4to1 raich yo. And creates this uncertainty that is going to lead to, you know, each of these projects being debated again at the planning commission, which doesnt seem very helpful to us. I would urge you to just eliminate the exemption for Affordable Housing and clear up this process for all of us and save us all a lot of time. Thank you for your leadership on this, supervisor breed. I really appreciate your comments. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Supervisors andy thornly, speaking for myself. Thank you, president breed, for bringing this. Thank you, supervisor peskin and kim for cosponsoring. I wanted to voice my support for the interim controls. I do want to echo what tom and jeremy and others have said. I really do think it is important to not bring the loophole for onsite inclusionary forward. Onsite inclusionary, very important. I would not argue against that. More b. M. R. , absolutely. To the extend that the city has existing policy and is found a junction b
San francisco that our city is polarizing. Many would argue that weve done a significant job of building enough marketrate housing, but statistics would say theres still a lot of demand out there for that housing. Same with regard to lowIncome Housing. We still have a lot more work to do, but relative to many parts of california and probably most cities in california, weve done exceedingly well, but we still have a significant amount of work to do. In the area of households between 55 and 150 to 175 a. M. I. , or socalled work force, middle class housing, weve done extremely, extremely poor. And one reasons why is that we, our market in San Francisco, has always taken care of that Housing Stock in the housing sector on its own, the richmond, sunset, always been areas and many more of San Francisco that took care of working and middle class families, but and this in many ways, this hearing is a continuation of the c conovversations that we had to talk about the housing and the focus is
Off on tax reform until newly elected alabama senator doug jones is seated. Once that happens, the gop majority in the senate be tighter with a 5149 split. It would be wrong for Senate Republicans to jam through this tax bill without giving the newly elected senator from alabama the opportunity to cast his vote. Reporter republicans are scheduling votes for next week trying to meet the president s deadline by christmas. So even without doug jones in washington, dc, how much confidence is there that this bill will pass because there is still a couple of republicans senators who had some issues. Reporter youre right. A senator on the republican side came up with a question, they have met it negotiated, given them something. The wild card might be marco rubio. He wanted that 21 rate. He thought it should bump up to 20 or 21 for Corporate Taxes. But whats he getting in return . He wanted to help people on the lower income scale with that money. Instead its going to folks who make a Million
Courthouse and you learned there was a previous incident this morning. It made for a very unnerving morning. I was inside for the ghost ship preliminary hearing when we heard the promotion the commotion that the bomb squad was called to the building for the second time today. The streets were blocked off by Oakland Police after a man left a backpack outside the building at about 10 30 this morning. That man then went inside the courthouse and was confronted by sheriffs deputies who asked why he left the backpack there. Authorities say he got into a struggle with deputies and attacked them. He was detained and will be placed on a psychiatric hold. As for his backpack the Sheriffs Office did not want to take any chances. Skybox was overhead at the bomb squad suited up to examine the backpack. It turned out to be explosive and the all clear was given at about 12 back 30. The man does not appeared 12 30. The man does not appear to be connected to two firebombing incidents at the courthouse
Yesterday markets didnt hold on to the morning gains. The markets down for the fifth day in a row. You can see things picking up this morning with the dow futures up by 85 points. S p futures up by 11 and nasdaq up by 37. Flat yesterday . Down by about five points for the dow. Yeah. Lets tell you about some stocks to watch. Barely down but ended down for five days in a row. You know the dow is one thing. Comcast was up. I just happened to see it. Not that it matters. A couple of stocks to watch. Intel with better than expected Quarterly Results. Growth in its Data Center Business that helped offset demand for pcs that used the companys chips. Well talk to an analyst about all of that. Also netflix shares are up sharply. Company adding more subscribers than forecast in the latest quarter helped by overseas expansion and that stock rocketed yesterday afternoon and ebay nearing a deal to sell their Enterprise Business for about 900 million. Theyre lead by mara and sterling is in there and