when willie brown and gavin newsom get here will get them to sign up as well. [laughing]. well i want to say this. i am very proud of our public utilities commission. the general manager arlen kelly, who had the pleasure of working with for was two decades now and of course are commissioners themselves. thank you, to our puc for helping lead such a successful launch of clean power sf and for all the work that is ahead of us that you will do to reach our 50%renewable energy goal by 2020. it is up to me, it's up to all of you. it's up to everybody in this room. if we work together, that's how our city will lead the state and the rest of the country.as a city we are also continuingto walk the talk when it comes to clean energy in at a municipal level. last year we shifted the entire san francisco municipal fleet over to renewable diesel. [applause]. it wasn't easy. we had to trick a few of our departmental customers by making them use it and letting them know they were not using it yet. well, this meansnow today we are reducing our tailpipe emissions from our muni buses, our

he's now pitching a. >> i asked former san francisco mayor willie brown what has u.c. berkley gotten itself into. >> obviously they have forgotten their history and their tradition. it's always been the heart of the free speech movement. when reagan was there he tried to shut it down and it was free speech and now suddenly the people who were defending their right to speak is trying to deny ann coulter the opportunity to appear on that campus. total insanity. it's now surrounding the decision makers on the question of the first amendment. >> what they're saying is they can't guarantee the safety of these speakers who got a number of folks who are protesters who don't necessarily agree that the first amendment is as broad as legally it is. and they say we want to shut it it down. this is no place on campus and if they're willing to be violent and organized the police say we can't protect the speaks. >> that brings up the issue mayor brown. public safety versus a mayor versus public rights. where do you draw the line? >> i think the reason you do have to come down on the

that is only asked willie brown. if hillary clinton is having a big comeback. >> what is she going to come back to? she ran for the president of the united states and she lost. >> you have to understand that we are in a situation where, as democrats, if we are going to try to win back, we need our superstars on the playing field. with zero ambition for themselves. hillary is invaluable among women. but you can't put hillary out there -- mr. obama needs to do what no other president has done. he should be ringing doorbells at every rational district that we can change the numbers and, provided he won the congressional district when he was running for president. if that happens, we will be where we need to be. >> what i am hearing from you guys, between the lines, is that democrats don't appear to have anybody of stature or popularity out there to unite the country. >> we have the president that is left with popular ratings. >> take the president out and hillary out. >> we are still waiting for that person to emerge. r

mayor willy brown will take part no ceremonies.munity leaders attended a preview luncheon yesterday near union square. local history buffs were there as well as former mayor brown. some of their family members attended the parade. >> it's very important to know what the city is like and what it did and how it rebuilt itself and what can be done and also to get them ready for the next one. >> the quake and fire killed more than 3000 people. a lot of people at the meeting spot gathered. >>> time is 4:20. an update on the damaged spillway at at oroville dam. meantime a nebraska based construction company has won the contract to make the repairs for that massive dam. those repairs are expected to begin in late may or early june. >>> right now it's 4:20 and a new crack down on bart. how much the transit agency plans to spend on people who don't pay their fair share. >> and how california has joined the search efforts to find an ohio man picking a murder at random and then posting the murder on facebook. >>> welcome back to mornings on 2

lee, san francisco police chief william scott, fire chief joanne hayes-white and former mayor willie brown. ( james ) oakland mayor libby schaaf is running for a second term. the election is more than a year away. kron 4's ella sogomonian met one-on-one with mayor schaaf and had the story. mayor libby schaaf isn't wasting anytime.she's announced that she's running for a second term."i don't take anything for granted and i want to make sure that the campaign in no way interrupts work i do every day as oakland's mayor."mayor schaaf made the announcement monday 19 months before the next election as part of an early-in strategy. she's counting on oakland to give her a second chance despite a challenging two years."there's so much work that we've started that needs to be continued. oakland is so much safer but we have a lot more work to do to continue to build trust and strengthen community policing."trust that's been lost by many in oakland when during her term oakland's police department fell to a sex scandal that shocked the community and the nation - then led to a revolving door of police c

