that's the big reason that so many unregulated taxi-like startups are taking off. ktvu's sal castanedo joins us live with the results of a new study on this situation. good afternoon, sal. >> reporter: good afternoon, tori. if you live and work in san francisco, it's no fresh idea that a lot of people say they need more cabs. well, san francisco, the city of, is trying to make that happen. getting a cab in san francisco can be tough. >> it's really tough on a friday night or a thursday night if you are anywhere downtown or at a busy street. you will see 20 cabs go by you. >> reporter: a new report commissioned by the san francisco municipal transportation agency recommends adding as many as 600 to 800 new cabs within the next few years to fill a growing need. the findings confirm what many suspected. there are not enough cabs in the city. >> a lot of it is about bringing back or increasing people's confidence in the taxi system so they know they will be able to get a taxi when they need one, that they only have to call one to get one. then don't call three and they

just got an emergency generator and those are emergency generators and those are all noise, and unregulated. thank you for your time. >> president chiu: thank you . next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is thomas -- i am a resident in the dolores park, it is in general regarding all of san francisco anything it bears repetition to say this is a world-class city, the most liberal city in the united states, perhaps the most liberal city in the planet earth and we need to move forward with a lot of regard for the citizens of earth, meeting people who live here not the rich little kids were running to get stone and high in dolores park. i think it is an invasion of the 18th street corridor. inds (indiscernible)we don't walk down the sidewalk anymore because restaurants have taken over. i live on the corner, i know them all. there is drug dealing out the window. my daughter was born 15 years ago there. there is no ordinance being of help. there is no regulation. the noise violation is unbelievable. the over density population of dolores park is exceeding any kind of limited its ex

that's the big reason that so many unregulated taxi-like startups are taking off. ktvu's sal castanedo joins us live with the results of a new study on this situation. good afternoon, sal. >> reporter: good afternoon, tori. if you live and work in san francisco, it's no fresh idea that a lot of people say they need more cabs. well, san francisco, the city of, is trying to make that happen. getting a cab in san francisco can be tough. >> it's really tough on a friday night or a thursday night if you are anywhere downtown or at a busy street. you will see 20 cabs go by you. >> reporter: a new report commissioned by the san francisco municipal transportation agency recommends adding as many as 600 to 800 new cabs within the next few years to fill a growing need. the findings confirm what many suspected. there are not enough cabs in the city. >> a lot of it is about bringing back or increasing people's confidence in the taxi system so they know they will be able to get a taxi when they need one, that they only have to call one to get one. then don't call three and they

don't want what happened in my neighborhood to continue to happen in other neighborhoods, basically unregulated rent and noise. so with that let's go to the overhead angle back to our global birds' nest village;

unregulated cabs are a symptom of an unfulfilled need. >> they're picking up the slack. that shows you that people needs rides. >> reporter: if the board approves the more new cabs you could start seeing them later this year. >>> freeway is going to cost a lot of drivers some money. a lot of cars had flat hairs on 80. the highway patrol said it was probably a pipe or metal. they don't know where it came from. the incident started at about 6:00 this morning. the roadway was clear by 7:00. >>> the city of san jose wants help naming falcons that hatched on city hole. young people between the age of 5 and 18 who live or go to school in san jose are invited to enter the contest. a similar contest last year named four others others, hope, thunder, cobalt and horatio. >>> it's official. the blue angels will not fly over san francisco this year. will fleet week survive? that's the question. >>> we're live at the airport where bay area students head to washington d.c. for a major march. back in the day, we didn't have the u-verse wireless receiver. [ light laugh ] the tv stayed i

unregulated cabs are a symptom of an unfulfilled need. >> they're picking up the slack. that shows you that people needs rides. >> reporter: if the board approves the more new cabs you could start seeing them later this year. >>> freeway is going to cost a lot of drivers some money. a lot of cars had flat hairs on 80. the highway patrol said it was probably a pipe or metal. they don't know where it came from. the incident started at about 6:00 this morning. the roadway was clear by 7:00. >>> the city of san jose wants help naming falcons that hatched on city hole. young people between the age of 5 and 18 who live or go to school in san jose are invited to enter the contest. a similar contest last year named four others others, hope, thunder, cobalt and horatio. >>> it's official. the blue angels will not fly over san francisco this year. will fleet week survive? that's the question. >>> we're live at the airport where bay area students head to washington d.c. for a major march. back in the day, we didn't have the u-verse wireless receiver. [ light laugh ] the tv stayed i

