whether or not we consider ourselves a local city, our regional city, an international city, it is job creation that makes the city run well. for all of us here, i know you have great hope that the city will be able to have decent jobs here that can maintain, that they can spend a good amount of their careers in, and that is why i spend a lot of time with chief adviser kim and supervisor david chiu and the other supervisors talking about how we can sustain the midmarket. that is why we passed a week ago the midmarket payroll tax exemption. we wanted to welcome new companies into the city and understand what it was blocking their ability to stay and to grow. to hear a company -- not just from the cfo, from the president. when i visited twitter, i closed the door and they allowed me to speak to their engineers, to their workers, to the people doing the engineering work atwitter. as we closed the door, i laid out -- ok, kids. what do you really want out of the city? in very plain language, they said, "mayor lee, we like the culture of the city. we like the local restaurants. we like that

i know that we pride ourselves in being an international city. reflect that, our cities, official events, reflected that but i know i have benefited greatly, not only as an attorney, but as someone who has worked in the city to have worked with so many leaders of the arab-american community. the business leaders have done very well here. knowing, also, the challenges that you face -- i also know there are so many examples of arab-american leadership in the technology world. just look at silicon valley and see how successful arab- americans have been. we are now recruiting those very companies to come to san francisco to make sure that we work with you for job creation. i am also very excited about so many small-business owners who are of arab-american descent. you have done so well in working in all of our different neighborhoods. i want to continue working with you. i also want to work with those leaders who have been in the cultural world. thank you very much for your contributions. [applause] and i also want to work with people like michelle a

we will make sure that not only do you get the support of this great city, but we are an international city. we can promote even more here on a national scale. just because you're from washington, d.c., or las vegas, you can also look to san francisco for support and leadership as well. because we are a national and international city. we want to support all the filipina women across the country to succeed. that is a great gold, and i want to be part of that. [applause] thank you. i know my wife anita is very excited peter she participated in the luncheon today. i hear she is starting her own group, wow. so it was not just her love for the food. [laughter] i know the building strong committees that begins with people sacrificing as individuals. i'm not to let you know that not only with hydra and marily, with so many leaders, we have a chance to promote people. we have a chance to support you. it is exciting to see business changing, the glass ceiling breaking, and you're going to help us break the bias'. i learned about the bias' at the asian law caucus. we wanted equity and family reunifi

and that we are also an international city. so that my hope is that when these offices are filled and the real energy of this innovation and spirit that is already reflected here, when these production companies find their gems to produce, that you get international attention. because these stories probably will have international themes to them and will resonate all over the world. congratulations, i will be a background supporter. we will be working with the commission to support it as much as we can, and you may see something in the budget. [applause] >> thank you, mayor. just a couple of notes before we get started. for those of you that don't know about the collective, in is a space that has four minimum making grooms at this point. we have six other offices still available. there is information on how big they are and how much they cost. but we welcome you to submit an application if you are interested. we would love to have more film makers in here. it is a great environment for collaboration, sharing ideas and just gett

. >> rose: would you prefer to see it as an internation city. >> i don't know if international cities quite work. they've never worked historically. but i could see a tragedy. i could sifa gnat i can blowing up the fragile center of jerusalem. one structure could be destroyed and that would break the heart of the world. but equally every time jerusalem has been destroyed, 586 b.c. by the babylonians, 70 a.d. by the rope mans, it's just intensified the roe... place. >> rose: have you seen... it seen a cruelty? >> this is a story of terrible massacres, slaughter, bigotry, insanity in every sense. but i also wanted to show another jerusalem and this is a jerusalem people don't normally see and i got this from the sources but i wanted to show jerusalem of music, of food, of love affair, of dancing, of women, the influence of women is enormous on jerusalem, for example. that ice a side you never see. i found wonderful palestinian diaries of the wonderful mixing between jews and muslims but also tell the stories of orgies and how russian pilgrims who arrived in jerusalem became the mistress

lot about, that is promoting our international status, making sure that we have an art museum that appeals to the kids in the tenderloin, to the kids all over the city, to the families we have in the city, but also to be special to our international visitors. i think, n.j., your honor, creating -- i think, jay, creating this and branding is a great thing. last year, there was a financial challenges that occurred all over the world. worldwide economic challenges. if the old models of how you depended on certain bonds or going to be challenged, well, of course they became a challenge to our museum. we got together with the city, the board of supervisors, with the leadership of david chiu, eric mar, got together with the board of directors and, of course, a big thank-you to ben rosenfield who helped us all to figure out with the mayor's office, how we could put together a real state of financial support and strength to make sure the that the asian could move forward. they responded. not only with an agreement going forward, but with this idea of branding which came out of the number of ideas of how the nation can make sure it is appealing to an even br

