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It is a map to find crap. jennifer wong created waste land. it is an app that uses city records to map where the homeless are deaf pho indicating in san francisco. the city received 5,000 complaints receiving public enemy number two. clever. from june to november 14th, the complaints piled up in the tenderloin district. the former hippie haven. they hope the app raises concern for the homeless problem. there is not much choice other than the street when a homeless person needs a bathroom. it i...

I think it is a good idea. >> reporter: darrell moore and the entire city council voted in favor of the measure, part of a 20 page ordnance to amend the code. 2% of the dispensaries marijuana should be given to the people who must have a medical marijuana id card or refefrl from a doctor, but even near berkeley where we placed an open mike. some worried the new ordnance will lead to abuse. >> terrible homeless problem. its going to attract more homeless people to the area. i volunteer here at th...

Kind ordinance nationwide. berkeley will require that its medical marijuana dispensaries provide free cannabis to low income residents which would also include the homeless. is it a good idea to give free cannabis to the homeless? >> when you couch it that way, it sounds peculiar, but were talking about free medicine. this is medical cannabis. cannabis thats used to relieve pain for glaucoma and heart problems and things of that nature. >> reporter: darrell moore and the entire city council vote...

>> i guesstimate each one of my cost is probably $30 to $40. that is me buying screws and buying nails and i will buy a little bit of the glue and the casters to go underneath it, and there is also other costs like the gas for driving around and the electricity and what we not for running the tools, but it is low cost. >> this is so -- it seems so fascinating because you would think that this is an idea that lots of municipalities would be looking at or would have heard of by now and say, we cou...

And, again, you have such a large sector of our population, howard, that has no connection with this experience. >> the interesting thing about this there could be common ground within republicans and democrats if they were willing to do this on this stuff. this is actually not a matter of huge amounts of money put into an anti-helmet program. its a matter of doing things like having homeless shelters that arent just beds that people flop in. its a matter of having actually sros, small single re...

Government and work with these social problems as a whole. theyre not separate problems. ive been saying for ten years, we dont have a homeless problem in los angeles. we have a drug problem in los angeles. you constantly hear reports about a homeless problem. the homeless population of drug addicted for the most part. >> bob. >> its all interrelated. >> bob, governor, thank you very much. we appreciate your time here on cnn. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. still to come, we have been t...

>> the history of government i think the people have been in power for years want to have the government take care of them, unfortunately. >> everyone is stoned and drunk. they dont work. >> freedom gets lost between beach and office. what happens is that people goring okay. we want things given to us rather than earning things. >> youre a republican in hawaii? >> yes. >> how does that feel? do you need a friend? do you need a hug? >> democrats control every level of government in hawaii. state ...

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With a bit of a storm here in manhattan. and, of course, a the love the homeless folks that live here in manhattan trying to go to shelters to seek shelter because of the snow and cold and frigid temperatures. we have a homeless problem here in manhattan. cheryls are overrun. mayor michael bloomberg took to the radio yesterday to address this issue and what he said has been causing quite a bit of controversy. listen to his comefnts on the radio yesterday. you can you can arrive in your private j...

Side of the curb, because that is then available to us, and then it is way to be difficult of the crux of the, just two weeks ago, we had the new freshman congresswoman kirsten sene msh senema on the show and she talked about her own homelessness. >> when i was a kid, my dad was a attorney and we were a middle-class family and in the 1980s, my dad lost his job in the great, at this time, a big recession, and we went from middle-class to poor almost overnight, and ended up homeless and lived with...