government that gives corporations like twitter a tax break while basic services are cut, but another city is possible. a city with transit so great you don't need your car. buses every 10 minutes, truly save by claims all over the city. let's make really magnificent every effort -- every underground station covered with murals and mosaics, every bus shelter a work of art. transit so great you don't want your car. now, only the rich can afford to live here. but another city is possible. let's declare a moratorium on building houses for the wealthy. we have 24 billionaires'. that's enough. we need housing for poor workers, middle-class families, artists. these people are the backbone and soul of san francisco. they deserve to live here. where will the money come from? a few ideas -- one, a municipal bank of san francisco will get the interest on its own pension funds instead of giving it to bankamerica. second, dumppg &e to have public power. that would give us lower rates. 3, the rich must pay their fair share in taxes. money is being sucked upward as i speak. let's bring it back down. tax

there is another city council meeting tonight at 7:00. ford's seat has been moved. >> might be a few people there. >> to see what goes on. >> thank you. >>> smoking might be snuffed in downtown concord. the city council is voting tonight on the plan to ban smoking for 17 blocks surrounding toto santos plaza in all areas accessible to the general public. smoking would be banned even on private property if accessible to the public. no other contra costa city has a downtown-only smoking ban. tonight's meeting begins at 6:30. >>> in a few hours nurses at alta bates summit medical center in oakland head back to work. the nurses went on a one-day strike thursday. sutter kept its replacements for five days though locking out its regular nurses until today. striking nurses blame replacement nurse now for the death of a patient on saturday. the "chronicle" reports the cancer patient was killed by a nutritional supplement injected into her blood instead of her stomach. >>> the trial gets under way today for the doctor accused of kill michael jackson

both teams have struggled on the field and there is a threat both teams could move to another city. >>> san francisco can now move forward with its massive redevelopment plan for the hunter's point naval shipyard. a judge ruled in favor of the city in a long legal battle with environmentalists. the hunters' point redevelopment plan has been in the works for the past seven years which calls for hundreds of new homes, dozens of stores and several new parks. there is also talk of a possible stadium for the 49ers. >>> still ahead, pets and politics. that's a fun campaign to help raise money for a good cause. >>> and someone could become rich on the east coast but they are running out of time to make that happen. >>> the final hour of the session for the fifth straight advance which left stocks more than 10% higher than when it began the week. big reason for optimism, a real hope that europe is on course to solve its own dead problem. so they put the final decision on granting greece another lone until october. dow is now up 48. nasdaq up 7. s&p is up 2. >>> one lucky person in connecticut

story has to deal with what to do about a sausalito politician who may have slapped the hand of another city councilmember during a heated debate. you have to see it for yourself. terry mcsweeney is in sausalito. terry you talked to the d.a.'s office what are they saying? >> reporter: they got the case a short time ago. cannot talk about the case in particular. they say this every battery case they look to see the facts, the circumstances the suspect's criminal history, if any and figure if they have a real good chance of getting a conviction. all of this because of what happened here at the sausalito city hall on september 13th. take a look for yourselves. this is in its total on the right councilwoman ford next to her vice mayor kelly. she stretched out her hand and tells him to hush. he responded by whacking her hand, that's it. the d.a.'s office does say technically the slightest unwanted touching can be deemed battery this is clearly unwanted. councilwoman ford says it was more than a light tap. >> i held up my hand and said shush. i put my hand back down. the next thing i knew vice may

handle the emergency situations, he said that if you do not like the way that we handle it, move to another city. this is from a senior management member. i know that you are not supposed to reply to me, but somewhere along the way i feel i deserve some answers. there is still no permit to the hot water heater. another nov was issued on september 2. >> any further public comment? item #five. discussion of planning reviews and approvals between the planning department and building department that are required for building permits. >> good morning, commission president, commissioners. i am with the assistant planning department. here with the the the fear of current planning. we would sincerely like to thank you for this opportunity to introduce a conversation regarding building permit applications. if we can get the screen to switch over to the laptop? >> it should be switching over. here we go. >> great, thank you. the planning department's mission statement is that the san francisco planning department promote a harmonious use of land and quality of life for future generations. the department w

