continue to get the latest information as we follow the story this morning. >> darya: we will continue that because james is tracking that in national radar as well as localstarting with a national view. from florida all the way up the stern seat board we focus in on the south where we see the most damage and destruction. it is moving through georgia in through south carolina, that's where the tornado watches and a fact. we have them in the fact all the way north says the d.c. and maryland, gusting winds 70 mi. an hour stronger, he'll coming down with this one engine and half in diameter. --hail coming down--. new jersey, new york severe thunderstorm warning spirit don't be surprised if you see delays as airports are dealing with the severe weather. we will keep an eye on this if we see delays we will bring it to first here. as for our weather, we are looking okay. 50 as their francisco, 53 across the bay in oakland, san jose temperatures coming in at 50, 53 in antioch, along the coast have been bay 50 degrees. your highs this afternoon cool of the industry will still be pleasant. napa 68, 62 richmond, san francisco 61. oakland 65 for you, right around th

as well as local contributions. in terms of other transportation funding being put toward the planned, as well as the substantial amount of private developer money going into the area plans, these are all indicators of the strength and quality of our pda's for example. the next system is not include the need to be there to prevent or mitigate this placement. trying to not only plan for, but showed the track record of what happened in the last round so that communities can be incentivized. performance refers to project a formants and ntc has continued to perform well on the merits of transportation, mobility, accessibility measures. in terms of advocacy, this is an entirely new effort on a completely different scale to provide the opportunity to think about new ways of doing business. new funding sources to bring to the table. we are hoping that any new revenues that might emerge as a platform coming out of this could focus on the state of good repair issues for infrastructure and particularly for transit and transit operating. service breakdowns, resulted from not maintaining the infrastructure and in good repair. supp

conversations, as we did last year and the year before, another real conversation about other cities begin by the i.t. process. i very much hope that different cio's, it teams, dt, as well as local i can help to find these cost efficiencies. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: thank you. if i could ask again, what were some of your hopes in terms of the savings this year, compared to what is being rejected? and is what is being projected the $308,000? what were you hoping that we would get in terms of savings this year, year,dt had summarized? -- savings this year, opposed to what dt had summarized? >> i think a bit closer to 2 under 25 or more. assuming the 200 budget, i thought we would be able to save 3% of that across city departments. the efforts that have been going in the last nine months on the data consolidation effort. what we found was in order to move from three dozen different centers into two, that that requires an initial upfront investment. we have to make over the next two years. while that was a disappointment, unfortunately, it is a bit of a fiscal reality. supervisor kim: given the unexpected cost that we currently have -- sorry to ask

we begin to open up dialogue with city college since they are a creature of state government as well as local, that we begin to understand i think the impacts financially that are hitting them considerably and begin to have those discussions here within city hall. the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor mar. supervisor mar: thank you. in the 330 accommodation time i'm going to acknowledge the incredible organization, community boards, for the big 3-5 their 35th anniversary and their 35 years of promoting peace and alternative resolution and mediation in our communities. but i just wanted to announce that they're having their anniversary event on thursday from 6:00 to 9:00 in the green room in the herps theater and they'll be announcing at the event, which is keynoted by the reverendia vetfr

as well as local. here is where i'm going to skip ahead to talk a little bit about the 19th avenue corridor this way. the study that we have been working on for three years allowed us to look at 19th avenue in a series of four tiers. the first was to sit with is the growth happening in 30 years if there were no major projects? just background. tier two has about a layer on top of that. we layer all those numbers, but we did not put their transportation solutions in the mix. we just looked at the numbers of jobs and housing, and then we studied the quota and saw that it actually got more congested. transit slowed down more. we went to tier 3, and we, as public agencies, all have recommendations and designs on the corridor. we lay those on top. we put that in the mix and saw that it did not make that much difference in level of service. but then, which and tier four, which is all the recommendations i have described, plus the improvements that the project sponsors propose themselves. we did see some benefit there. when i talked about the new intersections opening up, what we saw was the level of service passing, meaning suddenly, those extra intersections help disperse the traffic and reduce the pressure on one interception. what i would like to make it what about here more than anything is the limits of level of service measures. it is not an indication of pedestrians safely getting across the street. it is not an indication of bicycles navigating a neighborhood safely. it does not really tell us how transit can operate more reliably or more quickly through a corridor, so while we appreciate the benefits of the 19th avenue corridor s

