. >> two years ago, alan marks was diagnosed with brain cancer, he and his wife believe it was causedby two decades of cell phone use. he says a new law is and would have made a difference back then. >> i would have used it in a different way. i won't have held to it my head. i would have used speaker phone and a head said set. blue tooth in the car. and could have not had problem was my head. >> the law will require stores in the city to display the amount of radiation and the cell phone industry saying there are government safety standards and that applies to cell phones is designed to be sufficiently protective of human health or safety. there are guidelines. >> and this small print says it should be held five ages of an inch away from the body to meet standards. and. >> this is like buying a loaf of bread. should ingredients be on the inside of the bag? then, you open it up and find out there are things you can't eat? no. >> the family held a meeting with the mayor to talk about the law he says is not claiming a direct link to health problems. he ask z have concerns. >> i'm not a

the need for housing has been clearly articulated by alan mark and others. we do a lot of residential work in this town and definitely need to see more housing in the pipeline. it is projects like washington and others along the waterfront that would add tremendous housing. this is about the greater public good. clearly, this is that link between the ferry building and the fisherman's wharf that needs that greater public wharf and needs to be built into something exciting. i cannot wait to see it for myself, my children, and the greater public good. i fully support what has been presented to you today. president fong: paul iseult? patricia craig? >> good evening, commissioners. i am here representing

the need for housing has been clearly articulated by alan mark and others. we do a lot of residential work in this town and definitely need to see more housing in the pipeline. it is projects like washington and others along the waterfront that would add tremendous housing. this is about the greater public good. clearly, this is that link between the ferry building and the fisherman's wharf that needs that greater public wharf and needs to be built into something exciting. i cannot wait to see it for myself, my children, and the greater public good. i fully support what has been presented to you today. president fong: paul iseult? patricia craig? >> good evening, commissioners. i am here representing a planning coalition. i have a letter on ellen's behalf. we are pleased to submit comments supporting the northeast embarcadero study. these are guidelines for new development in the area. we are very pleased that the san francisco planning commission approved the study's recommendation at the hearing on july 8. we hope the port commission will do likewise and a

joining us now are the two leading economists, alan blinder and moody's mark zan. >> thank you. >> to the fed's purchase of mortgage-backed securities. which was the most important for the economy. >> it also included the fiscal stimulus. somewhat to our surprise, we didn't know going into the work, at least according to this model, the panoplyia of financial policies, including the things you mentioned and other things were more important qon quantitatively than the stimulus, the tacks rebates of 2008 and so on. >> suzanne: makers, not all of the policies have worked as well. in particular, the loan modifications are not working necessarily. how do we fix housing, do you think? >> well, you're right. i think it's -- as you put it, if you rank the order of the different policy responses, the mortgage foreclosure efforts have been least successful. at this point, i think we need to maintain currently low interest rates, and they need to work through the problems with the foreclosure mitigation plans, and make them work a little better. hopefully we get some jobs, and with that, i think

economists mark zandi and alan blinder said the stimulus of nearly $800 billion, plus the wall street bailout, known as tarp, and other measures, likely warded off an outright depression. the study found that without those programs the gross domestic product would be 6.5% lower; eight million more people would be unemployed and prices would be falling as deflation set in. but such benefits also come with high costs. last week, the white house projected a deficit of nearly $1.48 trillion for this fiscal year. that's down slightly from an earlier estimate, but still amounts to 10% of the nation's total economic output. at the same time, republicans continue to charge all that spending is doing little to help the economy. and they warn of tax hikes to come. north carolina's virginia foxx spoke on the house floor today. >> $6.1 trillion that's how much money the federal government has spent in just the first 18 months of the obama presidency, washington is spending $17 million every minute of every hour of every day, there's only one way to feed that kind of destructive habit: washington