we only have to look at the size of the waiting list for housing vouchers videos the country. they're years long for people to get housing assistance. the cost of building and operating housing is more than people earn, more than people can afford base on what they earn in the low-wage workforce. as ages are stagnating or going down, the cost of housing is going up, and there is a disconnect. you can in fact improve the way it is that local governments respond to that by reducing the cost of the process of development. but at the end of the day there is not enough money out there right now to be able to build and subsidize the housing for the number of people that need it, and of course new harvard report bears that out in great detail. >> erik, what happens? the average american family was taking homeless year after year, why didn't rents come down, too? >> there are two very different markets. the markets for labor is one market. the other market has to do with the value of land increases, which reflects a lot of things. it reflects the value that people ascribed to the scho

does this ordinance k*fr if at all section 8 vouchers. >> so the fact that you have a section 8 voucher is not relevant to that determination, so if you are ellis acted, you would get a priority placed in line, now if you were already in that line potentially because of having a voucher or some other housing program that you're el vibl for, you could be moved up to the front of that line with this legislation. >> perfect, that's exactly my question, so i want to make sure you're prioritizing seniors, disabled and folks with life threatening illnesses. how are you determining -- how do you determine what's a life threatening illness. >> that is defined in the statute, i had a discussion about this at the committee, the rent board would help to make this determination but it is defined in the statute itself. there is also a reference to an amendment we made to refer to other sections of the administrative code referring to disabilities z. >> okay. thank you very much. >> thank you. colleagues, do we need a roll call vote on this, can we take this in-house in call? this ordinance passes on

. >> reporter: southwest airlines gives the couple champagne and a travel voucher. the two just beginning their

we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after theyave their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do par

there was clearly a lack of due diligence on the part of folks charged with reviewing his vouchers. >> is there an investigation into that now? >> yes, that's not criminal. based on our criminal investigation of mr. beal, we've done an extensive investigation rewarding the circumstances surrounding the fraud, and we are fairly certain that there's no one else within e.p.a. criminally culpable, although there will be some potential administrative sanctions for people to fail to do for example due diligence, examining the vouchers and not insuring they matched up for the purpose of the trip and to ensure that he did not exceed allowable per diem rates. >> the prosecutor, jim smith said his crimes made him a poster child for what's wrong with government. there's certainly fraud in private industry, but it seems something like this could never go on in the private sector. >> well, i think it's possible, you know, depending on the ability of the person whose perpetrating the fraud. mr. beam's a very intelligent man, very he gauging. at one time, he was a superstar in the e.p.a. he was inst

they resist vouchers.l the folks why. >> well, of course because the teachers unions are the mainstay of the party. they're huge contributors. >> so it's a corrupt bargain. >> of course it is. and everybody knows that. and that's one of the reasons that we're not getting school reform. i think there is no question about that, and i think it's disgraceful. and it is the well off, the limousine liberals whose kids are in the wonderful private schools who deny the vouchers to poor kids who would have a chance out of the ghetto, and they claim that it's in the name of saving the public schools, but they don't save the public schools. i'll give you one number. liberals love to throw money at problems. the per capita spending on students in america is twice today what it was in 1970 and our test scores are the same or lower. it has nothing to do with the money, it has everything to do with the quality of the teaching. >> and it has to do with discipline, it has to do with how the schools are run and what the exp

and that money will turn into vouchers to students that are in need or that are homeless. >> we started with that $1,000 in kind donation and since then which was about a month and a half ago it has doubled in size. >> students can receive these vouchers from the office of student support and case management. >> a lot of students who find themselves in this type of situation don't either want to be identified or don't want to -- don't want to disclose the nature of their concerns or their problems or difficulties. so everything is kept private here in our officer. our job is to remove the barriers that students may see that impact their education in a negative way. >> danielle gill, wusa9. >> well, still to come, the issues congress will be dealing with over the next two days and weeks could take a big bite out of your wallet. topper? >> well, the high and low today we had a break in terms of temperatures. it's a harbinger of things to come. officially 57 was the high. 40 was the low. averages are now down to 50 and 36. i'll mention this again, sunset 4:46. that's as early as it sets an

he does not have a voucher, but the rest of us, we may not have enough left to set our kids to private schools. so we get our money back and send our kids where we want them to go. the bill will give education money to the students right now or is money that comes back that goes to poor schools. we attach it to the kids. do not send it to the schools. they take it to whichever school they want to. the good schools will rise up and succeed and the bad schools will fade away. we have tax credits for education. $5,000 tax credit. this is a broad agenda, how we transform communities. it will touch everyone in this city. from the first time they go to school to becoming parents. economic freedom so that will remove government obstacles to success. it will provide a generation of citizens, students, workers with a new bargain, and the government will get out of the way. it will treat you like an adult. it will treat everyone equally under the law, it will help parents control their children's future and their education, it will help creators have more jobs for workers. it will treat you the