story has to deal with what to do about a sausalito politician who may have slapped the hand of another city councilmember during a heated debate. you have to see it for yourself. terry mcsweeney is in sausalito. terry you talked to the d.a.'s office what are they saying? >> reporter: they got the case a short time ago. cannot talk about the case in particular. they say this every battery case they look to see the facts, the circumstances the suspect's criminal history, if any and figure if they have a real good chance of getting a conviction. all of this because of what happened here at the sausalito city hall on september 13th. take a look for yourselves. this is in its total on the right councilwoman ford next to her vice mayor kelly. she stretched out her hand and tells him to hush. he responded by whacking her hand, that's it. the d.a.'s office does say technically the slightest unwanted touching can be deemed battery this is clearly unwanted. councilwoman ford says it was more than a light tap. >> i held up my hand and said shush. i put my hand back down. the next thing i knew vice may

emergency work on gas lines in another city forced a rescheduling and the pipes will have to be tested after that pipeline explosion. >>> white house officials are seen to have looked at the president's reelection campaign if there is a default on the federal stimulus loan. the committee was releasing e- mails on a bank foreclosing. the statement -- . >> the obama administration took nine days to bring a project off the shelves and try to get money to them and we know that $535 million of tax money went to that company and they have filed bank will you please tell see. >> that was at a tea party event announcement. >>> a retired marine has received the nation's highest military honor, the medal of honor. >> you did your duty above and beyond and kept the faith with the highest traditions of the marine corp you love and because of your honor, 36 men are alive today. >> the president awarded that medal yesterday to the 23-year- old. in 2009, the marine ignored orders and went into enemy fire in afghanistan to save 36 american and afghanistan troops and recoverd the the bodies of others.

city. i delved into another part of what makes our city special, our innovation, are entrepreneurialism, and i founded and ran a small business for nine years. i decided to run for board of supervisors because for much of last decade, city hall was not as functional as it should be. i am proud that during my three years as president of our board, we are in a different place. our board of supervisors is working together to move our city forward and get things done. now, i am running for mayor because san francisco needs a new generation of leadership that has a record of results, of the visions for the future and is independent. my record includes performing our budget process and passing tough ethics rules to require transparency by lobbyists. i have helped to create thousands of jobs with the america's cup and help to keep companies like twitter ,zynga and yelp herre. i have helped to build tens of thousands of units of new housing in all parts of the city. my vision for san francisco is to build a 21st century economy, a world-class transportation system, and truly great schools. thanks to

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the world series title will shift to another city. the giants have something to play for entering the final series. tonight's 80th-straight sellout. the franchise would set a new attendance with 3.3 million. the colorado rockies, in to usher in that historical night. bottom of the third, two on. mike fontenot sends one over dexter fowler's hit. ryan vogelsong and torres score on the triple. vogelsong, ripping the cap off a cinderella season. mark ellis strikes out. top of the sixth, things would get a little hairy. kevin kouzmanoff groupeds into an inning-ending double-play. vogelsong finishes with 13 wins and a 2.71 e.r.a. the giants win game one of the three-game set. and for vogelsong, a fantastic season and just the way he'd like to go out. >> that was my whole mentality. i just wanted to have a good one and finish strong for them. they've been behind us all year. especially me personally. they've been withes me the whole season. and i felt like i owed it to them to go out and put together a good start. and gives us a chance to wi

that's the easiest way to get from a city center to another city center and when i really want to have fun i take my motorbike. that's the nice green vehicle on the bottom of the slide. my presentation. i'll start with some facts and figures, then the benefits for the society, the dutch dutch. how we do it in the netherlands and then i go deeper into bicycle infrastructure. that's the main reason for this workshop and also the main argument for using bicycle or not using bicycle. i go briefly into enforcement in education and i come up with some conclusions. bike ownership in the netherlands and other european countries. i don't have the u.s. figures here. i have to go to my notes. but you can see the netherlands is top in europe as it comes tobacco ownership. we have more -- to bicycle ownership. we have more bicycles than people. so you can imagine how many bikes there are. you can find them on every street, every street corner. denmark is very good. second. and then you see it all the way down to spain. oops, now i see a mistake in my slide. uh, where -- if you compare the netherlan

