some are taking the approach where they are looking at content areas. a general response to your very, very good question, it is not easy to hear. we as a district for many years have been all over the place. there has not been a focus where we have said, "these are the two or three fundamental things that we are going to focus not only our attention but our finances and up professional developers around so that everyone is exposed to that in terms of professional development. we have not done that. what you are starting to see is that we as a school district hold certain fundamental truths to be absolutely true. all students deserve a high quality curriculum. all students deserve to have teachers that have resources, that have professional development, that are able to provide effective and -- instruction to the students. unfortunately, in the past, we have not align our resources, a professional development, to assuring that everyone had the opportunity to avail themselves of these opportunities. that is the bad news. the good news is that we are actu

we are back in business. clerk, please read our first agenda item. >> the hearing to review and discuss the ongoing partnership between the san francisco unified school district and hope sf. is there anything that you would like to say, colleagues? let's get this started. >> good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to be here, board members as well as board of supervisor members. we have the exciting opportunity to share with you the partnerships that we have put the school district. i will start by giving a general overview of hope sf. we will have the principal at malcolm x, which is a elementary school which is adjacent to our first development site. we will talk about the partnerships we have had with her school. we will have somebody come up to talk about the task force recommendations that have come out. it has come up with education recommendations that we would like to share with you. they are going to share a little bit more about an exciting partnership about our choice neighborhoods grant. wit

and these are the games they are playing, in order to hurt us. we have to educate our folks about how to get their hands on knees i.d.'s. -- on these i.d.'s. we need each and every branch in the country to serve as a watchdog. watch, watch, watch. watch and report, watch, report, and do something. and that has to do with both the election officials to have unbridled discretion in how the elections are won. there are 13,000 ways of running elections. we have to be on top of the discretion that these local election officials and nobody knows who their names are -- what kind of power they have over our ability to participate. and second, we have to watch those people called the tea partiers. because we know they are gunning for us, to make sure that progressive people do not turn out, that if they do, they're so scared, and they will turn around. so we need every branch to be looking for this, because i know there are groups who are getting questions about they want their tax returns for nonprofits. they are starting to ask for tax returns. they are

are latino. and california, while the majority is latino, california actually has a much larger percentage of non-latinos that are not documented. íx"r>> i was hoping you were gog to ask that question. i am not going to repeat the and of reach, but are finding your networks to get to those hard to reach communities. in san jose we have a somali community, so you can throw money and ethnic media like crazy, it is not going to reach them. it is important to know where these hard-hit communities are. having these networks in place and refining them so that they can be a service to everyone. i was proud traumatized by the 1996, 1998 changes, but also by 2000. it was amazing how quickly unscrupulous people got the word out that they had the way to take advantage of provisions. for $500, they would sell you the form that had not even been by immigration services. i think we need to prepare the community on how someone will screen new and that support those people giving proper screening advice. providi

the charges are -- where are the charges? is. [laughter] well, are unions good or bad for america? >> public sector. >> public sector unions good or bad for america. [inaudible conversations]

they are duly noted. commissioners, we are coming to close here. are there commissioners who would like to make any comments? ok. commissioner? >> first of all, i want to thank everyone who is here tonight. i want to thank the centers. but i especially want to take time to thank the people from the immigrant rights movement who are here tonight and who are not here tonight for other reasons. i think that san francisco -- anybody who has been here in san francisco for the past six months or year, we have seen a huge battle to really defend what we have won in the past 20 years around sanctuary city. i was glad to hear testimonies from were tonight, and i think that this commission has played a very important role in passing the change around the indictlement. this commission held a hearing with hundreds of people who came to give testimony. nothing that happens in the city, nothing that happens in the country happens because somebody wakes up one day and makes it happen. it happens because every day people organize and push for it to happen. this co

we are doing everything necessary to make sure that we are. with the cooperation of great cities like san jose and oakland, san jose and alameda counties, we are already putting in the anxiety-recharging stations all over the bay area. in fact, the airport already has 14 charges already installed at the airport, and we have, by the end of the summer, some 43 charging stations in our garages that are already being done. by the end of the year, working together with charge. america, coolant technologies, we will have 100 charging station within san francisco already installed. so you will not have any anxiety. one of those is in the mayor's crotch, and that will be installed in the next couple of weeks. these fast charter will be out there in a public setting. with charge. america, in the bay area, they are doing charging stations for the residents and another in the public sector for the whole bay area. so we're getting rid of that anxiety quickly and making sure that all of the automobile manufacturers, including chrysler, can develop these be

