the council have told me it could take up council have told me it could take up to two days but theyt all people that are evacuated will be put up in hotels and local b&bs. a refuge centre has also been set up. with the not know a great deal about the bomb. we have been told it is about 500 pounds, it is extremely big. what people are saying in the area is that the cordon is causing extreme traffic congestion is. you can see all the traffic congestion in this part of london. lots of problems here this evening. that's a summary of the news, newsday is coming up at midnight — now on bbc news it's time for newsnight, with evan davis. last night we learnt the attorney general slide to the senate and the american people about his communications with the russian. they said that since i had involvement with the campaign, i should not be involved in any campaign investigation. i have brick used myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. another huge row about the russia connection. the attorney general is in the spotlight this time, notjust over his meetings with the russian am

i don't think we can — we can continue like this, as councils, up and down the country.nd viewsnight looks on the bright side of life. now, imagine we were to treat people the way most of us really are. pretty nice. creative. and more than willing to contribute to the common good. hello.

the council here is putting up council tax, in part to raise money for social care. will the axe fall? the council is keeping its cards close to its chest ahead of elections in may. but not everyone agrees crisis point is upon them. when we were in control, we saved £55 million in cumbria and it was relatively easy. there was a lot of fat there to be cut. so it was doable. and this administration, this current administration has wasted millions upon millions of pounds worth of taxpayers' money. so there's still money out there to be found, but it is becoming more difficult. i think as we look forward to the next three years and possibly beyond, i think many of us are wondering really where this is all going to end. i think local government is experiencing an existential crisis. and it is difficult to see how some of the services are going to survive at all in the face of the ongoing cuts. we are briefly going to go back to the breaking news is that we mentioned earlier that michael heseltine has been sacked asa government adviser after rebelling on the brexit vote. wh

taxation, the could not raise taxation, the government does not want council tax going up by10%, government does not want council tax going up by 10%, and the government is cutting back money, councils are in crisis. things that are really important, key services, it can't just always be about elderly care. the focus is there because that is where the headlines are. domestic violence. they are left with just that she too is stuff that they have two fun. shall we finish on something rather different, the metro. duty calls. tv‘s most compelling cop show is back with a 5—star review. three of the main characters. i was a bit late to this, which series is this? four. i picked it up at series three, did not matter, this is a fantastic show. recognised us by moving tonight, for the first time, to bbc one, expectations high, it has gone from being a midweek bbc two stuff to the blu—ray band slot of 9pm sunday evening viewing, but i think it has been built and they will come, it is by far, i am saying it, the finest television crime drama that we have in this country. —— blue riband. i have seen th

by10%, government does not want council tax going up by 10%, and the government is cutting tant, key services, it can't just always be about elderly care. the focus is there because that is where the headlines are. domestic violence. they are left with just that she too is stuff that they have two fun. shall we finish on something rather different, the metro. duty calls. tv‘s most compelling cop show is back with a 5—star review. three of the main characters. i was a bit late to this, which series is this? four. i picked it up at series three, did not matter, this is a fantastic show. recognised us by moving tonight, for the first time, to bbc one, expectations high, it has gone from being a midweek bbc two stuff to the blu—ray band slot of 9pm sunday evening viewing, but i think

katie utis is live outside. >> reporter: within the last half hour city council picked up the issue withe than 20 people wanting to talk, and supporters realize it is largely a symbolic effort, but it is a message city council's can send. it is a message that appears to be spreading across the country as supporters listed a handful of other cities considering similar ♪ >>> live where you live, this is "abc 7 news." ♪ >>> impeaching president trump? right now there's a packed house in the east bay as one city council meets late into the night to decide whether to call on congress to launch an investigation that could shake up the nation's capitol. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm am ah daetz. richmond became the first city to call for an investigation. >>al immediate ah is having its say. katie utis is live outside. >> reporter: within the last half hour city council picked up the issue with more than 20 people wanting to talk, and supporters realize it is largely a symbolic effort, but it is a message city council's can send. it is a message that appears to be spreading across the co

