city goals through a shared connected platform. with smart city proposal is simply a focus on working with companies and services and not on their own, working through the community. we felt it was important to state to the dot that we dont believe we can arbitrarily choose a neighborhood but want to work with the community to figure oit what they are interested in and how they would like us to move forward in this approach. we will focus on the data driven elements of this and expand and integrate the shared mobility services with public transit and incorporate shared and connected vehicles when they are ready to be brought to market. [inaudible] work better together and provide more access to mobility without the car ownership and also save customers time and money. a big focus of the grant is customer focus and figure out the opportunity we can improve the customer experience in the transportation system. from all the research we have done we know vehicle technology can meet multiple city goals if guided effectively. they can reduce

city goals through a shared connected platform. with smart city proposal is simply a focus on working with companies and services and not on their own, working through the community. we felt it was important to state to the dot that we dont believe we can arbitrarily choose a neighborhood but want to work with the community to figure oit what they are interested in and how they would like us to move forward in this approach. we will focus on the data driven elements of this and expand and integrate the shared mobility services with public transit and incorporate shared and connected vehicles when they are ready to be brought to market. [inaudible] work better together and provide more access to mobility without the car ownership and also save customers time and money. a big focus of the grant is customer focus and figure out the opportunity we can improve the customer experience in the transportation system. from all the research we have done we know vehicle technology can meet multiple city goals if guided effectively. they can reduce

city goals through a shared connected platform. with smart city proposal is simply a focus on working with companies and services and not on their own, working through the community. we felt it was important to state to the dot that we dont believe we can arbitrarily choose a neighborhood but want to work with the community to figure oit what they are interested in and how they would like us to move forward in this approach. we will focus on the data driven elements of this and expand and integrate the shared mobility services with public transit and incorporate shared and connected vehicles when they are ready to be brought to market. [inaudible] work better together and provide more access to mobility without the car ownership and also save customers time and money. a big focus of the grant is customer focus and figure out the opportunity we can improve the customer experience in the transportation system. from all the research we have ne we know vehicle technology can meet multiple city goals if guided effectively. they can reduce tr

let's go to teresa joining us live at city hall with more details on all this. teresa, good morning. >> good morning. the hawks seem to be circling city hall. investigators are serving the subpoenas to top aides. they are interested in very big checks that were written by some very big donors. whether or not the mayor had anything to do with it . this is according to some experts in it could boil down to the minutia and the state law. >> when the mayor wakes up , this is what he will see. >> the new york daily news suggesting the scandal involving mayor deblasio are creating an element of fear and glam at city hall. the post is not mincing words with , you've got server! three advisors were served with subpoenas in the the mayor's fundraising practices. in the city and around the state . emma wolf is the mayor's director of the intergovernmental affairs. russ is a top campaign fundraiser serving for the main non-for profit . they are reports that the consulting firm work on the political campaign and the city's teachers union were also served. the subpoena came f

republican steps in san jose after a marathon meeting at city hall with the city council putting a cap on how much landlords can race rents in. >> welcome to wednesday april 20. >> i am regular. >> i am natasha zouves. a check on weather and traffic with mike. >> mother nature giving us a cooler day. live doppler hd picking up a few spotty showers. they could move across the north bay. increasing clouds. temperatures are in the 50s this morning. 60 at the coast. low-to-mid 70s an the bay. sue? >> a call to c.h.p. at the macarthur maze there is police activity on the right shoulder approaching the berkeley curve on 80. i do not see a hot of slow traffic. we will check on that. the on-ramp to westbound 4 has re-opened after a closure and a

chief suhr stood with city and community leaders to again address the scandal involving >>> today san francisco police chief stood with city and community leaders to address the scandal involving dozens of racist texts sent by his officers. the cheech announced all officers would begin tolerance training. he released dozens of text messages at the heart of the scandal. ranged from absurd to offensive. the texts came to light during an investigation of rape allegations against an officer on the department. this is the kend time those texts have emerged from the department which is facing a department of justice review and criticism over recent police shootings. >> out of an abundance of caution that further things might exist, effective immediately and with the help of city human resources, every member will be taking prevention of harassment and discrimination in the workplace training. >> no, it's not enough because it's already embedded in that person's character. >> all officers involved in the texting scandal have been suspended and chief sehr has recommended they be terminated. a