country and it just shows me, maybe if they hit somewhere else, maybe if they killed 3,000 people in another city, they would have dealt with it in a different way but new yorkers were like, is that it? is that all you've got? we're going to move on. we are who we are and we're go to continue. that struck me only two years later. chris: that reminds me of humphrey bogart in "casablanca" when he said to the nazis, major strausser, there are certain neighborhood in new york i wouldn't advise you to invade whfment we come back, something different with disastrous high unemployment out there, history tells us barack obama's re-election is far from assured new york cy matter what else he may do right. but is that misleading? chris: welcome back. what does high unemployment mean for a president trying to win re-election. for f.d.r. running for a second term in the great depression, the unemployment rate was 16.6%. he won anyway but the important thing there was the trend down from 19.8 when he took office. in modern times the president re-elected with the highest unemployment rate which was ronald reag

country and it just shows me, maybe if they hit somewhere else, maybe if they killed 3,000 people in another city, they would have dealt with it in a different way but new yorkers were like, is that it? is that all you've got? we're going to move on. we are who we are and we're go to continue. that struck me only two years later. chris: that reminds me of humphrey bogart in "casablanca" when he said to the nazis, major strausser, there are certain neighborhood in new york i wouldn't advise you to invade whfment we come back, something different with disastrous high unemployment out there, history tells us barack obama's re-election is far from assured tells us barack obama's re-election is far from assured w do you have an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem? are you taking warfarin to reduce your risk of stroke caused by a clot? you should know about pradaxa. an important study showed that pradaxa 150mg reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin. and with pradaxa, there's no need for those regular blood tests. pradaxa is progress. p

difference of opinion so our public private partnerships has helped the city tremendously more than another city in that in america chicago was well known in the world through the especially through the prince for segregated neighborhood and yet one for divisive racial politics you tried aren't to break these barriers but do ethnic divisions still political you have winter ethnic divisions you have like a german community of a polish community and you have segments of that but slowly but surely a generation intermarriage people being educated in so you have a total different generation you have more immigrants coming from the middle east you have more endurance coming from north africa more immigrants coming from asia and so that when you try to do is you provide a good education and you diversity is good but also it can create its problems so we're a very diverse city were followed by immigrants jean baptiste do sabo is french haitian he fell in the city and today we welcome immigrants from all over the world into our great city and so that you you diversity is it has a strength but also can ha

the work on the gas lines in another city has forced them to reschedule.tate ordered them to test the pipe after the pipeline explosion there. >>> some changes and we are told healthy that is coming to mcdonald's happy meals. we live in oak land to see what will be next to the burgers and chicken nuggets. >> they have started to serve a new happy meal, but today was the first official day for mcdonald's new happy meal. here is the new fries, they are sort of cute, they are less than half the calories of the old fries. many parents said their kids never finished their food and until now, you got a choice, apples or fries, but now they will automatically get apples. call it a crack down to obesity in children. it is a better way to give children their requirements every day of produce. one in ten kids actually ordered the apples. if you don't want the fries, you could get two orders of apples. more object the change that will go nation wide next year. >>> santa jose police are going high tech on the world's oldest profession and cracking down on enter nature

city, this is "nightline," september 7th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. and we begin tonight with a shooting spree in yet another american city. with the release of audio tapes of desperate 911 calls, a sifd picture of what happened inside a nevada ihop restaurant yesterday is now emerging. the picture outside the restaurant is coming into focus, too. neighbors shocked at the holes the bullets left, shaking their heads, asking, why now and why here? abc's david wright is in carson city, nevada. >> 911. what's the address of your emergency. >> it's ihop. there's a shooting going on. >> shooting where? >> in the ihop. >> reporter: it's been a long time since carson city, nevada, was considered the wild west. >> ryan, move! he's shooting at us now. >> okay, all right. >> he's shooting at us. automatic weapons. >> automatic weapons, like long weapons? there's one guy with an automatic weapon. he's shooting everybody. >> reporter: but the scene at the local ihop tuesday morning abruptly changed that. that voice on n e 911 call was ralph, who owns the barbecue joint just across the parking lot. bullets riddled his wea

