Government are accused of dont do a good enough to clean up oil spills putting thousands of lives at risk. We begin the program with a contentious law china is reposing which would allow beijing to further oversee security in Hong Kong Chinas top Decision Making body is considering a draft of the bill bringing it one step closer to becoming a reality despite widespread criticism katrina year begins our coverage from beijing. Well we do know that its more surveyed essentially by beijings frustrations and embarrassments following these prodemocracy antigovernment protests that have been taking place in hong kong since last june beijing firmly believes that these are a source of instability and a threats to the regions prosperity they also believe that theyre being fueled by forces intent on splitting hong kong from the mainland now critics would say simply its beijings way of taking matters into its or in hands because Anti Government voices in hong kong are simply getting too loud now e
Ceasefire proposed by qatar and egypt. As it is really forces prepare to move into rafa for a limited scope information on the heels of the long promised Ground Defense in gaza. We begin this monday afternoon, im john roberts. Good morning to you. Sandra good morning to you. Im Gillian Turner and for sandra smith today. This is america report. They are Ordering Hundreds of thousands of palestinians in rafah to evacuate now. A senior officials calling them move a dangerous escalation that will have consequences paired john jeff paul is live on the ground for us in tel aviv with the latest for all this. Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire does not mean its a done deal. No. It certainly does not and hamas released a statement saying its political leader had a phone call with the qataris and the egyptians who have been involved in this intense mediation process saying they agreed to the deal that is on the table. Thats been discussed over the past week or so. The new question remains what wl isr
Opportunity. Or, so says chart master carter worth. And lets get right to him carter, what are you looking at tonight . I thought we would look at exxon. This is the worst performing dow component on the week. Massive peak to trough decline lets put it in perspective. Heres the dow you have this topping out lets add next chart, add the energy heres your dow in blue. Heres one of the parts of the Market Energy now more and if we add exxon, what we have here is the really the real wipeout in terms of supercap stocks, one of the worst performers of the last two weeks if you look at the next slide, what we have to put this in perspective. This is a weekly bar these two weekly bars. Look at the next chart and what youll see here on the next chart is that this decline 17. 3 . From peak to trough. In two weeks no other stock of this size has done anything like that. What appeals to me is, i think we have gotten down a Reference Point. Lets put this in context. Down 17. 3 in two weeks. The nex
Transportation and parks make it a very tempting target for many of the speculators out there that are looking to quote u. N. Quote flip buildings and evict people. The high concentration of seniors in our district, i know theres a number of seniors who will be testifying in the Inner Richmond about 18 percent of the population are seniors in the Outer Richmond its about 18. 5 percent, way above the citys averages, so i know there are a high number of seniors that are renters in our district. Currently theres a building at 15 ogt and anza thats a renters building. I want to thank mat for a story he broke, a story of ellis act evictions from an investor who admits to real estate conspiracy. In this 4unit building Michael Winter and others include a single parent with child and two seniors under threat of an ellis act eviction. If the tenants are forced out like the we family in upton and many families like them, they will have no viable options, or very limited ones as mr. Russos report
Of individuals are in fact struggling to stay in San Francisco, as supervisor mar noted in the numbers that the rent burden in terms of the percentage of people or households who are spending more money on housing, that number is pretty high, its close to half of the city thats facing that challenge. And in some neighborhoods like bayview, viz valley, you are talking close to 60 percent spending more on their housing. Thats why i believe we must act urgently to address this crisis which i believe is a crisis and the fact we havent reached the levels that we saw in 2000 doesnt mean that we are not facing a crisis and in fact i dont think that we have to wait for things to get so bad for us to act. Not only is this effecting the 116 individuals and other individuals that are directly being displaced, but what were seeing is creating havoc in individual lives throughout the city, its creating havoc in individual communities, it is truly changing the character of these neighborhoods and i