the park appreciates, superintendent carranza's efforts, and that he has made in the meeting the priorities of the students for the school year of 2014/15, in his presentation, he highlighted four areas of focus for the district this year. first implementing the common core standards. and second, providing transparency about how the schools are funding and insuring that they are in alignment for the six strategis for success and supporting our students. and third, implementing, the safe and supportive schools initiative, and fourth to support african americans student achievement. >> the areas that we will be identifying the priorities for the year. >> we will review the district's strategies and initiatives and our work over the past couple of years, and the san francisco unified school district student data to help to determine the priorities for the year. we will report on this process, next month. >> one of the areas that the path work and it will carry over into this year's work and the local and the controlbility plan and lcap, and next week, the pac will be meeting with our district

it's a serious situation i recommend to puc please increase pulling put that up adhere higher on the priority list mission bay. mission bay is considered a flood plane yet new development is mush roaming the pirates s are issued without accomodation for sea level unfortunately this is a good idea they've hired a consulting engineer from holland that's helpful we ask the jury asks for your support permits not be given out going to until the things are in place. the vulnerability of sro they are also in a two year study trying to determine what to do to keep our airplanes with us. regional considerations we must be careful our mitigations don't put our neighbors at great risk putting up a saufl to force water into other counties bcdc are worried about this they have 41 cities that surround the bay and san francisco is a major factor we sit as a gateway to the bay the jury asks one or more staff be representing us, please. also is a matter of policy on any new development within the purview we ask that bcdc be involved at the onset their wise and watchdogs for our precious bay. early concentrati

well as sf lifeline council and in addition helping the department of water helping to identify the priority projects within the state to help protect us from sea level rise including the seawall. we've been talking with the federal agency like the u.s. core of engineers and looking at structural engineering solutions to addressing the vulnerabilities in downtown san francisco that being said one of the other things we're actively collaboratively with our fellow departments in understanding this important issue and as such the more we understand together about what are the common vulnerabilities and the priorities for the city the better off we'll be to position ourselves to act as a citywide group to look at potential funding mechanisms to address some of the adaptation strategies >> thank you very much. >> will i david him lessor again, i'm going to focus on the sewer program it's on a upgrade it gives us an tremendous opportunity as we're rehabilitating our older system to be incentive to the system we can make margin investments the s i b is 4 levels of targets empathize with our infrast

more unit they can remain under rent control and if there's a conflict with creating for housing the priority policy says keep the remaining how's theres no conflict. >> considerably you can have lot a expanding and b built and absolutely. >> that sound like a winner to me. >> much better this takes away and give us nothing. >> commissioner johnson. >> okay. i guess that was my question it was championing lot a appears to be pretty well designed project but the case is where the rent controlled unit are i'll say if that's a possibility point public defender's wants to expand the rent control units on lot a and modified the project on lot b with the rear yard and the ground floor but that's a continuing project so i'll leave it there. >> commissioner fong. >> i'm actually supportive of project but i understand everyone's concerns there's a lot of projects this size or larger and this is nicely done this little piece of clement street is a growing commercial area and cool restaurant they've not been restaurant there but if you look at the bus line it's not purchase transit rich and from a walka

opportunity not only to do what is right but what you're mandated to do in the general plan under the priority policies and the reinforce directives from the mayor's office save and preserve the rent controlled housing this case is san francisco's neighborhood affordability crisis in a nutshell professional buyers buying rent control buildings and demolish those there's no policy if you're building bigger or more unit you can knock down the rent controlled housing this project doesn't quality for a occasion permit we've analyzed that in packages 6 and it means 6 for the demolition of a permit. the - this is the city's worse affordable housing crisis ever it shows the tune deafness what is remarkable if a family tried to merge them the city would say not recommendation of losing any unit on mergers the impacts on the surrounding community can't be overstated the subdivision the two very large buildings one in the rear yard is against the window it was no set back and, in fact, it keeps taking and taking i also submitted the information from the department u dot ask for 25 percent the department

planning department on this commission of what's a reasonable amount of work that should occur to the priority in compliance with the code provision. >> i get it, but at the same time if you have a four 4 story building and you are allowed to do one floor, then, where is the incentive? right, why even fix up the building. so, that's why, it's almost like that ada percentage calculation. i would love some relative range by if you are doing 10,000 square feet versus 80,000 square feet or 200,000 square feet. there has to be a range of what we are going to ask to be spent versus the amount of square footage you are converting? >> i agree with you and that makes sense from an implementation perspective. my only concern is depending object how the market and even next month that could require updating in the code. that's why i'm afraid of a hard number there. if there is a way we can build sock -- some flexibility into it. >> ddi does that with the 20 percent rule, they create a threshold that changes all the time. when they say when i first started working it was $80,000 worth of work and now it's

