an expert on myanmar joins us, toshihiko kudo is here. thank you for coming in today. first off, aung san suu kyi and other nld members didn't attend the reopening of the parliament. how do you see this situation? is thein sein's party going to react in a very negative way, do you think? >> actually, this is symbolic issue rather than a substantial one. >> okay. >> aung san suu kyi wants to amend the constitution, which has some democratic clauses. for example, one fourth of the parliamentreserved for the military members, and they are appointed by the commander in chief. and aung san suu kyi took advantage of the victory by elections on april 1st. however the oath wording itself is written in the constitution and it is not easy to amend the sentences. president thein sein pointed out the amendment of the constitution is possible but only according to prescribed procedures, so it may take some time to resolve this problem. >> definitely not an easy task there. now japan decided to resume its aid. oda, eu and other countries are getting ready to ease sanctions against t

kudos. you can continue. >> ms. lombardo? >> one of the project that we alerted the supervisor to was a signal upgrade. it is funded by a highway safety improvement program grant. they got the paperwork in, but a day before the deadline. which is fine. we think the funds will stay there, but it is kind of like filing your taxes late. that means you have to enter the queue for caltrans to process it. and caltrans will do their best, but we are just keeping an eye on it. and died to also understand mta will become a year in july for a matching -- i also understand mta will be coming here in july for a matching funds the transition. this is another project we have flag here. this is the car anyway -- harney way project improvement. this particular scope is funded by an old federal earmarked. the project scope is expanding from four lanes to six lanes and include bicycle and pedestrian improvements and accommodates future cost rapid trend -- bus and rapid transit. everybody is trying to call back all of the grants that are out th

. >> i would say, kudos to kim for getting american steel. we can do things competitively. again, thank you. >> are we ready to vote? all in favor of all three resolutions at once? resolutions have passed. >> item 12, new business. >> public comment on new business? item 13, public comment? >> we do have one public comment. >> good afternoon. fellow citizens and commissioners. i am representing all the small boat operators that are on the jefferson street, part of pier 49. the subject is just one. and it has to do with the ongoing affluent -- effluent that has been coating everything on the jefferson street boca, our boats, our lines, our tourists as they come up and down the ladders, rashes that people have developed on their hands because of this pollution in the water, and the irony of it all is that fisherman's wharf is or was, should still be the third most visited tourist attraction in the world. after disney world, at the time it was 33 million. as disneyland, summer in the neighborhood of 20 million and san francisco which had 18 million visitors a year of the stati

kudos to what you have done. i did this 10 years ago, this husband -- we have nothing else to do. you guys have been great. not to pack your bags or anything, but it has been of pleasure. secondly, for what you have done, you can always correct me. thank you very much. three of my board members -- i received many phone calls today from people saying that we want to be in district 11. we have to vote at the palace and on the other side of the hill. i will make one more comment the supervisor had made. they basically stated on the other side, what you had done going into that, they were comfortable. i am not here to speak about david cooper, but we have had meetings on it. >> a long time -- i literally lived on the border. right in the middle of my street is the city. i wanted to say thank you very much for including chicago. we met with a number of members. they're very happy about that. thank you for your service. >> i wanted to say thank you for keeping chicago as part of district 11. >> i would like to thank you for putting it all back in district 5 and to keep all of you -- we

morning, you would have a real firestorm so we would be looking at more traffic, and i want to give kudos for not having a drop off at the end of today, but only at the beginning because i think that we would be able to return more spots to the streets. there is an extremely dangerous intersection. i walk my dog there every morning. we have to be careful about cars and with children at the school, we need a stop sign or a traffic light so we will have a better flow of traffic and other -- and a better neighborhood. we have to have the handicapped spot currently at the corner. we have to go around a spot in a handicapped spot to get to the zone. that would be a perfect storm for congestion. it is a mess. in conclusion, there are many concerns and we ask you to consider, and i thank you for my opportunity to speak tonight. >> i am at the top floor condominium at 19th street. we have lived in this condominium for six years. we are concerned about the relocation of the heating system in the basement. we do not see this as a necessary change but rather a desired change on the part of cds. this

