While the once-beautiful San Francisco normally looks like an open air sewer and drug encampment, for the upcoming Asia-Pacific summit meeting featuring China’s Xi Jinping city officials have rolled out the street cleaners to save the embarrassment. Once the foreign leaders are gone…it’ll be back to poo and hypodermics! Also today: Venezuelan refugees opt to return to Venezuela after spending time in Chicago. Finally, simmering tensions in Syria and Iraq – is a blow up on the way?