Here is how you can respond different lines this morning. If you think the u. S. Will be better off. You can also reach out to us on twitter. If you want to make your thoughts known on facebook, and if you want to give us an email. The Associated Press did a survey taking a look at folks and asking about 2015. When it comes to those sayings 48 or so saying the u. S. Will be better. 11 of those responding said next year will be worse and 39 said not much different in 2015 then 2014. That is how we parsed the lines. Be sure to tell us why when you give us a call. Gallup did a poll as well as asking about the new year and their optimism, here is how they responded saying americans are now slightly more positive than negative of the economy cost direction with 49 saying the economy is Getting Better and 45 saying it is getting worse for the week of december 2228. This is a relatively good rating and aside from two weeks in may 2013 when the measure was in the net positive territory, last w
Plus almost all of the bay areas Big League Sports teams are talking about possible moves. We have the latest on the possibility for the raiders and the as, so lots come up in the next quick hour. Lets take a quick check on your weather starting with a live look at the bay bridge. It is cloudy and foggy along the coastline. Temperatures in the upper for thes around much of the bay area. Well see quite a temperature spread as we reach our highs today. Sunshine formost and a chance of showers. Well take a look at your seven day forecast coming up. But first heres mark. Fires forcing people to evacuated their homes in california. More than 300 firefighters are on the front line now battling the flames on the steep and rug ed terrain there. So far the fire is 50 contained. No one has been hurt. It is still unclear at this point how it started. The search is on this morning for two people who went missing after a boating accident. Two of the four people on the boat are confirmed dead. Their
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Its a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. My name is Joaquin Torres the director of economic and Work Force Development and the mayors investing Neighborhood Initiative which is an office coordinates through out our neighborhood commercial services that our private partners bring to bear. It also includes something we realize in the city which is the Central Market economic strategy. One of those objectives is ensuring that Central Market is a center here in our city. All of us here are here today to celebrate a very important milestone of building up creativity in our city. To kick us off to talk about this achievement is our mayor, ed lee. Thank you, joaquin. He works very hard and others that scour these blocks all the time working with all the residents and artist and Small Businesses have been wonderful. As many of you know i have worked very hard on the revitalization of Market Street. We have shown some success, but weve always said
Percent. Today we are announcing one special effort thanks to the can an foundation, wonderful organization, and their collaboration with the Community Loan fund working with our offices and Community Base nonprofits, we have established something that has been in the works for a number of months, but its now established well and its called cast. That is Community Arts stabilization trust. Cast in short for theatre cast. Everybody gets that except for those like me who are new to this. I want to be part of that cast because they are taking a concept that i think you will see repeated in other sectors. That is, when you are a subject and victim to Property Ownership, you have to change that around. So for the arts, kenneth rain an and the Community Loan fund, we decided to let us try to turn that paradigm around and become Property Owners ourselves for the benefit of the Community Arts program. Thats the concept here under cast. Rather than just announce it, we are actually announcing t
Across the street, we had the highest vacancy commercial rate in the city. What we are seeing now at midmarket is that Everyone Wants to be here now. Of course what that means that Everyone Wants to be here, what does that mean for the Arts Community that has always been here. This is going to keep artist and the Artist Organization here. It was great to work with the California Community loan funds and the office of Economic Development to make this a reality. Over the past couple of year with hard work and procuring money and Property Owners we were able to procure these sites to ensure the arts remain here permanently. This is a huge effort. Its not just the elected officials that get to stay here. Its the main Market Community that holds this together. Whether its the collaborative that continues to advocates for Public Safety and all of you that make this a viable and dynamic and Exciting Community and diverse. Thats the challenge here. We are trying to revitalize this area and st