the safer city center she didn't cost the city of los angeles six million dollars in its first year alone. police say for cities initiative that was launched on september two thousand and six a bill on the drawing board since two thousand and two it was originally called the homeless reduction strategy that was launched with a vengeance in september of two thousand and six and there was an effort there was really chartered by mayor of the overdose of chief bratton as a comprehensive approach to skid row. there were going to be two problems there was going to be the serious crackdown on what was called serious crime and skid row and then there was to be a big expansion of services. well one of those things happened and the other one didn't the city put zero dollars him to your services side to come in so hard with the enforcement without having the the enhancement piece giving the services that are necessary to make this how the community is kind of backwards if you make me get off the sidewalk where am i going to homeless where i'm going to really go where my go or you know take me and. s

own department and city wide. impressed with the team city cio that they put together. the changes in tone are much more optimistic. we can hope for the best and see great potential for the future, but potential is only potential and not alkylation ult. the ceo has been in his position four to five months. our whole committee urges that you hold another hearing maybe in a year or so to see if this promise is realized. we are still concerned with the enterprise department and their leadership and the achievement of city wide initiative. if they proof to be uncorporate. a later hearing would also be a report on the initiatives that are being put into the place. so the recommendations of the hiring committee, the institution of an it data base, the completion of the e-mail consolidation among others. we all urge you to oversee and be informed by the technology needs within the city. that's our statement. >> thank you very much for that statement. now we will hear from antonio guerra from the mayor's office. >> i have

i think that we have tremendous assets, as a city, that we earn ourself and within the city that can be exploited to greener, energy supply and to reduce our electricity and fuel usage and i hope to bring some of my expertise and add to these important issues. >> thank you. >> thank you president, arce. >> and i will be working for the committee for the past 15 years and especially in the youth services in the apa islander committee and i hope that it will help to build a stronger school education program for environmental justice and as well as reaching out to under privileged committee and that will be bet foreeverybody and so it is definitely a great experience last time and have an exciting meeting and i am looking forward to this one. >> thank you. >> and there is a chance that i will be at light, this one might be shorter. >> guarantee it. >> if you can call the next item. >> any public comment on this item it >> thank you. >> any public comment? >> seeing none, could you call the next item? >> the next item is the approval of the minutes of the august 6, 2013 on the commission

the more clubs, the more help to the city. i've gone to a totally different neighborhood just to get away from a club that i've gone through that i know i'm going to be in a long line, there's a long line of patients, a long wait. i'll definite -- i'll /tkhrebtly go to another neighborhood and spend time on a bus to go to a club and i get there disappointed because they're also in demand of more clubs because they're also crowded. i want to point out it's revenues for the community and thank you for your time. >> my name is michael, i was a member of the medical cannabis task force [inaudible] and patient [inaudible] committee. and [inaudible] i'm in support of number four here, but number three, i first of all very upset as [inaudible] said it makes no reference to medical cannabis so a member of the public that didn't know what was going on today would be blind sided by this. there's no real appropriate /tphoetsz given that this is about restricting medical cannabis access. i think there is serious problem. i think it's a pr

>> we have a good management plan for pollution in mexico city, but not in the other cities. we have to talk an, and i'll stt with the private sector, we have two problems, one is with gasoline and the other is with cars. there are some advances, but some limitations have to do with this kind of gasoline and also the revolution for the industry, also for the way that the automobiles are built. >> andrew leung, even if improvements are made in china, and there are steps to use green power how much of a dent can it make? it's such a problem on a massive scale. the pollution is extensive in china and the health problems in that country are very severe. >> well, in china the bulk driver is by the government. first of all, it's the energy input for gdp growth. it's mandated to be reduced by growing the economy rather than total depends on manufacturing, for example, and secondly reducing the impact of colby coy shutting down the inefficient and highly polluted plants. and then also trying to include the kind of ambitious from coal developing thin coal, as it report, and then enfor

i looked at what my city is now and realized i enjoy what i have here, more than what my fantasy city is. and that these negative things, they are there, but there are so many other positive things. i'm going to enjoy what i have here. >> brown: it was a positive moment in a city that can use them, led by poetry bringing, as young quintin pope had put it, "the deep thoughts from the inside, out." >> sreenivasan: online we have much more, including a poet's notebook from natasha trethaway, and video of inside-out alumni reciting their work. >> sreenivasan: next, to the west coast where algae has been poisoning shellfish and subsequently people. in recent years, toxic algal blooms have been more potent and lasted longer. that has scientists trying to understand whether climate change could be contributing to the problem. our report comes from special correspondent katie campbell of kcts seattle. she works for the environmental public media project, earthfix. >> reporter: every family has its legends. for john and jacki williford and their children, its the story of a miserable camping t