we are trying to make sure that we are using it right. >> we are not anti-development. we are anti getting pushed out and killing our kids. >> a cheap way to provide opportunities for people is affordable housing. and this is affordable housing that will very from rental housing for families, rental housing for seniors, housing for people with disabilities, housing for the chronically homeless, holders of housing. >> we love redevelop it, but we are going to have to do some development ourselves. that is what we want the city to do. let the people year, starting with the people out here in bayview, to the development here. at the shipyard, whatever it is. you do not need anybody out there. you give me all about lead, i could get the money to develop it. >> first of all, we have a very public and open process. when you look at a public the size, you are looking at a national developer to have the wherewithal, the resources, the expertise and the finances to really complete a project like this. >> the residents of this community said they needed very affordable senior hou

what are your thoughts?m from new jersey, and i am a science teacher, and i don't like the question. >> why? >> i think it goes to what brian started with, and that's the debate of what is our goal in terms of educating kids or preparing them for college. there are not a lot of students to look to go to college to get in trades or other areas, and they may have other goals. we need to judge the performance of the teacher and the school based on where they go, it should be where are they achieving their goals in life, and where they want to go. if we help to meet that then we do a better job. >> we are talking about a standard, a student that whatever the dreams or goals are, we are prepared to move past the 12th grade. >> students have different standards. i think our job as indicators is to help them realize what they want to achieve in their lives to help them accomplish what they want to accomplish. if we do that, then we have met our goals. sometimes a child won't understand who they are, what they are s

we are proud of it. we think the things we are doing are working well. if you tried other places in the country namely washington, d.c.. @út have a detroit, milwaukee, any of the huge urban centers with all those economic problems. there are some states that are doing well, nebraska, obama. there are some states that are doing well. of course there are some that are a nightmare. >> i think a lot of states are defying the national trentd>tr sore some of the reasons i mentioned. a lot of the states in the center of the country have many of those key elements that i mentioned. i think those things work well when you are trying to create an environment that is favorable to economic growth and job creation. >> greta: i think there is a head wind coming up. not just the unemployment rate. i think republicans are loaded for bear and are sour on him and have given up. may not have a huge amount of willingness to entertain any of his ideas, am i wrong? >> i agree. one of the reasons is the gap between the rhetoric and record. the president is making a big thing

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we are not anti car. we want people who need to drive to get to their destination quickly, so they are not forming congestion. almost a third of our congestion in the city is double parking and circulating cars looking for spots. if we can make spots more available, it will help people get to their destination and how our transit system. we think cars in certain corridors work. in other corridors, we have to treat them as guests. guests have to behave. we are looking at that as a strategy. looking at smart growth, development, we look to the planning commission for guidance. you have led many of these cutting edge programs and policies. our job right now, and what we are pushing for, working with planning and redevelopment, is to get in that conversation from the beginning. what are the transportation in packs and opportunities with these developments? how can we make them work better? also working closely with our partners on reclaiming street space -- these are some examples of things we have been worki

they are now urging witnesses to step forward. >> we do believe people who are seeing things, this is the time to come forward. it is important to come forward because we cannot have children being shot walking down the street. >> investigators tell us here at ktvu channel 2 news that the shootout actually stemmed from a water balloon fight between two groups of people who escalated in -- escalated into gunfire they are now looking for two shooters who fired off four rounds. >>> a new feds roll study found oakland -- federal suddenly found oakland police are too quick to draw guns. they determined officers acted appropriately in the majority of cases but did not have to draw guns in 28% of the incidents that happened. that fall out is from the riders police scandal.$♪. >> they are looking for a teenager who has not been seen since last month. sade sweet wine has not been seen since leaving her school and home august 31st. she is 5 feet tall weighing 120 pounds with black hair and black eyes. they believe she may be in berkeley. >>> they are looking for the accused killer bass swindler

