congresswoman retires. she'll tell us about her experience and we'll ask her what she foresees from a divided congress elected to speak for us. >> and third eye has designated this the year of the celluloid woman. the upcoming san francisco international film festival. i'm susan -- susan and that's

on bay area focus next.

welcome to pay area. congresswoman retires. from a seat on the council, she became the first former welfare mother to serve in congress.

reelected eight times. while she was a strong opponent offtrack war, she said our biggest mistake was voting the 2001 resolution authorizing the initial use of force following the september 11th terrorist attack. welcome back to the show and thank you for having me. >> i'm curious with the recent drama with the debt ceiling and the shut-down of the government, were you itching to be back here or glad you were out of the fray? >> well, i never minded the fight, you all know that. uh-uh was -- i was in there for the battle. the reason i retired was at 75 years old and after 20 years in congress, i needed to get off that airplane. >> was it family stuff and personal stuff? >> no, my body did not want to get an on -- on an airplane and fly to

and from washington d.c. >> how tiring is the work load? >> it's exhausting. being a member of congress is 24/7. anybody that thinks it isn't won't be able to do the job. >> because a lot of people are under the impression right now especially after everything going on is they have light work weeks and get paid well and they have is a great healthcare plan and get all these perks and they only work for a few days. >> and then we go home. and home is working -- and if you work a full week in d.c., then you work the full weekend at home, then you get back on the airplane. it's worth every minute of it. i love every minute of it. i'm not complaining, but the public really doesn't understand. >> until you get there. >> were yow sur is prized when you got there? >> oh, absolutely. >> what was the most overwhelming thing? >> the schedule and that you

could have two committee meetings with votes on the house floor and a caucus meeting all at the same minute. >> when you got in, you took barbara boxer's seat because she left to run for the senate. >> she ran for the senate and run. you went into basically what was her office? >> no. >> you get your own office. you have to set up your own staff. >> yes. and you start from scratch. >> i had a lot to learn. a lot to learn but one thingy learned -- i was always true to myself and the other thing i knew is that i was a great human resources professional for 20 years. i knew how to hire people that knew d.c. and knew how to get through the system is, how to ride along. how to get me on the right

committee and how to present myself. didn't know any of that. >> you were the first welfare mom to serve with congress. i think there's a second one now? >> i believe so. >> here is my question. why did you need welfare? you were a professional h gone to college. you had three kids to raise? >> my children were one, three, and five years old. >> what landed your on welfare? >> well, their dad was mentally skill would not get help. he was bipolar. he didn't get help for 19 years and i had a choice. hang and try to hold him you together or take care of my family. i chose to take care of my family. >> did that put the fire in the belly for you to run? >> no. i have always been a loder. i was vice president of my girl's club in seattle washington when i was in the eighth grade. jr. high school. if i am part of something, i want -- if i am interested in something, i

want to be a part of it. if i'm part of it, i'm a great team player and if the team needs a leader, usually i get elected. >> okay, you were on a progression caucus -- case cuss that was probably really left, i'm assumeing. >> oh, but not left enough. all right. >> and i assume that the welfare experience certainly was always -- you remembered that when you voted for things. >> i never forgot it. >> it involved the family. >> my number one issues were children and families and workers. >> let's get to healthcare. it seems to me like you were talking about that for a long time before the recent year or two or three that everybody has been screaming about. in fact, you had something on the huffington post, i think it was a year ago, join, you wrote, and you said there should be medicare plan e, medicare for everyone. >> everyone. >> what did you mean by that, and is that

viable, you think? you can expand medicare enough. >> you alts predicted in that same piece a year ago because i you checked the date, and i thought wow, because you said the republicans are going to try to overturn. it was right after athe supreme court upheld the affordable care act. the affordable care act as it stands now or obama care that people are calling it. >> he's proud of that. >> he's proud of that and that seems to be his legacy and it was the issue, the deciding issue with the shut- down and all of that. do you think that has gone far enough? do you find a lot of problems in that as it stands right now or does it really need tweaking, do you think? >> it needs a lot of tweaking and that is what we should have been doing this last year before it was out for the

public. but it's impossible how many 43 times. had the vote after to get rid of it entirely after great pieces of it. i really wanted a single payer but that was a nonstarter. >> and the single payer would differ from affordable care by how? >> every penny would be covered in the medicare, that's it. >> expanded. >> and then the private insurers would be not in the picture. those who make profits on your buys a premium would not make a profit. >> i'm sure there would have been a lot of objectives to that. that is why it wasn't on the table. >> we're going to take a break. when we come back, what congresswoman thinks about the glitches that are happening. i mean here we are sort of. silicon valley is literally

down the road a piece. why haven't we started -- why did we start out with the very best we could do when we return.