thank you to our friends emma willie brown this water running in the fountain here. he's the one who made it happen. [applause] >> you guys know this, right? >>[singing] [applause] >> j johnson. [applause] >> i'm not sure what key that was in. [laughing] j johnson, everybody the people's key in c. we have one more speaker that we could not get you right away because of in c. we have one more speaker that we could not get you right away because of the 5:12 am we want one of you coming up right now is the deputy director of the department of energy management of san francisco to invite you to go to [inaudible] keep it going for mike dayton, everybody >> thank you. good morning again everybody. thank you all so much. it's been a privilege and honor to participate in this commemoration. to represent the department of emergency management. you know we were to support all the public officials, the public safety officials, that spoke before you. we also encourage peopleto join dirt again let's give it another run applause better in nerd. [applause] is also two things you ca

they're also joined by former san francisco mayor willie brown. i'm showing you more video of the past ceremonies. we want to take you back here live as we see folks starting to show up as the ceremony will take place at roughly fife:12 a.m. we're live in san francisco. pete suratos for today in the bay. >> thank you very much. >>> 4:34 and an unbelievable story out of the peninsula. a family dog snatched off a bed in the home, and the intruder left prints. and they were paw prince. wildlife officers think a mountain lion opened this home about five miles east of town yesterday morning. vicky and her daughter say they often leave their back door open for fresh air and so that the dogs can come and go. as they slept, one of their two dogs, a 15-pound dog started barking viciously. then, silence. vicky says she got up and took a closer look at what she thought was her other dog going outside. >> as it walked down our path, i thought, that looks a lot like a lion. >> the family saw large paw prints on the floor and the state wildlife warden found blo

lee, san francisco police chief william scott, fire chief joanne hayes-white and former mayor willie brown. this morning marks the one-hundred and eleventh anniversary of the 19-0-6 earthquake in san francisco. firefighters after the earthquake claimed a fire hydrant saved much of the city from fires that broke out. three thousand people died in the tragedy. ( darya ) thanks terisa. we will check back with you through out the morning. (james) still ahead on the kron four morning news... a southwest pilot is fired after he tries to bring a loaded gun into the airport. we'll explain what happened. and a scary scene for a family after they wake up to a huge alligator on their front porch. we'll tell you the obstacle the gator had to go through to get up to the home. plus... road conditions could be ge

when willie brown and gavin newsom get here will get them to sign up as well. [laughing]. well i want to say this. i am very proud of our public utilities commission. the general manager arlen kelly, who had the pleasure of working with for was two decades now and of course are commissioners themselves. thank you, to our puc for helping lead such a successful launch of clean power sf and for all the work that is ahead of us that you will do to reach our 50%renewable energy goal by 2020. it is up to me, it's up to all of you. it's up to everybody in this room. if we work together, that's how our city will lead the state and the rest of the country.as a city we are also continuingto walk the talk when it comes to clean energy in at a municipal level. last year we shifted the entire san francisco municipal fleet over to renewable diesel. [applause]. it wasn't easy. we had to trick a few of our departmental customers by making them use it and letting them know they were not using it yet. well, this meansnow today we are reducing our tailpipe emissions from our muni buses, our

some going to bring in this fax to your attention showing you how mayor willie brown overstepped his authority at the time and how the city departments to pay to play politics followed suit. thank you for your time. >> there being no further public comments, we will move to the next item which is item 9. discussion of the executive directors report did not take highlighting various programmatic issues and operational activities on the commission staff said the previous monthly meeting that covers a range of topics such as the commissioners budget, policy development, outreach activities, audit programs, and future staff projects. any of the subjects may potentially be part of the director's presentation were discussed by the commission. there are attachments to the march 22 2017 executive directors report and attachments. >> thank you commissioner keane. this months report is very brief. the-as we note, chairman keane and i have been doing outreach around meetings with the most movie sworn in members of the board of supervisors. we had one meeting. the f3 now that i think will be res

