could you, as a way of highlighting how important this is for us as an agency and as a city, give us an example of what kind of time or cost savings we could expect from a recent project going on, whether it be a bicycle pedestrian project or even a larger brt project or something? i want everyone to understand how important and the impact this could have. >> i could try. one of the main drivers of the cost -- and you cannot answer this question until you send your answer out for environmental review. -- >>

could you, as a way of highlighting how important this is for us as an agency and as a city, give us an example of what kind of time or cost savings we could expect from a recent project going on, whether it be a bicycle pedestrian project or even a larger brt project or something? i want everyone to understand how important and the impact this could have. >> i could try. one of the main drivers of the cost -- and you cannot answer this question until you send your answer out for environmental review. -- >> you cannot answer this question until you send your answer out for environmental review. >> one of the drivers of environmental review is transportation analysis. that is for any transportation development project. there are other things. there are historic issues that can sometimes drive, but transportation is probably the most significant driver, and as we have seen, somewhat ironically, that has created cost and schedule extensions for our own projects, even those that on the surface would appear to be very clearly and parting positive environmental impact to the city. the bike

may be separate studies but there will be additional studies. >> you think you need to do that as an agency to get an understanding as to the environmental impacts? >> air quality, water quality, ecosystem imepacts are of concern. >> okay. now, can you comment briefly on the scientific review process for the extended effort that you're talking about, administrator jackson? >> obviously, we're swo are sco itment we work with the usgs, department of energy to scope studies that are not redundant. they'll do some as well. and we would look for the same level of rigor as what we're looking for. >> thank you. k

an agency like the fbi? >> it is an interesting question. i would say that one of the great things about my job is i have to be aggressively apolitical, which is wonderful. as an agency, we need to trust the american people in the work that we do an understanding that whatever we do in terms of investigations, whatever we do as the bureau is done without regard to party or politics or what have you, that we are independent. it was somewhat easier prior to september 11 where you had a criminal cases on the one hand and national security was something that was handled elsewhere by the cia, duty, and state department -- the cia, dod, and state department here there was very little interaction with the white house prior to september 11. back to the matters the president is responsible for the safety of persons within the united states and has a right to know what is being done to prevent terrorist attacks. so for the first four or five years, i would brief president bush just about every day, all in discrete areas relating to national security. and the impact of cases now the not only impact national security but impact relationships with countries. as an examp

we spend a lot of time as an agency going after the bottom feeders, right, and not necessarily almost never legitimate companies, but guys who are using the internet to sort of rip off consumers. we try our best to put them out of business and get as much redress as we can for consumers. look, i think this is not -- this is not a year when congress is going to pass a lot of legislation. maybe some of the privacy bills can move forward, but, it is a year where we should be working on privacy. the best way to do it is a sort of combination, i think, of government using its bully pulpit and pushing very hard for the best self-regulatory standards. >> to the point of the two earlier questions, how broad or how narrow will these rules or regulations be? can you give an example? >> well, one example that i think we're very intimately involved in and we'll see whether the commerce department picks it up is do not track. i think the way that do not track is going to work, is that companies, the digital advertising alliance made up of 90% of all advertisements will give you two options. if you

beyond that, the logistics of how we're going to operate as an oversight board and successor agency are still to be determined. you probably know the staff of the agency will continue for at least two months. it buys them some breathing room, the city breathing room to help work this out to determine what stopped oversize board will need -- what staff the board will meet. it is a huge issue that is consuming a lot of time from a lot of people to figure that out. i cannot even tell you that this point when the first meeting because the schedule has not been set yet. but as soon as we know, i will try to get that information to you. the second issue is that the mayor has kicked off a meeting of a housing trust fund committee today an hour and a half ago. this is a large group has asked to convene from all members of the housing community from activist to developers to finance folks to look at the issue of how to develop alternative funding mechanisms for affordable housing, particularly in light of the lost tax increment from redevelopment, which was the city's largest single source of af

there's an official as an intelligence official agency has said that we have no evidence that's available that it is as actually decided even to develop a nuclear weapon into what they wanted so this is pure fear mongering that's exactly the same thing that happened somebody in the convinced of the against by telling americans that he was developing a nuclear weapon it's the same thing and that is a question i mean what i what i look at today was kind of the opinion the history of public opinion about limited states and their support of the world that we have in the end came to view it as a mistake that was a quote of the way the in the end came to view that as a mistake so you're going to some place they will say we keep getting tricked into supporting these winners that actually inadvisable them that we end up being against the misstep to call the next time when you have the attitude seems to be. that the isn't convinced as to suppose. that a mistake this time with the this is really necessary i suppose and it just shows the potency the fear mongering here is a. little bit when factorin

