this is really to me about good budgeting and allowing us as a city to have the flexibility during downturns. i know that many of you will come up and say well, we have a baseline because in the past, we have historically not had enough funding in these certain categories, right, and i will agree with you. but we also don't have baselines for departments such as department of public health, human services, unless you're counting the dignity fund. also counting the department of homelessness. but we can argue that especially during the bad economic times, these are some of the most vulnerable people that we need to exist. i hope that we'll have the flexibility to budget as needed when we're faced with tough times. one last thing i will say is -- or a couple few last things is i've also received a question about why the police, for example, the minimum staffing requirement is -- or the police baseline is not included here. it's because it's a mun maximum staffing requirement so it's structured very differently from all -- many of the other baselines that we have here in san francisco. so it wa

answer that we just heard, is -- is that the city established the use of this parking -- the use of this parking lot. the city authorized and the use of this space as a parking lot and operated it as a parking lot, and that sets the precedent. not the ongoing use over the last 30 or 40 years or whatever, but the city itself authorized the use and then operated it as a parking lot historically. so that -- that's a -- i don't -- i don't find that a slippery slope, and that would be the -- the intent of my motion if i were able to make it or anybody else. >> i would concur with that. i'm in the neighborhood quite frequently. that's a pretty dark, dark space, to be honest. like i said, just if we could get to a space where we're not setting huge precedent here, right? >> i would add an amendment, if i may. >> i have made the motion. >> you can make the motion. >> yeah, you can make the motion. >> can i say something first? >> yes. >> since we're about to make a motion. i am completely sympathetic, empathetic, whatever term you wish to use. i would very much like to see this happen. i have not been persuaded that there are problems with the letter of dete

but that's really an opportunity for us as a city to start thinking about how we tackle ageism. the frameworks institute has done interesting research and data collection on how people feel about aging and how people prefer to talk about aging. it's a chance to hear about that and have a lot of us get common understanding of how we might shift the conversation in san francisco. i hope you can be there. i wanted to mention re-imagine week, which is coming up the week of april 16-22. and that is partnership between the palliative care work group. it's one of the work groups of the long-term coordinating council and collaboration between our work group and an organization called end-of-life collaborative which came out of ido. it's work that ido did. it's a week-long series of events focused on conversations around end of life. and so we're very -- i'm very much interested in being part of this because i think end of life and just palliative care in general, thinking about pain management for people with chronic conditions and chronic illness is not easy for us to talk about. so th

it's an incredibly difficult time for us as a city. last year, i directed the budget analyst and controller's office to conduct a report on our process. also, a further analysis on how other comparable counties conduct their budget processes. more specifically, i also wanted to look at see how the local processes were influenced by the state and federal budget process. what we learned, we learned several valuable lessons. from the moment it was sent out to when the departments honor those directions and at the end, what has become apparent is there are many things i think we can begin to enhance and improve and really fine tune our legislative budget process. so i want to signal to everyone that my goal this year is to learn from last year's process and make the immediate improvements to make this year's process more efficient and a better experience for everyone, including our stakeholders. so today we have a hearing from the budget legislative analyst. we have a presentation from the controller's office, as well as the mayor's budget

those values despite the fact of the department of justice is trying to encroach and threaten us as a cityfor those policies that we're implementing. we're standing firm and strong and other cities need to do the same. we need to build our own wall of resistance, and that is what we're doing each and every day. >> i know you've been down in puerto rico back and forth. you have family down there as well. give us your sense of the latest there these many months after that storm hit. >> the woefl negligence on the part of this administration, there has been no serious package presented with regards to money to help puerto rico and particularly when we're talking about all these government shutdowns and all the negotiations. there has not been anything substantial. there's a lot of work yet to do. the idea of privatizing vital assets on the island that the governor has proposed to me is unacceptable. there is a lack of responsibility that is being taken here -- that is not being taken, so we have to really put pressure. but this administration needs to do right. we have great representatives i

that's its 150th anniversary and it's a good time for us as a city to think about its past, its present, and its future. and we have recycled water coming to golden gate park in 2020 which is pretty exciting and we'll hopefully cut a ribbon on the golden gate tennis center and our tennis learning center program. you spoke about some of the capital work, supervisor, and i think that you said on the city's capital -- you sit on the capital planning committee as well and we're slated for a bond in 2018 and we have figuring out to do and what we're hearing from all of and you what we have heard from the community and numerous groups there's a lot of pent-up demand. so while we've done a lot of good there's a long way to go and we have jean friend which is one of our busy whyest an busies that needs a recreation and you and i have talked about the pavilion and the edge. and mclaren lodge, though it just houses staff, is a pretty important building and the most seismically unsafe building in san francisco. there's a significant amount of evolving need of the projects that are kind of big and