we are back and we are with congresswoman -- she represented -- all of -- and most of sonoma county.

it was the larger demographic and she retired in december. what are you going to do now? are you bored? >> no. i'm not the least bit bored. i love being retired. i am the national president of americans for democratic action which is a very last progressive group started by roosevelt. i follow in the footsteps of hubert humphrey and paul wellstone. and the second woman president. >> did you do that from your home or do you have to go to washington? >> i have gone four times to washington. that's not every week. >> when you were leaving. you read an interesting book called this town and but talked about how, you know, when you're in, and you get approached by lobbyists and lobbyists you just talked about lines at a party like come see me.

you should be working for us. did you get any of that? did they come to you? i would think it would be very tempting? >> no. that kind of lobbyist isn't going to come. >> so you didn't get any offers like that? >> well, i am on an advisory group for care. the international development group, and i'll travel with them after the first year. see, for a year, it's called the cooling off period. being president of ada. that's totally a nonprofit. that's not lobbying for anything. >> okay. >> there is gridlock right now. lest just talk about the glitches that are still in the news. the president has said he's frustrated too. they went to this group, cgi who had a history of problems.

they had problems in the past. let's put it that way. based in montreal. here we are in silicon valley nearby. >> last we heard, mark zukerburg and all these people are americans. they're here. wouldn't it have made sense to have this done here in why -- here? why not have the best and the brightest creating gizmos and gadgets that everybody is waiting in line for all the

time. >> i agree with you tea tally. why it didn't happen, i would guess it was the lowest bidder or something. it's not just silicon valley. washington d.c. by virginia. north carolina. that's a very high deck area. i mean this is a high-tech country. no, i don't. i have a feeling it had to do with somebody knew somebody or it was just so much less expensive.

they took the lowest bidder. wrong. you get what you pay for. >> here is the question. what could it take for them to work together? but seems as if there's not enough reaching across the aisle, i'll give if you give. it seems like everybody just locks up and the other guy and the other side seems to have horns and a tail. i just don't get it. >> there is a real good answer for this. republicans become further and further and further to the right, they don't have a moderate group anymore. and the democrats have the whole firm or we're not going to have any programs for people in need as the country, so our president came in, president obama, fully intending to negotiate and compromise and work with them. he did that for four years. every time they reached out, they would say oh, that's nice, but we want this. they would not negotiate them. they don't like you him.

they want him to fail, and anybody that thinks it's not that way is really very naive. >> i wonder if it's also not by party or position. but also by gender. and susan collins and who was the other one? she was from maine? and she and another colleague who were two colleagues were republican women, got the ball moving and they said it was three things they had to do. they had to reopen the government, fix obama care and raise the debt ceiling. that is when it seems like things started to move. i wonder if there were more women if they would negotiate. >> differently. the senate negotiates

differently. you have to have republicans come to the table and when those three women came to the table, they're wonderful. the women senators arer is tiff -- terrific but the house doesn't have that. the republican women don't support any other issues. >> the women in the house. >> in the house. >> in the senate, you feel are -- well, they're different. the senate is a body of 1100 people. they have six year terms of the the house is 435 people that have two- year terms. we're always running and have this pressure now from the far right. >> i have to ask you one more question before you leave. full disclosure, you were my representative. i voted for you. i know there was one vote of convention. i believe it was about gaming. it is about to open.

you were against that. why were you against this? >> no. i wasn't against it. >> okay, clear it up. >> i was the one that got the status reenstated. but in the language of my legislation, it said no gaming. and they signed off on it. it passed the house unanimously, and the senate took out the no gaming language. >> okay. >> and so my reluctance to support it and why i don't believe in it is that the commune hi has -- community has no say and that is what i wanted. i wanted the community to say whether they wanted gaming or not. >> thank you so much for coming in. thank you for your service. >> you're welcome. >> hope you'll come back. >> i would love to. >> thank you for having me.