. >> and another city banning the books? about to consider closing the book on unwanted yellow pages. so...what do you think? i'm not crazy about these light fixtures. kitchen's too small. what's next? 607 franklin st. ♪ sea bass... ♪ ooohhh! ♪ i like it. yeah, i love the kitchen. [ male announcer ] the epa-estimated 42 mpg highway chevy cruze eco. perfect for finding your way home. >>> good tuesday morning. if the city you live in didn't win a souvenir space shuttle it could get relic of the space age. nasa has up for grabs 350 astronaut meals and 3,000 of the thermal tiles that protected the shuttles protected the shuttle from the heat of reentry. schools have to pay $23 for a tile and $28 for a meal featuring a dessert and drug. they say the food is not for consumption. >> and berkeley could be joining san francisco in cracking down on the yellow pages. on thursday, berkeley city council will consider a proposal to fine a company $125 for every unwanted phone book they deliver. it's identical of the books on in seattle. t

attention will focus on those two cities of washington and new york making it perhaps easier to attack another city. >>> and that's just one of the reasons there is beefed up security here in the bay area especially on public transit at airports and on bridges. stephanie chuang is at the golden gate bridge with more on the preparations here. good morning, stephanie. >> reporter: good morning. the message to people as you know, don't panic but be prepared and be on the lookout. with the reports of this new possible terror plot, you have the high-profile places like the golden gate bridge here that will likely have much stricter patrols, tighter security, counter-terrorism officials warning this is from raw unconfirmed intelligence but pretty specific. reports suggest the targets of a possible car bomb attack include washington, d.c. and/or new york. but terrorism experts warn if the reports are true, the bay area actually needs to be on high alert. >> those are the most vulnerable targets. a subway in boston just or -- or san francisco, rather than a tunnel or a bridge in new york, where everybody i

told somebody where i went to church, and even though these things had happened long before in another city, this guy said, well, i'd never go to that church because that's where that pastor was who killed that guy. and i, what in the world is he talking about? so i asked my mother and others and heard the story. they didn't really know the story completely because it happened decades before and nobody talked about it. yeah, that was dr. norris, and he had a fight with somebody back in the '20s, and he killed a guy. so that's how i heard about it the first time as a teenager. then when i went to college i, of course, came across his name as most will when they study those things in depth. and along the way i had a file folder, and i put little articles. eventually, i got more things, and about 2007 by this time it was several boxes. my wife said, do something with that stuff or else, and so i did. and, eventually, i collected 6,000 pages of court records, newspapers. i have a complete run of norris' newspaper which he published weekly, so a lot of the story is in his own words, and i think

he leaves damascus again and goes to another city central to the anti-protest government movement. of a protesters that was killed. that funeral not long after ambassador ford was there was attacked violently by syrian security forces. today when robert ford went to meet with an opposition leader in damascus, ford's convoy was physically attacked by regime loyalists. pro-government activists reportedly stoned his convoy. the a.p. saying they pelted him with eggs and tomatoes and then tried to break into the building where his meeting was being held. "the new york times" reporting that ambassador ford was essentially trapped inside that building for about 90 minutes. u.s. government officials now say that ambassador ford is fine. he's physically okay after today's attack on him. robert ford's boss, secretary of state hillary clinton, is not happy about the attack. and also she clearly understands that robert ford is not just an ambassador. he is an ambadassador. >> ambassador ford has shown admirable courage, putting himself on the line to bear witness to the situation on the ground

that rebels have surrounded, given them a deadline until saturday to put their weapons down and another city 30 miles southeast of tripoli it's believed quite possibly that's where gadhafi could be or other members of his family could be. that town surrounded by the rebels, holding out, also on a deadline to put down his weapons until the weekend. so perhaps it's a rallying call to anyone he this can support them there. but certainly i don't think anyone rational here really believes what he's saying, that he was in the -- that he was in his father's main compound in tripoli in the last few days. i don't think anyone buys that. utterly ridiculous, candy. >> so where are we now in terms of what gadhafi could actually mount? i know it's hard to know how many soldiers would still stick with him, but here in the u.s. there's been all this talk about the mustard gas depot, about these shoulder to air missile launchers that are all over the country. does gadhafi have anything left in his arsenal not to win, not to take back libya, but to do serious damage? or is he out of ammo as well? >> reporter

sausalito's vice mayor mike kelly issued a public apology last night for slapping the hand of another cityncil member two weeks ago. carolyn ford shushed kelly at the end of a long meeting. last night's meeting was the council's first since the incident. a new seating chart now separated them. >> this was truly uncharacteristic behavior on my part. i am deeply embarrassed by my action and i apologize to carolyn ford and to the citizens of sausalito. going forward, no matter how passionate or heated the debate, i promise to conduct myself in a respectful manner that befits the office of sausalito councilmember. >> thank you, vice mayor kelly. i appreciate and accept your apology. >> now, ford had said she might stop pursuing the assault charge she filed against kelly if kelly apologized. and as you see, he did. >>> more than a million toys recalled. the choking concerns with a very popular toy brand coming up. [ slurred speech ] >> michael jackson's words come back from the grave, the haunting recording played at his doctor's trial and a live report on what we'll hear today. ,,,,,,,,,, i te