as well as local markets. we need to get granular in terms of our overview in our oversight, and those are the things that concern me, and we need to look out for every single american with their wireless or mobile experience. >> host: joining us also is howard buskirk, associate managing editor of "communications daily." >> host: commissioner, i wanted to ask you as a follow-up question to what you just said, what dole -- role do you see the fcc and federal government in trying to spur some wireless buildout in some of these rural areas? >> guest: some of the things i'm proud of we're doing, we just a couple of -- about a week or so ago in terms of a pole attachment order, i know that sounds boring to some, but that will provide for more access, more opportunity for providers to attach their infrastructure, you know, the means to provide service to a pole, to an existing pole. and, again, that would provide for more communication opportunities. we're doing a lot of things by way of universal service reform through the joint boards and the like and attempting to modernize the system in order to include broadband as a part of the mix. the way we're communicating is changing, and we are changing with it. so what we're attempting to do is encourage public/private partnerships that work, we are, we're doing that in the wake of. >> -- of shrinking gove

we begin to open up dialogue with city college since they are a creature of state government as well as local, that we begin to understand i think the impacts financially that are hitting them considerably and begin to have those discussions here within city hall. the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor mar. supervisor mar: thank you. in the 330 accommodation time i'm going to acknowledge the incredible organization, community boards, for the big 3-5 their 35th anniversary and their 35 years of promoting peace and alternative resolution and mediation in our communities. but i just wanted to announce that they're having their anniversary event on thursday from 6:00 to 9:00 in the green room in the herps theater and they'll be announcing at the event, which is keynoted by the reverendia vet from the steph refuge church of the united church of christ, but the three honorees are incredible peace makers in our community. sharon hewitt of community works west and ruth morgan and also their youth peace maker award is going to yosenia. she's a 14-year-old student at mercy high in san f

level because that will be progressing quicker at that point as well as with some of our -- as well as what some of our priorities are at the local level as well as policies to partner with the board of supervisors to move to. president vietor: i have one request for next month's update and that would be on the redevelopment agency situation, specifically as it relates to the puc's projects and what that might mean. >> in line with that, we are scheduling a discussion of treasure island of this commission meeting and we are asked to postpone that because of the uncertainty with redevelopment. >> we could have available frank blackwell who heads of the redevelopment agency because he is tracking what the implications would be. >> are you referencing the redevelopment legislation? >> yes. >> specifically for san francisco and puc plans. >> i don't think we're going to see a compromise soon. i anticipate as having a special election in june. governor has been working so hard to get more republicans on board and has been unsuccessful. this weekend's republican convention was like a salem witch trial for anyone who seeks to even have

that means the flow of federal money for the state as well as local recovery efforts. santa cruz and crescent city areas were hit hardest by the waves, crushing boits along the marinas there. the tsunami caused an estimated $50 million worth of damage. >>> pg&e is answering questions from state investigators whether a recordkeeping error is to blame for the san bruno pipeline explosion. the state public utilities commission is waiting the response as part of an investigation that began more than two months ago. a federal probe found the utility's records failed to include welds in the gas pipeline that exploded last year. that massive explosion killed eight people and decimated an entire neighborhood. >>> new at 6:00 tonight, a vallejo counselor facing charges of child molestation and police are searching for more victims. police say 43-year-old peter small molested a child who attended the cornerstone program located on the solano middle school campus. the program is run by the county helle department. small was arrested at his home in albany after a month-long invest

speeding and new lanes that would separate pedestrians and bicyclist as well as new signs that would warn foreign tourist as well as the local. director question how the new rules could work. >> some of the other proposal the signage and the crosswalk and the directional arrow that's a good idea but the speedlimit primary controversial issue. >>reporter: director snyder thinks proposed fine is too high. >> where 100 dollar fine would be punishment without leading to safety. >>reporter: the committee got an earful from bicycle group and bike rental companies. they had no input and only two days notice of this meeting. >> bicycle coalition was shocked to see this document comfort as it did as we expected fully that we would be robust stake holder in the process of the preparation of this document. >> i ask that you direct staff to go back and try again. bring awe proposal worthy of your time. >>reporter: bike rental businesses like san francisco blazing saddle already hands out these safety brochures and advice to the bike renter while the coalition don't believe there is a safety issue, the chp says it is ready to enforce the

