we might want to work with sonali and others to explain there is many factors that makes it this is a wise time for the city to borrow this money. >> thank you, chairman nolan, i had the question about remaining balance and why not a higher ballot measure, and there is an $8 billion ballot in alameda county, they are going for a huge thing, and not that many more than we are serving. i want to express my interest in making sure we are learning as much as possible from the folks doing transportation measures around the region. in addition to just financial timing, there is also good political timing in respect with the campaigns around the region. and there may be synergies that we capitalize to make sure that the processes are informed and leveraged off of each other. i like this and especially like the equity lens on this and look forward to the next few months. >> thank you, if i can make a point on the size of the general obligation bond. that was in part determined by the city's policy not to raise property tax rates. the maximum rate without raising property tax rates. >> got it,

welcome back here in the now with me and you sonali it's been going on for more than three years and although international focus has shifted to ukraine the syrian war is still there it still continues to take lives i'm sure if it's a sign of helplessness or just plain giving up i get another special envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi has resigned the u.n. says that's because all of us meaning the whole world failed to help the syrians. i mean live in the now is mark seibel chief correspondent at mcclatchy covering syria and the wider middle east thanks for being with us the daily beast reports that john kerry in a private meeting with syrian rebels said that we meaning the u.s. and its allies i believe at least wasted a year and didn't topple president one a waste of time he said what do you make of that. well i don't know if he really said that he might have said that certainly there is a feeling in the united states that a lot of time went by in which the u.s. if it was going to do something militarily didn't do anything militarily whether that was a waste of time or just a policy deb

welcome back you're in the now with me and he sonali palestinians in israeli controlled territories complain of growing mistreatment coming from the sadler's with the israeli army apparently turning a blind eye on the issue even flying a palestinian administration flag is enough to draw raf falsely or has the story of the uphill struggle for basic freedoms. another day in hebron we were flag is more than just a symbol it's a reason for war the first of the things that. they see the notice that someone is climbing up his roof in order to remove the flag of the chair they had put up there but the settler actually got tangled up in. the protection of the barbed wire protection the child he had placed on his roof after twenty minutes the army came to the roof so i came back to the house and asked them what do you want the soldiers said i want to remove the flag i said how come we are in palestinian land it is not israeli land you are the ones who were occupying our land and kicked us out from our houses and you are coming to remove the flag from my roof the i.d.f. had this to say it is not and i