urban shield is racist. you have the power to pull out completely, and i hope you make that right choice. don't be an accomplice to this racist islamophobic program. thank you very much. >>supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is tariq. we believe our city, our countries should be well prepared to respond to emergency and natural disasters. that's exactly why we're opposed to urban shield. approving urban shield you're approving programs that support violence against minority communitied. in germany, they killed 8 people by police, and the u.s., by cap ird ta ita is hundreds. paragraph prf urban shield is built on the belief that we are at war with a domestic enemy that must be neutralized. we have seen how this results in police treating our communities as the enemy, particularly black people, arabs, muslims, and poor people. urban shield is supposed to exclude international teams from countries that with the documented rights violations. this should be extended to u.s. teams

as urban populations grow big urban centers develop accordingly. but what effective means of protection do they have. when we think about sort of responding to flood hazards there's really three things we can do in the general sense we can retreat so we can not live there in the first place so we we just there's nothing to be damaged. we can actually it will be used as accommodate a flood proof you can make sure the buildings are flooded there's no damage will make you can elevate building so they're above the flood waters or you can protect which is maybe what most people would think of whereby you would build barriers and dikes or big sand june the whatever things that keep the sea out of the city. building walls for protection is an ancient tradition in china. chinese engineers took inspiration from the great wall when constructing coastal towns which is evident in the case of shanghai. happened especially in the summer season. high tight and the storm and upstream come together so you need a new situation happened sometime in the sea level one

san francisco is the fiscal agent for urban area security. the homeland security program funds urban shield so that means according to "the examiner," that the city and county's department of emergency management is the oversight agency in applying for and distributing the federal grant funding for the 12 counties across the bay area. coalition members say this type of convention doesn't truly help protect communities but instead instills fear. >> urban shield is policing. it's the ideology, the tactics and it's the equipment. >> reporter: urban shield was in alameda county where the sheriff's department said they were focusing on disaster preparedness. the protest will take place here on the steps of city hall starting at nine a.m. jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> time now 5:08. an 11-year-old is among those arrested in connection with a violent crime spree in the south bay. >> and this morning, "today" show host matt lauer addresses the allegations against him for the first time. >> and we're looking at cool conditions this morning, patchy fog in s

department of housing and urban development, dr. benjamin s. carson.ecretary carson was recently keynote speaker for d.c. habitat's women build celebration in september. we are very pleased to have him back today, demonstrating hud's continued commitment to providing affordable housing for families in need. secretary carson, we know you share our philosophy about providing a hand up, not a handout, and understand the important foundation a stable home provides for families and their children. thank you for bringing your team of 15 volunteers to help build d.c. habitat homes and for being willing to volunteer yourself. please share a few remarks about why the ask areas -- why the experience is important to you, your organization, and the team you have brought here today. secretary carson. [applause] i just have some very brief things to say so we can get to work, we have a lot of work to do. it has been a busy day today already, with the national academy of sciences early today, giving remarks to the offices and stuff to do after this. but nothing more

it is the biggest urban center in the world. it is also among the coastal cities threatened by flooding. for more than a century the japanese have struggled to protect their cities against flooding. in ten we had a very big typhoon which cam up here and we got a very serious for at the government of the time decided to excavate this. does. they wouldn't get rid of the frog. so therefore this. was a kid with zero point five meters and was on the other so they're swarming the water i can top this. that because the area behind the river was concrete through it. in the past buffer zones provided a method of diverting from mortars into arable fields then due to a lack of living space in the middle of the twentieth century people settled on these fields thereby creating the toto district just as in bangkok and shanghai pumping of groundwater has led to the subsidence of more than one hundred twenty square kilometers in the center of tokyo without my head that's a sign saying that there were you know ground zero in nineteen. was that s

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alameda county hosted urban shield in september.hey said the expo and training convention teaches its officers ways to handle emergencies. quote, this year, we are focused on disaster preparedness. the bay area is susceptible to a major earthquake event and we must not forget that well trained first responders save lives. humberto ortiz silva represents a youth organization in oakland. he says the kids he has worked with says their experience with law enforcement officers has been filled with fear and violence. >> it has seemed that the flash- bang grenades, they have seen the doors being kicked down. they have seen the gates being kicked down in the frontof their homes. the youth say they are making the emergencies. >> reporter: if the board decides to sign the contract with urban shield, san francisco would be a fiscal sponsor through the year 2021. the full board of supervisors will vote on the committee's recommendation at their last meeting of the year on december 12th. in san francisco, jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> there could soo