other city cars remain relatively the same. >>> new information on uber's $10 million deal with the city of newark. hitch in that plan. last week the mayor announced a proposal that would see uber pay $100,000 a year to operate at liberty airport for the next decade. but the authority who operates the airport says it has concerns and has plans to discuss them with new york city officials. >>> experts are working to fix issues with computers at metro. they had asked them at 3:00 a.m. to add more resources to fix the problem, including registrations. so far they have not found the source of the issue. the dmv plans to cut ties with 3-m once the glitches are fixed. >>> we have news about a scam that could save you thousands. >>> the aftershocks haven't stopped after that powerful earthquake in eduador. buildings flattened, hundreds dead. up next, we'll hear firsthand from someone who witnessed that devastation. >>> some stormy weather heading through the area. >> we do have some showers and will remain the focus of the story. today was our second day in the 80s so far this month. will we ha

we cannot be more delighted to be partnering with the city of san francisco and open on the summit. we the women's foundation of california are partnering along with the leading edge women's rights movement and the state along with our partners really across the country and the world. we are part of a movement of hundreds of organizations advocates, community good foundations and philanthropists who been working together for decades divided by problems and solutions to challenges facing the women and our families. in every county of california. over the last half-century ever since women started entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers, we've adopted many important aggressive laws here in the bay area and in california. we should be really proud of that. because these laws have improved wages. they've improved working conditions, the livelihoods of women and inspired other states and the federal government to follow in our footsteps. yet, there are so many women that are being left behind. by the 8th largest economy in the world here in california. yet, almost 3.5 million wome

attorney performed i'll be going back and talking with the city attorney that's probably where that funding needs to sit not necessarily dbi but the funds need to be there you know to be able to deal with the situations this is the not the only with only out there we have those conscionable living conditions. >> commissioner. >> in our litigation committee there was someone from the health department that is working on some instances. >> is that karen and . >> yeah, yeah the lead to. >> she's on industrial ohio gift this was going to be. >> thank you, rose mary for love you. >> any public comment on that item? okay general public comment is there any general public comment on the abatement appeals board agenda sienna motion to adjourn move to adjourn. >> second. >> second. >> all commissioners in favor. >> we're not adjourned 9:20 a.m. elsewhere reconvene as the building inspection at read everyone good morning today is thursday, march 17, 2016, this is the regular meeting of the building inspection i'd like to remind everyone to turn off electron

planning commission heard this and approved it amazing they commented they support the corporation with the city on the grounds they believe this ordinance represents a significant stepped with the origin and we grateful supervisor wiener thank you. >> thank you very much from the fire department our fire marshall is here. >> thank you supervisor. >> good afternoon, supervisors excuse me. thank you take the opportunity. >> if you could speak into the microphone. >> is that better we are in agreement the fire department supports this protective, however, one portion of it slightly amended we're in agreement about compliance and the fire department is most successful when we partner with the community and partner with landlord and tenants and so we our requested to amend the section for other complaints the standard complaints to may and not shall the reason we have i'll back up we issue novs for all priority complaints and act on them right now we do that the other complaints that are not immediate life-threatening we issue a notice of correction we feel that in partnership with the tenants and l

that need to be done to create a safer environment. >> reporter: well, run 215 has held meetings with city council members, streets department, philadelphia police and other agencies and with the weather getting warmer the groups want to trade about 150 trail watch, volunteers by summer and first meeting is on april 27th. if you are interested in attend ago this meeting you can get information on our web site at fox 29.com and aside from some really dimly lit streetlights and our camera light it is pretty dark at this hour. so a lot of people have to use extra caution. >> exactly. run in pairs for sure. >> yep. >>> mr. kinchen, thank you, sir. >>> a pennsauken mom wants to necessity how her child was able to walk out of the camden charter school, unnoticed. ann martinez got a call an hour after she dropped off her seven year-old son, jerry at camden community charter school monday morning. martinez says they were a few minutes late that day and she says her son went to the office to get the a pass but that is where the story gets a little confusing. school officials told her that her son l