so we asking san francisco mayor willie brown and kpix analyst about the president's action and his relationshiph russia which is now under investigation by congress. >> i'll tell you a lot of people are calling that into question. maybe he isn't so in bed with russia. and sensibly invoke the ire of russia. maybe there isn't such a connection. maybe there aren't embarrassing videos. >> i noticed you were smiling that. >> i think he is the master of diversion. there's nothing like having a nice little war when you're really in trouble on some other issue. he's in trouble on the russian issue and in order to get people's attention away from that and we all start and said we are for what you're doing. do something to syria. syria is nothing. >> let me also change that you call up your friend putin and say in 24 hours some of my guys are coming by and these are the targets that are intended to hit. make sure you don't have anything near it. let me know when you're clear so i can do my drop. >> it could be a bookie theater. i think time will tell whether or not this was a genuine attack meant to harm

melissa and i asked the former san francisco mayor, willie brown, if this was in fact the opening-round for her reelection bid. >> i have to assume that senator feinstein has decided that the state of california needs her presence in view of what is going on in washington. she was clearly one of the architects of having every democrat vote no on the supreme court nomination. >> i am pleased that she is looking forward to may be representing us again. >> she also held a couple of high profile fundraisers. there is every indication that she will run again. >> what about the pole. it came out of berkeley. the igs group. it raised questions about her age. >> it basically asked people -- what do you think of diane feinstein. and it disclosed her age, 84. and watch where the numbers move. what is interesting is that among democrats, the percentage drops with age. >> exactly. they said, we don't think it is a good idea that she runs again, given her age. but with republicans, support went up. it went up from 12%, to 20% when republicans knew her age. >> just keep in mind, there is not a soul i

former mayor willie brown and melissa cain their thoughts. >> i think he is the master of diversion.e is nothing like having a nice little war when you are really in trouble on some other issue. he is in trouble on the russian issue. and in order to get people's attention away from that, and we all started saying yay, we are for what you are doing, do something for syria. syria is nothing. >> to see their response tune in tomorrow morning at 7:30. four were killed and 15 others wounded when a stolen truck barreled down stockholm's busiest shopping street. the driver eventually rammed into a department store where the truck burst into flames. witnesses described the chaos. "there was a lady laying with a severed foot..blood everywhere there were bodies on the ground everywhere and the sense of panic people standing by their loved ones but also people running away." sweden's prime minister is calling this -- an act of terrorism. this is the latest use of a vehicle as a weapon of terror in europe. france, germany, and britain have all been hit by truck or car attacks by suspected isis f

important in our culture and lives k l a w will be focusing on hash tag and 7 combrarldz and willie l. brown middle school have been working in teams proposed of an engineer and electrical engineer and computer engineers as part of willie l. brown middle school hands based technology and arithmetic's or m curriculum students will present their projects as a robotic celebration thursday april 6th for families so see functional robotic arms and finally after 8 years of learning cantonese or mandarin alice eight grade students go to china 57 students time or went to hong kong and other city's they attended the classes and students have returned and are excited to share what we learned and have a bridged culture and built community so that that concluded my report. thank you, commissioners. >> thank you superintendant lee and we appreciated the emphasis on the mission bears championship in recognition and commendations. tonight item b-3 student delegate's report. >> ms. eng and ms. zaragoza. >> thank you president walton good evening board of education and president and vice president and public

important in our culture and lives k l a w will be focusing on hash tag and 7 combrarldz and willie l. brown middle school have been working in teams proposed of an engineer and electrical engineer and computer engineers as part of willie l. brown middle school hands based technology and arithmetic's or m curriculum students will present their projects as a robotic celebration thursday april 6th for families so see functional robotic arms and finally after 8 years of learning cantonese or mandarin alice eight grade students go to china 57 students time or went to hong kong and other city's they attended the classes and students have returned and are excited to share what we learned and have a bridged culture and built community so that that concluded my report. thank you, commissioners. >> thank you superintendant lee and we appreciated the emphasis on the mission bears championship in recognition and commendations. tonight item b-3 student delegate's report. >> ms. eng and ms. zaragoza. >> thank you president walton good evening board of education and president and vice president and public