but how much of the uk do you think is classified as continuous urban fabric? have a guess.l reveal all in a minute. using satellite images and details local maps, the land use of every corner of the uk is revealed. the city of london, for example, is 98% continuous urban fabric, and perhaps that comes as no surprise. nearly all the land around here is covered in roads and buildings, but this is actually quite unusual in the uk, and i think people might be surprised just how little of the land in the country is actually covered with buildings and roads. so, the official answer to the question, "how much of the uk is continuous urban fabric" is... 0.1%. looking at the whole of the country, more than half of it is farmland. most of it pastures. forests, woodland and natural landscape account for a third of all the land. urban green space — parks and gardens — make up 2.5%, with the area actually built on — roads, buildings, ports and airports — accounting for just 5.9%. take a council like bradford in west yorkshire. your mental picture is probably of a bustling urban centre,

your mental picture is probably of a bustling urban centre.ic accounts for just 0.3% of the local authority. overall, just a quarter of the land surface is artificial. indeed, 10% is this. i'm standing in a peat bog. surprisingly, perhaps, about 10% of the uk landscape is covered ground like this. in fact, there is almost twice as much peat bog in the uk as the land that we've built on. it's a cinderella landscape and it's made up of meters and metres of this stuff, which is peat. and what's amazing is this surrounds the towns and cities of northern england. the top area for peat bog is the outer hebrides, where it covers 61% of the land. number i for pastures is armagh city in northern ireland, covering 85% of the local authority. the area with the highest proportion of natural grasslands is blaenau gwent, in industrial south wales. so how much space is given over to buildings? offices, factories and homes? we've been crunching the numbers and our best estimate for the whole uk is that 1.4% of the country is covered in buildings. that equates

funds to the bay area urban area. >>supervisor cohen: thank you. before i recognize the presenter, i would like to recognize my colleague, supervisor. >>supervisor yee: -- supervisor yee. >>supervisor yee: we would like to see that being used in a way that's not to militarize our police departments and so forth, and there was even discussions that maybe san francisco would like to pull out of that altogether, and at the time, around that time, we let it go, in terms of the grant application, and said that we would revisit this, and i was joined by supervisor cohen at the time to introduce some legislation to look at the other issues piece. we haven't moved forward with that yet because there's been a lot of things that we were able to participate in and so forth to see what was really going on. one of thing -- i think both supervisor cohen and myself went up and participated in the urban hs urban shoes exercise -- at least i did, and i think i saw supervisor cohen there, too. there were things that i saw in the exerci

it takes an urban planners have realized that these living walls are a way of making cities look a lot more attractive. singapore is just one example. and green walls aren't just nice to look at they also have environmental benefits exactly what they are is the focus of hunger vax research he and his project partners test the walls and figure out which plants are best suited to them. what we see here are sensor no they contain measuring units. this year is a small window there's a u.v. sensor beneath it and behind it are two little permeable grates that allow air to reach the sensor with them we measure temperature humidity and air pressure. the cables run through the vertical garden and into its immediate surroundings. the collected data is fed into a mobile measuring unit it shows to what extent greenery alters the surrounding microclimate so. this is what we call the cockpit and the wall the data we're seeing here was collected at a point when the walls temperature was significantly lower than the immediate surroundings by roughly four degrees celsius. it's the gable. and high tempe

urban shield. >> let's go live now to kpix 5's jackie ward in san francisco with more on why. jackie. >> reporter: this is a law enforcement and firearms expo and those against it have already successfully pushed it out of places like the city of oakland. they are also trying to get it out of san francisco. the aclu is second the board of supervisors a letter today urging them to cut ties. san francisco is voting on whether it should sign a contract that would lock them in as fiscal sponsors through 2021. they are the fiscal agent for urban area security initiative the homeland security program that funds urban shield. so what that means, according to "the examiner," is that the city and county's department of emergency management is the oversight agency in applying for and distributing the federal grant funding for 12 counties across the bay area. coalition members say this type of convention doesn't truly help protect communities but, instead, instills fear. >> urban shield is no track policing.

