Across these communities. These dynamics are as the mayor and supervisor said are seriously impacting the art and we need a permanent solution to address the displacement of our organization. We collaborate with local government agencies, businesses, and Civic Leaders and artist to purchase and lease space for artist in the organization and to develop and expand their facilities and purchase their own facilities. We are developing this with the can an foundation and we fund arts in San Francisco. And its with the citys key artist the need for space which forms a huge challenge. It doesnt matter how much we provide if we dont have a place for performance art. We are providing 5 million in seed funding over 5 years to cast. [ applause ] Northern California Community Loan foundation has extensive experience working with Arts Organizations and they helped us identify these two Key Properties so we can start doing something about it. They also understand the concept of buying new property i
Private partners bring to bear. It also includes something we realize in the city which is the Central Market economic strategy. One of those objectives is ensuring that Central Market is a center here in our city. All of us here are here today to celebrate a very important milestone of building up creativity in our city. To kick us off to talk about this achievement is our mayor, ed lee. Thank you, joaquin. He works very hard and others that scour these blocks all the time working with all the residents and artist and Small Businesses have been wonderful. As many of you know i have worked very hard on the revitalization of Market Street. We have shown some success, but weve always said and i want to emphasize this, youve heard me say this before, the artist in the Community Led this effort to begin with. They took a lot of risk. So weve never allowed them to escape from our mind about the future of midmarket. They have always been in our sight whether they are living here, working her
Its rescued most of the hostages at the westgate Shopping Mall in nairobi. A two day standoff that killed more than 68 and wounded more than 150. The initial attack happened saturday. The Somali Militant Group al shabaab has claimed responsibility. I have to be honest with you, we havent seen a great deal of movement within the building or on the side streets. Personnel carriers moving in and out and it has been very, very quiet from the building itself. Its very difficult to get any kind of confirmed information about whats taking place inside. But clearly the headline is the Kenyan Military believes that they have secured most of the building and released most of the hostages although again i really want to stress that this is not yet over. There are still clearly hostages in there, and there are still clearly some of the governments, some of the attackers. It is surprising i think that we dont know precise number of the government. Gunmen. And one of the things the Kenyan Security s
We are looking at temperatures throughout the evening hours pretty comfortable. The fog rolls back in, but we will get warmer tomorrow. Near 100 degrees inland. Ill let you know how long that will stick around. But we also have thunderstorms to talk about, as well. Interesting. Thank, lisa. We have breaking new. One person is dead and at least four others injured this morning following a shooting in east oakland. It happened just after 11 00 last night on 105th avenue. Authorities say five ambulances were requested, but one person died at the scene. The other victims were taken to the hospital in critical condition. Theres no word at this time on suspects or arrests, but we will bring you more on the story as the information becomes available. Developing news. Authorities are investigating what led to a Police Shooting and motorcycle crash that shut down a highway in the east bay. It happened around 4 00 yesterday afternoon on highway 24 on both sides of the caldecott tunnell. A chp of
Really the threshold of damage. When you triple it you cross that line. Its much more damage in earthquake. I want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Its a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. My name is Joaquin Torres the director of economic and Work Force Development and the mayors investing Neighborhood Initiative which is an office coordinates through out our neighborhood commercial services that our private partners bring to bear. It also includes something we realize in the city which is the Central Market economic strategy. One of those objectives is ensuring that Central Market is a center here in our city. All of us here are here today to celebrate a very important milestone of building up creativity in our city. To kick us off to talk about this achievement is our mayor, ed lee. Thank you, joaquin. He works very hard and others that scour these blocks all the time working with all the residents and artist and Small Businesses ha