city into the right direction. thank you very much. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, and i want to thank c.y.c. and sarah wong for all of her advocacy. thank you to the s.f. parent coalition for rising up and doing what's necessary to not only support your children but to support all children in san francisco, and thank you to katie albright for being with us today from safe and sound. we have a sector of people who truly love and support kids in san francisco, and i'm very positionate about supporting kids because i was probably one of the most problematic kids growing up. again, had it not been for the support of those places that i had to go as a kid, and teachers and all those things that i was exposed to, i just don't know where i would be. the people that i grew up with ended up, unfortunately, in many instances, in the criminal justice system, they ended up dead, and they ended up on drugs, and i still see some of those people today in various places, and somewhere along the way, we failed the

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pipes to the city's household. ah outs, blogs, water management system served as a model across europe in 2021. more of the once mighty roman empires frontier was added to the unesco world heritage list. ah, the western segment runs along the danube from the bavarian city of vegans book to bulgaria. mm. mm. another 2021 newcomer is listed as the great spot towns of europe. ah, it comprises 11 spas located in 7 countries, including 3 in germany, bought kissing and bought ems and bowden, bowden, blue. they are all considered excellent examples of 18th century spawn culture, which include not only bads and wellness facilities, but also casinos and hotels. ah, ah. the artists colony on the matter in her, in darmstadt, has also been recognized for its cultural value once one of the most important centers of modern art and architecture in europe and the world. it was established in 1897 by grand duke, and to ludovic. and meant to drive the local economy through a combination of art and trade. on the matter in her grounds

the city. i definitely think that a full forest is an effective solution for the city because it's all, you know, creating an ecosystem by itself. adding, adding a lot of value to the green gobble, it's going to benefit a lot of fall bonds and people a sudden pencil livelihood, depending on them. the food was well conceived by georgia may deals, and his nonprofit organization turning died. he decided to take action at 6 years ago after his mother developed respiratory problems from the poor. quality trees was something that i was attracted to as a solution to try and fight back the feeling a quality and i decided on the food for us concept. mainly because a food forest is based on a natural living ecosystem. although it takes a few years to establish, we regenerate the soil, we lea, generally the landscape. there are various ideal locations for a small pool of water in the middle of the oven jungle, from open spaces on the grounds of school, and often ages 2 strips of land between apartment blo

the city workers. this pandemic has just had a horrible hardship on city government. i applaud you guys to try to work in these horrible conditions, but the group that is impacted most are these people who were hired before 1996. these people -- now, i know these dates are set for the schedule to get a charter amendment on, but they are unreasonable because city government can't function, so we are hoping that we could get an extension, a continuance from the board to carry this over to the february 15th meeting. this is an emergency. these people are dying at a rate of 50 a month. if we have to wait till november, another 200 will die. i was inspired when i saw a poster at the station of supervisor peskin with his arm around an elderly senior, asking for the public to report elder abuse, this is reporting elder abuse. when these people are dying at a rate of six a month, something can be done to expedite this. the cost comes from the retirement system. they make, in april or may of this year, they mad

both are in the city. the main map here on the far left shows in green the location of all of the new wells that the p.u.c. has installed in cord nation with our partner agencies as part of this program. as i mentioned. the recovery project agreement involves partner agencies, sanbruno and daly city to help us during dry years. during normal and wet years we provide additional water for storage in the basin. we have availability to access that during dry years. the two wells were constructed in daily city. these produce 400 gals per minute. those will be connected to the west pump station. daly city will treat the water at the west lake pump station. this license agreement would allow daly city access to two wells, to operate during recovery or dry year period and maintain the wells during regular periods. that is it for my presentation. i will take any questions you might have. >> good morning. we did not report on this item. >> chair haney: any questions or comments? supervisor mar. you are on mute. >> s