but for a world-class city to have this status is one of the best cities to ever live in.n and to visit. you got to have a police force that rises to world-class standards. and the san francisco police department is in fact world-class standard. tonight with the recognition of the medals of valor, we continue, i think, a very important culture. a culture that is measured by the performance of its officers and those who tonight exceed that standard in every way. and you know it's kind of hard for me to get know everyone of 2,000 officers that work in our police department. i do see the results though. and i don't think we could have landed the bid for the super bowl hosting l without a world class police department. we could not have landed the americus cup in san francisco without the best police department in the country. we could not have landed so many of these world-class events and continue the pride of being one of the faster recovering cities in all of our country without a good police force. so i made it a point tonight to come here and let you know that i may not

see as a city you would like to see advice and input from that are city leaders?ing things well. you always try to learn from those who are doing it best. i think back to when i was a prosecutor, and the violence in which community was at the terrible rate. the city of new york had successfully dramatically reduced the violence rate. so did the city of tbons. i spent a fair amount of time there and studied what they have done. we brought them here. what we did is teamed up with u.s. attorney, the atf, the dae, all together to crack con on every single country crime so we investigated and prosecuted them, and made it clear if you carry the gun in this county, you were going prison. my last prosecutor in 2003 we had the fewest murder in 30 years. the other thing that they did in tbons. bsh they provided conflict-resolution and mentoring services, et. i think we can learn from the community and name a starve city. sympathy want to be respected. we have had a succession of attack on the city predominantly coming out of landson the people of the community believe that

daly city will have a high of 67 degrees.ted to be a little hazy and we're not talking the same crystal clear conditions. for the most part the temperatures will go back down to the '50s and high pressure will be in place to keep the storm to the north. not a raindrop in sight. the fog will return for this weekend. >> we continue to follow the breaking nils in redwood city. it is a back to work for a lot of the government workers. while you were sleeping president obama signed a legislation said in an and the shutdown. this allows the treasury to borrow at least a february 7th. that went to the house and they also passed. with both of them passing the bill a went to the president's desk for signature. it was met with opposition. >> this is the pain inflicted on the nation for no good reason. it cannot make the same mistake again. >> this is a terrible deal. i urge my colleagues to oppose it. >> test cruz is not happy with this bipartisan deal. it still past and unemployment benefits dropped. >> for the first time in more than

the city is being boarded up. what is the anger level in the motor city? >> reporter: well, i can tell you that you hear anger with differing opinions on both sides. you hear people who feel that bankruptcy was inevitable after years of corruption and mismanagement. and then you hear the other side who say, yes, we understand that things are bad but it could be worse. they feel that the city should look at other options to avoid a bankruptcy. so everyone kind of going every which way at this point, bisi onile-ere. >> joining us live from detroit. thank you very much. >>> pope francis removed a german bishop from his diocese. he was expelled because of a scandal over $42 million project to build new housing for bishops. that is earning the title of bishop of bling. we talked about the controversy. >> reporter: the bishop of lindberg had blown the budget on his residents which includes a museum and conference rooms as well as residents for nuns. by a factor of six. the factor went from $7 million to around $42 million. now this is coming during a papacy led

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you take the city's side every single time. only one time, have you ever taken an action and that was to recommend to the mayor that the president of the library commission be removed. and he ignored you. and so i guess that i can't blame you either, would i not want to take the action if i knew that the only thing that i would get is somebody saying that i am not going to do it. and you don't have any power and you don't have any control, people say that the sunshine task force does not and i will give them this, at least, listen to the citizens of this city and when they find a good case, they will issue a violation and i have 19 of them myself and just try to get them enforced. and you can catch people in a blatant lie and you know the most interesting thing about it, they never have the courage to show up and explain their own actions. and they send some city employees who does not really know what is going on say, here you go on and you defend this illegal action. and poor sue black man at the library commission, the secre

the first two cities in the world that made the telling of -- [inaudible] >> can you hear me? so this book is about the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium, and there is an american one and a soviet knockoff. the american one is called richland your facility one was called ozersk, and what's so important about these places, i argue in this book "plutopia" that they changed our landscape in ways we get to fully digest. these plants help militarize or landscape and to sully them and turned opportunities into different kind of communities. i'll explain what i mean, but first i want to tell you about why i got into this project. i don't know who this tourist is but she's pretty stupid. i went in 2004 to the chernobyl zone and i wrote an article about it, and an editor contacted me and wanted me to write a whole book about the chernobyl if it, a pivotal moment in history. there were a lot of books about chernobyl and i looked into it and i realize that there were these two places in the world, these two plutonium plants that spilled 10 times more radiation into the e