as well as that that represent local and regional agencies. we know the chairman nolan is also attending that meeting and we hope that the fed chief also attend. the next item to bring to your attention is the announcement of the implementation of an exciting initiative to further enhance accessibility in san francisco, related to our taxi driver ramp accessibility program. -- incentive program. our tactic program, providing a full-service access in 1994, that was a pilot program. now there are over 104 medallions representing 7% of the fleet. with implementation of the system in place we are able to collect data, as well as other information that will allow us to move forward with this program. the key goals are to improve the quality of rant taxi service and encourage the time they pick up a wheelchair, and -- customers. we would like to experience a long-term commitment from taxi drivers and provide cost savings to overall paratransit programs by shifting the demand from the more expensive service to a more cost-effective ramp- taxi service. we would like to compensate drivers for the extra cost and time to transport. $75, $150, awarded on a monthly basis to those drivers to exceed the monthly average by different amounts. a $500 bonus to the company that has provided the highest number of monthly wheelchair pickups. it will be distributed to the employees with the highest number pickups, not exceeding $110,000. we feel that this incentive program will extremely improve our already successful program. making sure that patrons have access. the next item i would like to bring to your attention, a

as well as local tribes worked together to take over that ammunitions dump and that after this event they took over a local radio station and it was there that they declared that this abian province was now an emirates. to sort of cut through the details there, the bottom line is that what we're seeing in yemen, at least based on the open source reporting and what i'm hearing from people who are familiar with the intelligence, is that aqap, al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, is really taking advantage of this power vacuum -- vacuum in yemen to try to cement its foothold in the abian province where many members have been operating for some time, jon. jon: what a mess. catherine herridge. >> reporter: to say the least. jon: thanks. jenna: keeping in mind what's happening in yemen as we talk about syria, what's happening today in syria is what some are calling a day of martyrs underway, thousands of protestors storming the street, calling for freedom with new reports of security forces opening fire in a suburb of damascus, killing three people. with the uprising in this tightly -- will the uprising in the tightly controlled country lead to change? jonathan, how would you answer that question? >> i think that we're looking right now at a regime that for the last ten or 11 years, people have been saying there's a chance for reform. you have bashar assad who came in not as a politician but really as a son of a former dictateor. bashar is actually an opthalmologist by training and we're looking at a guy who was touted as the guy at least that could bring retch. he hasn't and i think that the frustrations has mounted in syria to the point we're seeing these protests that have been going on for the last week or two. he's promising reform but these are cosmetic reforms a

as well as a key local ally of president karzai seven people were also injured the taliban which is heavily active in the province denied responsibility for the attack claiming the victims had their own enemies. veto in parliament has voted for justice reform which would cut the length of many trials in and out of bribery case against the prime minister as part of a broader review program into the judicial system started by justice minister. who the premier has told his likely successor but critics say it is a plan to keep silvio berlusconi out of jail. now facing four cases including one for pain or sex with underage prostitutes. more than half of children in russia suffering from rare forms of hereditary illnesses die at an early age without ever getting any financial or medical help from the government the huge cost of the treatment they need is normally impossible for parents to meet the problem is the money's available but it's not easy to access it as a son a boy who now reports. they're both the same age billie when one country and they have the same debilitating condition the only difference between them is that one was born in the capital and another one lives in a small town and there's this zip code lottery it's already defined who have gov leave and who will die live on what some others ask me if it's all worth it all this e

