are there any additional nominations? there being no further nominations, nominations are closed.am clerk could you go to public comments. >> the next item on the agenda is the opportunity for the public to address the board for two minutes under the purview of the board, particularly for the nomination of president of the board. a person using a translation system will be allowed twice the time. total testimony may be limited to 30 minutes. please make your way to the chamber door now; a by majority vote the board chooses to reopen nominations additional public comment would be in order but specific to the nominations at the time. >> thank you madam clerk. if there are members of the public watching these proceedings from other venues within city hall and you wish to speak in public comment make your way up to the chamber. will provide youth with opportunity. two minutes per speaker.

nominations. >> a member may nominate themselves. second nomination is welcome but not required. members do not accept nominations and can withdraw their name anytime without a second. members and nominate one person in there is one seat to fill. to reopen it may be done with a majority vote. public comment can be taken on the new nominations. >> president: with that we will proceed with making a nominations for the office of president of the board supervisors; i will call supervisors as i see their name on the roster. supervisor yee. >> i would like to be able to do this first order of business as a supervisor and nominate david chiu as the president for the new term. and do this with a lot of happiness to see that what we have seen in the city's movement of improvement of services and life for our residents in san francisco, that i want to see this continue with a strong leader that can and is willing to be able to work with everybody in this room. it is very important for me whoever the president is that he or she should reach out

didn't get the nomination.ve been the first in 20 years. >> "les miz." >> adele, "skyfall." right it down. >> we have to take a short break and come back, we'll be talking to seth macfarlane about his oscar nod. that's straight ahead. we're back in just a moment. when, but thieves can steal your identity and turn your life upside down. >> hi. >> hi. you know, i can save you 15% today if you open up a charge card account with us. >> you just read my mind. >> announcer: just one little piece of information and they can open bogus accounts, stealing your credit, your money and ruining your reputation. that's why you need lifelock to relentlessly protect what matters most... [beeping...] helping stop crooks before your identity is attacked. and now you can have the most comprehensive identity theft protection available today... lifelock ultimate. so for protection you just can't get anywhere else, get lifelock ultimate. >> i didn't know how serious identity theft was until i lost my credit and eventually i lost my

veterans' affairs committee nomination 1948, homeland security nomination 1698. public courts committee nominations 1966, 65, 64, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1398, 1950, that the nomination be confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be no intervening action or debate, any related statements be printed in the record and the president be notified. i ask -- the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: i ask consent now that we move the following nomination under the executive calendar, 1566, 19 34, 19 45rbge confirmed and motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, no further motions be in order to the nominations, statements be printed in the record and the president be notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. reid: i ask the homeland security committee be discharged from consideration of h.r. 46 -- 4365. the presiding officer: without objection the committee is discharged. the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: i ask unanimous cons

if they nominate five, they can be shut out. if they expand it to six, seven, eight, it should be in there. we saw silver linings play book in there which has become a darling for the academy. >> my favorite category is director. you have an all-star team of directors who probably will get nominated this year. >> absolutely. it's going to be a fun morning. kind of like my pro bowl announcement of entertainment this morning, john berman. >> we are glad to share this pro bowl moment with you. >>> we want to hear your predictions and opinions. go to the starting point blog at cnn.com/startingpoint. we're asking for your picks for best actor, best actress, best picture. you can tweet us at startingpoi startingpoint #cnn. >> here is christine romans with the top stories. >>> president obama considering the use of executive order to bypass congress and fast track comprehensive new gun control laws, that's according to joe biden. biden meets with the nra and representatives of the entertainment industry and sportsman and wild life grou

and is there any other nomination? >> i would second that nomination. >> okay. it has been seconded. is there any public comment before the board votes on this? eseeing none, if you could call the roll on the nomination of the vice president? >> okay. we have a motion from vice president fung to elevate commissioner lazarus to the vice presidency of the board of appeals. on that motion, president hwang? >> aye. >> commissioner hurtado is absent. commissioner lazarus? >> aye. >> and commissioner honda? >> aye. >> thank you. the vote is 4-0 and commissioner lazarus is elevated to vice president. >> congratulations, [ applause ] . moving on to the office of president, any nominations for that office >> if i may speak again. president hwang has only served for a few months. she has not served a full term and it would be my pleasure to nominate her to continue as president of this board. >> thank you, commissioner fung. i would be delighted to accept that nomination. it's been interesting and i'm not prepared to end this, so i would definitely like to proceed with an