a city thatcity is is always changing. he is a city that is always changing. perfect for new york.s one of the busiest avenues in one of the most heavily policed parts of manhattan in a city that never sleeps. so how does he get away with it? and can he keep doing so? for now, the city is getting a new tourist attraction everyday. and also a lot more graffiti. >> catch the work while you can. that brings today's broadcast to a close but you can continue to see bbc world news on our 24- hour news network. to reach me and most of the bbc team, just go to twitter. thank you for watching. >> make sense of international news at abc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years, and union bank. ♪ at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture new ventures and help provide capital for key strategic decisions. we offer expertise and tailored solutions in a wide range of industries. wha

but we begin with what an american city looks like when it has gone bankrupt.t has lost a war. it could be dresden after the allied bombing. factories, stores, schools left to rot. houses gutted by fire. streets abandoned, derelict, populated by crime. it turns dark after dusk because 40% of the street lights don't work. the buses don't run on time. the cops don't come in time, if they come at all-- they're understaffed. and if your house is burning, even when firemen get there, they might not have what it takes to do much about it. detroit has long been a playground for arsonists, yet during a decade of massive budget deficits, the city has lost a third of its cops, a third of its firefighters. fire companies have been shut down. equipment that has broken down doesn't always get fixed. the firefighters at ladder 22 told us everything on their rig is in pretty good shape-- everything, that is, except the tank that's supposed to hold their water. jonathan frendewey told us it's leaking. now, how long have you had this leak? >> jonathan frendewey: the leak's been

around the city. we understand the goal of the national park service but we also are charged with managing land that contains sensitive natural habitat and is utilized for many a variety of recreational purposes. supervisor, at the original hearing on the ncs and need to document our department access to specific concerns. the need to document did not consider exit city parks and possible regulations on commercial dog walking would have different limits eating leading to confusion and additional impacts on city parks. as you know, the local dog walk association allows up to 8 off leash dogs per.walker where the gg nra is currently thinking about sex under the proposal. the nps and tended to address the issue of impact on city parks. the.walker legislation, i still point of concern and will continue our discussion of nps and you supervisor on this issue. we understand that the nps is still taking public comment on the environmental impact study. we will continue to monitor that process very closely. we

the city of detroit makes its case for bankruptcy. but is the motor city really broke?the emergency manager is evaluating the value of everything that detroit owns. >> also tonight: giving voice to another troubled michigan community. >> we need some leaders, leisurers, thesaurians, chemical is. chemists. >> artists are helping a brighter picture emerge. >> good evening, thanks for being with us. i'm joie chen. at the heart of detroit's future what seems to be a simple equation. but in the motor city today, the first bid to be declared bankrupt delivered a scathing assessment. he has calculated the pluses and minuses on detroit's ledgers and determined the amounts don't add up. it would be $250 million in the hole at best. but city workers and pensioners just aren't buying it. hundreds came out in protest today. they say the shortfall claim is just purification and that city leaders didn't work hard enough to negotiate settlements with creditors before detroit's july bankruptcy filing. it could be free from having to pay out its pension obligations to these city workers

. >> reporter: surabaya city is indonesia's second largest city with 3 million people. its economy and population is growing rapidly. so is the amount of trash and that's creating a problem. this is the only disposal site in the city. 1,500 tons of garbage is dumped at the site every day. at this rate, the site will be full in a few years. as the city searches for ways to handle all of the trash, a waste recycling company from kitakyushu city in western japan has started operating here in march. workers efficiently sort recyclable waste. like plastic and metal and items for composting. as a result the amount of garbage dumped has dropped by 50%. new jobs have been created as well. this man is a sales representative for the recycling company. he says the indonesian waste and recycling market offers great business opportunities. >> reporter: all waste used to be buried at the site. in japan, a lot of it would have been recycled. now the recycling gets done and locals earn money. there are many business opportunities here. >> reporter: the kitakyushu city government also s

it's a great thing for the city, great thing for southeast baltimore. scomblsz it's a 1 million square foot facility that will look similar to this. it will be going up on the port of baltimore in a spot formally taken up by gm. the warehouse is expected to create 1,000 full time jobs with benefits that include 401k, health care and prepaid tuition for college. >> it's critical i think for any kind of employers to bring that kind of business and those kind of jobs to this area. >> i think that's really important, especially for folks who other wise wouldn't be able to afford those kinds of opportunities. >> those who work at this distribution center will pick, pack and ship retail goods to consumers. the baltimore location is one of eight in new warehouses they plan nationwide. amazon is building the centers in cities it believes have a large consumer base, making it easier to get products to people faster. city leaders believe it is the beginning of more big business. >> it holds baltimore in a better light and higher lights and shows that we're a worl

pipe line through the city is dangerous. he plans to ask the council for approval at a meeting on monday. two days ago the cpuc ordered pg&e to keep the natural gas pipe line shut down after internal e-mails revealed concerns about corrosion and cracks. >> this morning we could learn more about the circumstances around the death of a man at a detention facility. joseph asphyxiated himself in a crowded intake area of the facility back in march. several deputies they were in that room at the time of his death. he died the next day. later this morning details around the attempted suicide will be presented to a jury for deliberations. this is standard for any death where officers are present. the coroner ruled the death is a suicide. >> 49ers line macker aldon smith could go from rehab to jail. prosecutors have charged smith for illegally possessing three assault weapons he purchased in arizona. they chargeded him with a misdemeanor dui after a crash that prompted him to enter rehab and take a leave of absence from the 49ers. th

