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Have the report. I want to note for the record that we have been joined by scott weiner. And the second challenge around the Food Resources is the fact that again, cal fresh which is the Food Stamp Program is highly effective but it is under enrolled as a state of cal, we actually ranked last in the country, in terms of participation in this program. The local food stamps has been growing over the past years. And the growth is pretty phenomenal. Now as you all probably heard in the media, there was a cut to the food stamp benefit levels at the end of october. And that was as a result of the st...

And finally you can see that the big white slides there and this is roughly a third of all of the meals, that is needed for the low income population have no identifiable resource. And that does not mean that the people cannot eat those meals, but it does enable to say, that we are a long way from meeting the needs of the low income in our city. And when you total up, to the actual number of meals and what you see, and i am sorry on property jeks is the total missing meals is a total of 74 million meals every single year in San Francisco. So can i just ask you, and thank you so much for cheeri...

San francisco and the food banks and the tender loin, development and the ucsf center for populations at San Francisco general hospital. As we come together, we really work to figure out how to collaborate and how to improve this situation we know that there are programs that we can get data for but we wanted to see the system as a whole and to be able to have the data to analyze that and we wanted to make this Information Available to groups and other department so that we will be able to join in and make sure that all are eating healthy. And i am going to go into the framework that we have u...

Make it easy for americans to get home for the holidays. Cbs 5 reporter cate caugiran is live at sfo, where dozens of flights have already been canceled. Reporter good afternoon. Actually, the count now is at 60. Thats right. 60 flights have been canceled out of sfo. And depending on how this storm pans out, we could see more along the way. Just be a drag to be stuck here like this close to christmas. Reporter flyers are out in full force today. The busiest travel day of the holiday season. We tried to catch a very early bart train from berkeley where we live but its pretty crowded. Reporter 1...

But hoping for july or august that might be aggressive but thats our goal. Commissioner brandon. I have one item id like to request under new business recently theyve been stories out and theres a not able effort to encourage the port to formerly band exports of oil and there was a story in the examinerer that followed on the heels of portland that would have brought in revenue for the port of oakland. The port staff has declined to seek coal opportunity on an inform basis we dont have the infrastructure in practices to handle the exports would it be viable for on the port to have the informal...