well as the additional fees and taxes would make money available to both citywide as well as eastern neighborhoods. >> i have a question for you. could you tell me which projects are identified in the eastern neighborhood plan that have been included in the capital plan? >> in the capital plan, i would ask that of brian strong or someone from the planning department. >> okay i will let you finish your presentation and we'll come back to brian for that answer. >> i have concluded unless you have questions about the process or what's in the investment plan. >> could you talk a little bit more about why you are not in favor of isd? >> it's not that the controllers office is not in favor, but we do recognize that there are a number of ways that the city can leverage general fund for capital projects. obviously the general obligation bond is the typical way that the city borrows money to fund infrastructure as the lowest cost to the city. it also allows for a process to evaluate and prioritize the ifd is a concept that is still a very new one. there is only two that exist in the state and

as far as any lasting peace settlement in syria is concerned i wonder if you if they this mission as they strategic mission led by your going to zation is successful and if indeed syria is free of chemical weapons by the middle or by the and of next year do you think it may have any bearing on the political discussions could it lead to any sort of. change on the ground political change on the ground. this excess off this process of elimination of syrian chemical weapons can only have a positive impact on in fact on the efforts you search for a poll to so lucian regarding the overall problem in syria so if the geneva conference geneva two conference is going to take place on twenty second of january . i think we should be with all welcome. and they the international community in fact hopefully can build on this constance's on this agreement among the actors of the major players of the international community with your garcia chemical weapons in order to address why the problems in syria saw that's extremely important i think this was a successful you know process so far and i'm sure i

it's used no reference to eateries as well as hotels and b and bs night clubs and as they discover before boarding my flight to san francisco it's even the name given to airport lounges. now strictly speaking the title is from the film by italian film director starring two italian actors which doesn't depict a rosey sweet life in rome in those days but a creek of the lack of values of a certain ishlg of folks populated by actors and arrest accuracy and mr. no bodies as well as reportsers one in the film who goes by the surname of popping roots. and surprisingly this has stuck to the point out we refer to the photo reporters as paparazzi but the period maybe reviewed in deed as the sweet life. johnson 0 who you see here seated in the bull writingy store had taken control of the business in 1932 had managed to props even in the war and was posed to meet new challenges and to seize new business tuntsd offered to them as rome became the hollywood on the tiger. now given the high-level of jewels and gives me at bully at the time and the strategic position of the one and only store in the heart

as far as affordability i have made my point on that. i think it's a big issue especially as we have become a city of the very rich and very poor. that's something that average isn't relevant and we need to have better ways of measuring that. >> i would like to see you somehow able to better -- align the cost structure and the fixed structure. if you get into a drought and people start using less which is a good thing, we have to do rate increases so they end up getting, the feeling is that you are paying more to get less and factored covered the fixed cost but it feels wrong and it's a tough sell when you are trying to get people to do the right thing and somehow aligning the rate and cost structure would be to our benefit. part of that also is there is this perverse functioning of how we pay for conservation and reclamation. the fact is that every continue evasion project that we authorize raises water rights, that's kind of an odd thing but it's absolutely true, same thing with reclamation. the more we do, the harder it is to say we w

we might as well require a man to wear a coat that fitted him as a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regime of their ancestors, he said. but he also rejoiced that the flames of the american revolution have spread around the world and led him to proclaim that life and liberty are on a steady advance. and of course jefferson was certain that he had played--double role in establishing what he callwhat h hope, a world without tyranny and aristocracy. [applause] >> please go to the microphone. >> thank you very much for your talk. i am a john adams person myself some of these two guys are interesting to me. i had a professor in graduate school who told us once that the more he studied jefferson and hamilton the more he liked hamilton over jefferson. i am curious after spending so much time with these two men where you fall in terms of who had a better vision for the country and just in terms of your particular -- affection for these two. >> i think i really started as jeffersonian but as i went along i came to admire much about hamilton. i certainly admire his military s