. >> i want to start off by thanking you for your kudos. monday tuesday of this week -- boma is an excellent partner and has also helped us get the word out to your members on what to expect. you've clearly done a lot of groundwork on how to respond, to make sure that the activities are facilitated and not problematic. so i thank you for that. we have been meeting with the golden gate bridge authority and c.h.p. regarding the potential first amendment activity that may occur on the golden gate bridge on tuesday. c.h.p. is the lead law enforcement agency for that. the golden gate bridge authority is all over it as well, national parks, and we have a component of it as well. so there's several working plans in place to facilitate that, as with all first-amendment actions. making plans for how to facilitate and plan for things that might go awry. it is an event that has a beginning, middle and end, intended to draw attention during the morning commute hours. so i would be mindful of it but know that there's already plans in place. and the labo

morning, you would have a real firestorm, so we would be looking at more traffic, and i want to give kudos for not having a drop off at the end of today, but

dittos to the kudos and thanks and how intelligently you folks have handled this. i am back again to talk about the northern boundary of district 10 or the southern boundary of d6. i am asking again the move the line to 16th street. 10 years ago when the boundaries were drawn up, mission bay was in the development stage. we have redevelopment agency in place. as we move forward now, a lot of people think mission bay has been fully formed and the the medical center and so forth are pretty much a done deal. what you see being built at ucsf today which includes a teleport that we're able to move to the other side is half of the hospital. the other half is still to be completed. what i have on this map are couple of other reasons for a community of interest. this will stay in d10. 654 minnesota is a ucsf-owned building that contains their campus planning and police department. to say that ucsf needs to be contiguous up here does not move me at all. in this corner, we have spring park. it was given to the city by the spree corporation in exchange for forgiveness of impa

dittos to the kudos and thanks and how intelligently you folks have handled this. i am back again to talk about the northern boundary of district 10 or the southern boundary of

kudos to president obama signing the jobs act.ll make it easier for companies to raise capital. >> and with win for freeman, he has been writing it about two for he years. >> this is hit to landon crabtree, the family was burglarized. they lost electronic equipment. all the adults in the room thought it was gone for good. little 8-year-old been on line and figured out will his family stuff and a lot more loot had been stolen was all in motel room about four miles from the house. they cracked the case and got the stuff back. the moral of the story is, if you are having problems with electronics, find an eight-year-old. [ laughter ] >> this is one of holiest weekends of the year for most people and arab spring, one fearful event bombing of christian churches. this happened in egypt and nigeria. christians have lived with us lamb for thousands of years. i think many of these minority groups are going under more pressure in places like syria and tunisia. it's going to be a benchmark of islamic governments acceptance and treatment of t

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and you get kudos because he delivered some nice weather? >> it is very nice yesterday. plenty of sunshine. we were worried there would be rainshowers earlier in the week but it stayed nice and dry. today there's a lot of clouds outside so if you're heading out, and temperatures are on the mild side but we still have not seen as a whole lot of that sunshine that we are hoping to see later this afternoon. here's a look at your current conditions. plenty of 60s outside. 61 in livermore and 60 in santa rosa and san jose. here's our weather headlines. we have just one more friday, a mix of sun and clouds later this afternoon. more clouds tonight and then rain overnight and it looks like that rain will be sticking around. pretty much throughout the rest of the workweek. on the cooler side as well. here it is with satellite and radar, this is the low pressure system that is slowly moving closer towards the bay area giving us one more try day. and then rain by early tuesday. it will be a wet morning to you tomorrow. we will time out for you with futurecast. it looks tried to di

james, first to you kudos for it's easier for them to grow to raise capital and a win for america. >>or freeman and writing editorials for two or three years. >> a hit or landon crab tree from manchester whose family were burglarized. the adults in the room thought it was done for good and 8-year-old landon went online and downloaded an app designed to track ipads and figured out the stuff and loot stolen was all in a motel room. they cracked the case and got the stuff back. if you're having problems with electronics, find an eight-year-old. >> this is one of the holeiest weekends of the year for many people and a miss to the arab spring for not doing a better job of protecting christian minorities in that part of the world. and most of the events this weekend is a potential for bombing of christian churches that this happened before in egypt. and christians and others have lived with islam for thousands of years and many of these groups are going to become under more pressure and places like syria and tunisia and it's going to be a benchmark of these acceptance will be the treatment

commissioner murphy got some kudos for the work that he has done during his tenure on the commission, and perhaps, particularly during his tenure as president, and i think he gets credited more than anybody -- probably fairly so -- to whatever degree, i do not know, but to a fair degree gets credited for most of the work that was done in improving operations at thedbi and on the top floor. i happen to believe in my heart of hearts that the reason why he was able to do that is because he is in the trenches and knows the trials and tribulations that an average joe who walks in has to go through to get a permit. i am a believer in the guide that is in the trenches, the hands-on guy. i have an in-built adversity to a person who is totally hands- off. knowing mel personally and professionally, that has never been the case. he has to be hands-on, and i think that is why he was able to do a good job. i believe that is probably going to weigh in favor of commissioner mccarty's ability to lead at this point in time, to continue on whatmel -- webisodes -- what mel has started. he knows what it