. >> karzai made a request at an international conference that opened in the german city of bonn on monday. there were representatives from about 100 countries and international organizations, including u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. the agenda includes ways to restore security in afghanistan before most foreign troops leave in 2014. long-term prospects for international aid beyond that year will also be discussed. pakistan is refusing to send any delegates to the conference. their protesting an afghan-based air strike on pakistan's frontier post in late november. 24 pakistani soldiers were killed in the attack. >>> myanmar is opening roads in revival. the country reopened a checkpoint on a bridge at the border of thailand after it was unilaterally closed nearly a year and a half. government officials from the two countries gathered on the bridge on monday morning to mark the occasion. >> opening the bridge checkpoint will help boost the southeast asian economy. i hope this will create jobs for the people of myanmar. >> the area near the bridge was once a center for regional trad

an industrial site, operated by winfield design international inc. winfield applied for a permit to develop an apartment project. the city and county of san francisco required as a condition for obtaining a building permit an inclusionary housing requirement of bmr units, under planning code section 315. also, winfield had to record a notice of special restriction on the property, which included the fact that these bmr units were a part of the property. the important part here is back winfield design did not receive any concessions from the city in order to obtain a permit, and we contend that winfield is therefore not required to provide these bmr units, and being required to have a conditional use permit requiring the bmr units, that this violated costa-hawkins. at the time, my clients were not aware of that. recently, the polymer case came down, which is cited in both the braves, and a polymer case pointed out that under costa- hawkins, the owner of the residential property may establish the initial rent and all subsequent rents if they qualified under the costa- hawkins act, and my client so qualifies. in discovering

and accord together city's attorney, an internal investigation has been launched. >> the six officers related to this incident? >> the six officers who are facing the charges -- it seems are related to this new video that has been released this week. >> wow. >> here's the thing -- some north chicago police officers have been getting some criticism as of late because last month, a man died after he was being questioned by police officers in a domestic incident. that man's name was darren hann hannah. his cousin, bonny mayfield, who is a member of the city council. who is the one who brought this new video to the attention of the city council this week. do you think the cops forgot the camera was in the room? or do you think he believes what he was doing was within his rights and power as a police officer. or does he just not care? >>> this story just shows how much love a mother can have for her child, even before he or she is born. i found this story on itn news, it is of a mom in the uk, donna kelly. she had had a son, one successful pregnancy. but that pregnancy left her cervix weak

contribution to the revitalization of our civic center, and to be an international destination for so many visitors that come to our city. i want to thank the museum, the asian for allowing us to join you in this 3 branding, and to make sure we are on our way to invite a greater audience to experience all the wonderful cultural things you have to offer. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. that was fantastic. i was just thinking, i have to update my facebook, i have to tweet this great logo. it is beautiful. thank you. it is such a wonderful day to show this off. i forgot to mention one name. the mayor is really good. my apologies. demint these technology as well steve cava, our chief of staff. thank you for being here. i also wanted knowledge two guests that i did not get to technology earlier. there are so many people. i definitely wanted to mention akiko yamazaki. she is the president of the -- we also have a strategy director of wolff olins. he is an island in designer. please come up and tell us more about what your involvement was. >> good morning, everybody. speaking of presidents, apparently my daughter things i

an article that i wrote for an editor at the city section of the new york times and wrote an article about the prom at the international high school. that was the first time i spend their and i went back to the book and spend a year reporting but then the following year, still in touch with the kids and reporting -- basically it went to the printer. a lot of time and a lot of notes and my life is on hold. >> at the international high school, something like 28 languages are spoken at least in the year you reported on. that must have been a reporting challenge for you. how did you deal with it? >> i took the lead -- lot of aspirin because teachers can relate. it is really loud at the school. it is allowed at any high school but when you hear 28 languages in the hall it is amazing. several who are wrote about were already very proficient in english and their native language and some spoke several native languages. so any time i ran into a translation problem i didn't have to hire -- just ask a kid. >> how many students? >> around 400. the school had been in existence four years. so the class -- the student body kept growi