there's an official as an intelligence official agency has said that we have no evidence whatsoever that it is as actually decided even to develop a nuclear weapon what it is that they want and so this is pure fear mongering it's exactly the same thing that happened somebody in the convinced of the libyan saddam by telling americans that he was developing a nuclear weapon it's the same thing and that is a question i mean what i what i look at today with public opinion is the public opinion about reunited states and they're going to support of the romany and came to view it as a mistake there's a quote of the of the enemy and came to view bad as a mistake so you would think of some plan they would say we keep getting tricked into supporting these winners that actually inadvisable and that we end up being against the most skeptical but that's kind of the of the attitude seems to be. as i do is i'm convinced as a supplier and then back in the state that this time. the listener is really necessary and has our support and it just shares the potency the fear mongering fears a. little bit when

we evaluate and we look at the work we do as an agency and whether we are meeting certain targets that we set for selfourself. we have a strategic plan and this is all of our website. one goal is to promote public knowledge and understanding about the arts. we commissioned studies and we get data out there through a variety of media, through webinar is and report back to be found on our website. we take a hard look. we cannot prove what is not there. we take an empirical look at the data. host: this is a tweet from one of our viewers. guest: i would say if there is hostility in that regard, i am not familiar about the kind she speaking of. there is a sense and maybe eight distrusts -- and maybe a distrust. we're trying to show people -- and this is coming from empirical evidence -- the arts in many ways our public service just like roads housing, public housing, other types of social services that we take for granted. we're being fiscally responsible and how we assess needs by the public and how we getart art out there for all americans. habits have changed over time. we get a pulse on

we spend a lot of time as an agency bringing cases against companies that fail to honor their privacy commitments. the current do-not-track initiatives are not complete. but these issues aside, let's take stock of how far we have come. american business is committed to improving tacking controls and at a more basic level for letting consumers choose other data is handled and shared. that is protecting consumer privacy. henry ford once said "coming together is the beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success." with the encouragement of this administration, which has so keenly recognized the importance of engendering consumer trust and internet commerce, the private-public partnership as come together around one small agencies do-not-track initiative. apple, but will, and other technology companies announced yesterday -- apple, google, and other technology companies announced yesterday that they will follow of this. from here, we can see success and that will come as long as we continue to work toward one common goal, a thriving, innovated cyber -- innovative cyb

absolutely part of realizing transit first, and it completes this as a full- service transportation agency, so as supervisor wiener said, we are an approved budget we are working on improving the tax and service and improving this in san francisco. it is extremely complex. there are often diverging viewpoints, and you may hear some of them today in terms of what will make the tax and service work better, and one of the things i found during my short time at the mta is not only are there very strong but often diverging opinions on what will improve the tax and service or what needs to change in the taxi industry, often the voice of the taxicab user is absent in that conversation, and you will hear in the presentation a few ways how we are trying to address that. so i guess what i would say, finally, is that the request for the score with reports was made quite some time ago, so i want to apologize we have not got years sooner, and we look forward to starting a regularly -- a regular quarterly reporting. it is not -- there is the complexity of the industry and the limits of our staff and resources to be addressing it that we have n

it's a myth that the fbi cannot function as an intelligence agency that develops clues and leads to future plots. that is now the main priority of the fbi. >> the most recent book by ron kessler, "the secrets of the fbi." >> civil rights attorney connie be rice recounts her life and legal career next on booktv. ms. rice, second cousin of former secretary of state condoleezza rice, recalls her upbringing and education as well as her numerous court cases which include legal actions against the los angeles police department and the city's bus and school systems. this is a little over an hour. >> it is a great pleasure to be here and a privilege to address you tonight. thank you for coming out, and i've been on this odyssey in l.a. for about the last 20, 23 years. and i figured before i hit 60,: i'd better while i still haveá the memories, i'd better pullá some of them out and put them down there. i'm 55 now, and i wasn't sure that i'd be able to do it in another ten years. : á á : : : : >> she seemed more the barbie: doll mode of journalist, not th real investigative journalists that i grew u

we spend a lot of time as an agency bringing cases against companies that fail to honor their privacy commitments. and the current do not tracking issues are not yet complete. but these issues aside, let's take stock of how far we have come. american business is committed to improving tracking controls, and at a more basic level to letting consumers choose how their data is handled and shared. that is, to protect the consumer privacy. henry ford once said, coming together is a beginning. keeping together is progress. working together is success. with encouragement of this administration, which has a teeny recognize the link between protecting consumer privacy online and engendering consumer trust in internet commerce, and oppressive public-private partnership is made a beginning coming together around one small agency, do not track initiative. today we celebrate the progress we've made as we have kept together. apple, google and other tech companies announced yesterday they will insist on privacy policies, business is committed to them do not track him and the president has reminded u

at year is trying to have more and more collaboration amongst the the different agencies, internal to the city, as well as an external, with better coordination and all of that. the mayor's office, the trans bay joint powers authority, with representatives of those agencies being here -- if any questions come up. if i could just -- there has been reference to various alignments that have been discussed. different land use possibilities. it is very important for us to know of these various alignments.