and may 23rd, will where i iie -- willie brown's check lure. always a lot of fun, a members only event there are question cards on the seats to p.j. o'rourke and they will be clothe shed brought to mode ray -- moderator, copies of his book "what the hell happened" are for sale and he will be signing copies right after the program. thank you for being clear and supporting the commonwealth club. you please welcome to stage, p.j. o'rourke and melissa cain. [applause] >> hello, everyone. thank you for being here. i'm melissa kean, a poll kicks recorder for kpax change 5. we're here to talk about the new become "how he the hell did this happen" how a lot of people are feeling itch went to amazon.com and read book reviews and one said i recommend this book to anyone who wakes up every morning not know whether to laugh or cry. maybe some of youer in audience today. so, you're in the right place. the way this works is i'm going to give an introduction for mr. o'rourke, although he does not need one, you're going to get one. then he will pick for 20 ame

at the last minute they pulled the plug they've detailed it governor jerry brown went to mayor willie browno plug for the funding the peninsula corridor is seeing tremendous growth and caltrain a one at capacity and the electrician indication will increase the capacity by thirty percent by electrifying that system that is important that happen but makes that's the one tangible example i can give you the other simply we don't know but makes reduction in funding. >> colleagues. >> john thank you so much. >> thank you, commissioners and happy to have further conversations. >> item 13 new business. >> i have a couple of impedes e items i've written down to make sure there are accounted for in items we're planning for the future from commissioner vice president brandon about how are we paying inform crane cove park and are we sure to bring that forward with forest city and another from commissioner katz around philanthropic giving them for crane cove park we need to do more to understand the opportunity for a formalized programming we can pursue or rain water for the crane cove park for all open

restaurant from what i hear the basement was the cool $1.2 million or the mayor that was written by willie brownjr. do we have reforms from those people. >> madam president seeing no other members of the public public comment is closed. madam clerk go to the special order 3:00 p.m. >> items 19 through 22 is the special order continued if march 27 in the determination of exemption from the environmental review under the california environmental quality act orientated as a exemption and approved by the planning commission on september 22, 2016, for the proposed project locked other 277 taylor street to allow the occasion of 3 two-story houses and construction of a 40 foot toddler residential building and item 20 to affirm the planning department proposed to exempt this project from future environmental review in the community plan exemption and item 2 is reverses that determination and item 22 the motion to direct the findings. >> okay before i review the details of that hearing want to acknowledge supervisor ronen. >> thank you commissioner borden. >> colleagues a month ago you allowed me to cont

that happens everyday florida the administration which i'm scared to say that the outreach the willie brownmission the pay to play but it from you don't stop was going on inside the commission look at all the young people people here commissioner kopp i'm 20 years young young people city hall you know all the commissioners the chief the staff and the department heads their retirees because of corruption or getting older or whatever the case it is the term of the leadership of the service so all i have to deliver to the city and county i've been in the scopes of 20 something years big deal the outsider and document i've been doing the same thing for 20 years people say ace has no video and tape i have so many tape and video in history i don't have to take other photo i can relate to the story as i mentioned the honorable cop was doing it and trying to figure out what was the corruption and the lrsz and judge know what is going on i don't give a darn when the city attorney says and all that investigations comes if that way and this way we colonel together and show us donald trump can come to

at 5:30 to 6:30 at the willy brown junior middle school thank you. >> thank you commissioner rasi. commissioner sanchez? >> rules committee may first. 7:00 p.m. >> commissioner? >> committee meeting at monday may 8th. 6:00 p.m. >> vice president mendoza-mcdonnell? >> thank you. there was not a building and grounds committee meeting this month we will have the next one on may the 22 and i have a couple of announcements as well. or thank yous i want to thank you comcast that came out with 300 plus volunteers to help work on the cool this past saturday i want to thank the puc for the urban eco fair. they have on college park a garden that is used heavily by both fermont and jennifer sarah, thank you. which say beautiful site and they use heavily. i want to congratulate harvey millm on the festival we had fun out there the academy of science hosting their gala thursday may 27th. they have been incredible partners the funds they're raising will be to have more elementary school students to come to the academy for free. i want to remind everyone that spark sf is hosting their gala on may