think in india right now is west of europe history see the advance of torso russia backed as a force us. into a city center you know controlled by. radical elements within h.t.s. so onkar also has been a little bit disturbed by this a recent development and this is some complaining about this advance this attack is to r.t. do walt. create a sort of friction in the at any rate they are going all out here where i mean russia turkey and iran. want to do that you want to talk about this way but i mean this is quite a military forces in the thirty thousand many countries don't have that do you think this will be that call of some sort of our military so if this is to go on. it may well be but i think i think the highlight here i think what we what we need to highlight is that the relationship between the u.s. and the kurds is going to continue and and this implies maybe not directly a nation building project by the u.s. but it definitely implies that there's going to be some sort of a consistent relationship in the short and medium term and i think another thing that we have to underline here is the turk

expect to see public works cleaning our streets and all vital services that the public expects us to deliver as a city and we will do that. it also means tackling our cities most pressing issues; getting out homeless onto streets and into shelter and housing. making sure our streets are safe and clean for san francisco resident. (robin) former interim mayor london bree tweeted about her experience and says ... it's been an honor to serve the city during this difficult time. i have a vision for an inclusive & fair san francisco, and will keep working every day on the important issues we face: homelessness, housing, & public safety. (robin) happening now... san francisco police are searching for a gunman who shot two people... killing one of them. it happened in the bernal heights neighborhood just after 5 last night. both victims were taken to the hospital. one later died. we do not know the condition of victim. (robin) in the east bay. a warning going out after six- children were killed in the last six - months all in car accidents.. and in each crash, the driver of another vehicle has been charged wi

the beat, public works cleaning our streets and all vital services that the public expects us to deliver as a city and we'll do exactly that. and it means tackling the most pressing issues, getting homeless off the streets and into shelter and housing. making sure our streets are safe and clean for san francisco residents. continuing to build on mayor lee's legacy of housing and addressing the housing crisis. the next six months will be incredibly active. san francisco residents deserve nothing less. san francisco's future, our future is incredibly bright. and despite our issues, we live in the most amazing city in the world. thriving local neighborhoods, the booming economy, natural beauty unrivalled anywhere in the world and adversity and inclusion. this is a time for leadership. it's a time to look ahead. i look forward to the road in front of us all. thank you very much. >> will you take a couple of questions now? go ahead. >> reporter: the reaction to your nomination and vote to point you in this position were very emotional, people were very upset in the board chamber, claims of racism. ther

to give us all space to reflect on that and what it means for each of us as individuals, what it means for us as a department and city. at the mayor's memorial service, his daughters got up and spoke and i was so impressed with their poise and their eloquence with what they decided to share. one of the things they shared with everyone that day was the creation of a special fund at the san francisco foundation, the mayor edwin lee memorial fund. and i wasn't surprised that the mayor or the mayor's family would want to do that. what warmed my heart was when they listed the subject matters that this fund would focus on. and they said these were the things that were nearest and dearest to their father's heart and one of those areas that they talked about was the environment. and that this would be a way to honor his legacy on the environment as well as other issues but that was one that of course spoke to me individually. and so i wanted to invite the commission and anyone else listening in on this, that it would be i think very wonderful for us as a department and commission to support this endeavor and so, i have my ch

where, you know, you bring, whether it be a trade or cultural mission up, in exchange, we used to have, it used to be a big thing. we used to have twin cities. as teenager i grew up in a steel city, hamilton, ontario, we had the games every year where we go to flint, michigan, compete against americans and come to hamilton next year. those kind of things, we are talking about the relationship part of it. those things are increasingly important. we left that everybody gets busy, everything else. i think we need to do more of that i think the other thing i would like to say is, you know, so often you think that your voice doesn't matter. that you know, you got to take care of your backyard and what you say about national or international events doesn't matter. it does and i think it's really important for all of us to speak up in the next several months and it is not just a short-term thing, it's a long-term thing. we are neighbors, friend, allies, partners. we need, we need to reinforce that on a ongoing basis. that is not just about trade, it is about human relationships that are really important to foster. >> thank you. thank you on that note,

