To crack down on crime. We in the tenderloin want children to be able to walk, bike, play, thrive and grow in a safe environment. Concerned Community Members called out city leaders at a town hall safety meeting in San Franciscos tenderloin thursday. The Saint Anthony Foundation Hosted the event and invited the police chief, the sheriff and district attorney, to take questions from the public and explain efforts to crack down on a variety of issues plaguing the area, including the fentanyl crisis and organized crime. You have got to get a handle on this problem, not only a drug abuse, but homelessness. You go to wall greens, everythings locked up. While the situation has deteriorated. Nils banki, ceo of the Saint Anthony foundation, said conditions in the tenderloin are the worst. They have ever been. He said they have seen a rise in violence, open drug use and just last month there was a daytime shooting half a block away. We had some people on our staff assaulted volunteers dont want
All right. Thank you, jim. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] one of the great challenges we face as governors istrying to is trying to anticipate the actions and consequences that our actions will have down the road on future generations. This next panel will give us some insights on what the future might look like. Theyre going to start by looking backward over the past 25 years to let us to get a capsulesized look at how the countrys changed. And most of you, if you have if you havent gone back and told me in 1992 what we have now, i wouldnt have believed it. The explosion of internet, unbelievable changes in telecommunications, social changes, how we do everything. Its just a different world than what we had 25 years ago. If you believe any of these compounding acceleration laws, the next 25 years, the rate of change will be even more rapid. Hopefully, that rate of change will be for the better. Our panel will offer a glimpse of what that future holds, promise
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] just under an hour were down to our last panel. Im going to recognize the moderator of the panel, to make remarks and tory roductions, the honor john from colorado. Thank you, jim. This next panel will give us some insights on what the future might look like. They are going to start by looking backwards over the past to let us kind of get a capsule size look on how the country has changed. If you told me back in 1992, hat we have now, a i wouldnt have believed it. The explosion of the internet. Unbelievable changes in telecommunications. Demographic changes, social changes, just how we do everything. Different world than we had 25 years ago. Any of if you believe these, whether its morse law or any of these compounding 25 leration laws, the next years the rate of change will be even more rapid. Opefully that rate of change will be for the better. Our panel is going to offer a glimpse of what that future holds. Promise of whats po
We start with the breaking news from the battle against the wildfire in washington state. Three firefighters there killed in the line of duty. Officials say the firefighters were involved in whats described as initial attack operations against the fire. During that time their vehicle crashed, and its believed they were overtaken by the flames. With more details, heres abcs kenneth moton. Reporter washington is in a state of emergency requesting immediate federal help hours after three firefighters were killed and another four injured while battling a raging wildfire in the Eastern Community of twist. The sheriff describing it as a hell storm. The bottom line this was hell in here. Its just obvious. It was blowing in every direction and we lost three. Reporter more than 230,000 acres burned. Several homes have been evacuated in Okanogan County and Emergency Management posting it has been a rough day. We have lost three firefighters, homes and security. The National Guard is on the groun
In the line of duty. Officials say the firefighters were involved in whats described as initial attack operations against the fire. During that time their vehicle crashed and its believed they were overtaken by the flames. With more details heres abcs kenneth moton. Reporter washington is in a state of emergency requesting immediate federal help hours after three firefighters were killed and another four injured while battling a raging wildfire in the Eastern Community of twist. The sheriff describing it as a hell storm. The bottom line this was hell in here and its just obvious. It was blowing in every direction and we lost men. Reporter more than 230,000 acres burned. Several homes have been evacuated in Okanogan County posting it has been a rough day. We have lost three firefighters, homes and security. The National Guard is on the ground trying to protect thousands of homes. Past ten hours were up here, its hot, you know, i got new boots yesterday. Were breaking them in, getting bl