i am joined by committee member and supervisor john avalos as well as supervisor scott wiener. i would like to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting, jonathan and charles kremenak as well as the clerk of the committee, mr. victor young. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the january 7th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay, thank you. could you please call item number 1? >> item number 1, resolution authorizing the execution, sale, and delivery of a housing revenue note in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $28,500,000 for the purpose of providing financing for the construction of a 121-unit affordable multi-family senior residential rental housing project, known as bayview senior housing; approving the form and authorizing the execution of a funding loan agreement and a borrower loan agreement; provid

that can be seen as well as a concern. the alternatives at how efficient we are with our peers as if we have to buy power from pg & e. key dates are here and it gives us a lot of opportunity to key this in the front of our minds as well as we go into budget deliberations and where we may have capacity look at revenue bonding as a source. with that, i'm happy to answer any questions. >> commissioner vietor? >> i have a question and sorry, i'm missing the gene when i was born about getting my head around this. i know some of the questions i seem to ask repeatedly. i don't know when it's going to appear, when the conversation happens where once we use our hechy power and what happens when the water to generate power, do these bonds help back fill? can we specify the kind of power that we are buying is the end question that i want to get to. we've talked a little bit about this and my trying to understand. i did have some concerns about the environmental policy perspective that what we had to do especially in line light of our

a blessing as much as they are able to say good-bye to nelson mandela. >> yeah, nobody is bothered byhe rain. perhaps the americans are bothered by the rain. naomi campbell is here, and a couple bold-face type celebrities are here, and all of them in the patchwork of what was the life of nelson mandela, befriended nelson mandela all over the years, charlize theron, and bono, and they were on separate flights because of family arrangements, but there is tony blair, one of four british prime ministers that will be attending today. john major will be here. gordon brown, and of course, david cameron, and there is clairic, i heard an interview with him this morning talking about the important tupbce of t gathering. the seats down front and exposed in the rain have been late to fill in, and nobody can blame them. but as we look at the stadium, it's filling in a little slowly. maybe you are better equipped to see some of the folks as i am as they come in. >> i am not sure, but i think that's my floor mate -- is that the president of brazil? she came in about 3:00 this morning. >> we have sev

but such is the legacy of nelson mandela, that he means almost as much to the youngsters as to the people who lived through apartheid. four hours ago president zuma broke the news to the nation and broke the hearts of millions of south africans. although this news was entirely predictable. a 95-year-old man with a serious respiratory illness who has been in hospital and receiving high intensive care at home for six months, you know, it was predictable that he would at some point pass away, but nevertheless, it was still incredibly painful. perhaps the most mournful, the most sorrowful day in the history of modern south africa. the father of the nation, the man who gave black south africans dignity and liberty and gave white south africans a secure and relatively safe future in modern south africa. he's being mourned today. nelson mandela dead at the age of 95. >> rohit, thank you. and nbc special news correspondent charlene hunter galt is a journalist and as a citizen is among those best able to talk about nelson mandela's life and legacy. and charlene, while it's just been hours since we

as his wife was seen as such.lready the anc youth league, he was the head of the armed wing. he had taken a leadership position in the party very early, from the '40s even, and through the '60s to tell his imprisonment. he could have easily been forgotten. >> the free nelson mandela movement also had part in our popular culture. >> it absolutely did. postcards, banners, people carried along the placards, but i want to reinforce the point that similar to nelson mandela, who was living but in prison, when dr. king died, he was not any more one of the ten most admired americans. many universities didn't want to have him lecture. no american book company really wanted to publish one of his books. he couldn't even get on the board of trustee of his own college until two years before he died. sure, morta martyrdom swept awa allegations. but loretta scott king ensured that he would have a national holiday and memorialization. i think the same with winnie mandela, that she did extraordinary work. there's been a gender att

first impression as well as the evolving technology the opinion was discussing as well as the evolution of case law, i would not rely on that opinion. >> i appreciate that. again, your candor is helpful, because we talked about that. that's encouraging. i want to make sure nobody else ever relies on that opinion. i'm concerned a different attorney could take a different view that it's valid because it has not been withdrawn. we have tried to get attorney general holder to withdraw it. i'm trying to figure out -- he's not answered our letders. who at the justice department has the authority to withdraw the opinion. do you currently have the authority to withdraw that opinion? >> no, i do not have the authority to withdraw that opinion. >> who does at the justice opinion. >> olc withdrawn on olc's own initiative or initiative of the attorney general would be extremely unusual. it happens only in extraordinary circumstances. normally what happens, if there's an opinion for which has been given to a particular agency, for example, if that agency would like olc to consider an opinion or if a