they hold a lottery. >> the winners are happy. sadly, there are many more losers. on the other end of america in oakland, california, another charter chain gets similar top results using different methods. >> here is what i say. give me the worst school in oakland, black, mexican, polka dot, give us the worst school anywhere in america and we will take it and we will outperform the other schools in five years. >> ben chavis created the model of the american indian public charter school right in the heart of a rough neighborhood. >> now, these are hard workers here. >> the kids at american indian schools now have some of the highest test scores in california. >> and you can do that on the same amount the state gives every school? >> we get less. we get less than every other school. >> the kids in american indian public charter schools are scoring so far above the average for the state for public school children that there isn't even a word for it. >> they use different techniques from the charters in harlem. here at american indian they pay some kids to tutor other

the clinician's i hear are psychologists, are there sworn officers that are psychotherapists? >> we have already sort of cleared this through who are currently licensed ph.d. is. we looked at 10 shootings a year, if there were used twice each time, they came out to three or four dozen a year. it is not that expensive. -- they came out to $3,000 or $4,000 a year. they're licensed clinicians. >> also if you could follow-up and see it is necessary to have a psychiatrist or doctor on board. to deal with the physiological changes, depression, they can give them treatment for depression. i know you would recognize it. or you could build on it. and build that area and put more resources into it. >> we do have a new police position that we did talk about, trying to make sure we combine efforts. if there is something we can discuss together, we can use our same resources and pull them together. the conditions that would check in with the officers are also able to refer to psychiatrists and to recommend medication as necessary. we do have a group of clinicians and a psychiatrist on boar

the terrorists are way ahead of us because they are smaller, they are mobile and they are able to move. that is a major concern that every american, regardless of whether western new yorker through this nation should be very concerned about. >> the witnesses may respond in writing. with that i recognize the gentleman from louisiana for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman, thank you ranking member and thank you for the witnesses today. in evaluating where we are today compared to where we were at would like to shift away from preventing the attack and talk a little bit about a response to a terrorist attack, and just grading 9/11 in terms of resources provided, in terms of unified manner and money appropriated, how would you grade the u.s. government's response after the attack of 9/11 to the city of new york and to the other places that were affected? if you can rank it in terms of poor or fair or excellent how would you characterize it? >> at the time of 9/11? >> yes. >> was very poor. >> the resources provided on the ground in new york? >> there was a great deal of confusion with

these states are starting to do this. we are a federal contractor. we are enrolled in e-verify. i think utah has come up with a strange plan to do their own immigration system. immigration is a federal issue. i do not think it belongs at a state level. whether each individual state is being hurt economically, and do not know. arizona was the biggest. i think it hurt them economically. >> i see a lot of states going that way even though we have this fuzzy law in the supreme court. >> i think we have time for one more. if not, that is fine. i think this has been a great panel. i have the commitment from our partners on this. this will not be an agent -- and we are going to follow up with this on a report. we will take advantage from all of the information we have gathered today. i think that will help us in our challenges ahead in the senate and house. i want to thank our panelists. [applause] the panels tosk stay here for one minute. let me make some closing remarks. i am the executive vice president of the u.s. foreign for policy innovation. we'll receive the -- i wanted to than

you say, ok, so you are paying for planned review, you are paying for -- let's say you are past the agenda. you were paying for the work that you do for the planned review. you are paying for the work that s group will do in terms of inspections. that does not occur the day you pay. that will occur over the time. >> i understand that. you pay that on the day it is issued. let's say the project does not start and lingers on for two or three years, and you need an extension. >> you come in and pay. >> i do not understand what you're saying. >> it is essentially like an attorney -- >> i know exactly what it is. is not making sense what she is telling me. that is all i am saying. it does not make sense to me. >> you come in on monday, and you come in the october and you paid for the fees for all of your projects, most of the activities of the project happens in november or december, after the recording time. there is still a pot of money that is available for your project that is on our books, because we have not staff yet, but the inspection will happen in november or december. it is essentia

you are called in and there are 30 folks sitting there are for you. opening their doors to you with a whole wide array of services that you can latch on to. we have had 3 of these sessions and spend a whole morning and take units by units into the auditorium. and then they are provided with the list of all of the agency who were there. and we incorporate that into the release plan. it's a plan in the works. i notice one the areas where it's working? reducing. it's a work in progress. one thing is for sure. we are not relying on the youths to get to the agencies. >> when did this start? >> in jay.