>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. two of america's closest allies are taking a tough stands against u.s. spying. the german and french leaders use the european union summit in brussels to talk about new rules for u.s. surveillance. there is a lack of trust which could do real damage between the u.s. and european countries. german intelligence chiefs are expected to head to the u.s. for talks. a british newspaper that the nsa spied on 35 world leaders. >>> the managers of the affordable healthcare act will be overseen by new managers. it has been handed to one of the contractors that built it. >>> janet yellen's nomination is headed to the senate. the paperwork for her nomination to replace ben bernanke is complete. her confirmation could be facing a roadblock, kentucky senator rand paul is expected to hold up the bill until his bill for more government transparency comes to the floor. "real money with ali velshi" is next. >> consumers are feeling down but you wouldn'

>> john from the city attorneys office. i don't know the exact circumstances of this building, but the way the expedited conversion process if they can set up, if they convert this year they can take advantage of the conversion program that begins on april 15th and goes for about 9 months. i believe they can also take advantage of any of the subsequent years of the expedited conversions process as long as they remain eligible. the entire program extends for 8 or 9 years. if they didn't choose to convert this year, they can convert through this process paying the fee in subsequent years. >> thank you. >> supervisor campos. thank you, just a quick questions, just reading the memo that we have in the packet from the mayor's office of housing. so you said earlier this property was the total value of the property is about $1.9 million. it says here the property was bought in 2006 at $645,000 is that correct? >> because of the quick turn around, supervisor's analysis, we did a quick review of what was on zillow at the time that $

little cooler in ocean city. 72 there at the ocean city airport. dew point numbers will climb tomorrow. it's muggier than normal for this time of year. we get almost summer like humidity in here as we go into the friday afternoon time. friday evening plans look great. should be rain free but dress like it's a summer evening. future temperatures in to the morning. tomorrow into the mid60s. i think a little more sun should breakthrough the haze tomorrow and by the way even warmer saturday. we go mid, even a few upper 80s on the map as you go toward dc and uthern maryland. we peak the heat into saturday. a couple of showers, knocking on the door of western maryland. into ohio, they will diminish past sunset. all the active weather set to stay to the west. high pressure continues to set just south of maryland. it's shifted further off shore. that southerly humid wind will continue to increase tomorrow here in maryland, the high just a little further east. the stalled front to the north could focus showers over pennsylvania but i think they will stay no

the safer city soonish it cost the city of los angeles six million dollars in its first year alone. they say for surveys initiative that was launched on september two thousand and six and on the drawing board since two thousand and two there was. originally called the homeless reduction strategy that was launched with a vengeance in september of two thousand and six and there was going to furthur was really targeted by mayor of the overdose of chief bratton knows a comprehensive approach to skid row. there were going to be two problems there was going to be a serious crackdown on what was called serious crime and skid row and then there was to be a big expansion of services. well one of those things happened and the other one didn't the city put zero dollars him to your services side to come in so hard with the enforcement without having the the enhancement patients getting the services that are necessary to make this how the community is kind of backwards if you make me get off the sidewalk where am i going to homeless where am i going to go where am i growing you know take me home

that's getting inbound is a new city is being built up as replacement you've got these new smart cities in theory with digital digital if they don't right with giant plasma screen we have to hope that you'll know what allergy is it goes down as a some part of curve toward a price point called zero in other words storage processing and and c.p.u. is always going cheaper cheaper cheaper so area of african country where they start at a place of baseline nowhere but they're meeting the base and part of curve of zero cost account way of my head with some twenty codes that will let me. put this in concrete terms ok for you what i did learn a lot is you know you're not going to chase a bad one all you want hard you are the educated british people you got these i pad cities ok you've got the cities which are built for obsolescence yet which i've got quite small technology which is really this mission of interconnected highly vulnerable systems which are not going to be resilient and a lot of capital is going into these new cities and the gated compounds which on can be delivering jobs for the t