an airport. it happened at the midland international airport just before 9:30 this morning. a city spokesperson said the explosives were found as a man was going into the terminal. the fbi took the man into custody but would not make any further comments. a sweep of the airport was performed and all operations are back normal tonight. >>> still ahead, why it's about to get more expensive to go shopping in montgomery county. >>> plus, the rush is on. why you might call this super saturday for thrift stores. >>> taking a look at the new year's celebration in sydney, australia. fireworks lit up the sky over the famous sydney opera house and sydney bridge. [ monica ] i'm away on a movie shoot and it hasn't been going exactly as planned. cut. cut! [ monica ] i thought we'd be on location for 3 days -- it's been 3 weeks. so i had to pick up some more things. good thing i've got the citi simplicity card. i don't get hit with a fee if i'm late with a payment... which is good because on this job, no! bigger! [ monica ] i may not be home for a while. [ male announcer ] the new citi simplicit

he worked to build berkeley into an international powerhouse and because of these efforts berkeley has been named the third most sustainable city in the united states in the peer review study by a major environmental organization. i would be remiss that i wouldn't mention that mayor bates was part of loma prieta. he and his wife worked hard to make the city of berkeley a national center of disaster resilience. mayor bates will discuss the importance of citizen awareness as loma prieta engaged with the

he worked to build berkeley into an international powerhouse and because of these efforts berkeley has been named the third most sustainable city in the united states in the peer review study by a major environmental organization. i would be remiss that i wouldn't mention that mayor bates was part of

retaliation for violence comes after the military entered the city of hama and antigovernment protests as an aside is facing increasing international pressure to stand down a civilian death succeed since the. contaminated illegal likker has killed one hundred two people in eastern india and left dozens more in hospital the first victims late on tuesday to drinking alcohol that was laced with methanol a toxic substance generally used as fuel police have arrested four people in connection with making and selling the mixture. president obama has marked the end of the iraq war in an address to soldiers returning from the conflict speech he promised to have all soldiers withdrawn by the end of the year and the five thousand troops are still present in the country since the war began nine years ago more than one hundred thousand iraqi civilians killed. and egyptians are heading to the polls for the second phase of the country's elections is the most parties are expected to see the biggest backing become the largest bloc voting violations are being reported over the army's apparent to clamp down on abuses the country's first democratic ba

thousands of people have taken to the streets of syria's largest city of homs demanding international protection happened after the greeks used to be an observer that mission is to assess the situation in the country shore compliance hearing for plan to end the bloodshed and price. down seven nations nationality. to have to investigate the activities of the free syrian army these are mercenaries in the shakhtar it's all our arm right outside of it these outside powers are basically from qatar and the emirates and we all of the arab league which is now called troll why did she see the go cooperation council to get themselves in this case we still don't know i d go into investigating the need to call trolling to call and senator set up government in the uk near the border between turkey and syria in the skin there room which is very across the border basically from our live in to our army going to investigate that you are really going to hurt us to get into shipment smuggling weapons by the jordanian syrian border we still don't look good it's a tall order for the arab eco caesar in that these are not exactly democracies they are invest

he worked to build berkeley into an international powerhouse and because of these efforts berkeley has been named the third most sustainable city in the united states in the peer review study by a major environmental organization. i would be remiss that i wouldn't mention that mayor bates was part of loma prieta. he and his wife worked hard to make the city of berkeley a national center of disaster resilience. mayor bates will discuss the importance of citizen awareness as loma prieta engaged with the city to address emergency preparedness headon. let's welcome mayor bates to the podium. [applause] >> thank you, paul. thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be at this beautiful building and i was reflecting back and i was at the baseball game 22 years ago. how many of you were at the baseball game? i am the only one. two of us. i was sitting underneath the -- canned really stick park underneath second deck when the earthquake happened. the whole deck was like moving over us. i was thinking, that close from being killed because if it came down it would have been a disaster. the trick was trying to get back to berkeley. i come on

an internal investigation will show he has done nothing wrong. they have both been removed from duty and the injured protester, they are all suing the city. >>> this morning they are on a manhunt following a shooting. it happened in the lower nba hill area. they pulled over a driver for a traffic violation and the man then bolted from the car and ran towards lar ken. >> it was at that point when the officers gave chase and they turned around firing several shots at the officer. they were able to fire back at the person who was firing on them. >> the suspect was taken to the hospital with serious since -- injuries. they are looking for the woman who drove off in the gunman's car. >>> now the ms. our funds -- now the measure funds the operating budget along with 10,000 federal programs but the white house says, president barack obama has concerns over the provisions. current stop gap funding runs out at midnight on friday. he will sign a $652 defense bill by the house which was removed. now the obama administration wants to reserve the right for civil civilian trials -- for civilians trials. >>> they crashed through a starbucks. 30-year-old sergio m