. >> that's why you need an engineer to tell you you have a problem. >> also an engineer or architec will prioritize where your mone is best inveted for return. let's look at her water heater here. she was out of town when i took these pictures. >> sure. >> she has one elevated so the flame is 18 inches off the floo which is required under code when you're doing renovations o your building. most of these water heaters are strapped. they have different kind of straps but the one on the right has what they call plumer's tape, the one on the left is using a real water heater connections some heavy duty straps and lag bolts , easy to put in. $15.99. it will save you a lot of time and aggravation and may prevent your water heater from falling over and starting a fire. >> when there is an earthquake, you know where your best water source is even if there's no water pressure. you've got a 50 gal water heater, you're going to be drinking the water out of your water heater. you want that standing up. that's 50 gals of water in addition to any other water you supply. the other issue is if thes

they share an exit. here we have the control panel and the light is in the green and the system is normal. so that's one of the things we look at first, that the fire alarm system is working as it should be. >> the fire alarm system is connected to what, smoke detectors up in the ceiling? . >> initiating devices, there's a full station here and we have notification devices, strobe type visual alarm devices. >> this will also let us know if the flow alarm is going off, like if water is flowing through the system we get an alarm as well. >> if a sprinkler head activated we would get an alarm. it is monitored off site and the off site company would notify the fire department to respond. >> i am encouraged that there was a sprinkler head that went off in the restaurant when they were doing some construction work. it's amazing how much water comes out of one head. apparently it made a big mess. flooded through. >> most systems are designed with about 10 to 14 heads would be able to activate. that's the water

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entire neighborhood or an entire street? >> yes, we have them that are filed by neighborhood groups for entire neighborhoods and that is something that the neighborhood groups to and they are given a lower rate for that. individuals can request the is for as many properties they would like. they would have a slightly higher fee than a neighborhood group. there is no limit to the properties. >> the margins could request these on five blocks of fillmore? boston merchants -- of the merchants could request these? >> yes. >> how often is this issue without an address associated? >> this year, we have had maybe two or three. i think that i have a list. if i can put on the overhead, these are the letters of determination that we have issued so far this year and there is only one other that does not have an address. >> these are at various locations. these are at existing locations, right? >> yes, i believe so. >> the one that you have start is really the one with no address. >> this is something we have done for many years. there a

madam clerk: item 20 is an ordinance, and 21 is an ordinance, and item 22 is an ordinance during that -- dedicating a portion of the state trust parcel five. president chiu: these items are passed on the first reading. item 23. madam clerk: this is an agreement with the san francisco museum of modern art and its affiliate for the proposed future conveyance by the city and county of san francisco for real property located on howard street in exchange for the conveyance of real property located at 935 folsom st.. president chiu: supervisor alioto-pier? supervisor alioto-pier: i want to thank the people involved in this project, including the museum of modern art for their generosity and the work that mr. fisher has been done. we are going to have a truly unique and wonderful museum of modern art. this collection will bring so much to the city, and i think we have so much to be grateful for, and i am also very appreciative of the fact that this helps us petco to deal with the fire station upgrade, so i just want to say thank you for all of those involved. president chiu: a quick question

middle is not an expanse you need so again it's need to is an organisation of free mission willing to share together certain value and first and foremost the value free democracy they want to protect them and it was through to be a that across to the side of atlantic. the atlantic charter which was written in one nine hundred forty nine well before the open door poised clearly said we are. not going to lines in which any european member who share these values in the freely choosing to be part of these alliance it can contribute to the value of the land is welcome so there is nothing to do with the expansion to the east to the north to south to the west we are an organisation in which any nation willing to abide to these values can we will and when i say any i see any. european nations. beat small medium and even their life even very large do you think that do you ever see russia as being a member of nato at some point i respond to a question with a question would you no i do put. in because they're planning to as thomas friedman said is flat and when he's fled. and as things change wh