i'm grateful to the city. i love my city. wee will have the premier here. >> right now, i'm inbetween churches. >> played by jarule who just finished his two year sentence for weapons and tax evasion. >> it's good to see that people can change. have second chances in life. and you know, that's what america is about. they love to see people bounce back from tragedy to triumph. >> it's great to see somebody from your hometown be successful. at the same time, your past does not determine your future. although, a pass here, obviously changed for the better. >> in san jose, kpix5. >> i'm in love with the church girl opens up in theaters this friday. many churches plan to show it to their congregation. >> the bad bolts that delay the opening of the bay bridge, crews are installing the permanent fix, and tonight we can show yaw what that leans like. >> this is a unique fix to a unique problem. >> obviously we're having a problem with that. we'll get it back to you as soon as we can. >> talked about that -- we are trying to forget ab

that's half of what it had before the city went bankrupt five years ago.olks like lynn say that number has got to go up soon. >> the need is so great, the hell with the streets. >> reporter: in vallejo, i'm da lin. kpix 5. >> in 2011, vallejo voters approved a sales tax increase setting aside the $2.5 million each year for the hiring of new police officers. >>> a california-based college sued by the state attorney general. how she says the for the profit school targets and deceives vulnerable californians. >> and october usually brings with it some of the best weather in the bay area all year round. will we live up to our reputation? i have your forecast coming up. ,, ,,,, country.. to court.. over cs of false adverti >>> the state is taking on one of the biggest for-profit colleges in the country to court over claims of false advertising and fraud. julie watts on the expensive toll the career training programs are having on the most vulnerable students. >> you're sitting on the couch watching tv. you want more from your life? >> reporter: the ads promise

and folks who work in redwood city. this is the five alarm fire, on wood side road. highway 84 between 101 and 280. this is union and sent field. no official word from law enforcement in the area but we say avoid the area, lots of fire. five alarms, lots of activity. look at these on the scene. all of those fire crews. let me take to you the maps. this is the peninsula. highway 84, middle of the screen. that's your alternate to get around that. you'll go past st. pius church close to woodwide road. that is the way to get around that activity or a little to the north a few miles but you can take 92 as you cut over. but avoid 84 between 101 or el camino and 28 because of all of this fire activity. the rest of the peninsula moves smoothly. it's the east bay where we see slowing because of that commute, the astro valley. both san mateo and dumbarton moving smoothly. we'll show you the backup at the toll mass as we have metering lights on. reminder b.a.r.t. and ap transit are running today. we have a sip cal commute. >> than

developing in the city most of our project are in the city and -- projects are in the city and we wanted to make sure we gave the city of benefit. >> reporter: a lot of people will benefit the target store is hiring 300 people. many stores are opened. this section right behind me with the dsw and 5 below and ulta opened up a few weeks or so. the mayor will be on hand for the official ribbon cutting i should say. that starts at about 4:00. with that and festivities here to welcome all the new shopping to the east side. reporting live, abc2 news roosevelt leftwich. >>> well a young father is dead and a 20-year-old may spend 20 years in jail for texting while behind the wheel. texting while driving caused elizabeth meyers to hit and kill jonathan roberts. the state's attorney office gathered enough evidence to charge meyers with the crime. >> there was an eyewitness who saw her with her hands on the wheel and the other hand with the phone raised up and texting. there's also evidence phone records which indicate she was texting at the time. >> jonathan roberts of virginia was killed and meye

and at the time the city is in need we need somebody to back this up. >> the city of detroit was in no greater need than in 1967. a police raid in an after hours bar sparked rioting that ripped detroit apart leaving 11 dead and hundreds injured. decades later the city still wears the social and economic stars. >> i was seven years old during the '*6r '67 riots and i remembr seeing the internationa the nats going by my how have e house. i to this day still remember a neighbor gave my father a gun. >> smoke could be seen from the ryriots in downtown detroit. moved to do something tiger outfielder in full uniform walked to an area where trouble was brewing and talked toot to e crowd about ending violence. >> willie grew up near here and he meant a lot to the people and to us. >> and in the following year in '*68 the tyin tigers win their t world series in several years ago and it galvanized the city that summer. it didn't cure the economy. it didn't cure race relations in the city. but for four months that summer, the tigers played at tiger stadium that evening, everything else stopped an

ocean city was right behind -- around 1.76 inches. reagan national, down towards d.c., just over an inch and a half. patuxent in southern maryland, going up. salisbury, up to about an inch now. as is martins state and hagerstown. as you start to go out past the 70 corridor, you get a bit of a dropoff. take a look at this graphic. the low that is bringingula of this is centered and anchored on the coastline. it is spinning counter clockwise. bringing all of that moisture in from the north and northeast. we expect to see this locked in place for the next day or so. high pressure to the north is not letting it go past. we'll continue to keep you posted outside the wjz mobile weather lab. meteorologist tim williams, sending it back to you on tv hill. >>> stay with wjz for first warning weather coverage, for updated forecasts, and live radar, go to cbs baltimore.com. >>> there could be a breakthrough in the stalemate in washington. house speaker john boehner has the proposal to extend the government's ability to borrow money. but getting t