well as anti russian. gestures and slogans it does signify that the west and politicians are quite happy to use nationalist forces when it suits them that lack of reaction is particularly bewildering given many european statements about ukraine's right wing factions in the past and the batting over ukrainian football ground for not the slogans in the stance so if you create does make it into the e.u. someday it will be interesting to see how people with such different values sit at the same negotiating table. let's see reporting from key of ukraine which in r.t. international coming up later this hour high tax hypocrisy fosse's of the world's biggest i.t. companies band together gans the n.s.a. spying but manny just don't believe their call is genuine. street interesting. strategic vision. cover team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents about zero united states trying. yeah. maybe a local media more pro-american they encounter fear ignorance and pressure. the country blocks the way to info

as far as casper work goes, we see it as one of the key front line responses but also helping people to get back on their feet so that, yes, it'll help clean off the streets, the buildings, but we want to make sure it gets cash in people's pockets so they're able to take other thanship of their lives again -- ownership of their lives again, and we would see this happening for the short to medium-term response. we want people to have cash to start their lives again. and as far as trafficking, i would second my colleague, mr. callahan from crs, add saying, no -- as saying, no. of we're never doing enough on trafficking. for that reason, world vision came with recognition, and -- recommendations, and we'd like usaid to help urge the filipino government and constituents in the u.s. government to push for more child protection programming. because we do see trafficking as a problem now. it was a problem before. we've actually been working in the 23eu8 peens for a long time on child trafficking, child labor. in fact, i just found out before this meeting that responding through community gr

far as it gets promises. this is just one of the quickly erected residential areas where fukushima exiles have relocated to there are hundreds of makeshift camps scattered across the region accommodating more than three hundred thousand people all of the four hundred three settlers living in this particular area used to have a large house as before the focus shima accident now they are forced to live in this thirty square meter dwellings they were told that this would be just a short term measure but it seems in their case the old saying there's nothing more permanent than temporary suits very well the majority of these people are pensioners suffering from different ailments they are jobless just as surprisingly many of their younger neighbors this man used to run a profitable venture now he barely makes and meet. for. i had a one hundred thousand dollar a year business producing honey now it's destroyed forever just like my life on top of all that i'm offered neither financial compensation nor any job that's

and we make sure that everything is as water proof as possible. and our old ones have laminated parts and in the water and do the lamb nation and the new escalators and the way that you designed them and we are not having the issues. we probably have as much problem with human waste, okay? and we probably have more problems with that than with other things. and plus, we are now going to have the additional cost of maintaining the canopy which everyone will want to put the graffiti on and use it for the shelter and we will have a lot of other factors that will come into play? >> there is no data that exists that canopies or that escalators that are covered and not covered as it relates to outdoor, there is not necessarily a life extension of the escalator. >> like i said, if you worked the numbers, if you did not have to maintain it for 25 years, he would still be hard prelsed to break even on the price of the canopy. >> okay, thank you. >> he wanted to respond from bart on his design and probably other benefits that we might not be thinking about.

as far as the u.k.e are looking for a reading this morning of around 56 and it's 54 -- hang on. the manufacturing pmi, 58.4. the highest since november. revised 56.5 in october. so october's revised higher. november's coming stronger than expected. the manufacturing employment index 54.5. that's the highest level in 2.5 years. it was 51.9 in october. sterling was already up in two-year highs. the dollar is rebounding. back up 64.12. been up to 164.3. the pound has been up two and a half month highs against the euro and 10 1/2 month highs against the euro. still gathering steam joining us with his thoughts is phillip short, chief investor. phillip, another month of numbers. implications? >> decent numbers. market implications, sterling should go higher on that figure having started the week on a positive note anyway. sure great, positive data. manufacturing sector up back on to its feet again. let's not get carried away. the fact that this is a 2 1/2 year high should remind us that we're 2 1/2 years ago