it is okay as an advocate to have an agenda. i think alito and roberts had an agenda. they were working for a conservative esident who was pushing conservative policies. it just is a bit disturbing that you, quite frankly, say you don't have an agenda when you should have had. if i'm going to hire you to be my lawyer, i want you to have my agenda. i want it to be my agenda. >> i was trying to implement the agenda of theunited states president whom i worked for. >> did you have a personal belief that partial birth artion was as being proposed was too restrictive on a woman's right too choose? >> i was at all times trying to ensure that president clinn's views and objectives with respect to this issue we carried forward. and president clinton h strong views with respect to this sniper here's the difference between being a lawyer and a policy person in a political shop. i would -- i just want totry the best i can, it's okay if you did. i expect tat presidents are going to hire talented ntellectually gifted people who think like they do that will push the envelope when it

it poses an enormous vulnerability and is also representing an incredible risk to the vulnerability of the city. it is the number one policy recommendation that we've worked on the past couple of years. the soft story buildings represent the primary policy recommendation from spurs. we urge you to support these amendments and this proposal. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hi, president chiu. need to see you again. i think we should do all that we can to prepare for an earthquake and i'm glad to hear that we're trying to do that and it's your job, among other things, to help protect us from things that might happen that are really bad for us. but you know what? i can't help but call that some day, whenever the last day occurs, there's going to be a great earthquake such as never was. this one, as much as we've prepared for it, we're not going to be able to stop it because god himself is going to send this earthquake on the last -- pardon me? you're right. i was hoping you wouldn't bring that up. i was wrong. what can i say? guilty as charged. but sometime, there will be -- p

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and this is an imperfect process. this is an intent to say to everyone involved whether it be the landlord, the general public, our fellow commissioners or the fellow entertainment venues, that there can be an improvement in standards that can possibly result in an improvement of public safety. and until further evidence is brought before us, this is the best we can do. we are not in a perfect position to act perfectly tonight. my recommendations are going to be based on what my experience shows are going to do the best to ensure public safety going forward. that is the motion to accept the conditions that have been generated by staff, to accept the conditions of the good neighbor policy, to except the condition of notice to the bayview station of events, and that would be my motion. commissioner joseph: there is a motion on the floor. is there a second? >> seconded. commissioner newlin: how does this a motion affect the district station? >> as best i can determine, we don't have a side-by-side comparison, the only th

we have to stand up an afghan national squirt force, an army and police. >> reporter: on camera he has been uncomfortable with the hash grilling of bp executives over the oil spill. it is europe's second largest energy company and cameron will emphasize today that it needs to survive. cameron is also going to be talking about bp here on capitol hill with members of congress. reporting live from washington, d.c., alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >> today the senate is expected to approve another extension of unemployment benefits. yesterday president obama criticized republicans who have voted geeps the measure. today's vote is scheduled after a new senator is sworn in to succeed the late robert byrd of west virginia. he is expected to provide the 60th vote that democrats need to break the republican filibuster. the senate judiciary committee votes today on nominating elena kagan to the supreme court. she is expected to be approved. democrats outnumber republicans on the committee 12-7 and so far no democrats have announced opposition and no run can no republican has announced support

most significant, dudley is an american, born just 65 miles from the gulf coast. >> he's not only an american, he is someone from the district, from the gulf area, which is a big thing. he is someone who is actively involved with cleaning up the mess, which is certainly a big plus for him. >> reporter: b.p. is expected to report huge second quarter earnings on tuesday, $5 billion-- plenty to pay off hayward's severance and pension, totaling nearly $17 million. but those profits are swamped by the amount that b.p. has set aside for gulf claims and cleanup-- $15 billion so far, but not nearly enough, according to most experts. >> mitchell: tony guida, thanks a lot. and the government's top official on the scene of the oil spill says hayward's departure will not affect the obama administration's cleanup effort. retired coast guard admiral thad allen says the government's work plan will continue no matter who is in charge. in the meantime, on this day 97 since the spill began, it was slow going for crews as they got back to work. kelly cobiella is in grand isle, louisiana, with the lates

