that is the way i look at masonic now. i want to thank everybody who has been here for the last 15 years, really working to change this. at all the departments that are involved. d.p.w., m.t.a., p.u.c., that came together and said, we will change this boulevard, not only for the people who live here, but for the people who walk, visit and bike here. thank you and i will bring up my colleague, supervisor catherine stefani because this area, we have three different districts that intersect. we cross all the time. i would like to bring up catherine stefani. supervisor stefani? >> thank you supervisor brown. it is so great to be here today. i love that we shared this area. san francisco faces many challenges but we know that we can solve the dangers of the roadways and the city vision zero mission to eliminate all traffic deaths by 2024 is a vital one to every resident. i don't think many people notice about me, but before i was appointed supervisor, i was training for a triathlon. i was training for the escape for -- from alc

the oldest masonic lodge in the world. walked to the site here in washington. >> they walked from norfolk, virginia to here? >> people didn't think anything of that. i guess that's why they lived so long. the scotts are very organized men. they were heads of crews of workmen back there. they knew how to interact. apprenticeship was very difficult here because the boys wouldn't stay. they just leave. >> the scottish masons built the stone walls. they were backed with about three feet of brick. not brick meant to be exposed to the weather but brick that was to be protected. it's not the strong brick that you would have on the outside of a building. they are exactly the size specified. great big ones. there was immediate cooperation between the stone men and the brick men. it's imitated down there now. it was identifiable when washington made his last prtrip here from philadelphia after he left office. they stopped and hoben had the militia that he forced every one join give a 21-gun salute from the walls of the house. >> peo

brick masons build that with the masons cooperation. it was identifiable when washington made his last trip. from philadelphia after he left office. he and mrs. washington, and his granddaughter and george washington lafayette. his son have been sent to save him from the french revolution. he was a little boy. they stopped and hoban had the militia and forced everyone to do it. a 21 gun salute. he was finished enough not to have windows yet or any of that. washington could see what it looked like. >> george washington saw his vision. people should know their worst three basic classes of workers. there was the elite, scottish masons who did the stone work and the carving. the irish workers and then there were slaves. what was the role of slaves and the actual building of the white house? >> labor. the scottish stonemasons preferred they hired slaves to be apprentices. it was a desirable job for a slave. the contracts were extensive. they had to be closed. they learned a skill. so as an advantage to them and perhaps buying freedom after i

area and i like to see both my kids go to george mason university for what it's worth. okay, so how do we know as civilians was really launching these attacks? and why can we not have oversight over the people that tell us who are launching these attacks? do we know for sure who attacked in the subway, who attacked -- i can remember the country name, next to russia you were referring to. >> guest: well, you know, i look at the media coverage of these 12 russian gru people were accused of being directly involved in the attacks on the u.s. electrical system and you read the judicial proceedings underway. we are able to go to not only specific locations physically, but buildings, , compute a

let's finish fixing masonic and get to work on the rest of the city. thank you to everyone for your leadership. i am really excited to ride my bike on these new bike lanes when i we leave today. thank you. >> thank you, thank you. so we will cut the ribbon. before we do that, i want to thank everyone for coming and especially the team from public works. our city engineers sitting right here. the project manager, our communications department to, all the engineers who worked with the rest of the city agencies to make this project possible, and of course, the team that looks after the city every day, the street cleaner said everybody. thank you for everything that you do and thank you for coming. let's get ready and cut the ribbon of this great project. and another one down. come on up. >> doug, come on up. come on. should we say hop on up. [laughter] >> maurice, come on in. they want you in the picture. [laughter] >> it is multiple cuts. make sure you cut on zero. come on up. >> ok. we will go. countdown. five, there you go. all right. five, four, three

construction of the temple of jupiter alone took fifty years the entire lifespan of a mason for fifty years the blocks of stone were cut the penance smoothed to shape the capitals caught from the stone. this is the largest human stone on us it weighs close to a thousand times it's within sight of the temple but probably older than the room inside. and the foundations of the erstwhile temple of jupiter there are three huge blocks of stone how were they moved what mighty buildings stood in this place before those the romans built to this day we do not know the opposite. in heliopolis the city of the sun everything is the knowledge of the knife. good watchable the figures on the measurements what of it that the pillar as a twenty meters told more than two meters in diameter and each consists of only three cylindrical bones. what does it matter that wondrous buildings were raised at the behest of pot crazed roman root as hungry for glory they still remain a wonder. the builders nameless to us had an enviable ability to make massive stone appear light and elegant. it's the mystery of propo