of the city of her. it's a meaty relaunch decal. gauge to measure or estimate rainfall or other forms of precipitation in a given area. funny ego or album need are flux oper, donaldson yet. and the way it works is it emits a signal that interacts with the precipitation and then relate back to the radar. on done, we don't follow that from radar. this data allows you leon hoffman to make a precise prediction about which areas will be most affected. not cancer come on and you can see it very clearly when you look at the simulation and evaluate it. this is rosetta secondly, the water flows along the street and goes around ben's when t on the finish. i know is, here is a small traffic island which is factored in, which 6 or the water flows along it, and then reaches a local low point on. so now look on teeth. this is the vest, bonham station and underpants that was flooded in 2018 and rendered inaccessible. mab, fabiola such an early warning system could be hugely beneficial in countries like india, where ext

i'm a mayor of the cities. we need to not meddle with those that get by and protect all of those who are weaker . i know identities, senior citizens. people with disabilities. that's our mission, the mission of democracy. >> mister chairman i'm going to finish. this has been an inspiring hearing. i'm so grateful to our witnesses and mayors and i look forward to continuing this conversation to advance democracy in europe and i'm sure that continuation will be as strong as possible for democracies. >> i couldn't agree more with the tenor and the remarks and significance of our witnesses testimony. how inspiring that is. our next member is a former mayor and a person who has a leadership role in our national association. and now he's a congressman and he's recognized so it's one of your colleagues recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mister chairman and thank you for thishearing . thank you to these extraordinary mayors for being here. i'm not at all surprised that mayors are going to save democracy around th

the creative energy in the city is so important. i remember, back in the day, i played in a band called suicidal tendencies, and we weren't allowed to play in l.a. for seven years because there was some violence there or whatever. and san francisco took us in and actually became our second family, and i know this also happened with a lot of the skate board community because they were also part of our tribe when i was a part of suicidal tendencies. so the skate boarders from san francisco would stay with the skate boarders from l.a. and vice versa, and in my mind, there's always been a connection. there's the outlaws, the creative types, this connection. and when i joined metallica, it was a perfect fit. the mindset, the level of creativity, everything about it, and it's just almost 20 years ago for me. i'm happy to sit here with lars and celebrate this moment with you all. thank you for having me. [applause] >> are we going to take questions? >> sure. just not from that guy. [indiscernible] so i work a lot with local musicians, and

issues in the city. as said, coming into my tenure almost three years ago, i focused on equity and inclusion because what i knew in my city is that there were too many people that had been left behind. chicago is a great prosperous city but not all of our communities and people were benefiting from the economic prosperity that we had achieved so i put equity and inclusion as the key northstar for my administration which means as we think about coming out and addressing the economic meltdowns that are followed, we have to make sure the recovers are inclusive. chicago had a decades long history, economic policies that were made along racial divides which manifests itself in the present day challenges of violence and poverty and many of the issues and challenges that we see in the city of the answer to it is poverty and the solution, the long-term solution is investment and people and strategies. there's no doubt that you've all heard about the challenges that we've had over c the last few years in particul

we have very common needs, whether we live in the city of taft or the city of arvin or the state or california or anywhere else. how many people here have family members that have been involved in the industry for a while? just about everybody. woman: they don't focus on the bigger picture behind the oil, and there may be incidents where there's spills or fires, but that's not our goal. we're more focused on the pros than the cons. man: there's always gonna be trade-offs, but oil is one of the most widely used fuels that we have out there, and it's really efficient forur community and everywhere around the world that uses it. noerr: that's the reality of it. that is a fact. quality of life is important to all of us, and ignorance is not an evil thing. ignorance just means people haven't been exposed to the facts. that's what dialogue is all about. it's not about throwing rocks or casting persions upon one's credibility. it's about a sharing of realities. oil will be a critical part of our quality of life for long after i'm dead and long after my children will be dead. we will find more of it,