secondly, i want to share with you, really, if this is truly a v value of us of ours as a city, and asriving this, then the people that we are doing business w i expect to have the values as well. let me tell you how disruptive we have been in denver. on the new mbwe policy, i wanted to insert and we got it successfully inserted into the policy asking the private sector, before you do business with the city, i want to the know what your diversity an inclusion plan is. many of the generals are willing to partner with the minority and women-owned subs when it is coming from the public money, but not private projects, so now, before you bid on the city project, you have to annually file a diverse inclusion policy with us, and so we see who has the same values as us. that is ground breaking, because we want you to share the values of the city. and also, it makes business sen sense. if i have strong women and minority businesses in the city, small businesses in particular, then we have a deeper bench, and we are able to withstand the volatility of the economy. big business gets that, and th

she was happy and free walking about the city as most of us were. the city was very ae enjoying this wintertime warmth we got to 59 degrees our normal high temperature 41. even despite that chilly start at 27 degrees this morning and got a live look at center city philadelphia. we're still very much. 56 degrees southerly component to our wind flow you are chering this warmth still breezy right now. wind speeds up around 16 miles per hour. but everyone enjoying this january warmth. 54 degrees right now in trenton. we're at 54 in atlantic city. still up at 56 degrees in wilmington did have a bit of a breeze kick winds gusting about 40 miles an hour at the atlantic city airport winds gusting to about 37 at philadelphia international airport. still be a little bit breezy at times not nearly as gusty but a breeze as we head into the over it in period. with that rain developing low temperature only falling back to 46 degrees. then temperatures not moving around too much tomorrow. but with that mild start a mild day. 54 degrees with periods of rain especially right in around

beat, public works cleaning our streets, and all vital services to of the public expects us to deliver as a city and we'll do that. >> farrell will have to appoint a replacement for his district 2 supervisor seat which covers the neighborhoods of the pacific heights and the marina and parts of russian hill. in san francisco, alley rasmus, ktvu, fox 2 news. >>> the board of san francisco supervisors also approved a proposal recognizing columbus day as indigenous people's day at last night's meeting. san francisco's supervisor cohen introduced the legislature -- >>> a community in kentucky continues to grieve after yesterday's deadly high school shooting. people gathered last night for a prayer service at a church in benton in southwest kentucky. they prayed for the two students killed and the 17 others who were hurt. the 15-year-old boy is now in custody. officials say he'll likely face murder charges. witnesses say the shooter opened fire with a handgun while students were gathering before class. one student said he kept shooting until he ran out of ammunition and then was arrested moments later

a vibrant and complete community. good for us as neighbors, good for us as community and our city. as i mentioned, this community in greater stakeholder engagement, helped us shape the project we see today. striking a delicate balance on the amount of parks, waterfront access, housing, neighborhoods serving retail and restaurants, preparation for sea level rise and office space. i'm not an expert in the financial aspects of development, but this project brought together an amazing group of stakeholders experts to find the optimal mix of land uses while providing some flexibility to enensure successes and delivery of the project. even with this collaboration and consensus building there were dramatic last-minute discussions to gain agreement that this project could raise a percentage of affordable housing from 33 to 40%. with this said, today we have a parking lot and community desert along this section of the waterfront. at the appropriate time, please approve this project as presented, allowing the mission rock development to move forward. thank you. >> thank you, bruce. chad houst

(vicki) now as kron4's haaziq madyun reports...citizens in one east bay city are allowing police to use their home security cameras as part of awide surveillance video network. sota video camera that is part of the citizen's view network of home surveillance cameras registered with the city of san ramon police departmentsot san ramon citizen's like staci tate

whole lot of men yard us up a couple seasons from the city as it is for last night but. hey that is just immature east. is virus and it's ok. it's a kind of. but in this film we can't be sure what is true but tale of sexual abuse psychosis and revenge freddy eddy is a chilling and powerful thriller one made on a shoestring budget. and in financial one want to finish out the film without any subsidies and almost no money for seventy five thousand euros that sounds like a lot but for a film it's very little mix everyone deferred their salaries and work for nothing. the director plowed her savings into the film and made up the rest through online crowdfunding acting friends including star jessica shots work for free it paid off freddy eddie was a hit on the festival circuit after failing to find someone willing to release her movie to mung is doing it herself. freddy insists he's innocent but his story of a criminal twin brother eddie doesn't convince even his shrink he tells him to drop the act it was on those words he. was on so you must honestly try to take him. as other