host: we are joined by richard forlarich, codirector energy and science policy at george mason university and a former u.s. ambassador. ambassador, when we are talking about the grid, what do we mean? guest: that is the very basic question. my connection is when i go home and through the electrical switch. most people think that is the most important part. but you have the production of energy, which may come from coal , gas, nuclear power, you have its transmission, but ultimately it goes to the consumers. the grid is that network and that is what makes it so complicated and vulnerable because there are many points of entry. is not just the physical bread, it is a cyber grid as well. host: who is responsible for protecting the grid and how do you do that on something so vast? guest: that is something we are .oing at george mason your regulators in government at the federal level and the state level. your private companies that on the production and transmission lines and then you have third parties who produce the technologies the companies and the governments used to regulate the system

. >> a george mason student took lsd. he then jumped to his death ande now as c is starting his message. david culv-- dana culver with >>> we have some breaking developments in the case of the missing iowa student mollie tibbetts. details from a news conference still going on. >> reporter: we're just getting this latest twist in this case. police have just announced that they have made an, arre and the man they have now is 24-year-old christian rivera. police say that he was one of thepl last p to see mollie tibbetts, and new he's charged with her murde tibbets was last seen on july 18th jogging i her hometown of brook lyn brooklyn, iowa. ever sin then investigators and family and friends haven b searching the ground from the air. they haven't confirmed if the body is mollie but they do believe it was her. police say rivera interacted with tibbetts while she was in ru >> and while he was interfacing with her he actually tells us that he ran alongside of her or behind her, and then at one int he tells us that mollie grabbe

guest: that is one of the things we are working on at george mason. you have regulators in government at the federal level and the state level. you have private companies that own the production and transmission lines and then you have third parties who produce the technologies the companies and the governments used to regulate the systems. it is a very complex public/private relationship that has to be managed if you're going to protect the grid. it used to be people only thought about the physical side. someone said it was guns, guards, and gates. now that is not enough. , you can protect the production of electricity and the production of natural gas, but if this technology that moves gas and electricity is more honorable to hackers, you have opened up a backdoor. host: what is the scenario who -- that keeps you up at night? guest: i have to go back to my service at the department of state. i spent a number of years in eastern europe and the former soviet union. you have to be concerned about threats from abroad. you have to look at who is capable

government itself is masonic. the believe in the great symbol looks like a masonic symbol. in new york 1826 a man named william morgan tried to join local mason lodge and was turned down. he published a book revealing secrets. he was arrested and when he was released he never returned home. a body was found in the river in upstate new york. april thought it was morgan and there was a full-fledged masonic panic. that the secret society of the masons was a murderous conspiracy attempted to take over the u.s. this was not just a fear that percolated among americans in upstate new york it became an organizing principle for a political party. the anti-masonic party wins elections in 1832 and 1836. elects anti-masons to political office and its agenda is against people in american government being parts of secret society. because if you are part of a secret society you're not doing the people's work and your allegiance is to something else. this was the argument against kennedy in 1960. the argument that kennedy is a catholic would have to follow the rules of the pope rather than

without free masons. you know these people. >> what's wrong with the maysons, i am a mason. that fellow is talking about me. >> and that makes a difference doesn't it? >> these are your enemies. these are the people who are trying to take over our country now you know them you know what they stand for. and it's you have to -- up to you and me to fight them. fight them and destroy them before they destroy us. thank you. [ 's plus a ] -- applause ] >> before he said maysons, you were ready to agree with him. >> yes but he was talking about what about the other people. >> but in this country we have no other people. we are american people all of us. >> you aren't america are you. >> i was born in hungary but now i am american citizen and have seen what this kind of talk can do. i saw it in berlin. >> what were you doing there. >> professor at the university. i heard the same words we have heard today. but i was a fool then. i thought nazis were crazy people stupid if a in the, but unfortunately it was not so. you see, they knew they were not strong enough to concur a unified co

the secret society of the masons was a murderous conspiracy to take over the united states. this was not just a fear that percolated in upstate new york, but an organizing principle, an anti-masonic party elects anti- masons to political office, and its agenda is against people in american government being parts of secret societies, because if you are, you're not doing the people's work, and have allegiance to something else. this was the argument against john kennedy, being a catholic, he would have to serve the pope, rather than the american people. the john birch society, and others opposed to catholicism, you could be catholic or an american president, -- that you could not be catholic as an american president, because you could only serve one. there are other conspiracies, but i'm going to jump ahead. >>> the way that we understand that modern conspiracy theories, the way we engage with them with citizens, the way we did it changed, is not this. most of these so far are external things, the pope is influencing us from the outside, bankers, masons, from outside the gover