we have looked at this and find it for purposes of county, 875 devices as the agencies to sit in the eoc when it is activated in an emergency. there are 19 agencies that currently are called to be part of the eeoc -- eoc when it is activated. that is when we have drawn our line right now in terms of who can and cannot be an fallujah -- user on the system. that does include mta. it does include dpw, i believe and some of the other agencies that you would not think of as a strictly public safety agencies. supervisor avalos: for the purposes of homeland security, what they want to see a more restrictive definition of what the public safety function would be, or more expensive? >> it is hard to speak for homeland security. i can briefly speak for the other early builders of these networks. obviously, we feel that it is important to have an expansive definition as possible of the network. we believe it will be -- bring value in and out -- in a number of ways. we are advocating and lobbying for an expansive definition. from 0-- anne can talk about home security. >> there is a conference call and the cities who are invol

at year is trying to have more and more collaboration amongst the the different agencies, internal to the city, as well as an external, with better coordination and all of that. the mayor's office, the trans bay joint powers authority, with representatives of those agencies being here -- if any questions come up. if i could just -- there has been reference to various alignments that have been discussed. different land use possibilities. it is very important for us to know of these various alignments. what is feasible, and what are the potential costs for revenue? i know that members of the working group may have different views about which alignment is preferable, of which ideas are preferable. i would be very interested in working with various members of the working group to analyze, for technical feasibility and cost, each of those options. about what is technically feasible, cost prohibitive, what is not, and generating the right amount of revenue. some of us look at an option and we think there is no way it could never work, but we have not done the technical feasibility study. i would be very interested

announced the arrest of twenty five hackers in spain and latin america as part of the agency's operation on mosques. as morally battle in an ongoing cyber war. interpol had said the twenty five alleges members of the anonymous saw online how king activists group or hacktivist group were taken into their custody right after their own website was attacked now right after the announcement was made their own website again failed to load an act of us a wrote on their twitter feed not the message interpol down so there are speculations that this is their response to these are reports of arrests and this police action is just the latest in a more in a bigger operation that intergovernmental and police operations hoping to crack down on the activities of a non of us in recent months we've seen certain bills so-called people in the act are all arguing in favor of protecting intellectual property rights however this event made a lot of people angry and polarize opinion saying that passing such bills will actually infringe on their feet in my speech as well as the openness of the internet these are precise precisely the issues that a

we hear from your agency and yourself how you care so much about people in this country with asthma. as an asthmatic, i appreciate that concern. the epa is one federal agency standing between a lot of asthmatics and an over-the-counter asthma treatment primateen mist. your agency has the ability to provide a waiver so the existing stock of csc could be sold to asthma patients in this country. and it's not a small issue. the prescription hfa containing compound costs about three times when the over-the-counter cfc pro tellant primatine costs. if you get in trouble in the middle of the night and don't have a prescription, you have to go to the emergency room. that really costs patients. would you grant a waiver so the existing stock containing csf can be sold? >> no, sir, we have not granted the waiver. >> will you grant waiver so asthma patients can at least have the ablt of the stuff that's already made. it's in warehouses. if something is going to happen to it at some point, the csc is not going to stay bolted up forever, could you not make that available to patients in the country snp. >

as always, good to talk to you. >>> we'll stay in china for a moment. there has been developments athe a foxconn manufacturing plant that supplies apple. the reuters news agency says an agency known as the fair labor association has visited the complex as part of an investigation into working conditions at the plant. the fla is a nonprofit organization and says it was set up to improve working conditions in factories. apple commissioned the fla's orders after reports of employee suicides and inhumane working conditions at fox koconn which makes apple ipads. in an interview following the visit, he said, quote, the facilities are first-class. the conditions are way, way above average of the norm. critics of the fair labor association have questioned its partial funding by companies and, therefore, its very independence. some say it's merely a reporting agency that doesn't assume responsibility for implementing any changes or improvements in standards. cnn will be speaking with the fla president a little later this thursday. you can watch that interview on news stream. tune in from 8:00 a.m. eastern standard time, 9:00 p.m. here in hong kong. nina? >>> andrew, the world