regulatory agency by endorsing the operations of companies that are operating in the city unlawfully, unregulated, unlicensed. and for the mayor to do that i mean it seems disgrace full to me. those companies are providing uncontrolled competition. their numbers are growing day by day and the direction that is solution is taking of putting out more taxis to meet more of their vehicles to take back taxi share from us. i don't think that's going to work. there's a very influential article that goes back a few decades called the tragedy of the common sense where, you know, the farmers use a common area to grace their cattle and, you know, farmers this farmer puts another cow an and another farmer puts a cow on it and pretty soon that's their individual benefit to do it but the cows are staffing. we in this situation are the cows senator something has to be done >> (calling names). >> at the april 6th accounting vote of this task force the vote was to find a violation of the speaking times 5 to 4, however, one member of the task force does not show so it failed for the affirm active vote of the membe

what he means it's an unregulate unregulated climate. >> john: getting the governments off our backs.this is what happened. from 2008 to 2011 more than 1800 worker deaths in texas. in california it was 1500. california has 40% more population. we need regulation to save lives, not self-reporting. and yet overall it's not only a problem. west texas this is a problem all over the united states with the cutbacks that we see, and unfortunately we see it also under the obama administration. we have something like 2200 osha inspectors for the entire country. if you were going to inspect every plant it would take 129 years for each plant to be inspected. that's not acceptable. >> john: is that the reason why they got away with it? i appreciate this is the defining argument of our times. are you going to have government oversight or are you going to allow the free market to take care of themselves. why do you think they were able to get away from inspections for so long. >> when we cover the facts on the ground, and we give names and faces to stories like this. this is not just an abstract st

how did this unregulated imaginary currency invented by an anonymous hacker and backed by the full faith and credit of you-tube comments ever go wrong? here to tell me, please welcome one of the hosts of n.p.r.'s planet money, adam davidson. adam thank you so much for being here. all right. okay. adam, so what caused this crash, okay? was there a bit-coin bubble? >> which crash and which bubble stephen: the crash that just happened this past week where it was at $266 and went down to $56 or something. >> it went up to 100 and down to 60 and down to 95 just today. >> stephen: at this moment do i buy or sell bit-coin, this second? >> never buy bit-coin would be my advice >> stephen: it's a hot new thing. yp shouldn't i buy the thing that is sometimes worth something? >> if you do have money that you have no need to use ever again in your life and you want to see what happens with it, that's a reasonable investment but there's absolutely no way to know what it's going to be worth in five minutes let alone five years. >> stephen: is there anyway of knowing what gold is worth because gold is.

disabilities to work and they face their jobs with pride and love and offer a service that no other unregulated service will map for to us keep in mind. these drivers go above and beyond the call of duty everyday. they do amazing work and it's for the most part without a spotlight and without any recognition. they do it because they care about the people they serve. there is 4 of them. i'm going to give a brief snapshot of each and we have a little multimedia presentation. the first is -- an bailey, she drivers seniors to golden gate park so they can participate in a gardening program. one of her riders quoted an angel with wings on a sidewalk for picking her up after an all day hospital procedure and she arrived and on time to make sure this rider got off safely. george, has customers he is pro you had to take to work every week and works with people and george has been driving a ramp taxi since the beginning of the program and one of the customers has been driving with him with a pager and contacted passengers. fred line, out of the most transit service in the san francisco taxi, he has many

if they care about safety versus the unregulated contributions. it is not the nra. the remmingtons, the bush masters that pour the money into the nra. that's what's buying congress. >> sharon, let me bring you in. a video was put out by harry reid and it shows republicans supporting gun control measures right after newtown. >> all of us, republicans and democrats have recognized that we need more effective and broader background checks. >> i think there is discussion or at least chatter about strengthening and improving the background checks. >> i want to take it beyond discussion and charter comfortable we get you on the record saying you think that will likely pass through congress, the idea of universal background check? >> and it is something you could vote for? >> i think it is a reasonable step forward. >> a reasonable step forward. jeff flake who was on "meet the press" just this weekend saying more effective and broader background checks could be something that he would support as well. what happened? >> right, well i think the further we are removed from th

