Welcome to countdown. Im guy johnson. Anna is down in brighton. We will be with her shortly. Let me tell you whats happening on the markets. U. S. Futures are a little softer at the moment. Over the last half hour, they have started to firm a little bit. When i was in this morning, the s p was called down by 0. 5 . As london traders start to make their voices heard, maybe we will see that continue. At the moment, u. S. Futures are looking a little softer. In around an hour, we will find out what the european picture is. In terms of the news at the moment, market still feels very jittery. This is quarter to date. This is the japanese yen continuing to massively outperform its peers. The market is looking for a safe haven. The japanese yen is where it is looking. Big moves into the yen continuing. That is a quarter to date figure. An interview in a french paper, Christine Lagarde talking about maybe cutting global growth. Again, this going back to the heart of the issue, this concern abo
Slamming them. Boeing solid cash flow. They boost the Quarterly Dividend by 20 and approves a 14 billion stock buy back. Lets get you breaking news on Economic Sentiment there. Were getting an economic expectation at 16. 1 for december. Thats compared to 10. 4 in november and higher than expectatio expectations. 55 on the month and also above expectations for a 54 reading. Confidence is growing that the German Economy will prove itself robust as well. Were seeing a strong rally across the european markets bouncing back after yesterdays weak day. The ftse 100 up by 1. 64 . Up by more than 3. 32 . We saw the sharp falls falling to 2. 5 month lows in part because the volatility in the oil space also up. Company specific news is driving us higher today. Also whats happening on the currency front, euro dollar is at a seven week high. 11028 up by a third of 1 this morning. It really has to do with the dollar side of the equation because obviously were expecting the first rate hike by the fed
The problem, old mattresses that people simply leave on street corners. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran on the cleanup plan. The problem now is that you dont have anyplace to put them. What could you do with a mattress . Reporter you see them under freeways, sidewalks and front yards. Everywhere they are not supposed to be. Its a health problem. They attract rodents. They attracted mold, germs. Reporter this is state senator Lonny Hancock talking about the mattress problem nearly 30 years ago. In 2013, she coauthored a new mattress recycling and recovery law giving birth to the byebye Mattress Program offering californians a place to drop off old mattresses free of charge. If you go ahead and have a place to dispose of em and its free, why not . Reporter before the program would cause 20 to 35 to dump them. But cities and organizations like goodwill would pay because of Illegal Dumping. They just come in and dump em at times when were closed or when were on break. Reporter this goodwill
Richard. One Year Anniversary on the Planning Commission. I figure we can celebrate a light moment in this craseyness today but i want to talk about why 75 howard is a important project because this is a question about our values. As people who live in city and people in the bay area as whole. There are people thattled you 0. 16 production in shadow was more important that people that can live in the city. People told you that [inaudible] parking garage was more important that people that can live in the city. There are people that told you we are a violation and the 20 people that came out for housing are irviolation of neighborhoods. That is a question about values. Do you want to be a welcoming and open sit aetd that brings now people in or do you want to shut off the gate and force people to be displaced because there isnt enough housing to support them . I dont want to be aigated community, i want to be San Francisco. You mentioned somebody said that we are techies and so on, toda
Thank you madam chair. The first order of business is item no. 1 roll call. Commission members, please respond when i call your name. Commissioner man da har is absented. Commissioner singh. Yes. Commission busto. Yes. Malled m chair gonzales. Commission manned har is absent. All others present. Commissioner 2 a the next regularly scheduled meeting of september 16, 2015. Will be held at 1 p. M. City hall room 416. B announcements of prohibition of sound producing Electronic Devices during the meeting. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and pagers and similarly sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised the chair may order the removal from the room for persons responsible for sound producing Electronic Devices. C announcement of time allotment for Public Comment. Please be advised a member of the public has three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period