hope that will help us to give us more tools to actually enforce. >> do we need to lobby at the state level? >> we would very much appreciate your support in that. >> okay. >> commissioner white? >> yes. in i remember correctly, the state practitioner license were harder to get, though, right? >> actually, our san francisco and dph certainly can speak to this but we actually require an exam. and the state certification does not. and there is, we recall the certain amount of hours? >> there is a deferring number of hours referred but on the local level we actually do have examples and the other problem is that even though you may be certified under more rigorous set of hours there is no local enforcement from the state officials, was there any possibility as far as making the san francisco requirement at the state level in regards to the hours? >> i think that they have been considering that, but i will defer to dph to speak to them. >> okay. >> all right. >> maybe i will call them up at this moment. >> okay. >> good evening, commissioners my name is scott, and i am the program manager of th

one of the main issues that i work on at the state level is actually cal fresh, a food stamp program which as you may know is functioning at a very low level statewide. we're the worst performing program in the entire country and that creates in and of itself a real gap in the access that our residents in san francisco have to getting resources in their hands that they can turn around and use immediately to buy healthy and nutritious food and to live healthy lives. so, that's something that a number of us at the task force are focused on and one of our main goals is making sure we as a local city and as a community are bringing in -- taking advantage of all of the programs that are out there that are federally funded, that are funded so that we are not only lifting up those who really need those resources, but also that we at the city are thinking of the larger system of food and helping people have access to it. thank you. >> supervisor breed? >> thank you. and i just want to personally thank you for the work that you do at the food bank when i was the director of the african-america

including bcdc and at the local regional and the state levels. also, with the sliding sea level, it will become increasingly difficult, to repair and maintain a port's piers. now, i will talk about the side and the liquidfaction issues. the ground below the structure resulting in sliding if you recall, joe's presentation, and the original coast line was somewhere along the western edge of the embarcadero and the space between the coast line and the existing coast wall is filled with soil, and several feet of ground and sliding of the sea wall, is expected, during the major seismic event and, although the flight risks associated with the sea level rise are expected to open gradually and either seismic event could happen any time, and the wide and spread chaos and destruction, and rebuilding, and this picture shows what could happen along the water front if we get 7.9 on the earthquake, a new building after the event will not be easy, it will be very expensive and it may take years. next to slides, shows enough time line of addressing sea level ris

"new york times" reports this morning that over the past few years it is legislation at the state level that's been the most aggressive about keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. measures that have often been approved by the nra. states like california, connecticut, and florida restrict people from buying guns if they have been deemed a danger to themselves or to others. one of the states that has been most aggressive on mental health and guns is new york, which requires mental health professionals to report dangerous individuals to local officials who can then revoke individual gun lances. joining me now is new york attorney general eric sneiderman. thank you for your time. >> thanks, alex. >> we started talking about this before the segment begins. most people think nra addition their heels in but in some states they are on board. how do you do that? >> it's not that hard. the idea of background checks started with nra years ago. my experience is, and look, i'm a progressive and supported every gun safety and gun control in the senate, national co-ch r co-chair, against

and utility commissions getting mixed messages about the fcc's role and that the state level saying don't worry, deregulate, the fcc will be there, in washington they're doing everything to make sure that the fcc will not be there. >> state regulators are confused, real people are confused and it goes back to something marti touched on, we can finish with some final thoughts before we start taking questions, one of the benefits of being in d.c. is we have as many experts in the audience if not more than you have in front of the supply interested to hear what questions we might get but there is this confusion and not like of concern or care about these issues that simple disbelief that consumer protections don't apply. i can call anybody i want to, what do you mean i can't do that with an e-mail or web site? why would that be different just because the technology has improved or change? why would suddenly i not have the same rights economically speaking and from an internet freedom standpoint. why can't i go and find out what steven is talking about? the i s p as the right to choose

you got a plot of people with the state level, at the federal level, that refuse to recognize that it is the law of the land. they're still pretending like it isn't and they can do away with it. its message gets stepped on a lot and i have some empathy for that. >> that was richard trumka talking to david shuster on, talk al jazeera. coming up, whether businesses and unions are warranted. for more on how businesses are dealing with the affordable care act we're joined about from sacramento by michael weinberg, for the bay area council a group of 250 businesses including google and facebook and he's helping them navigate the changes ahead. first the facts. the health care law hits a major landmark in the coming months. open enrollment to buy insurance through exchanges or marketplaces, starts in october. then, in january, insurance companies will no longer be able to drop people or deny coverage for preexisting conditions, gender, annual limits or because they're in clinical trials. also in january, americans must have insurance, or face fines. >>> the following year in 2015 the focus

all of its office and is the idea that everybody deserves health care is being attacked at the state level and i can see it at the local level, we supported a bill at ab880 that would force wal-mart and large employers to take responsibility for underemployment their employees and not giving them health care, that stalled at the state level largely because businesses stepped in and said we don't want these organizations to be forced to provide health care. i think it's the same notion that's coming here that the deconstructing powerful programs that are antipoverty programs that builds on the state's health, the president chose to take a year and step

