my name is lourdes and i am a family case manager with the united families program. i will read a couple statements from the youth that weren't able to be here regarding the park, and we are in opposition of the proposed plan. the first one that i am reading is from nikki who is 16 years old and lives in the south of market, and goes to john o'connell high school. it means so much to me as a youth. >> please speak into the microphone. thank you. >> living here because of my friends, we play basketball there every summer which is important to them. i want to see my friends enjoy the sun in the park as we watch them play for fun. the park is important because we only have a few parks that we can go and enjoy the place without shadow blocking the sun. i also have a statement from a man who is 18 years old and lives in the south of market and is currently attending city college. he says i grew up playing on the park and many other kids had the same experience. is the only park that soma has that is truly theirs. more shadows will limit the exposure to the sun, and the ki

family programs. i am pleased to be here with my colleagues and welcome the opportunity today to introduce you to casey family programs and describe our vision for supporting children and families across the united states. founded in 1966, with headquarters in seattle washington, casey family programs is the nations largest operating foundation focused on safely reducing the need for foster care and building communities of hope for our children and families across america. we worked directly with child welfare agencies in all 50 states. the district of columbia, puerto rico, the u.s. virgin islands and directly with 16 american indian tribal nations. to influence long-lasting improvements to the safety and success of children, families and communities where they live. we also work hand-in-hand with birth parents, foster parents and with alumni of foster care as we strongly believe their voice in the stories must be included to inform policy and practice change. this work, as well as the growing body of research on child develop me, brain size and the significant impact of adverse child experiences has made clear that long-term foster care is not good for children and families. we need a robust s

hadi: well, one great thing about computer programming in iran during the war, it really was an escape. all of our family had left iran to come to the unitedtates. so we were alone without family. when you are programming a computer, you can close that all out and create whatever you want. emily: you moved to the united states when you were 11? >> yes, leaving a country like iran, for starters, it's not that easy. especially during a war. so it took a lot of time to get the paperwork done and so on, to be able to get out. so first of all we moved to europe, and then we were traveling around for a whole summer, trying to find a u.s. embassy who would grant us visas to be able to enter the united states. and i think we had reached the point where, one more rejection, it would be like, you can never come to the u.s. and so, i remember we had rented an apartment in italy, we were there, and the phone rang. my mom picked it up, thank god it was our mom, and not our dad. so, our mom picked it up, and it was a woman on the other end of the line informing her that we had been rejected. so my mom, who is, like many iranian women, fiery and fearless

united states. many of them have families there, a lot of them have families in canada. i talked with people from the canadian embassy and they have a programnites family, mexicans or hondurans who are working there and they have visas for that. but these guys didn't cross legally into mexico. they tore down our border and jumped. that -- that sympathetic. >> so finally how are you going to respond when this happens again because this will not likely be the last caravan that comes through tijuana? >> this president has a very different mind-set from the last person. this president says welcome, we are giving you a job and will create opportunities for you. and in tijuana we are worried and we are waiting for that to happen in the next day. the other shelter that was in charge of the town of tijuana, and we feel for you and we hope you will come back on and tell us how it's going. >> we hope it gets better before it gets worse. >> tucker: i hope so. thanks. this is a fox news alert. president george h.w. bush, the 41st president of the united states is lying in state tonight at the u.s. capitol building. the president has just arrived to pay

colleagues welcoming the opportunity to introduce you to casey family programs to design - - describe our vision for families across united states. headquartered in seattle washington the nation's largest operating foundation focusing on safely reducing the need for foster care to build communities for children and families across america. we work directly with child welfare agencies in all 50 states and the district of columbia puerto rico us virgin islands and directly with 16 tribal nations to influence long-lasting improvements to the safety and success of children and families and communities where they live. we also work hand in hand with birth parents and foster parents and alumni of foster care as we strongly believe their voice and their stories must be included to inform policy and change this works along with a growing body of research on brain science and child development and the significant impact of adverse experiences has made clear long-term foster care is not good for children and families we need services with a full continuum of care for all individuals to work together. unfortunately for the past seve

unit. tenant of a bmrdccu must provide a license. the proposed changes to the dccu program -- the legislation would amend two sections of the planning code. family child care homes can care for infants. currently there aren't enough spots. the legislation would create dedicated bmr units and protecting housing for the provider. there were 53 family child care homes in 2007 and ten years later there were only 27. since child care is operated by women, these units will help to employ women and provide stable housing. the department recommends commission approved the proposed ordinance. if you have any questions, around child care, let's ask those. staff from supervisor yee's is here and would like to speak more about this. >> thank you. thank you president hillis and commissioners. thank you so much to the staff. we're so excited to bring this legislation back to you today. for those who remember, this has gone through many evolutions. we are so proud torque close -- to work closely with your staff and early care education community on developing this legislation. our hope is that this policy creates another spark so they can think more creatively

