from the board of education, emily mores. [applause] and i could go on and on with the -- mr. mayor to be of the people who are here celebrating with you on this very historic occasion. and it was all made possible by this fine collection of people to my right whom i've introduced by name and now let me ask the president of the san francisco board of supervisors, a man who chaired the historic meeting where the vote count was done without the assistance of our folk who normally count votes which is kind of the way i prefer to have votes counted in elections. you get better results. the president of the board of supervisors, david chiu. [applause] president chiu: good afternoon. so mayor brown, i want to tell you the score of the game upstairs. two numbers. 11 to zero. [applause] this is an historic moment for san francisco. and i want to first start by thanking my colleagues at the board of supervisors. we may not -- please clap for them. we may not always agree. but on this great man, edwin lee, we came together and thank you for that. [applause] i also want to thank the many

commissioners will be sandy fewer, emily and racial more ton joining the supervisors. the last committee is the ad hoc committee. they will join the trust ys. report of the closed session actions of juwan 20, 2011. the board by the vote of five ayes approved the appointment of 0 ayes and two absence. the closing of one middle school student. the stip lated ex-pulse agreement of one high school agreement. authorized the inishition eyein eyeings. another information items posted are the quarterly or the accept answer of gifts for the mos of november and december 2010 and informational notes and transactional notification. we'll adjourn in memory of ray williams junior who retired on juwan 22. also in memory of our surgent. he was remembered for leading preside president's war on poverty. his run for as president of the chicago board, he delivered the key note dress he sfres stregs in the he lead to the flejing group and launching of multihoeksnal act in 1963. later the element yiry act of 1965. these programs will help support our urban children. we slut you in taking ho

emily schmidt is in washington with more on the crisis. good morning, emily. >> reporter: rob and peggy, good morning to you. diplomats say they are not ruling out any options on sanctions. this means that libya's dictator could soon face more resistance from abroad, to go along with the uprisings at home. libyan anti-government protesters are moving closer to their capital, closer to moammar gadhafi's last area of control. and they say, they're united. >> there's no division between us. all one team. and we'll fight as one team, until we die or he's out. >> reporter: gadhafi shows no signs of leaving voluntarily. in a call to state tv, he says the protesters were on drugs. and blamed al qaeda for the uprising. >> translator: it is bin laden who is duping your sons. this is a fact. >> reporter: this independent video from an eastern port city earlier this week shows the force of people fighting for gadhafi. >> they shoot people in the head. and in the chest. direct. the goal was to kill the people. not just to fire on them. >> reporter: the

emily schmidt is now joining us from washington with more details. good morning, emily. >> reporter: vinita, good morning to you. you don't have to be an economist to understand the latest economic numbers. in fact, all you need to do is throw on a cotton t-shirt, and run to the grocery store, maybe fill up your car with gas along the way. all of these things are going to cost you more, for reasons you may not expect. new numbers show things are looking up for american consumers. but perhaps not the way they'd like. prices are up for food, gas, clothing, and expected to go even higher. hitting home on already-strapped budgets because of faraway events. >> we've had extremely strange weather patterns, the world over, where many crops have been destroyed. and we've actually seen a hit to the supply of food available. >> reporter: from droughts in china, to floods in australia, paired with higher demand for food around the world, the world bank warned yesterday global food prices are at dangerous levels. u.s. corn prices are up nearly 60%. so, cereal and

more violence today. vinita and rob? >> emily, there e e e e e e e e >>> making news on this thursday morning. >> overnight developments from cairo. a city now descending deeper into chaos. new violence turning deadly, as crowds begin to target journalists. >>> winter's icy grip. the post-winter cleanup. digging out cars in chicago. and checking buildings in the northeast, some crushed by so much snow. >>> and disaster zone. a cyclone slams australia overnight. now, assessing the damage. >>> good morning. we begin this morning with the political tinderbox that is egypt. we have watched the situation there change overnight and into this morning. >> demonstrators opposed to and in support of hosni mubarak remain in standoff on cairo's streets. neither side seems to want to step back from the brink. the u.s. state department is urging americans to head out. we get details on this crisis from our own emily schmidt. good morning, emily. >> reporter: the beginning of a new day brought no end to the tension in egypt's liberation square.