and of course we're bringing you will act as opinion and analysis in a menacing ukraine as well as the above dates from the capital from that day developments are also available on our website celebrating twenty years of the russian constitution and the goblins good cause and tens of thousands of people and some weeping at least in the old son who had lined london cases may be dropped in picking the charges again some greenpeace access before the scandal has more now on his line into the pot and it will all have to wait. this may be quite the lord's honesty because up to twenty five thousand people could see charges dropped against the west was new was about these plans came out. theres still lots of speculation around and may benefit from it if he could be members of the so called arctic thirty the group of greenpeace activists of what the rest is in the russian arctic also pose to rise and set out some off the opposition activists of protesters were arrested during a large anti government protests rallies which ended in clashes between justice and the police now if that situation wha

situation as you have seen? >> from my many years walking with unicef and the u.n. in general, i would think that this is the worse crisis i have seen, with over 180,000 people displaced from their homes, with 75,000 of them within the u.n. premises. most of this are children and women. women who have been separated from their families, back in juba, in bor, malabbinga and all over the country, this is one of the worst crisis i have seen in my experience with the u.n. and unicef. children, of course, and women become the major victims of this crisis. >> this erupted quickly. the problems were there and known to be there. the crisis set off in a short period of time. so as i understand it, we have now got a situation on the ground where you have all these thousands of refugees, tens of thousands running out of the food and hiding from growing violence. how difficult is the situation for you to work in, and what do the people need from unicef and the international community now. >> our major concern is those child

shown any concern about this what john mccain has always been concerned with as he views russia as a geo political enemy of the united states of the greater trans-atlantic community and he like many a western officials is viewing this through a cold war lens of trying to separate russia from the ukraine in order to in his mind keep it in a permanently geo politically weakened state. well that whole turmoil a crackdown on protests and an economy in limbo life in egypt is no easy ride just to add a look at what happens to the dreams of those who took part in the arab spring uprising almost three years ago plus. no warm welcome for new members as immigration and finance drives a wedge through the european union. and . the. review economic up down in the final. days the longer the deal sank i and the rest because i think the case will be every week. prevails sleep peacekeepers for a president who are concerned with monitoring peace deals again at post conflict environment nowadays there are increasingly asked to operate in a high risk of violence while believe bibles are still angels all

long as we could. with our economy recovering from recession, there are speculators looking to take advantage of the strong real estate market at the expense of long-time tenants with no place to go. buying a building with the sole intent to evict rent controlled tenants, speculators are undermining the affordability of our entire stock, in past economic cycles, we've seen the number of el evictions as property values increase. i'm committed to taking action on the ellis act before this disturbing trend start to spiral in even great e larger crisis, so what can we do, colleagues? well, the heart of the matter lies with the state law itself. the ellis act is being abused by real estate speculators so we need to go to the state and change that law. i will ask you, supervisor, and every member of the board of supervisors to stand with me, we need to end the real estate speculation that is destabilizing our neighborhoods, and while we're fighting this battle, we must also stay focused on growing our own ci

as well as policy.stimates of increases in gdp have a tendency of 2.2% of to two 2.3% in 2013. a rising next year with similar growth estimate in 2015 and 2016. purchase up and cbn employment rate, which was seven percent in november, as continuing to decline. projections have the and implement rate falling between three percent and six percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, and then between 5.3 and 5.8% by the final quarter of 20 -- 2016. back tooving gradually two percent as the economy expands. inflation projection for 2013 is 0.90 .1%. let me now return to our decision to reduce the pace of asset purchases. asset purchasehe program in september, 2012, we said we would continue purchases until the outlet -- outlook for the labor market had improved substantially. then, we have seen meaningful progress in labor market. for example, since we began the current purchase program, the economy has added about two .9 million jobs in the and implement rate. when we started the program, many forecasters all th

it didn't make as much sense to him as this one. when this got laid out and we understood it it fit into pieces here. the only thing outlying to me again was that extension here and i think david kelly is right to the extent that they're giving in to reality, remember 7% is where they were supposed to stop qe. the question that's going to happen in the press conference, what's the timetable now for ending this or do you have one? >> well, that's a good question. i've got a better question because we're going to run out of time before you have to jump into the lockup here. bob, i'm going to stick it out to you, should our investors, bottom line, be clear-cut here, should our viewers and listeners increase their allocations to u.s. equities or other equities, europe, whatever, because of what happened today? >> i think so. the fed is -- i'm a broken record here saying what we've all been talking about. the economy is getting better and it's broadening and their ability now to begin the tapering process is putting a rubber stamp on tha