katie utis is live outside. >> reporter: within the last half hour city council picked up the issue withe than 20 people wanting to talk, and supporters realize it is largely a symbolic effort, but it is a message city council's can send. it is a message that appears to be spreading across the country as supporters listed a handful of other cities considering similar resolutions. >>al immediate ah for impeachment members rallied on the steps of alameda city hall, then waited for hours to tell city council members why they think the president should face impeachment hearings. >> i think he is a threat to our constitution. i think he is a threat to our country. i think he's a threat to the peace of the world. >> reporter: they're also concerned about the president's potential conflict of interests from his business dealings and possible ties to russia. vice mayor malia vella, essentially the city would be sending a message to congressional leaders. tonight's effort follows a similar effort passed in the city of richmond two weeks ago. spoerlters realize it is symbolic but hope to create a

i don't think we can — we can continue like this, as councils, up and down the country.ght side of life. now, imagine we were to treat people the way most of us really are. pretty nice. creative. and more than willing to contribute to the common good.

proper for an independent council to be called on to look into this now that the investigation has been publicly acknowledged? >> i would have no -- what are they going to go look up? what's an independent council going to look at? >> take over the investigation -- >> take over his investigation? to take it away from the fbi? i don't know. i would have to think about that. i mean, as long as they keep -- continue -- the fbi is an independent organization. they should be suited to do this. if i see any -- if i sense any problems with the investigation, then i would recommend that. but i don't see that as of now. >> you yourself said there were issues he couldn't answer. >> i don't think an independent council will do any less than what director comey said today. like i said, there's this -- until this gets cleared up, you guys are going to continue to have these questions. i just don't have evidence of people within the white house or the administration have any ties to russian intelligence services of any kind. that even hanging out there is bad for democracy, bad for america and clearly it helps our adversaries, especially the russians. >> what was the reason why

we've had reports from the public over many years that we've obviously chased up with the council witheding experiences where people have been absolutely disgusted at the state of them. it's just been an ongoing issue with animal welfare, really, and neglect for even the most basic needs. the zoo has been dogged with trouble for years. a keeper, 24—year—old sarah mcclay, was killed by a tiger in 2013. her brother believes it should have closed then. all the reports over the past week have said 500 animals died in the past four years. it's four years ago that sarah died. so if you'd closed the zoo down after an employee had died them all this mistreatment of animals wouldn't have come out. i think it should have been closed down four years ago. it wasn't and now look what's happened to all those animals. the man refused a licence to run the zoo today is david gill, described by inspectors as being desperate to keep control here one way or another. and it was david gill's attitude towards the number of animal deaths which concerned inspectors. they say he didn't seem to have a problem wi

social care is funded as we know by local councils and local authorities can we all know that they are cash—strapped and no local authority wants to put up are we ever going to see something radical, like the government saying, maybe we need to even think about that funding model. absolutely, we have called for a new settle m e nt absolutely, we have called for a new settlement both for social care funding and the nhs that recognises, the demands both on the nhs and the social care system. arising from the fa ct social care system. arising from the fact that we are living longer. there are more young and disabled people and we haven't really faced up people and we haven't really faced up to how we fund that. one of the positive things is that the government has recognised in relation to social care, it needs to find a longer term solution. one question, that i think we will not have the answer to today, is that the review which we think the chancellor announced, will announce, it reflects, successive governments over the last 20 years have tried to do something about this with very little success. can this government be the one that succ

if the black caucus set up a council of domestic relations, we have councils of foreign relations.o heck with the foreign. we need a council of domestic relations. look at east baltimore. carson to make a name for himself and president trump can make a name for himself if they looked at all the problems in east baltimore. for example, why don't you give 100 houses to each of the vocational schools? let them rehab them and learn plumbing and electricity and manage real estate. and then on the houses and rent and have a source of wealth and keep doing that process over and over again. in germany, they are exercising and using the vocational education. stop allowing kids to drop out of school at the age of 16. i get sick when i hear that small businesses create jobs. you walk through baltimore and there's hardly any local resident black americans owning a job in baltimore. look at these problems we have. we had an hmo in baltimore. we had medicaid patients. we had private doctors for the first time in their lives. they didn't have a change of joc doctors. please inform your council of

