they fought with the prejudice and became a unit. >> do you think the story line in comics are gettingore diverse or are main stream audiences noticing what existed all along? >> i think there's a new conversation about diversity in commissi comi comics, particularly when it comes to gender. female fans are now half the audience, and yet the - in some ways comics have been lagging behind in terms of positive representation of women in the pages of comics themselves. it's an ongoing conversation. i think there has been improvement, but i think any time that you have a new character, particularly a female or mainority character headlining the book, it's something of a cam bit. at the event of the day it's a publishing day, coming down to sales. it's hard to predict how about the market will respond to something like that, whether people will pick it up and buy it or whether they want the next issue of wolverines. that is a challenge. >> the committee is skeptical. you wanted to chime? ? >> we can be nuanced here and say that there is, i think, no such thing as women readers. they are dif

war era and i think there are that's where i think the danger lies in with the united states believing that it needs to do something to shift the balance of forces in its favor and in favor of a bloc that it dominates. that's exactly what the united states is doing with its pivot so-called to the pacific but at the same time you have. sign and saying that it's going to enforce its own. fly zone close to its borders which we all know that south korea did it unilaterally japan you did it unilaterally the united states it unilaterally and then everybody gets upset when the chinese start doing the same thing the u.s. certainly does feel threatened in the pacific that's why it's moving it claims to be moving so much military hardware there right by twenty twenty sixty five seventy percent of the u.s. navy will be will be in the pacific and will be in the area around china around japan around korea the asia pivot is obviously a big geo strategic shift not because the us doesn't also want to dominate the oil rich middle east it does i mean we clearly see that but what's going to i think destabilize the situation

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if that happens, what does the united states do? does that top ranking official in the united states government do? what is our official response and what can we do short of sending military aid? because we are not going to send military aid to ukraine but, at the same time, we have to work together in concert with other nations to isolate putin if that happens. we have three flash points across the globe right now, ukraine and very vivid terms, syria where the bloodshed goes on just at horrific levels. crimes against humanity being committed and then, of course, iran who looks like they are going to walk away from the table and move towards nuclear weapons. what is the common denominator in all three of those world crises? vladimir, putin. what is the united states response? what is the president going to say? what is the secretary of state going to say? what is the united states government going to say? what are we going to do? how aggressively are we going to work against vladimir putin? that is the question. >> i think you add t

unified school district to the united educators ofsan francisco (uesf) teacher and paraprofessional units >> do we have a reading of the recommendation? >> special order of business, the subject is 2013, 2014, initial proposal for success or contract from the san francisco unified school district to the united educators of san francisco and teacher and professional units and the requested action is that the board of education, holds a public hearing on the 2013, 2014, initial proposal for a success or contract from the san francisco unified school district to the united educators of san francisco uesf. >> i think that we have, thank you. >> and i see that we have one speaker signed up. miss susan solomen. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent carranza, i too am looking forward to negotiations that are coming up. good to see that there is finally money to talk about instead of money that we have to take away. because it was not there. now we have some money and we i think that all parties have pro'ssals that will be beneficial to our students and we begin negotiations next week. than

prison is no exception to the rule. >> what we're doing this morning is there's some information that there could be some possible problems in this unit, so we're going to go in there while the inmates are out, what we're going to do is strip search him, and once they're done, take him to the yard, and we're going to shake down the cell. make sure you're looking for any drugs, any weapons. just be careful. these inmates say they're a little agitated so make sure you work in twos pulling them out. make sure you have your partner with you at all times. >> a lot of inmates like to hide stuff under the rim. with the mirror i don't have to get my hands in there. some of them like to put a razor blade and they like to put it in one of the vents. a lot of times on the top the inmates there's a space, and the inmates will hide stuff. today it was a lighter. >> it was smuggled in by somebody. if an inmate gets ahold of something that will ignite, like an aerosol or something, they can use it as a weapon. they can also basically burn up their whole cell if they wanted to. makes it real easy. >> so easy, in fact, it happened not long ago. >> we

what can the united do in your view to tamper that down. >> i don't think we should do anything. he needs to stew in his own juices for awhile until he reverses the political discussions suppressed and alienated them. until he does that, until he agreed to share power there was an agreement in 2010 he didn't abide by it. until he agrees to top persecuting sun any politicians he's done on a number of indications until he allows legitimate protests against his government then why should we help him with a problem of his own creation. how would you assess the strength and/or weaknesses in al-qaeda and iraq now? clearly they are making a comeback. the tribes have not aligned the way they did before 2006. this is the good news. the tribes know that al-qaeda nothing good will come of allying with al-qaeda. so what has happened is the alliance that we created with the tribe is broken down. they haven't gone back to supporting al-qaeda either. they're more on the sideline and fighting for themselves really. i don't think al-qaeda can create a "safe haven." every time they try to take a g

