we firmly believe that the alice griffith opportunity center, which is on the alice griffith public housing development, is critical to this type of support. alice griffith opportunity center currently serves as a community hub in the neighborhood where programs and services are delivered to the residents it also houses the hope sf service connection team. currently in the center there are quite a number of services offered. there is after school program.

we firmly believe that the alice griffith opportunity center, which is on the alice griffith public housing development, is critical to this type of support. alice griffith opportunity center currently serves as a community hub in the neighborhood where programs and services are delivered to the residents it also houses the hope sf service connection team. currently in the center there are quite a number of services offered. there is after school program. there is staff that links residents to employment training and job placement. there's child care. it also houses a computer lab and it runs a program called peacekeepers, which works with violence prevention in the neighborhood. in the future, we're hoping the center will be even more robust. we are hoping to offer tutoring, after school programming, and extending the services of workforce placement to transitional youth. there's a great new partnership that will be held in the alice griffith opportunity center. alice griffith residents has partnered with urban strategies and they will be running the garden program out of the alice griffit

doug and then alice. or alice and then doug, how about that? >> in the midst of all of this gloom and doom, i think there has certainly been polarization and there is less of a medal on capitol hill. but i am not sure -- middle on capitol hill. but i'm not sure that we should conclude that the american public is significantly more polarized or significantly dumber either than it used to be or voters in a lot of other places like the u.k. were they seem to be able to face up to these things -- maybe they're overdoing it. but if you get a reasonably represent a group of people in a room -- and this has been done multiple times -- and you sit them down and say look, here is the problem. these are the spending pressures. this is the revenue side. these are the facts. here are some trends. you get pretty reasonable answers. people can do that, average people, and we should not forget that. the characterization of everybody as having extreme views -- i do not think they do. they're on a city councilor in a city with the budget deficit, or on the stat

james, and alice. alice is a neighbor. thanks for coming. i have a big hand out of stuff about what other people think values might be when you do work on your home. san francisco is a different world, isn't it? >> we have so many micro districts and pockets of different the used within two or three blocks. answering the question for one house may not always be the same as answering that question for different house. >> give us an idea. if you get a view, it will be different -- >> shore. the value of a simple remodel verses a very fancy kitchen remodel in a house that might be worth more than a condominium. those things can matter. it can make a difference. >> we have a request from one of our viewers to make sure we talk about -- home-improvement results and building taxes. >> accessible. >> the other thing that might be brought out his people over- improved. there is a fine line. i recommend that my client or anyone talk to realtors before they start. it is a good idea to get an idea of that neighborhood, that house, and how it can be don

she was alice, when she made a daring trip to paris, she met stein. stein proposed to alice.ooked less and less like a female. and toward the end of their tour, gertrude took alice on a nostalgic visit to oakland. it was supposed to be nostalgic: but the town had become a city and everything had changed. she later wrote about this visit in a book called the auto biography of everybody. and it was in this book that she wrote the famous dictum about oakland. but according to katherine giovanni. she didn't mean the comment as a -- but more as a lament. >> what she meant meant by there was no there, there is that if you didn't feel like you where from there, you are not there. [ male announcer ] in here, small business solutions from at&t can get you there. like the at&t all for less package, starting at just $70 per month, voice plus broadband. it's the at&t network. helping you do what you do... even better.

doug and then alice. or alice and then doug, how about that?> in the midst of all of this gloom and doom, i think there has certainly been polarization and there is less of a medal on capitol hill. but i am not sure -- middle on capitol hill. but i'm not sure that we should conclude that the american public is significantly more polarized or significantly dumber either than it used to be or voters in a lot of other places like the u.k. were they seem to be able to face up to these things -- maybe they're overdoing it. but if you get a reasonably represent a group of people in a room -- and this has been done multiple times -- and you sit them down and say look, here is the problem. these are the spending pressures. this is the revenue side. these are the facts. here are some trends. you get pretty reasonable answers. people can do that, average people, and we should not forget that. the characterization of everybody as having extreme views -- i do not think they do. they're on a city councilor in a city with the budget deficit, or on the state