waver of fees, specifically page 1 line 24 to replace or strike 4 event that receives city funding and replace it with, filed by a entity that received city funds specifically for the event subject of the permit application. that is the subject of the permit application. so, before i take further action i would like to move to make that specific amendment. >> okay, supervisor wiener made a motion to amend. second by supervisor peskin. can we take the amendment without objection? the amendment passes unanimously. >> regarding the noticing update , i think we need to do additional work clarify the language for the entertainment commission requested we send that portion back to committee to work it out and then can pass the rest the ordinance. what i like to do is first move to duplicate the file and then i'll request that the duplicateed version be sent back to committee and at that point i will make a motion to strike out section 1060.5 b runs from page 2 line 17 to page 4 line 3 so we will pass the entire ordinance accept for the noting section and with the duplicated file we can work that out in xhin

planning commission heard this and approved it amazing they commented they support the corporation with the city on the grounds they believe this ordinance represents a significant stepped with the origin and we grateful supervisor wiener thank you. >> thank you very much from the fire department our fire marshall is here. >> thank you supervisor. >> good afternoon, supervisors excuse me. thank you take the opportunity. >> if you could speak into the microphone. >> is that better we are in agreement the fire department supports this protective, however, one portion of it slightly amended we're in agreement about compliance and the fire department is most successful when we partner with the community and partner with landlord and tenants and so we our requested to amend the section for other complaints the standard complaints to may and not shall the reason we have i'll back up we issue novs for all priority complaints and act on them right now we do that the other complaints that are not immediate life-threatening we issue a notice of correction we feel that in partnership with the tenants and l

the scope of a contract so the protection is to those operating within the scope of a contract with the city and county then when you read section one 05 this speaks to improper government activity so it uses the phrase with regards to the contracts when someone files a complaint alleging improper activity by somebody use the language operating employer contractors operating pursuant to the city and county uses instead of operating within the scroll but pursuant to the contractor presumably didn't involve improper government activity it could be lost and tweaked as we go forward but a conscious decision those were different things. >> mr. pilpal i feel better i asked the same question. >> how about the insertion of word employee. >> again, i should defer to the executive director but starting to get word i didn't you have employee right before the contractor and so you know hopefully that is something we can address by regulation i will agree that is the intent as i understood to include the individual that work as a contractor or work for the employee or employer that is a xrashth not just

attorney performed i'll be going back and talking with the city attorney that's probably where that funding needs to sit not necessarily dbi but the funds need to be there you know to be able to deal with the situations this is the not the only with only out there we have those conscionable living conditions. >> commissioner. >> in our litigation committee there was someone from the health department that is working on some instances. >> is that karen and . >> yeah, yeah the lead to. >> she's on industrial ohio gift this was going to be. >> thank you, rose mary for love you. >> any public comment on that item? okay general public comment is there any general public comment on the abatement appeals board agenda sienna motion to adjourn move to adjourn. >> second. >> second. >> all commissioners in favor. >> we're not adjourned 9:20 a.m. elsewhere reconvene as the building inspection at read everyone good morning today is thursday, march 17, 2016, this is the regular meeting of the building inspection i'd like to remind everyone to turn off electron

this is a great opportunity to share in this victory for the university but share it with the city of philadelphia. we are excited and we are parading down market street and ending here at dillworth park. >> i had a chance to spend time with katie in houston and she worked directly with father peter donahue, the president of the university. it was a special moment when father peter held mass inside of team hotel and it was standing room only, they brought hosts with them and they were cracking them in half because that is how many people that came to pray. and it's indicative of the pride of the school and the pride out here today. >> 1:00 is coming up and we'll be here. >> thank you guys. now, lets switch live to "action news" reporter, nora muchanic, at 20th and market streets where the parade steps off in about 25 minutes. >> reporter: we have fans lining up on the route here and they have their signs and everything and they are ready to go. let me show you what is going on. market street is shut off and there are buses and that is presumably villanova folks and the conestoga high

with city, one ball in behind. we keep in touch with arsenal. 5 behind. we have to play. normally we play well. when we continue with that, i shall be happy. >> valentino rossi continued the start for the formula 1 season with victory at the grand prix. the persuadeies driver has a lead over the team-mate and defining world champion lewis hamilton. he was starting on poll. he made a bad start. nico rosberg dominated the race, a comfortable winner ahead of ferrari. the other ferrari driver did not makes it to the starting grid due to engine failure. >> more sport from me, that is it for now. i'll hand it back to barbara in london. >> n.a.s.a. and the european space agency released a series of high definition images at the center of our milky way galaxy, using the hubble space telescope to pierce through the dust. images reveal more than half a million stars in the densest and the biggest cluster in the galaxy. it's hoped the discovery will help scientists better understand how about the milky way is evolving. that is

