it was a lot of working-class folks. my father was a shore worker, my mother was an office worker at usc. my parents were divorced when i was 10 years old, and i moved to the east coast for six years before going back to california after high school. i went to school at uc santa barbara, graduated in 19988 -- 1988. i have lived in the excelsior since 1999. i have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community organizer, i worked at a labor organization supporting janitor's working in our high- rise buildings. i was a legislative aide before .wr. i got to see how it all work from the outside, community organizations supporting young people, children, families, working for labor, and saw how city hall could be an effective tool for change and then considered running in 2007, 2008, and somehow, i made it. >> you were raised in los angeles, moved to the east coast. what made you want to come back and live in san francisco? >> i love cities. i never felt like i lived

we do have a lot of crime in district 2. both crimes against individuals but also against merchants along our merchant corridors. chestnut. union in particular has been hit. fillmore and sacramento. it is a big deal. we also have the break-ins. we need to be very mindful that people keep their iphones and laptops out of sight. but it is a big deal. one of the things i talk a lot about on the campaign, making sure that we do fund our public safety departments. we have to make some tough decisions this year, but to me, one of the biggest priorities is making sure that we have our police and firefighters and sheriffs' offices and their budgets fully funded so that we can ensure that public safety does not lag during these budget times. again, in district 2, i do not think it is talked about as much. we are fortunate that we do not have a lot of homicides. we do not have a lot of those types of serious crimes. but the crimes that to happen to matter to the people in district two. so as a local supervisor, it is incumbent upon me,

and it's a lot of money. t who is to say that we're going to really -- >> or you could go the other way. right now they're not going to get a break on the taxes they are paying right now, about $3.5 million, $4 million for the payroll tax. san francisco risks twitter going down to the peninsula and losing that out altogether. now there say finite time limit on this that they can collect this tax break for no more than six years in the period. the question is, though, has this ever worked before? we've seen there's been a biotax credit for companies going to the mission bay area. that's works. we started trying that in san francisco with the film industry to give them some kind of a tax break because we're losing a lot of business to vancouver and other cities that have the film industry. people aren't quite sure what to do with it. this is economics. it's land use, politics, policy, a lot of personalities involved with this as well. it's got everyone scrambling, though. a company like twitter really is this ki

you have had a lot of u.s. presidents on the list the award has been pretty chained to it i don't know whether you're aware of this peter but in one thousand nine hundred eighty six someone suggested old hitler for the peace prize this was of course not taken up but he was suggesting it might have to mount gandhi never was awarded the peace so it is a pretty there's a there's a very interesting norwegian jury is frederick had from a loose written a book on the nobel peace prize and he says that the peace prize virtually from the beginning violated alfred nobel's the instructions that nobel had said could put peace prize should only go to those people actively engaged in peace and it's been hijacked by retired norwegian politicians and a cold war academic from the past who handed it out at will and there was a lot of criticism in norway when obama got it and when others caught it i mean this injury is a case in point. but numerous other people have got it and gabrielle garcia marquez himself a prize winner of th

it's quite a lot. ocery stores, i go buy cereal, bring it back, put it in a tupperware container, it doesn't fill up the container as it used to. they're not putting as much in there at a higher price. what we're seeing is an increase in relative prices. it's not really inflation. it definitely hurts the pocketbook. but for it to be inflation, we're going to have to see those effects work their way through other prices. second-round price increases. and in an environment with as much resource slack as we have, i'm not looking for that to take hold. i would like to see inflation move up closer to 2%, like what we sort of target for our inflation objective. but at the moment, we're about 1% year-over-year on core inflation. and by many other measures of underlying inflation. we're about a percentage point too low. >> what about wage growth? >> that's a great point. this is going to be a very unusual increase in inflation if wages don't increakreecrease commensurate with that. wages normally would be growi