it's early, but it's still a kudos for this team.ationals held their home opener and as they have done, they kept things interesting. after blowing a 2-0 lead in the 9th. they won thanks to a wild pitch in which ryan zimmerman scored from third. the nationals improved to #-2. it was an exciting game and the nats say you can get used to this winning stuff. >> it's great. i feel like we've been on the road for two months. spring training and open on the road. it was a great crowd. a lot of energy, you know, great game. >> when they were quitting, we have a great team. i think we showed that a lot last year and continued that today. so i think if the season goes on, people can come to expect that from us. >> we didn't come in trying to be mediocre and this year we're doing the same thing. we have intentions to win and we'll do everything we can to do that. >> now a staple. the president's race, of course; as we all know, teddy roosevelt has never won this race. the winless streak would come to an end. had he tied all of the other presid

. >> kudos to those kids, way to go! >>> he's accused of hitting and killing a concord father and his daughter. hours from now a teenaged driver may walk oft jail free. we are live with the legal maneuvering that has a lot of people asking why. >>> the new roadblock ross mirkarimi faces to be reinstated. >>> decision expected that could put college plans of thousands of south bay students in jeopardy.

i have to give united kudos. they kept their calm. and we sat on the tarmac for about two hours. i learned when the lightning hits, the ground crews can't come out. they need a 10 to 20-minute window before they can bring the plane in. an interesting night in the air tonight. >> it's too dangerous for our live trucks putting up a signal. welcome back to the bay oarea, diane. she was stuck on the tarmac. >> we saw passengers tweeting saying the flights were grounded. or they took off and got hit by lightning and had to turn around again. the airport wasn't the only place where the weather was show-stopping. our crews were in the bay area at the height of the storm. this is a little bit of what they saw. nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is in san francisco. what's it like where you are right now? >> it was a weather whirlwind in the bay area. you heard about the thunder, the lightning, the wind and the hail. but as you can see right now, guess what? it's not raining at all at at&t park. you could hear the thunder and see the lightning. this is what we saw out here for about two hours. he

kudos to the person who came up with that idea. the time and energy producing a project of this nature deserves its due. again, i support the approval of this project. thank you. >> tim, allen, jay. >> good afternoon. my name is lilly. i am an artist. the golden gateway development was once used to demonstrate accident -- excellent planning in art today which i studied in college. you open it up to excellent urban planning and there are three pages on the golden gate development of the 1970's. in 1960, nine architectural firms designed the golden gateway project. it had the foresight to plan for every one of the apartments to have a view unobstructed by other buildings in development. it allowed for space around and in front of each building, maintaining the shed. this plant should not be made obsolete. the project being reviewed today will block the view of almost every single one of those structures from the 12th story down. it will be right up against the golden way apartments, offering if your the neighbors' living room or bath

of intelligence was able to crew from this kind of thing my hat is off to the polls i have to say kudosto call it for finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable accountability is announced it has been missing from the vocabulary of washington officials and even jurists now is it is a puzzle the us administration has asserted the right to continue to do rendition but i have no indication that the kind of abuses that happened at cheney bush regime are continuing anywhere else in the world. back to our breaking news story this hour it has been reported that twelve out of the forty three passengers on board of a small passenger plane that has crashed near truman airport in russia's ural region are believed to have survived local rescue services say four crew members and thirty nine passengers were on board at the time some are said to be children the a.t.r. seventy two twin engine turboprop airliner is reported to have crashed shortly after takeoff some thirty kilometers from the airport and i can see services at the scene say the aircraft burst into flames when it hit

smart man i was the very persuasive boy has a very large one of the two but you know good for him kudos. but what's good for him is not good for the shareholders i can't see myself giving money. to a company. where i have no say so much the company does over fifty percent ownership of the voting shares he controls the company he is a very intelligent guy i have nothing against something that if i think i was him i'd love to have control of a multibillion dollar social networking company as well but if you look take a look at track record ok has he ever ran a public company before know as he ever ran a company had this before with a proven track record of success some would say yes but how does facebook does he have any competition signal. competition you know is a matter for some of the most powerful internet and media companies and wrote accounting for ok if you combine all that is it unassisted the rest concentrate so much power to one person without a successful track record and i think you need a success exactly to succeed but it definitely helps to combine that with the fact that t

from our man was the very persuasive has a very large crowd and one of the but you know good for him kudos. but what's good for him is not good for the shareholders i can't see myself on telly giving money. a company. where i have no say so in what the company does because over fifty six percent ownership of the voting shares he controls the company he seems like a very intelligent guy i've nothing against him so matter of fact if i was some i'd love to have control of a multibillion dollar social networking company as well but if you go look take a look as track record ok has you ever ran a public company before you know i see every brand company at this size before with a proven track record of success some would say yes but how does facebook does he have any competition significant competition you know it's about a focus on the most powerful internet and media companies and wrote accounting for ok if you combine all of that is it underscores that we concentrate so much one of a person without us and that's what's happening now i'm not saying you need a successor to succeed but it defini