rebuild their lives out of homelessness it takes people from the office of hope working with the agencies the cityork with all community partnerships and working with the business community to over that way out permanently not just the housing it is jobs and the feeling that you can contribute to your neighborhood it is working on plazas like our civic center and the united nations plaza working with the nonprofit groups and others to make our city cleaner and improve it so people like randy shaw can i finally event we're working together because of all the people i know he's been and ground level when will it happy with mid market and the plazas whether it is beginning to happen the right way a about people's lives and how they change and how we help them and support them in changing this is what existing thoems needs not about room but the community working together with downtown straits thank you, everybody and there is a new member (clapping.) of downtown streets someone i want to recognize today he's turning his life around in a positive way and taking care of kids and starting this brandon y

with as many as offices in the city and down the peninsulad what has happened in noah valley i think that the other thing i hope is looked at with this housing point of this is the money the foreign money not just local money but is there money coming in those people are looking to have a nice safe place to put it that's okay. it is investment but what is the impact on the housing for people that live here those are questions that i hope are explored when the staff looks at the housing part of this in the fall thank you very much. >> sue hester i was the attorney for prop m and the entire process leading up to there was a 7 year plan process that led to the adaptation of prop m prop m had as a time housing and transit online when the buildings opened we broken that link dramatically in the past decade we give excuses and we're not looking at the housing level that is produced regarding the workforce for the city it there has to be - you are planning there is difference from planning and automatic approval planning needs to say what are the va

the villanova university teamed up with the city of philadelphia to announce their there will be a parade for the champions and it will be friday at 1:00. >> it will be in philly. so, steve, you're where the parade is going to end, right, at city hall? >> well, fresh off your 20-hour show, week ago, this friday. you'll be doing another long show. >> that's right. >> you guys will be hosting our coverage of this parade for those who can't get down here, can't get off, who have mean bosses, or mean teachers. but if you are coming, here is the route, the map, and it is not real complicated. it is five blocks long. twentieth street, at market, five blocks down to market, to 15th, that's the big clothespin at city hall and dilworth park. why a parade in philadelphia well here's mayor kenney. >> awful lot of suburbanites

christie met with city count executive this morning. he says that atlantic city will run out of money and negative spill over will affect other cities in the state. he plans to introduce new legislation to create benchmarks that the city has to meet. >>> a drug company merger is called off. pfizer was going to acquire the botox maker but the $160 billion merger is not happening. they say it makes tax inversion a lot less lucrative. >>> the white house is moving funds to fight the zika virus. $600 million left over to fight the ebola virus will be turned over to fight zika instead. and it will pay for treatment and stop the mosquitos to spread it. some will go to foreign countries where the virus is more rampant. >>> the rising cost of insulin is needed to keep blood levels in check and the prices have nearly tripled in the last few years, far out pacing inflation. and other diabetes medication has not. they are not sure what is making insulin so expensive. >>> coming up at 4:00 we'll review what normally pricey products can be bought che

working locally particularly this many o month with the transit center upper market to a conclusion in terms of the financing for the mtc provided to the city a regional partner to help us to so we can finish and move towards building the transbay train project has made progress caltrain has entered into negotiation with the value the design build electrification contract and be able to announce the winner of the rail they have a worldwide manufacture of vehicles those contracts will be coming to the caltrain board in july and locally to provide for the updates to the memorandum of understanding among the partners to make sure we have the strong oversight as well as funding candidates to support the funding increased number funding for electrification on the local side we will have again, a presentation later today on the rail yard study i'll note on march 30th the planning department held a planning meeting we'll hear in the planning department on that and on vision zero we want to commend thank the vision zero committee for meeting on matrix 31st and sfmta that presented the draft list of next high propriety vision zero project so my unde