it is okay as an advocate to have an agenda. i think alito and roberts had an agenda. they were working for a conservative presidentho was pushing conservative policies. it just is a bit disturbing that you, quite frankly, say you don't have an agenda when you should have had. if i'm going to hire you to be lawyer, i want you to have my agenda. i want it to be my agenda. >> i was trying to implement the agenda of the united states president whom i worked for. >> did you have a personal belief that partial birth abortion was as being proposed was too restrictive on a woman's right too choose? >> i was at all times trying to ensure that president clinton's views and objectives with respect to this issue wer carried foard. and president clinton had strong views with respect to this sniper here's the difference between being a lawyer and a policy person in a political shop. i would -- i just want to try the best i can, it's okay if you did. i expect that presidents are going to hire talented intellectually gifted people who think like they do that will push the envelope wh

>> i do not recall an instance. there was no new york or washington of its, so we did not always have the visibility, so the issue of the secretary of state who will not return my call if i say this in an article did not necessarily a rise in the same way it might for "the new york times" or "the washington post." i would say it can be a problem. it seems to me " the the new york times and "the washington post" both missed the skepticism that did exist about the need to go to iraq, and i am proud to say knight-ridder and journalist really dug into the story and went against the grain. people of the term felt if they did that they might be selling themselves, but i have always wondered if they played some role in that. >> when were they the maddest at you? >> different individuals were mad at different times. there was a story that one of praia's that i have some difficulty with, and i would say there is a good deal of anger over criticism from that. there was a story about the information campaign to give generals a

what i want to express this as an extension of my our practice. this is an accumulation of my own experience as a performance artist. >> we see that the scale is very important. we have seen other works where a limb of this culture is on the floor but everything is very big and large scale. what are you trying to accomplish with expanding the scale of these images to such a great size. >> i wanted to make large scale art and see how this plays a role in contemporary society. i think that is the mission of contemporary art, to serve as a social critique. >> when the mayor knew some -- when mayor newsom join you in dedicating this, they wanted to find a work that was big and bold. he was so pleased with your participation that he made you an honoraria citizens of san francisco for the next 18 months. the public reaction has been very positive. what is your reaction of how people receive your sculpture? >> i think that san francisco has a long history. this gigantic sculpture is in front of the civic center. i know that that is not the kind of a go w

about 3 fourth of an inch or an inch or something like that -- 3/4 of an -- 3 fourth of an inch or an -- 3/ of an inch or an inch, or something like that. you do a roof and your neighbor does a roof and you put a piece of flashing between the building and that keeps water out of that space between the buildings. water gets down there between the buildings and it's extremely difficult to repair dry rot inside that space. you have to take the inside wall out to get to it. we also see a couple of other things happening here. we see a down spout from a drain and those need to just be checked to make sure they're secure. they usually have lightweight connecters so you have to make sure they stay connected. here's a gutter at the top. people let their gutters fill up with debris. you need to clean a gutter out. how often? >> if you're near a pine tree, there's a lot of pines in san francisco, the needles can fill up, you -- probably twice, at least twice a year. it depends on where -- how many trees are near your house and what kind of leaves they have. >> so if the gutter fills up or even

hour to $75 an hour. there are certain criteria when staff need to be on the premises for events. what we would like to do is amend our scholarship policy to include those individuals that are eligible for scholarships to also be eligible for facility scholarships, and there are couple of things that are to be determined. we will come back to you and ask you to amend the scholarship. just a heads up. the total amount is still to be determined as well as the amount and the frequency at individual is eligible. when we come back to you in a few weeks to amend the policy, we will have those numbers. i wanted to give you a heads up. president buell: thank you very much. commissioner harrison: you were talking about the cost of the clubhouse. i remember one time my family rented the house down there. there was a custodial person present to make sure that they followed the agreement, you know. is this going to happen in any of the clubhouses? will someone come back to make sure that the folks are closing up and