to chemical toxins in the minutes of skywriting cases of autism, and asthma, sbr chrome contains unregulated harmful chemicals, many found on the prop 65 list of cancer-causing materials .today to make more of the synthetic products are scheduled in san francisco. despite my ineptitude, and must continue to speak out for the children. it is not too late to do what i think would be a courageous act and deeply reconsider the installation of sbr chrome and involve pediatric medicine regarding the key relative exposure to carcinogens which is lacking today. the use of this material is currently being challenged . in the california supreme court last month two fundamental supports are being challenged in washington dc; when you choose to recognize the toxicity of this material you can simply remove it; what cannot be done is to extract the metals, chemicals and carcinogens from the bodies and nervous systems of the children were being exposed yesterday, today and tomorrow. >> president chiu, can you hear me? >> yes we can. >> my name is j kennedy. i come today in this time of budgetary planning t

to chemical toxins in the minutes of skywriting cases of autism, and asthma, sbr chrome contains unregulated harmful chemicals, many found on the prop 65 list of cancer-causing materials .today to make more of the synthetic products are scheduled in san francisco. despite my ineptitude, and must continue to speak out for the children. it is not too late to do what i think would be a courageous act and deeply reconsider the installation of sbr

operators complained they are losing business to unregulated ride share companies but at san francisco international airport officials are telling the ride shares to "hit the road" for now. >> next, neighbors at an east bay community have a new crime-fighting crime if police do not catch you, the camera will. >> exploring the wonders of the new exploritorium, a look at a major new points that -- that mixes science and arts. >> is microsoft ready to unveil the next generation xbox? the new system will require a constant intent connection and cost $500. >> the htc1, a new droid smartphone features a 4.7" screen and 5 mega pixel camera. the phone offers a lot but will it compete with the upcoming samsung galaxy s4? >> wait. this is a great phone. you will not regret buying it but you should get a comparison between the two hottest droid phones. >> it will retail for $200 with a two-year >> san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> we have a quieter morning this tuesday. here is a live look at downtown san francisco from the sue -- sutro tower camera. we

nightly business report has been brought to you by -- >> deadly smog, piles of burning garbage, unregulated industrial pollution, toxic insecticides. everyday, barely-treated sewage spews into the waterways. it's a world with no recycling, no clean air act, no clean water act, no endangered species act. there is little protected open space and no rapid transit system. 65 days a year the air quality is so poor, it's deemed dangerous to human health. this is the bay area in 1969. today we live in a very different california. join us for this half-hour quest special and meet some of the

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millions of surveillance cameras watching your every night in the program we refuse to make unlicensed unregulated private investigators flourishing in the u.s. we getting their hands on sophisticated spying equipment to keep tabs on their targets and failing to escape the say lack young greeks find their shoes abroad while a government think is with lenders i will financial aid who got the details. well . science technology innovation all the developments from around russia with the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then. you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything. becomes a big. download here. so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. hello again there is little escape from big brother watching us with security cameras following us in shops we walk down the street but what about private investigators who may just be spying over your shoulder in britain their numbers h

than in other countries in the developed world prescription drug pricing in the united states is unregulated which means a big pharma can basically charge whatever it wants for prescription drugs. if you ask executives at america's top pharmaceutical companies about the high cost of prescription drugs they'll tell you that high and increasing drug prices are necessary to sustain research and development efforts but numerous studies have debunked those claims one study by a british medical journal found that for every dollar the pharmaceutical companies spend on r. and d. research and development they spend nineteen dollars on promotion and marketing in their drugs make no mistake about it lifesaving medications and commonly prescribed drugs in america today are absurdly expensive here and only in this country because big pharma is ripping off americans so what can we do about this how do we drive down the cost of prescription medications right now in canada drugs to a fraction of what they do here same drugs same manufacturers that's largely because in canada there's a single payer insurance

millions of surveillance cameras watching your every move later in the program we report on the unregulated private investigators flourishing in the u.k. who are getting their hands on sophisticated spying equipment to keep tabs on their targets. and failing to escape the young greeks find their futures abroad while their government because with lend is over financial aid details just after this quick break. well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we. covered. international at the very heart of moscow. welcome back now there is little escape from big brother watching us with security cameras following us and shop some while walking down the street but what about private investigators who may just be spying over your shoulder in britain their numbers have grown most and neither license nor registered and that's because there's no proper regulation for people working as private eyes or further investigates. to watch somebody all watch the. mail fortunately there are a lot of people who use bribery will use corruption and those at the back of it. is not difficult to