thousand units were taken off the market as a result of the under regulate practice combined with limited city enforcement. this was legislated at a time when air bnb and short term rental industry was inunidated san francisco and san francisco politics with a flood of money and it was not a auspicious time but there were memberoffs the body particularly supervisor campos and kim and avalos who worked very hard to try to pass effective amendments that would have protected our housing stock while holding these on line plat forms accountable so i'm delighted this legislation has finally arrived and think it is narrowly crafted and will achieve what we need done and hopeful it will pass this body and become the law of san francisco so we can continue to lead the way. also we have been passing quite a number of resolutions in support of legislation at the state level. there is one of them on our agenda later this evening and it occurring to me that it is time i think for us to understand what our city lobious is doing, we are the policy body and we take support of the bill i know there is a commit

that need to be done to create a more safer environment. >> reporter: run 215 has held meetings with city council members in the past and gathered with the the streets department, philadelphia police and other agencies and they say if the weather gets warmer, the group wants to train about 150 trail watch volunteers by summer, their first meeting on april 27th, if you want to be part of that or learn more we have information on our web site the at fox 29.com. back to you mike and alex. >> lets stay safe here. >> lets get into this debate, steve keeley. are we not doing -- we are not doing the movie theater thing. >> using your phone in movie theaters, steve, does it annoy you people take out their phone and start textingy don't care, if they are texting i just don't want them talking, steve. >> what about the the question does it annoy you when your two day a anchors are on their phone the whole day good i get that a lot. >> here's the thing fish face, we're asked to continue to, you know, communicate through social media, the whole darn day, 24 hours a day, i wake up in the middle of the

and county of san francisco city attorney file no.: 160984 27. conference with legal counsel pursuant to california government code section 54956.9 (d) (1) and san francisco administrative code section 67.10 (d) (1) (sheinfield)existing litigation alfaro v. city and county of san francisco filed amended complaint: december 8, 2015 city attorney file no.: 160241 28. conference with legal counsel - pursuant to california government code section 54956.9 (d) (1) and san francisco administrative code section 67.10 (d) (1) (mueller) existing litigation: city and county of san francisco v. pacific gas & electric federal energy regulatory commission case no.: el15-3-000/date filed: october 10, 2014 29. conference with legal counsel - pursuant to california government code section 54956.9 (d) (1) and san francisco administrative code section 67.10 (d) (1) (mueller)pacific gas & electric federal energy regulatory commission tariff withdrawal per 35.15: notice of termination of the 1987 ccsf interconnection agreement pg&e rate schedule ferc no. 114 to be effective june 30,

planning commission heard this and approved it amazing they commented they support the corporation with the city on the grounds they believe this ordinance represents a significant stepped with the origin and we grateful supervisor wiener thank you. >> thank you very much from the fire department our fire marshall is here. >> thank you supervisor. >> good afternoon, supervisors excuse me. thank you take the opportunity. >> if you could speak into the microphone. >> is that better we are in agreement the fire department supports this protective, however, one portion of it slightly amended we're in agreement about compliance and the fire department is most successful when we partner with the community and partner with landlord and tenants and so we our requested to amend the section for other complaints the standard complaints to may and not shall the reason we have i'll back up we issue novs for all priority complaints and act on them right now we do that the other complaints that are not immediate life-threatening we issue a notice of correction we feel that in partnership with the tenants and l

we continue our conversation with new york city schools chancellor carmen faria. and, chancellor, i just want to continue a little bit with the common core. it's a buzzword now in politics, right? especially the republican candidates for president have all said, to a man -- and a woman when there was one -- >> well, i think the reporters should ask them, "what exactly do you mean by common core?" and see how many of them actually know what it is. and then, if they really can explain it, then try to take it down and say, "well, why would you be against children being able to speak to a topic, give evidence to a topic, be able to compare and contrast, be able to function in the 21st century and be competitive in the global economy?" that's what all the skills that are there are meant to be. >> because your basic worry is that kids in the united states and you're worried specifically in new york city have -- are not -- are falling behind a lot of parts of the world, other industrialized countries, right? >> i'm not sure that i would agree with that. we are getting a t

support of this bill i'm with the ancestry providers association i work with providers the centers and family childcare across the city we've been struggling with the wages crisis that effects them knowledge and working here with the children i'm grateful the two speakers before me shared their works i'll go over those findings and reemphasis that early childhood make half of what the was this are already lower than was this so any workforce supervisor avalos i'm pleased to see they were included with educators all other educators in this bill so thank you and i look forward to your support. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm the president of the non-compliant educators to everything urge my choerld support and thank you for supervisor avalos to bring this pardon first of all, as educators we support this legislation is expands the rights of families of the students that are faced with the affordable crisis, and, secondly, i'm important to us a concrete step that the city can take we hope takes to provide a degree more security for the educators in the city i'll give you two example really the last week not a week h