we've had reports from the public over many years that we've obviously chased up with the council with where people have been absolutely disgusted at the state of them. it's just been an ongoing issue with animal welfare, really, and neglect for even the most basic needs. the zoo has been dogged with trouble for years. a keeper, 24—year—old sarah mcclay, was killed by a tiger in 2013. her brother believes it should have closed them. all the reports over the past week have said 500 animals died in the past four years. it's four years ago that sarah died. so if you'd closed the zoo down after an employee had died them all this mistreatment of animals wouldn't have come out. i think it should have been closed down four years ago. it wasn't and now look what's happened to all those animals. the man refused a licence to run the zoo today is david gill, described by inspectors as being desperate to keep control here one way or another. and it was david gill's attitude towards the number of animal deaths which concerned inspectors. they say he didn't seem to have a problem with it, and a keep

rick boone is life in downtown oakland where the city council is trying to decide if they want to keep up the fight to keep the team in down. >> reporter: what is it all about, the money. the city council just wrapped up in this building behind me, a private session working on the presentation to the raiders owner mark davis saying listen, you can stay, we forget about everything, or you have to pay up, every dollar spent to woo the team to keep them in town. >> now mr. davis, he can leave whenever he wants to. i'll pack his bags and give him a kiss good-bye. >> reporter: even though the team on the other hand has the vote, the raiders don't have the legal right to leave. >> when the raiders came back from l.a., the voters voted for a $220 million bond to keep them here to build their stadium. we're still paying $90 million of it. >> reporter: he wants the raiders on the other hand to pay back every dollar the city invested to bring them back to the bay from l.a. and woo them to stay. >> what has bothered me the most is that they just need to be honest. that oakland had a viable plan, las

i'm picking up huw morgan in swansea. the council here has some electric vans, too.ne for normal council light van work, where you're doing journeys of half a mile to a mile, lots of them, and if you charge up over lunch and carry on, it works out all right. so, best for short journeys? yes, which is exactly what diesels are worst at. this is a challenge for an electric vehicle. swansea, like many welsh towns, is a hilly place. and we have struggled when we've piloted electric buses. so, are electric cars a solution? we took our electric van around 150 miles of south wales' roads. it seemed to cope quite well with cities, but motorways and hills were more of a challenge. we're driving downhill at the moment, which is great. you can feel the car is building up a good speed. going uphill is harder. charging it took a long time. we've been charging it for an hour, we're on 45 miles now, so, fingers crossed, that will be enough to get us back to cardiff. the technology may not quite be there yet, but we did make it back. just. back on hafodyrynys road, and some of the re

most londoners are due to see their council tax go up, as well as an increase in the supplement they‘ilt into our budget £2 million increase for elderly adults and for child services. this year, even with that, we overspent by £2 million each. let‘s have a look at the travel situation now. starting with the tubes and no reported problems there at the moment. in brondesbury park, the avenue is closed between willesden lane and brondesbury park due to a wwii bomb being found there yesterday. the closure will remain in place until this afternoon. let‘s have a check on the weather now, with elizabeth. good morning. yesterday afternoon was particularly glorious. but today, a very different day of weather indeed, in fact. we start with plenty of rain around this morning during the morning rush—hour. then a wet start to the day drying out through the afternoon. it is a fairly mild start to the day. a lot of rain around. plenty of surface water through the morning. gradually the system will go north. by the time we get to midday, it should be much more dry towards southern home counties. it w

stepped up security. the council on islamic american relations has released a report tracking anti-muslim acts nationwide. according to the author of this report who i spoke with tonight, he told me it will show about a 50% increase in anti-muslim incidents from 2015 to 2016. jay korff, abc 7 news. calls for a federal investigation into hate crimes in maryland, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle wrote a letter asking for the justice department to investigate several cases. they include threats made a jewish day care centers in rockville and annapolis. >> love, not fear, refugees are welcome here. alison: a message tonight for the president -- keep the usa welcoming for immigrants and refugees. protesters held photos of loved ones who they say would not be alive if they had noco the u.s. the president delayed the signing of the revised travel ban. according to a senior white house official, the administration wanted attention focused on last night's address to congress. and breaking news from capitol hill, within

