I did watch a lot of college football. How are you guys doing . Did you plan on calling in sick today . Cross your fingers, im healthy. Back to breaking news were following in the 8 00hour. Live pictures there near sue troe tower. Theres a fire in an apartment building. This is a life picture from sutro. An Apartment Fire when crews got there, one alarm to two alarm and they rescued one person from the building. Paramedics treated the person with the extent of injuries. Nice work by San Francisco. Meteorologist mark in for steve today joining us and nice to have sunshine before. Looking outside. Key head line, towards the golden gate brinl. Bridge. We call it the Atmospheric River setting up that brought the rainfall tuesday night into wednesday. Its setting up, that southerly flow. Clouds in place and beginning to lift but also a bit of a cool breeze out there as well. Santa rosa still freezing at 32 degrees. San francisco at 44. San jose at 46. Heres what you can expect this weekend.
Testimony on russian cyber capabilities. Two top world experts, fire ceo and former director of the National Security agency Keith Alexander both familiar to you guys. Both been on my show. Theyre on the stand right now being questioned. This as Vladimir Putin said today that accusations of russian medaling are quote fiction, provocation, and lies. Lieutenant colonel ralph peters ready with his nonfiction complete threat analysis. Hes coming up. Any minute now at the white house, the president expected to receive the Prime Minister of denmark. This is a live picture of the portico. Denmark is a nato ally. President trump perhaps not making many other allies in dc, attacking democrats and conservative Freedom Caucus members at the same time today. Our Political Panel sorts out the circuit louisa hodge and how it might help or impede health care and tax reform. And, by the way, we are hearing now that Freedom Caucus leader mark meadows has just spoken out for the First Time Since that wa
Introduce new business, supervisor avalos. Thank you madam clerk. A couple of items for introduction today. One is a request for the City Attorney to draft legislation that would set us in motion to create a Municipal Development corporation. As you all know i have been working for a number of years on the creation of a public bank, a Municipal Bank for the city and county of San Francisco. The public bank could eventually take over the citys banking functions that are currently performed by bank of america and wells fargo and issue forms of debt and refinance the citys general obligation bonds. The goal of the bank is maximize the citys Financial Resources and minimize the amount the city pays out in interest and fees to wall street firms. It is clear that we have a huge unfunded needs in a number of areas such as Affordable Housing, transportation infrastructure, and Renewable Power to name a few. Its my hope that a public bank will help fill the funding gaps. While the City Attorney
Projects in San Francisco and wants streets to be wider to accommodate the trucks and i think its important for the department to take a hard look whether there are things to do with their trucks and placement of equipment to navigate the streets in our city. Fire safety is incredibly important and so is street safety. We have too many people injured and kills on our streets and we need to embrace this and the rest i submit. Thank you supervisor wiener. President breed. Thank you. Colleagues as many of you have heard and seen in the media recently on january 9, friday at 10 00 oclock there were four young men murdered in my district and the western edition hayes valley neighborhood of our community and i realize as supervisor this definitely impacts our district but this impacts the entire city and i do really appreciate all of the support provided to me and members of my community by my colleagues and by the mayor. I want to thank those that held our prepare vigil with the community y
Others and gave a grant for a new Cancer Research building on the ucsf mission bay campus. This is a huge loss for the city on so many levels. She has a great family around her including dan who is here and the soninlaw and jackie and a lot of you know and she will be greatly missed. Colleagues i also wanted to mention as you may have read in the paper i put in a drafting request to the City Attorneys Office to prepare a Charter Amendment modeled in part on what recently passed the state legislature with bipartisan support to reform the ballot measure system, not to limit access to the ballot or make it harder to get on the ballot but make sure were giving authors of the measures every opportunity to receive Public Feedback and if they choose make amendments to measures. We have a ballot measure system in San Francisco where ballot measures once theyre put forward even if there are significant flaws in them that come to light its very hard for an author to make amendments to address th