Nine people and injured more than 1000 others. But first, we want to start with breaking news. Abc7 news insider phil matier confirms aaron peskin plans to run for mayor of San Francisco. He is the current president for the citys board of supervisors, but peskin is expected to announce his Mayoral Campaign at an event on saturday. Hes speaking with abc seven News Reporter liam melendez right now, and you can see her interview with peskin and get analysis from phil matier coming up at four. All right. Now getting answers in our segments. Im kristen sze, thanks for joining us at this hour in taiwan, rescuers are frantically sifting through the rubble after that devastating earthquake. This video was taken at the site of a collapsed building in hualien, which was hardest hit. Crews just hoping for any sign of somebody still alive. Joining us live now are jeff tang, a San Mateo County resident whos on vacation in taiwan with his family, and doctor lucy jones, founder and chief scientist of
Angeles. Israel Conducting Airstrikes and localized ground raids in gaza at this hour, the Israeli Military says the latest rounds of attacks killed a senior hamas member involved in planning last saturdays horrific attacks in israel. Murad abu murad was killed in a strike targeting a building in the gaza strip. It comes as israel continues to urge palestinian is to leave the northern part of the gaza strip, warning the combat will intensify. Theyve also extended a 24 hour window to leave that was issued early friday local time. And new video also coming in overnight showing damage from the israeli city of ashkelon. Hamas armed wing al qassam saying friday that it launched 150 rockets toward that city. There are now reports whether or no new reports yet whether any israelis were injured in that attack. Its been exactly one week now since hamas staged those shocking, brutal and deadly attacks against israel. Israel has been striking back hard all week. In addition to airstrikes and targ
Thank you, supervisors and acting mayor breed. Weve had i want to talk both about issues, as well as process. Weve had administration after administration who has sided with corporations instead of the people, and meanwhile, theres people thats getting pushed out of every single one of your districts. We need a mayor whos going to standup to speculators, who will standup to airbnb, and who will push for the deepest levels of affordablity in all of the housing that we build, because all of us know how desperately thats needed. And lastly, we need a caretaker mayor because we need someone whos going to be accountable to the people. Thank you so much for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, board of supervisors and president and acting mayor breed. My name is brandon romney. I am serving on the San Francisco board of berniecrats. I am speaking today on behalf of the democratic process. With the tragic passing of ed lee, our city is in an interesting position, where incumbe
Ceqa appeal had to be filed, which was filed on november 22. You would think when a ceqa appeal is filed, anything permitted would stop, but it wasnt the case here. Work continued on this site. And to me, its a pattern of bad behavior here. It wasnt until december 21. Yall recall what was going on over the holidays and certainly mr. The holidays after nearly two weeks of my office issuing a stop work order was issued. I find this shocking. The sponsor demolished chimneys without a permit, which has left the home damage and easier to seek demolition approval. Ive voiced many frustrations with planning not making common sense decisions with their reviewal to make common sense changes and landmarking neighborhood without letting the supervisors to know. In this case, they allowed one part of the project to move forward with the rest under review. It doesnt make sense to me. In terms of the ceqa appeal. And the main issue i had. And i will not belabor the point, is the issues that supervis
Here is that mainly the conservatives on the amount whole house had made some points push some point through they wanted to have that the social democrats although they claim to have made some ground on especially social issues. Werent able to push through their main points they are how awful for instance taxation the social democrats had asked for higher taxes for the wealthy and the rich this is not in the paper instead we can find. Some phrases saying that they want to abolish this abolish the socalled solidarity tax which is an extra tax which has been. In the taxation system for the last twenty years introduced off to germany reunification and especially the conservatives wanted to get rid of a lot on that they got through. Another point is a refugee policy that was highly debated by the refugees with only a subsidiary protection. Be allowed to bring their families into germany and the social democrats wanted to introduce the right that they didnt get bought or only in a very limi