvel" franchise. >> the marvel brand has arrived and healthy and "captain america three" and we just announced a 2013. >> reporter: what drove the parks division higher, up 8% while operating up 23% due to a combination of increased guest spending and higher attendance. >>> new day, different direction, the markets wiped out all of yesterday's gains and then some on worries strong economic data might jolt federal reserve policy and jitters about escalate tensions on the boarder between ukraine and russia. despite little other news, all the major averages began lower and s

i've been a home share for 3 years also a founder of the home sharer with or we have own one hundred and 60 members i wish to speak no falsify of home sharing and the efforts of supervisor chiu i and my metabolizes building that the city should pass fair laws that make it legal to share their homes people argue that it did he grades the quality of our neighborhoods i want to share a story that demonstrates the option o opposite. recently a neighbor of mine told me said she was both so go to the hospital she's a single woman they wishes her godfather motto come and look after here surgery. unfortunately, if the neighborhood the hotel are very expensive the best western costs over $300 a night he she wanted to know if i couldn't help. i hear how we help each other out and make our neighborhoods better for each other. finally, i wish to specifically to the recommendations of the staff report and i wish to stress that my organization in home shareers we strongly are trouble by many of the recommendations to give you two works. we believe that the recommendations that speak specifically t

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they have a 67% share in the u.s. google is still not satisfied. >> when i think about search, it is such a deep thing for all of theo really understand world's information. we are still very much in the early stages of that. googlech has helped become an advertising juggernaut. with all of that cash, google has ranch doubt big time buying youtube turning it into the world's largest video site -- google has branched out the big time. android are 1.1 billion users and we activate something like 1.5 million per day. allegationse been of user tracking, scanning e-mails, manipulating page rankings. >> we need to show what data is being collected. >> awareness means thinking about the future, reaching for the stars. brand-new,out doing risky, technological things that are making science fiction real. shots include google glass, the self-driving car, robots, even trying to prolong life itself, identifying the ideal healthy human being. it grew from a garage to the world's largest search engine and now a company searching fo

shares rose 1.5% to 58.55. >>> dreamworks animation saw its shares increase. how to train your dragon 2 became the highest grossing animated film of this year. shares jumped about 9.5 on the session. >>> shares of fabrinet plumm plummeted. it cited an internal investigation into its accounting practices as the reason for the delay. that's never good news. shares tumbled 18% to 14.53. and the folks at google did a little shopping today. buying jet pack, a tech start-up that makes city guides and recommendations for travelers based on popular photos posted on instagram and other social networking sites. >>> on the subject of google, it was 10 years ago today that the search giant priced its initial public stock offering at $85 a share. a decade later, google's grown into the world's second largest tech company, trailing only apple in market cap. if you looked inside google's numbers, the facts and figures are staggering. josh lipton has the story. google, it's not just a company, it's a verb many a lot has changed since the company first went public. let's start

shares of sprint got slammed, down 19%, shares of t-mobile fell, too, but a smaller more manageable 8%. what is next for sprint and for t-mobile? morgan brennan takes a look. >> reporter: the mobile wars continue, taking an unexpected turn that could leave sprint at a disadvantage. sources confirm that the wireless carrier has abandoned the much anticipated bid for smaller rival t-mobile. the industry is expecting the two to announce a merger in a deal that would value t-mobile at $32 billion. >> this is difficult news for sprint. sprint has all but abandoned almost any plan b other than merging with t-mobile. so now they have to go back, lick their wounds and come up with an operating strategy that means more capital spending and lower prices for consumers, and those will do real damage to sprint's income statement. >> that pushed shares of sprint down by double digits. the company poured billions into a network upgrade, poor service and the loss of millions of subscribers. now the upgrades are almost finished but sprint says to better compete with verizon and at&t, it needs scale, so