i am pleased to be here with my colleagues and introduce you to the family programs meant describe our vision across the united states. in 1966 with headquarters in seattle, washington. nations'sgrams is the largest operating foundation focused on safely reducing the need for foster care and building communities of hope for our children and families across america. we work directly with child welfare agencies and off -- in all 50 states, the district of columbia, puerto rico, the virgin islands, and with 16 american indian tribal nations. we also work hand-in-hand with bird parents. foster parents. and with alumni of foster care. as we strongly believe their voice and their stories must be included to inform policy and practice change. this work, as well as a growing and theresearch significant impact of adverse childhood experiences has made clear that long-term foster care is not good for children and families. we need a robust system of support and services and a full continuum of care and for all of our communities and individuals to work together. unfortunately, for the past several decades, the federal c

program in the united states. we've served over 100,000 women and their families, given out over $1 billion.dly, we've helped them be banked. half of female-headed households that live in poverty are not banked here in united states, so we think it's importantly understand the power of asset building. in the united states, just a little savings -- just five dollars a week -- if you don't have $800 in your savings account in the united states, one health issue, one emergency and you're back under the poverty line, so it's been proven that having assets is important, even a little bit a week, so we encourage that. the third thing we offer our credit scores, approximately 650 for someone who has come to us and paid back with a good repayment rate for 26 weeks, so just after six months, you can have a credit score that's respectable from no credit or bad credit, and that is life-changing, as well. our women form groups. they meet with their peers every single week, and that model has given them a tremendous amount of empowerment, peer learning in the which has fueled their ability to be successf

families. this would allow developers and property owners to build residential units on the ground floor if it's designated for family childcare. this is a voluntary program. i will let the planning department go into more details in a second, but before that, i really want to thank the planning staff, mayor's office of housing and office of early care and education and especially want to thank my chief of staff, jen lowe, who worked tirelessly with developers and different departments. want to thank my co-sponsors in the legislation, supervisors ronen and kim. chair tang, i would like to invite sheila nikolopolis from the planning department to present. >> hello. san francisco planning department. i have a presentation here. so the proposed legislation that we'll talk about today was introduced by the board of supervisors by supervisor yee and heard at the planning commission november 29. it would change the planning code, dccus. we worked closely with various departments for this legislation. to provide some context, the planning department's work in support of family friendly city focuses on five broad areas. the suggested changes to the dccu program w

-unit building within the same envelope, offering more housing to families, more rental stock to our city, aened above all, more below market rate housing units to the mayor's office of housing program. by maximizing the density potential of the three lots on which the building will sit, we're doing our part to help mayor breed reach the goal of creating 5,000 units of housing each year. 25% or 15 units of this project will be allocated to the mayor's office of housing bmr program. in addition, 150,000 will be donated to continue the bathroom attendant security program when the current funding ends, helping to improve safety for its park users. there are four rent-controlled units on the site. and the tenants will be given relocation assistance and temporary, fully renovated housing until they can move into the new building. mandated, but also significant is the roughly $900,000 in impact fees, further contributing to the city's funding for soma open space development, improvement of affordable housing, transportation and infrastructure projects. i hope the commission will see that we hope to build this project and others in the future and it will be a win-win for the city, as well

families. section 201. tanf program extensions. a, family assistance grants. section 403-a-1 of the social security act, 42, united states code, 603 a-1 is amended in each of subparagraphs a and c by striking 2017 and 2018 and inserting 2019 and 2020. b, healthy marriage promotion and responsible fatherhood grants. ction 403-a-2-d of such act, 42, united states code, is amended. one, by striking 2017 and 2018, and inserting 2019 and 2020. and two, by striking for fiscal year 2017 or 2018. c, contingency fund. section 403-b-2 of such act, 42, united states code, 603-b-2 is amended by striking fig fiscal year 2018 and inserting each of fiscal years 2019 and 2020. d, tribal family assistance grants. paragraphs 1-a and 2-a of section 412-a of such act, 42, united states code, 612-a, are each amended by striking 2017 and 2018 and inserting 2019 and 2020. e, child care. section 418-a-3 of such act, 42, ited states code, 618-a-3 is striking 2017 and 2018 and inserting 2019 and 2020. f, grants to the territories. section 1108-b-2 of such act, united states code, is amended by striking 2017 and 2018 and inserting 2019 and

united states. we saw a snap program that will continue to help out needy families. we saw prioritizing conservation which is a win for both farmers and conservationists alike in an ever more crowded florida. we also saw four bills that we crafted and put forward included and i thank the gentleman from texas and the gentleman from minnesota for their help with that. the veterans with disabilities language that provides technical training, that was something that i got an idea when i was out in midland speaking to one of the gentlemen from texas' constituents. the bill that allowed for authorization of agricultural research between the united states and israel. is a program that needed a long time to be authorized and we're xcited to have it. algae based research to look at biofuels is helpful and just to conclude, we're also developing high tech sensors in central florida for agriculture and i thank everybody on the committee for their good work and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas se recognized. mr. mr. conaway: i reserve. the speaker pr