it happened in roosevelt with who was a mason, or redesigning the money was also a mason, this is the great seal of the united states. it never got much play and it was made in 7070 by a bunch of masons. and it is now in the money. there is an argument that they will argue that this money is like a magic spell. that it looks like this for a reason, someone is plotting and saying there is a lucifer and masonic plot in part of the united states and they feature this. this is the argument saying these are the important symbols. this i cannot actually believe, we have people who are afraid of the government, we have people who are afraid of the government, plots, masonic plots, lucifer plots, everyone is familiar with john point dexter. he was in the bush white house and confided and convicted in 1991. found guilty and later pardoned, called back for the darpa information office, do you know what that is? it is the den and -- defense advanced research project i think. is very spooky. the government makes its most advanced pieces of technology, it is a big thing with conspiracies for manip

and ours has a masonic symbol of the all-seeing eye. roosevelt, it was a mason. talked to wallace his vice president about redesigning the money, also a mason. this is the great seal of the united states. so these two things are the either side of the great seal of the united states, which never got much play, but it was made in the 1770s by a much of masons and is now put on the unmany. but there's an argument that they will argue that money is the kind of magic spell. that the money looks like this for a reason. if someone is plotting and saying, there's a luciferian masonic plot on the united states and they feature this, right? then this is the argument of these are the important symbolisms, right? so -- then i can't actually believe. you have people who are afraid of the government. right? you have people who are afraid of the government, afraid of plots, afraid of masonic plots, luciferian thoughts. is everyone familiar with who john poindexter is? found guilty, later pardoned, called back to head the darpa office. do you know what darpa is? the defense adv

and the stone masons of the province of asia who made the miracle happen did they believe in the roman gods in jupiter venus backus. under the names of these strange dawns the local people continue to worship their own ditties not that all the gods were strange backus the god of wine originated in the orient and had reached rome via greece the roman empire builders were wonderful headed breed but they were intrigued by the cultic mysteries which best the bounds of their own pragmatic rational co. the romans were tolerant and should enough to permit the worship of a man gods in their empire. the more names in the divine firmament the vasta the glory of the roman empire. the great strength of the romans lay in appropriating the ideas of others and turning their imagination into account. the empire absorb the knowledge and the creeds of other people the romans own religion had not gained a foothold in the some the temple of that compels the i was a magical attraction even the unbelieving visitor records its image. its majestic and an revealing this temple behind who is walls mysterious ri

outfront tonight, jeff mason, reuters reporter that broke this story. jeff, you spoke to the president moments ago. there are a lot of headlines here. let's begin with the bombshell that the president told you i could run the mueller probe if i wanted to. >> yeah. that is one of the more interesting things he said in the sbinterview with me and my colleague. he talked about the probe. he said again it was a witch hunt. he interrupted us when we started to question to be clear that's how he viewed it. i mean, this quote is getting a lot of attention with good reason, but actually the run up to the quote is he said he was staying out of it, that it was better if he did. so it is interesting, he was making it clear that he viewed it as a decision, and that he had made the decision to stay out, but it wasn't the only option he had. >> right. he has long said that he wants to sit down with mueller. he has nothing to hide, wants to answer mueller's questions, it is his lawyers that won't let him, they're trying to negotiate. the response from the president to

also a mason. this is the great seal of the united states. so these two things are the either side of the great seal of the united states, which never got much play, but was made in the 1770s by a bunch of masons, and it's now put on the money. but there's an argument that they will argue that this money is a kind of magic spell. that the money looks like this for a reason. if someone is plotting and saying there's a luciferian, masonic plot part of the united states and they feature this, then this is the argument of, these are the important symbols. so, this, i can't actually believe. so you have people who are afraid of the government. you have people who are afraid of the government, afraid of plots, afraid of masonic plots, luciferian plots. is everyone familiar with who john poindexter is? he was in the bush white house and was indicted and convicted in 1991 in the iran-contra affair. found guilty, later pardoned and he's called back to called back to head the defense advance research projects administration. it is the spookiest of the

thank you for bringing townsend on the table, but masonic was delayed. i believe it was supposed to be finished last november. it's caused concern, traffic issues, as well as it's been mentioned, the other projects that can be improved speed-wise. i urge you, as others have, to work in haste. i know that's easier said than done. there's a lot of projects and things going on. if as supervisor kim mentioned, we could provide oo-- prioritiz it would be great. perhaps there will not be a protected bike lane because of the project with muni and caltrain. however, is it not possible, even now, today, for the whole stretch, and when we're avoiding 4th and 5th street, to not have a testimony bear barrier, just something to keep other vehicles out of the bike lane. i've been hit on townsend multiple times. i had to go to the hospital one time. i will say thank you, again, for all that you do. encourage expediency. i will leave you now to ride my bike to work on townsend street. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> sue hutmer, ellen kariso. >> hi. i'm su