that happens everyday florida the administration which i'm scared to say that the outreach the willie brownmission the pay to play but it from you don't stop was going on inside the commission look at all the young people people here commissioner kopp i'm 20 years young young people city hall you know all the commissioners the chief the staff and the department heads their retirees because of corruption or getting older or whatever the case it is the term of the leadership of the service so all i have to deliver to the city and county i've been in the scopes of 20 something years big deal the outsider and document i've been doing the same thing for 20 years people say ace has no video and tape i have so many tape and video in history i don't have to take other photo i can relate to the story as i mentioned the honorable cop was doing it and trying to figure out what was the corruption and the lrsz and judge know what is going on i don't give a darn when the city attorney says and all that investigations comes if that way and this way we colonel together and show us donald trump can come to

that happens everyday florida the administration which i'm scared to say that the outreach the willie brownssion the pay to play but it from you don't stop was going on inside the commission look at all the young people people here commissioner kopp i'm 20 years young young people city hall you know all the commissioners the chief the staff and the department heads their retirees because of corruption or getting older or whatever the case it is the term of the leadership of the service so all i have to deliver to the city and county i've been in the scopes of 20 something years big deal the outsider and document i've been doing the same thing for 20 years people say ace has no video and tape i have so many tape and video in history i don't have to take other photo i can relate to the story as i mentioned the honorable cop was doing it and trying to figure out what was the corruption and the lrsz and judge know what is going on i don't give a darn when the city attorney says and all that investigations comes if that way and this way we colonel together and show us donald trump can come to fi

important in our culture and lives k l a w will be focusing on hash tag and 7 combrarldz and willie l. brown middle school have been working in teams proposed of an engineer and electrical engineer and computer engineers as part of willie l. brown middle school hands based technology and arithmetic's or m curriculum students will present their projects as a robotic celebration thursday april 6th for families so see functional robotic arms and finally after 8 years of learning cantonese or mandarin alice eight grade students go to china 57 students time or went to hong kong and other city's they attended the classes and students have returned and are excited to share what we learned and have a bridged culture and built community so that that concluded my report. thank you, commissioners. >> thank you superintendant lee and we appreciated the emphasis on the mission bears championship in recognition and commendations. tonight item b-3 student delegate's report. >> ms. eng and ms. zaragoza. >> thank you president walton good evening board of education and president and vice president and public

restaurant from what i hear the basement was the cool $1.2 million or the mayor that was written by willie brownjr. do we have reforms from those people. >> madam president seeing no other members of the public public comment is closed. madam clerk go to the special order 3:00 p.m. >> items 19 through 22 is the special order continued if march 27 in the determination of exemption from the environmental review under the california environmental quality act orientated as a exemption and approved by the planning commission on september 22, 2016, for the proposed project locked other 277 taylor street to allow the occasion of 3 two-story houses and construction of a 40 foot toddler residential building and item 20 to affirm the planning department proposed to exempt this project from future environmental review in the community plan exemption and item 2 is reverses that determination and item 22 the motion to direct the findings. >> okay before i review the details of that hearing want to acknowledge supervisor ronen. >> thank you commissioner borden. >> colleagues a month ago you allowed me to cont

important in our culture and lives k l a w will be focusing on hash tag and 7 combrarldz and willie l. brown middle school have been working in teams proposed of an engineer and electrical engineer and computer engineers as part of willie l. brown middle school hands based technology and arithmetic's or m curriculum students will present their projects as a robotic celebration thursday april 6th for families so see functional robotic arms and finally after 8 years of learning cantonese or mandarin alice eight grade students go to china 57 students time or went to hong kong and other city's they attended the classes and students have returned and are excited to share what we learned and have a bridged culture and built community so that that concluded my report. thank you, commissioners. >> thank you superintendant lee and we appreciated the emphasis on the mission bears championship in recognition and commendations. tonight item b-3 student delegate's report. >> ms. eng and ms. zaragoza. >> thank you president walton good evening board of education and president and vice president and public

some going to bring in this fax to your attention showing you how mayor willie brown overstepped his authority at the time and how the city departments to pay to play politics followed suit. thank you for your time. >> there being no further public comments, we will move to the next item which is item 9. discussion of the executive directors report did not take highlighting various programmatic issues and operational activities on the commission staff said the previous monthly meeting that covers a range of topics such as the commissioners budget, policy development, outreach activities, audit programs, and future staff projects. any of the subjects may potentially be part of the director's presentation were discussed by the commission. there are attachments to the march 22 2017 executive directors report and attachments. >> thank you commissioner keane. this months report is very brief. the-as we note, chairman keane and i have been doing outreach around meetings with the most movie sworn in members of the board of supervisors. we had one meeting. the f3 now that i think will be res