. >> when you talk about delayering, in which unit do you see that happening the most?> we are studying this across the 63,000 employee base. we are looking at cost accompanying. we are asking people to give thought to things. how many approvals you need on anything, we're saying no more than five. if you have to go to more than five people to get something decided, it is too much. when you have people who are product people, finance functional people or technology people and then you have the direct bosses, it is getting too much. we want to get to the point where we have a lot of authority at the local level and very little layers above that. it is the thought of how we improve the decision-making and empowerment. >> aig's cost cuts speak to a broader issue. companies cutting back to boost earnings. over the past five years, earnings growth has outpaced sales growth nearly five to one. who is growing the top line? we can read about it on today's blog. i posted it on twitter. the u.s. government is asking some companies to cut the use of drones. we will look inside the

from the person they first come in contact with at aig. >> when you talk about the layering, which units do you see that happening the most? acrossre seeing this almost the entire 60,000 employee base. we are looking across the company. we are asking people to give some thought to how many approvals do you need on anything, and we are no more than five. peoplehave to go to five to get something excited, it is too much. when people who are product people, functional fence people or technology people and direct bosses, it's getting too much. we as a company want to get to the point where we have a lot of authority at the local level and very little layers above that. just a thought of how do we improve the decision-making environment. >> you have the share buy-back program. is that because there is nothing out there for you to really put your cash to work? >> well, right now there's nothing there this week but it also says we have stress-tested the company to the best of our ability. we're looking at can we handle a significant downturn in the economy, a stress event, if you will. when we loo

do you realize there are 200,000 miles of pipelines in the united states? only reason that the president's involved in the keystone pipeline is because it crosses an international boundary. listen, we can build it. there's nothing complex about the keystone pipeline. it's time to build it. bye. >> that might have been, at least in that news briefing, the most energetic part of his answers there. a clean debt limit extension and balanced budget amendment not being discussed, but it sounds like he's narrowed it down to two. does that mean it's really the pipeline that he's favoring based on the way he answered that question? >> definitely. the gop has made no qualms about the fact they support the pipeline and want it built. i think environmentalists have been pushing to stop that from happening because of the damage it will do. certainly, a clean debt limit extension is something we need to be pushing the gop to do. that was the narrative all throughout history and until 2010, you know, republicans went along with the debt ceiling extensions and now all of a

the west and the united states do not want to take what action was necessary to remove him and remove that regime. so the consequences are going to be band aids o on the hemorrhag. you're seeing this explode throughout the reason. look at lebanon. my magazine butt up a very--puta very good article. you have a deep sectarian conflict fomented not by the opposition but the regime. this was part of the plan. let's annihilate sunnies and put out a cat call to al-qaeda and the iranian government to send out shiite fighters and turn this into a secretary tyrian conflict, a moras that the u.s. will never want to get involved in. >> getting ready for various reasons to countenance what is going on there, can you see things getting to a point where they won't? >> yes, and what i would disagree with what michael has said is that the reasons that russia is willing to do what it's doing is that syria is it's last ally and point of entry into middl middle eastern politd power place. when assad takes things to a level that becomes clear that in the long run he won't survive and nobody in the region

hoffman's death could very easily have been prevented it could have been prevented if we in the united states started to do what countries like the united kingdom and switzerland have been doing for years and that is prescribing heroin to heroin addicts i know it sounds counterintuitive but it actually makes perfect sense once you understand how heroin works opiate drugs like heroin are highly addictive. but actually abuse of alcohol and tobacco cause causes more serious damage to the body paired heroin doesn't ravage the liver doesn't cause lung cancer while heroin addiction does have some negative long term effects the real health dangers of their own abuse are addiction overdose and disease heroin overdose happens for two main reasons one the user is inexperienced or careless and uses too much heroin accidentally or too the user has become so addicted that they start using more heroin and more potent strains of heroin to get a stronger that could be what cause philip seymour hoffman's over those the other major risks of heroin addiction actually have nothing to do with the drug itself where the drug is

