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i'm thuy vu. on tonight's show, discipline in schools, sequoias under stress and san francisco house battle. san francisco voters rejected proposition f. airbnb spent more than $8 million to defeat the measure. was the vote against prop f a vote in favor of airbnb. to answer that question here is kqed reporter marisa lagos. was this a protest vote? >> this is a case of money mattering in an election. all told i think we will see it is closer to 9 million or $10 million. the opposition spent a fraction of that. >> just a tenth. >> and i think that voters heard that. the measure wasn't as well crafted as perhaps it could have been. it was very easy to attack. and you know, this was something that a lot of the cities, the mayor, a lot of the cities sort of political establishment came out against. but we saw other issues that i think we want to talk about where housing played front and center. >> wrooel get to that in a second. let's talk about the mayor's race. mayor ed lee easily won re-election. h

i'm thuy vu. gunmen stored a hotel in the west african nation of mali opening fire and taking hostages. when the siege ended hours later, more than a dozen people were dead. an extremist group led by a former al qaeda commander has claimed responsibility for the attack. the siege in mali took place eight days after islamic state militants launched a series of coordinated attacks across paris that left 130 people dead. this individual i don't obtained by dailymail.com shows people diving for cover after a gunman opened fire into a cafe. those attacks set up a massive global manhunt, a strong military response from france supported by other countries, including russia, and a fierce debate about whether to allow syrian refugees into the united states. here to discuss the obama administration's response to the attacks and its political impalestinians are congressman eric swawell, a democrat representing hayward and pleasanton. a member of the house select intelligence committee. scott shafer, senior e

>>> welcome to kqed newsroom are i'm thuy vu. new measures to protect golden eagles and more obstacles to home ownership. we begin with a look at efforts to reform the criminal justice system in california and across the nation. over the past year protests over police shootings have brought renewed attention to racial disparities in arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates. earlier this month president obama said as long as he is in the white house he will fight to make the criminal justice system fairer and more cost effective. >> 30 years ago there were 500,000 people behind bars in america. today there are 2.2 million. the united states is home to 5 of the wor -- 5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prisoners. every year we spend $80 billion to keep people locked up. many of the folks in prison absolutely belong there. our streets are safer thanks to the brave police officers and dedicated prosecutors who put violent criminals behind bars. but over the last few decades we've also locked up more nonviolent off

. >>> good evening and welcome to "newsroom" i'm thuy vu. on tonight's show, discipline in schools, sequoias under stress and san francisco house battle. san francisco voters rejected proposition f. airbnb spent more than $8 million to defeat the measure. was the vote against prop f a vote in favor of airbnb. to answer that question here is kqed reporter marisa lagos. was this a protest vote? >> this is a case of money mattering in

. >>> good evening and welcome to "newsroom" i'm thuy vu. on tonight's show, discipline in schools, sequoias under stress and san francisco house battle. san francisco voters rejected proposition f. airbnb spent more than $8 million to defeat the measure. was the vote against prop f a vote in favor of airbnb. to answer that question here is kqed reporter marisa lagos. was this a protest vote? >> this is a case of money mattering in an election. all told i think we will see it is clos

[captioning performed by the national captionin >>> welcome to kqed newsroom, i'm thuy vu. gunmen stored a hotel in the west african nation of mali opening fire and taking hostages. when the siege ended hours later, more than a dozen people were dead. an extremist group led by a former al qaeda commander has claimed responsibility for the attack. the siege in mali took place eight days after islamic state militants launched a series of coordinated attacks across paris that left 130 people dead. this individual i don't obtained by dailymail.com shows people diving for cover after a gunman opened fire into a cafe. those attacks set up a massive global manhunt, a strong military response from fce