at the last minute they pulled the plug they've detailed it governor jerry brown went to mayor willie browno plug for the funding the peninsula corridor is seeing tremendous growth and caltrain a one at capacity and the electrician indication will increase the capacity by thirty percent by electrifying that system that is important that happen but makes that's the one tangible example i can give you the other simply we don't know but makes reduction in funding. >> colleagues. >> john thank you so much. >> thank you, commissioners and happy to have further conversations. >> item 13 new business. >> i have a couple of impedes e items i've written down to make sure there are accounted for in items we're planning for the future from commissioner vice president brandon about how are we paying inform crane cove park and are we sure to bring that forward with forest city and another from commissioner katz around philanthropic giving them for crane cove park we need to do more to understand the opportunity for a formalized programming we can pursue or rain water for the crane cove park for all open

at the last minute they pulled the plug they've detailed it governor jerry brown went to mayor willie browno plug for the funding the peninsula corridor is seeing tremendous growth and caltrain a one at capacity and the electrician indication will increase the capacity by thirty percent by electrifying that system that is important that happen but makes that's the one tangible example i can give you the other simply we don't know but makes reduction in funding. >> colleagues. >> john thank you so much. >> thank you, commissioners and happy to have further conversations. >> item 13 new business. >> i have a couple of impedes e items i've written down to make sure there are accounted for in items we're planning for the future from commissioner vice president brandon about how are we paying inform crane cove park and are we sure to bring that forward with forest city and another from commissioner katz around philanthropic giving them for crane cove park we need to do more to understand the opportunity for a formalized programming we can pursue or rain water for the crane cove park for all open

restaurant from what i hear the basement was the cool $1.2 million or the mayor that was written by willie brownjr. do we have reforms from those people. >> madam president seeing no other members of the public public comment is closed. madam clerk go to the special order 3:00 p.m. >> items 19 through 22 is the special order continued if march 27 in the determination of exemption from the environmental review under the california environmental quality act orientated as a exemption and approved by the planning commission on september 22, 2016, for the proposed project locked other 277 taylor street to allow the occasion of 3 two-story houses and construction of a 40 foot toddler residential building and item 20 to affirm the planning department proposed to exempt this project from future environmental review in the community plan exemption and item 2 is reverses that determination and item 22 the motion to direct the findings. >> okay before i review the details of that hearing want to acknowledge supervisor ronen. >> thank you commissioner borden. >> colleagues a month ago you allowed me to cont

. >> in 199 of you all created the san francisco public utilities commission by a mayor named willie brown so many of you are know a lot about how that was created and what's the purpose of this commission. >> yesterday, i was paying attention to the deliberation at the ethics commission and this city and more room 200 as done great disservice to our city and it so happens that one of the 10 california's reaches out to the san francisco public utilities commission i'm not going to name names i use my first amendment rights to mention the names but it is shocking that in the year 2017 the sfpuc the commissioners, other sponsors who have to regulate look the other way so i attended a board of supervisors meeting i think about i missed the last one i missed your meeting the last one 3 weeks ago two advocates were pissed off with the board of supervisors because they're at the board of supervisors including one item that is legislated to the sfpuc millions of dollars are extended because of no due diligence simply you need a checklist if you have the checklist before you and go by the checklis

some going to bring in this fax to your attention showing you how mayor willie brown overstepped his authority at the time and how the city departments to pay to play politics followed suit. thank you for your time. >> there being no further public comments, we will move to the next item which is item 9. discussion of the executive directors report did not take highlighting various programmatic issues and operational activities on the commission staff said the previous monthly meeting that covers a range of topics such as the commissioners budget, policy development, outreach activities, audit programs, and future staff projects. any of the subjects may potentially be part of the director's presentation were discussed by the commission. there are attachments to the march 22 2017 executive directors report and attachments. >> thank you commissioner keane. this months report is very brief. the-as we note, chairman keane and i have been doing outreach around meetings with the most movie sworn in members of the board of supervisors. we had one meeting. the f3 now that i think will be res

