that is near natoma and howard.hat pit should be finished on september 19, and that will allow the team to start their pre-trenching in assuring wall -- shoring wall. those are the final buildings coming down during july and august. 568 howard, 85 natoma had come down previously. just to revisit the timeline on the buttress shoring and excavation work, we're in the pre-trenching face right now. we have started the cdsm shoring wall. the excavation and bracing work in the construction of bridges started in the first and second quarter of next year. that is the progress made so far on the area. the cdsm wall completed is the yellow area. the c blue the keydsm wall that is under way. the green is the pre trenching. and the buttress area is ready for the start of that work. these are some shots of the ongoing pre-trenching effort. piles that to be removed in front of the shoring wall installation. cdsm operation in his own four, which is now nearly complete, with just the beale street were to finished. it creates a lot

>> i would agree with howard.aunching major change in social legislation without having a consensus in the country and in congress about what that should look like was a mistake that's just not how the president make goods policy. chris: wow whfment we come back, the big question of the week, will barack obama's re-election be decided by his own performance in the next year or by conditions around him? chris: welcome back. we're one year out from the old traditional start of the campaign, usually labor day of election year, which brings us this to this week's big question. does barack obama's re-election depend more on his performance from now until the end of the term, his election or on conditions around him. howard a tough call. is it about what he does and shows or what happens around him? >> i think it's more of the conditions. i think people have decided that they think they know who he is for better or worse. he's not going to change that. it's a matter of context. >> i think it's a combination of both. chr

particularly the lot at howard street. there are several layout we're looking at currently, but right now we do not have any funding. there is about five different schemes. each one has a level of sight work that needs to be done. so we need to look at that and try and find out whether we can find some funding for the options. accessibility, the tiberi terminal was designed to meet the current accessibility codes. we work very closely with the mayor's office of disability, as well as the dpw disability access coordinator, and white house for the blind. that has been operating well. we have not had any accessibility issues reported. finally, on operations, link facilities. the facility manager is working closely with tjpa as well as ac transit and greyhound to maintain the temporary terminal operations and security. we also have the transit rider of restrooms. link is seeing roughly about 50 passengers a day use the rest rooms, with no reported incidents. finally, the temporary terminal serves approximately 20,000 passenger

>> i would agree with howard.ajor change in social legislation without having a consensus in the country and in congress about what that should look like was a mistake that's just not how the president make goods policy. chris: wow whfment we come back, the big question of the week, will barack obama's re-election be decided by his own performance in the next chris: welcome back. we're one year out from the old traditional start of the campaign, usually labor day of election year, which brings us this to this week's big question. does barack obama's re-election depend more on his performance from now until the end of the term, his election or on conditions around him. howard a tough call. is it about what he does and shows or what happens around him? >> i think it's more of the conditions. i think people have decided that they think they know who he is for better or worse. he's not going to change that. it's a matter of context. >> i think it's a combination of both. chris: you can't do that. i'm sorry, i'm being

and howard, i'm serious here.ward, so you're telling me that the school that produced howard schultz is shut down and the school that produced al sharpton is shut down. >> and they're neighboring schools. tildon and ken ararcy are both t down. i can't bring my daughters to the high school i went to. he can't. what howard has done in the private sector i think is a great example of what they should do. i work with reverend paul out in seattle who talks about what howard and starbucks really does on a grass roots level. he is not just talking. i give him a lot of credit and i think we, as a, you know, he went to kenarcy. i went to tildon. barbara streisand went to erasmus. we all aren't the three who have done the best but howard has done well for brooklyn. in honor of what howard does i drink the mocha out of starbucks but i switched to the "morning joe" brew and i can tell progressives it will not make you a right winger. you can drink it. it's safe. >> howard, go ahead and tell us how actually your high school be

the plan would seek to help fund the rooftop parking as well as the second and howard proper -- park. these are rough estimates of what it would take to produce those. in order to help try to pay for these, the plan proposes essentially two new financing mechanisms. one would be a new set of additional impact fees that would go primarily for streets and transportation, including the transit center, as well as open space. we are currently in the process of financing the legally required nexus analysis studies required by state law to justify these impact fees, and working with the city attorney's office closely on that, and we hope to have it completed in a few weeks so we can essentially set those at the announcements, what you see here, in terms of and acting revenue is very hypothetical and sort of illustrative of what we think we can achieve, but once we complete the studies, we will know for certain what the fees can be set at. again, this would be in addition to the existing fees that exist today room. those would continue to exist, and this would be in addition to that. on top o