switch to fios and get a year of netflix on us with a two-year agreement. >>> philly is known as the city of brotherly love, but not this week for michael and eric kendricks. michael a line backer for the eagles, eric has linebacker for the eagles. they played each other in college and they played each other last year here at the link. last week they talked all during the week and met up before the game, but this week they're not speaking. >> the biggest game of our lives, you know, nothing else matters right now, it's unreal and it's an opportunity of a lifetime and something that we will remember forever. >> i feel like my brother gets a little advantage. he is the firstborn, but it's all good. >> i don't know that you will ever hear the end of this unless we come back to the same situation, which is possible, it happened once, it can happen again, but that's not good. >> the kendricks family is a house divided, but the family will be sitting on the eagles sideline because the game is here in philly. john clark, nbc sports, philadelphia. turning 65. downsizing. enrolling in medicare par

what happens is, as a city attorney comes to us with a draft, sometimes we love it. sometimes we don't. sometimes we tweak it. sometimes we tear it apart. and sometimes we accept it. but in all terms, we wind up rewriting it into legible, 8th grade terms for the average voter. and then from what we do, we go to public comment, people tell us what they think of what we've done. then we go back and review it again. and then at the end of that period, we come up with a draft which is then available for appeal. and people always try to appeal what they think that they want. and then we reschedule it in 72 hours plus so that it fits the sunshine law. and then we go through it all, the whole series all over again until we come up with a final draft and that is what's on the first page of the every initiative in the ballot handbook. >> all done within 90 days of election. >> it's done within two weeks, three weeks at the max. >> but all your work has to be done prior -- >> 90 days prior. which puts us sometimes in a problematic situation when the supervisors wait until the

in san francisco and not to bring us down today, but it is unacceptable to us as i'm sure it is to all of you that we have a city with fewer than 50,000 african americans as we stand here today. it's unacceptable to us as i'm sure it is to you that we have lost half of our artists in the past 20 years in san francisco. i'm sure it's unacceptable as it is to us, that we have thousands of homeless people still on the streets and i'm sure it's unacceptable to you as it is to us that we have thousands of working families that can't afford the median rent of a two bedroom apartment in san francisco, which requires an income of $120,000 a year to be affordable. and with things going on nationally out of washington d.c. present additional challenges obviously. that said, we are extremely fortunate to live in a city that is so supportive of affordable housing, that love to see new projects built that serve formally homeless as this project will. that we have a mayor's office of housing and board of supervisor team and mayor's office that supports all the work we do and mercy housing does. we are truly fortunate to have

as well. that increases the danger. everybody that was inside the building was evacuated. christien kafton is honestly out there and will bring us a live reports coming up. >>> this is from new york city. this is another live picture of a 5-alarm apartment fire. there is a lot of back to the and its bitterly cold as well. there is still a lot of smoke. we are not sure what started the fire but we are told at least nine people have been hurt. this was the scene about a half- hour ago. there was even more smoke billowing from the building. firefighters said they had to knock out windows to rescue people. this is in new york city. a five alarm apartment fire. nine people were hurt. we will keep checking on that as well. >>> a two hour computer outage at u.s. customs and border protection's processing system caused a lot of delays at u.s. airports for international travelers. all the airports affected by the problems are now running normally including sfo. last night international travelers waited for hours to get through passport control. in addition to sfo the affected airports included seattle, chicago, dallas, fort worth, atlanta, miami and denver. the computer outage is believed to h

a stain on the city's record, you can say. but if had stead of being stuck in the past and using history as an anchor, we think it should be our foundation to build from and we're writing a new chapter in richmond's history and that's a chapter of being a welcoming, open inclusive city that's tolerant of all cultures and all walks of life. we're head hed down monument avenue. one of the most iconic streets in all things of america. a monument created around 1996/1997 towards arthur ash who is the international tennis star born and bread right here in the city of richmond. right now it's the only monument, statue to an african american on monument avenue. beyond that you'll see statues to those who served in the civil war. so arthur ash, you got jeff stewart, stone wall jackson, robert e. lee. >> okay. so there has been maybe a little bit of controversy about some of the statues here. what are the feelings in the city about the statues? >> i think folks recognize this is a part of our history, a terrible history it may be but it's a part of our history. as i have always said, what i share any tears if the jefferson davis statue