alice was leaving for king lear. >> and i didn't drive either.e i would have to burden someone at a party to take me home to get read to and then drive me back. >> reporter: and yet she and her dad kept it up every night until the first day of college. after unpacking her things at rutgers jim and alice sat in the stair well of her dorm and shared one last read. >> it was a hard thing to bear to know that after almost nine years that we were now doing the last time. >> he put in every night for years. he didn't have to do that. he's selfless. >> reporter: alice ended up graduating top of her class with a degree in-- you guessed it-- english literature. and thanks to all that reading her dad did, alice is now able to read to him from her own book. >> well, my father read to me. >> reporter: it's called the reading promise. >> he had been reading to me every night for as long as i can remember. >> reporter: as for jim, although he rarely reads to alice anymore, he still finds a regular audience by traveling around to local senior centers. >> the to

and also by the alice clayburg reynolds foundation and viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm evan smith. he's been a staff writer at the new yorker since 1963, and over those many years he's written enough pieces about texas food and politics and life in general the aptly named trillin on texas, published by the university of texas press, is in bookstores now. he's calvin trillin. this is overheard. >> calvin trillin, welcome. >> thank you. >> nice to see you again. >> thank you. you too. >> nice to have you back in texas where apparently you've written a ton of pieces about uss did you even know that there was enough.i, i cculdn't believe there were enough to fill a whole book. >> no, i didn't know, actually. >> yeah. >> when the ut press asked me about it i said, i don't think i've written that much about texas. it turned out there were a number of pieces that aren't in there. >> you had to actually leave stuff out. >> yeah. i left stuff. >> we think that texas is enormously interesting, and we don't necessarily expect everybody else does. and so the quest

i have had the honor of serving with him on the alice b. toklas board for over three years. he was a strong, but fair a leader, building consensus. i have the utmost respect for injurious. he was one of the smartest and hardest working people on no. he worked tirelessly through his involvement with the democratic party, as well as his tenure on the hrc, just to name a few. he is a fair, measured, and analytical person. i believe he is eminently qualified to serve on the police commission and i urge you to support his candidacy. i thank you for your time. supervisor kim: thank you. reverend? >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is james mcrae and in the former pastor for mr. julius turman. mr. turman is highly educated, eminently qualified, graciously equipped for service to our city at this time. his competence and his willingness to serve give me continuing cause to rejoice as a san franciscan. we have the type of city where randy brightest and the best -- wherein the brightest and the best rise to serve the common good. please, give your recommendation to mr. turman a

i have been a proud member of the alice b. toklas lgbt club. during his tenure, it was marked with sober-clear of lead, a strategic vision. i urge your support. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, and i am in -- i am sarah bright. i'm here in support of julius turman. i've also served with him on the allis board and worship with him at united methodist church. he is a brilliant attorney. balanced, rational, and stare. -- and fair. his role is that of a labor and employment attorney, which i believe makes him uniquely qualified to sit on the police commission into a evaluate behavior's and craft and dropped policy and procedure to bring the hot seemingly disparate positions together -- two seemingly disparate positions together. and think that is part of what the police commission does. i think it would be incredibly valuable to have a man of his experience serving in that role. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. we actually are recall -- and i have -- [reading names] >> thank you, supervisors. i am a little bit of my game. i just f

alice? by the way, alice, i should point out that you've done the quotable einstein?ave a volume here of albert einstein's letters to and from children. tell us about@that a little bit. >> well, it's a coection of letters that children had written to einstein. there are@about 50 or 60 letters on all kinds of topics. they also included the answers to some of the letters. he wasn't able to swer all of the letters. some of them are fairly trivial and requi"e no answer, but he did his best. >> you also produced the einstein almanac which goes year by year right up to 1955, is that correct? >> yes. >> and you also point out in 1955 early in the year russell approached einstein asking him to issue a joint statement declaring thata nuclear war there there would be no winners or losers, ly a permanent state of catastrophe. signed april 11 and returned it to russell. with it, he sent a short letter. you speak to that? i ask you, robert. >> well, the -- this was seven da before he died. i think he died before the letter reached russell. this then became the touch stone for the