we advise you to strike a stained or is as much as possible. where is the visitation is hearing the korean missile i'm asking of the remaining non rainy all day long here in seoul where's the south we see in the past of rain moving into western japan. some of it really welcoming brain especially in tokyo where we haven't seen me that's the main port by two weeks said. as can be very welcoming to clear out the dry air to listen more and precipitation will likely be snow on the lighter side with about ten twenty five centimeters of additional snow fall and hope i don't leave gracefully high in the north western flank of japan about forty six meters high so it can be nasty. in western areas colossus see some thunderstorms associated with that. the eighteen degrees today here the remaining get on quite clear skies with the knights at temperatures here across. comments as we had snow in california five centimeters of snow piled up and some of the regions and that's not that's the whole scene only in its precipitation is up on the eastern areas espec

the united states as far as traffic is concerned. so if we take all of those things into consideration, sure, let's get on paper, and then the reality is, that it is very, very big. and it is not just not the right place. and the whole venue that is not being discussed today and the hotel towers and the condo on the other side and 175 feet which is worse than 8 washington and 105 feet for the hotel. and which is unbelievably, disfavorable. and just as we predicted and we said, if you open up 8 washington and others will follow, we were right. and the same thing as far as my park. >> oh, we will put a botchy ball court on the southern end of the plaza. and don't worry no one else will come after that. and guess what? >> we have a children's playground. which did not belong there because we have six parks that have play grounds and so you see that it is all, and it is not..., it is smart development and how many real estate all of my life and that is how i saw the open space opportunity here for my park and so please, listen, and this

as many as 13 people suffered minor injuries. it's still unclear just what caused that driver to lose control. >>> a 13-year-old is on life support after she went into the hospital for a routine procedure to get her on the sills removed. now her family is asking for a second opinion on her condition. today a judge appointed a doctor from sanford to conduct his own investigation. family members say after that routine surgery the girl suffered severe blood loss and breathing problems before going into cardiac arrest. doctors at the children's hospital in oakland, california now say she is brain dead and they have no obligation to keep her on life support. but on friday, a judge issued a court order that essentially forces this emto keep her on a ventilator. medical researchers say doctors performed nearly 700,000 on the sillectomies each year in the united states, mostly on children under the age of 15. dr. carole ash joins us now. she is a general intern effort with meridian health. so how does someone go into the hospital for a o

as well as convictions that have been dismissed.one runs a criminal background they'll see the charges but it's dismissed. you will be able to legally tell your employers person never convicted >> i don't to tell anyone is there a way to rears them. >> there's some cases you can. maybe you're arrested because police thought you were someone else. wound our arrest record is sealed you can say you were never >> if i wanted to clear my record if i was convicted of a felon. >> it is also known as a one letter officer the clean stating hit. >> may be able to get it raersz but if i went to prisoner you may quality for a correspondent certified document saying you're a lay abating citizen are. you had should be aware for some state jobs state agencies are allotted to consider our criminal history. those jobs are private security jobs health care workers and other careers involving the children the i can sick or elder. it will benefit you human resources here's some of the things clean slate can't do it doesn't prevent an old conviction to

if you think bob cratchit earned 15 shillings a week, even as someone as poor as bob cratchit could afford to buy a novel in monthly parts. >> >> dickens was a charismatic figure and knew how to manipulate an audience of one or 3,000 or 4,000 people. there were reports of people faintings at readings of the murder of nancy by psychs. people swooning at other part of his readings. that might have just been the conditions in these venues where 3,000 or 4,000 people were gathered together to listen to them. but he certainly knew how to manipulate the emotions of a live audience. he was a consummate actor. dickens' relationship to the u.s. was very much a love/hate relationship. love before he came here quickly turning to hate after about three months. he came full of high ideals. he had been reading about america for a long time and looked upon america as a place that had thrown off all of the old problems of europe and britain, you know, the social system and those kinds of things that dickens felt really got in the way of business and when he got here he was idolized straight off the ship,