the city. so i'm so lucky to be able to work with each and every one of you. and i think a lot of you know from my work in the city, small business has been a huge passion of mine and trying to give businesses more flexibility. so if you can make more changes if you needed to without having to go through an owner's process or removing fees. we did permanently wave the awning fee so every year in may, you know this is coming up, you don't need to pay for it. you can replace your awning without a permit fee. you know, we have also tried to shave down the amount of time that a business has to go through which is a lot of times for businesses already in our planning code are permitted. it's a permitted use, so why do you have to go through all these different hurdles still. and so i fully recognize that even though i come from a policy making background that a lot of the solutions that we're going to be implementing are not policy based and in fact probably best not to be policy based sometimes and

the city shaped an annotated the urban experience and was shaped by it. so there's no one way to understand the growth of cities in the early republic their significance comes in many different forms from the stories of men and women who found ways to make a living in the new streets and new buildings of the early national period to the architectural and archaeological evidence that tells us about how these places grew and functioned. so we know that cities were places of social economic and architectural change. and i hope that as you go forth and we talk more about this in future semesters and classes that we understand that at the intersection of people places and things we can find a way to tell this story. thanks guys. join us next weekend for more lectures and history with american university professor joseph campbell who teaches a class about the 1972 watergate scandal and what he calls the myth of heroic journalism. weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast every saturday american history tv documents america's story and on sundays book tv br

cities of the future. ah, the time to build green spaces is now the time to use technology to foster environmental sustainability is now the time to act on moving away from fossil fuels is now i hope this episode has given you some perspective on how environmental sustainability in cities is possible and already under way, i'll see you again next week with many more such thought provoking stories until then, goodbye, and thanks for watching the news with to the point. strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives. final preparations around the way for the winter olympics in beijing, china, and struggling to sustain it, st. 0 coverage strategy. so counter countries new great will to walk around the athlete hold, find out from to the point shortly. to the point with images on t w. 2016 as like a bunch of the queen customer wants to see if germany was for may the last few years have been quite a ride, a brilliant touch with averted on the home when it comes to jem a bit. and of course, oh with

some of us live in the city. some of us live outside the city, i guess. [bell ringing] >> your time has expired. >> madame secretary, one more caller in the queue. next caller, go ahead. >> all i want to say is that in order to address this drastic change, there are many entities from restaurants that need to be consulted, but most importantly, we do have a department of the environment, but we want a realtime empirical data on green gases. i must understand that one -- of gas contains 22 tons carbon monoxide. in close proximity. we also want to know how much of the -- construction aggregate and concrete? that's about climate change. when it comes to replacing our gas pipes, we just have to study the department of building inspection. there have been very, very slow. they have been very, very slow. and if money doesn't buy that, if we have contractors who can do quality work. so -- [bell ringing] -- i am for eliminating -- >> your time has expired. >> thank you, caller. madame secretary, another caller has joined the queue. next caller, go ahead. you have

for many, this mega city is the embodiment of the indian dream. ah, moon, by india's economic and financial center. over 20000000 people live here. traffic dams sometimes stretching 4 kilometers, spring city light to a standstill. millions commute by train every day. however, the city's railway system only has 4 lines. during the rush hour stations become very crowded with the platforms are filled well beyond capacity mostly with mail, passengers. as the train every morning vin, it, a young accountant spends 90 minutes commuting is here in a minute. i you need to elbow your way through just to get on the train. with empty seats are hard to come by. it's very exhausting. every day you have to find a way through the crown because sometimes you can't even get to the toes. sama pushing in others and pushing their way out. sometimes i have to like 2 or 3 trainings go by for the fans are not powerful enough. it's almost 45 degrees inside. but despite the crowding, these insurance clerks, lawyers and bankers are in a good mood. a we're enjoying every day

the costs of this on the city is tremendous. we know the school district has asthmas i -- has the massive deficit to feel. we have been trying to get the city to pay for as much of the testing of the school district as we can to help them out. it would help if we weren't paying colors too much for delayed and use less results. >> yes and we are working with our city attorney to look at the contract and what the situation is on the contract. >> supervisor ronen: for the 4600 color pcr tests that are take home at the school, self-swabs. do they have over 48 hours turnaround times before they get results? i did mine at the farmer's market. i didn't do the take home school one. maybe you could respond to that. if so i hate to say it. it is not helpful. >> can you repeat the question? >> supervisor ronen: my question is i got tested 51 hours ago at the alamaney color site and have not yet received my results. that is the color testing. for the 4600 color pcr tests that s.f.u.s.d. is using with self-swab are get similar results over 4