of intelligence was able to crew from this kind of thing my hat is off to the polls i have to say kudos to all of for finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable for accountability he said now and it has been missing from the vocabulary of washington officials and even jurists now is it is a puzzle the us administration has asserted the right to continue to do rendition but i have no indication that the kind of abuses that happened at cheney bush regime are continuing anywhere else in the world and reports say the u.s. and north korea have held informal talks in germany amid growing tension over pyongyang's plans to launch a satellite in mid april the north says it has invited outside experts to prove its peaceful intentions however the u.s. and south korea believe the launch is really a long range missile test earlier the u.s. promised it would supply the communist state with food aid in return for its stopping nuclear and missile tests but washington recently announced it will suspend the program if the launch goes ahead and called the decision an overreaction bey

intelligence was able to crew from this kind of thing and my hat is off to the poles i have to say kudos to college for finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable accountability isn't now and it has been missing from local cab delivery of washington officials and even jurists now is it is a possible u.s. administration has asserted the right to continue to do rendition but i have no indication that the kind of abuses that happened and that cheney bush regime arcade cheney wing anywhere else in the world can yang has criticized the u.s. over its decision to suspend food aid to north korea calling it an overreaction beyond limit provisions were promised in return for the communist state stopping nuclear and missile tests north korea has refused to hold back its plans to launch a satellite in mid april and has reportedly invited outside experts to prove it is that doing so for purely peaceful purposes however the u.s. and south korea believe the launch is really a long range missile tests erica surat kim co-founder of the campaign to end of the korean war says washingt

. >> kudos. i'd be very anxious to see if you hit any bumps. >> okay. >> that seems reasonable to me, that you can restrict the number of tiers and requires the prime to do something other than being -- taking a cut off the top. >> right. >> we've got a lot of the those around. too many prime contractors that just take a cut off the top. that just means that they're managing the contract because we are not in a position to manage it ourselves. i'd like to see those kinds of contracts go away. let me now turn to broad-based questions. what is not in this legislation that you think should be? should we go further in any places? have we adequately addressed training? i worry that we haven't gone far enough on training. obviously we hollowed out the acquisition force in the '90s and paid a dear, dear price. think of the money that we lost because we had nobody finding the store in contracting. it is just mind-boggling. this is what's so hard about funding our government. because what sounds good in t

condoned by the secret service of poland by their intelligence people and by their top officials kudo's to call it so finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable accountability is a noun that has been missing from the vocabulary of washington officials and even jurists the us administration has asserted the right to continue to do rendition but i have no indication that the kind of abuses that happened and the cheney bush regime are continuing anywhere else in the worlds. he's painful at times of severe cuts and austerity in italy the autonomy's region of south taro in the cradle of the alps stands as one of the country's few islands of prosperity with the italian debt burden lighting hard he's a katherine groucho for a poor it's now the wealth gap is leading to a rise in support for a breakaway from rome. lost in translation between the alps and the mediterranean a population of half a million people and a lot of to become independent one day itself to roll a probe in sanaa lathan all these has never been italian says ever claude's as showing off her native town of

i have to say kudos to call it finally facing up to this problem and holding people accountable poll admits as opening an investigation into evidence of a secret cia prison on its territory where it's claimed prisoners were tortured. but first from the pirate party of russia to the group headed by billionaire tycoon mikhail a program of there's no shortage of fresh political blood hoping to find a place in russia's parliament this week with the president expected to sign a new laws making it easier for them to register the competition could get a whole lot stiffer artes and he said our reports on what's become a real party rush. politics in russia may never be the same protest have become a common sight and new parties are registering left and right as political reform starts reason them so former deputy prime minister in the ninety's is no stranger to the white house. confirmed was long on the political radar in two was funny or not as moving picked up after vast fraud claims against the december parliamentary vote now might be his chance to get back in the game to pressure only by

trying to do was to alter cargo planes majnu crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence kudos george matt has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play feel that victor and in particular charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man with a russian citizen or troy davis to be you know sentence right or trying to commit to boot is the second. since it isn't any year since a sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in the third mission both cases the major president said represents how worried he was trying to simply override the legal systems of other countries is this if you're going to see. washington used a legal loophole to entrap convict a victim that's according to american lawyer investment. the u.s. government takes a very aggressive approach extraterritorial like if someone is in london wire transfers a sum of money to an individual and beryllium under announced that they am the money kings through citibank in new york that pinging that t