fighting an almighty enemy like the united states it somehow in a weird way helps you a side a country to consolidate people around the regime that some may not even like do you feel like the united states is helping you in a way by being your enemy to consolidate people are around you and your government it's hard for me to answer that question i mean is this is an objective situation that we're facing we have the united states involved again in all these regime change policy and we have denounced and we face. we have confronted them over the last of it over the past years it was the. permanent struggle of president chavez that we have continued to be free and independent and. our people are very conscious of you know our people very have grown a lot during this whole of our revolution in terms of consciousness and they they know pretty well who is their enemy who is the enemy of the people here. so you're saying the constant interference from the united states into your country's affairs actually helped raise consciousness and awareness of that and surveillance is that what you're saying well yes i mean all the political struggles that we've had to to t

issue and i would want to know more information when you come back to do the formal presentation about got the rehab and also the inlaw unit of question and then the zoning issues because i do think that it would make... >> what is the zone issue? >> it is zoned for 1, 2, 3, you know? and you know the burden of this and it is not cost effective to build, but with that property is zoned for. and i think that behind the ocean view and then all along, into, baby you and in this valley, it is a different kind. >> a new building that is going in. >> and the existing buildings too, but if you do got the rehab and so if you are saying that the it would not trigger this. >> major alterations is defined through the green building code, and i don't know if there is someone here who is more knowledgeable to me of what the cost value is for that. >> or the square footage is to that. >> i don't know the specifications of it. >> yeah, major would be going in and just pretty much rehabing the whole place and so it is more. >> right. >> it definitely would trigger. >> especially if it has the existing air-conditioning, for example, >> i s

united states is supposed to support democratic-elected governments. even when they do badly. you wait for the next election, throw him out. these guys are three parties. they want to overthrow this government and have a battle inside. john, there's a real danger here that this ukraine could break apart. they speak the russian language, culturally russian. in the far west, that's part of the hapsburg empire. you overthrough this government and get a new crowd in there, you could have a ukraine break apart. >> that, is but you can't just give a blank check to the leader-- >> it's not our problem, eleanor. >> well, they are just going over there and talking, along with the european union. we're not sending in troops or anything. >> tell kerry to talk to his iranian friends. [ laughter ] >>> you know that putin went over there and offered them $15 billion. >> 15 billion. he bought them. >> to avoid going towards the eu, which a lot of, lot of the country wants to move in that direction. >> the origins of the mugs orthodox church, ties there don't go back decades. they go back cen

doing graffiti. >> the city is art, other people who have their names tag -- >> [inaudible] our unit there are 2 sections we are doing one is abating and others are notice of violation to private property. all the utility boxes in public right-of-way we abate. >> we abate calls that come within 48 hours. >> we are a small group in g f graffiti. we don't have enough help. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it on. i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it. let's go. >> want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. >> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there. it's important to write the col

do you believe the united states should get involved? the president's foreign policy, the track record has been different depending which nation you're talking about. >> the president's foreign policy record is in shambles at this point. he's looking more and more like a humiliated president obama, it's vladimir putin's world, barack obama is just living in it. this is a power play to reestablish movers of the union. geographically, politically, economically. president obama's silence is complicit on this. i'm embarrassed he was silent on this point as he was during the iranian revolution. i'm sorry, gretchen, but edward snowden and syria, president obama looked like vladimir putin's poodle as well and i'm afraid it's going to look like that again. >> there has been a different approach depending which country you're talking about, syria, egypt, lib yarks et cetera. what would ronald reagan say about what's happening right now? >> i have no idea. i'm not going to lie to you. >> he broke down the wall, ended the cold war. now are we back

trends are in our interests and reflect our values. >> what is the best thing then that the united states can do about any of these? >> there is a lot that the united states have to do because this is a very different world than the last time the international order was shaken up. there are a lot of changes. instead of focusing on stability and keeping everything the same, there is too much change, too much tumult, too much chaos. we have to look at these changes and we have to try to arrest necessary--try to harness these changes to our advantage. there is a lot going on. first we have to track them and harness them for the good of all of us. >> we'll come back and discuss the specific plans that you can outline for us to help us be on the right side of this. thank you. >> we'll talk about economic and social change. detroit, while it thinks it has a than to get out of out of debt it may squeeze retirees back into the workforce. >> detroit's long awaited blue point to exit bankruptcy is targeting cuts to pension and deeper cuts to bond holders. plans laying out how to restructure an estimated $