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we're expecting a lot of people. as i mentioned before, the march is going to be dedicated towards the rights of public employees, the collective bargaining rights, and we're really supporting those efforts because cesar, in his efforts, did believe in collective bargaining for farm workers and for all public and private employees. >> very good. just recently, interior secretary ken sal aczar traveled down to the home of historic 40 acres to cristen it as a national historic landmark. the chavez-medina family was there. i was fortunate enough to travel as a reporter to go cover this historic event. and here it is. >> reporter: he put the weight of the farm workers' struggle on his shoulders. cesar chavez carried his nonviolent fight for rights to the small town of delain know. he fasted in 1968 and again in 1988 to strengthen the resolve of those who followed, and this was the bed that witnessed his weakest physical moments but his strongest spiritually. >> this was '88 when he did this fast. >> right. >> reporter: t

of them don't a lot of them were alive you know where they were alive but a lot of them don't remember what happened before we also can't discount the fact that you know teenagers have a different worldview than adults they don't really understand exactly what war is in the same way that adults think about it terrorism attacks fighting overseas these are all big issues if someone were to ask you if you were fourteen a fortune was ok you might say yeah you know maybe in some cases because you clearly haven't thought it through you haven't seen the pictures you haven't heard the historical accounts yet so there's probably room for that kind of growth when you get into your late teens and early twenty's is that just because teenagers themselves don't know yet or is that because so many americans these days are removed from. wars if you think about it it's a tiny percentage of our population that are actually fighting abroad and are affected by war so that's one of the views we heard from some of the people we talked to for the article the americans are removed they don't know the costs of

but in fact, there's a lot of stuff that's happening. you have international businesspeople in cuba, they're making a killing, essentially-- the brits, the mexicans, the spaniards, the germans, the canadians, the australians. everybody except for the united states. >> that's true. i mean, there are... well, actually, i do know a few americans there, and i'm not quite sure how they've been able to get around that. >> hinojosa: who are doing a little bit of... >> yeah. >> hinojosa: ...business situations. >> yeah, i was always curious about that, like, "how's that possible?" yeah, there are foreign business folks there. there aren't that many. and of course, you know, the cuban government can control that, too, because it can control foreign investment, you know? it has lots of ways to put brakes on stuff. i mean, even if americans are given carte blanche by the us government to travel to cuba, the cuban government can control that as well with visas. it doesn't have to accept every single american tourist who wants to get on a plane or a b

there was a lot more cooks in the kitchen. he once said a great quote from him, he said there's too many people, it's not my style. there's too many political battles. he built it, he was so alone and isolated when he built it and then, of course, when it took off he felt suddenly now all you want to be a part of this. >> host: lewis essentially the person best at any site he wanted to be a part of growing this, trying to make it worldwide. and he paid for it. >> guest: he paid for it. it's funny, so one recent said to me maybe you were too sympathetic. maybe -- >> host: who is the chairman following marks? >> guest: lou was sort of the longest one following michael marks. and some people thought, this is some who gave me every scrap last the paper from his home. >> host: what happened to them? >> guest: his situation was he really wanted to make this a good global brand name. he saw what is going. had a strong business for. i mean, there were a lot of amenities that he built with, political enemies. it's important to understan

of the thing a lot of people say that he did the chinese dissident did win the award irritated a lot of people but julia is doing a sign irritates a lot of people too and but he's considered a villain by the united states but a hero for so many other people empowering hero by the way and he's certainly not a person that's creating war or promoting conflict. look the chinese this it was an article in a surprise because of his views on all these previous issues he was given his nobel peace prize because of his stand in defiance of chinese authorities and it work i mean it created a lot of attention to that issue it wasn't because of things he's written in the past and nobel peace prize does best when it's clearly clearly an award for human rights activism but when he gets involved in political controversies on the left or on the right it's always going to be disputed ok john i'm going to give you the last word on this do you think that obama now has to it's incumbent upon him to make good on the his words of being a peacemaker he still got a little time left in his first term. well i h

i have led a lot of the urban coalition says. i am leading a campaign and there is a card on each of your tables. in this city where unemployment for african-american youth is 28%, this is twice the national average. among african-american young men, only about 30% are greg tweeting from high-school. i want you to adopt one of our schools. i want to have mentors for the kids who are chronically truant, who have problems. i am asking you to look at in giving 8 -- to the public school teachers. and bring them into shadow your employees for a month. when they go back, they can have real world experience. of course, give your young person an internship. if you give a young person up an opportunity to shadow someone and the possibilities and if you give them an internship, they're more likely to graduate from high school, they're more likely to go on to college. that is the kind of experience we want. oakland, but this was the number 8 the city with the most woman entrepreneurs. there is an engineering at the academy that cents for kid

