small businesses. we need the commission to help the city realize that it needs to stop doing more things to small businesses in this city and particularly to get back to basics and take care and cleaning the streets and and being garbage cans and removing street chief and clearing the path for local associations to be in power to make something happen. one other thing i want to say, and the only reservation i have is that we will lose her sole focus on the fillmore. we will share her with you, share her with the greater city, but i ask you to keep your eye on the ball but she has been so effective at focusing on. let's not lose the progress we have made so far. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. reynolds. >> supervisors, and a structural engineer [inaudible] a lot of people have spoken about the passion and commitment of henry karnilowicz. i cannot think of anyone more qualified to assist small business engineers, architects, project sponsors navigate through the extremely accomplished process. he is someone can deal with issues such as ada compliance, seismic upgrades, to more complex issues such as

it takes one or two years to start any small business in the city and that is ridiculous. it should not take that long. i think that is my position. whether it is manufacturing -- i am not here to represent manufacturing, i am here to represent all small business. whether you have a one person minority business or a 50- person large mall business, we face a lot of the same problems. it is a difficult climate. i would look at it as it is -- as a broad stroke. supervisor kim: thank you. are there any other questions? thank you. next, william ortiz-cartagena. thank you for being here. i heard you had some unexpected circumstances to deal with. we appreciate you being here. >> i thank you. i was born and raised in san francisco. after a lengthy hospitality career which was under the mattress above cit,. i saw people in my community not being able to be employed so i started gentle parking. with the thought of bringing parking service back to the city which i love. what happened is it transcended as i reached out to a lot of troubled youth and we expanded to 50 jobs currently. w

development, and i'm delighted to welcome you here as we announced the recapitalization of the city's small business revolving loan fund. we are recapitalizing this bond with $1.5 million, thanks to a partnership between the city and wells fargo, and working with working solutions as our community lender. without further ado, will introduce the merit to describe these resources available for small businesses. >> thank you, jennifer. thank you for all your hard work. welcome to brenda's. i want to thank and knowledge board president and district supervisor david chiu for joining us this morning. scott wiener, of course, as well. for some time now, as mayor of the city, interim and elected, these two supervisors have been talking to me about the support we need to give to our small businesses. i know much of my leadership so far has been around our technology companies, and that is great. as you know, we were down even further on the unemployment rate, due in large part, to the hiring that our technology companies are giving us. we are at 7.6% unemployment, and that is fantastic, but we have

of the most powerful is he concluded that standard belief that democracy will work best in the small city city like athens is completely wrong because what his research told him is that, in that kind of environment, yes, everyone may know each other, but it's easy for a single individual charismatic individual to gain power or for a faction, those who own land, those who don't own land to gain power. the first thing they do is pass laws that oppress everyone else. it did not lead to freedom. madison concluded that a great protection of liberty is to create a large country. there so many factions and so many interest groups and so many people vying for leadership, no single one would be able to gain control. from this study he concluded that america needed to be nipped together, the 13 states needed to be knit together as a single nation a true union. the way to achieve that, he concluded, was for the new constitution to be ratified not by the state legislatures but to be ratified by the people of america. thus our constitution begins with the words "we the people of the united states." if

it was a small city whose residents turn all their lights on to greet john glenn the night he flew back across australia. the world looks to america because we are free. and it's through our values to which people aspire. one of those values is humility, the idea that you're part of a cause greater than yourself that nothing in life is a do it yourself project. though an often unsung virtue, humility figured prominently in the pinnacle of human achievement. to this day john glenn insists he was no hero. just a patriot serving his country which in those days was gripped by the notion that america and democracy itself had fallen behind. these were daring missions but they were vital missions as well. neil armstrong asked why did you, this one man, choose to speak for all when you set your foot on the lunar surface? as it turns out, there was no script. there were no notes. when the moment came, neil turned to the people that worked on the project, the designers and engineers and navigators, all who devised that one small step. he said and i quote, "he knew it would be a big something for

. >> that common sense once had a small city mentality but now, it is headed for a makeover. >>> and the suspect is only described as a white male in his mid 20s wearing a black hoodie. if you have information contact (410)836-5081. >>> tonight baltimore city police are investigating a deadly shooting. this was around 2:30 this morning. after a search they found the 27-year-old. he later died at the hospital. >> he put his hands over his face and cried as he watched himself being told his ex- girlfriend yeardley love was dead. the second week of the trial continues this week and for complete coverage go to abc news.com where we have a full page on the trial. you can also follow twitter for up-to-the-minute information from court. >>> this week a rally tomorrow for same-sex marriage. they will host a rally. committee members consider moving legislation in the full chamber. the two committees in the house heard it. those not in favor have already held rallies in the past. >> we grew up with give that man a contract. >> thank you. >> temperature at game time, number 29. now, they are lo