let's move to public comment. 2 minutes, please. >> julie fox, edward mason. madam chair, no one is left in the overflow room. >> chairman brinkman: okay. good. thank you. >> good afternoon. i don't know if it's a reward or a punishment being on the board. thank you for what you do. it is hard. i'm julia fox. what i heard was, it's not paint, lady. i was a new rider on the l train heading outbound one evening a decade ago. the doors opened and in front of safeway was a dark red stain in the street. a gentleman said, it's not paint, lady. a person was hit by a car getting off the l train. that night became one more reason for my muni and l train activism. as a member of the boarding zone pilot program, there was one assurance that i heard at the beginning of the project that was repeated and encouraged by michael rhodes and ms. deanna deseres, which was the value that sfmta puts on the input of riders, neighbors, and merchants. thanks to the passion of my fellow committee members, the drive for equity and safety for all is to be admired. thanks, muni, for reins

mason: definitely axell's front flip.-wheelie and then tuck, that's -- that's pretty much full commitment there. axell's alley-oop in the quarter pipe. no one does that. that's like bmx style. you know what i mean? like, that's, like -- it's dope. haaker's 360 jibs, whatever that's called, is one of a kind. jimmy hill, you know, foot-tapping the -- the log and -- and hitting the branches and stuff. stenberg: raha's gnarly crash, his jump down into the concrete ditch. mason: foster's uphill backflip, looking at the camera. i just thought that was just a really creative display of riding. there's nobody that's, like, a clear-cut, all-the-way-down-the-boards top dog in each category. raha's video gave me the feeling that i wanted to watch his video over and over and over, foster's video was sick because he went huge, and axell's video was dope because it was super technical. jimmy hill and colton, their parts were amazing, filmed perfect, great ideas, just needed a little more spice or a little more zip to them. colby's is,

. > i am very proud to be standing here with you, mayor mason, to signhis historic agreement between our capital city. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: it happened in the center of san salvador at the plaza. e hope this agreeme brings opportunities for salve dorians and d.c. residents alike. earlier evidence of those possible improvements in the school in columbia heights working together. >> when we heard our mayor was coming here to bring a delegation, it was a no-brainer. >> reporter: mayor mason welcoming mayor bowser to city hall. they feel a little closer to home toght. the capital of their home country in a city where they now have their lives, tonight closer than ever. in san salvador, news 4. >> new hope for transplant patients, but there's a catch. >> i took the chance. >> how an infected kidney became this man's life line. >> fallen and up rooted trees during today's storms. stm team >>> new hope tonightor thousands of people waiting for kidney transplants. it can e takeht years to find a suitable donor, and a lot of people with kidney disease just don't survive the it.

he plays mason skiles. it's not as good a name as don draper, i'll give you that. he is enjoying the high life in 1970s beirut, when a terrorist incident ruins his life and family. ten years later, he's a washed—up alcoholic settling small trade disputes in notown, america and propping up the local bar, which is when he gets a strange tap on the shoulder and the cia, in shady form, try to recruit him again. $6,500 and a first class ticket. i wouldn't go back to beirut if it was the last place on earth. flight leaves at 8:45pm tonight. well, it sounds like you've got about six hours to find somebody else. i was told that is not an option. look, i have no idea what's happening here. it would be a lot easier for both of us if i did. but, er... i was told to tell you that... time is extremely tight and the agency would be deeply grateful for your cooperation. it's a serious request, they know that. tell them i don't have a passport. they put one in there with the ticket. so what do you make of it, jason? well, off he goes to beirut and he's given a handler called sandy

former muni employee for 28 years at the corner of geary and masonic, for what that is worth. when i first started one issue was, and i was pretty green, i didn't understand things very well. a project paid for by b.a.r.t. called the northwest extension analysis. or n.w.x. at that point the idea was to look at alternatives from extending b.a.r.t.