but i think there is a lot of potential, actually, for building a business on top of distribution through mobile. the other thing we have got going on is really profoundly exciting and far more exciting than five years ago, that the tools are so much better than they were five years ago. they are profoundly better. compared to the dark days of 2005, media are now -- everybody is online. facebook can launch a product, and really, overnight, build community on thousands of websites. there really are some exciting things going on. in the last five years, things have changed a lot. >> does that count -- does that excitement also extend to content? >> i do not think we are there yet. i do not think we have seen any digital native content that has produced really ground-breaking journalism. a couple of years ago, we were pretty excited about what was happening at a place like talking points memo, where they were doing some great stuff. we have seen a lot of efforts, but things like rupert murdoch's daily have not excited us on a journalistic level. but i think we are laying groundwork for some

a lot of family leaves, -- a lot of families leave. we stuck around, but it was a turning point decision to say, all right, we are here from -- we're here for good. what can we do to make this place better? getting involved in politics was the fact that the seed was open for election for the first time in a long time. it was previously mayor newsom's seat and supervisor alioto- pier's seat. i did not get into politics because i had a lifelong ambition of being a politician. that is not me. i came from a private sector, and looking at honestly answering the question -- did i have something different to offer that i thought would be valuable to sanford's is go right now? i do think a large part of our problems in the city are financial, economic. with my background, i did think i would be able to add a lot of value, and that is why i decided to get into politics. >> where do you place yourself on the political spectrum? >> i have to say, i'm one that has been trying to get away from the political spectrum dialogue in san francisco. i wou

he was a lot of things. any specific advice, you know, actually, i would have to tell you one thing. when he was so sick, he said to me, you know, nothing really matters except your friends and your family or your family and your friends in that order. i think what he was saying to me is, you know, it is fine to be on this hamster wheel, you know running and running, trying to, you know, grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that's really all that matters when it is all said and done. tavis: yeah. a lot of this advice. i know the story well of course. it was your speech. you see katie couric on 25 appearances. you know the case western connection to the book. you mentioned them about a zillion times. >> i can't help it. that is how the whole thing started, tavis. tavis: this is a book that is not just going to be read by young people but it is great for young people as they start their lives after college. i ask you how it is that you remain hopeful about the world th

there are a lot of differences of opinion on how to run the city, how to mass make a decision, who should be in place, 11 people to agree on that is a challenging thing. i think we have done the best we can do in the process, considering the difference of opinions. >> the people of san francisco can now choose their mayor, the direction they want to go. that is why this decision was so appropriate. >> the other big shock is that the moderates seem to have won this round. people thought, progressives have themselves on the board. there is no reason that they will not get together and take a noted leader who is a progressive to be interim mayor, and then stayed there for another term. the great thing about being in term mayor is to get to run as an incumbent. the fact that the progressives could not get together to get somebody into office as interim mayor in their own self-interest was very surprising for a lot of us. >> what happened in the last month in city hall was an incredible show of democracy that was part policy, part politics, and it all came together, and more than anything -- n

that is a lot. that is two or three a day. by tomorrow morning, two or three people may have already been hit by a car. this means having 13 deaths a year, approximately one per month. we recently had four that occurred within one week. the cost of medical treatment for these injuries is about $15 million. over five years, we spend $75 million. we have done that since 2008. it is a very expensive endeavor to get hit by a car. about one in every courtroom traumatic injuries in the city of san francisco is pedestrian related. -- about one in every four traumatic injuries in the city of san francisco is pedestrian related. that is pretty high. supervisor avalos: can you repeat the economic information? >> we worked with psac to report the information. we looked at the five-year study looking at all of the injuries that had come into the trauma center. we look at the actual cost of the injuries. every year, it ranged from $11 million to $17 million with an average of $15 million. the total cost for five years was $75 million. sinc

we go to a lot of events and see a lot of folks who sponsor these, and i can tell you it is amazing who is always the first folks to step up when it is time to support something really valuable. i want to take a few minutes to thank all the folks who made tonight possible, who are providing an excellent open bar in the back and all the great food you are eating tonight. first, i want to thank jack, dick blum with blum capital, pg&e, the johnson company, and we have an anonymous donor, and i know pam brewster know something about that, so give her a big round of applause. those are our donors tonight. give them a round of applause. i also want to thank the academy of art university, bank of the west, clear channel, outdoor, who has put up all the winners. he might have seen your pictures on all the bus stops around city hall. i want to thank comcast, the fisher family, kpmg, pb, the business times, the san francisco forty-niners, recology, the san francisco international airport. once again, a big round of applause to all our supporters. now, i would like to thank the person who makes al