one comment while it looks like a lovely house, in terms of the priorities established in terms of trying to find resources less recognized or in other parts of the city, this doesn't meet. we have a lot of victorian structures and structures like this that are already designated and i think with this type of ceqa review that we go through the city that it's unlikely that something terrible would go to the house and i think it would put it lower on the priorities. >> this is a mills act request in the end. we don't know that because the owner can put effort forward because they are not in support of it from what we understand. >> but if it is in question, maybe they can go forward. >> commissioner? >> i don't know why it was requested to be put on the list and by who and there appears to be a pending project. >> i think the concern was that the property was recently sold and sole property ownership and there was a question about potential changes. i have not heard any proposal or ideas about proposals. >> okay. no other questions or comment, we'll close this item and grab commissioner pea

i'm kirsten the d-8 resident and arcade enthusiast i'm excited to hear about your restrictions for priorities that want to use the devices this is an important times for our children and at that time of amazing innovation we've got business owners that are bringing new ways to have recreation. i want to support sfpd recreation to protect our children but when it comes to the preservation of machines that are old and outdated and comes to innovating and creating ways for people to gather and play games together those are two areas they're living by the margins like the small business owners that are creating the spaces to do that. so i encourage you to look at the fees because this can only happen if we can afford to do it and pay the guy to fix it edward reiskin or figure out a way to get together so i encourage you to go further with it >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi thank you for considering this today. i'm erick i'm a 10 year resident ever pole valley and a homeowner which is a few blocks away and a pin baurl i have to say san francisco is a city where we support the spaces th

i included one picture of wrinkle as it exists today to get a sense of the over lying lines and a priority from the community standpoint and frankly from ours to move forward. i'll leave with the schematic that was drawn up by the magnifying in 2011. as part of their community outreach process and their some basic elements in the scheme that will be inherited or executed on our part increase a lot of community meetings left to be had to get more and more components the arts commentating contestant, etc. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. thank you >> thank you. i want to thank you for your work i really peculiarity the amount of time over the years for outreach with the community in the south of market it's generally, the roll market for the school and i love the idea of the heat street but one of the major barriers this prevents people from enjoying places to its great to have the heat. i have a quick question i know i've put a number of trees own harrison street i know that harrison has a narrow sidewalk maybe it's not a question for you but i'm curious about the si

right now the priority is to keep the wider roads open so that relief supplies can apply on the sea.rter: this bridge was washed out on saturday cutting off 150,000 people on the other side. for days they have been coming to the edge to say they have no electricity and supplies are running low. the army has arrived, and they have been rescuing people by boat and they started a temporary bridge hoping they can get to the other side by today if not tomorrow, and they can bring more people out. but this isn't the worst part. the flooding in the rest of the state has trapped hens of thousands of people. in the capitol many people are still stuck on their terraces, asking the family and media outlets that they need help. rescue operations only started on monday when the rain started letting up, and we don't know how many people have been effected. many are like these people who have been cut off for days and there is no way to contact them. it may take several more days and maybe a few weeks until we know the total damage. . >>> in just over a week's time scotland will vote on whether to

the top priority is solving the problem. the second priority is solving this problem in the context of a debate with the american public about our broken immigration system, and what can be done to solve it. as the president of the united states, he feels strongly and personally about his response ability to engage in a dialogue with the american public to make sure they understand the stakes of these debates. who, as iothers pointed out, put politics ahead of all of this. the president doesn't believe that is the right order and priorities. has aause the president variety of fundraisers and political events, has talked extensively and repeatedly about his desire to see democrats motivated to turn out to vote, and he has had vivid disruptions of this challenge to get them to turn out to vote, what the css the impact on turnout would be on turnouthe impact would be if he didn't go ahead with a second action? >> i don't know what his assessment of the situation is. there are a lot of people in this town and in this room who ma