that's an anvil or a bus. when miss kagan's position to prevail, the concept or principle of equal treatment would yield increasingly to preferential treatment. furthermore, miss kagan's endorsement or embrace of racial engineering would harm the minority whose are the beneficiaries of the preferences. evidence from a 2006 civil rights commission hearing showing there's increasing data that racial preferences createe what's known as a mismatch effect that increase the probabilities that minorities will fail. for example, like law students where the beneficiaries of preferences are 2 1/2 times more likely than their white comparatives not to graduate, four times more likely to fail the bar exam on the first time and four times more likely never to pass the bar exam. miss kagan permits employers, administrators and others to single out certain groups for preferential treatment today. there is nothing that prevents those same employers from shifting their preferences to other groups tomorrow. contrary to the colo

an active experiment they did was is there an element of luck?hey randomly selected half of the people and they gave half of them, i think it was $500 or $1,000, sort of like winning the lottery. they said, "ok. so is that lottery going to be an explanatory variable for which of these people work their way out of poverty?" they found it wasn't that meaningful of a variable. so there is a lot of very interesting unknowns but sometimes i think we try to solve problems before we understand the problem. my parents are very interested in early education and actually funding some r&d into very young kids -- even infants where they put them in these very big, superconducting brain-scanning machines and they can watch their brain -- this is the kind of machine that was used to demonstrate that baby mozart definitely does not work. but you can learn -- you know, get very quantitative and really learn, like, what does work in early education. sometimes we argue about things as a society -- we argue about things even before we know -- have any data. >> char

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an engineer stamp is also not required. nor an architect. it's not a seismic upgrade or retrofit it's a strengthening. a simple permit. you do need a building permit for that work. the description of work on the building permit should state voluntary strengthening work to add bolts at the lower story. in your typical san francisco home like in the sunset where you have a lot of the open basement garage areas, that's the area that i'm talking about. it's usually it's always at the lowest level of the building. you would go to the residential permit counter on the first floor and as i say it's over the counter permit approval and you just state on the application you are installing anchor bolts at the perimeter of the foundation. and you are also going to state that you are installing plywood sheathing at the -- at the bottom level of the building. on that permit will be -- if you come in on a monday morning you will leave on the monday morning with your building permit and start work any time. as long as you fill out the application completel

southbound at 66th they've cleared an anti-- an accident to the shoulder.ivermore has been busy coming up over the ailty month pass. if you get in on dublin, it should be a nice shot for you. over to highway 101 peninsula. 7:36. here's steve. >>> it will be cooler for everybody. you can see there's plenty of low clouds around. it's going to stay cool tomorrow and probably even wednesday and most of the week. there will probably be a little rebound on some inland temperatures. but the next few days things look rather cool. pretty good complex firing up. the up -- as the upper level direction of the air starts to push southwest, that should push a lot of this out of the area. but the big news will be the cooler pattern that's moved in on the coast the last couple of days and we'll continue now to move itself inland over the next few days. 59 for san francisco. average should be about 10 degrees warmer than that. temperatures coming down for many. and they started yesterday and will continue today. walnut creek only 76. san jose, 73. mount tam is at 65. that's

and so an individual of whom may not be an owe livian can be an owe -- olympian can be an olympian of their own community, you know, can actually compete. it's not -- it's that competition, it's not the winning, it's, have you improved yourself, have you bettered your time? and making someone feel good about this, this adaptive sports program whereby it's done at the local level and then builds up is really good. and this is a very good program. we're at our infancy. i want to thank the chairman and -- for supporting this last time. so the concept i think is pretty simple. . this is a picture of disabled veterans running the 100-meter dash. and when you see this, we have a mixture here. this gentleman -- this is below the ankle. here is below the knee amputation, and this is a double amputation. and they are sprinting the 100-meter dash. think about the inspiration that they have. these warrior athletes truly remarkable. i want to show you another photo of a double a.m. pew tee. -- amputee. and this was in can cufere in march of this year. he was a army ranger. he was wounded while se