. >> so we will try to use that as a legal method in our city to confiscate legal firearms. in terms of the major events this week, we have the second annual women's rally in march on saturday scheduled for 9:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the evening. the rally begins at civic center. it'll be followed by a march down to market to embarcadero at 2:00 p.m. we have dedicated staff to ensure those participating in this first amendment activity as well as for the public, and we expect a pretty huge turnout at this event, so barring rain, we'll have a turnout for it. also, this week, we'll have a news conference actually tomorrow, thursday, january 18th at noon for the 23rd annual chinese new year's press conference. basically that's hosted by sf safe and the police department. it'll be at bush and grant and the focus will be on educating the community on extortion, prevention, scam prevention, burglary prevention, robbery prevention and pedestrian safety. mayor's office, the sf recreation and parks and the sfpd along with supervisor malia cohen will be hosting a press event on

i want to storm system known as the bomb cycle own is causing travel chaos in eastern us the mayor of new york city has declared a weather emergency as there is expecting up to twenty five centimeters of snow fall they stream weather has forced schools and offices to close and left many travelers stranded and fights canceled and we never get you from the show it will be canceled. we didn't know and we next. it wouldn't be an entire city. it insurance and you know. you just you know when. you return to school. this map shows the areas on the east coast that will see the worst of the bomb cycling's so-called according to the national weather service heavy snow and record breaking freezing temperatures are not expected to taper off until late friday that's when the storm moves towards canada. in china least three airports have been shot and nine others are experiencing delays because of heavy snowfall there the weather alerts been raised to its second highest level parts of the central northern and eastern regions could see up to thirty centimeters of snow thousands of government workers in argentina have protested

now turkey is been keen to show the media its side of operations they took some of us inside to as this is a syrian city south of the border yesterday myself and join them on that and it was a good opportunity to see what life is like for people inside city. as we enter syria it is the free syrian army flag flies high here we are on a media trip into as organized by the turkish authorities they take us close to where there's been fighting with y.p. ji the kurdish armed group turkey calls a terrorist organization turkish forces are trying to push it out of the region about the front line is just a few kilometers west of here both turkish troops and the free syrian army are taking part but no not particularly one of the f.s.a. fighters why he is involved in turkey's operation for some it seems it's personal. the love of the room. because they betrayed us and especially because they took. the displaced along with many. of the. conditions especially now in the winter. what our target courts are telling us is that the front line with the kurdish fighters is just further along. which is over to the side where

there's many organizations here that help us with the funding of such an endeavor. so we as a city are proud to be part of working together to make sure this facility and others are successful. i want to say congratulations, it's a big victory for all of us here and i hope we can take a few moments in the early parts of 2018 to recognize this and celebrate. congratulations everyone. (applause) >> thank you supervisor cohen. madam mayor breed. i'm looking over to gladys, i believe we have some special guests, i see some amazing little ones over there, a special treat for the mayor here. but first, i think i'm to bring up miss ariana smith, miss smith is a parent of a child enrolled at frandelja. welcome. >> good morning. >> come on mama smith. don't be nervous. >> i'm not really a speaker but i want to say thank you to frandelja for being accessible to me as a single working parent and you guys have been so helpful making my child feel she's at home. it's been very helpful to me. i thank you for everything. thank you. (applause) >> miss gladys would you like to introduce the special

city in the u.s. to setup a safe injection site for drug users. but as nbc 10's denise nakano shows us, the two sides of this debate are very far apart. >> reporter: the city's announcement is the first step in creating a safe injection site in philadelphia. we talked to both advocates and opponents here in kensington, the epicenter of the opioid and heroin epidemic. the fight to keep people from dying in the worst public health crisis the city has ever seen gained momentum. >> it's going to save lives. >> reporter: the task force recommended a supervised safe injection site in philadelphia. it would be the first in the nation. >> we want people someplace safe, someplace someone can help them when they're ready. >> reporter: it can help people struggling like francis conner. >> i don't want to we taken into custody. my daughter cries every night why can't you stop getting high. >> reporter: they'll push for injection sites that can provide trained staff that can immediately respond to an overdose, reduce the spread of disease. >> we're not just going to take this. >> reporter: council