. >> "argo" has been nominated. somebody tell cranston he can unchurch his teeth now. >>> welcome back, everybody. i'm soledad o'brien, joined by showbiz tonight anchor. a.j. hammer. >> first we know what is nominated for this year's academy awards. we want to go tony shell turn t tu nischelle turner. >> the academy has the leeway to nominate five to ten pictures, they nominated ten movies, "amar'e r "amore." "lincoln," "silver linings playbook." "zero dark thirty." the best actor category, a strong category but a big snub it seems in this category. nominees are bradley cooper, daniel day lewis, hugh jackman, denzel washington, and no john hawkes for "the sessions." a lot of people thought he would get it. best actress. jessica chastain, jennifer laurence, naomi watts, guvenzhane wallis. and naomi watts. such a great performance. we also had the supporting categories, this, again, for the men, a very strong category, this year the nominees for best supporting actor are alan arkin or "argo." robert de niro for "silve

the nominations are ahead.ee the academy awards on february 24th. >>> and now, it's time for the weather. ginger zee, in for sam this morning. >> this used to be a front yard until yesterday, when they got almost seven, up to eight inches of rain in southern louisiana. this is livingston, louisiana. i have pictures for you from ascension. this is all near baton rouge. they had major flooding. roads were closed. and it's not over. not yet. two to three inches for jackson, new orleans, mobile. this is also in tornado watches until later this morning or early this afternoon. and not just the severe storms around the top of it. the rain stretches to where it gets cold. and icy spots in northern minnesota. your local forecast in 30 seconds. a spectacular sunrise this g in arlington, virginia. degrees in washington and 39 at dulles. partly cloudy today and you'll daymore clouds late in the l be in thes wil and a look at our have aay forecast -- we showers tomorrow late day and sunshine and temperatures war >> along t

>> ben affleck was not nominated. and katheryn bigelow was not nominated.e that they put in there were for superb movies. "amore" is a foreign foreign film about an old couple's life. and the little girl in the movie. quevenjhene wallis. lied when she got the part. now she's nine. she's the youngest best actress nominee in history. and emanuelle riva is the holdest best actress nominee, 85. >> the little girl is unbelievably cute. i hear she's u perssuperb in th movie. she's never acted before. >> it's a breathtaking brilliant performance. the best i've ever seen by a child actor. her father was played by the guy who happened to own the bakery near the set. they say hey, you want to play the father? he's brilliant too. this is a message. don't get real actors. >> she's 9 and adorable. >> i hate to see her compete especially with the old lady. i think jessica chastain will win. i was surprised to see joaquim phoenix nominated he was brilliant in "the master." i was glad to see him get a nomination. >> any more predictions that you like to make? >> obviously

joining us now to discuss what's going on with all these nomination nominations, our white house correspondentanna keilar, at the east room of the white house, and jim acosta at capitol hill and chief national correspondent john king and chief political analyst gloria borger. let's going to to the white house first. brianna, set the scene for us, and walk us through what we're about to see. >> reporter: we're here in the east room, wolf. we're expecting president obama will come out and say, obviously, a few words about former senator chuck hagel. we're also expecting in attendance the acting director of the cia and that we will be seeing john brennan here. obviously, as you know, wolf, some of the major issues that we expect critics already talking about having, for instance, with chuck hagel, that that perhaps may not be something that the president addresses very overtly. this will be something that the white house continues to push back on as they have. for instance, his remarks before when he referred to the leading pro-israel lobby as the jewish lobby. that is something that hagel has ap

steven spielberg nominated as well. all nine movies nominated. maybe you saw one of the movies.t is no secret they expanded that group of movies in the running. best in the business at picking the winners is tom o'neil. he is here with me now. the reason you are the best in the business at picking the winners, you do goldderby.com. i don't know if it is a science or running the data. whatever it is, i want to talk about it. i had no idea you were bringing this in. >> it is the real thing. they rarely go up for sale. only oscars made before 1950 can be bought and sold. this is from 1946. it is anna and the king of siam, best set decoration. it was up for best picture and wind on to inspire "the king and i." >> why would anyone want to sell the oscar? >> in this case, it was the grandson. his grandfather had won several and he wanted to dispose of one of them. bill murray, i was very upset there was no mention of bill murray. >> it is delightful. >> he is amazing. am i out of it. did i expect he was going to be nominated? >> a lot of jaw-dropping a-listers. there was no. there wer

nominations in her career.k 30." but emmanuelle riva and wallis and helen mirren, throws this race wide open. >> people loved jennifer lawrence, she had a huge box office hit and proves hollywood loves winners. she's serious but not lindsey lohan, young but doesn't act like a fool around town and people love her seriousness. >> and "silver linings playbook" is the only one to have actor nominees in all four categories so obviously they've taken to that movie. >> very exciting and much more about the oscars in a moment. first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> back now with more on the academy award nominations, thanks for sticking around, guys. we were talking about it before the break. and "the sessions," where they had to make choices about ac for and actress, clearly only one got the nod. >> hawkes was so great in that movie and in any other time he would have been nominated. and joaquin phoenix who had been shut out in other awards got in. >> some people didn't like it. it was difficult and hard to under. >> joaq