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we really need to pull up a track call on our collects of the national community to take a very clear message. i'm glad that this council has come up with a strong statement. and yesterday and very helpful in their discussion today as well. i will turn the floor over. >> first of all i would like to think best are haley and -- for their leadership in moving this counsel to take actions and we made a very strong statement yesterday and in response to north korea's ballistic missile launch last sunday evening which was conducted only 22 days after the first launch of this year on the 12th of february following the 24 missile launches that were conducted last year. as you know the international community has been responding to this repeated nuclear provocations very strictly in the past. this time, once again it was united in condemning north korea's increasingly reckless behavior. in the strongest strongest terms. north korea's provocation is politically alarming in that it was made in the midst of shock and anger to the assassination of kim john using a tank weapon ban by the cwc chemical weapons convention. perhaps the

the new guidelines come into force injune, and have been drawn up by the sentencing council with theng. judges are being told to consider the "discrimination and negative experience of authority" young people may have experienced. they are also being told they must take into account " pa rticular factors which arise" in the case of black and ethnic minority children and young people. earlierjoanna gosling spoke to vera baird qc, who is chair of the association of police and crime commissioners, and asked her if she thought these new guidelines are on the right track. absolutely, these are very sensible, not major changes but they come from the sentencing council which is made up ofjudges and others involved in the criminal justice system, academics and almost always consult the public before it comes out with such pronouncements. yes, it is imperative to see young people between the age of ten and 17 as what they are, young people, who are recoverable from the mistakes they have made and bad deeds they have done and so the right approach is to see what might have contributed to those

authority to want to set one up, but why will he not let local authorities decide what's best for them? we do not want to go back to the situation where every labour counciln bus company. we think it will absorb private sector capital that could be wisely used elsewhere. the by—election winner in copeland in cumbria was welcomed into the commons at the end of prime minister's question time. huge cheers sounded from the packed benchers of the conservatives as ao—year—old trudy harrison entered to take a seat. it had been, to say the least, a notable election victory for the former parish councillor in west cumbria, as it was the first time a governing party had made a by—election gain for 35 years. the seat had been made vacant by the departure of the previous labourmpforajob in the nuclear industry. trudy harrison took the oath in the traditional way. i swear by almighty god that i will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her majesty queen elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law, so help me god. members: hear, hear. the commons‘ newest member. and that's it for this programme. dojoin me for our next daily round—up. until then, from me ke

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lives in the town, you see him grabbing coffee, no big deal but the fact he showed up, spoke his mind at your city council meeting, what was your reaction to that? >> i was very happy. i saw dave arrive. he went up into the ball cony o the room an came down and one of our facilitators, he got their attention, so and let them know he did want to speak, so i was really pleased that he did. he obviously brings a great perspective, he is a beloved community member. i want to clarify we're a village, not a city. >> forgive me, village of yellow springs. not city. i stand corrected. let me ask brian to you, what it was like to see him walk in and speak his mind and we've talked about community policing, i think it was an issue that different villages and cities have dealt with. can you talk about more the challenges the you all face there? >> sure, i think one of the things important to us about local policing is responding to as karen said, that village culture that we have. and i thought it was interesting that dave highlighted that a couple times. some of the challenges that we have are not incredibly differ