a small city in northern italy she is here to present her documentary, women's bodies. now she has made it her mission to combat that image. scenes like these are seen daily on italian tv from early in the afternoon until late in the evening. it is unbelievable that women take part in and watch such programs. >> in this country many women are afraid of really becing independent. afraid men won't love them anymore. i come across as being a feminist and i am not. half of the people in italy are women. they can't just be ignored. it is high time that we women have the courage to stand up and say no. >> further south we met a woman who worked as a quality control inspector. when she married, her female boss intimated she was planning to have children. many italian companies try to fire pregnant women as soon as possible. at times even she can't quite believe what happened to her. >> i was threatened. they said if i did not leave they would call the police to come and get me. >> she got pregnant and was fired. for seven years she has been fighting for her rights and compensa

homes in the small city have been in demand ever since facebook moved its headquarters there. however, kron4's reggie kumar tell us tonight it's expected the housing market is only going to get more competitive in the coming months. >> reporter: this is it a listing of homes for sale right now in menloe park. only 23 are available in the entire city. three are located near facebook. this is one of them, less than a mile from the social networking giant's headquarters. $410,000. this is the most expensive on the list. it costs $4 million. omar says he expects more calls from facebook employees now that many will have more money to spend on the homes >> we are experiencing a sense of urgency both with buyers and sellers around the buzz around this ipo. some buyers are coming to us and saying we want to buy before this happens because we don't want to have to compete. we have also some complaints who have already raced money from facebook on the secondary market. so there are some people out there who are already buying. we have been told as many as a thousand millionaires are go

in a small city where opposing communities live cheek by jowl, regular patrols are made and there arearrow cease-fire lines. they are wary. few expect this truth -- of this trutce to hold. lebanese troops are keeping the peace, but the tensions here and the dividing line among the community are very real. it is the sinews that dominate here in tripoli. sunni religious leaders are in no doubt who is to blame for the violence. >> the asada regime in sierra is sending aid to deliberate -- a move deliberately create tension .erido >> leaders of this largely secular minority reject allegations that their proxies of a foreign government. >> we are first and foremost lebanese, and cannot be used by anyone. but we are all part of a wider coalition of resistance. we did not start this. our opponents did. >> the syrian conflict is mirrored on either side of a small hillside in lebanon. as the situation across the border deteriorates, the fear is the violent here will inevitably escalate. >> it is time now for the business news. juliette has join me. i am puzzled. the markets have been a relativ

in a small city where opposing communities live cheek by jowl, regular lebanese army soldiers patrol the narrow line. they are wary of being seen to favor either side and few expect this truce to hold. the violence in syria has spilled out to these streets. people who support the assad regime up against those that back the uprising. lebanese troops are keeping the peace. the tensions here on the dividing line are very real. it is the sunni is who dominate here in tripoli. the their fighters are the real power on the streets. the religious leaders are in no doubt to blame for the violence. >> the assad regime in syria is sending its agents to destabilize the situation here, to the liberal and create tensions. >> less than a mile away, posters of bashar al-assad look down on the staunchly pro syrian community. leaders of this largely secular minority reject allegations that they are proxy's for a foreign government. >> we are first and foremost lebanese. we are also part of a wider coalition of resistance whose leader is bashar al-assad. we did not start all of this talk. >> , bullet-s

in a small city where opposing communities lived cheek by jowl, regular armed soldiers patrol the line. they are wary of being seen to favor either side and few expect this truce to hold the violence in syria has spilled out to these streets. lebanese troops are keeping the peace. the tensions here on the dividing line are very real. >> it is the sunnis u dominate here in tripoli. -- who dominate here. leaders have no doubt who was to blame for the violence. >> the assad regime in syria is sending its agents to destabilize the situation here and to deliberately create tension. >> less than a mile away, posters of bashar al-assad looked down on the staunchly pro-syrian community. leaders of this largely secular minority reject allegations that they are proxy's for a foreign government. the >> we are first and foremost lebanese and we cannot be used by anyone. we are part of a wider coalition of resistance. we did not start all of the stock. -- all of this talk. >> this has frightened residents. the syrian conflict is mirrored on either side of the small hillside. as the situation deteri

recover begins with disaster response so city and county involvement with small businesses, nonprofits are essential and it was talked a lot about that and talked about are the fact that we were all on our own. i saw one county person about five days after the disaster. and yet we were still providing services for over -- ended up basically continuing to provide medical services. and then as people -- food banks came back up, we were able to stop our food service. as the salvation army began doing some more of the services, we were able to drop some of the services we were doing but that was after coordinated efforts wall of the community-based organizations. and any of the time i have been talking in san francisco about disaster preparedness and what we saw in watsonville was that the first night of the -- after the earthquake we found over 3,000 people in parks and open space and we ended up with thousands of people continuing to be in parks and open space for months ahead -- after the earthquake. and so in a concentrated place like san francisco with the housing shortage i'm always