now when israeli courts convicted an arab man of rape by deception after he lied to an israeli woman he slept with about being jewish well some say it's a justice critics argue it's a thinly veiled excuse for racism. this jewish jerusalem suburb is surrounded by arab neighborhoods and far from cultivating a culture of tolerance vigilante style jewish patrol groups calling themselves fire for judaism stand watch outside the local shopping mall their mission to prevent arab men mixing with local jewish girls the municipality has created a twenty four hour hotline where parents and friends can phone to rat on jewish schools breaking this to boot a specially trained team of counselors and psychologists is on standby to rescue them as a leash more. it's important to save our traditions culture history and identity because without this we from my experience we can see that the chances for a healthy relationship between is really jewish woman and an arab man very very low it's because of the great differences between these two cultures showed up at the most recent case involves an arab man

an ice hockey.ages of boosted their bid to lay their hands in the coveted guarin cup after their veteran forward election yashin signed a one year extension to his contract with the northern side of the thirty six year old is a former world champion and double elim pick medalist for russia joined a scar last season but failed to help him go any further in the last sixteen skaar have boasted best since signing swedish matteis been handled and tony mortensen as well as experienced russian goalkeeper you're getting a call from the new k.h. l season starts on the eighth of september. a formula one exhibition event has been held in moscow starring no less than russia's first f one driver the tally petrol and defending world champion jenson button a fun race around the kremlin and it's hoped the city could one day host the real thing as constantine but top off now reports. for the through to a miscues roots were transformed into real grecian trip and the crew moves trimble if you really want to coors. it

julie watts was at the news conference and is now at an apple store in palo alto. >> reporter: it's a hot topic here a flaw and free fix. while it's what steve jobs said that got everyone's talking, it was a special guest appearance that's got everyone singing. ♪ [ music ] ♪ there's an awful lot of hoopla over the iphone antenna ♪ >> reporter: steve jobs opened his conference with an artist named sand boy on youtube and blamed the media for the hoopla for what's now been dubbed "antenna-gate." >> if you read all these articles, you would have thought, jesus, at least half our customers called in to complain or ask questions or be angry. >> reporter: it turns out only one half of 1% of iphone 4 customers have complained. at least according to apple. that's how some outside the apple store -- that's got some outside the apple store feeling sorry for the tech giant. >> they pick on them. >> reporter: to a certain extent, cnet's brian fong agrees. >> now that they are so big and mainstream they have to answer to a lot more voices that they haven't had to before so now that apple has final

seems to be an exception. i wouldn't be surprised if sometime it had been a commercial unit that was converted into residential along the way. it has been a long time since 1906. it could have been. >> i also can't count three bedrooms on this ground floor. it is still two bedrooms, which is kind of a family-sized -- but it is really not a bonifiyed three bedroom unit. >> commissioners, do you have a motion and a second to approve or not to take discretionary review and approve. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> no. >> aye. >> so moved commissioners. you are on your final item of the regular calendar. 2016 chestnut street request for discretionary review of building permit application proposing to locate to t-mobile omni-directional antennas. >> good afternoon commissioners. the request for discretionary review before you has been continued from the hearing of june 10th at the request of the project sponsor. at that time they had given their testimony. therefore this hearing should begin with a presentation b

it was known as an outstanding work place. bill was also president of the chamber of commerce in 2005, and was the first openly gay man to serve as president of the san francisco chamber. he had a career in the hotel field where some amazing institutions were founded by him. his partner, his spouse survives him. i also want to note that his longtime executive assistant, they currently reflected that bill was the individual that hired him to be the ceo of the chamber. bill had a great sense of humor who, despite some of the difficulties he had battling with parkinson's, i went on many chamber trips with him. he would always have the energy to go out in the night and have fine, commune with his fellow chamber colleagues and elected colleagues. he will be greatly missed. and colleagues, i am introducing a resolution that relates to a gift for the children's playground. we are very excited about this gift that is coming from the friends of delores park. >> that concludes roll call for introductions. supervisor mirkarimi: why don't