are doing. so i think first of all we have to recognize that they have been a leader in this area. but, to go beyond that, to the broad level, the president's speech last week, he recognizes first we have to stop the bleeding in so many of our schools around the country. the american job act funds to hundred 80,000 tuitions. we can't educate our kids if we are losing teachers in the hundreds of thousands like we've been doing over the last year. [applause] peace fought to extend pell grants to make sure we can have pell grants for devin and debt forgiven if you serve as a teacher for civil if you go back into serving our kids in schools and the early years are an absolutely critical to the race to the top and so many other areas have been critical from the president's perspective but we also have to connect people to jobs. right now in the hispanic community there is almost 20 per cent youth unemployment rate. completely unacceptable so what we have to do with to build the community colleges and

there are figures saying they are not. i am wondering what you see as the cause of that, if you think it is true. some people say it is globalization. some people say it is technology. some people say it is policy. what do you say are the causes? >> is another series of important questions. there is another debate. it is not self evident to me. it is below the poverty line. what happened since 1999, they have gone up exponentially. misstating what is happening. i'd think the income negatives are all from this. shouldn't have risen as fast as it should have, no. i think it will go down. there is a debate over what has already happened. i think globalization has paid a factor. globalization has raise our standard of living. we are buying goods in china that are cheaper and better. the labor raises our standard of living. if you have workers that are not trained to be competitive, that will be there. technology has raised their standard of living. in the quality of life. cell phones are a lot better. my grandmother had a nine

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but there are limits to what they can do given how understaffed they are. understaffed they are.ost: who appointed you? guest: john boehner and then mitch mcconnell and john boehner made me the co-chairman. i was grateful -- host: who were the other three republicans? guest: i have to think. the former controller. the former controller. a former finance person in the department of veterans affairs. and we have -- who is the other republican? doug, zach. host: while you think about that -- guest: he is quite right. it is amazing that chris shays is my co-chair as much as he is the republicans' co-chair. we have catherine, who is with the general accountability -- government accountability office all her life. mike is the deputy head of the defense contract audit agency. and clark kent ervin, an inspector general for two different departments. he brings a fiery approach to the investigation. guest: grant was the acting cochair and he was the number 3 at the state department. he was on the national security council. what a great background. what a great job he did. host: jack on our

they are there. there are elements that are even lower.the one that had the most remarkable progress is the afghan civil order police. they were a negative flow of personnel at this month they were at 30% annualized basis. significant over the last two years negative 120 percent down at 30% but it needs to go lower. you want to get it about 16% annually sell it is sustainable in the out years. we have trainer's coming in specifically about 120 that will be here this fall that we will partner with the fbn units to continue to help them develop and professionalize. a tremendous downward trend but needs to come lower. there is not an issue there but the army is where attrition is watched carefully. it has been steady all the we have not seen the decline. as i talk to the afghan leadership it is really about leadership to take care of soldiers and living conditions are appropriate in the food is right and then raise the time and time again and a kandahar attrition is 1.2%. tremendous leader focus , in then they continue to serve. coming in at

we are like a bank except we are nonprofit. we are 501 c 14. we are insured up to 250,000. we build credit. what we do a lot is one-on-one counseling. we are also a part of the bank of san francisco, so we do pay their lending -- payday lending. we help people build up their credit before helping them to get a bigger loan amount. especially people who want to start a small business. credit unions offer micro loans. we do a lot of micro loans up to $50,000. this is -- we check credit. we need a business plan. then we look at the three-year tax return and that statement. we do a lot of home care and mom-and-pop shops. we also do start ups. we asked for approval through documents. we work a lot with people who do not know how to file taxes properly. we are mainly focused in san francisco. we are small. we focus mainly on the tenderloin, chinatown, bayview, visitation. we do a lot of expansion. people start small through the credit union and then want to go to the bank. we know we are limited. we cannot afford to give out a big loan. starting from the credit union, we educate t

