Oakland mayor libby schaaf says this is just one part of a larger solution in the citys ongoing effort to deal with a growing number of Homeless People living on the streets. A tuff shed camp is in place. Laura anthony is live now from city hall. Laura . Reporter hi, dan. This is meant to be a temporary solution. By recent estimates, about 400 people live in encampments here in oakland. By next week, the hope is that 40 of them will have four walls and a roof over their heads. They are tuff sheds, 20 of them, 10 by 12 feet each, meant to put at least a dent in oaklands exploding homeless problem. One exhibited by sprawling tent cities like this one just a few yards away. We have a longterm plan, a midterm plan and this is the right now plan. This is immediate relief. Reporter joe devries is in charge of the homeless outlook plan. We were looking at what would be positive both for the unsheltered and for the surrounding community to reduce the problems of the garbage, the blocked roadwa
On its first day. And Biotech Company holozyme therapeutics surging today 18 now on new partnerships. The ceo of the company will join us exculusively to discuss whether more deals could be in the offing as well. Lets begin, though, with the day in washington. Ylon has more on todays Senate Finance Committee Hearings on tax reform eamon javers has the latest on President Trumps talks with democrats on daca and what exactly they talked about. Ylon, lets start with you, though bill, the chairman of the Senate Finance committee, orrin hatch, made absolutely clear today that the negotiations over tax reform are only just beginning. Part of the big six, gop leadership, as well as members of the Trump Administration who have been working together on a framework for tax reform but hatch said today anything they agree to is just a guideline, not a guarantee. Anyone with any experience with the Senate Finance committee knows were not anyones rubber stamp. For a bill particularly on something as
The ftse is down, and the spanish market, all down following what happened yesterday. And well be getting the inside track on the big tech stories of the week, including the ongoing row over russian hacking in the us. Rory cellanjones will be here to talk about his exclusive interview with the founder of Kaspersky Labs later in the programme. So today we want to know, how safe do you feel online . And do you trust Internet Security companies . Let us know, just use the hashtag, bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. We start in the estonian capital tallinn, where European Union finance ministers are gathering this weekend. Top of the agenda are plans for a shake up of the way huge tech firms, the likes of google, facebook, apple and amazon, pay taxes. The giants of the so called Digital Economy have faced criticism in europe forfailing to pay what some see as their fair share of tax. So whats being proposed . Well, the plan is to make the Companies Pay tax wherever in the eu t
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And beer 80s for a lot of these temperatures. Upper 60s at orinda. Mid 60s in lafayette. Offshore or easterly breeze. It is howling on parts of the san mateo coast. Also 40 mile per hour plus in the oakland and berkeley hills. Berkeley lab, 75. Low 70s with a northeast wind. High pressure is controlling the west coast all the way down to Southern California where they are looking for near 100 again today. They had multiple record highs tomorrow. The first pitch of the world series will be around 96 or 97. Mainly windy in the east bay hills and also toward the coast. A lot of upper 80s to near 90 degrees today. We do have a lot of people on the road this morning. We start with one of the busiest commutes. That would be the westbound bay bridge. Traffic here is going to be slow. Its about a 15 minute delay before you make it onto the span. Want to get onto the san mateo bridge, it looks good heading out to the peninsula. We are looking at interstate 880 in oakland. Traffic in both direct