three oscar hosts nominated. emmanuelle riva, not only the oldest actress nominated.hat's the big shock of the day, that people like kathryn bigelow got passed over. >> you have emmanuelle riva and quvenzhane wallace. >> i think a lot of people are excited to see that. >> and a movie that dominated headlines after the big ones, the big moneymakers, "django unchained." >> people love that movie. it gets people talking. same with "zero dark thirty." a lot of conversations over movies people have seen. >> no acting nominations to speak of. you talk about sweeping the technical categories. >> except for the tiger. >> i hope nobody tells him he didn't get nominated. >> no ben affleck. no leo dicaprio. >> no john hawkes, for "the sessions." and joaquin phoenix for "the master," which didn't have the performance a lot of people thought it was. >>> we have sally field coming up. emma stone and seth macfarlane, coming up. >>> let's get to ginger and the weather. >> the women of delta sigma theta. we're staying warm out here. let's look at the forecast, though. they're getting

and the fact that in nominating him.hink he the right and left both oppose him -- you know, the extreme right and the extreme left -- tells me that he is probably espada dashon nomination. and he has served honorably -- he is probably a spot-on nomination. he is someone who served honorably in vietnam. he received awards. host: two purple hearts, is that what you meant? caller: yes, he was decorated. i think he is a -- an excellent choice. host: we will go to illinois. caller: some of you folks do not understand the code words being used by anti-semites. jewish lobby, that is a code word. let's grow up a little bit. mayor ed koch throughout an editorial him about obama is tht israel in the back and he thought he would. chuck heigl is no friend of israel. whether he is anti-semitic in his heart, i do not know. i'm saying that as a christian. do not accuse me of being the so-called jewish lobby. there is a good web site called chuckheihagel.com that has a lot of interesting information. i served in vietnam and that does no

i would like to withdraw my nomination. i do want to thank many of the members here that are supportive. i'm happy to support another leader on the board of supervisors, one of the nominated two years ago who has shown leadership and has showed that he is able to collaborate and bring together an agenda. i look forward to supporting him today. thank you. >> president: thank you supervisor kim. supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: the beautiful thing about leadership is that you don't need to position, right? you don't need a title? you don't need a soapbox. all you need is a vision. i was moved today listening to public comments. listening to our attorney general speak. listening to supervisor campos and avalos. as well as the new members on the board. it really frames who we are as a people, as the city and as a country. we stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us. i would not be here if it were not for president abraham lincoln who demonstrated outstanding leadership. put his own political career on the l

nominations? public comment? >> actually, commissioners, the next in order would be for the nominees to provide a statement. >> well, thank you, luke and i would be honored to serve another year as president. yes, i am involved with small business week and the one thing that is my passion is the neighborhood business corridors. we're seeing more and more involvement by a lot of our neighborhood merchant corridors, especially in last few years. and like last week we did the awards last week, which i attended. the winner was the lower haight merchant association. and i just get a thrill out of see some of these newer organizations getting involved in small business issues. so i would like to really continue on with that and working with mayor lee's office, because the biggest challenge, i think, which is a good challenge is the implementation of proposition e that passed. so that is it. >> thank you, mr. president. the next item would be commissioner comments? >> i would like to say how much i agree

any nominations? commissioner mendoza. >> it would be my honor to nominate sandra fewer. >> i think we will close the nominations there, what do you think? would we like to make the same, i will hear the same motion for acclimation. >> second. >> congratulations. [applause] >> i have the pleasure of announcing that commissioner sandra fewer has been elected vice president of the board of education. congratulation. and now we will do the ceremonial changing of the seats. while waiting, do tu -- do you want to say something about the information? we will talk about ta --- that later. we have approval of the minutes, none tonight and we have the superintendent's thoughts for the evening, superintendent caranza. >> thank you, and to the parent and student and all of our colleagues, teachers, paraprofessionals, all of our support staff and administrators. welcome back, happy new year, 2013 is well underway. i would like to welcome you back to what i know is a successful spring this year. and i hope you enj

