mr. mitchell here? >> are you mr. mitchell? >> mr. mitchell? >> please come forward. good afternoon, mr. mitchell. >> good afternoon, my name is jim mitchell, my company is j mitchell group in san francisco. i've been an lbe for 21 years in this city and i came today to get paid. i was a subcontractor for 13 years on your worker's compensation program. i have an outstanding invoice of $66,000 that you guys have done an investigation on and found out that the crime was in noncompliance of 14b. that amount totals $18 million in contracts over 13 years, of which i was the subcontractor. the 5 percent goal was not met. yet and still in your investigation you saw fit to find out that the $800 million a year contractor who had the contract was in fact in compliance and didn't have to pay. right now i have a $66,000 invoice that's been outstanding with mta for the last 7 months and there have been several, there's been an investigation and on behalf of your compliance officer that found out that my case has merit. that was in the last letter that we received in november the

mr. mitchell's problem at some point. mr. chairman, moving on to your consent calendar, these items are kered to be routine unless a member of the public or member of the board wishes to have an item severed or considered separately. i will not read them all but no member of the public or member of the board has asked an item be severed. >> item 11, the regular calendar amending the transportation code to either restrict commercial passenger vehicles with more than 9 seats, accepting employer shuttle busses on street segments on the alamos square neighborhood and making traffic and parking modifications east of pierce and repeal an expired exception to the street restrictions for people activity busses operating on segments of lyon and chestnut streets. this is option 1. commercial 2 is excepting certain activities but permitting enclosed passenger vehicles to operate on hayes street and then making the required, the necessary traffic, parking and traffic modifications including establishing a tour bus loading zone on the nor

mr. mitchell here? >> are you mr. mitchell? >> mr. mitchell? >> please come forward. good afternoon, mr. mitchell. >> good afternoon, my name is jim mitchell, my company

mr. jones. >> bill mitchell, a 30-year news veteran has covered many rock slides during his career, but none this big. >> and then she came back over and she said, why don't you guys move back a little ways. she said, i'm hearing things up on that mountain that really unnerve me. i said, what are you hearing? she said, i'm hearing pops and snaps and things that make me believe some more debris may come down. so we moved back about 20 yards at that time. >> i heard a sound that sounded like a car door slam. a really sharp rapport. i talked to steve, the county maintenance supervisor and said, have you heard this sound before? he said, yeah, we did indeed hear this before. i said, we have to get all this construction equipment stopped. we have to hear what's going on. >> they stopped the jackhammer and moved the construction and news crews even further back. >> vanessa goes on and she takes a look at the mountain and then she walks back and she's talking to some of the tdot personnel. and all of a sudden they start walking back, she jumps in her car and drives to the other end of the road, and they

mr. reid: madam president, if it were in order which it's not i would ask that the record be spread, this resolution just passed with the same tim mitchell on it. i've followed baseball from the time i was a little boy and i consider myself a fan of payable baseball, love baseball. but i have never known a more rabid fan than tim mitchell who as we depend on so very, very much to help us work through all the things we do here in the senate. he is a fan bordering on illness, supporting this team. he has -- has a red sox tie, pin, i expect next to see if he lifted up his shirt he'd have a tattoo of the red sox. i ask unanimous consent when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 10:30 a.m. on wednesday, november 6 and following the prayer and 34re7b8g, the morning business deemed expired, the time for the two leaders reserved for use later in the day, following any leader remarks the motion to proceed to s. 815 the employee nondiscrimination act be agreed to and the senate begin consideration of the bill. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask th

mr. haiyan hit. the storm was downgraded to a tropical storm as it entered southern china. >> for more on the storm's track, let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchells downgraded, the final advisory has been written on it. you can see what happened as it made that hit into seat mom, china, now areas of rain, leaving devastation in its track especially for the philippines where we are still seeing showers in the southern part of the island. so many people are now homeless, you don't want any new weather adding to those concerns. now is the time when all the assessors will go back in to see how strong that storm actually was. >> this was obviously a very powerful storm, left a path of destruction. where does it rank among other storms? >> we are still getting all that data in. in the united states, we always here about my reserve job, my colleagues with the hurricane hunters that actually fly and collect the data. that doesn't go on in the western pacific. the united states is the only country that does that. something like a hurricane camille tops the list, wind speeds of 190 miles per hour. the labor day hurricane is after that. then in 2010, there