meets with president obama today at the white house for more talks. emily schmidt is joining us, now, from washington, with the latest details. >> reporter: good morning to you. secretary of state hillary clinton spoke this weekend of a post-gadhafi libya. but if the world is expecting him to step down, he is sure showing no signs of hastening the process. anti-government protesters have taken control as close as they can get to libya's capital. just one city away. this man says, the people do not want moammar gadhafi. neither does the u.s., which says the libyan leader of four decades must leave immediately. and neither does the united nations security council, which voted this weekend to impose sanctions on libya. >> i can't remember a time in recent memory, when the council has acted so swiftly, so decisively in unanimity, on an urgent matter on international human rights. >> reporter: for the first time, gadhafi's son spoke with christiane amanpour. and said allegations that his father launched air strikes against their own people is wrong. >> show me a

more names. pilar gonzales, who i think already spoke, emily lee, and others. >> if you do not mind, we have a presentation on behalf of more public transit the we are going to give. supervisor campos: the need any help with that? >> oh no. supervisor campos: is the audio working? i don't think it is working. someone is coming. why don't we go to the next speaker while we figure this out? next speaker, please. >> my name is carmen lee. i am a san francisco housing authority member in hunters point and a member of power. i urge you to support this, to pass this resolution calling for free fast passes. not only do i think that youth, low-income youth from all over the city, should get frites fast passes. i think all youth should get free fast passes, considering they already have enough stress getting to and from school. the kids do not need any more stress, getting citations and that kind of thing. i think all of them should have free fast passes and an easy way to get to school. i have two children of my own. they are 6 and 8 years old. they are on school buses every day. i know next year the school buses

emily schmidt, thank you. geelt more from the region with a live update from cairo later in of half hour. >>> president obama suffered another major setback to the health care legislation. a federal judge in florida has ruled the entire law is unconstitutional. the court said you simply can't force people to purchase health insurance. florida's now the 26th state to challenge the legislation and the case will likely wind up before the supreme court. >>> and in yet another blow, president obama's hand-picked ambassador to china may be trying to take the president's job. ambassador john huntsman submitted his letter of resignation monday and many speculate the former governor you've that is planning a run for the white house in 2012. >>> investigators troor iing to determine the cause of a deadly helicopter crash noou near tucson. the pilot of a sheriff's department chopper was killed and three passengers badly injured when the chopper slammed into a mountain. the terrain was so rugged, the victims had to be airlift from t

my younger sister, emily, was a resident here for many more years than i have been. she was greatly loved. we lost her recently. i would like to dedicate this speech to her and remembered her, as many of the residents do, with great fondness and affection. thank you all. [applause] >> i would like to invite you all nowi that good enough? this is a participatory ribbon cutting. it requires nothing more complicated than this. i will ask you to count down, not up. upon conclusion, we will applaud the great works of turner construction, the dedicated men and women who are still toiling inside to get this project completed, which begs the question when will the residents be moving in that? there is an easy answer -- soon. [laughter] [crowd chants a countdown] [applause]

more hours. stay, have some wine and food. emily has graciously agreed to sign books, and we're going to start that right now, and thank you both. that was really fascinating. >> thank you, jill. [applause] >> thanks, bill. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> emily lanbert is a senior writer at forbs magazine. visit blogs.forbes dick/emilylambert ..

more workers. it's part of a new white house strategy to improve relations with the nation's business community. emily schmidt has details about the president's first speech to the nation's chamber of commerce. good morning, emily. >> reporter: rob, good morning to you. president obama is telling businesses he wants them to hang out more help wanted signs to help american workers. but critics say, that's one tough sales pitch, in this economic and political climate. with the markets up and unemployment down, president obama says it's time for u.s. businesses to invest in america. >> american companies have nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets. >> reporter: his audience has also been his frequent critic, the u.s. chamber of commerce. >> if there's a reason that you don't share my confidence, if there's a reason you don't believe this is the time to get off the sidelines, to hire and to invest, i want to know about it. i want to fix it. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner said in a statement after the speech, president obama has retooled his rhetoric, but not his job-destroying policie

emily from leonard flynn elementary school. [applause] thanks. penelope ho. [applause] from chinese emersion. [applause] rebecca from gateway charter school. [applause] and then we have two more that we do not think are here, we're back johnson from local high school and melissa -- rebecca johnson. we will hang onto those. congratulations to you all. well done. [cheers and applause] [applause] president mendoza: if it is possible, make you all squeezed together for a photograph? superintendent, please squeeze in. thank you, thank you, thank you. ok, thank you, everyone, and congratulations. nice work on that. i know that is a very difficult process to go through. while you are all sitting in a, -- settling in, the mayor's teacher and principal of the month, go on to the website and nominate a teacher, and also, teachers for social justice is taking nominations for their teacher award, so go to their website, which i unfortunately do not know what it is. i think is t4fj.org. ok, and when is the deadline? do you know? march 1. so march 1. nominate your teachers for these wonderful awards, and this reminds us to think you guys for all of the work that you do. as you are all cycl

emily blunt. jess is a ka alba. sofia vergara, jessica bale. eva longoria and many many more in the hotty body hump club with music of cee lo green. ♪ "jimmy kimmel live" ♪ >> dicky: and now, lights camera, action. here is jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you? thank you very much. welcome to the -- our sixth annual after the academy awards special in hollywood. across the street from the oscar on one side. you can say glamour and glitz? colin firth couldn't and he got an oscar for it. it wasn't a sus spenceful oscar this year, except for kirk douglas. was he behind me? he was funny, tormenting the nominees. he waited and waited and waited to name the winner. it combined the suspense of ryan seacrest with dick clark. it may have been the highlight of the show. colin firth won best act internally portman, best actress. and nicole kidman was upset. hard to tell through the botox. and christian bale in the speech forget his wife's name. he got choked up and emotional because someone moved a light. this is a -- 83rd oscar. this is my favorite oscars after th