we have had reports from the public over many years that we have chased up with the council, with animalnjuries from feeding experiences, where people have been disgusted at the state of them. it has been an ongoing issue with animal welfare and neglect for even the most basic needs. the suit has been dogged with trouble for yea rs. has been dogged with trouble for years. a keeper, 2a—year—old sarah mclay, was killed by a tiger in 2013. her partner told me today a lot needs to change, but it can be turned around. with so many other zoos being able to be managed in a safeway, it stands to reason that this zoo can be managed appropriately. it will take some time to fix the faults. there is no reason they cannot operate a safe zoo. reason they cannot operate a safe zoo. the man refused a licence to run the zoo is david gill, described by inspectors as being desperate to keep control here one way or another. and it was david gill's attitude toward the number of animal deaths which can send inspectors. they say she did not seem to have a problem with that and the keeper to the inspection team

we have had reports from the public over many years that we have chased up with the council, with animalsve been absolutely disgusted at the state of them. it has been an ongoing issue with animal welfare and neglect for even the most basic needs. the zoo has been dogged with trouble for a keeper 24—year—old sarah was killed bya keeper 24—year—old sarah was killed by a tiger in 2013. her partner told me today that a lot needs to change, but it can be turned around. with so many other zoos in the country being able to manage in a safe way, it stands to reason that these can be managed appropriately. it will take some time to fix the faults but there's no reason why they can't operate a safe zoo. the man refused a licence was david gill, described by inspectors as being desperate to keep control here one way or another. and it was david gill's attitudes towards the number of animal deaths which concerned inspectors. they say he did not seem to have a problem with it. and a keeper told the inspection team that they are instructions were to dispose of bodies and not tell anyone about them. da

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we've had reports from the public over many years that we've obviously chased up with the council withnces where people have been absolutely disgusted at the state of them. it's just been an ongoing issue with animal welfare, really, and neglect for even the most basic needs. the zoo has been dogged with trouble for years. a keeper, 2a—year—old sarah mcclay, was killed by a tiger in 2013. her brother believes it should have closed them. all the reports over the past week have said 500 animals died in the past four years. it's four years ago that sarah died. so if you'd closed the zoo down after an employee had died, them all this mistreatment of animals wouldn't have come out. i think it should have been closed down four years ago. it wasn't and now look what's happened to all those animals. the man refused a licence to run the zoo today is david gill, described by inspectors as being desperate to keep control here one way or another. and it was david gill's attitude towards the number of animal deaths which concerned inspectors. they say he didn't seem to have a problem with it, and a

council chambers packed with passion and emotion. >> our police force has the most important job in this city. they keep us safe. >> reporter: the dozens of people who signed up to testify packed the rockville city council hearing room and quickly outgrew the overflow room set up in a nearby conference room. at issue, the role of rockville police in enforcing immigration laws under the trump administration. a petition in favor of making rockville a formally declared sanctuary city now has more than a thousand signatures. no formal legislation has been proposed. president trump has proposed stripping funding from sanctuary cities. >> i heard third hand of a little girl who was afraid to go to school after the election because she was worried her parents would be deported by the time she got home from school. herself as an owner of a business in rockville. >> i would sell my house immediately. why? because i know for sure the house value would go down and the property tax will go up. >> reporter: new at this hour, and in related matters, a spokesman for montgomery county tonight confirms to news4 the county is hiring a former homeland security official, leon ro

. >> this surfer dude and his friend showed up at a san clemente council meeting. they wanted to erect a statue of paul walker. they asked him why paul walker would have anything to do with san clemente. they said he went to high school here. they said no, actually he didn't. they said oh, i think his cousin might have.