alice and i went with her for a couple of slutty i think it was in st. which this is where you'd look if you, i don't mean to imply that you are looking. [laughter] >> i personally, i do my slutty hoe shopping online now. >> that's right. that's safer and they come in those unmarked boxes. >> privacy from your own home, that's exactly right. well, sse was, she was pretty great. >> she was wonderful..3 >> she was a kin, you seem like kindred spirits.ú >> yeah, i..and she was...i say in the eulogy that she was an enormously generous hearted person nd sometimes when you do what i do, which is in reporting, which is what newspaper people call parachuting in, i mean, you're not, you're not on the beat and you're coming from outside. >> yeah, right. >> you get sort of people who are on the beat sort of resent it. molly just thought pull up a chair. >> this isn't her beat. >> yeah. >> she was very welcoming. >> oh, yeah. this is the bestt3 entertainment there is, she told me. >> she's right. >> and, and shh yeah, i remember she, and she used to, she alwaysssaid

alice thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very latest on this. now spain may launch a legal action against germany which prematurely pointed to its cucumbers as the cause of the failed eco lie break the hysteria over spanish priorities has crippled the country's farm exports and cost millions of euros in just a week and while the source of infection is still identified critics believed the pharmaceutical industry may be the one to benefit from the vegetable panic. some cucumber scale that much is clear and it's also become apparent that although germany planed spain as his source of the eco dye it's not that's costing innocence punish brewton vegetable export is around two hundred million euros but we could it would only bring all the statements to an absolute lack of responsibility what is happening today is a check made to the spanish vegetable and fruit industry calling the european health watchdog discredited russia says it had no choice but to ban all friesen vegetable imports from the entire european union a reaction in brussels calls dispr

>> slow growth. >> slower than alice thinks. >> douglas holtz-eakin, alice rivlin, thanks for joinings. >>> next, republican presidential candidate ron paul says the playing field is coming to him. >> the people coming over here, so i would say whatever happens is going to be good because the people have woke up. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is stacy. who runs circles around asthma. and dan. he never lets high cholesterol get him too low. and amy with her arthritis well in hand. they go to walgreens... where their pharmacist not only refills prescriptions but gives advice... immunizations... and health tests. staying on top of your health starts right in your neighborhood. walgreens. there's a way to stay well. the count on chevy event is here. turn it up in a malibu. 33 mpg, over 500 highway miles a tank. one of our 9 models over 30 mpg highway. fuel up, rock on. very well qualified lessees can get a low mileage lease on a chevy malibu ls for around $179 a month. fuel economy based on epa estimates. and there's a great selection of inventory available now at

doug and then alice. or alice and then doug, how about that?> in the midst of all of this gloom and doom, i think there has certainly been polarization and there is less of a medal on capitol hill. but i am not sure -- middle on capitol hill. but i'm not sure that we should conclude that the american public is significantly more polarized or significantly dumber either than it used to be or voters in a lot of other places like the u.k. were they seem to be able to face up to these things -- maybe they're overdoing it. but if you get a reasonably represent a group of people in a room -- and this has been done multiple times -- and you sit them down and say look, here is the problem. these are the spending pressures. this is the revenue side. these are the facts. here are some trends. you get pretty reasonable answers. people can do that, average people, and we should not forget that. the characterization of everybody as having extreme views -- i do not think they do. they're on a city councilor in a city with the budget deficit, or on the state