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when the word settlement was a good word for today is a thriving city of 300,000 is a suburb of another city that might founders were of televisa and my grandparents were among the 60 families who 102 years ago stood on the seashore of televisa and true seashell's out of a had to choose their lots in the original garden suburb, the first jewish garden suburb before there was a long island there was tel aviv. [laughter] proud of this summer to go back and take my kids to the very spot and shoot them where it was that their grandparents had been part of this history and to take them to the monument in the center of the tel aviv and show their grandparents' names and so my father was born in tel aviv. he was one of the first blaze burn in tel aviv and he grew up a good socialist zionist going to a socialist youth group, talking about the creation of a more perfect jewish community devotee lead to the creation of a jewish state in the land of israel, and the book talks -- in the book i talk about his personal conversion as a young man in the wake of the 1929 riots in which many of our family mem

. >>> when we come back here tonight, another american city with something to be proud of. a woman with four kids of her own who's making a difference for other children she will never meet. >>> finally tonight here, our making a difference report. it starts in new england and it stretches all the way around the horn of africa where we have been covering this famine, the worst human health crisis on earth right now, which has claimed the lives of at least 29,000 children under the age of 5 this summer. 29,000. but as we saw from our reporting team on the ground there, there are legions of aid workers trying to stop that from happening and one of the tools they rely on most is a silver packet you might have seen on tv. something called plumpy nut. it's a product that comes from a small, nonprofit factory here in the u.s. and it is a lifesaver. our report tonight from nbc's kate snow. >> reporter: providence, rhode island with its postcard images of americana. but inside this factory, the only one of its kind in the u.s., they're churning out something to help children on the

now anne makovec reports how another peninsula city is fighting a battle with pg&e's inaccurate recordkeeping. >> my family, my children. yeah. come, please, help us. >> reporter: neighbors along belmont's sixth avenue have a watchful eye on what's under this, an exposed pg&e gas line dug up by accident during road construction last month. >> pretty scary. i mean, with san bruno in our recent past, living and working here it's scary. >> reporter: the explosion in san bruno a year ago friday was caused by a break in a gas transmission line much larger and more dangerous than the line exposed in belmont. but the belmont line is similar to the line that blew up in cupertino last week destroying a townhome. >> the families that live here, it's right next to city hall, close to a playground. it would have been very scary. >> reporter: the city says it exposed the line while working off of incomplete maps provided by pg&e that showed the line was buried deeper than it actually was. >> i think the utilities are pretty good at telling us horizontally where it is but the depth is harder for them to te

. >> reporter: at long-distance train leaves sydney's central railwayization for brisbane, another major city. normally, this train takes 14 hours to get to brisbane, while the shinkansen can do it in four hours. many people complain about the long trip. >> it takes too long to get from northern to queensland. >> tiring. very tiring. not fast journeys like japan. slow journeys. >> now, however, things are about to change. in july, the australian government came up with a feasibility study with the high-speed rail plan to connect brisbane and melbourne, a distance of 1,700 kilometers. this will help slash the travel time between sydney and brisbane from 14 hours to just three hours. >> this would make an enormous difference to the way that the australian economy functions. to the way that our productivity occurs. to the way that we reduce our climate change emissions. >> reporter: japan was one of the first countries to show interest in this project. high-speed rail conference held in sydney in august provided japan with an opportunity to pitch its bullet trains. safety was high on the agenda,

there will be a day of service where we will participate in volunteer projects throughout our city. anothercan remember and honor the tragic events of 10 years ago is to make sure that our city, the families, and individuals are prepared for emergencies whether man-made or natural disasters. september marks national prepared this month -- prepared ness month. the city website stands ready to assist you in making a family plan, building a disaster kit, or getting volunteer training. san francisco has greatly improved its ability to prepare for, respond to emergencies. this month announced a public safety communications system after the bay area was awarded a $50 million grant to build a broadband communications network for public safety agencies. we know that emergencies do not stop a city borders. we must be prepared to seamlessly communicate with other public safety personnel throughout the bay area. we have also strengthened our infrastructure, trained our personnel, and are preparing the community to rapidly recovered from any emergency. it is now 10 years later and we are prepared, stro