captioning by emily at captionmax www.captionmax.com (female announcer) join us next time as we continue our discussion on free expression and the arts. for more information about speaking freely, visit our website at: >> welcome to "culturewire." for the past year, the arts commission has been participating in the city's effort to revitalize the central market street corridor. in addition to the thursday arts market and are in store front, the art commission recently launched the artery project. for the next year, the artery project will bring energy and excitement to market street, recalling the st.'s heyday as san francisco's vibrant and bustling theater district. >> un.n plaza during business hours seize hundreds of passing office workers and students, but the activity winds down at 5:00 every day. theater productions bring some but traffic, but central market is more of a thoroughfare than a destination after the sun goes down. on december 9, the artery project's launch brought a party atmosphere to market

growing more angry over a new demand by vice president omar tolaman, the government forced to move in to end the protests but the demonstrators say they won't go until president mubarak. emilymidt has the late east a third week of demonstrating with what's become a familiar call. the message is the same day after day. despite the repetition, the crowds are growing, going for the first time yesterday to the parliament. president mubarak is still appearing in photo opes while he says the country can't bear these protests. he called his egyptian counterpart yesterday urging a transition that's prompt, peaceful, meaningful and legitimate. >> what we need now is continued progress by the egyptian government to make these important real changes to demonstrate progress for the people. >> the administration insists, however, it won't determine who leaves and when they leave. >> there are reports this morning that police are releasing prisoners from jail so they can intimidate the protestors who continue to gather. protestors say they will not leave until their president does. emily. >> school officials decided to cut the men's baseball, rugby, men and women's gymnastics and women's

more than $14 trillion. higher and higher, literally every second. that's $46,000 for every american. >> the pr trims trims the yearly deficit. but will add about $7 trillion to the few years. >> emily schmidt has some of the reaction, now, from washington. good morning, emily. >> reporter: good morning to you. the numbers are huge. it's hard to imagine adding up to $1 trillion. but as people are getting their first look at president obama's proposed new budget, they are seeing the potential impact of subtracting $1 trillion. the white house warned its $3.7 trillion budget proposal would contain painful cuts. >> if we're going to walk the walk, when it comes to fiscal discipline, these kind of cuts will be necessary. >> reporter: but when the budget hit the halls of congress, it hit critics, who say the cuts aren't big enough. >> this is not an i got the message budget. it's unserious. and it's irresponsible. >> reporter: or who say the cuts are too much. >> to stop cutting some of these things that we need. >> reporter: she's worried about $2.5 billion gone from heating assistance. pell grant assistance would be gone from summer classes. and high-income earners could see the bush t

growing more angry over a new demand by the vice president negotiate or the government will be forced to move in. that's a quote. but the demonstrators say they won't go until president mubarak leaves. emily the latest. >> today egyptian protestors enter a third week of demonstrating with a familiar call. >> we need freedom! freedom! >> the message is the same day after day. but despite the represent repetition, the crowds are growing. president mubarak is appearing in photo opes while warning the country can't bear protests. urging a transition that's prompt, peaceful, meaningful and legitimate. >> what we need to see now is continued progress by the egyptian government to make these important, real changes to demonstrate progress for the people. >> the administration insists, however, it won't determine who leads egypt and when they lead it. there are reports this morning that police are releasing prisoners from jail so they can intimidate the protestors who continue to gather. protestors say they will not leave until their president does. emily schmidt, abc news, washington. >> danville pilot sully sullenberger and his wife are suing a sonoma bank for fraud in connection with a real es

. >> more and more, it's become the story of americans looking for an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. emilyto wisconsin's state capitol, to protest the governor's budget cut plan, 14 people left. senate democrats fled the state to stall the bill. >> the drastic measure is what the governor's done.

emily. [applause] >> and good afternoon. the atmosphere here today is palpable come and more than ever people are demonstrating a renewed interest in the principles of a free society. it is an honor to be here today among an amazing panel of individuals who are committed in scaling back the size and scope of the federal government. what it here today to talk about in particular is a project that is new to us at the independent institute. i encourage all of you to go to the website and check it out. what we have produced 40 there is called a government cost calculator. and what it does is it enables users to come in and find out exactly how much federal spending programs are costing them personally. so not only can they find out the true costs of federal spending programs, break them down by issues and various different budgets, but they also find that what the value of those dollars would be worth if they could save them and use them as they choose. today 14 trillion-dollar federal deficit we now confront statue of the largest and intergenerational wealth transfers the world has ever seen. this year's annual budget deficit is $1