cooper joins us live now for more on this alice witnesses say the scale of destruction is shocking so what is the state of the situation at the facility right now. well as you were saying kind of broke countless lives in the central russian republic over the north when the fire to place that's an altimeter had a round and that the fifty most a time sparking circle explosions the latest figures we have all that at least thirty people were injured aish of those that have been hospitalized but a much larger number some twenty eight thousand people including military personnel and local civilians have been evacuated from the nearby area as this depot how some pretty serious almost tutoring. rocket shells intended for russia's grad multiple rocket launching systems so understandably panic broke out some emergency services were quickly out of the scene though battling the blazes which are expected to continue to rage for at least another day psychologists are also believed to be at the seabed hoping to calm down and entire houses the rooms have burnt down in the nearby housing estates detai

well, alice explained we're all about making this phone more efficient, more powerful, and so what we're doing with our wireless region initiative is taking that and looking at health care, education and various areas, what's the social benefit. so we truly believe that health care can be helped by mobile technology. you know, it can reduce costs, help people with medication adherence, things like taking advantage -- taking their pills on time, um, so that they can manage their diseases. and one of the projects that we looked at here actually in d.c. was medication adherence and specifically related to hypertension. and we found by working with gw university and other great partners that if you put an app on a phone and you teach somebody how to use it, it can definitely help them take their pills on time and live a healthier, better life. >> host: so is it the app that qualcomm developed or what? how is qualcomm a partner in this? >> guest: no, oneover our partners did, so qualcomm's the enabler. the chip on the phone was making the connectivity so you could have data. the application t

and also by the alice clayburg reynolds foundation and also by the alice clayburg reynolds foundationnfare] (jane joyce) polar bears are specially conditioned for life in the harsh arctic environment. polar bears rely on vast expanses of arctic sea ice to hunt for seals in the fall to build up enough fat reserves to carry them through the meltdown in the spring. but the future of the polar bear is literally "on thin ice." the arctic has warmed by 2 to 4 degrees fahrenheit since the 1960's, about twice the rate of the rest of the world. the frozen habitat the bears depend on for survival has shrunk dramatically. arctic ice melts earlier and forms later, shortening the bears' hunting season. polar bears are forced to come ashore earlier, undernourished, or weakened from longer swims in the more open sea. bears have been spotted swimming as far as 60 miles from shore. some have suffered exhaustion and drowned in search of food or an ice floe. in 2004, polar bears were engaged in cannibalism in areas where there was little ice on which to hunt. by century's end, the summer arctic ice is p

so local celebrity chef alice water has been a big supporter of that campaign.e will be cooking breakfast this morning and it is unclear exactly what mrs. obama will be talking about today but tickets are not cheap. it's $1,000 a plate. the event starts at 8457 this morning. the bay citizen reported last week that one of the things they will serve today is garlic toast. >> i was expecting like lobster omelette withmy melanoma sacrificed or something like that. >> it will be organic and locally grown. >> better be good for $2,500. thank you. >>> house democrats are meeting behind doors and discussing the "sexting" scandal involving congressman anthony weiner. he is resisting calls from his colleagues to step down. democrats may pass a resolution urging him to quit or strip him of committee assignments. >> he has already done that part. [ laughter ] >> not literally. >> been a slow day for traffic. >> yes. >> a lot of time think about it. >> the big decision today is what we are all going to do to enjoy the afternoon. >> a lot of people casting off their clothes.

toklas, a major feature of this exhibit. >> gertrude and alice fell in love, and eventually alice movedartment of leo and gertrude. it was gertrude who continued to bring artists into them. >> reporter: but gertrude stein wanted to be more than a collector. >> she liked collecting, but after awhile, her public image as a patron and collector bothered her. she wanted to be known the same way picasso was known-- for her creative work, not just for her collecting of others. >> reporter: stein thought of herself primarily as a writer, whose work, corn contends, has come back into fashion. >> she was always just a little outside the mainstream until, really, feminism rediscovered her and began to look at her through a completely different lens. >> reporter: in addition to writing several books, including the best selling "autobiography of alice b. toklas," stein composed the libretto for a cutting-edge opera composed by virgil thompson, "four saints in three acts," with an all-black cast, produced in 1934. both museums are showing excerpts. as a writer and as a collector, gertrude was a very