the city and county of san francisco >> mr.> sure so one of the troubling points of prop a there's a catch all in the amendment that the contributions of the employee and accident planned contribution by the city are insufficient to meet the requirements of the truth you fund the city is on the hook for the balance. which means in practical terms we have to cut from somewhere else or raise taxes. and the picture of retiree health care where we can fund health care on 3 percent of people's annual salaries is a little bit rosy. it's not something we can really bet on with health care costs and benefit costs rising at the, you know, 3 and 44 percent. salaries rising at 3 and 4 percent rather. its far greater than the pace of inflation and greater than the contributions >> so we have a little bit of time level overview left are supervisor farrell when i started working on prop a it was important in san francisco. i made sure we assaulted with our labor and all communities. i'm proud to say we have the support of every member of the

city residents of crime.his wkend, thoh... four shootings ocrred... with no mention from the city's twitter feed. a police department spokesperson said they stopped tweeting every shooting because sometimes preliminary information is inaccurate. while the media hearabout shootis like one in barclay area this weekend... the 40,000 twitter followers heard nothing of them. that drew heat from citizens and city leaders alike... here's councilman brandon scott yesterday... who is on the city's pubc safety committee. brandon sco, ty

we have had stray dogs in the city, and it has been an issue. so if you go out today and drive around the city, you're not going to see an overwhelming number of stray dogs, and that's what which number like that would suggest. >> reporter: some believe that the number of 50,000 is largely inflated, so now the count onto determine how big this problem really is. >> there's one right now right over there. this is all just freshly burned. this was not burned a week or so ago. but there's running water in the basement, so the dogs come down here for fresh water. >> reporter: tom mcphee is with a non-frost organization that has taken up the task of counting every stray dog in the city. and the search has led him to abandoned hopes where the dogs are in packs >> when we started to count the dogs, we thought the basket of issues is this big, and when you count dogs, you get to understand all of the problems. >> reporter: with public safety a concern, some believe that the answer will come through community outreach and education, which is a challenge

don't expect to see anything in the city for a while. a little milder, 56, 41 with partly cloudy sky to start the weekend. we're going to go below normal beginning on wednesday, vic. >>> the worse brush fire is threatening several communities west of sidney. no massive evacuations have been burning yet. right now more than 10 still are uncontained. the state of emergency has been declared allowing homeowners to leave their homes. >>> trouble at sea for a group of fishermen off the alaskan coast. the 50 line fishing vessel caught fire sunday morning thanks to a near by ship everyone was able to get out safely. this video was captured by the coast guard. blow up rafts served as flotation devices to move the fisherman from one boat to the other. the coast guard was assisted by a chopper above. >>> witnesses captured the raid of this panama hotel on a cell phone camera. u.s. marshals busted down the door of the room. the two convicted killers were apprehended on saturday after they escaped from a florida prison used forced paper work. charle

another suspect in this case, he fled the city. he will be brought back to oakland to face murder charges in the case. reporting live in oakland, cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >>> an update on a story we told you about last night. the power outage and resulting explosion at uc berkeley. this is the generator that exploded. work crews pulled it out of the ground late this afternoon. it's trashed. they're now installing temporary generators that will restore power to some of the buildings that are still in the dark. >> the other buildings of the 11 that will remain off the campus grid until we have a full understanding of what the damage was and can fully assess it, we don't want to reconnect it for fear we may bring everything crashing down once again. >> university is hoping the temporary fix will last until students get back to class. more than 100 classes were canceled today. cal is confirming the explosion is related to a copper theft discovered on campus late last week. >>> new at 6:00, can oakland come up with a way to keep

city.ne of the first things i did when i took office in 2011 was to request our city economist to do an impact study on nightlife and shows how it contributes $2.4 billion to our economy. and we at city hall making policy to treat nightlife as a nuisance to be managed and the purpose of that study among other thing was to make clear this is an important economic benefit and for jobs and for so many other economic purposes and something that should not bow -- be treated at all as a nuisance but something to key and address. it's not just an economic and strong driver in our city, it's really part of the cultural part of our city. and i will be honest that i have some concerns about where we are going in terms of our approach towards nightlife and what it means for the cultural essence of this city. we are seeing nightlife more and more under pressure for a variety of reasons and city hall in my view and my city government still takes an over reactive view towards nightlife instead of a more