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states and other countries in the developed world prescription drug prices in the united states is unregulated which means a big pharma can basically charge whatever it wants for prescription drugs. if you ask executives at a top pharmaceutical companies about the high cost of prescription drugs they'll tell you that high and increasing drug prices are necessary to sustain research and development efforts but numerous studies have debunked those claims one study by a british medical journal found for every dollar the pharmaceutical companies spend on r. and d. research and development they spend nineteen dollars on promotion and marketing in their drugs make no mistake about it lifesaving medications and commonly prescribed drugs in america today are absurdly expensive here and only in this country because big pharma is ripping off americans so what can we do about this how do we drive down the cost of prescription medications right now in canada drugs cost a fraction of what they do here same drugs same manufacturers that's largely because in canada there's a single payer insurance program th

that isn't regulated but the whole point about the financial crisis is that this was caused by unregulated banks. actually it was planned the i.m.f. put out a white paper and november of last year by sherry mark karr that said that because of the bad bets that the banks made that they were too. how everyone take a haircut and lose about forty percent of their deposits so that's been that's been out there so it's been planned it's not it's not your own review but a regulation is the regulatory capture by europe out the banks and just quickly william where do you see the big killing in five years ten years when will it be on my computer in my virtual wallet i'm a skeptic when when i have it. you will have the qualms about two point eight billion dollars right now somebody spent one point four billion dollars the cost last crash and they lost that money was probably someone who had a lot of money to solicit see if they could produce this effect and that money doesn't buy opportunities for those believe in bitcoin and so that money flowed into their pockets i made i made a few dollars on this

wars or tell me this conspiracy theory real quick what was going on up to the point is to say that unregulated guns were responsible for destabilizing mexico ok well we'll get back to the conspiracy theory tonight with what a lot of all think that a lot of the. let me let me i want i wouldn't let me ask you a question. here on this network is we're having a debate we have our knives out for. the truth is this time it was just a bad thing never again hearing this story we're being i don't want to talk about the surveillance we. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dog. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares enough about. our through you know what that is my theory selling. wants us to defeat terrorism. and the christian. usually. you know you distracts us from what you and i should care about

seconds was over tell me this conspiracy theory real quick what was going on what is to say that unregulated guns were responsible for destabilizing mexico ok well what about the conspiracy theory tonight with their work a pot of gold to turn a lot of the. dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have healthy guinea pigs in the regular society there now they will be used prisoners anymore they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. hate to call deadly pills to get in the subway he was killed. he didn't pass away they let him down. is pharmacy really about helping people. we're back with the political panel joining us patrick codgers and neal mckay and i was fascinated and i know where he's. at we're glad that you guys are here to listen the new york city council has finally achieved a deal on guaranteeing sickleave for all of the all of new york city the measure will give five full time employees in the city and allow for part time employees to accrue one hour of sick leave for every thirty thirty hours worked mayor bloomberg has said he will veto the bi

operators say they are losing business to unregulated rideshare companies but at the international airporty are telling the rideshares to "hit the road" in regulations are put if place. >> ahead, the little known part of president obama's new health care law and the impact on mothers who breast feed. >> trading is underway on wall street, and the big board shows the dow is up slightly at 15 points. we will go to jane king at the stock exchange. >> twitter hashtag that had >> santa rosa, berkeley, san jose, and all bay area, this is abc7 news. >> 6:45, you know what time that is. >> checking with josh to find out what is coming up on "good morning america" in 15 minutes. long time no see. >> good morning, great to be with you. you know being a sports fan on the east coast is punishing because you stay up and watch a basketball game to the end it starts at 9:45 at night...congratulations to louisville cardinals but can we tip that earlier? how do they do it in i don't know. i have never been happier to be from california than watching sports. enough of that. we have a lot to get to people in

tax operators complain they are losing business to unregulated rideshare companies. >> piedmont has a plan to report the license plate number of any vehicle that enters the city as a way of fighting crime. city leaders say they have seen a rise in burglaries and thefts and they think the criminals could be coming from oakland which sounds piedmont. under the proposal the city would set up 12 licensed plate reading cameras on major roads in the city recording plate numbers that the city stores for a year. >> it is a way to be able to tell if a stolen vehicle comes to town, a registered owner who is wants, possibly a sex offender. it is a good deal for investigations on the back end if you have a burglary or other crime in your city. >> one area installed six cameras and the leaders say crime is down 30 percent. critics say they have privacy concerns about cameras. >> the most iconic educational science museums is about to welcome back the public at the new location. the exploritorium is putting the finishing touches on the new home on the embarcardero in san francisco. it will feature