and the second street will improvements the bicycle upgrades are still working to identify the highest priority location with the prop k funds so there's we've worked out a condition to have mta could you be to the authority board with a list of projects to be delivered with this funding we expect that to happen by the end of the calendar year by the end of 2015 continuing the work in addition to the bike and others work we'll continue to fund the outreach and the education classes we've been funding for the last ten years back to workday and caltrain and station access. continuing with the highlights this is the bike strategy in vision zero again most of funding is place holders is 65 percent of the funds to be listed and that the allocation will be conditioned upon cob to the board this is only for the improvements. for the bike circulation and safety educate this slide shows the highlights of the projects completed and underway in the past the city has lacked the pedestrian safety and the program is benefiting from the walk first and the projects to identify the pedestrian high injury networ

to answer your question on the budget, it is a priority. the budget is a priority. someone once said you could tell me all you want about your values. but show me your budget. then i'll tell you what your values are. this would be a high priority of our administration. >> do you believe that the legislature would pass such a plan and why? >> well, i think the legislature will engage in this discussion. i can't guarantee anything. but i know that the democratic caucus in the house and senate believe very proudly and very clearly that middle class has got to get a break. that middle class iowans can't be left out in the cold. they were under the governor's commercial property tax relief. that's the largest property tax relief in history. but it wasn't for the residential taxpayers, it was for the corporate taxpayers. i want to give residential middle america the everyday iowan the tax break they deserve. equal to the tax break he gave. to the corporations of this state. >> thank you, senator. governor, your response. >> well, first of all, eliminating federal deductib

can you tell us what the priority is today? >> reporter: the priority is funding part of the president's plan and also we have breaking news about this, this morning, dara. reports that a syrian warplane has been bombing isis in syria, that it went down near one of the towns that is controlled by this militant group. there are reports from one organization watching things on the ground that isis shot down that plane, there are casualties on the ground, one of the reasons that lawmakers here today want to vote on whether or not to fund training and provide an arms to the syrian rebels. the defense secretary, chair of the joint chiefs testify on capitol hill today about the administration's strategy to defeat isis. >> i believe it is in our national security interests for the congress to act quickly. >> reporter: overnight, the house rules committee agreed to act fast, on a vote to train syrian rebels to fight isis, part of the president's plan. >> i think the congress will at least give the president what he's asking for. >> rep

the economy work for everyone. but speaker tillis has different priorities, the wrong priorities. and every opportunity he has fought for policies that are taking our state backwards. he's put tax cuts for millionaires and big corporations before our students, before women, before our middle class, and ultimately before our future. tonight, you will be able to examine our true priorities. please listen to whom we're fighting for. speaker tillis feels that those who have the most should get the most help. i believe that our middle class and small businesses come first, and the economy should work not just for the welty, but for everyone. >> thank you, senator hagan. the first question goes to speaker tillis. just yesterday a new are video of a second american being executed by isis, -- this morning while overseas the president vowed to degrade and destroy the terrorist group. he has already authorized air strikes in iraq. the focus is now on syria. how do you think the administration should proceed? does the u.s. need to strike isis in syria to protect american national security? >

the speaker tillis has different priorities. the wrong priorities. and every opportunity he has fought for policies that are taking our state backwards. he has put tax cuts for millionaires and the corporations before our students, before women, before our middle class. and ultimately, before our future. tonight, you will be able to examine our true priorities. please listen to whom we are fighting for. speaker tillis feels those who have the most should get the most help. i believe that our middle class and small businesses come first, in the economy should work not just for the wealthy, but for everyone. senator hagan. the first question goes to speaker tillis. yesterday, new video surfaced of the second american being executed by isis, otherwise known as the islamic state in iraq and syria. this morning while overseas, the president out to degrade and destroy the terrorist group. he is are the authorized airstrikes in iraq. the focus is now on syria. how do you think the administration should proceed? does the u.s. need to strike isis in syria to p

. >> reporter: only 5% contained, as i mentioned, and fire crews say the priority is the safety of the people and the fire crews and that the homes is what they're really working on. they've been setting up a perimeter trying to stop the flames from coming close to these structures. they say the weather is another factor, as they mentioned, the humidity. and they're hoping for change. there is the possibility that some rain could be coming in tonight into tomorrow, about a 50/50 chance. the rain could help them knock this down. but if it comes with strong winds that could be extremely dangerous and could jump the fire. as we mentioned, highway 50 was closed earlier but is reopened. they were worried it would spread. they're keeping an eye on this and doing everything they possibly can to keep everybody safe and stop this fire from burning. reporting live in pollock pines, michele roberts, nbc news. >> more details on the king fire. bay area firefighters rushed east today to help out there. this is video of the san francisco team just before it left this morning. the team leader says th