. >> in 199 of you all created the san francisco public utilities commission by a mayor named willie brownmany of you are know a lot about how that was created and what's the purpose of this commission. >> yesterday, i was paying attention to the deliberation at the ethics commission and this city and more room 200 as done great disservice to our city and it so happens that one of the 10 california's reaches out to the san francisco public utilities commission i'm not going to name names i use my first amendment rights to mention the names but it is shocking that in the year 2017 the sfpuc the commissioners, other sponsors who have to regulate look the other way so i attended a board of supervisors meeting i think about i missed the last one i missed your meeting the last one 3 weeks ago two advocates were pissed off with the board of supervisors because they're at the board of supervisors including one item that is legislated to the sfpuc millions of dollars are extended because of no due diligence simply you need a checklist if you have the checklist before you and go by the checklist yo

browns select myles garrett. >>> good morning and welcome to "sunday today" on this last day of april. i'm willie geist. another big day with president trump holding a big rally in pennsylvania to punctuate his first 100 days in office. >>> tornadoes in texas killing at least five people, injuring dozens more and devastating flooding in the midwest. today 40 million people are under threat of severe he

browns select myles garrett. >>> good morning, welcome to "sunday today" this last day of april, i'm willie geist. another busy sunday morning with president trump holding a big rally in pennsylvania to punctuate his first 100 days in office. a live report and chuck todd in a moment. >>> plus, tornados in texas killing at least five people injuring dozens more and devastating flooding in the midwest. today, 40 million people under threat of severe weather. we've got it all covered live. sitdown" with little big town the country band whose four-part harmonies have made them one of the most popular acts in all of music. over nearly two decades together navigating some big success and devastating lows. >> i was so numb, i couldn't even make a step on my own. and i would have breakdowns. and they would cover for me and take me out. or lay with me on the bed and cry. and just encouraged me that it was going to get better. >> our "sunday sitdown" with little big town, plus harry smith a bit later in the show. but let's begin this morning with those deadly tornadoes in east texas nbc's charles hadlock is

browns select myles garrett. >>> good morning and welcome to "sunday today" on this last day of april. i'm willie geist. another big day with president trump holding a big rally in pennsylvania to punctuate his first 100 days in office. >>> tornadoes in texas killing at least five people, injuring dozens more and devastating flooding in the midwest. today 40 million people are under threat of severe weather. we've got it all covered live. >>> and later a sunday sitdown with little big town. the country whose four part harm mon -- harmony anies have made them a big success. >> i was so numb i couldn't even make a step on my own, and i would have breakdowns and they would cover for me or take me out or lay with me on the bed and cry and just encouragement that it was going to get better. >> our sunday sitdown with little big town. plus, harry smith a bit later in the show. >>> let's begin this morning with the deadly tornadoes in east texas. nbc's charles hadlock is live on the scene in canton, texas. charles, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, willie. people in east texas were expecting bad weather

brown eyes. if you see him, call 911. >> on this tax gay, it is taking longer and causing more than ever for taxpayers to file all that paperwork. jerry willis crunches the numbers. >> reporter: what does it cost to comply with the tax code? a lot. according to the national taxpayers union we will spend $363 billion filing our taxes this year which is more than the gross domestic product of chile, finland or portugal. on an individual basis americans will spend an average of 15 hours filling out paper and pulling together receipts and documents. the average spent to file their taxes by paying a professional or software is $280. those figures go up nearly every year as the tax code grows in complexity. it has been over 30 years since the last comprehensive reform of the tax code and in that time the numbers of pages for the instructions for 1040 forms has quadrupled. there are 199 tax forms related to individual income taxes. the code itself is 4 million words. for that reason more and more taxpayers seek professional help in preparing their taxes. irs commissioner has said the tax department is having a harder and harder time setting the act

browns select myles garrett. >>> good morning, welcome to "sunday today" this last day of april, i'm willie geist.ith president trump holding a big rally in pennsylvania to punctuate his first 100 days in office. a live report and chuck todd in a moment. >>> plus, tornados in texas killing at least five people injuring dozens more and devastating flooding in the midwest. today, 40 million people under threat of severe weather. we've got it all covered live.

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