up next, eric cohen. what has -- economic council director joining us on this program. -- coming up next, gary cohn. s is program. ♪ ; coming up, gary cohn, what else, council director will be talking about the jobs numbers. jonathan: if you missed the payrolls report, here it is. wages game in a little softer than anticipated. you're a near, back in line. unemployment back in line. the market captures the story as follows, the goldilocks jobs report, a bit of risk on the equity market, futures. after nine davos joining us around the table, our federal reserve reporter. what is the take away for you? matt: it is a pretty good report. not a lot of change in the markets in terms of what this means for the fed. still, honestly, march rate hike is baked into the cake. looking further beyond that the summer and later in the year, we're basically looking for better than even odds of a hike this summer. and one between september and december. kind of the same outlook for the fed in the markets after the jobs report. goldman sachs pulling for their post march rate hike and also saying kind of a tossup whethe

council. they say he deidn't show up. they're still inside their closed session. wrap that up in 20, 30 minutes from now. this as the raiders prepare to play their first game at their new stadium in vegas. that in 20. live in downtown oakland. rick boon, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, rick. almost all wrapped up. this morning, crews removed the final steel section of the old bay bridge. pieces lowered on to barges and floated to port of oakland to be disassembled. support structures supposed to be removed end of next year. the bridge by the way in 1936, the commission in 2013. san jose flood victims being gouged by people supposed to be helping them. how the city is hoping to fight back now. >> i know that i am a survivor, a fighter. and very determined. >> a lot of us may take driving some where for granted. not a bay area man. his inspiring stoerg ry of neve giving up. today's "bay area proud." >> i'm meteorologist jeff ranieri. >> the kind of storms that wreck your day or worse. >> when nbc bay area detects dangerous or disruptive weather heading towards your

resolution passed tuesday night by the berkeley city council calling for the president to be impeached. >> we are one of the first cities to stand up against apartheid. >> reporter: berkeley city council member kate harrison cosponsored the resolution. >> do you think it will do anything? >> i think it will send a powerful message. >> reporter: the home of the free speech movement was not the first city in the bay area to pass the resolution calling for the impeachment of president trump. richmond and alameda got there first. >> we want to make sure we are on the right side of history. we should be concerned about upholding civil rights and the constitution. >> reporter: all three cities are sending their resolutions calling for investigations and impeachment to congresswoman barbara lee. howard epstein calls the resolutions crazy. >> since the election of president trump, they have been acting like three-year-olds throwing temper tantrums. >> reporter: the calls for impeachment over russia, foreign money, and attacks on the press are american values she says. >> this is not a matter of policy, disagreement with taxes, how we appro

they have been out there helping to clean up and offer help. at today's council meeting they launched a number of initiatives to speed up recovery. the first was to proclaim a local emergency so the city can seek state and federal disaster aid. the city is gearing up to release the nearly $1 million in contributions raised so far. it will be channelled through four nonprofit groups to screen applicants, manage their cases and provide much-needed cash for clothes and other necessities lost to floodwaters. >> they just need help. we want to know when they're going to get help, how much money are they going to have to spend out of their pocket. >> reporter: the mayor says he keeps working the phones to raise more money because even $1 million won't be enough. the city is also going to work with landlords. the owner of a five-unit building seeks help with permits. >> let's streamline this thing so that we can get our buildings back in shape and the people can move back in again. >> reporter: the council is going to waive permit fees and a hearing march 9th is to hear

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that's for them and their council to determine if they engaged in activity in the past, whatever it is, or if a doctor needed to up their certification. that is not for the government to determine. there are certain private citizens activities that you conduct and seek council on or professional advice. that's not up to the government. that's exactly how the system works. >> it is a red flag. >> you got your question, john. john, we're doing one question -- >> this is a -- >> no, it's not, john. >> have you an attorney calling transition and saying that -- >> no, no, no -- >> the person in line to be the national security adviser may need to register as foreign agent. that doesn't raise a red flag? >> it is not a question of raising a red flag, john . it is a question of whether or not they got the right advice which it is not up to them to make decisions as it what you need to do or not do. there are certain activity that fall under each of the requirements. as far as what the threshold is, what activities, who the funding source was, et cetera, et cetera. it is not up to nor is it appropriate nor is it legal for