as well as a key local ally of president karzai seven people were also injured the taliban which is heavily active in the province denied responsibility for the attack claiming the victims have their own enemies. retaliate lower house of parliament has voted for justice reform which meant the length of many trials and the bribery case against the prime minister is a part of a broader review programmed into the judicial system started by justice minister. who the premier has told his likely successor but critics say it is a plan to keep silvio berlusconi out of jail. is now facing four cases including one for paying for sex with an underage prostitute. brok obama has called for tax increases on the rich to help slash america's ballooning budget deficit by four trillion dollars over twelve years the republican party sharply criticized the president's plans calling electioneering out of the twenty twelve balance the conservatives instead are suggesting cutting the taxes paid by the rich and while charging more for health care and social programs obama says it would massively harm the poor and elderly professor joseph stiglitz nobel prize winning economist told r.t. the problem with the u.s. economy lies with those who gets the most money. go. increasing the concentration of income and wealth in the united states has been enormous which happen in the last couple decades is almost a quarter of older income goes to the upper one percent most americans are worse off than they were say a decade ago there are many things that any society has to do together education investments in technology. infrastructure roads there has to be certain degree of consensus for a society to function even economically these are things the government has to do and that's where we're winding up today so the people at the top that one percent are using their political power to try to preserve their wealth and meanwhile making sure that the government doesn't do what is necessary for the prosperity the functioning of our entire society. and you can watch the full interview in ten minutes time here on our team now more than a half of children in russia suffering from rare forms of hereditary illnesses die at an early age without ever getting any financial or medical help from the government the huge cost of the treatment they need is normally impossible for parents to me the problem is the money is available but it's not easy to access it as a sort of boycott now reports. they're both the same age believe in one country and they have the same debilitating condition the only difference between them is that one was born in the capital and another one lives in a small town and there's this zip code lottery it's already defined who of them believe and who will die legged moment some others ask me if it's all worth it all those expensive treatments and the nurse told me look he's turned he's unable to talk and still wears diapers what's the point of spending so much in his treatment but i love him regardless of whether he was diapers or not i just love him the way he is this sort of prussians is pursuing mothers of children with the hunter syndrome all the time not only because these genetic condition is impossible to cure but even more so because treating it is prohibited really expensive so expensive that for many years children in russia of a country syndrome didn't stand a chance of living to middle age that is until. mode

as well as local, state, and federal tax revenue. without hydraulic fracturing, access to gas resources would be substantially restricted. i thank the committee for having the hearing and thank you for having me come testify on a very, very important topic. >> thank you, senator cornyn. senator casey. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for hearing, chairman boxer, thank you as well for your testimony and ranking member inhofe, and joined by latenberg and barrasso, i want to thank senator cornyn for his testimony. let me first ask if i can place my whole statement in the record. thank you, i'll be belief. i'll start with history. in our state, we went through most of the 19th century and roughly about half of the 20th century not getting it right as it relates to the extraction of a natural resource, and in this case, coal and balancing that with environmental regulation to make sure we're protecting public health and the environment. after 1950, we began to get it right in our state. our state passed legislation by the clean streams law in the 1960s, and as time went on, we started to do a much better job of regulating and making sure we've getting the balance right. today we have to get it right. we have to be able to at the same time create jobs, and this will be a tremendous increase in jobs in pennsylvania as a result of natural gas extraction, we also

as well as connected even inside their local communities. >> if we value the diversity of our city and we value our diverse neighborhoods in the city, we need to ensure that they remain economically viable. equiping them and equiping residents in those areas with jobs that will enable them to stay in san francisco is critical to that. >> the important thing that i see here at caminos is it helps the low income community, it helps the women who wouldn't have this opportunity otherwise. >> the workers with more education in san francisco are more likely to be able to working that knowledge sector. where they are going to need that familiarity with the internet, they are going to find value with it and use it and be productive with it every day. and half of the city's population that's in the other boat is disconnected from all that potential prosperity. >> we really need to promote content and provide applications that are really relevant to people's lives here. so a lot of the inspiration, especially among the immigrant community, we see is communications with people from their home country but we as much want to use the internet as a tool for people to connect within the local san francisco community. >> i think it's our job as public educators to give them this access and give them this opportunity to see that their efforts are being appreciated beyond their immediate reach. >> you have to blend this idea of community network with computer equipment with training and with support. we can pull all that together, then we've got it. >> it's as much about social and economic justice -- in fact it's more about social and economic justice than just>> he. 9 judge terri l. jackson. the court is now recruiting prospective civil grand jurors. our goal is to develop a pool of candidates that is inclusive of all segments of our city's population. >> the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. >> i want to encourage anyone that is on the

death by a thousand cuts that run independent producers out of business and take valuable jobs as well as local, state, and federal tax revenue. without hydraulic fracturing, access to natural gas resources would be substantially restricted. i thank the committee for having the hearing and thank you for having me come testify on a very important topic. >> senator casey? >> i want to thank you for this hearing. i want to thank senator cornyn for his testimony. let me place my whole statement in the record. i will be brief. in our state, we went through most of the 19th century and roughly about half of the 20th century not getting it right as it relates to the extraction of a natural resource, in c is caseoal and bouncing back with environmental regulation to make sure we are protecting public health and the environment. after 1950, we began to get it right. our state passed legislation like the clean streams lot in the early 1960's and as time went on, we started to do a much better job of regulating and making sure we were getting the balance right. today, we have to get it right. we have to b