we have looked at access from an area which we referred to as howard square, which is the area of of the pros structure and having an access point out and then above the top of the bus route as a freestanding structure. that would have been a more expensive solution to this. the other is that the current development at the west end of the transit center is a variety of low-rise, you know, single two four-story buildings between the west end and second street, and currently, those buildings -- there is a blank wall that faces the transit center there at the west end, so there was not -- there is not currently a west end for the transit center as a building. for those reasons, the structure was kind of talk in at the west end of the transit center. -- kind of tucked in at the west end of the transit center. >> i just want to remind the board that this item is not again rise -- agendized for discussion today. if you want to discuss this, you should consider putting it on the agenda for a future meeting. >> is this something you would like to agendize? director metcalf: i have so much to

you seem a very different character, i would imagine, to the pre-9/11 howard.you think you've changed as a human being through what's happened? >> you know, i was orphaned when i was young. my mom died when i was 16. and my father was killed. he went to the first chemotherapy shot on september 12, 1979 and the nurse made a mistake and gave him 100 times the dose and killed him. what happened that day, i knew what hell looked like. i'd been to hell before. and my extended family, they didn't come to our aid. they were afraid, you know, my brother, my sister and i. we would be -- we'd reach the hand in and we would stick. we ended up living with them. i'd seen what pulling out looked like. no way i was going to pull out. the employees of cantor fitzgerald, we're all in. and when you're all in, that means you're really all in. and what i think it clarifies for me is that while work is about money, the work is full of human beings. and then they have lives and the children and they're beautiful. so you know this business, you have to make tough decisions. there's n

those are folsom and howard streets in seventh and eighth streets. the corner of seventh and folsom is what we're thinking of as a downtown western soma. the goal of using folsom street as the main in neighborhood commercial street, as other speakers were talking about, intensifying the use is there. we would like more frequent transit running in both directions. we have worked a lot with the tep, and those goals are reflected in the draft and transit effectiveness plan. we want it to be a great walking street, including seventh and eighth. hopefully making them two-way. cycling is important on folsom and howard. so those are the neighborhood- serving streets. we're hoping to reclaim them. and hopefully get the truck routes off of them. if you look to the general plan of truck routes, every street in soma is a truck route. we would like to emphasize it is a night in tents, harrison and brian, not seventh and eighth, folsom and howard. the next group are the alleyways. i will not emphasize it again. but thinking about a gateway, slowing down traffic a

oscar-winning director ron howard. and nicholas foley, too.icholas has been named the club's northeast youth of the year. gentlemen, thank you very much for spending some time with me this afternoon. >> you're welcome. i think it's actually national -- >> did i demote you, sir? >> yeah. >> i apologize. nick, i'm going to come back to you. ron, how did you become involved with this project? >> well, i've been a supporter of boys and girls clubs, even though i had no childhood history with it. but for a number of years, i've just believed in it, and been an advocate, been a supporter. and denzel knew that. at imagine films we made a couple of movies that starred denzel. he called, and i was flattered to be a part of it. and now getting closer to the organization, i see that my instincts were really right because, you know, the work that they do, the corners of the country and, in fact, the entire world that they reach is really astounding. and they're doing work that we need, that's desperately needed. >> four million boys and girls clubbers, 4,

. >> howard g. gelling. >> peter victor genco, jr. >> steven gregory genovese. >> alayne gentul. >> linda george. >> edward f. geraghty. >> suzanne geraty. >> ralph gerhardt. >> robert gerlich. >> denis p. germain. >> marina romanovna gertsberg. >> susan m. getzendanner. >> james g. geyer. >> joseph m. giaccone. >> vincent francis giammona. >> and my brother, kevin joseph. we miss you. >> and my mother. we love you and miss you. your spirit lives on in your children and grandchildren. you empowered me to be a better person. we will never forget you. >> debra lynn gibbon. >> james andrew giberson. >> craig neil gibson. >> ronnie e. gies. >> laura a. giglio. >> andrew clive gilbert. >> timothy paul gilbert. >> paul stuart gilbey. >> paul john gill. >> mark y. gilles. >> evan gillette. >> ronald lawrence gilligan. >> rodney c. gillis. >> laura gilly. >> john f. ginley. >> donna marie giordano. >> jeffrey john giordano. >> john giordano. >> and my partner. >> and my brother. i named my son after you to