mayor attorney responded to these reports with, quote, city hall has been subpoenaed. we're fully cooperating with the investigation. the the may or your has not been personally served. >> and one point of note here, one of the attorneys that is listed on this subpoena that were had handed out well, she is the same attorney that is essentially prosecuted former senate majority leader dean skelos last year. [inaudible] city hall about -- >> teresa thank you for that. former new york state is senate majority leader teresa mentioned j back in december skelos found guilty of strong arming with business for the state legislature trying to strong arm them into giving his son no show jobs. where you know, you get paid a lot of money but you don't do anything. his son adam was found guilty of bribery and extortion. prosecutors are asking the judge to lock up both for more than decade thpt the disgraced politician excuse me to pay a fine of $350,000. lawyers for skelos and his son don't want any jail time for their clients. >> now a race for the white house trying to regain trac

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we cannot be more delighted to be partnering with the city of san francisco and open on the summit. we the women's foundation of california are partnering along with the leading edge women's rights movement and the state along with our partners really across the country and the world. we are part of a movement of hundreds of organizations advocates, community good foundations and philanthropists who been working together for decades divided by problems and solutions to challenges facing the women and our families. in every county of california. over the last half-century ever since women started entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers, we've adopted many important aggressive laws here in the bay area and in california. we should be really proud of that. because these laws have improved wages. they've improved working conditions, the livelihoods of women and inspired other states and the federal government to follow in our footsteps. yet, there are so many women that are being left behind. by the 8th largest economy in the world here in california. yet, almost 3.5 million wome

city we want to become? already we have sad distinction of being thecy with the least number of children in my major city percentagewise. however, that trends is reversing in bustling neighbors. the question is will we be able to keep the families here? we are seeing families with children getting priced out or displaced and for those who can afford to live here couldn't find san francisco a place to thrive. i'm going to give you a perfect example of this. personal example. one of my daughters is going to have a baby soon. yes, i'm going to be a granddad soon. unfortunately she is not able to live in the city. she can't find anything. she can't find anything affordable and i'm really sad to see that and what we need then is to be much more aggressive about family housing. i recognize that there are a lot of factors that play into a family's decision to live somewhere by schools, transportation, to safety. however, i do realize that how we are designing and planning our city can play a major role in that decision. we are envisioning building a city with family of childrens of all ages, a city to make housing more family

doing similar types of renovations and coming up with new types of operations on their own terminals as well. we are important town. we're proud of that. our city is proud of the port. over the years we've had some bumps in the road. not listening to our community. not thinking about how to integrate the port with our city. but i think we've come a long way. we're on the right track. as going to make us even more successful in the future. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to long beach california. to learn more about long beach was c-span.org. you are watching american history tv. on c-span three. monday on the communicators. federal communications commission chair tom wheeler. he talks about issues facing the fcc. including neutrality. the internet and privacy. and the spectrum incentive auction that is just beginning. he also discusses how he views the future of telecom and the internet. >> what i was fortunate enough to do in the cable industry was to be involved with bringing great change to american economies. that is what we are dealing with at the fcc. we're in the middle of a great revolution. the fcc has to say, how do we deal

with that, i want to thank all of the city staff as well as california state staff for your time and colleagues for your indulgeage this is helpful for me and look forward working with you off line to see if we need legislative or administrative updates to make sure we stay ahead of the curve on this important safety issue. >> thank you very much. >> thank you supervisor peskin. this is a very important hearing to have and it is a-things are not a issue until they go wrong and this this is important so we have a good understanding of the state and local agencies and keeping the residence and worker safe particularly around the large item squz like to hear more about how we do elevator inspection in the future but that isn't in the scope of the hearing i won't ask questions in monitoring our elevators. so, without further ado, any members the public that would like to comment on the item? item number 3. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues any other comments or questions on the item? seeing none, would the author like the item to be continue today the call the chair or fil