state level, the top level. but it's not just outside groups, the parties are doing this, republican party is doing a lot in terms of both at the federal level and state level which is really your farm teams. this is where you get people that eventually become senators, that become governors and the like. the goal of recruiting 300 over the course of the next election psych yes. >> you look at alternatives to hillary clinton on the democratic side and most are white, you look to possible females, sarah palin not going to -- okay. then you were mentioning governor suzanne a martinez out of new mexico who is very good. and announced that she's running again in south carolina and had lot of big national names standing next to her. that was interesting. you were mentioning kelly from new hampshire. there are lot of women i think in the party who are at the right stature level in terms of experience, not just in elected office but former jobs as well that i think are ready for those runs if they want to make them. >>

all of its office and is the idea that everybody deserves health care is being attacked at the state level and i can see it at the local level, we supported a bill at ab880 that would force wal-mart and large employers to take responsibility for underemployment their employees and not giving them health care, that stalled at the state level largely because businesses stepped in and said we don't want these organizations to be forced to provide health care. i think it's the same notion that's coming here that the deconstructing powerful programs that are antipoverty programs that builds on the state's health, the president chose to take a year and step back from the employer mandate, part of the affordable care act. we think that showing that san francisco has a choice right now to step up and say healthy san francisco is the way to go, we're not going to give into the growing pressures of taking investment out of the community and say this is an antipoverty program, we want health care to resound and a right of all san franciscans and all californians, so we're asking for your leadership.

at the state level, as we face this huge budget deficit as well to make sure there is flexibility in spending at the local level. but i absolutely think that we need revenue measures that come on the ballot, and voters have to be thinking about ensuring that we have enough revenue so that we maintain infrastructure, the building and maintenance of the streets and buildings and even a kind of parts of the coat -- coast. the need to make sure infrastructure is there and also that we have money that -- to protect the critical safety net for seniors and young children and families and the most vulnerable in our communities as well, but i think those are key questions as the difficult budget for our city comes forward. i will be working with a coalition of family-based and community-based groups and seniors to ensure we protect our community-based services for seniors. >> what are your ideas on dealing with the issue of homelessness? >> i think homelessness has been this structural problem, not just in our city but other metropolitan areas, and i think, at least at the short term level, w

if you look at what is going on on the state level where people really are at the state level we havext cycle we will end up with 32 or 33 republican governors. we have the largest swing in state legislature from democrat to republican in the history that we have been counting this. the federal government is out of touch with the people so that is what you see in d.c. something the people don't want, at the state level getting the right thing and states will save the country. stuart: hold on a second, i went to bring everybody up to date on what is going on in the market anti-washington d.c.. right now the dow jones industrial average is on a nice rally up 110 points. this has got a lot to do with what we are hearing, what we are about to hear probably from john boehner. looks like there could be a deal of some sort on the budget. if that were the case, i don't know whether it is or not but if that were the case you would not have a government shutdown monday night going into tuesday morning. you would essentially put the shutdown, the default crisis often to october 17th when we run

at the state level that the level and the system, there's a revolution and that revolution is led by a man called iotolla and -- he's the leader of the supreme leader. the leader of the revolution. that's very important. and a revolution oh with institution to civilian and religious. some wonder. >>> let me just stop you right there. so, does a president rohauni have the authority to negotiate when the supreme leader has most of the pow stpher. >power? >> again, that's very president. president rohauni is for the government not for the state. at the hr*eft of the government it has to take care of the people that's concerned about their employment, job, housing. he try to open up for them to start the economy with him. i think the regime as a whole also has pressure and also a need that is opening but up to a point. there's a wall there for the regime. therefore, president rohauni can go to some extent. >>> let me try to address one issue that has been brought up. there was an interview that the president did with christian annapour in which he condemned the holocaust. tonight, state-

mayor willie brown is there (clapping) >> at the state level back in those years all of our members of the board of supervisors. thank you. our elected officials from the treasure to the our state assembly is here. and commissioners and staff and everybody from the city family our city attorney thank you for your wonderful work. wonderful work. (clapping) ladies and gentlemen in those times in those moments when people like phyllis stooped and said we're not going to take discrimination we're going to do something about it. when stuart and john looked for courage in people and they found one person among in one person who used the power of his office to make history by also to express the love of this city because that's the most important thing you love the city you do what's right no matter what the consequences that that's what gavin newsom has done. courage respect, love for the city and love for the people (clapping) >> lieutenant govern gavin newsom (clapping) thank you, mayor human resources how you all feeling? >> (clapping) >> what a day. a special day. let me thank you, mayor