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do you anticipate? how much will be sent overseas? how much will directly benefit the united states? o not allow this pipeline to occur, it is going to happen in canada anyway, just like the lng situation in the united states. this country has abundant supplies of natural gas that we discovered in the past five years, and just like a pipeline going to refineries in the gulf coast, we need lng facilities to ship this gas out. this country is going to become energy independent by the year 2020, all due to the work that oil andappens in the gas industry. we are a world country. we do not believe in putting up stops for competition, so why are we not shipping our products around the world? we have been shipping oil from the middle east all of our adult lives, and the fact that this country can now be energy independent, what a great situation for our children and grandchildren. >> i look at the share price. a great run in 2013, way outperforming the broader market, doing well this year, up about 20%. how do you justify those gains? what are we going to get that will support this share pri

we're talking about the will of the united states of america, the people of the united states political will to doething there. but i guess the real question is, does the ultimates want t to -- does the united states want to see the afghanistan go back to what it was like before 9/11? >> in the last couple of months with the islamic state, and there's no u.s. troops in iraq to speak of now, that is weighing heavily on the minds of the folks in the obama administration. you may say that the great strategic blunder of the bush administration is putting the troops into iraq. you might say the great strategic blunder of the obama administration is to pull the troops out of iraq. >> elliot ackerman, no easy answers. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> now to egypt where our three al jazeera colleagues are being detained. they made their first appearance in cairo courtroom. peter greste, baher mohamed, mohamed fahmy pled not guilty. the trial was adjourned until march 5th. al jazeera says the charges are false and is demanding the immediate release of its staff. our tom ackerman reports. >> cameras

what's your message to the president of the united states? what do far as this awful situation along the syrian/jordan border is concerned and the civil war in syria? >> first of all, i didn't know what what was happening in syria and how it -- people of syria have been suffering from this situation and from these conflicts. but when i saw those children and women and they were crying and they lost their home -- they're now homeless and they don't know where they will live. they have lost a peaceful life. and then i realized, yes, these people are suffering. and we should speak up for them. and therefore, i will request of the president to go to the jordanian/syrian border or the lebanon syrian and see how these people are suffering. and when he will look at it, he will feel it and then understand what's happening here. because when you see a child and all his clothes are dirty, he doesn't have shoes, and you don't know what his future is. it seems like this child is lost in this world. so i request not only the president obama but every -- every wor

can't really treas this crisis with this regime and this man in power and yet the west and the united states do not want to take what action was necessary to remove him and remove that regime. so the consequences are going to be band-aids on a hemorrhage. look at lebanon. my magazine put up a number of pictures of car bombs, guess what it's not going to decrease, it's going to increase. sectarian conflict fomented not by the opposition, but by the regime. this was part of the plan. let's annihilate sunnies on an industrial scale. put a cast call for hezbollah from next door lebanon and turn this into a sectarian conflict, a more a sas morass that the wet want to get involved in. >> heather do you see things getting to a point where they won't? >> yes. what i would gra is he with what michael -- what i would disagree with what michael has said, syria in the middle eastern politics, when assad takes it to a level when it becomes clear that he will not survive and nobody in the region will work with him, then there will come a point where putin and the russians will want a new ally or partner in t

there are many units that do not come to you. if the building is more than 2 units. that will come to you as a mandatory discretionary review. finally on task 3 the both departments will review notices from the rent board for purposes of elimination of units or evictions. the request from the mayor is that the the department of building inspection will review these project and buildings for any building code violations. there are some issues to work out in terms of the notices and such. the first step will be for the rent board to give notice to both the planning department and to dbi when those evictions happen. that's a quick summary. i probably can answer simple questions but we are happy to get a calendar hearing for a more robust question on this. >> commissioner moore? commissioner dr. roscoe -- moore? >> people have ideas. we don't want to have backseat quarterbacking. i think it can be very timing. >> we can schedule something as early as next week if we wanted to. >> if the commission would like, we can certainly at it to the department matter for the agenda