we didn't find the evidence for the voucher system.t's just not there. >> what about the kids who want vouchers? >> we believe that america was built on competition and all that stuff, it's just not there yet. i'm just telling you it's not there. it's just not fair and that is why it's not in the tenants. i want to address this whole thing we have to go get those teachers. i don't have that feeling from the research. it's not what it says and in fact what i'm saying to you is all these things are spokes on a wheel to help the teachers, to help support the teacher in the classroom. we need a system that 97 or 90% of the teachers in this whole country can succeed. that is what we should be looking to do. finding ways to support them and convincing them that we are supporting them, that they don't have to do it themselves. but they are feeling about doing themselves is making this class smaller. i know i can do that are such as give me that. there are some clear evidence for that but we do have evidence for these other things that can hel

with the partnership from hud and the vouchers rapidy housing and the cities refunding of housing. all told over the last 9 years we have some 10 thousand san franciscans have left the shelters for permanent housing including 3 had thousand units for affordable housing and housing first is my priority we'll continue to support emergency services particularly those with for those in needs. we're expanding our shelter for helping the lgbt folks and we've expanded our everyday connect. clearly our work is not finished. we've been talking about universal health care building on a world-class city and this our way to success. we're going to make sure that san francisco is a home for >> hi today we have a special edition of building san francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪ >> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emerge

. >> he received a $250 voucher. >>> jason will have sports highlights after the break.these are the hands a pediatrician. these are pioneering advances in heart surgery. and these are developing groundbreaking treatments for cancer. they're the hands of the nation's top doctors. kaiser permanente doctors. and though they are all different, they work together on a single mission: saving lives. discover how we are advancing medicine at kp.org join us, and thrive. >>> welcome back. seattle trying to clinch the win today. the second to the last time the 9ers and jim harbaugh have a little history at stanford and usc. they don't like each other. the scoring was going 7-6. he was held in check. dawson 3 fieldgoals. the 9ers take a lead. russell wilson. throws into the shadows. luke wilson emerges. 14-9 seattle. one touchdown. one interception. 9ers cap off a crucial drive. nice grap by davis. seattle takes the lead by frank gore cuts it back and takes off before he runs out of gas. maybe he was trying to kill the clock. 17 carries, 110 yards for gore. 20th straight fieldgoal.

>> when i was a child, my father left and we used food stamps, i had reduced school lunch vouchers thatwas very lucky to live in a middle class town and be able to stay in a middle class town because we had section 8 vouchers. people try to think that desani is somebody else's child. the fact that we're in a holiday season, it's like scrooged the writing that article because they want to think it's somebody else's children. a and in america, we like to believe that we're -- how do people move up in poverty? the conservative attack on government is just a strategy to ensure that we don't have that helping hand to people so that they can move into the middle class or even to be our next, you know, millionaires, innovators, et cetera. >> we declared war on poverty, we spent a lot of money of reduszing the poverty level. >> it worked. >> we essentially stopped fighting that war in the 1980s particularly, it sort of flat lined since then. the ideological bedrock of this idea. t...to die. so try glow unstopables. they fill your closet with scents so fresh they last for 12 weeks! [ male announ

with the partnership from hud and the vouchers rapidy housing and the cities refunding of housing.ll told over the last 9 years we have some 10 thousand san franciscans have left the shelters for permanent housing including 3 had thousand units for affordable housing and housing first is my priority we'll continue to support emergency services particularly those with for those in needs. we're expanding our shelter for helping the lgbt folks and we've expanded our everyday connect. clearly our work is not finished. we've been talking about universal health care building on a world-class city and this our way to success. we're going to make sure that san francisco is a home for

with the partnership from hud and the vouchers rapidy housing and the cities refunding of housing. all told over the last 9 years we have some 10 thousand san franciscans have left the shelters for permanent housing including 3 had thousand units for affordable housing and housing first is my priority we'll continue to support emergency services particularly those with for those in needs. we're expanding our shelter for helping the lgbt folks and we've expanded our everyday connect. clearly our work is not finished. we've been talking about universal health care building on a world-class city and this our way to success. we're going to make sure that san francisco is a home for >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit

with the partnership from hud and the vouchers rapidy housing and the cities refunding of housing. all told over the last 9 years we have some 10 thousand san franciscans have left the shelters for permanent housing including 3 had thousand units for affordable housing and housing first is my priority we'll continue to support emergency services particularly those with for those in needs. we're expanding our shelter for helping the lgbt folks and we've expanded our everyday connect. clearly our work is not finished. we've been talking about universal health care building on a world-class city and this our way to success. we're going to make sure that san francisco is a home for >> first of all, i'd like to start out before we get started with our ribbon kci terminal cemetery actually, we have a congratulate message it's what they say in japan it's a congratulatey message we've received from the deputy administrator from japan who i think you can see on the screen. i'm going to read it in japanese and then in earning >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i'll read that briefly neces

to these voucher programs? i have repeat ly tried to get daas the long-term care coordinating counsel to admit where are they being diverted to? is it to board and care in town board and care out of town? i strenuous ly object to roland, wong's creative suggestion to save rent money by dumping people out of county when you do that you diss enfranchise san franciscans from their native city why aren't you asking how many people have been dumped out of county? they won't give me the data, will they give it to you? i need to go to supervisor campos and have him hold another hearing to find out what's happening to the seniors that can't get into laguna honda. don't you care whether we're being dumped out of county? >> thank you mr. shaw any other public comment on this item. okay public comment items not on today's agenda we will limit you to one minute. strict limit. >> this is not on the previous agenda. this is on what i believe should be on one of your future agendas that you absolutely request that decip provi

there are other ideas out there, for example relocation vouchers. if you live in nevada, the economy is bad. you can move to north dakota, depending on your personal circumstance. we can pay somebody a lump sum bonus to get a job. if you throw aside the free market notion that government shouldn't be intervening, there are more creative ways to make it work. >> are you in support of raising the minimum wage for at least some segment of workers? >> probably not. i'll tell you why, to simplify the argument, if i own a small business and can afford to pay $15 an hour, i can either hire two people and pay them $7.50 an hour or hire one person. if you raise the minimum wage, you can have this unintended consequence of hiring fewer people. that's the obvious concern. when republicans and conservatives disagree with raising the minimum wage, it's not because they are scrooge. they worry it will increase unemployment. >> when we raised minimum wage, it's had no negative impact in. >> what is the right number? $25 an hour or $30. >> we are proposing $10 or $

specifically telling people how to maximize the voucher and frequent flier programs to fly and stay forolutely nothing. scott's biggest flash came a couple of years ago when he spent one entire year traveling the globe not spending a single cent on a flight or place to stay. it was a remarkable feat made even more so when scott tells you it didn't just save him money. >> we have to sort of -- >> something else. >> do things right in light. 52 vacations saved my life from my own. >> that part begins here. the streets of the tenderloin district 20 years ago. a troubled kid, scott made a series of bad, sometimes criminal decisions that ultimately led to san francisco, homelessness and drug addiction, all at the age of 16. >> sleeping on street corners in the tenderloin. many, many cold nights. there was no money, no plan. only plan was drugs. >> getting arrested on an outstanding warrant and fighting out in jail he had hiv are what convinced him to make a change. flying just happened to be the ticket for him. something about being in the clouds, scott says, cleared his mind. >> therapy on

with the partnership from hud and the vouchers rapidy housing and the cities refunding of housing. all told over the last 9 years we have some 10 thousand san franciscans have left the shelters for permanent housing including 3 had thousand units for affordable housing and housing first is my priority we'll continue to support emergency services particularly those with for those in needs. we're expanding our shelter for helping the lgbt folks and we've expanded our everyday connect. clearly our work is not finished. we've been talking about universal health care building on a world-class city and this our way to success. we're going to make sure that san francisco is a home for >> when the new california academy of sciences opened in 2008, it quickly became one of the top tourist magnets in the city. part of the cal academies' astronomical success is the weekly nightlife party. >> i am joined by helen, who is here to school me on all the nocturnal activities that are getting ready to take place here. tell us a little about what we can expect to see at nightlife. >> we open up the d

delta says it gave vouchers to the passengers for a future flight.florida lost that game. >>> up next, ahmad fareed joins us. it was a wild warriors game tonight. >>> did you hear the groans and the cheers in the newsroom today? >> i heard you. >> it was very loud. >> it was a crazy game. >> toronto and the bay area squaring off on the ice and the hardwood tonight. both teams needed a bit of a comeback. one, a little more aggressive than the other. that was the basketball one. raptors and warriors. bay area versus toronto. andre iguodala shooting around. still out. kyle lowry. warriors down 27. we go to the fourth now. warriors climbing back. steph curry. just one. next possession. curry again. another three. they left him open. warriors go up two. golden state wins by nine. the largest comeback in ten years for the warriors. >> the good teams and the great teams, they know. those guys in the second half were incredible. in the fourth quarter, exceptional. i'm extremely proud of my basketball team. i'm proud of their will. this being my third year he