the city hopes they will continue to do that for decades to come. al jazeera, mexico city. wal-mart is the world's largest retailer but it doesn't have stores in places like south korea and russia. the retail giant aunderstand nos it is breaking up with its partner in india as well. up and running well, not just yet. contract talks are expected to pick back up today in san francisco. where public transit workers have gone on strike. the unions are demanding pay for raises for worker whose run the city bart rail system, and they vow to walk off the job if no agreement is reached bynd mo. just three months ago, union members did just that, and five day strike stranded hundreds of thousands of commuters. and a last ditch effort by two old friends, senators mitch mcconnell and harry reid try to end the budget bat and avoided the first government default. the medical break through that's being called a turning point in the fight against alzheimerss. >> i'm mark morgan, the boston red sox faced five tigers pictures and they are inept against all of them. we will show you what hap

east bay highs 64 at oakland. 65 union city.ccu-weather forecast. it will get milder on thursday. which is halloween. nice day for trick or treating or evening for it. friday, high temperatures mid-70s around the bay and inland. by the way, this weekendç setting our clocks ba. >> thank you. reminding us >> yes. we need reminders yes. >> thank you >> have you tried this? coming up a new cometic strip app >> how you and friends can appear on the facebook funny pages. so what can i get you? we'll take something tasty and healthy. ♪ ♪ if you wanna go and fly with me ♪ ♪ it's buzz the bee on your tv ♪ ♪ oh how did i get this way? ♪ hey! must be the honey! ♪ there's a party going on in your cereal bowl ♪ ♪ o's can help lower cholesterol ♪ ♪ oh why does it taste so great? ♪ ♪ hey! must be the honey! ♪ ♪ hey! must be the honey! ♪ hey! must be the honey! >>> tonight google steps up competition with facebook. google plus unveiled technology turning pictures andemó videos o movies. google claimszvc 300 million people are usingxl it. wall

wu you can't have a world-class city without a worldwide system.anything for minimizing handsome and this is obviously he's had anything for us. but it gives me great, great honor to introduce the mayor of our city, mire ed lee (clapping) >> thank you very much and good morning, everyone i'll speak quickly before the next interlude. thank you richard for your expert leadership for the board. open occasion my. i've had a number of dinner meetings and they'll i couldn't me what's our passion and the things you have to get done. in any. what's on my mind was a lot of different problems. in the backdrop wove having had cutbacks from the state and that was already surging with governor brown's leadership but again the statistics with ron andcytes invited us to her house and we talked about that with friends. so rendering and i reviewed with the folks the statistics and we've gotten one big one was the improvements of our schools being the number one improvements last year in all of the public schools in california the rainy day fund in our school distri

i grew up in redwood city and i am 54. they have been there for 30 years. >> let me ask you this question: is it difficult to get to that apartment building in is it difficult to get vehicles to the apartment? they are having a heck of a time, it looks, fighting the fire? >> well, they got to it on the other side fine. i don't know if they had a hard time getting to it but i had a couple of residents come in to the gas station and they remain in their night clothes and they said they jumped from the third floor to get out. they talked to an officer. the officer said i was contained to the third floor. so... >> so this is the first we are hearing that you talked to people who had to jump out of the third-story windows to get to safety as the fire consumes the third floor. all right, debbie, thank you so much. we hope everyone is well. right now we want to get the traffic impact on this certainly wood site road is a mess. >> indeed. i will show you where we are talking about. in redwood city, this is where the fire is locate

and development project that we are pursuing, with the forest city california. and we have got in the audience today, jack, representing the forest city, and also, we would like to introduce to you today, sarah, dennis phillips with the office of economic and workforce development, she is going to be their project director on the project, reporting to jennifer mats, the water front project director in the mayor's office. >> so, just in that, noting the hour, i am going to go fairly quickly, through this presentation. we the last major milestone for the project was the board of supervisors, approval of the term sheet for the project. and describing the general financial agreements between the parties, it is not a binding document and we can't enter into a binding contract with forest city on the development until after sequa but that was an 11-0 vote at the board of supervisors, a lot of positive testimony from the community at the board. and that, that completed, the phase one, milestones for the project, under our exclusive negotiating agreement. >> this includ

it only applies to the money that the city pays for drugs.to people with aid and to children and to a poor srnz and disabled people. this will allow. though have for money for the drugs those people need and not have to turn it away. that's all it's doing. it's a policy. and also will askor lovers in the city and our lovers in the state to work for this fair drug prirgz within the state and within the national government and this is what we need to bring the ac a up and help that >> mr. faifrj. >> this is the right before his the roman order touched on that. what we need it money is needed for research. this particular dispute start over the pricing of t bolt which is an aids drug and it's cost it's put out by june lane scientific. people objected to the costs and on the other hand, the cost of the drugs went into the hundreds of million dollars that's a difficult problem and the city of san francisco has been paying for this drug if this drug didn't exist there's many people who wouldn't be alive. we need the money for the groups that do the