as for crystal mason, she's headed back to federal prison next month. john? >> dickerson: omar villafranca. .hanks, omar. the united nations special envoy to syria warned today three million civilians could be at dask if the assad regime launches a large-scale invasion against rebels in idlib ovovince. violence can happen at a moment's notice in syria, but two americans have designed a ciy to warn civilians there before an air-strike. here's holly williams. >> reporter: john jaeger and dave levin grew up in chicago and dallas. they worked high-flying jobs in finance and consulting. bet now they've become unlikely heroes in syria's seven-yearlong civil war where they've saved lives, perhaps thousands of them. ea these are preventable deaths, and that's why we do what we do. >> reporter: back in 2012, john had taken a job with the state department, deployed to turkey to help syrians displaced by the civil war. but as he watched the carnage from the sidelines, he grew atustrated. >> the idea was essentially to tell people before an air-strike could reach them so

only one in kentucky who was a stone mason and i think he came from here. but they were very much in evidence in all the construction. there were, in fact, agents in washington that one could go through and say he needed -- he called them hands. they never used the word slave. they said, i need 20 hands, 20 good hands, and so the owner of the slave was dealt with and he came and worked. that's how the system went in those days. >> wonderful. >> i'll just ask a second question. >> that's what we do at the white house, the white house press conferences. we ask one question, we ask two questions. enough already. >> this is between hoban and latrobe. was there an age difference between them? and we -- i go to st. john's church and latrobe is just revered there. we are in decatur house, which was designed by latrobe as well. he evidently was difficult to deal with. can i ask, was there an age difference? was one more mature? george washington liked hoban, didn't like latrobe. there was a portrait of latrobe with the washingtons -- i mean at mt. vernon with the w

why george mason does not get the credit he deserves for this language? you wrote that mason wrote that all men are born equally free and possess certain inherent natural rights and the government ought to produce the greatest degree of happiness and safety for the people. he was ahead of thomas jefferson. mr. ferling: he was working on the virginia constitution, which was being drafted down in williamsburg. he wrote that in a newspaper just as jefferson sat down to draft the declaration. i do not think there is a question that jefferson used that as a template. mason said life, liberty, and property. jefferson says life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. but they are on the same wavelength. i think those were the ideas that people in the english reform movement had talked about. enlightened thinkers in europe had been talking about those ideas. they were out there. there is no doubt that mason influenced the way that jefferson wrote the declaration, that second paragraph. i think one of the things i find disturbing is there has been a trend among some h

mason said life, liberty, and property. jefferson says life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. but they are on the same wavelength. i think those were the ideas that people in the english reform movement had talked about. enlightened thinkers in europe had been talking about those ideas. they were out there. there is no doubt that mason influenced the way that jefferson wrote the declaration, that second paragraph. i think one of the things i find somewhat disturbing is there has been a trend among some historians to dismiss jefferson's contribution with the declaration of independence and say it was not original and the credit he has been given is overblown. jefferson acknowledged that there was nothing original. it would have been foolish to try to write something that no one had been talking about. he was attempting to summarize what people had been thinking and the evolution of their thinking since the stamp act protest 11 years prior. i think what people missed is that jefferson wrote a document that would not only resonate with that generation, but it would resonate with

the george mason university sophomore had takendr lsd. he bought from a fellow fraternity brother. >> i think parents need to be are of what's going on. the there's dodgers out there. >> they fear the college culture, specifically greek life, pushed drug and alcohol use and the outcome can be deadly, as they have wperienced. are just used to these kinds of situations in this country. all you got to do is look at the news. a student dead here, a student dead there, you know. we've just become immune to this kind of news. i don't think it's right. i don't accept that. just don't accept tha something has to be done. >> the medinas want colleges like george mason university to do more >> has george mason done anything to prevent anything like this from happening?n' i know. they haven't said anything about it? >> reporter: in an e-mail response george mason university say they take enforce president lc drug andol policy very seriously, adding that violators face sever consequences, criminal charges. but the medinas say the university has stopp

king wasn't planning on being here mason temple on this day in 1968.o dr. dr. king was back at the hotel, weakened by a fever and hoping to rest up. dr. abernathy called dr. king. he knew he had to come. he had to come to mason temple. dr. king came, spoke about 45 minutes. without without notes. he he spoke of the ancient greeks and romans. he spoke of struggles for freedom around the world. he spoke of the importance of maintaining unity and resolve in the strike. he spoke about the constitution and the need for america to be true to what it said on paper. he spoke of the power in numbers possessed by black people. and he spoke with eerie foresight about his own mortality. i i may not get there with you, he said, but i want you to know tonight that as a people, we will get to the promised land. now half a century later, half a century later we can celebrate important strides towards freedom. justice, justice, and equality for our people. we can't we can't deny that there's been progress and self-correction in america since 1968. but have we reached t