we're also looking at another big city, the bay area's largest city.would be northbound 280, it has a large traffic jam here and also on highway 85 and highway 101 getting into the main parts of the valley. that's where a lot of people -- that's what a lot of people do anyway. another big city in the bay area where we have some slow traffic not only on here but approaching the sake shore foyer. we're looing -- we're looking at southbound traffic. it's a traffic -- it's terrible. that's why we call it a trouble spot. we want to remind you that the posy tube has reopened but -- i'm sore iry. it was the western tube closed. authorities shut down the western tube just before 3 -- just before 2:00. the crash -- people in this car left off. the whole thing closed the tube but things are open again at this hour. >>> let's go to back to steve. >> well, if you haven't heard, it came out that another la nina is forming this year. we had colder than average temperatures. now, la nina usually means colder temperatures in the winter sometime -- inter-- in the winte

city. it is positioned right next to another work by an artist who took a 77 taxicab runs and let the potholes the city turns of tehran dictate how the city would be portrayed. >> [singing] >> one of the other pieces that to experience in the one-day exhibition is from another artist, a recording of state radio from tehran, and is played for four speakers. >> [speaking foreign language] . >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> the entire gallery is covered with white vinyl on white walls, really minimalist, and the kind of the merged

it is a crime that we have such a small city, with the ability to go quickly through hills and get people one place to another. great walking city on flat ground. i do not want to be a sweaty mess, walking over russian hill or telegraph hill when i am dressed up, because i am trying to go downtown. new york is a lot flatter. you can walk further. there are times for exercise, but there are also times when you would rather not do strenuous exercise. thank you for what you are doing. commissioner borden: a lot to think about. commissioner antonini can talk to his republican friends in congress about giving us more funding for subways, but without federal funds i do not see it happening. we have dedicated bus lines in some places. in others, we do not have dedicated bus lanes. the bus gets into the bus stop zone, and nobody wants to let it back onto the road. one car with one person thinks they are more important than a bus with 50 people, which is mind blowing, but whatever. around the transit effective this project, i wanted to hear with where that is installed and how the goals here fit together with the tran

it has happened tens of thousands of times in this city and it will happen another 10,000 times. the city has probably spent many millions of dollars figuring out what that fair middle which is four to disputing parties. and the fair middle is what has been determined by the city into their acoustic testing of sounds. they have done that. that sowed test is below what the city has determined to be acceptable to the city. not to either party, to the city. i am here to tell you that if you really go against what some a thousands of dollars and hours have been spent to determine this level, you will not make the right decision on this case. i trust you will. thank you. >> i am a longtime member of the center. i was there when they opened the doors in 1993. what i would like to do today is read a letter from the caretakers of the building. they could not be here today. to whom it may concern, my wife and i live above center. she is a member of the council, and i teach there. our bedroom is at the back of the building. we live here when the noise level from the sky terrace was at its l

word, which today is a thriving industrial city of 300,000 people and is actually a suburb of another city that my grandparents were founders of which is tel aviv. and my family, my grandparents were among the 60 families who 102 years ago stood on the seashore of tel aviv and drew seashells out of a hat in order to choose their lots in the original garden suburb, the first jewish garden suburb before the chevy chase and long island. there was tel aviv. i was so proud this summer to go back and take my kids to that very spot and show them what was that their grandparents have been part of its history and to take them to the monument in the center of tel aviv and show them their grandparents name. and so my father was born in tel aviv. use one of the first boys born in tel aviv. and he grew up a good socialist going to socialist youth groups talking about the creation of a more perfect jewish community that would lead to the creation of a jewish state in the land of visual. and in the book i talk about his personal conversion as a young man in the wake of the 1929 riot which many of our fam

city. it is positioned right next to another work by an artist who took a 77 taxicab runs and let the potholes and the city turns of tehran dictate how the city would be portrayed. >> [singing] >> one of the other pieces that to experience in the one-day exhibition is from another artist, a recording of state radio from tehran, and is played for four speakers. >> [speaking foreign language] . >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> the entire gallery is covered with white vinyl on white walls, really minimalist, and the kind of the merged -- of emerge as you walk through the room. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> these are excerpts from the radio broadcast that you are hearing in the space. it is just another visual reference 0.2 hopefully transport you to a different place -- reference to hopefully transport you to a different place about one day in iran.