this is an action item. >> good morning. we have an 11-member group in the cac. authority staff nor the cac may make recommendations to those appointments. on page 26 of your package, the current list of applicants, there are two current vacancies on the cac. one is the result of term expiration of brian horton from district 1. the second is through the resignation of jul lynn pasrsons. mr. larkin is here to seek reappointment. supervisor campos: thank you. if we could have mr. larkin come forward. good morning. >> good morning committee members -- good morning, committee members. supervisor campos: if you could make a brief statement as to why you would like to be appointed, we will take questions from the committee. >> i have been a san francisco resident since 1979,. i have been on the cac since 2004. i was the vice chair in 2005. this is the first year in a while that i have not been in either one of those positions. i am a transit professional, by my own admission. i continue to have been interested in this, professionally and in the interest of residence. i

a scarf that holds an ice pocket is a popular chilling item too. this retailer says sales for these cooling products jumped three times from the previous months. >> translator: summer goods are selling well, thanks to the heat wave. we have no complaints about the weather. >> reporter: home appliance stores are also doing well in their air-conditioner sales. they are packed with customers even during the day on weekdays. sales staff from other floors are pitching in to help. >> translator: the temperature shot up after the rainy season ended earlier this month. air-conditioner sales are up two to three times from a year ago. >> reporter: of course, business is good at drinking places, too. the popular item at this bar is extra cold beer. it is chilled to below freezing point at minus 2 degrees celsius. after work people line up for up to two hours to wind down with this super chilled beer. the bar says since it opened in june 20,000 customers have quenched their thirst. >> reporter: a new service linked to the temperature has also appeared. a busin

but you roussillon in one nine hundred forty eight was an armed camp. jewish areas protected by checkpoints and rifle bearing guards. the only way through. it was to disguise the bomb vehicles as a british military convoy. and the men driving those trucks were six british army deserters who should tell me about the two british designer so you were. nude who were the ones that work that sent us to the nomad camps for the stinney gun and they were not just to that there was a big in the british soldiers who were working with him that. they were against the british policy to keep this people from their land and their place then with other people they did to makan who is thousand used to plan missions with them and they used to carry it out see that home they nest in. parking the truck bombs close to two hotels being used as barracks by jewish fighters the desert or shot a security guard. and then fled. i don't you know that's a it's a fuse or explosion. they can tell them to get up get out because it's going to be a skill that we wanted to just still case

and it is... . >> lehrer: as an individual. >> as an individual and it is a near disaster for democratss a party. you could imagine if charlie rangel had cole uded with john boehner, the house minority leader and said i want to help you guys out, as a secret republican, what would be the best way to handle this and the best timing, it would be let's have a trial, a full-fledged trial with witnesses and open hearings and testimony in september, rit before the election. so we can hear a lot of clips on republican commercials about from nancy pelosi the speaker about how she is going to drain the swamp. unbelievable. and it's not that that is going to energize... i am a little bit contradicting myself. >> lehrer: it's okay. happens all the time. >> those voters are already unhappy. but it just diminishes a sense that these guys, the democrats are any different from the other guys. the other sleazy guys who got kicked out. that anything can ever change in washington that they are all corrupt it is just the last thing on earth the democrats need. >> i think these scandals actually do have a

>> the difference is the difference between let's say, an englishman and an albanian. the georgians were a small -- are a small nation to the south of the caucasus mountain range. they speak an entirely different language from the russians. and this was one of the reasons why the other communist leaders rather looked down on stalin because russian wasn't his first language, and he was always making slight mistakes, and he had a heavy accent. >> and trotsky was born where? >> trotsky was born in the south of what we would now call ukraine to a very wealthy farming family. he tended to play down on a lot of aspects of his early life. he tended to draw a veil over the enormous commercial success that his extraordinary father had in building up this farm in the south of the country. his father was jewish. that wasn't the most convenient national or religious group to belong to in the russian empire. trotsky father tramped over all of the obstacles in his path. he built up a huge farm. >> and trotsky's original name was? >> trotsky's original name was bronstein. and he chan