>> stay with us. more ahead had. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. this year the annual san francisco international south asian film festival will celebrate 100 years of indian cinema. with a shared spotlight on women filmmakers, the event opens year 11 on november 6th. take a look.

here with details we welcome back festival codirector and founder. welcome. good to have you back. >> good to be here. >> okay. you have two themes going this year. 100 years of indian cinema. you're going to show a film in 1913? >> we are going to show a film that deals with the film from early years. and we're actually doing a twist on the

100 years because 100 years ago, it was mail filmmakers and old actors at the time so we're actually focusing more light on representation of women. >> women. i like. that the year of the celluloid woman. >> if people entering -- did they have an edge if they were eyeworm? a woman filmmaker get an edge? >> absolutely. at the same time, we were looking for best work too but we do have every year? >> has the technology? the technology has made it so that i'm sure there are more people that are able to do these films that years ago would have taken a lot more equipment and a little more eds. et cetera. to tell the story becomes more possible. do you also in the screening process which i am sure is laborious in some ways, do you see a lot of stuff that is kind of mediocre and doesn't make it? >> yes, unfortunately, but i think that

the facilities that are enabling filmmakers to be more proactive about their films and more accessible to us. i think that's actually a big advantage, and also now there's a lot of streaming of films and what we are finding. we put a compilation of shorts together and in the past we give samples. now they're just streaming straight to it. it's great. >> your films are from? >> india. south asia as the whole. pakistan, sri lanka. also england and some other countries too. >> okay, well, the first one we have actually is from pakistan. a one liner about what it's about? >> instead of the the modern pakistan, it's coming from a traditional family and becoming a model. >> all right, let's take a

look. >> i ate quite a bit too much. this is good morning. >> >> come in. can you try these on? she was auditioning for you the wheel time.

after tonight, your life will change. >> okay, we're going to take a look at another one right away so we don't lose time, and it's called romance. what's that one about? >> it's a bollywood film and looking at new ways of relationship in india. >> when you say bollywood, you mean -- >> a bit more cheesy? >> and lots of songs. >> all right, romance. let's take a listen.

>> okay, how have you seen these things change in terms of the stories or the acting. are people more explicit about sex? truth? secrets? what? >> well, in terms of bollywood, yes, it's definitely more explicit sexuality. in the past, it was sort of more dance orientated. now as you saw in the clips as kisses, -- kissing. but i think we are getting more

r-rated versions. we only show one film and it's on saturday, november 9th. >> and we should say. i'm glad you mentioned that. that's an event where if you are a fan of the big bang theory, you're going to want to go to that november 9th because we know him as -- yeah, he's coming to the festival. he's producing a film on crickets in india so he'll be coming to speak about that and it's in the afternoon at the castro theater. >> what do you look for when you look for somebody who is a star to show up? do you look for indian stars in american products on tv so that more people will come? >> yeah, all of the above. sometime it's that. sometimes it is starring from indian -- stars from india to come over here. it's a variety. this time we also had a film on alex walker by a director from england, an indian director from england. and so that is a different kind of star and a different kind of focus because i believe

i was -- lives in the area too so we're thrilled about that. and that is on sunday night. >> i was actually able to see that. i'm glad you're showing it again because i'm sure a lot of people didn't see it. she is excellent. you had a -- have a lot of q and a. >> absolutely. we'll have the q and a around the issue of women filmmakers. >> we've got to go. thank you so much for coming in again. good luck on this year's festival. it looks like a good one. the information is on your screen november 6th. and then on the #th at the castro and the 16th down in san jose. for tickets and information you can go to thirdeye.org. thank you for watching.

"it's kind of hard to fatho they're human beings here." a bay area nursing home suddenly shuts down-- accusf leaving more than a dozen residents this is kpix 5 news on kpcw. >> it's kind of hard to fathom. they're human beings here. >> a bay area nursing home suddenly shuts down accused of leaving more than a disease residents to fend for himselfs -- themselves. >> in the weather department, we're right beside you. we have fog and low clouds along the shoreline and we have a chance of some showers moving into the bay area tomorrow. the details are coming up today. store and a horrible overnight in brooklyn. five people stabbed to death. four of them are children. >> it's 8:30. thanks for