welcome to arts twenty one this week we look into urban living. have the world's population lives in cities and the tendency is rising urban areas are densely packed reason enough to ask how people live and how we want to live our twenty one traveled around the world to find answers. we talk to award winning chilean architect and a handle on a day now if we do nothing they will go even in slums we spoke with the collective assemble they build where no one else wants to and create stylish yet socially responsible housing. we're really interested in how you give people the tools to change the environments that are indifferent. and we look to berlin the german capital has turned into an underwriter over speculators and a testing ground for urban development. but still he makes the prognoses are correct berlin's population will increase by the size of a small city over the next twenty years. but before we hear about that let's take a stroll through the international interiors show in cologne the emphasis here is on cozy kooning is up and coming again

. >> i understand it's yo urban nt u.s.a., it is the urban consumer. >> it's the urban consumer, but the data we showed was based on the u.s. measure of that index as oppose to the bay area. >> but the u.s.a. urban index. >> right. >> okay. shall we call -- do we need to call for a vote? or does the board want to take this without objection? all right. we can take this item without objection. thank you. next item. >> thank you. >> item 11 action item presentation of a june 30, 2017 report. >> thank you. this item is required for our financial statements and i was able to provide this to our accounting department and auditors it was hot off the press. now it's before the board for you to approve and if you have any questions, kiran is here to answer them for you. >> can we take this report, action committee? great. anyone like it mac a motion? no one wants to adopt this? we have a motion by commissioner driscoll. a second by commissioner bridges. are there members of the public that want to make comments on this 1234 can we take this item without objection? i see no objection. item pa

where there's a lot of talk about urban and rural, but really the roads connect our urban societies and our rural societies together and our urban areas. we talked a lot of them here on the east coast are highly dependent on rural roadways to get goods and services to the population centers and also to move manufactured products out of cities and across the country. we all understand the importance of that. mr. mckenna, your state of missouri is to the north of arkansas. interstate 49 is the connector between new orleans and kansas city. the remaining undone part of interstate 49 happens to be in my district. can you talk a little bit about the importance of completing these projects and how that even though you've got this beautiful highway from the -- really from ft. smith arkansas all the way up to kansas city and from arkansas down to new orleans, what having that two lane curvy road undone means to the risk of the transportation on interstate 49. >> thank you, representative. great question. we, as you mentioned, we have about five miles of interstate to complete kind of a combined

it's on syria's border with iraq that is the armed groups last urban area in syria this video released by the pros tarion government video shows fighting in the area lived to work near the turkish syrian border is a suburb and job it is following developments from there so what's the latest we're hearing from. who is now in control. and as you can imagine there are conflicting reports in the last eight to ten hours isis fighters saying that they have been able to repulse the attack from the iraqi side there are also reports by the syrian observatory for human rights saying there is very intense fighting that is happening in pockets of in the south of the town but according to syrian state media and hezbollah media that takeover offer from isis is now complete they say that their forces down to conducting search operations trying to clear the area after they have taken control and routed isis from a will come out which is the last urban stronghold in this city and every city in the east of syria near the border with iraq and they are very confident that they'd be able to not just take a

>> go i head. >> well, they said urban centers. >> well, a lot. >> urban centers. >> not everything is an issue. >> it is racist there are places in new jersey. there is segregation. >> you talked about that either a couple of shows ago and you and ahad a conversation about race. we talked about the word urban. >> it is code. >> we are talking about the lawsuit with banana republic. the young woman where the man ber said she was urban. >> the word has meaning, righting? think it fess back to what i said. it is not just about race. when you look at social economics. i sti folks the white guy in the trailer doesn't look as prev limbinged as same issues he will have to deal with or she has to deal with. we have talking about this in a larger sense president? you build a bigger tep and more power. >> why? why? the white go for, the white mayor, he still sees it. >> lisa, let hem make the point. >> that mentality keeps people trapped in this perennial spot where they can not get out. god bless you. >> crews of a life cruise of a lifetime turned into a floating nightmare when the cruise ship

urban fabric accounts for just 0.3% of the local authority.of the uk landscape is covered in ground like this. in fact there is almost twice as much peat bog in the uk as the land that we built on. the top area for peat bog is the outer hebrides, where it covers 61% of the land. number one for pastures is armagh city in northern ireland, covering 85% of the local authority. the area with the highest proportion of natural grasslands is blaenau gwent, in industrial south wales. so, how much space is given over to buildings, offices, factories and homes? we have been crunching the numbers and our best estimate for the whole of the uk is that 1.4% of the country is covered in buildings. that equates to about 2% for england, just less than 1% for wales, and less than half of 1% for scotland and northern ireland. a tiny proportion of the uk is the concrete jungle of our imagination. indeed, the entire area covered by buildings is smaller than the land revealed when the tide goes out. most of us, it seems, have a very confused idea of what our countr