they were nominated for two supporting actor nominations dicaprio.ou said, picture and director which was noteworthy. >> yeah, absolutely. scott, we thank you for joining us this afternoon here. the golden globes are starting in just a little bit. i'm anxious to see who is going to take home the award tonight. now, when we come back, we are going to talk a little bit fashion. yes, we love to look at the fashion, too. brooke is still here with me. joe z. our fashion analyst is here. >> hello. >> you look beautiful. >> you look amazing as well. >> what are you wearing? who are you wearing? >> we are going to come back and talk all things fashion. stay with us. mmmm tasty. and cut! very good. people are always asking me how we make these geico adverts. so we're taking you behind the scenes. this coffee cup, for example, is computer animated. it's not real. geico's customer satisfaction is quite real though. this computer-animated coffee tastes dreadful. geico. 15 minutes could save you 15 % or more on car insurance. someone get me a latte will ya, pleas

i would like to nominate tom nolan as the chair. >> thank you, any other nominations? are you sure? [ [ laughter ] nominations for vice-chair? >> director rebekkah? >> i would like to nominate cheryl brinkman? >> any other nominations, seeing none, we can take them both together? >> yes. and you should inquire as to whether or not members of the public would like to comment. all those in favor of electricking tom nolan chair and cheryl brinkman vice-chair? aye. >> the ayes have it, so order. look forward to a good year. thank you on airplane, 2012 he returned to enforcement as a pco supervisor. supervisor cal calgaro is well-liked and respected by his colleagues and leads by examplele and is positive in his interactions with the public. on october 31, 2012, the day of the giant's world series parade a citizen brought to his attention that a man was attempting to slash people with a pair of scissors near grove and larkin. he asked the citizen to point out the suspect, and notified our dispatch, so the police came and apprehended the suspect as soon as possible. he also asked the witn

>> i was not surprised by this nomination. primarily because we heard of it over the last several weeks. senator haig settle hagel is a leader of independent mind, he has a deep background in foreign policy and matters. he has two purple hearts. this was a gutsy nomination by the president to put him forward. this is where the policies align very well with the president and that's what the american people asked for in the election in november. >> john: how much of this criticism has to do with mr. hagel and how much is directed at president obama. >> right now there is a battle within the republican party for the direction of their foreign policy. there are realists and chuck hagel comes from that camp. and then there are the neo-conservatives, lindsey graham start from south carolina, bill kristol more of that camp. chuck hagel opposed the surge in iraq quite vocally in 2007 and for that he has been seen as a bit an outlier in foreign policy republican foreign policy circles. we're going to see this play out in the next sever

karen, lindsey graham saying this is an in your face nomination. he would be the most antagonistic secretary of defense. sharp words, which probably p r portends something more than just policy disagreements. >> true, although at this point lindsey graham has kind of lost all if not most of his credibility because he sort of has been balking at just about everything, and he has been pretty much following john mccain's lead on most things. >> it's worse that we don't know where john mccain is on this. >> he has been such a follower on so many issues so far that i -- him saying that, you know, this is a guy who is running the atlantic council and that's out of the mainstream. i think there's a little -- a credibility check. the challenge, i think, for the administration is going to be that this nomination means they're going to have to do work on both the democratic and the republican side, and, you know, usually when you are a democratic president, it's who are the key men who have worked on these nominations. who are the key republican senators? we

from the prospect of nominating her. they allowed her to take her name out of the running when republicans attacked her for the grave, grave crime of saying something wrong on sunday morning talk shows. something that by the way turned out to be mostly correct. but never mind, they criticized her anyway, and the white house did not back her up in the face of that criticism, and her name was removed from consideration. now, faced with another high profile nominee who has attracted loud republican nomination, this time it appears the white house is not backing down. this time president obama has officially nominated chuck hagel to be secretary of defense as of today. interestingly, another potential nominee for a big high profile national security job for this white house who president obama reportedly initially wanted, but who also backed off from was this guy, john brennan. this was john brennan with president obama when president obama first took office. john brennan was reportedly president obama's choice to lead the c

jim parsons and alec baldwin who are both nominated for best actor in a comedy series. they have already arrived and i definitely hope to snag them for you. back to you. >> you want to keep watching because these are faces and names you will know, nischelle. and tonight the actors of the members union are going to be giving you their say. we would love for you to get involved as well. we're going to might easy. you can sound off on our cnn poll. you can pick which performed the best in your mind in 2012. we're doing it in these categories, film, tv comedy and tv drama and the nominees are listed for you to select from. stay with us because we'll give you updated voting throughout the hour. it may be a a very great hint, nischelle, as to who's going to walk away with awarding tonight. >> this is tough for me, a.j., because i feel like it was a very good year for film and i think television stepped it up a not because there were so many times people could stretch the limit on cable. so i think it was a good year all around for hollywood. now, when you go into these award