as well as local, state, and federal tax revenue. without hydraulic fracturing, access to gas resources would be substantially restricted. i thank the committee for having the hearing and thank you for having me come testify on a very, very important topic. >> thank you, senator cornyn. senator casey. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for hearing, chairman boxer, thank you as well for your testimony and ranking member inhofe, and joined by latenberg and barrasso, i want to thank senator cornyn for his testimony. let me first ask if i can place my whole statement in the record. thank you, i'll be belief. i'll start with history. in our state, we went through most of the 19th century and roughly about half of the 20th century not getting it right as it relates to the extraction of a natural resource, and in this case, coal and balancing that with environmental regulation to make sure we're protecting public health and the environment. after 1950, we began to get it right in our state. our state passed legislation by the clean streams law in the 1960s, and as time went on, we started to do a much better job of regulating and making sure we've getting the balance right. today we have to get it right. we have to be able to at the same time create jobs, and this will be a tremendous increase in jobs in pennsylvania as a result of natural gas extraction, we also

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as well as provide some opportunity for selling locally-grown produce to residents and others in the neighborhood. this stream corridor would terminate in what is called the belvedere gardens. right now, the southwest corner of the site provides no access between parkmerced and the major open spaces that surround it. this project would create new access through a stairway system that connects down to the public street system, which would be a major new access point to connect residents to all the wonderful and expansive regional and city wide open spaces that are currently difficult for people to access from the site. adjacent to this corridor would be a new set of athletic fields , providing soccer fields or baseball to be programmed in the future. important to note that this athletic field also would be accessible to some of the institutional uses that are across brotherhood way, which currently do not have the athletic fields for their own use. the could use new crosswalks to access these fields. diaz plaza would be a new public plaza adjacent to neighborhood commercial uses. you might think of this in terms of some of our downtown alleys, more on the scale of the west porto, if you think of that as a public plaza. the transit is an important component of the open space and the transportation system. we will talk more about the realignment of the light rail. this open space will take that exceptionally busy stop out of the middle of 19th avenue, where everyone has to cross a busy state highway and it is exceptionally dangerous, and put it in a generous new open plaza to serve both the s.f. state crowd as well as parkmerced. there would be plenty of room for people to wait for trains and pick up a cup of coffee. it would become a new central gathering space. lastly are the community gardens. there is a small community garden on site, located between the existing powers on the west half of the site, but it is pretty small. the proposal is to substantially increase the size of the community garden so that residents have an opportunity to garden and grow vegetables and flowers and so forth. there are components to improve some of the existing open spaces around the towers that will r

appreciated and it's reflective of our partnership with the federal government, our regional and local government, as well as support from the academic world. accordingly, i would like to especially recognize some special guests who are with us here today -- mayor edwin -- our mayor here as well as a very special welcome to the deputy administrative of the federal highway administration, greg nato, who has traveled across the nation from d.c. to be with us here today, our president of the board of supervisors, supervisor david chu. tom nolan, chairman of the board and also dr. donald shupe, our professor of urban planning at the university of irving-los angeles and worldwide expert claim on parking. we're also joined by m.t.a. director cheryl brinkman. and we're also joined by supervisor scott wiener as well as chairman of the transportation authority ross mercuriami. we're glad you're all able to be here with us. we're also joined by leslie rogers, regional administrator of the federal transit administration. we also have jose luis moss covitts of the transportation authority, jim lazarus of our san francis

local citizens and businesses. this build-out will expand access to high-speed internet as well as entertainment and telephony services while also providing critical local jobs in san francisco. these local jobs will reinvest in their local community and provide a good standard of living for our members and those who are employed with at&t. i urge the board to consider at&t's permit application. with all due respect to the appellate's concerns over aesthettics and other issues, we can work through these. [bell] thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening president chiu and supervisors. my name is roland anderson, a member of the communication workers of america, c.w.a., local 9410 here in san francisco. i'm also an at&t employee and my job here is to maintain and install the existing network that we have here. i'm also a resident and a homeowner in cathedral hill neighborhood up the street from us. san francisco has had a long and rich tradition of being a union city. "u.s. news and world report" recently showed san francisco as one of the top five labor friendly cities in the united states. the net effec