in short he said the connie network acts as an arm of pakistan's interservices intelligence agency. which takes me to my next question. we're giving all this foreign aid to a country that is come police sit in working with the terrorists who are killing americans. i understand all the implications. zardari referred to our relationship as like a bad marriage but divorce is not an option. but when it comes to the funding, we're looking at crafting legislation that would essentially require the state department to certify that they are not working with these networks, including hikani. if that cannot be certified the foreign aid will be cut off. i wanted to get your thoughts on that legal conclusion. >> well, i think, congressman, what president czzardari told y on behalf of the civilian leadership of the government of pakistan is true. he has been a good partner in going after terrorism that threatens his country and afghanistan and our troops. we have no evidence of any high-level official knowing about bin laden. but, like you, i have to assume that lower level people, you know, had

a deployment one year ago as seen here stirred fears in israel and other nations. iranian news agency quotes anhip and support for countries in the region and to display iran's military resolve. >>> presidential politics now. republican hopeful rick santorum is mocking mitt romney's role in turning around the olympics in 1972. romney's solution the office ask congress for millions of dollars in federal earmarks. santorum makes mitt romney a hypocrite. romney criticized santorum for bringing 0 home earmarks. >> stevie wonder said whitney houston loved his song ribbon in the sky. so he we wrote the lyrics for the occasion. [ male announcer ] this...is the network. a living, breathing intelligence that is helping business rethink how to do business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ in here, machines have a voice... ♪ [ male announcer ] in here, medical history follows you... even when you're away from home. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities, creating and integrating solutions, helping business, and the world...work. rethink possible. >> thanks for much for watching th

one student says the shooter was known as an outcast who had apparently been bullied. >>> the federal agency that insures bank deposits shutdown. that failed bank served a lot of retired seniors. officials are there now answering a lot of questions. katie marzullo joins us from walnut creek with the story. >> reporter: we've seen confusion and worry and frustration. it would be scary enough finding out your bank closed. for an elderly person it is scarier and this branch is in the rossmore neighborhood there are a lot of elderly customers. home savings of america was shutdown by the federal government friday, not only here but two in california and one in minnesota where the bank is headquartered. banks have to have enough capital on hand to cover all customer deposits, home savings of america did not. and the feds couldn't find a buyer for the bank. >> in this circumstance, we were unable to find another bank who would assume the operations of the old failed bank. normally, we are able to find someone who will come in and assume the deposits and substantially, all assets. and the customers

obama administration asking intelligence agencies for additional assessments of the risks of transferring five senior taliban detainees to a third country as part of an effort to broker peace with afghan militants. in the testimony today before the senate intelligence committee intelligence officials did not specific which country might be involved but news agencies have reported that the detainees could be sent to qatar which is acting as an intermediary. some of the back and forth that members of the intelligence committee have been facing before house and senate committees. leon panetta getting a lot of attention with his plan to withdraw american troops from afghanistan by the summer of 2013. here's how the exchange unfolded before one house committee as congressman michael conoway took questions. and general petraeus. and the ongoing concern about iran and interests threat of nuclear weapons. >> with respect to afghanistan, has the i.c. changed or amended their analysis as to the capacity of the karzai government to control their country over the last couple of months that would have given rise and kmoirks davii know, da said overanalyze. have t

as it relates to our right away, the right away application in montana. so we have an already established relationship with our federal and state agencies, as we work through this project or future projects, and i think it helps with ourselves and the involvement of the federal agencies that we are fulfilling our congressional mandates. >> to your -- excuse me. as far as you are concerned does furk have the same vast footprint in the west to make similar decisions? >> i know from a jurisdictional/ownership standpoint standpoint they do not. they are a regulatory entity. when it comes to transcontinental gas line, furk usual usually assumes that league. it's important to point out, you know, the more recent example being the ruby pipeline in the west, they had the lead but the mandates that crossed other states and jurisdictions that was under the leasing act and all other mandates were required as well. >> ms. smith, the army corp of engineers have a role in this permitting process and certainly th over step responsibilities and activity regarding this matter. would you care to expound more on how this bill would affect your role? >> our interpretation and

washington, d.c., that has advocated for the agency community, and has made san francisco an example for the rest of the country in how to treat that community. as scott indicated, we, in san francisco, have a lot to be brought up, and we should not go backwards. i want to thank mayor lee for the fact that when supervisor wiener and i went to him, there was no question, no hesitation. i think those of us or members of this lgbt community, we're very grateful to you and want you to know that we appreciate