alice is one of the first women in alabama who was ever admitted to the bar. she -- at 99 she's the oldest practicing attorney in the state. she continues to practice every day, and she hopes to celebrate her 100th birthday in september at her law desk. she was quite a character and told me quite a bit about how the lee girls were raised. and her answer to that question is, she quoted her sister saying, she couldn't top what she had done. she had nowhere to go but down. and i think the combination of this kind of overwhelming thing, the somewhat autobiographical nature of what was written about and not to disappoint yourself let alone the other people out there waiting for a second book, all of that -- she writes about the fact that we don't -- that we don't get second novels from such a wonderful writer. >> thank you. and your film is opening nationwide, you're premiering in new york. we'll be looking for your film and your book is available. we have it here in the lobby. it's available on amazon. i'm going to go to paulette and go to john on this question. b

alice is one of the first women in alabama who was ever admitted to the bar. she -- at 99 she'st

. >> en méxico cruzcaya alice tiene todos los detalles. >> organizaciones alzaron la voz para protestara graves faltas a los derechos humanos. >> leyes bajo campañas de odio y violan el derecho internacional. >> este tipo de leyes criminalizan la inmigración . >> si contratas un indocumentado, transportas o rentas un departamento a un indocumentado eres criminal. >> muchos han sido obligados a emigrar de sus países por razones económicas . >> estás medidas son lacerantes para los inmigrantes no solo mexicanos sino también de todo el mundo. >> se ha pedido al gobierno de estados unidos que modifique estás leyes para que se ajusten a los estándares internacionales de inmigrantes. >> cruzcaya lis ciudad de méxico . >> un sujeto que protagonizo una balacera se declaro no culpable. >> terrell blade . >> un segundo joven de 16 años fue quién detono el arma, el menor de edad se presentara en una corte juvenil. >> una balacera dónde un sujeto identificado cómo roselindo este abrió fuego contra uniformados. >> el sospechoso era buscado por pposeción de armas. >> la identeida de un hombre golpead

famed chef alice waters will be here will be preparing the breakfast.is a fan of the first lady's let's move campaign. breakfast is scheduled for 8:45 at claremont hotel in berkeley. to see her would cost you a thousand dollars at the least. $25,000 to sponsor the breakfast. then the first lady will be moving on to san francisco for a luncheon at merchants exchange building. president obama was just here six weeks ago raising money in liberal bay area. the election is still a year and a half away. claremont seems to be very excited about the big visit. we saw crew members, power washing the sidewalks about 4:00 this morning. we saw the bomb squad pulling in around 5:00 in a big tank pulling in the claremont no check things out. a lot of preparations to get ready for the first lady's visit. live in berkeley, amy hollyfield "abc 7 news." >> i hope she is hungry. >>> seven republican hopefuls gathered on stage for the first presidential debate. it was the first debate in the season for mitt romney and newly declared candidate michele bachmann. president ob

to my immediate right is alice rivlin. she is a visiting professor at the public policy institute at georgetown university, a senior fellow not economic studies program in brookings and literally almost done it all. she's a former director of omb, vice chair of the federal reserve board, co-chair of the task force on debt reduction, and also on president obama's debt commission. in 2008, she was named one of the greatest public servants of the last 25 years, but there's a single line in her bio that represents her greatest accomplish wants. she's the founding director of the congressional budget office that she served at from 1975 to 1983. to her right is rudolph penner, an institute fellow at the urban institute holding the chair and public policy. he was a managing director of the barrens group, a pmg company, been affiliated with the american enterprise institute and held positions at omb, hud, and home of add providers. he was on the cbo from 1983-87. next to him is the vice chair and also one of two trustees the socia