i mean, i lived in the city. you know, for many years in the late '90s and early 2000s and one of the beautiful things about the city was being able to take that walk, being able to go downtown. i remember when fao schwartz was still there. there was this magic to being in the city when you told people. and now sometimes when you talk about going into the city people will often wince because they are afraid of the crime, afraid of the drug use, and you have said you want to clean that up. how is that going? what is the key to bringing back san francisco and that feeling of having that iconic, beautiful place where everyone was welcome including tourists, including anybody who came from other parts of the bay area? >> well, you know what is different from that time of fao schwartz and us growing up and the magic, it's not much of a difference. the difference is technology and videos and how people take videos of one particular incident to show and create a story about who we are as a city. i think it's important t

most of the city's plastic waste gets sorted in the slum. now you got the body to ravi is actually i bet lots of people live here and run businesses. they raise their kids and take care of their families. it's difficult for businesses to pay taxes. still people manage to get by my hash earns the equivalent of 500 euros a month. that's pretty average and mom buy, but it's around 10 times as much as in the rest of india. he lives with his parents and this 5 square meter home by now you tough living conditions, but it's fine for mahash. i did it at the hydro building. we have really changed this neighborhood for the baton. we used to have wooden walls here. now we have real breaks. no, no, like we took out loans to build this house. we have water, electricity funding, everything we need to go to put her lou mahash and his family own this entire building. they go up to the 2nd floor with a ladder and a rope. ah, ah. oh amy, they had a finished flow, is also a part of my building. i rent it out and as long as people walk, they live here and pay u

we met with folks in the city, the d.p.w. and the administrator's office to talk about the needs for an a.d.a. coordinator in the new agency. we have some concerns that as the new agency begins to take jurisdiction and starts to handle complaints, we're concerned that there will be a transition period where it's not clear who handles which one. we're worried that will slow down the process of getting to resolutions. it's clear who's responsible for what. the other issue that hasn't been brought up here, we were happy to see somebody from bureau of urban forestry here. the direction that san francisco is taking under the new climate action plan update. however, it's very important for there to be oversight about how much sidewalk clearance is left after a tree has been planted. >> clerk: the speaker has hit their five minute mark. >> there's been enough clearance especially when some of volunteer organizations that are also involved in planting trees become involved. >> chair melgar: thank you very much. that was really great.

the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. try to do that as well in my work and with m

in the largest city. ah. ahead of these scenes, the compound in marty had been torched. gunfire could also be heard and security forces seen retreating from a nearby square. this all fled up a new year when the cousin coleman lifted a cap on the price of liquefied petroleum. just lpg, which is, is widely used in cars in kazakhstan and had been heavily subsidized. so is the price, let's authorities, which authority said was due to rising production costs the entire economy felt the impact ah the demonstrations of also spread to smaller cars are towns and cities. this on verified video appeared on social networks and he shows a crowd of protesters trying to break into the government, built in, in october in the west of the country. police could also be seen using water canada and stung grenades. so quite a lot going on there, and archie will be keeping on top of all the developments you can get all the pickled dates here, honor on deadline. so your bankruptcy dates with the latest from around the world. and

the mayor of the city, nothing in between so you are the one they turned to. in doing so, you are the stewards of the hopes of the families, the talent of the workers and the dreams of the children. indeed it is a testament to the experience and expertise of america's mayors that president biden chose to former mayors to serve in his cabinet. [applause] secretary marcia fudge, marty wallace, secretary tom vilsack, secretary keith. by the communities i need cities and towns across the country. today, we have a proud anniversary one year ago today joe biden and kamala harris were sworn in as president and vice president of the united states. [applause] since that historic day, we have seen one of the most impactful first years of the presidency in modern times. getting shots in the arms of millions of people, putting money in pockets delivering the best year of job creation on record. working together, president biden and the democratic congress have built a strong foundation for much of the progress with their american rescue plan. and it is my privilege to bri