some of the storm drains collect a lot of trash. i started cleaning drains in '93. they were horrible because they hadn't been maintained so much. now this is a priority. you have trash, animal waste, and it ends up on our beaches. that is a health risk. that is one of the main reasons why we have to close the beaches after heavy rain. narrator: but even when it's not raining, water still enters the stormwater system, carrying pollutants. here on the west coast, a lot of our storm drain systems are separate from the sanitary sewer system, so if you dump something in the storm drain, it goes right to the ocean untreated. alamillo: we haven't had a major rainstorm in the last year or so yet there's a lot of water in this creek here. i would say 20% of it is natural and the other 80% is runoff. shapiro: the purpose of the smurrf is to treat dry weather runoff, which is coming from storm drains. dry-weather runoff occurs when people waste water through washing their cars in the street, hosing down sidewalks and parking lots, their irrigation systems overspray. narrator:

we have a lot of people who support the sales team to help put that forward. u can feel in oakland a real connection to the community. very diverse, very human, very interactive friendly place with a rich musical history. a good portion of our employees live in and around oakland. a lot of people get here by public transportation and walk and bike and so on. it is kind of a logical place for us to be, and i think we will be your for many years to come. >> it is my pleasure and honor to introduce you to our new energy efficient and trail blazing mayor of oakland, jean kwon. [applause] >> good morning. the reason i wanted to show the pandora clip, the founders of pandora were even more specific. they basically said that should they try to move their company out of oakland, they would face a major rebellion on behalf of their employees. one of my famous -- themes of my administration has been to ask the nation and to ask oakland to take a fresh look at the city. oakland is clearly recently named by "forbes" teh fift -- the fifth coolest city in the country. i like

a lot of mortgages. a lot of dollar volume. they got compensated without regard to the quality of those mortgages. >> tom: so what is your recommendation to fix that kind of practice and are you seeing that put into place? >> what which would recommend is they be compensated based on the future performance of the mortgage, so instead of giving a loan mortgage a $20 grand for $200,000 mortgage, you give him 5 this year, 5 next year and 5 the year after that if the loan is still performing. then you don't end up with mortgages that go belly up after one month. >> professor we have seen a lot of recommendations from this report the. dot frank has a lot. did they address the results of the cries his that we continue to deal with today namely foreclosures and underwater mortgages? >> absolutely. they don't even come close. the lasting legacy of this crisis is going to be how wall street has sidestepped 400 years of real property loss and polluted the legal system with thousands if not tens 6 thousands the forgeries and perjured affi

i think that left a lot to be desired. i do not think it is a good thing. so, i am hoping it is something the mtc will reconsider in terms of its representation in sacramento and how is decisions are presented. i do not think that is acceptable. what about the funding issue? what is the timing of the issue of funding? when are you looking at that? i know we are talking about funding being a critical component of this. is this something happening on parallel tracks? maybe you can talk about that relative to this presentation? >> i can skip ahead a couple of slides and get to a couple of upcoming meetings we have. obviously, we of a public workshop coming up on april 25 here in san francisco. obviously, in your staff has been very well involved to date in the process. i do not expect that to change with regard to staff from planning and mta, and in particular providing substantial input. in terms of the next steps, you can see how we will be stepping up the next round of more constrained scenarios going forward. we will be having that discussion around invest

i have a lot to be happy about. this is the 100th anniversary celebrating international women's day and to tell you we have quite a bit to celebrate. we probably have the highest number of women commissioners ever in the history of the city today. isn't that wonderful we have clearly a good and growing balance of women on the board of supervisors, commissions, agency appointments, and department heads. i'm proud to be heading up this very complicated city. [laughter] one that does not let me sleep very much. certainly -- i said this in many occasions. these last eight weeks, i've fallen in love with the city evening the for the eight weeks ago because it's such a wonderful place to be. every community that i visite, t fascinates me how so many other people who work here, but even those who do not just love the city and they do what they can to make sure it is running well. it is very natural that as i am thrust with the responsibility of being mayor that i look for talent. i think a lot of the talent is with the wom