you are, dr. kelly, here in one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in san francisco, and the mission is a neighborhood who attracts people who are very creative, very innovative. i know you were walking around our neighborhood. you can see the amazing art that happens, and that energy transcends beyond art. we have a lot of people who are starting businesses in the mission. we have a neighborhood that notwithstanding the tough economy is thriving, and that is because of the energy and innovation of the people who come to the neighborhood. i want to thank the mayor for being part of this investment because it is an investment that will go beyond the actual money that is spent. it is an investment that is going to have its roots for a long time to come, and what i would like to say is that the mission welcomes that kind of investment, so i encourage our federal government. i encourage room 200 and the mayor's office, puc, and other agencies to come to the mission, continued to come back to the missio

what are some of the clues? okay, what are the windows? they are deep set. there's a clue right there. deep set. deep set window, unreinforced masonry. can you see the metal plates? there is a metal plate right over there in the corner, there's another one over there. hard to see. also has a parapet on it. deep set windows. even though it has stucco on it, don't be fooled that that's wood up above. it's all brick because it's deep set windows. here we go with part of the roof and the parapet. this is over on (inaudible) street. see where the bricks fell, right on top of a car. there were 5 people in that car. buildings like this, you are nearest, where's the best place to be, do you think? you want to be far away from it? you want to be far away from it initially? yeah. but what if you are not far away from it when it starts happening, are you going to try to outrun it? no. you want to get up close to that building because the bricks have a tendency to fall out, fall straight down. if you'll notice right up next to the building there's not that many bricks.

>> many of those plants are making business spent are you a where they are laying off people? >> i am aware plants need to make business decisions so that they can stop polluting the air. >> can i then assume you are not, i'm just asking a simple question. [talking over each other] >> i am aware of the announcements. i don't necessarily believe their announcements are always fair or accurate. >> but you are aware that the announced layoffs and communities are concerned of the layoffs. high-paying jobs are not common. you would agree with that? >> i'm aware, i know what's in their announcements sometimes is inaccurate. >> you think the department of energy is accurate and fair winds is only 1% of the mercury in the world atmospheres coming from coal power, coal fired power plants in the united states of america, are you aware of that? >> i heard you say you. i would like to see their website before i agree to it. >> how do we do this, mr. chair? but do you all the data that indicates similarly that since 1995, without these regulations going into effect, the amounts of mercury

who are we? are we an entire? are we the golden city on the hill that is a modern for other people? and it's kind of up for grabs. a lot of people on the one side of the political spectrum think one thing and the other thinks the other. it's definitely a process. what worries me is so many people have dropped out of that process and are not even thinking about it. >> the standards in this society, the former governor blagoevich [inaudible] the institution with an effort to say that's why people have a higher duty of soldiers and a professional force [inaudible] that's why abu ghraib is not acceptable in the culture of the warrior ethos and why we executed the germans. that's not acceptable that makes it wrongs of this has been a large army. we have a million people, 2 million people that served in this army and over 200 years of history and serve all along the army history, but at the end of the day there is something we all aspire to. i think there is a value in being able to define the moral high ground, and i think even at 1% our society looks to us to help define what that is. o

if we are talking about how comfortable are we with the shell contract, that is one issue. if it is extending that to the rest of the program as yet unseen, i am not comfortable with that. >> maybe we can change the title. the customer enrollment strategy is a contract term but is part of the program. >> commissioner moran: to the extent that is helpful in guiding the contract, that is fine. if -- if it is asking for approval for a broader thing, we really have not had for consideration the entire program. we have some elements in here. >> if you are more comfortable saying to the extent those are described, that would work. my problem is the amount of power we are talking about buying is based on the number of customers we have which is based on the enrollment strategy. not having it for someone to read could be >> it is not designed to having you commit to things that are not in here if that is the concern. >> what that probably translates into is i need to be comfortable with all the elements in here, whether it is shell related or not. >> ok. >> if we end up, assuming t

you are not going out to the community. you are just responding. is there any way to encourage the officers to make a performance measure? >> absolutely. if some officer has not been clear, and i think most of the officers are, but there is always room for improvement. this is what we are here to do, and a supervisor should call the officer in, and it starts off with may i remind you, and if you get somebody that is intransigent, you tell them, it is a rule. you need to be able to get there, so i think the community expects their police department to be this way, and it is reasonable. >> is there anything further? is there any public comment regarding the general order 1.08, the draft general order? >> good evening once again. it is not clear to me what this is. are you coming up with a memo they are going to have to recite some of what is going on here? is this something he is going to love to pull out and recite and that he is going to have to get an okay from the board of supervisors bowman -- the board of supervisors. what are you trying to do?

