Get that processed. Thank you for the intervention too. If you have any questions, i would be happy to answer. Supervisor scott weiner thank you very much. Finally we are going to hear briefly from Adult Protective Services. Thank you for coming today. Good afternoon, my name is jill nielsen im the Program Director for Adult Protective Services. Its located within the department of aging and we are part of the Human Services agency. I appreciate you squeezing me in. Its a very interesting topic and i know weve talked about a range of different issues. From the Adult Protective Services side what we are seeing is a real increase in a number of cases that are involving what we are consider to be self neglect. Adult protective services in addition to investigating an intervening of cases involving physical abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse, we do intervene in self neglect situations and in fact about 50 percent of our cases involve self neglect. We receive about 500 reports every si
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Our lead story of the day, Caroline Hyde sat down with the blackberry ceo. They talked about the value of blackberrys bbm messaging service in light of the whatsapp acquisition. I was really surprised when i started doing more research on whatsapp. A lot of studies said that bbm is dominant. It would be typically places outside the u. S. It is a strong service. It is clearly an asset of blackberry. Messaging is a basic sort of need. There is a competing messaging Service Called message me. They said they saw a spike in users means that people. Survey one it when they wanted i think will happen whatever you want to call it, two other applications, it is interesting. It does not mean the dollars will transfer. That doesnt mean 35 billion was spent over the top. It doesnt mean it went away from the carrier. We will talk about the way people are using messaging in the enterprise as well as individuals. Blackberry also unveiled two new phones. One has the keyboard. The other is a touchscree
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. This weeks elections thrust the south bay city of sunnyvale into the national spotlight. Voters approved a new gun law and the National Rifle association is threatening to sue. The new law would require gun owners to lock up their weapons and report firearm thefts. Gun dealers would have to keep records of all ammunition sales. And perhaps the most controversial, a ban on largesize magazines. The new law takes effect january 1st. Scott shafer sat down with sunnyvales mayor to find out what inspired him to push for the law. Mayor, welcome. Thank you. Thank you for having me. You really pushed for measure c. To put it on the ballot and get it passed. What made you so passionate . Many things. But the one that drove the point home was the unfortunate incident at newtown where Young Children that actually this past year should have been going to school are not going to school. That made me angry. We hear about all these tragic shootings across the
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. This weeks elections thrust the south bay city of sunnyvale into the national spotlight. Voters approved a new gun law and the National Rifle association is threatening to sue. The new law would require gun owners to lock up their weapons and report firearm thefts. Gun dealers would have to keep records of all ammunition sales. And perhaps the most controversial, a ban on largesize magazines. The new law takes effect january 1st. Scott shafer sat down with sunnyvales mayor to find out what inspired him to push for the law. Mayor, welcome. Thank you. Thank you for having me. You really pushed for measure c. To put it on the ballot and get it passed. What made you so passionate . Many things. But the one that drove the point home was the unfortunate incident at newtown where Young Children that actually this past year should have been going to school are not going to school. That made me angry. We hear about all these tragic shootings across the