then that would lead to the question to make sure that cca has been the top priority for lafco and assuming based on the discussions i have had with you that cca continue to be the priority and this would be secondary work for me and i would work with this intensively as cca wouldn't be, it's not going to be something that gets jumped on tomorrow because i'm still working with puc and getting comments to when we get to that subject matter next and where is the balance supposed to be for me so i have my clear direction. >>supervisor john avalos: first let's go to supervisor tang where your expectation around it? >>supervisor katy tang: obviously the sooner the better. i appreciate the work of mr. freed and the main goals of lafco. i do want to refer to the commission but would love to see something within a year at least. >>supervisor john avalos: why don't we expect that the next lafco meeting you can provide a scope of work entails and providing a scope of work before delving into the research you can do that and you can give us a sense of what your current commitment is around cca and so

that's the top priority. >> so appreciate your time. we'd love to check in with you tomorrow now that we know the forensics will come back tomorrow. thank you and good luck. >> thank you, ashleigh. >> i want to bring in mel robbins and paul cowen. so strange that someone would surrender himself only to say, and i want a lawyer and i'm not staying? tw what do you make of that? >> from a legal percent spespec they did the right thing. you don't want to hold someone and violate their -- >> why not? >> why not? >> because if you can find someone before he or she lives -- >> that presumes that she's still alive. >> that's what i'm presuming and that's what police are presuming. >> i typically am the kind of person that says, do it and ask for forgiveness later. don't ask for permission. but what the police are very concerned about is gathering any kind of evidence that can't be used in against the prosecution later. he volunteered himself. he wasn't arrested. he wasn't brought into custody. he walked into the police department. he didn't even

>> it shows the commitment and priority of the governor. anythingiled to do about state spending so it is skyrocketing. the tax increase that he put on connecticut citizens in 2011. we are already spending more than that. if they are slowing down in terms of the rate of growth, it is less of a priority for you than the things you're speeding up. i look at performance. in the performance in our schools is actually dropped. i was the one who started talking about the need to fix schools in 2010. we have the largest achievement gap. it is simply inexcusable. the assessments used to measure the achievement gap, on one of them we approved -- improved and others we got worse. we have slipped. performance.eal they initiated real education reform and were eight best in the nation and we were six. since then, massachusetts is going to number one. ground lost further under governor malloy and this will be a top priority. the promise of america is fairness. an opportunity. they are not getting a decent education. the level of funding has decreased. >>

assembled a really incredible group of people to give us some input on sdurd -- desired uses and the priority for the space. the feedback has also been incorporated to the concept proposals. we presented the terms and conditions to the public, late august, august 28th. so again, this advisory committee was really incredible wealth of information that they provided for us. before we engage them we provided them with the historic information about the building, historical uses and the conditions assessment report. we had a presentation for an ehdc and then went into discussion. i won't talk about every single advisory committee member but this slide gives a real idea of the kind of talent that we had on this committee, the broad representation that they each brought to the table, but we had community groups, merchant groups, folks from sf travel and chamber and information from the supervisors as well as our commissioner low. the advisory committee offered some fairly high level categories of use that they would like to see in this space. a museum type use, educational use, sports facility poss

. >> arguing with the ambulance doctor and nurse about what the priorities should be. n the chaos and conflict that was going on between them, nobody was doing anything for nick. >> tomorrow at 5:00, 2 investigates reveals records from an internal investigation that show a series of medical missteps leading up to nick castle's death. also, how the peace corps is responding to the pending lawsuit, and calls for change. >>> misspelled street names etched in stone. >> it will bug me every time i see it. >> why the city says getting the names right wasn't the top priority. >> warming up as we head towards the bay area weekend. low long it will take for temperatures to climb into the mid-90s. >> and for the first time, we're hearing from the american nurse who survived the ebola virus. how she describes the chilling moment when she first learned she contracted the disease. >>> the daughter of comedienne joan rivers says she has been moved from intensive care of a hospital into a private room. she is quoting about kept comfortable. rivers suffered cardiac arrest while undergo

i go around and the commander general set the priority is to take care of the forces. if you have time, you deal with the infrastructure. so i noticed we do not have a doctrine to engage the nations. then, a week later i got a phone call from the ministry of haveior telling me they 9000 entities and another 30,000 from the iraqi and iranian war, can you help us? i go back and say they need help . they said this is ministry of interior. thereing to engage is not -- authority to engage is not there. and tell myback surgeon general, this is what we have, we do not have a policy to engage. the bottom line, any global theth engagement, we need doctrine to engage, or authority to engage and the policy to engage. if we combine all of these, we will have sustainable. that is where i see the issue is. all of the things you gentlemen mentioned are important, but how do we implement that yak of the united states has more than 100 security assistance agreements. this is capacity holding for transferable of knowledge from this great nation and many other nations to more difficult c