agnes church and the urban school, all of who really made this possible. it is really easy to stop something in san francisco. it is much harder to make it move forward. >> that agirl! >> thank you for all of those who helped it go forward. i want to thank steve wallace and the other employees. >> go, steve wallace. >> someone else hiding out there is tim dunn, who was our project manager. many of the folks live pretty close by. the person i'm about to bring up is larry ferguson who has got many connections to this project and to all of us. and we have conversations and on the way to muni and sometimes we have a lot of time. i didn't say that. larry has been a force for affordable housing for many years. i think this is a project that is very near and dear to his heart. he is here representing the department of housing and urban development without whom we wouldn't have this project because they played such an incredible role. as the mayor said it's really -- it's too bad we don't have any current appropriations for rental subsidies for new projects like t

much more urban developers and higher population density and all the neighbors around them. it is a huge population that is going to be served by legal marijuana. and then, i think, it's the long term impact on that and new york and maybe even pennsylvania to jump on the bandwagon if they see new jersey is getting a huge increase in tax dollars because of this. >> well, the bill would not allow for people to grow their own cannabis. i am ashley johnson, reporting for "chasing news." bill: thank you, ashley. all right. let's turn to a great story locally in our area and allison gormly has chased down woman who has worked with and made the favorites. allison, what do you got? reporter: what do they have in common? well, they were created by bonnie ericsson. bonnie and her husband wade won a mascot business out of their home in brooklyn. she decided to move to new york to work in theater. i was prepared for when luck came my way. i had something to offer. that turned into an interview of a lifetime with none other than muppets creator. bonnie and jim work together on and off fo

the boarding school of the outskirts of compound is a pioneer in urban farming and encourages students to take their schools home with them. got the lessons take place once a week. find a placement by. the judges are consumed at school also to members of the public on visits and the head teacher says the project is a huge success maybe ninety percent of the girls i have raised in the urban area and this is critical for us because they have to be active somebody and money in. this place is a small place and money regardless of how small a place can be. the initiative is paying off angel has even inspired the parents to grow vegetables at home they retired so they have enough time to take care of the plants. because they the farm preparing my breakfast i think if you will if your lives and then i cut and put in my ford saves a lot because you find that every day i spend our own toso than three thousand were very good but if you have them around home save realit. urban farming is still in its infancy in uganda the students hope to get financial support from the government as the initiativ

he takes an urban planners have realized that these living walls are a way of making cities look a lot more attractive. singapore is just one example. and green walls on just nice to look at they also have environmental benefits exactly what they are is the focus of hobart's research he and his project partners test the walls and figure out which plants are best suited to them. what we see here are sensor no that's they contain measuring units. this year is a small window there's a u.v. sensor beneath it and behind it are two little permeable grates that allow air to reach the sensor with them we measure temperature humidity and air pressure. the cables run through the vertical garden and into its immediate surroundings. the collected data is fed into a mobile measuring unit it shows to what extent greenery alters the surrounding microclimate so. this is what we call the cockpit and the wall the data we're seeing here was collected at a point when the walls temperature was significantly lower than the immediate surroundings by roughly four degrees celsius. it's the gable. in high tempe

one thing that really has struck me is the level of diversity for the people who are against urban shield. you saw young people, you saw old people, you saw skrifgss, you saw jews, you saw muslims, and they were all advocating on the same thing. what was more concerning are the people that are in favor of the uasi training all fitting the same profile, and that really concerns me, because i think it speaks to the ethos to the mindsets of the persons that are making the decisions in the spending, putting the budgets together who are thinking about training. now, in this almost year-long conversation that we have had about this item, i've done a tremendous amount of due diligence. i've reached out, and i've spoken to every alameda county supervisor. i have spoken to sheriff ahern on the phone multiple times. i've met him in person, as well, as supervisor scott haggerty's event in south county, so the point i'm trying to make is i've left the comfort and security of the city and county of san francisco to peel back a very complex issue. there is something that i want to reinforce, and that i

