francisco was awarded the best marine building policy -- green building policy award last week in durban, south africa, for its building ordinance. we had 22 other cities that competed against us. all told, we graded out to be the top in the category at the ordinance projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in san francisco and produce a 10-year present value of almost a billion dollars from those savings. that is great. the award is from the green in building council leadership award for excellence. it was a panel comprised of the un habitat and green building council. it is terrific, and most recently, mayor ed lee did a press release and also saluted staff efforts of the building inspection department, and also the department of environment, public utilities commission, for their commitment to a sustainable and green city. along with that, i would also like to say thank you very much for some of the commendation that came about four ben mann of the staff, along with evelyn cart and their service for helping to produce the high level of quality and service to the public. they had b

but i was from one end of south africa whether it was sarah john as were girl durban or her cape town cape town where the parliament is sat i was invited to speak there and then in incident happened in it or at the parliament that i'll never forget among one of monsanto's representatives also had given a small presentation and i had given a presentation regards how their seats implants is how it could be contaminated and coming out of the assembly the parliament assembly where i went face to face in two months had his representative from johannesburg and he and he was very very out of that i would say rude and a he said to me and shaking his fists to my face said nobody stands up to months sound oh we're going to get you and we're going to destroy you and no way and he also went on to say that when i get back to canada i was going to be in big trouble and sure enough three weeks later when i got back to canada monsanto launched another lawsuit against me for a million dollars and for all their car cars because they said i was stubborn i was arrogant i didn't do what months and. one it

it is coming at a time when the world is talking about moving away from the kyoto treaty and the durban treaty is in question as well, and it shows the importance of the region's taking concerted approach to meeting these goals, is 15% reduction goal is not unattainable, but as we have said before a number of times, it will require measures that they're a little bit more grave than we have on the table today, including potentially some pricing-related alternatives, in my opinion, going beyond parking and repricing to get to solutions. the other thing i wanted to highlight is the really untenable set of results that we are seeing related to affordable housing and related to the percentage of income, of household income, that is predicted to become necessary in order for people to afford living in the bay area. those percentages are very, very high. for households earning less than $30,000 a year, we go from 77% to 87% to 89% in 2014. people will be paying for housing at the expense of food and transportation. that obviously has to change. it echoes supervisor campos' comments about reall

but one of the locations we're looking at is durban and one of dagestan oldest town. we know that it is going to turn five thousand years old in the near future. this is a new project and in terms of a scale amount of investment and the number of jobs it will create it is comparable with our core project to develop resorts. spending indication in north caucasus has always been associated with the black sea there have been no resorts in the caspian and probably that's we reason maybe we don't need them let's not. actually this is not quite true. historically the areas i just mentioned have always had beaches full of people. we have even seen some old photos dating back to the soviet times. crowded beaches. maybe they were less popular than the black sea resource we have historically featured traditional publications. such as between the sochi and others. but nonetheless the residents of neighboring regions a bowl is favored them. this is why i think that with proper funding we will be able to tap into that potential. but what about the costs how much will it take to se

billionaire oligarchy an international corporations being able to buy our politicians we've stalled the durban climate talks why because of the oil barons karl rove lying about elizabeth warren she's calling him out on it but here is he's running ads in massachusetts he's not even from massachusetts a line about elizabeth warren to paraphrase leonard cohen everybody knows the system is rot frankly it's time for us to clean this system up. senator bernie sanders has proposed a constitutional amendment which will do just that which says that corporations are people and money is not speech you can sign the petition over at sanders dot senate dot gov and participate in that make it up you know make it the top of your to do list sanders does dot gov check it out. after the break more bad news for europe but time gives us some insight into how one nation across the pond is succeeding despite the economic headwinds. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here and. i think. the tipping point well. we never got that that says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you get your

durban, i would indicate to you a desire, a willingness to have conversations with you about the appropriations process through the federal reserve, and your funding, if you're willing to visit with me. >> be glad to visit with you and glad to have our staff come and speak to your staff and make sure you know everything you need to know about what we're doing. >> mr. cordray, thank you. >> thank you. >> senator? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i thought i'd focus on this issue of the remittance fee that has come up. it's not addressed in any detail in our report. i assume that's because your report was covering through december 31st, and the july was completed in january. but i just want to say my understanding is when people seek to transfer money internationally, this rule says they need to be told up front how much money is going to actually arrive. in other words, no hidden fees. you see the full impact of the exchange rate that's being assigned to it. and in addition, if the money doesn't arrive, or was different than what the person was told, there's a way to fix that. is that the e