i'm arguing as i did this week at mayor bloomberg's annual conference of cities that cities and state vs to take matters in their own hands as much as humanly possible and we have to create some of the course corrections within their own capacity and, for example, in this city, one of the things that excites me the most is building retro fits and right for the climate, right for the environment but it's also a way to get employment opportunities to a lot of folks who haven't had them. you'd love there to be a program to retro fit buildings all over the country. here they come. it's not happening. >> they can't afford it. here's a question in to another broader topic, what's your view of legalizing marijuana? >> one thing i know i believe in is legislation of governor cuomo, decriminalize the display of a small amount of marijuana. we have a horrible dynamic with the stop and frisk policy which -- >> we'll get to that. >> i'm sure we will. if you have a small amount of marijuana in the pocket, that's not illegal. if you are asked by an officer to bring it out and show what's in your po

tough job, mayor of the city of chicago. i was a city council member there. i loved doing the job. emanuel decides he is going to run for mayor the city of chicago. ididn't support him, supported jury chico. one of the major issues he brought up -- even for the mayor of chicago, what is sure record on immigration? background.ave much the deportations were issue. he calls me up and says, luis gutierrez, i want to make this the most immigrant-frilly city in america. well, i can't argue with that. that is consistent with my goals and priorities. he has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the , so they can get their work permits and study in college. he has made sure the city of chicago does not cooperate with federal authorities so that somebody has a traffic violation they don't wind up getting deported. .ur relationship has evolved he said to me, i want to take an eraser and he raise the talk were and start fresh with you. i love working with them. -- take an eraser and you race the chalkboard and start fresh with you. i love working with him. about how iy on him use my ener

the 11 dots represent cities that the city surveyed for best practices. they include philadelphia, houston, new york, chicago and arlington, virginia. we heard from disability rights advocates in some of these cities and cities that have various policies in place to find out what has worked for them. looking at these best practices it bake clear that all successful programs took an approach that integrated three elements -- first, provide for blue zones; second, conduct sufficient enforcement for black placard use and blue zone use, and third, charge placard holders at the meter. we also discovered that cities had only implemented one or two of these were not as successful. houston established a very rigorous enforcement program giving out 12,000 plus citations a year, but it wasn't until they established some meter payment for placard holders that they really saw a decrease in misuse. >> [inaudible] curb painted blue with the mta symbol. that's the more mall designation of a blue zone. we're recommending increasing the number by almost 70 percent which w

plaza with hope in our heart from a city that leads in the art and cultures. and jeff was really a wonderful supporter >> it's my worst nightmare i'm following kari and this is exciting for any donor that's how i felt about bringing this to market street to advance k c e t for new works in collaboration of after the fits with the possibilities of the central corridor. arts transforms neighborhoods especially at night. in the case of k c e t and our master students brings tremendous energy through this door. ac ta inefficient taken the lead in market street focusing on smaller arts organizations. mayor lee our support and enthusiasm is sincere and it makes you a nature leader of this awesome city (clapping) >> having been under no circumstances on the ac t board with 10 years i can speak with authority about caring kari. in this fast lane makes her mind race faster. i'm honored now in my captain of chair of the capital campaign to nouns some fun stuff it's 32 1/2 millions and we've received many million dollars in new tax credits we've raised $10 million in pri

city council. and a community organizing group called acce is taking on wall street directly. in that city over half of the homeowners are underwater, their mortgages cost more than their homes are worth this is wall street's predatory practices crashing the economy. this has happened all over america. there are over 10 million american homeowners that are underwater. and in richmond, california, the mayor and the community are fighting back and saying, "we're not going to take this anymore." they've tried to get wall street banks to rewrite their mortgages so they can stay in their homes and avoid foreclosure. and when wall street wouldn't do that, the city council said to the banks, "we're going to take these mortgages by eminent domain. we're going to buy them from you. if you don't want to sell them to us, we'll do it by eminent domain. and we're going to sell them back to the homeowners for about half the price, for the current market value." and of course wall street, the wells fargo bank and

parks by closing all city parks at the same time every night. recreation parks department says vandalism cost nearly $1 million a year. police say it generally happens between midnight and 5:00 a.m., so the proposal is to close all parks during those hours. homeless people we talked to today say they just want to sleep in the park. >> a pretty big impact, because then you're expecting these people to sleep out in the streets. it's like, that's very dangerous at night. >> he also said that you can hide in the park, but not on the streets. the board of supervisors is expected to take up the proposal in a couple of weeks. >> a team of u.s. interrogators is headed to a u.s. warship. abu al-liby was wanted in connection of the bombs in kenya and tanzania. >>> 12 years ago on this date, president george w. bush launched the war in afghanistan. it is now the longest war in u.s. history. at at least 2,146 members of the u.s. military died there. a recent study says the war has cost between 4, and $6 trillion. >>> the u.s. supreme court began its new ter