perfect way to show their radical terrorists around the world that the rest of the world is united against them what do you think about the president's idea he included openly gay athletes former participants in the olympics and part of the united states' official delegation i think that that's the president's prerogative and i would suggest that that is somewhat politicizing the event trying to insert that issue however if the president wants to make that statement and that's his priority was the elected representative of our country and. i'm not complaining about it but i wouldn't have done that here just backed it's costing the russian government fifty one billion dollars you've been desoto you think it's a good investment well let me just note i was in moscow and not sochi i just got back from from moscow where i met with their intelligence people and and others. i think you know i think that as i say because there's an inherent risk. i think it might it was a it was not a good decision on the part of the russian government or and mr putin to insist on having this olympics i mean it's sort of hard

california are currently smokers, and that is more than 3 million people. 69% of smokers in the united states do want to quit completely. the impact of smoking tobacco is clearly dangerous, but a fascinating recent study suggests tobacco's historic use in california may actually stretch back far longer than researchers believe. it's abc 7's carolyn johnson. >> this is the type that got us all started. >> if archaeologist, she's certainly fascinating by it. she spent tracing the earliest use of the people of california and the pacific coast. >> tobacco in the united states was present 8,000 or 10,000 years ago and hunterrers gatherers probably figured out the special properties of the plant quite early. >> she says the clues were burned into ancient pipes and some found in nearly pristine conditions during digs at the swiss river basin near the oregon border and another undisclosed site here in the bay area. first to document what was being smoked and when. her colleagues at uc davis used test pipes to plant different species. they were able to compare it to the residue still in stone pipes. >> t

doing the right things. as a large open economy, there will be general economic recovery in europe and the united states. >> housing market in the u and whether there's a bubble here. this is a much discussed topic. do you have anything to say about whether we are saying construction in the market? >> with a big rig business here, which is exposed to the sector. going on a good thing the pulse here. they're controlling things quite well. there is good strong growth good it is not excessive. >> you are new to the job, of course. how is it going? >> fine. enjoying it greatly. >> what is the hardest thing about the new job? what is the easiest? >> there is no hard thing. we work hard in our lives. we follow on great opportunities to run a great business. >> great to get your thoughts, albert. thank you for coming to speak to us. crh.t manifold the ceo of his keynoteg and speech. ♪ >> welcome back. this is countdown. am mark barton. i am anna edwards. mark zuckerberg talks about how to run internet access -- broaden internet access. did mark zuckerberg give us any hints of his plans? he said consistently that n

do is send your youth to war. as a country, we are war weary. it does not mean if circumstances are justified in a case is made by the president of united states, that we have to act again, we will. for the time being, i do not think you will see it in the foreseeable future. we do not understand why we think we can negotiate ourselves through a satisfactory resolution, and expanded nuclear proliferation in iran, at the same time giving millions of dollars to fund terrorism globally. it makes no sense. host: a lot of talk and debate in terms of having a single building for homeland security right now. it encompasses how may buildings? guest: all over the place, at some point, i would like to see a secretary of homeland security down the road have a base that office were some of his visible agencies and most principles are there. they have got a hospital -- they have moved the coast guard there. there are 20 agencies we aggregated into one. it would be nice to have those principles or keep components of that there. given the budget restraint, i do not think we will see that for some time. host: you have been friends with the bush family for many

and a nation. >> tell us, what can ukrainians who are living in the united states do, if they want to do something to help. what can be done when you're on this side of the atlantic? >> well, for now as i know a lot of people, they support with money, support with food, clothing, just help them to just stay, to fight for the idea. >> stanis lav thank you very much. this is a very busy restaurant, as we can see, he's been very busy all morning. thank you very much. back to you in the studio. >> john terrett thank you very much. as we point out the white house is urging calm in ukraine. meanwhile president obama is in mexico at this hour. he's there for the north amercian leader summit. they'll be discussing a number of economic issues. mike viqueira is in washington, mike, what are some of the key issues they will address? >> there is a whole host of issues. this is an annual event. the leaders of canada, united states and mexico, jokingly referred to as the three amigos. the nafta is still controversial after all these years later, and now the president comes with other free trade pac