singapore where one metropolis is striving for environmental sustainability in the face of rapid urbanization. yes it did lead. over three hundred million tonnes of plastic is produced each year with only a fraction of it being recycled much of it ends up in landfills urban living environment waterways and ocean. in colombia the money is being diverted into the building blocks of a new environmental pollution. capital city of bogota is home to eight million people and it is estimated that six hundred fifty tonnes of plastic is thrown away every single day i have come to meet. an architect and founder of a new enterprise for environmental change called. on the. first hand the problems faced here and across latin america. seventy five percent of. when you see. on the ground potential yes a lot of. farm all dispersed in order for oscar's enterprise to succeed he's going to need a lot of plastic. has been a longstanding trade. forty thousand trucks on the streets collecting conventional reuse for waste metal plastic. so we're in a right now where the recyclers come to bring their plastics and oth

ventilation system particulate matter and nitrogen oxides have long been seen as a problem on major urban thoroughfares where values are often higher than permitted but car interior is both thought to be ok even though studies in california a decade ago showed that some dangerous substances in car exhaust fumes could reach higher concentrations inside vehicles than on the road side those findings were largely ignored. now mark measurements point to an even bigger problem. the first time i went out on the very busy eighty five highway i saw values going up to more than ten times the levels in the cities where we usually did our measurements. and i further measurements confirmed that the pollution is consistently highest on the highways with the most traffic and. particularly mounted generally makes its way on hinted into the interior of the car the tiny particles are invisible to the naked eye. by comparison a hair is between fifty and seventy microns in diameter fine such particles often measure less than two and a half microns ultra fine particles can be as small as one hundredth of that

each year with only a fraction of it being with michael much of it ends up in landfills polluting urban living environment why. an ocean. in colombia. has been diverted into the building blocks of a new environmental housing solution. capital city of bogota is home to meet million people and it is estimated that six hundred fifty tons a day is thrown away every single day i have come to meet. an architect and founder of a new enterprise for environmental change called. on the. first hand the problems faced here and across latin america. seventy five percent of. when you see. on the ground potential yes a lot of things you. farm all dispersed in order for us to succeed he's going to need a lot of plastic. has been a longstanding trade colombia forty thousand trucks on the streets of collecting conventional reuse for great metal plastic bottles so we're in a boat right now where the recyclers come to bring their plastics and other recyclable products and they weigh them here so that they can be paid. for looking for. organize all of the area over recent years government support has allowe

the urban component of pro makes it the party of the middle class. not only the middle class but the party of the middle class, the party of the middle income, upward, mobile and progressive electorate. the party of the professionals that argentina is a very urbanized country, as much as the taxi drivers. the party of the median voter, if i may use, you know, the famous expression. the party of that wide middle ground. the party of the pragmatic and moderate voter that has a middle-class component and has aspirations of upward mobility. for themselves and for their children, more than anybody else. it's a pattern that i saw emerging in 2015 and this past october consolidated that people now have an expression in argentina the yellow map, which is yellow is the color of fraud, distinctive, a front and the map is turning yellow again in urban centers all over the country, and that allowed the party to carry important provinces. the vast majority of the provinces. so again let me play back and forth can continue going back and forth between 715 and 717.

it's located on syria's border with iraq that is i sliced urban area in syria this video released by pro syrian government media shows fighting in the surrounding area on saturday let's go live now to turkey syria border of zeros a suburb in java is following developments from there so. what's the latest in who's in control of that city. adrian in the last ten hours we've heard claims and counterclaims isis fighters saying they have repulse the attack from al qaim border crossing that's from the iraqi side have you been hearing the sunni observatory for human rights saying that the city is still contested but outlets and syrian state media is adamant that they have taken complete control of all become which is the last urban stronghold for ice and it means that i see has lost all it's the sentence towns and cities that it controls not just in iraq but in syria as well and this operation is being spearheaded by lebanese hezbollah and iran backed militias who are also supported by the syrian military and obviously air support from the russian air force this operation according to some

urbans and i heart is in the right place his lyrics, less so. jim?> sister shoulder daughter lover healer broken halo mother nature fire suit of armor soul survivor holy water secret keeper fortune teller virgin mary scarlet letter technicolor river wild baby girl woman child female ( laughter ) >> stephen: it's the first song ever written by dumping out a bin full of inspirational throw pillows. ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( piano riff ) urban's collaborator explained the inspiration for the song, titled female, saying "we're in a room and we're like, 'what can we do about this?' the one thing we can do is write songs." that is debatable. ( laughter ) but again, i do like keith urban's work, and i believe their hearts are in the right place. and i want to do my part to stand up for women, so i too wrote a song in like five minutes, and set it to power point. here it is. ♪ . ladies of the world, you got a raw deal. too many times, your voices have been silenced. well, i want to let you know, i hear you. now, be quiet while i explain you to you. lady-wo