they've given immunity so you can't sue the gun industry, and the gun industry is uniquely unregulated. so the bushmaster and the smith and westons and the server capitalists, they fund the nra, the nra does everything they say they should do and as a result our u.s. senate can't even take a vote in support of uniform background checks for criminals. i mean this is so outrageous. what they basically did is say that we're limiting the bill to background checks at gun shows and on the internet, but in 33 states, prove gun dealers can sell guns undetected to criminals, and that's legal. and they couldn't even pass that legislation. so we need to win back our democracy, which is outrageously destroyed by special there's money and we saw first hand what congress is willing do. they're willing to continue to take nra and gun industry blood money and ignore the fact that 87% of americans die from guns every day. this bill was willfully lacking. it didn't even include a magazine limitation on the number of rounds and it didn't include military style weapons or safe storage. it didn't do anythi

bumper sticker was actually it's the bullets that kill people, those being essentially totally unregulatedever made much sense to me. in terms of innovating that, when a lot of states have not approached this problem through that kind of angle, did you find you had unusual allies or enemies you didn't expect to find in discussing doing something new like that in your state? >> what's interesting about connecticut is we're doing it on a bipartisan basis. we had stalled for a while. that's why i put my plan out, as you've referenced just a moment ago, that the house and senate had bipartisan commission that really could not come to conclusion about what to do on the gun safety issue. i had heard that, they hasn't issued the report, but i knew it was coming, so i put out my five points. and then i went on the road. i've done town hall meetings across the speak about this. quite frankly, most of what i was hearing are gun owners being mad at me or with me, but the reality is these proposals are advanced and supported by the vast majority of the people in connecticut. we're going to have univer

background check, you go to some other place for some other kind of purchase that is currently unregulated. so all this is aimed at is trying to save lives and prevent crimes. and once the country is mobilized, and once the issue is joined, i think we will learn that the nra is a paper tiger in many areas. like any bully, must be confronted and beaten. >> so everybody in washington, d.c. might agree with you about the paper tiger thing. yet they still cow tow. >> of what the nra provides. we hear from rachel, i want to play this for everybody. senator blumenthal on jansing and company talking about wlaes hopeful to see. it could be a long shot to get something done on the assault weapons ban. take a listen. >> i believe that we'll have a bill that bans illegal trafficking and straw purchases, strengthens school security, provides for background checks to all firearms purchases, that we'll have votes as well on the assault weapon ban. >> rachel, break that down for us. is there really a possibility that they could get a vote, that it could move all the way to a vote? it doesn't seem as if t

unregulated digital currency came back in 2009. of people bought illegal stuff with it you can't trace it now you can get anything with it sold for 9 bucks each. speculators drove it way up. now the news today. there has been something of a meltdown on bit coin. exchange it dropped 60% in one day. now it's halting trading to let everybody cool off. this actually started yesterday. bit coin hit all-time high of 266 bucks. and then it dropped to just over 100 bucks. bubble? maybe. ponzi? not technically. but a risky investment, no doubt. any questions? ask a teenager. it seems jodi arias has arranged to tweet from jail. now a friend is explaining how jodi arias the one on trial for shooting -- stabbing her boyfriend 27 times though she doesn't remember that and shooting him and slitting his throat has managed to bring they're own brand of philosophy to the interwebs. one tweet on her page quotes the author joseph conrad nothing lays itself open to the charge of exaggeration more than the language of the naked truth. so how does she g

more guns have been able to bully everybody else into going along with their vision of a lrjly unregulated firearms marketplace. but then there was the shooting of then congresswoman gabrielle giffords and 19 others in tucson which left six of those victims dead, including a 9-year-old girl. and the mass shooting in the aurora, colorado, movie theater that killed 12 and wounded 58 others. and then the straw that broke the camel's back, the shooting at sandy hook elementary school. the open question after that was would the sheer horror of that event and the images of these dead children shake up something about the political status quo that had previously benefitted the small and intense and well organized anti-gun regulation group? when legislation expanding background checks crafted with nra consultation by a bipartisan coalition of senators went down under the weight of a filibuster, it would not have been crazy to conclude at that point that the answer was sadly no. the politics on the issue were set and a single tragedy or even a series of monstrous tragedies no matter how awful would