what are the hurdles you are finding and what are we needing to do? >> the biggest hurdles we find today is sighting and permitting and finding where you are going to put those lines. nobody wants transmission lines in their back yards. any time you are talking about a new prospect, there are a lot of people to weigh in. and the system that we use today for sighting transmission lines was developed back in 1935. the world has changed a lot since then and especially as i mentioned forward-building lines that are longer, you start crossing the many state boundaries, so you have many municipalities involved, you have the states, if you cross any federal property, you also have federal government involved. so we need a lot more coordination. and we really need permitting reform. to give you an example of how burdensome the process is. a.e.p., was trying to build a 90-mile transmission line. that's not a long line. took them 13 years to get it sighted and permitted. another example is a.t.c. corporation trying to build a 220-mile line and took six years. i

more cuts are on the way, but this time increasingly, the depreeks are re-- greeks are resisting. there were reports that the greeks are close to a deal to receive bailout fund. there is wide suppress speculation that thousands of public sector workers will be sacked as part of the plan. >> president obama has outlined a plan for cutting america's huge budget deficit, saying corporations and the wealthiest citizens will have to pay higher tacts. he did not raise taxes for the rich. his opponents have described the president's approach as class warfare. here are the details. >> the gap between america's spending and income will be a staggering $1.3 trillion by the end of this year. amid growing fears about the unsustainability of this budget, president obama outlined his vision for curbing it. >> if we are not willing to ask those who have done extraordinarily well to help america close the deficit, then the logic, the math says everybody else has to do a whole lot more. we have to put the entire burden on the middle-class and the poor. that is unacceptable to me. that is unaccepta

and if you have a sense that things are going to be bad and are qantas the bad and are never going to return to the way of life that you come to expect, you will engage in different kinds of behaviors. you may not spend if you have a sense that you are going to lose your job or your income is not want to go up. affect howy well e you major spending decisions, and you can see in that scenario that confidence could be at such a low that they could overwhelm people sense of consumption, which could feed into the sense that businesses themselves did not want to expand because they do not see a resumption of consumer demand. they themselves to not hire. and you move into this vicious downward cycle. the notion of consumer confidence is important, and it is one that has not been highly qualified, but one that clearly we are thinking about and figuring out its impact. i think the question of for that. >> i know you are here as a central banker, but somebody's got asked you a question. what is your view on --2 financial institutions and the continued role of -- >> excellent regulatory questio

there are two parcels that are part of the sales we are considering in our financial plan -- >> i think you have covered all of it. as the executive director stated, we do not have any revenues assumed from the impact fees being contemplated here largely because we include only those that are committed. as you know, we have a little ways to go before we have commitments of those funds. >> thanks. did the tjpa bodies of any plans? >> we have been funding most of this effort. so we have been meeting -- the planning department invites us to weekly meetings now to discuss the plan and go over the plan. the my i am looking at the height that -- >> i am looking at the height maps. from a skyline perspective, the city would look a lot better at 1,200 feet than 1,000 feet for that one tower. if you think of this as the analog to the church steeples in medieval europe, the symbolic high point of the city, what we are trying to do is commemorate basically the value of ecology by making the transit center the tallest building in the city. when you think that this will probably set the maximum heig

we have had some that are stolen and in a disaster -- >> are the first responders certified? >> we would not be considered a first responder. that's going to be emergency personnel, police and fire. our role is based on initial damage and safety which would be activated based on the critical facility in the assignment there was. once we get reports of where the damages or where the hazards are, we will direct our teams to those locations and get the reporting information on that. an important area is facilities and equipment. our 2001 room -- in august, we looked at all the communication equipment, including digital and analog telephones. we have network computers and workstations inspected and tested for emergency use. we are planning more training exercises to get this up and running. october 28th is the great shakeout. it will be initiated from sacramento and we will participate with that. they're locked storage areas have been cleared and organized. i want to mention again that we've talked to our directors about this that future improvements would include a wireless syst