and a lot of of people, i mean, don't have that choice. i mean, it's not a real easy choice, you know? >> hinojosa: and what other ways do you see kind of... i mean, again, because you're so deep side this kind of reporting, and we don't really hear it so much on this side of the border, when we're talking about cartels, you know, people have this image of kind of, you know, i guess the pablo escobar cartel, kind of ragtag, you know, making a lot of money, but not so sophisticated. when you're talking about a drug cartel in mexico, what exactly are we talking about? you know, can you compare it to a corporation? >> you can compare it to a corporation, because they think very... you know, you have the people who are in charge of pushing drugs across the us, you have people who are in charge of killing, (speaking spanish), you know, the killers. and then you have the public relations side-- you know, the people who will... information is very, very critical. and so you need someone who's going to make sure that the message gets out, and that

a lot. it's a military political bloc. should understand that they should come into afghanistan with the economy because i've got a strong will stay after a very big posture and you do want to leave afghanistan with the people for good positive memory they should start doing economy and are gonna start reconstruction the world on. other ways so. bitter memories are all over our guns so we'll spread throughout the muslim town which the russians as a matter of fact the soviets did a lot of because now nikolay exactly your rational a lot they think not only should they did only do the shooting but they did the building exactly exactly. nato as far as i heard from the press has managed to to to to diminish the casualties among civilians in afghanistan i mean as a result of their operation is it true is the situation better you should never say as a representative person. when it comes to the strike is the call the last year it's not you know truer. words are you know they're trying their best to

of money and it's a case now of once bitten twice shy so investors at this point are doing a lot of due diligence into the companies they're investing in they're very sensitive and valuation and there's a bit more competition so. if a company is listing it's now not the only company in that sector there's a wide range of choice in the russian market so people are a lot more careful a lot more sophistication of the situation that was made similar mistakes that they made in the last in the last call not to tell you if i can go to you last year the whole story was about dawn's a little bit into this year with this change why all of a sudden interest in russian equities. i think this year and basically starting end of two thousand and ten of a definite i have seen the increase in the oil prices which is usually russian economy still very much based on a quarter there. are fresh and i quote this i think these definitely proved perceptional for international investors for the russian companies and this was really their arguments for the russian companies to think again about i.q. was as a

there's a lot of heart ache and a lot of tragedy. before we get to the good news part, which we're going to do today. i would like us to take a moment of silence to honor and remember the youth who were unfortunately succumb to live styles. let's take a moment and remember our loved one. thank you. so today, there's also some good news. it does happen and it's important we acknowledge it. in 2003. the george, the young man we will acknowledge today. george became my client. the district attorney's office wanted to charge him as an adult. he did go to the youth authority, which is unusual in this county. the reason we with want to honor george today. he made it through that system. it's important we acknowledge him. >> i am marsy from the public defender's office. i have always known the potential george has. so working at the public defender's office. i worked in making an exit plan to present to the board to let the board know this young man from being in custody, fortunately he was released and currently george is attending a commu

it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in park

and in addition, the poor tree has had a lot of problems over the years. it looks like there was probably a low branch here that got -- maybe pruned off, but there's another branch here that probably got ripped off, what you can see is, the tree has a much easier time trying to, for form wound wood which is how it compartmentalizes the wound. it is essentially forming a scab, when it can't to that, when there's like shredded pieces, where a limb gets ripped off, for example, the tree can't really form that nice scab around it, because there's too many jagged edges. it is like human beings, you can imagine a narly scrape is going to be harder to heal over and scab up than a little small. >> tell us what kind of tree this is. >> this is a lavenara. it has a seedpod that is not in fruit right now, but apparently irritates the skin. >> good. >> and you know, i want to do before we move up the street, there's something here, we have to go across the street and look at. >> poor fell la. what happened? >> what happened here. well, these trees were obviously, cut d

publishing worked a lot differently than today. bestsellers did not guarantee a large income, and it was pirated by all kinds of people. and paine, but he was, obviously, an incredibly difficult man. he was a flop at most things. but he was also absolutely brilliant as a polemicist, and he wrote one great tract during the american revolution, another great one during the french revolution -- or more -- and changed opinion, really internationally. you might call him the first international revolutionary. >> host: where did you come up with the idea of writing about common sense in politics? >> guest: yeah. i was intrigued with two things, and they sound quite different. one is, could you write a history of something that sounds like it's outside history? common sense isn't supposed to have a history. it's the thing we always agree upon, you know? don't put your hand in the fire, you'll burn yourself. that's common sense. that doesn't sound very historical. but i was intrigued by the idea of where did we get the idea in the first plac