the city workers. this pandemic has just had a horrible hardship on city government. i applaud you guys to try to work in these horrible conditions, but the group that is impacted most are these people who were hired before 1996. these people -- now, i know these dates are set for the schedule to get a charter amendment on, but they are unreasonable because city government can't function, so we are hoping that we could get an extension, a continuance from the board to carry this over to the february 15th meeting. this is an emergency. these people are dying at a rate of 50 a month. if we have to wait till november, another 200 will die. i was inspired when i saw a poster at the station of supervisor peskin with his arm around an elderly senior, asking for the public to report elder abuse, this is reporting elder abuse. when these people are dying at a rate of six a month, something can be done to expedite this. the cost comes from the retirement system. they make, in april or may of this year, they mad

the city was like an open playground. there was so many empty building for to haven't been used before. and that attract the influx of creative people that occupied the space of at the same time, there was of course, also a boom. expect that investment for there was a lot of buying of property. and trying to figure out who actually own something at the time. because even that was unclean, good period. but that economic boom that everybody expected barely enough the portal to eastern europe and so on. that just didn't happen because it attracted artists to stake people. you know, you, community is the best clots and all that. and it became of the night life center here, just because the boom didn't happen. so it was a different boom that happened. and i think that made the for the very interesting, even though that was not planned, it just happened to me because it's organic. we are plan of fear, we are plan those yet at the same time. that's exactly what you want to know and an exciting place with freedom. the freedom ove

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the first thing this morning, they filed a 23 page lawsuit. the message to the city? we will see you in court. >> we did it immediately, because we want to make it very clear that there are ramifications to passing america's most insane gun control. >> reporter: deadly brown, with the national association for gun rights is spearheading the lawsuit which claims the city has no right to charge a $25 fee because it is a tax on the second amendment right. >> supreme court ruled that the power to tax is the power to destroy a given activity, and that is why the courts are highly skeptical of taxes on constitutional rights. >> reporter: greg woods is a professor of criminology at san jose state. >> the tax will definitely demand criticism. ultimately, the court will probably conclude that the city of san jose is within its power in this particular measure. >> that is $25 fee will be collected by a nonprofit to be distributed to other nonprofits, to do work with suicide prevention, domestic violence, and firearms training. >> this ordinance says the city of san jose is not g

and we do have people go out and inspect the bridges, as you know, the city of pittsburgh is the city of bridges. we have a lot of them. and they're routinely inspected. if there was any warning or concern, we would have been notified and would have made sure we debidn't use this route we would have come up with an alternate route. this caught everybody by surprise this morning. >> we did hear from our reporter jean casarez that there is still an effort under way to make sure there's no one else in danger. the possibility that someone might have been walking under the bridge on one of those paths as this happened. do you have any update on that, sir? >> we've called in our regional resources, pennsylvania urban search and rescue strike team one, and they're going to come in with their search specialists. we're going to drill some holes into the bridge deck and use our search cams to check just to make sure everyone's accounted for. >> in terms of moving forward, obviously, this being such a vital artery for the city and traffic there, it will take a long time to rebuild. what does tha

travel into the city. the task is, according to the chasm government, which requested help from the peacekeepers. their job is to seize vital strategic infrastructure in the city, which includes a higher loading, a military higher learning facility education facility. and that is where we are on our way to. fortunately, the journey was uneventful. show no signs of violence. all the mobs that stock the city were generally very few people out in the street, simply know where to go. most businesses i shut. shops have been looted and people are fearful of unnecessary travel. while peacekeepers have been authorized to use their weapons in self defense, multiple official to come out and said that peacekeepers won't be out there. quote, restoring order their duty will be primarily to god various sites which will free up cassock troops to restore order in troubled areas. a ah, one of the locations that see su peacekeepers help secure and guard 1st is the airport. i'll muddy 1st of all because it was the request of

