People, im interested in either preserving what we have or developing new housing projects. This is now of course within the scope of the committee. However, a number of project applications will come before the committee which involve components of Affordable Housing, as well as a matter of fact theres a develop. Occurring at 55 laguna for senior lgbt housing which is being put forward by mercy housing, a fairly well known Supportive Housing corporation within the city. And in general i really would like having been a life long resident of San Francisco and the city of San Francisco overall, especially downtown, except for some of the new skyscrapers, has retained a lot of its old character. The Mission District has not been developed that much, its retained a lot of its character. However, i see a lot of the Development Going on right now where theres mixed use with commercial retail and upscale condominiums. I see this occurring throughout the boundary areas of the marketoctavia cor
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Conversation between clippers owner Donald Sterling, the nbas longest tenured opener and his girlfriend on that tape racist comments are made, fuel something to call for a boycott of the team just as it gets ready to take on warriors tomorrow. Ktvus john sasaki joins us with reaction, including reaction from the coach of the clippers. Reporter heather, the audiotape realized by tmz alleged includes l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling arguing with his girlfriend and making inflammatory and racist comment. People call me and tell you that i have black people on my instagram and it bothers me. It brothers me if you want to broadcast you are associating with black people. You associate with black people. Im not you and you are not me. The nba commissioner held a News Conference this evening and called the recording truly offensive and disturb. Donald sterling should be afford due process just as any play or executive in this league would be. So it would be unwise of me and improper frankl
Today. We had some substantial moves in fx. Janet yellen, she has moved markets. It is still a big focus for equity markets as well. Lets get a first look. Futures shrugging off those geopolitical concerns. They are isolated on russia at the moment. The ftse 100 up about 0. 1 . The dax pretty much dead flat. Boring on the equity benchmarks in europe. China confirms what we already knew. A slowdown in china. The currency having its worst week in 20 years. That is what everybody is talking about. Euro dollar, 1. 3768. Look at this. Euro is having its worst week since january. Down 1 against the dollar. Nothing to do with the ecb. They may well be very thankful for Janet Yellens words. Was it a slip . Did she mean to say that a considerable amount of time means six months after qe ends . Four fed speakers look out for every single word they say. That is their opportunity to backtrack from Janet Yellens words. That is your number one focus today. Thank you so much, Jonathan Ferro with the
Hello, welcome to countdown. Im mark barton. Edwards. Nna stay with bloomberg all morning because we have big interviews coming your way. The first door opening in dubai, the First International store. We will be speaking with the ceo , taking us through the decision, later on countdown. Exclusive interviews, u. S. Relations with the u. K. , and ,ollowing the latest earnings an exclusive conversation. States and the European Union have or although the list of russians targeted for further sanctions over crimea. Eu leaders met for the second day of a twoday summit in brussels. The possibility of more sanctions top the agenda. Ryan chilcote is in brussels with the latest. Good morning. Late last night, the eu expanded its blacklist of russian officials that will be subjected to asset freezes and travel bans based on short of economic sanctions. I followed her next mention of the United States blacklist. They expanded the number of officials they will expose to asset freezes, broadening i