we get real focused on the national community but it's at the state and local level. and even smaller towns across the country. so the messages it is from the state and local level first >> let's hear from our young entrepreneurs. your creating jobs and paying taxes when you hear this from people what you do you say >> i've definitely paid hoof taxes. the short answer is yeah, the silicon valley if that were not true. it would be like the - i know i've spent a lot of time with interesting people from all over the world and their successful people and their passionate about being here and their contributing to the economy >> i like to give the example of football. imagine the 49ers and we're going to be playing with another team but what if it is other team had 13 or fourteen people. we have to see the u.s. as a team are the other countries and we're limiting the team on the field and if canada is allowing their team to to compete against us. to not allow the 49ers to come to the game is not making sense. you want to have the largest team i can in order to beat the comp

on the health service board and to the league even if cities an organization that really seeks state level and our very own treasurer jose was elected which the for the upcoming year. in 2011 we voted to have 1 hundred participation that is a league for public health advocacy such physical activity and health food for all residents. the heal program respected unhealthy food and the city is host a 60 class project on cooking and smart shopping. 1 hundred and 62 cities in the state of california signed on. we're fortunately that we have a wellness serve like stress management classes but we still estimate that 68 percent of our city employees suffer from an imagine. and we want to expand on the programs started by katherine and thus becoming part of the cities heal campaign. i want to let everyone know i support the s b-746 that passed in the assembly and was presented to governor brown and sent this letter to governor brown and asked him to sign the letter. this bill is important because we need transparence and it's needed to control the x latino costs in the state. we want to negotiate an

level and we you know hardly saw it on a state by state local level so i think that that's probably where where you would would accurately say but they failed right i think that it was kind of the benefit and the failure was the lack of leadership and i really would have loved to have seen a lot more of leadership and organization in terms of putting people up in prominent positions that could have maybe gained some political traction they're not even though encampments aren't up anymore they've been multiple spin off groups of occupy rolling as you believe in and other things what do you think about the evolution of the movement now into more issues specific direct action groups well i think what's curious here is when people talk about you know whether or not occupy is still alive have they completely fallen apart the curious thing are these smaller groups and to some extent the officials that diderot akkad thought they were eradicating occupy wall street by a victim them from these big or permanent camps what they ended up doing is because they threw people out of the park and other ca

president obama directed his secretary of state sit down with his iranian counterpart in the highest levelks held between united the united states and iran in more than 30 years. mr. obama stated his desire to chart a more moderate path and to talk about relations between iran and the united states and the iranian nuclear program. but so far, no progress has been made. just two hours after the statements, the iranian regime declined to offer to have an encounter between president obama and president mohammad. on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly. a senior obama official said that it is too complicated for the iranians to do at this point. president obama left no stone unturned in today's speech to the united nations from syria to israel to egypt, iraq and afghanistan and the arab spring. the president press for peace, but warned of u.s. power. he countered american exceptionalism and claim that america is a safer place since he became president. but outside the president's wide-ranging focus, it remains on iran. chief correspondent and henry has our report. >> after days

we get real focused on the national community but it's at the state and local level. and even smaller towns across the country. so the messages it is from the state and local level first >> let's hear from our young entrepreneurs. your creating jobs and paying taxes when you hear this from people what you do you say >> i've definitely paid hoof taxes. the short answer is yeah, the silicon valley if that were not true. it would be like the - i know i've spent a lot of time with interesting people from all over the world and their successful people and their passionate

. >> i understand that the state level at 1 hundred and 20 feet our required to do the sir, elevator below 120 there's no state code why didn't we decide to give them the option of picking between the systems. >> >> thank you. next speaker if the building wants to put in the fire system they can; right? >> but it would be on top of the elevator. >>right. >> i thought you said in san jose they can pick between the two. >> it's basically, the same so at that 75 feet you're required to put in a fire system but if you want to do the expectation for the elevator then the fire system goes way; right? >> right but you can't put in the fire system and not put in the elevator. >> he can. >>right. >> either 75 or 120? >> right it all depended on on the building. >> i know that anyone can install this on top of our requirements but it's a chris's choice between one or the other. >> i would say it's a choice it's a requirement of 1 hundred - >> i'm sorry. i'm asking about the code amendments before us today my understanding is that we're now putting a new requirement which the the fire service el

next up, it does take great leadership from our elected leaders and another true example at the state level for us has been phil king. also he's on the state assembly. he's that young dad with two kids and uses our parks and play grounds all the time. he couldn't be here, but i have [speaker not understood] to say a very brief word to present a proclamation. thank you. >> thank you so much, phil. i'm here on behalf of assembly member tang as phil mentioned. this is a wonderful park truly an effort on behalf of the community. we're here on behalf of the state assembly to present proclamations to the friends of lafayette park, rec and park, dpw, and carina as well. thank you so much, bill, and we'll be handing these out. >> thank you all. clap lap (applause) >> all right. ~ next on the line up, batting third, if you l he's the district 2 supervisor. he's a dad, he's a playground lover. he's a half decent athlete and he is a true, true, true advocate for our parks. representing the board and mark what i think i'm going to do is give you the mic and have scott and john join you to say a few qui