tobacco use in this country this is a huge problem we've been involved in a 50-year struggle but with the tobacco cityt produces a product with no benefit whatsoever that kills a half a million people every year 34 is a serious issue and serious punting kiss i'm proud we live in a city where we can be on the cutting-edge where the politics of this city allows us at city hall to make good progressive policy i also want to say we know we're up against a very well financed component the tobacco destroy for decades has fought ever effort to try to control tobacco use and enemy linkage between their pursuit and the health we know that hillsborough tried to do that they have spent their legislation after an expensive lawsuit by the tobacco industry we in san francisco are willing to fight that fight that is amount about our city thank you to the department of public health we sometimes don't roles e releases how lucky with the best putting department that supports our efforts to make good laws that vascular critical exercise an amazing agency and our advocates for give us the political spouse space to to be

according to recent report, out of 7000 listings, only about 1000 of the hosts are registered with the city, and they are required and they can only advertise rental listings registered with the city. >>> new questions surrounding sexual assaults on the uc berkeley campus. and the reason some experts are saying that the sports department is not doing enough to stop this. >>> the metro station at the center of the belgium terror attacks reopen for the first time, and how the passengers can pay tribute to those that lost their lives. >>> traffic moving pretty well if you are driving on highway 24 westbound.>>> chili out there this morning, robust breeze. forced >>> welcome back.>>> there is a major development in the race for the white house, sender ted cruz and governor john kasich have announced they are teaming up to defeat donald trump.>> reporter: the donald trump republican rivals are teaming up in a last ditch effort to defeat him. the campaign managers for ted cruz and john kasich have confirmed this move sunday night as ted cruz is focusing on indiana instead of the northeastern stat

the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the city's future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisc >> well, good morning, everyone good morning tutor joining us at san francisco city hall regardless of what team happy openly day with the giants (laughter) i would, of course, want to say thank you for all of you for coming together and talking u u talking about the clams we have and locality in the regional and nationally and we want to commend specificallycy thank you to secretary csa to he's been doing those myers weigh fortunate for him he's been here many times but to have the focus on the prosperity playbook and talk with all of us to see not only hear the fact problems but ideas we have to try to solve them i know as a mayor, i want to say thank you to all the fact mirrors mayors the room we don't have time for beater we're demanded to provides the answers we seek those answers every day of ever week i know the pressure is on me and you they have to have the answers no objection i appreciate with the secretary comes out and offering not just

we woke up with lows below freezing in new york city, up into boston, temperatures running about 15 degreesow average. now as we shift in to tomorrow we're finally going to take away the dip in the jet stream, replace it with a nice ridge that will finally get temperatures back up near average. not exceptionally warm but closer to what you'd expect for early april. so as we go through the beginning of this week, we're going to see temperatures much closer to 60 degrees in new york city, in washington, d.c., monday is a warm one, about 71 degrees and we'll settle in around 60 degrees in the carolinas, closer to average, back through detroit closer to about 50 degrees as opposed to being stuck in the 30s and lower 40s. with the warmer air comes the threat of stronger storms through arkansas into northern louisiana and eastern texas where we could see some damaging winds and large hail especially monday afternoon. kate? >> we'll take the warmer temperatures, dylan, thanks. >>> when "nightly news" continues on this sunday night, parental leave. we'll go to a city where it will soon be mandated

the scope of a contract so the protection is to those operating within the scope of a contract with the city and county then when you read section one 05 this speaks to improper government activity so it uses the phrase with regards to the contracts when someone files a complaint alleging improper activity by somebody use the language operating employer contractors operating pursuant to the city and county uses instead of operating within the scroll but pursuant to the contractor presumably didn't involve improper government activity it could be lost and tweaked as we go forward but a conscious decision those were different things. >> mr. pilpal i feel better i asked the same question. >> how about the insertion of word employee. >> again, i should defer to the executive director but starting to get word i didn't you have employee right before the contractor and so you know hopefully that is something we can address by regulation i will agree that is the intent as i understood to include the individual that work as a contractor or work for the employee or employer that is a xrashth not just

steve keeley joins us from center city with more on this. steve, good morning. >> reporter: we're in front of the walgreens store right across from the ritz carlton on broad street right across the street from city hall, 24 hours a day, but you cannot get this right now, and the folks working in the store don't even know this yet but they will announce this today, and pennsylvania is now going to be the 35th state make going what is commonly known as narcan, the brand name, available because you heroin addiction is so bad. and, we will have more on this when i see new a half an hour, chris and lauren. >> thanks, very much, we appreciate that steve keeley. >>> let's turn to politics if you can, you decide 2016, of course, getting interesting, presidential candidates vying for last minute votes just days before new york's pivotal primary. the numbers show that this is getting very close, a new "fox news" poll has hillary clinton's national league, down to just two points over bernie sanders for the democratic primary runners. both candidates ta