what's really special about the can is that it's, it's the city within the city. and it's a mis mixture between the re use of old industrial architecture. and then i mixed with new buildings, so it's kind of a really vibrant tub within our slow. i'm with this remarkable mixture, between you and old animals also stand to benefit from osler's green strategy. the keeper, alexander dorothea, keeps 45, hives on ost, lowe's roof tops, thriving beads help keep ecosystems intact. a so called b highway runs through or slow supplying pollen for the bees that be highway a works like that. we have a plant, it be friendly, flowers in a, in their road as crossing the whole slo, seat, the center. so that beast can, ne, flying around dead without to a get problem to find day. resources that we have in other cities can learn a great deal from our slow and it sustainable concepts. for the future trick allah was an average down in greece with about 60000 inhabitants until it got a new mayor in 2040. he started to change it into a modern smart city. jones for transportation of medici

support that the city gives the school district. what happened during the pandemic, maria, mayor breed, the services that were provided to school children made a lot of difference for families. i think normally, of course, a school board member would bridle when the mayor who's not in charge of schools should tell the school board what to do, but those are the times that we're not in, and somebody should step up and say that that's not important. every year, the board adopts governance rules as part of its policies and procedures, and yet, we have not always seen those governance rules or procedures to be followed by the board, so i'm very grateful to you, mayor breed, for putting this forward. i gather, since supervisor mandelman is here, that he is cosponsoring. thank you. i'm also happy to see my former colleague, norman yee here, who, like me, spent many years in the trenches on the school board, and i think that this is an idea whose time has come, and i think it's time to start moving the district forward, so thank you. [appla

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done the city a >> the hon. london breed: all right. so quiet in here today. is it quiet? kind of quiet. well, first of all, thank you, everyone, for being here today. thank you for the boys and girls club for hosting us here in san francisco, and i really appreciate the continued to stand before you as the mayor of san francisco to introduce something that i'm very proud of and something that is long overdue. so today, we're here with a number of elected officials, nonprofits, and professionals, because the city clearly needs a change when it comes to our young people. during covid, we all know that kids suffered, and schools that were closed led to learning loss and mental health challenges that sadly continue to this day, but we can't pretend that these opportunities didn't exist in the past, but today, we can create a new path forward. currently, there are ten agencies that make decisions for our kids. it is so frustrating and confusing for kids when parents can't speak english and they have to translate for

that's my job on the mayor of the city. you know we need to not meddle with the affairs of those who get by and protect all of those who are weaker minorities. senior citizens, people disabilities, that's what we do. that's our mission and the mission of the local government. >> i'm going to finish again just where i started. this is been inspiring hearing. i'm so grateful to our witnesses , to these mayors, and i look forward to continuing these conversations to advance democracy in europe and to ensure the continuation of the possible liberal democracies. i think you very much. >> thank you very much for this hearing. thank you to these extort name mayors for being here. those of us who served as mayors are not at all surprised that mayors are going to save democracy around the world. that the organization you founded, we always tout cities as the great incubators of new ideas. the work you are doing to preserve democracy around the world is extraordinary and inspiring to hear. we want to support you in every way we can.

not only in the city, but across the entire globe. this painful moment can turn into a purposeful moment as we send the right message of something simple as closing the door. amy: housing activists say the real responsibility for saving lives lies with city agencies like housing preservation and development or hpd that failed to enforce building safety codes. democracy now! spoke with the director of community action for safe apartments, pablo estupiÑan, on tuesday. as a organizer the last eight years and working with tenants of countless buildings who have all experienced these issues as well as being harassed, living without gas, have to say i am shocked and astonished the city leadership would blame tenants, that they wod say closing the doors is enoughnd people should not have had space heaters. that kind of response neglects any responsibility or accountability on city agencies ke hpd or dertment of buildings and their lack of code enforcement. our experience is tenants will go in buildings with these conditions, lack of heat fo