these are not grants. they are credits. we will look at the capacity to avoid loan payments and also the totality of the situation, taking into consideration whether there are legal fees or remediation fees that need to be paid. but i will say that we want to be an alternative for folks that cannot obtain financing from a bank. this may be a combination of that. maybe they need to go to a bank and get something and we can fill the rest or if they get decline by a bank, we can come in and assist with financing. >> [inaudible] you can only do so much to get people here. that is why we are asking for help from not only our media partners, but those of you in the room. people do not often come to ask for assistance until they are hit with a lawsuit. until they receive a complaint letter or a threat of being sued, they do not take the issue very seriously. by that time, a lot of your investments are gone. you will be exposed to lawyer's fees, exposed to having to make copier repairs immediately. these are all things that are ver

the first and foremost are are community goals. some of the resources will actually be giving the schools in the zone that do not have them a school corte madera. we can put together the partnerships to address the non- academic barriers of learning. and really make these schools and to the centers of the community. in addition, there will be resources to partner with parents and provide kids with support opportunities. schools are too under resource to do this. this is a dressing parenting, preschool, and to be sure that these schools have great opportunities. malcolm x ran a wonderful summer camp this summer. we hope that to be continuing so that kids have opportunities, even when some of our resources are a challenge. the point that nancy made about supporting transitions, having pathways' when kids move to kindergarten and then from elementary to middle and college or other career. last but not least, continuing what we have fallen into in terms of product based learning and involving young people in the community and the class

are. reporting there are no political analyst alexander in belgrade told us that nato peacekeepers are more likely to revive the war than to bring peace. they've totally and openly stepped out of the u.n. mandate and they're really really now just like during one nine hundred ninety nine during the bombing when there were the air force for the albanian separatists are now acting as their infantry so this is what we have this is a clear breach of the u.n. charter and of the resolution twelve forty four all they're doing right now is that they're actually. the stabilizing the situation there are so we bring in conflict. everything was reasonably peaceful until they gave the green light for our albanian special police forces to forcibly take the administrative border back in july and ever since then they've been giving them full support so they're encouraging actually the government in prishtina. headed by caution toci wanted for various charges from organ trafficking to drug trafficking and

we are becoming smarter. we are multiple -- doing multiple things at once. mta should be congratulated for hopping onto the opportunity. jfk drive, yes, we are lucky to have a great champion in the chair of the rec and parks commission, who is yet another recent convert to bicycling. we hear he bikes everywhere, every day. that will not be enough to break it -- bring that support. but i will say the s.f. bicycle ocean has been helping the sfmta and other coalitions to make sure that everyone knows about this, that everyone is welcome to participate, get their voices heard. i am proud of the work that we have done with the mta and letting everyone know the process going on. the problem with jfk, the east and the golden gate park, is not that there is not enough parking, is that we are not managing it well. this is true all over the city. they're often the case is, we cannot tell people that ucsf garage is mostly empty. the polo grounds are mostly empty and there are troubled that will take you around. to make this and other projects succeed, we have to become

are you saying that adds they are placing on the listings or deceptive, or they are not clearly disclosing that the information is coming from them? >> in multiple ways. they are saying that search advertising is just like every other advertising, when they argue to their investors to make the stock go up that it was unique and should be given special consideration. the session number two, they say they work for users. they don't work for users. users don't pay them a dime. users or the product that they sell to advertisers to pay them $30 billion a year. there is nothing wrong with advertising. it is a perfectly legitimate business, but you must make clear what your interests are so the consumers know and they have fair disclosure an honest information. they also say deceptively that competition is one click away. what they don't tell you is that out of the top 100 sites, 97 of those 100 sites will go right to google because they outsourced -- outsource search for them. there are only three out of 100 that our competitors. another deception is they say this should not be compared to micro