may call it a revolution but it hasn't been a revolution what it is being is an uprising in one small city. and what has been the result is that good nature took the brunt of the qatar two on people to carry out a regime change this is in a sense. a little different to what they did in iraq. and it is it is a stage and regime change that they carried out this is will be in the revolution groups there was a revolt because they are revolting people. but it is a lot of revolution and i think the. corporate leader has tried to. draw parallels between this and what happened between this year and what happened in egypt but in those two countries it was the mass movement it was it was a popular uprising which didn't kill people which didn't go out to to massacre people or to suddenly execute but they overthrew their governments that are really was overthrown little brother was going through what was happily libya was a nato invasion supported by qatar and armed by the qataris and by the fridge and they were there ready to to wait for an opportunity and they took the opportunity to do so and i thi

and on certainty in a small city that has never before been touched by terrorism to missing a line it was an individual who absorbed this. ideology and he acted it out he concluded that the time for revolution had come. to the federal building . and he knew that one of the agencies in that building was the bureau of alcohol tobacco and fire which was the government agency that he thought would be the one to come for. in ohio citizen soldiers trained for urban combat while snipers in michigan practice with high powered. this insurrectionist idea which is also what motivates these militia groups formed back in the ninety's and reforming again a report out today he claims fifty new militia training and sprung up in less than two years just one law enforcement source but a dangerous mix is brewing and all that's missing is a spark. the founders were very clear about this it wasn't for honey that we have the second amendment they fear they feared big government and that is why the people should be armed it doesn't mean that we're agitating for the use of these arms but it always holds gove

that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and i could feel the hair of people who had been there and i was there with a navajo guy that i know who just was creeped out by this. because there's a certain heavy taboo in navaho culture about death and he said after we left this cliff dwelling, he said, i need a ceremony. too much death. yo

that were started last night >> this nighttime amateur video from you tube is said to be from a small cityyou a sense of the chaos. activists say this city came said the under steady bombardment friday night into saturday. one activist say that he believes that this city is under attack because recent defections from the syrian army. >> i think that there were 50, 60 civilians went down to welcome the ar army -- and to thank them for their bravery. when they found out about that welcoming they gave them? they started this radical firing into this governme-- into this neigh. >> access is so limited however, people that we have been speaking describing ho holmes hospitals are filled with victims many to not make it. >> we have so many people that we cannot move out. >>reporter: reports of buildings collapsed with people trapped under the rubble. >> nobody is doing anything about it. they are only doing discussions while we are sitting here, getting killed. >> we will please to stop the killing. >>reporter: the united nations said in december that or 5000 people have died since the month of m

. >> because most of california is small cities and small counties. there's only two or three big population centers. >> reporter: ted costa says lawmakers' pay would drop from $794 a month to $1,500 and they would have to adopt a balanced two-year budget by june 15 or forfeit their pay each day it's late. their way would drop from $7,940 a month to $1,500 a month. some people oppose it but they see a future where the state business is conducted by teachers, realtors and farmers. why do you think a different kind of person is going to want to come to sacramento and represent the people than the people we have now? >> maybe that's my hope that that will happen, okay? >> reporter: but political consultants say it doesn't work that way. this one was a part-time legislator in new hampshire where he says the average age is 62 and they don't have much power. >> lobbyists and special interests really run the place because they are the only ones with the experience and knowledge of how things get done. >> reporter: now, in order to qualify for the ballot, the

drivers in big and small cities alike can blane their pain at the pump on increasing oil prices, a surgeven by tensions with iran. demand by countries like china and shutdown of refineries. any lasting spike in gas prices could hurt the entire economy. for every ten cent hike at the pump, consume earps cut other spending by $9 billion. >> unfortunately high gas prices ahere they will be around for quite some time. >> reporter: this is one tip that can save you money. gas prices higher in may and june. if at all possible. postpone that road trip until the end of summer. david it will still be expensive but not as's pensive. >> thanks so much. >>> on the flip side. thousand of job, we've heard of two companies, putting out call force new worker, macy's says they have plans to hire 4,000 workers for what the ceo calls high-praying jobs many because of the growth of online in sales. >>> and caterpillar is bringing jobs back from japan and creating jobs in georgia. and it will create jobs on top of that. including the supplier who make the parts for caterpillar. >>> we turn to "your voice you