up. the president of the european council made citizens rights a priority. authorities in europe and australia have announced a sweeping tax evasion probe. there have been coordinated raids in countries including britain, france and the netherlands. and most members of the union of south american nations have condemned the solution of the venezuelan supreme court court to ta ke venezuelan supreme court court to take powers away from the congress. at ten o'clock will have a full round—up of today's news. in a moment the last film review from my colleague gavin esler. first, time for newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch. brexit is officially under we but is the bbc playing down the views of unhappy remainers like the tens of thousands who marched in london last weekend? thousands who marched in london last weekend 7 complaints as thousands who marched in london last weekend? complaints as well that bbc news is much too negative about leaving. so how do you cover this in century subject impartially? 60 yea rs century subject impartially? 60 years ago last

council? what would you guess, in the end, is where they end up on this one? oes into city council or he manages to keep the money out? >> city council. >> well, i think the very significant issue that is at play here is the extent to which privately led contracts are subject to the same diversity provisions that are in place with publicly led contracts. and i think the city has a way, contractually, with these nonprofits. and i don't think just having two nonprofits -- the free library association and the fairmount park conservancy -- is necessarily the prudent way to go. but engaging the nonprofit world, which also has a way of inducing more money into this program, i think is a prudent strategy, and hopefully they can work it out. and i just want to say -- you know, mayors get to do things that are oftentimes not significant in the long run because crime goes up and goes down. but the plan to cover i-95 and to put a park on it and to finally open access to penn's landing. and he had a quiet campaign for the fundraising. we didn't find out about this project

the council has taken up a big, critical issue, that is the issue of providing affordable housing for essential workers here in san francisco. as you were saying, congregations have land or they might have underutilized property that might be able to be used to help provide housing for essential workers. the question is, how? what's a housing trust? >> first and foremost, i think what you're going to see in san francisco more and more is the repurposing of properties. because there certainly is also a benefit to the congregation themselves when they can have a worship space on the first floor and then housing up above, you'll see a mutual benefit there. what is important is that we look at these properties as opportunities to provide that housing. we worked with university of san francisco's institute to do a macro mapping of all of the properties owned by religious institutions in san francisco. we worked closely with the mayor's office of housing and the office of economic and workforce development to assess which of those properties would be good candidates for development. and fro

authorities had to protect the kindergarten over here, and they put up this wall put up by the neighborhood councilbut nevertheless, it's quite ugly. but if they shoot from the other side toward the kindergarten, what other measure you can take in order to protect the children? >> before returning home we went to visit a palestinian farmer whose life was devastated when half of his land was taken by the israeli army to accommodate the bending of the wall. -- the building of the wall. >> the majority of his land and the better part of his land is beyond that fence. all these walls he built by breaking this sporn land with his wife and his children and all his hard work is gone. he cannot go down and tend to his trees or cultivate it. >> i feel like i haven't found any anchor for the light at the end of the tunnel. is there any chance for people to believe that there is something else? >> i used to have a speech that said you're looking, you're looking, and it could be the solution somewhere. you totally don't foresee. >> yeah. the wall of berlin came down, south africa turned upside down and unimagi

. >> this surfer dude and his friend showed up at a san clemente council meeting.nted to erect a statue of paul walker. they asked him why paul walker would have anything to do with san clemente. they said he went to high school here. they said no, actually he didn't. they said oh, i think his cousin might have. hilarious.

now, this was first brought up during a city council meeting back in february by a group that suppressed concerns over the current president. here's a few other claims we could pull up on full screen. claims of influencing this past election. they claim president trump's subordinates ignored provisions and compromised lawful programs. it will be sent to barbara lee hoping to rally support for an investigation. pete suratos, today in the bay. >>> republicans are divide odd what to do going forward. good morning, edward. >> good morning, laura. it will be a very busy day here. two bills are going to go forward to repeal and possibly replace obamacare. has lawmakers divided not down party lines but within the republican party. negotiations already under way with the president stating i feel sure that my friend rand paul will come along with a new and great will health care program. senator rand paul and conservative house representative jim jordan. introduced an alternative plan that repealed obamacare. >> we have to do some different form of obamacare. that's what the american voters hate.