the world. this is a high priority. we have we have seen important amendments from individual countries around the globe indicating their support for the goal the president has laid out for this rotor coalition. -- this broader coalition. i don't anticipate reaching a where we sort of stand up from the desk and say our efforts to build this coalition have been completed. this will be ongoing work. there is this important task that general allen is principally focused on which is assessing the needs of the coalition and those needs will change over time. he will also be assessing the capabilities of individual nations who are committed to being part of the broader coalition. and matching up those capabilities with the needs of the coalition will be work that is ongoing. i anticipate that when the president is participating in activities associated with the united nations general assembly this week is that he will have the kinds of conversations with cand leaders about how they contribute to the broader international coali

well to be honest cohen i don't think the government's priority is the reduction of unemployment the current economic policies plan for growth of one and a half just on the one half cent this year two percent next year and they expect to create around two hundred thousand jobs in two thousand and fourteen maybe three hundred thousand jobs a year for the next few years at that rate we would reach reasonable german levels of unemployment by twenty twenty eight because there although no jobs that's a problem if or if the skilled people have gone albeit maybe temporarily until things get better who's going to fill these new jobs. well spanish employment still remains that twenty five percent overall and fifty over fifty percent youth unemployment so there's plenty of people to work but obviously issue as you will very rightly say they're going to be lower skilled jobs and they're going to add less to the spanish economy and it's a policy of shooting ourselves in the foot and the government is obviously concentrating on other things apart from reduction on employment how would you think t

them responding to our grants program they agreed and picked a learning project picked through the priorities of the puc projects. we worked with project enterprise to discuss what is some intellect to think through to identify what the project categories would be and when the request for proposals went out, it really focused on those categories. we were able to support 25 organizations and able to reach 500 young people just through that community based strategy. so we have been extremely enthusiastic about that. >>president vince courtney: what's the average amount? >> $25,000 and those would have come to you for approval prior to them going out. and then finally we had a strong focus on puc issues and also had young people engage others. what we saw last year is youth engaging other youth rather than us working direct ly even though we feel young. we really try to expand on this strategy. this past summer, almost 600 young

the top priority of the new administration is the security challenge. the taliban has exploited the electoral standoff to intensify its attacks. as most international combat troops would pull out by the end of the year. nhk world world reports on the challenges that lie ahead. >> reporter: the taliban is capitalizing on the chaos in afghanistan. the local police chief says the situation is making his work more difficult. >> translator: because of the confusion surrounding the election, our arms supply stopped. if this situation continues, fighting the enemy will be very difficult. >> reporter: nearly 1,000 civilians have died in the last 6 months, caught up in the rising number of terrorist incidents and fighting. the family of shah gul lives in the north of the country. her husband died in august, shot in a crossfire between the taliban and security forces while walking in his field. >> translator: we didn't know there would be fighting here. we would have fled had we known that. >> reporter: with the family breadwinner gone, shah gul is raising five c

having the housing is important and we need to be careful when considering land used for the priorities over the next year and we want to insure we're not approving projects ad hoc. i want to recognize supervisor campos and supervisor david chiu and supervisor mar and also introducing two hearing requests one is that hearing request on san francisco pre k and transitional we had a presentation from the department of children's the controller's office and the mayor's office of education on the statistics of the city and county of san francisco see prekindergarten program. presentations whether include the demographics of students who are in the programs and the achievement gaps of those who attended pre k and those who didn't. and the second hearing i'm introducing a co- introducing with president fewer is a hearing request on the policies for planning for new student enrollment ems just in the last 10 years from 2000 to 2010 the san francisco population grew. and now sits anothers 8 hundred and 25 thousand and projected to grow to one million the accommodates those growth we need the bu

humanitarian ones are the priority. the commercial possibilities are generating interest. >>> amazing pictures from the clip diving world series in spain. gary hunt has been ground world champion. there's one event left. his jump from the bridge gave him enough points for a fourth world title in six years. >> that's it from us. for more go to the website >>> i'm lisa fletcher, and you are in the "stream." thousands are dead with no end in sight. the latest on the ebola outbreak plaguing west africa. adequate? ♪