howard, thanks for joining me tonight. >> hey, lawrence. >> howard, you at "the huffington post" have done this fascinaing poll of what you call the 160 republican power outsiders. you've gotten their attitudes about these potential nominees. tell us about that. >> well, in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, the big three, first three primary caucus states, we are having our patch.com local editors and reporters go out and talk to dozens and dozens and dozens of local influential republicans in those states. elected officials. party leaders. businesspeople and so on. so we have close to 200 of them we talk to every week. and to try to get a real ground-level feel, nobody else is trying to do something this extensive because we have 26 of these local patch sites in these three states. and this week we asked them about rick perry and mitt romney. what we found was rick perry plummeting like a stone among the grassroots people, the sort of local influentials in those three states. they ended up having a much less favorable view of rick perry than they did. look at this. we did the p

a crash on 24 and howard street. otherwise, the major roadways are checking out ok. 49 miles per hour heading south on the harrisburg expressway. 56 as a continued down on the j.f.x. towards the city. looking pretty nice all the way around. we should not encounter any problems. all lanes are open. this is 95 south of eastern avenue. both directions are looking good north and southbound. this is 895 south. very light volume for this time of the morning. no problem spots and no delays. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now let's get the latest on the buses and the trains. for that we go to kurt kronke of the mta system. good morning. >> we are looking pretty good on the rails. no delays on the marc trains. one delay at cathedral and mind and spirit a diversion at lawrence. the mta is launching a new e- mail notification system today. all subscribers must register as a new user. i'm kurt kronke. now back to tony pann. >> we have had a pleasant change this morning. we don't have low clouds or drizzle or humidity. t

people like -- like uh -- like -- >> ron howard? >> right! ron howard.had him, but right. >> yes, ron howard, excellent point. who wouldn't want a kid that looks like opie taylor from the "andy griffith show" or wendy's from wendy who was a rip-off of pippi longstocking. can you imagine any baby cuter than this one? sure, as a parent of a redhead you might spend more in sunscreen over the years. but there's a good chance that your carrot top bundle of joy could be an icon of comedy. lucille ball, conan o'brien, kathy griffin, or carol burnett or -- well, four out of five isn't so bad. the point i'm trying to make is that redheads are fiery creative extremely talented people. before he was grisled and gray, willie nelson was a redhead. maybe he's not the best genetic specimen i could have picked. a couple of the redheads around the office have been kind of blue since this news came out about the sperm bank. now, i say, don't let the haters get you down. plenty of people love redheads. charlie brown, he was quite partial to redheads. as was matthew mcconau

we've had people like howard dean and wesley clark named front-runners this early.illary clinton, rudy giuliani, fred thompson, the list goes on. i don't know why we have to name front-runners so early. and this group here these last three days in talking to these delegates, howard, they are soft on perry and romney. that's what led the way for cain. they are very much taken aback by what they see as governor perry's liberal views on treating illegal immigrants. they are underwhelmed by romney's, what they see as his techno carr technocratic style and are tired of the bickering -- >> i want to bring this back to the media experience. david shuster, you worked at fox a long time ago. it's a news network with a lot of conservative anchors, obviously -- >> i still have friends there, too. >> conservative hosts, i should say, not anchors. isn't this the third debate where the fox moderators, megyn kelly, asked tough questions of the candidates? >> look, they did ask some tough questions. but there were also questions, howard, that were frankly incredibly silly and stupi

there was a history there later on. 670 howard, apparently is not a historical resource. that is important to note as far as that is concerned. it is pointed out, there were 17 fire stations added in the international style in the 50's. there are plenty of them that still exist if you like that style. there are plenty you can see. we won't be losing anything as far as the landmark there. commissioner moore: i need to correct myself. thank you for reminding me, when i said mission street, i meant to say howard street. >> if there are no more comments, i would assume this concludes the public hearing for the san francisco museum of modern art expansion and fire station relocation and housing project. comments will be accepted at the planning department's office until the close of business august 25, 2011. commissioners, you are ready to start item #7. the thirty fourth america's cup cruise terminal and >> good afternoon president olague. good afternoon, commissioners. i am with the planning staff, and i am joined by chris kern, also from planning staff. i am also joined by