ins and robberies like the ones we have seen at stores and small businesses throughout the city. and you know what's the sad reality before i was even an elected official, everybody knew whatever they stole for cell phones, laptops, anything you steel in the city, you take it down to the tenderloin, and there's somebody waiting to give you cash for these items. i want you to know, these are not just victimless crimes, and these are not just property crimes. we're seeing stolen vehicles, physical violence, and the use of weapons. today, i'm introducing legislation to disincentivize theft by making the resale of stolen goods on the street more difficult. it will mandate highly visible posting of approved vendor permits to make it simple and easy for inspectors for proof at any time and if they can't produce it, we will take action. it will allow the department of public works to associate with law enforcement. if there is a need to move an individual who's not complaint and the ability to confiscate goods. these are basic but important actions, and i want to thank supervisor safai

the rules set by city council. >> the city's planning department conducted the survey, and they found that over 93% opposed digital billboards going up around town. >> reporter: residents like jason have been pushing back for years. the city and the county worked for years as great partners in the fight against light pollution. he is hoping to take another look. >> the city council and the airport commission is needed to consider the wider picture here , and hopefully public opinion will lead it. as i said before, the needs of the observatory fall in line behind the majority public opinion. >> reporter: this debate will go back before the airport commission next wednesday evening. we are here at the lick observatory on mount hamilton. wilson walker, kpix 5. >>> pg&e is days away from ending if i think your felony probation over the deadly san bruno explosion. but today, a federal judge ripped into the utility using especially strong words. he said pg&e has gone on a crime spree, and will emerge from probation as, quote, a continuing menace to california. in an eight page report, the u

the city's own website for the last 20 years has said the city does not comply with the permanent streamlining act and has no plans to do so. the city is in violation of state law and the city should not need to fix this before it submits a housing element to california h.c.d. it was only november when the city has a meeting on the housing imbalance well north of 100,000 units. the last decade it was around 200,000 we were short and needs to be mentioned en our housing needs assessment. i'd like to note we're not on track to meet the obligations for the next cycle under the income categories. there are significant government constraints to be addressed including discretionary review from the u.c. berkeley report shows from 2014 to 2017, san francisco that'd highest median housing in the state in 26 months. this represents a significant constraint to housing production and must be addressed. further, the draft does not mention social housing. san francisco has the resource to implement a well-funded, well planned social housing regime and san francisco there's no mention in that in this draft.

they're frightened by the situation in the city. one of them says it's as if the war has already arrived. and in china, nearly 14000000 people in the city of chan, jen are being tested for coven. 19 after 2 cases of the oma kron variant were detected attention is near china's capital beijing, which is preparing to host the winter olympics next month. but the major knew your festive period also approaching china's authorities have imposed strict measures to contain potential current of virus outbreaks. police officers and protective gear outside an apartment block in the port city of tianjin. health officials found to people infected with a false spreading, omicron variant of the corona virus, and more cases among the patients close contacts julia through 3rd hall. another 18 corona virus infections were detected among the close contacts in t n gin. all of them have been transferred to designated hospitals for treatment and quarantine. the newly reported cases are students and their parents who go to the same nursery and school as th

over the course of history, our cities have been beacons of hope when you see the lights of the city or even a small town, is a symbol of jobs, community, prosperity and most important, love. far too long the dream have been chiseled away by lack of investment policies that seek to divide us and instead of unitinu us, around a common purpose, by reclaiming the stream from we can work together on common principal, voting rights, infrastructure, economic development, homelessness, poverty and so many elements we need to focus on. we can challenge ourselves to reimagine the american city we know today. the pandemic has exposed deep disparities that exist in our community. we can workk together build mor, cities where outcomes and whites arefe determined based on the quality of your work. these past years have shown what city leaders can do when their back is up against the wall. we can do incredible things but remember, we can only do those things together. let's keep doing incredible things in 2022 like repair on america's roads and bridges, strengthen our voting systems build more equ