that is an important thing. as these pressures build, you can stand for what to have decided. >> questions? >> yes, i know that facebook was not designed -- >> can you identify yourself? >> i am a philosophy student at temple university in philadelphia. i know facebook was not designed as a forum for political activism particularly but some people use it for that. all kinds of things happen. some people seem to be in support of regime change and i have had friends say that is slightly dangerous to their relatives who are in iran. that becomes a concern. yesterday i saw some posts that said the islamic republic is on there and collecting these posts and collecting data to use and find people and interrogate them and who knows what can happen since facebook was not set up for this, what can you do or what are you doing, if anything, about situations like that? do you have any connection to maybe the cia or state department or other people? are they on facebook, too? this was supposed to be a social networking king

on an ant. totally misrepresents the situation. the fact that they wanted our president to apologize for coming down hard on b.p. for the oil spill and the failures of the gulf. -- in the failures in the gulf. so we see this thinking that caused, that same thinking that brought about the failure of our economy, that brought this nation's economy to its knees, they want us to go back to those standards? i think what we have here are improvements. there's a road to recovery. it's painfully slow but it's moving in the right direction. it's a sweep upward. after several months of a sweep downward, the deformation, that constant dip down south, southward, with the economy, now transitioned upward, has told the story, has told the story. and i see it in my district. i see the capital region of new york respondsing to an innovation economy -- responding to an innovation economy, respondsing to innovation -- respondsing to innovation -- responding to innovation. it will be able to store intermittent pow

it's an agricultural country. when we create agricultural jobs, we deny recruiting tool to the taliban. not everyone agrees with us. some of your colleagues think we shouldn't have stopped it. the russians have objected strongly and publicly to what we did. that only encourages me to think we're on the right track. but i want to underscore, congressman, that everything you said underlies our new philosophy. and we believe that this is really paying off. i think that raj and i would feel that this is our most successful program in the civilian side. and with that i would ask raj to pick up. >> thank you. i would just add a few thoughts. first that we know from experience around the world that creating an alternative economic opportunitfor poppy growing farmers has proven to be more effective than singular eradication and destruction efforts. and so that's part of the evidence base that supports ambassador holbrooke's suggestion that we've transitioned our strategic approach. in terms of our strategy in agriculture,

indication of just an arson fire. sometimes vehicles that are stolen are set on fire to cover up evidence. investigators did say neither vehicles involved in these fires had been reported stolen. of course since last year there have been at least two dozen vehicle arsons in the area. >> 6:06. walnut creek is back to normal this morning following a loud demonstration yesterday in support of former bart police officer johannes mehserle. >>> about 300 demonstrators took part in this. about half supporting the former bart police officer accused of killing unarmed passenger oscar grant. the rest were counter demonstrate tores supporting oscar grant's family. for about three hours there was a lot of yelling with both sides intent on making their points. [ inaudible ] >> -- support rally for someone who was charged and found guilty of killing somebody. >> it was just so obvious that it was an accident. i believe he did go to grab his taser. >> more than 100 police officers were on hand of the some of the businesses in walnut

on an item. the commission may ask questions of staff after the items have been disclosed. we are on item number two, which is the president's report. >> i did want to bring up a topic and as my fellow commissioners to give their opinion. the rules committee has held hearings about a proposed charter amendment to realign the way that commissioners are reported, to split that authority between the board of supervisors and the mayor's office. i would like to make an observation that many of the people that we heard speak seemed dissatisfied with the amount of transparency and the amount of precipitate -- participation that the public has. when the mayor announces that the department is faced with 30% budget cuts in the general fund and you have to get a budget ready in a timely fashion, the challenges that you have two choices. we were looking at $12 million worth of cuts. the of the option is to try to find new ways to generate revenue. in the cases where we have been aggressive in trying to elimi

i confess i was an ok student. i was not a great student because i majored in new york. >> what do you mean? >> i love the new york. i took advantage of everything there was there. the invasion of foreign films -- i went to everything musical i could find, from jazz in the village to the metropolitan opera. i have a great time. >> let me reach on something. if you talk to people your age and mine, we are about the same age, in the journalism business, is it reaching to say their hearts are broken about what has happened to institutions like "the new york times?" the institution of journalism, whatever publication, i hear it time and again. >> i hear that about -- a lot. there are two ways to look at what is happening. you can look at it and lament the passing of great institutions, newspapers that are being hollowed out in the face of tremendous economic pressures created by technology. you can have your heart broken and say, there go the good old days. i chose to look at it differently. i think -- i lament some of