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thanks for joining me tonight, howard. >> hi, lawrence. >> howard, i'm confused by dick durbin's statement. he's saying we're not going to get 100% of the democrats in the united states senate but if we democrats have to pass it we will. they need 60 votes to pass it in the senate. they're nowhere close if they don't have all the democrats. >> yep. that was less than a ringing endorsement from one of the president's closest allies. and you know you're in a bad situation on the democratic side where you have mitch mcconnell giving you lobbying advice on how best you ought to operate things. i think having spoken to some people on the hill who know about that meeting that while david plouffe and gene sperling, the two people who came up and briefed, you know, made the best case they could, you know, it was not -- it was not a happy -- it was not a happy meeting for the reasons that you said. there are conservative democrats in the senate who don't want to support it because of -- they don't like the idea of a big bill, you know, doesn't sound good. they've had too many big bills from the pre

>> howard is right on both accounts, they don't talk about it. and two, if they did talk about it, they would say, they'd rather run against rick perry. chris, you mentioned it, you were talking about it. i think what you're looking at in almost any presidential election, but almost certainly in 2012, 40% of the people will vote for the republican nominee, no matter who it is, 40% will vote for barack obama. it might not even be 20%. let's say it's 20%. independents in the middle -- >> the people that vote for porky pig rather than president obama. >> right. and the thing is is we spend all of our time, chris, analyzing election, and in truth, you're probably talking about 10% of the voting population. >> and they make all the difference. >> they believe that romney tonally, tonally is more appealing to those candidates -- to those independent voters. businessmen background, he's from the northeast, he was the governor of a northeastern state. than rick perry ace southern accent, governor of texas, social security as a ponzi scheme. those kind of

joining me now are howard fineman, "the huffington post" editorial director and msnbc analyst and chris hayes, editor in large of "the nation." chris' new show launches next weekend, next saturday morning. thank you both for joining me tonight. howard, in the excerpt of the president speaking today, the line that got applause was, "i'm an eternal optimist, i'm an optimistic person." it wasn't any of the policy points, and he certainly has proven himself politically to be the great eternal optimist, possibly of any recent memory of washington, but that is, it seems, what the focus group is referring to. that does seem to be what appeals to people, and that's -- isn't that why that applause was spontaneous in that moment? >> yeah, i think so, also given the surround last night, given the dismal economic numbers, given the problems in the united states and europe, given the unemployment rate, given the president's own low job approval numbers, coming into the lion's den so to speak, into congress in a joint session and deliver what i thought and wrote on "the huffington post" was arguably

loved it. >> i do. >> howard dean is with us.nt was. >> i think it was a very good speech and i'll tell you why. everybody knows the republicans are in the tank for the corporations and all that stuff. that's what they believe. they do. i'm not trying to be partisan here. >> i love you. you know i love you joe, look at the polls. the republican congress is at 12% of the polls. there is a reason for that. >> okay. so the president -- so everybody knows that. >> what they really need, what they really want is strong leadership. >> right. >> and somebody who believes in them. so what does the president do? he lays out a plan which taxes people who make a zlillion dollars a year which everybody thinks is important. >> yeah. >> whatever. $250,000 for the people who are losing their jobs right now is, you know, a lot of money. >> and a point for negotiation. >> it doesn't matter. a starting point for nothing. if this thing passed tomorrow the president would be re-elected and if it doesn't pass the president will be re-elected because.

pretty easy to understand why howard dean failed. so much of the literature on presidential primaries focuses. once you stumble and have something bad happen it is difficult to recover. the real trouble is how he ever got to be the front runner in the first place. there would argue that the answer has to be the internet. in practice in 2000 for the internet was essentially a primary, digital primary. a primary a lung a very liberal constituency. more less won that primary. he walked away with it. at the same time essentially does not help you when you have to go up against voters in iowa. >> you have a chart in your book. total web traffic. >> one of the things that the book tart about is that if we are thinking of how the internet is going to change politics we have to start with the facts. politically relevant traffic is a tiny, tiny portion of what people do online. if elected the categories of where people go, more than 10% is pornographic content. web mail, search engines. news and media assets including everything from entertai