you are that golfcourse. you are seeing smoke. seems like you are aways from where this is happening? >> yeah. >> thank you so much for calling us. appreciate you giving us a ring. the fire we have been watching for 45 minutes. we will talk to our chief meteorologist bill martin, weather has a lot to do with what is happening. we will break down the fire in the east bay. >> as you look that fire, you can see the -- you got the smoke. doesn't look as intense as it did 10, 20 minutes ago. that's the lake. a nice water source close to the fire. what we are seeing now that we did not see a few minutes ago, water drops and that's good news. remote terrain. hiking and camping area. you can see how remote it. that fire is burning up hill. we see water drops now. that's good news. it is hot out there. dry. but there is no wind. that's good news. i will be back in a little wit with weather and we will look that fire and stay on it. >> thank you. >>> we have new information tonight on a flight to oakland that passengers say was nerve- wrack

we are take those steps when they are available to us. we should always understand -- i introduced the comprehensive immigration bill with kennedy. mccain said [speaking spanish] that is the reality. the dream act was an integral part of comprehensive immigration reform. as we move forward, we cannot allow people to divide our community. i am excited and happy. when i saw that the administration was changing its view of how they were going to deal with young people, i read they will not be deported. i am thankful. i am thankful to the president and this administration. >> i am curious. who else is unreliable? [laughter] >> i am not reliable? >> you are very unreliable. [laughter] he is unreliable. [laughter] [applause] >> i have not seen that limousine ride yet. >> luis is right about one thing. you are right about a lot of things. [laughter] >> [speaking spanish] [laughter] >> luis is right about this last thing. i want to refocus. we should take steps. here is the deal. the same power structures are very happy to divide us. they are ver

muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslim if you are an eighteen to twenty year old muslim man you should be strip searched and if we don't do that there's a very high probability we're going to lose with marilyn building that victory mosque on what's in essence a burial site would be both disruptive and cold hearted for the families of nine eleven victims the most dangerous scenario is that radical muslims seize power and put shari'a law into place same thing now joining me now to talk more about fox so-called news is role in this right wing islamophobia machine is that giuliani reporter and blogger at think progress said welcome back thanks for having me thanks for joining us you know i want to get into this investigation that you all are doing in the book is reported on but even before that i'm troubled by the fact that even twenty and twenty nine and thirty three percent or whatever those numbers were c.n.n. an emissary see viewers think that there is a disconnect between american values and muslim values when this is one of the three great religions of the book you kno

you are going to learn a lot today. we are here to help make sure that you are safe. to always make sure that when our kids go to school it is safer. sometimes, as your parents will tell you, they will see a lot of cars and sometimes buses will go too fast on the street and you wish that they would slow down for your safety. you want to be safer? >> yeah! >> i want you to be safe as well, and i will be joining in with your parents and all of the city officials. we have the police chief here, director of the transit system, our school board president is here as well to make sure that all of us join together with you, the school, and with the parents to make sure that you are always safe. so we are going to be putting of these new signs along all of the schools in san francisco beginning at peabody. you are the first school to get this. [applause] that must mean that you must be among the smartest kids in our city. that has got to mean something, right? let us go to peabody first because they must have some smart kids. each school will be getting four signs. there will

these are things that we are trying to anticipate. the fed is clearly engaged in an unprecedented action, including the purchase of trillions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities. since the financial crisis of 2008, the fed's balance sheet has tripled. who without merit and the lettuce by congress, which effectively means we are printing money and buying debt. policies the fed's affect that tipping point? what can we expect? there are a lot of questions and, certainly, we need to know how long the federal reserve can monetize our debt before the world loses confidence in our currency. my challenge to the panel today is, all politics and partisanship aside, our country is drowning in debt. the plan by this government is to continue borrowing money pour the foreseeable future. any talk of balancing the budget is considered extreme. what does that mean for our country? how much time do we have and what is going to happen when we can no longer borrow money? thank you, mr. chairman. >> the chair recognizes senator cummings for an openi

i can see by your office that we are -- outift that you are a burner. if people go out there and too expensive things, that is great. if they pay money for these things, fine. we are not against commerce. in essence, when they do that, we see that as a gift to others. they are giving that to other people. they are dressing up the landscape. they are certainly not staying in their tent. but there is that notion. there have been fashion spreads in some magazines about that burner look.