he got a $250 voucher and a hotel room. >>> if you thought it was cold here.l take you back to the game where fans had so much snow they couldn't see the ball. >>> limit locations just to 1% of the city. >>> hundreds of toys dropped off today. a group of bay area bikers have donated to children year after year. . >>> back to our weather alert. a live picture of oakland where it is 39. we mentioned a freeze warning is in effect for the bay area. >> tracking the conditions, mark, can is really really cold. >> reporter: we will beat those numbers by a few degrees. we are wrapping up sunday with a few 30s. liver normoore is 37. there is the 34 in napa right now. the timeline below freezing. 20 to 21 tomorrow morning. we will have the forecast lows for 40 cities coming up in a little bit. >>> you can follow mark and the rest of the ktvu weather team. they have updates on twitter and facebook. >>> snow, ice, and sleet, dallas and fort worth has had 3 deaths. 35,000 35,000 home and businesses are running out of power. >> we have very tretcherous conditions. it has no

he does not have a voucher, but the rest of us, we may not have enough left to set our kids to private schools. so we get our money back and send our kids where we want hem to go. the bill will give education money to the students right now or is money that comes back that goes to poor schools. we attach it to the kids. do not send it to the schools. they take it to whichever school they want to. the good schools will rise up and succeed and the bad schools will fade away. we have tax credits for education. $5,000 tax credit. this is a broad agenda, how we transform communities. it will touch everyone in this city. from the first time they go to school to becoming parents. economic freedom so that will remove government obstacles to success. it will provide a generation of citizens, students, workers with a new bargain, and the government will get underway. it will treat you like an adult. it will treat everyone equally under the law, it will help parents control their children's future and their education, it will help creators have more jobs for workers. it will treat you the same wa

so we are talking about housing vouchers and sort of short term shallow subsidies that are available. what we are not talking about is addressing why people become homeless in the first place. we are also talking about issues of domestic violence. the gomes of ending family homelessness is a great sort of -- a goal to have, but it's not really going to be realistic unless we really addressing those underlying causes. and understanding that the surface structure that we have in place today, is a great jumping off point to start helping families to combat their own homelessness, even when they are in shelters. >> dong that, we know some cities have taking the solution of criminalizing homelessness. criminalizing homelessness, or themmizing them makes it worse. most of these folks are mentally ill and addicts that need help. if they had money to pay fines don't you think they would use it for a damn motel or some kind of housing? >> is that a viable solution themmizing homelessness? does that just add to the problem? oh, sure, give me the ones where i don't have any passion. criminalizin

the store was just handing out vouchers for the kicks. they come out next week.those kicks are going to cost $170 a pair. >> shows our values. >> if you have the $170, i don't care. i covered those stories, that's a lot of families. there's a brig big problem with that. >> you don't have to knock anybody down, you can give joy with a click of the button. deborah is live at the volunteers of america's supportive housing program and she's here to tell us more. we have friends. >> a lot of friends all day. we're taking pictures and dance lessons. we've been having a lot of fun. the toys have been handed out and not that much left going on. there are a couple kids doing reading. right now, reading a book. but really, giving out all the toys. the kids are so excited. eastern avenue helps out low income families and families who have struggled with homelessness in the past. now last week, this is what your generosity did for the kids at another program. it's in falls church. >> the people that help me get the toys. >> what do you think about today? >> that i'm so happy

for her, she said i know they gave vouchers and she thought the vouchers would probably be enough to make the passengers feel -- >> hopefully these things do not happen on delta. hopefully they don't. hopefully this is not typical delta procedure. we'll reach out to delta to try to get our own statements on this. morgan watkins, thank you so much for sharing this story. we'll follow it with you, thank you. >>> now, an update on what we are following out of new york. word of admission by the engineer at the controls of the speeding train jumped the tracks in the bronx, two senior law enforcement sources tell the engineer, there he is, said he was quote, in a daze. this was revealed to investigators moments after the derailment that killed four and injured more than 60 others. investigators now say this train carrying 150 passengers approached the sharp curve, here's the map, approached the curve doing 82 miles an hour. this is a bend with a speed limit of 30 miles per hour. 82. that is too fast even for the straight away with a 70-mile-per-hour limit. nick is on the scene of the crash