an additional personal observation. over the last two years, i have lost a first-rate central command commander and an outstanding commander of isaf in afghanistan due to their own missteps in dealing with the media. i've had to recall a combatant commander to washington for a verbal reprimand for speaking out inappropriately on a sensitive foreign-policy issue. i've had two very different presidents each on several occasions express concern to me about senior defense officials, both civilian and military, speaking out inappropriately on foreign-policy issues. these instances together with my own frustration -- with premature disclosures of personnel, budget and other options under consideration -- led me to conclude several weeks ago that we need greater coordination and discipline. effectively communicating what we do and how we do it remains a top priority for me. in fact, i consider it my duty. it's a responsibility i have, not only to the commander-in- chief and to you in the media, but to the american people. i ta

this is about an hour. >> [inaudible] except that she has been an inspiratton to this conference.was president bush's white house homelanddsecurity adviser. commandants for intelligence. admiral mullen -- it struck me that twice he kept talking about synergies between terrorist groups. how does that affect your thinking on homeland security? >> let's start with remember they christmas day attempt. my successor came out and explained that the connection to al qaeda was somewhat surprising to them. this was a regional group that had targeted inside the homeland. then we had a christmas day and the attempt in times square. the administration explained the ttp had been surprised if it had expanded to directly make an attempt on the homeland. when the admiral talked about3 talking about is the difficulty in getting into the decision cycle for an attack. you find groups that don't share a membership, but a belief in tactics. similar targets in terms of targeting american interests. suddenly you find these like minded groups come together to want to share training, money, people. it beco

the video clip that caused an uproar. followed by the firing and then the backpedaling. >> a disservice was done for which we apologize. >> i started off by extending to her my personal and profound apologies. >> the president expressed to ms. sherrod his apologies for the events of the last several days. gloria: inside the firestorm that put the media, the white house and the issue of race front and center. or was it just a bungled personnel matter? and in the post 9-11 era, has america's intelligence community gotten too big and unmanageable? covering these stories this week, john harwood of cnbc and "the new york times." naftali bendavid of "the wall street journal." michael duffy of "time" magazine. and dana priest of "the washington post." live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week with gwen ifill." produced in shorks with national -- in association with national journal. funding for "washington week" is provided by -- boeing. exxonmobil. the ethics in excellence in journalism foundation. the annenberg

what might constitute an act of mercy when an individual does it becomes an injustice when the government uses the sort of justice to compel such mercy. even if well intended, such action is unjust. second, we must consider the impact of comprehensive immigration reform on our fellow americans. more than the welfare of illegal immigrants is at stake. the foremost obligation, legally and morally, of the u.s. government is the welfare of the american citizens. the american people would end of the forgotten victims of comprehensive immigration reform. it would put the most vulnerable americans at risk, including native-born minorities, high school dropouts and teenagers. we had 21 million unemployed or underemployed native-born americans just one year ago. comprehensive immigration reforms would put them up against many more jobs competitors, forcing down the wages they could otherwise demand. yearly average wages of native born men have fallen 4% from 1980 to 2000. i am citing an unemployment figure for high-school dropouts. for native-born americans, 34%. for native-born blacks to drop out

i do watch with an eagle eye. we were just speaking about a storyline where it's always about picking up that next drink or taking that next drug after getting clean or sober in treatment. i rarely if ever see the success story about recovery where that person goes through treatment and comes out, goes to meetings, has a regular family life, struggles but has choices and makes those choices by the use of what we do in recovery by asking people for help and doing the right things and going to a meeting or picking up the phone, and they don't pick up the drink. you don't have to pick up. you can go to a meeting, you can talk with somebody and see how much better your life gets and the success in recovery rather than always that struggle. and how would you exalt other individuals in recovery, other people in recovery to really get engaged in this dialogue because really what we're talking about here is how do we create a different mindset in society about people in recovery through portraying addiction recovery in a