avenue to bring that to the public. >> commissioners we're currently working at a interagency theme with the city attorney's office to finalize the draft legislation we expect that supervisor wiener and along with one or two co-sponsors that showed interest in bringing this forward to the board in the early spring or summer. >> with that, i can take questions or comments thank you. >> thank you very much. >> we may have questions for you opening up for public comment first, i building (calling names) claude. >> i'm with the union square and serve one of the things are purview the streetscapes and public realm we developed a theme and talking to city officials i want to commend the work of neil and ron excellent, excellent to work with their - this is throughout through and makes a lot of sense i put on my urban planning hat that makes a lot of sense we're engaging for example, in realm improvements with the ungz and lower stockton street and now the alley one of the barriers, in fact, decided not to move on certain projects were the barriers that robin mentions we were told the number of agencies

with the clean water act. this consent decree comes after years of the city failing to comply with water quality requirements and it is also my understanding that you have one of the longest consent decrees in the country. is 24 years an unreasonable timetable? >> that's why we agreed to it, because it's not. >> so it isn't. so then why on the other hand -- >> but it took us ten years of negotiation in order to be able to deal with the agencies -- >> you didn't mention the fact that your efforts paid off and let the record show you got a 24-year consent decree. now, let me ask you, mr. berger, do you think it's appropriate for cities to make improvements to stop the discharges of raw sewage into waterways that are used by our kids? >> i believe that it is appropriate for us to take reasonable measures, whether it's with combined sewer overflows or sanitary sewer overflows to minimize those kinds of problems. >> good. >> but there are also instances and many instances where the requirements are not realistic. >> i understand. you said that. mr. chow, would increased funding of the programs that you say are helpin

supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local police department, and i think thatands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have san francisco and we have golden gate park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. and it has the people hiking up hills and down hills and a lot of people between stages. >> i love that it is all outside, the fresh air is great. >> they have the providers out here that are 72 local restaurants out here. >> celebrating, and that is really hot. >> 36 local winerries in northern california and 16 brewers out here. >> and you have seen a lot of people out here having a good time and we have no idea, how much work and planning has gone into this to make it the most sustainable festival in the united states. >> and literally, in the force, and yeah, unlike any other concept. and come and follow, and the field make-up the blueprint of the outside land here in golden gate park and in the future events and please visit sffresh parks.org. - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynami

i went by the past two weekends and trying to track at what level they need to be in compliance with city code i determined this past weekend they'll need to renovate, upgrade their sound system and components to insure this we have the proper control over the system to equalize and prevent djs from sxooed the limit we're currently in discussion and ho hoping to have that prepared by this weekends a couple of sounds tests trolley california and the recording studio we have finally gotten a complaint about someone from someone not claimed unanimous status 311 hoping to get more information from them and sent auto a questionnaire to that complained working with a neighbor of the regency ballroom across the street sutter street at the apartments so two 3 big ongoing investigations one right now with the ballroom and working closely with the neighborhood and operator there one that public works on eerie and mission and duo boss and working closely with the operators we're going to go in this weekend and i've done residential testing there and then at playlands as well with the residential tes

we have heavy downpours from city island to port washington and oyster bay and more showers in upper manhattan and central new jersey with a large lightning strike not too far from livingston. this is going to move new york city by 4:15 and move along long island around 4:30. brief gusty winds and and that's the severe cell over parts -- that's over to stanford. this is a future scan that shows how the radar will look. by 5:00, all the action is over long eye land. a little leftover new york city. an awesome wind gust map because you can see the front and wind gust over 30 miles-an-hour near the stronger storms. here's what you need to know storms south after the next few hours ask a brief heavy downpours and gusty small hail, and it turns cooler tonight. guys, the threat for new york city points north and west is over the next hour, and we'll skip to long island and new jersey. accu weather in a few minutes. liz and dave. >> it got dark out there. >> thanks, lee. >>> we have more from a local home where they firsthand coming up at 4:30. >>> a scare on campus. a connecticut university taking steps to protect students aft