award to black coalition on aids to perform brown field's out reach services some background united states epa awarded the department a grant to perform a community-wide assessment, and we will use this federal funding, to perform an inventory of the sites on the eastern side of the bay view community. and this is to support the green way, awarded of the open space corridor, e tending the bay trail south ward from att park to candle stick park and we are going to conduct the side investigations and we have a technical contractor. and urs corporation and we issued an rfp to get the services of a non-profit group to help with out reach. earlier this year, in may, i stood before you seeking your approval for an out reach grant award, that was continued. and we basically decided that the best approach to take was to reissue the rpf that was done in july and a new panel of evaluate ors was convened and we have five applicants that were scored by three, and the strongest proposals that received the score of 70 points or higher, and then, we will move forward to the second stage of oral interviews. t

activists in the united states are suing the epa to impose a similar ban. the world would be a lesser place without the honeybee. a quarter of our diet depends on their pollinating skills, but we also admire their beauty, and grace. observe. the environmental writer bill mckibben narrates this short film "dance of the honeybee." >> let's think about bees in the hive. they go out every day when the temperature is high enough. there're not like other farm animals, they're this weird wonderful cross between wild and domestic and they head out into the open world and they come back as it were, with reports about that world, you know, what it's like miles away. so one little bee yard some place is a kind of hub for understanding whole huge swath of territory. understanding whether it's been farmed well, or treated as kind of a monoculture. whether it's being saturated in pesticides or whether it's producing a wide beautiful variety of flowers of all kinds. they are our sort of accomplices in figuring out how healthy and together our landscapes really are. one of

we have three federal court decisions recently slapping down the epa for issuing these overreaching regulations. but if the united states supreme court sides with us in this argument it could mean the epa and other federal agencies no longer get to operate with this nod and wink approach. people go along with the reality that the epa is making up new rules and regulations that actually contradict the laws passed by congress. we need to remember, shannon, that it is the united states congress, the people elected to go to washington, d.c. that write the laws and not agencies like the epa. what happened in this case is the epa got completely out of control. they wrote their own rules, regulations and laws that violate and frankly contridict what the laws have passed by the united states congress say. hopefully the united states supreme court say we will no longer tolerate business as usual in washington, d.c. >> well, and you mentioned congress. a couple of gop congressmen have raised issue with another rule being, woulded on with the clean water act and how far they can go whether it is regulating a popped on your propert

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epa. this is the most draconian find anywhere in the united states of america. >> how are they getting eggmes they get away with it. sometimes they don't. when the supreme court ream renned them in a few years ago, they dropped 90% of the cases that they were pursuing. >> you think this is on the same track? >> yes, i do. but in the interim, a lot of good, decent, hard-working people will fall victim to these monsters in washington because the president believes that they should be able to control these aspects of our lives. >> it all falls under the clean water act. we all want clean water, but not this. >> no. i can't imagine anybody, except the regulators wanting this. >> of course. thank you very much. >> pleasure. >> didn't know about that, did you? coming up, the president said if you can't get into the obamacare web site, just call the hotline. so what happened when sean hannity called? we'll play the tape so you can hear who he talked to. plus, he played tv's most beloved mailman on "cheers." he joins us live to talk about his new project that's made in america. >> trial, cliff, wi

united states but you democrats can cannot talk about raising revenue. the only thing we want to talk about is cutting, cutting, cutting. they will cut anything. head start, education, epa. i do not like ebay very much but it will cut it -- epa bury much but they will cut it. you cannot solve ends with a one-sided equation. there has to be a balance. we have to start paying down our long-term debt. that is one thing i want to say. i do not want anyone and his government or world or my state or the nation to think democrats are not concerned about the debt. we are concerned about the debt. we do not like the debt being this high. ways.t to try to find we have reduce with a republic colleagues spending trillions of dollars in the senator from tennessee to its credit because i have not been in those negotiations and i was not a part of the group. i was not on the simpsons bowl but he is-bowles tried to, with a grand bargain. that strengthens our economy and is not pulled the road from underneath it. not pull the rug from underneath the. because the senator from texas, senator cruz, senator leahy from utah said no, we cannot go to budget because unless you democrats agree b

united states, it's not done on public land, done on private lands and so far the epa has looked away found out that there wasn't a real problem. and i know there's gas land and i know the other side, fracking. i'm an environmentalist. i know people feel i just play one on tv. fracking is working in this country and it's been a great development. >> and you've done a lot of work in what you would not think about you being involved. let's go to bob pisani. >> we had three pricings today, one here and two on the nasdaq. all talking below the price talk. we're looking here at sprague resources, an oil and gas distribution and storage company, pricing 8.5 million shares at $18. but the price talk was 19 to 21. it's looking $17 to $18. we'll get you more on the two nasdaq ipos in a few minutes here. we have good news from ups generally, microsoft also generally good news, amazon good news. ups, for example, beat by a penny. international package volume here up 6%, domestic package volume up about 2%, that's a decent number as well. when resorts look good in mckau, ebidta up and they're com