pretty attractive for people when they're not living in the context of the family unit to have a living set up where there is programssocial activity. i was struck by how diverse the places in d.c. are. a bunch of these different things. i thought it has some promise to offer beyond what i would've expected. >> aarp has a couple of things, you have this initiative you are doing, i'm going to have you share a couple of moments about that. i'm also interested in the miami dolphins. >> they won the football game. >> i understand you have a collaboration with the miami dolphins. i do not, i follow sumo not football. they go out and deliver services in the south florida community. of the questions i have, and it comes back to something dr. murthy was alluding to, cosmetic things that touch something versus things to become deep and meaningful. how you make a miami dolphins day of delivery and service into something that is not transitory and ultimately shallow and ineffective. and how does your other initiative -- >> connect to effect.org. >> share with us how to make that a deep thing to move the needle. that i go to all

the whole day and this for the united nations world food program is an indication that they could face more cases of severe shortages of food and they are talking about family like cases in different pockets particularly northern parts of the country and areas surrounding the seaport of her data which has become the focal point of the fight in yemen and this explains why the international community is now hoping to push all the parties to negotiate a settlement forty if there is a deal today or tomorrow in stockholm that would send a positive in signal to the international community and to the yemenis if the talks collapse like they did in the past is going to be bad news for the millions of yemenis and we'll keep an eye on everything that's happening there in sweden with you hashem thank you very much at the moment. live for us in rainbow. china has condemned the arrest of the chief financial officer of holly technologies and is demanding her release main ones who was detained in vancouver on saturday at the request of us police she is facing extradition to the united states on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran mang is a deputy chair of hallway

people when they're not living in the context of a nuclear family unit to have some sort of living setup where there's some sort of programmed social activity. and i was really struck by how diverse the places in d.c. are. and we live oslow, common, a bunch of these different things and like this has some promise to offer that sort of beyond what i would have expected. >> lisa, aarp has a couple of things and you got the -- this initiative that you're doing. but i'm going to have you share just a couple of moments about that. but i'm also interested in the miami dolphins. and what you're -- you know, that they -- and i -- >> they won the football game. >> they won the football game but you have a collaboration with the miami dolphins. and i do not. all my team -- and -- i follow sumo, not football. [laughter] and you -- they go out and they deliver services and opportunities in the south florida community. >> yes. >> and guess one of the questions i have -- comes back to something, was sort of alluding to, is cosmetic things that just touch something versus things that become deep and meaningful. and so -- how you make a mia

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united states. we saw a snap program that will continue to help out needy families. we saw prioritizing conservation which is a win for both farmers and conservationists alike in an ever more crowded florida. we also saw four bills that we crafted and put forward included and i thank the gentleman from texas and the gentleman from minnesota for their help with that. the veterans with disabilities language that provides technical training, that was something that i got an idea when i was out in midland speaking to one of the gentlemen from texas' constituents. the bill that allowed for authorization of agricultural research between the united states and israel. is a program that needed a long time to be authorized and we're xcited to have it. algae based research to look at biofuels is helpful and just to conclude, we're also developing high tech sensors in central florida for agriculture and i thank everybody on the committee for their good work and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas se recognized. mr. mr. conaway: i reserve. the speaker pr

units. today, san rafael police and fire crews brought toys to the victims. the volunteer crews say they wanted to restore some of that holiday spirit to those displaced families. it's all part of a program that helps officers give back to those in need. >> and the fact that we've made this a 12-month, year program so in the event of house fires, the whole bit, we actually can do birthdays and whatever during the year to help the kids get past the traumatic experience that they're going through. >> that's so nice. san rafael santa cop program started in 2000 to help underprivileged kids and fire victims. christmas is over, but new year's eve right around the corner. >>> are we going get some nice weather? >> it's going to be dry but the winds are what's going to impact your new year's eve plans. so much so that they've already issued a watch, especially for elevations above 1,000 feet so before i get to that, i do want to show you this beautiful shot of what it looks like outside right now, the san mateo bridge. we enjoyed a mostly clear day, plenty of sunshine, but the temperatures, well, they didn't really warm up by much. in fact, we only topped out in the 50s today and i already miss

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united states are living. it's not where you might expect. tictoc has a story on how children's program sesame street is introducing a homeless puppet to raise awareness of familylth and howm, the richest in japan are benefiting on -- under economics. check those stories on the terminal. >> the big news of the day. softbank's wireless unit begins trading in tokyo later on after an initial public offering. ¥1500. the grey market is trading just below that figure. what's the feeling about this ipo? that depends who you ask. how the markett it's lookingthis, fairly tepid. it comes down to market conditions. it's freezing here in tokyo. perhaps that is also adding to some of the lackluster reception that we are getting here as far as the ipo was concerned. the ipo was fully subscribed. 90% went to retail investors. the story was about the dividend yield of 5%. if you consider the risk to the business, this is where the institutional part comes into play. its three basic things. highly competitive market. it will get more competitive. if we get into a price war, that 85% gross dividend ratio doesn't really matter. that something to consider as well. as far as the di