Join us. We go into, well, first of all when we hear of the leads, and we have a whole staff, that basically is paid to do that and they go and reach out to any business that they see that falls within their area. So, it bohooves them to reach out and on top of that, now, we do, again, look to the leadership of each neighborhood and so your neighborhood merchant associations and so we go out into those, neighborhoods and in the twofold, and again, how the working with them to help to create their neighborhood as a destination but then, also, in that, to let them know about the benefits that they can receive, by being a member of San Francisco, travel association. Got it. So up until recently, we have connected you to the merchant of the bay view Merchants Association that is what i know . I am sorry, up until recently, you have been connected. Exactly. So let me say this because you alluded to having the staff and i assume that you have had the staff and i will just want to express my
You can see the patch work right here in the road. Right here at north main and geary in walnut creek. They think the leaking water line from overnight may have ruptured from yesterday. The strongest quake, a 3. 6 yesterday at 3 00 p. M. Thousands of people reported feeling that earthquake. It was centered in concord on the concord green valley fault. The usgs warns the fault is very active. But not much is known about it as far as little known compared to san andreas and the other faults. Geologists at the usgs says if we saw a magnitude 6 in concord, wed see more damage than in napa last year because of the population. The earthquakes are all these kids are talking about. The commercial, the san andreas commercial. When the 4. 8 hit yesterday, they were freaking out. Oh, dad, is this going to happen to me . Ill be long gone and dead before it happens. But i said, california will end up like nevada. They were freaking out. It was funny. It was funny. Reporter the usgs says the 3. 6 ma
How volunteers helping where the government is not. Traditional healers from nigeria. We are in lagos and more and more people are finding better results. We go to ukraine where an exercise has been said to be launched. Gunmen seized hundreds of weapons when they took over a Police Station in slough. Our correspondent Hoda Abdelhamid sees no visible sign of the authorities getting tough at all when you arrived. Absolutely, and theres no visible sign. The building to my right there are people standing there, they have the barricade of rubber tyres manned by me who are not carries weapons. Presumably the ones that stormed the building are in the building. You dont see them. We are in the city center, there was a warning from the government for the resident to evacuate. I think few have heeded that call. Families are Walking Around, shops are open. This there is an antiterror operation carried on. I think we are at the early stages of it, or it has not started. What we did see is a 45 che
Doctor nigerias healers say they can treat you just as well as pain stream medics. Ukraines government says its launched an antiterrorist operation to take on the separatists in the east. The interior minister says Security Forces are working to regain control of a police building, seized by prorussian gunmen in slovyansk. That down is around 150km from the russian border. Russia has been accused of backing the armed groups. Correspondent Hoda Abdelhamid is just outside of slovyansk and joins us now on the phone. Hoda abdelhamid, we are hearing that the military is starting operations in slovyansk. What are you hearing on the ground . Well, we are hearing this from the interior minister in kiev. Now, what we know so far is that there is some sort of operation, at least according to some of the residents there. They say they would see helicopters flying in the sky. If this operation is really under way, it could be a great risk for the government in kiev. If it is these people who have
Merchants association. And we need to make sure that a lot of our businesses are part of the sf travel, and they are a member and so that we can begin to promote and push this forward. I have a question, also, what percentage of sf travel, comes from public dollars . inaudible . So just, so that i am clear, the city and county of San Francisco does not fund. We dpo not receive any from the tax, and we do have, the tourism and improvement district, that is similar to a cbd or a bib and so it is assessed on a selfassessment, that is voted on by the hotel community. And they contribute to San Francisco travel, but we do not receive any or we do have a contract, that those goes out to bid with San Francisco International Airport, and that is a contractual agreement, to help promote San Francisco International Airport to the rest of the world and get a lift from the International Destinations. And that is the only city dollars that we will receive. And so, really my final statement that i w