drivers in big and small cities alike can blane their pain at the pump on increasing oil prices, a surgen by tensions with iran. a rising demand from countries like china and a shutdown of refineries. any lasting spike in gas prices could hurt the entire economy. for every ten cent hike at the pump, consumers cut other spending by $9 billion. >> unfortunately high gas prices appear they will be around for quite some time. >> reporter: now, there is one tip that could save you some money. gas prices tend to be higher in may and june. if at all possible. postpone that road trip until the end of summer. david it will still be expensive but maybe not as expensive. >> still so hard for many families to rearrange their schedules around the gas prices. thanks to you in los angeles tonight. >>> on the flipside, promising news on the economy as well. thousands of new jobs. we've learned of two major companies putting out the call for new workers. macy's which has about 500 stores across the country plans to hire 4,000 workers this year, for what the ceo calls high-paying jobs because of the growt

have in effect is two, two kinds of polarizations that hit the countryside the hardest and the small cities the hardest. in such a way that produced a, a situation that was literally becoming, was becoming unbearable in the early 2000s. and a drought that caused at least the migration from the countryside to the cities. of at least 1.2 million people over the several years after the 2003. and of course, the numbers can be adjusted always according to new finds. the point is that most of the smaller cities that and towns that absorbed or tried to absorb the migration, had a lot of trouble doing so. including cities like homs and then on the coast at some level. but damascus was better equipped and had better infrastructure, a higher standard of living, in terms of families able to absorb this migration in such a way, they were able to hold up a little bit more. after that, the effect of the iraqi capital that came from iraq in 2003 and boosted specifically the damascus in terms of real estate and other matters before actually returning to cause problems later on at the end of the decade. so

people were killed in the fighting today, scott, and it's important to remember that this is a small city. everyone living on this street was either a relative of or knew or grew up with one of the men who died. you can hear them now, they're chanting the koran. they'll be here all night doing that. i think what we saw today really illustrates that this is a community, indeed, this is a country that is being devastated by this war. >> reporter: clarissa, those men we saw in your story are lightly armed and poorly train. what are they up against? >> reporter: it's simply no match, scott. they're fighting with kalashnikovs. they have no military training. they are not particularly physically fit. they are up against a pretty sophisticated army that has artillery, that has tanks and, of course, their greatest fear here on the ground is that soon the syrian army will begin to use its air power as well. >> pelley: why are they fighting against those odds? >> reporter: the men that we've spoken to here say at this point there is simply no turning back. too much damage has been done. too much bl

a small city in ohio. a million dollars to rename the city cheaterville. he said it will help financing for new schools, community centers. ironically, bucyrus is current ily one of the few cities in the u.s. that doesn't have a cheater posted on cheaterville. one of the lowest infidelity rates in all of america. >> what's the town staying? >> no comment from the town at this moment. >> a million bucks, though. >> a million bucks. what do you think? would you do it? >> no. they need the money, though. i thought l.a. was cheaterville. >> make it rain. >> here's your friday polka. ♪ politics and foreign wars ♪ all the news, all the scores ♪ that's the world news polka ♪ tapes that roll way too slow ♪ stuff you saw on koppel's show ♪ ♪ that's the world news polka ♪ it's late at night you're wide awake ♪ ♪ and you're not wearing pants ♪ so grab your world news now mug and everybody dance ♪ ♪ have some fun, be a pal ♪ every anchor guy and gal ♪ do the world news polka ♪ who cares what the bosses think ♪ ♪ they'

. >> not a small city. >> no. mon? >> black folks call that having church. >> it was free spirited and uplifting. anyone watching would have felt so engaged. >> i like the way he said, god says, i got you. it's prioritizing, the message of today. so relevant, obviously. >> there is a story i heard many times about the set of "the preacher's wife." whitney sang a song and they were like, cut, cut. miss penny, with all due respect you can't cut the spirit. she is singing. >> that might work for people, but doesn't work for god. >> kevin costner got up there and he connected with a majority of african-american audiences, to show he has a deep spirit, deep faith and they had a real love and connection. >> as a baptist, i didn't know half that stuff about kevin costner's early years. >> he spoke with authenticate and honesty that connected with everyone. >> thank you for having me and thank you for being in newark giving honor to whitney houston. >> we'll be back with more reaction to whitney houston's funeral. ♪ i look

if you think of a hotel as a small city in and of itself, if you have have an emergency response team and find people to be prepared has helped us. as has been mentioned, we have trained in partnership with the fire department, our hotels have hosted the trainings that have resulted in over 400 people being trained. we do feel like there's still things we need to work on. one -- communications, while they've improved, we still need to do more. i think that's the key message i'd like to leave is that i don't think there's ever a point we'll be completely prepared. we're always going to have new people come into the district. we are always going to have visitors. how can we stay on top of it, using social media, p.d.a.'s? one of the things we did is pull together all the different property owners, all the security teams within the properties and where he published a list for all of our employees and for all of our businesses. it's a business card that actually opens up and it has all the different organizations to contact and then on the back we actually added emergency earthquake infor