in this case, the new protocol en gagage as rapidly as possibl. the students were shelltering inside their various classrooms and wings. i was listening to the s.w.a.t. team talking about methodically going through this particular school. and students were in the band room and sheltering in the science wing and sheltering waiting for the all-clear. and it wasn't until sheriff's deputies came into these particular areas and then escorted the students out this they were allowed to leave. you also saw scenes earlier in which the kids coming out of the school came out with their hands up, and they were frisked or at least observed by an officer out there on the field to ensure that that student wasn't in any way a suspect. that's all part of the protocol here ever since columbine. but, of course, the denver metro area has had more than its share of this type of violence. the aurora theater shooting is probably 15 miles away as the crow flies from arapaho high school. columbine, of course, is an incident. and then you had several down in the colorado s

this is a very varied to see operational performance was as an integer in turkey as well as the horse. trying to stall progress our country is maintain muscle growth. good teachers and many believe they're doing is rightfully us based academic to an agreement is the hurry the investigation. since he has strong links to attack its judiciary. the scandal has raised important questions about the impartiality of the courts and the feuds within a tenth as conduits of how one can see reese the weekend including a cake carseat for months before the country's municipal elections. now a quarter century on the friends and relatives of the two hundred and seventy people died in the lockerbie bombing of a skull into the gathering this state for memorial sites is on its side to the atlantic i am flight one eighty three which is bound for new york you are one hour after takeoff from london on the twenty first december nineteen eighteen. many questions remain unaltered about it. and it resulted in the conviction of a former libyan intelligence official at the box. rocky the time it counts the last y

is it as desire as we think it is? or does thef average constructin worker in qatar earn eight times the amount that he would earn had he stayed in nepal or india back home? so i think there are major problems. there is abuse. there is horrible conditions. there are, no doubt there is all sorts of exploitation. there might indeed in fact be in instances certain types of slavery but at the same time i think we need to context alizees and not generalize on the on the condition of all migrant workers. i think one of the things we need to keep in mind is that the situation is extremely complex. there are people who can make tremendous amounts of money, go back. there are massive amounts of remittances. there are so many, so much remittances going back that recently the government of the united arab emirates said, we want to tax remittances because taxing those remittances is huge revenue stream, revenue stream for the u.a.e. i don't think that is quite workable and qataris are don't to do it or haven't announced they are g

well as it is not on the agenda, but as well as the sf jerimiah, are really two ships at piers 45. and they both, celebrated their 70th birthdays. and we had planned to present plaques to the communities to the representatives of the communities that the communities today and that they might be here and we will make that presentation at the december meeting but i wanted to acknowledge that both history vessels celebrated their san francisco, anniversary, or the 70th birthday on november 6th and we will look to getting plaques to the representatives of both of the ships at that particular meeting and as you know, both ships did extensive duty during world war ii. >> next is the bethlehem ship museum and they have embarked on a series of presentations and the first at the building at pier 70 tomorrow and that will start at 10:30 and go to one clock and it is part of the series of the presentations that they are doing on the industrialation on the bay. and tomorrow will focus on the brothers who died at the first battle of the canal on november 13th, 1943. and you can get more informa

"farewell to as well as other material.importantly, you will never forget, the struggle of can you let freedom. the struggle of canyon led freedom. he said, know how the struggle in africa, the armed struggle against colonialism in africa has been inspired and motivated by its successes and failures. as a 23-year-old, amy, i possibly wanted to show -- i was somewhat of an athlete and i was in the cross-country class. -- we did not call him a madiba in those days, that came much, much later -- i said, "comrade mandela, i am trying very hard." he said, "are you good at long distance, because that is what we need, my boy." >> i said, sure, i'm going to training for the marathon. at that time, only whites could participate. he said, you have to train very, very hard. we joked a little bit about that. i think within just over a week, the dreadful news arrived that mandela had been arrested on that road from durban to johannesburg, a tremendous setback. >> ronnie kasrils when we come back from break, as you talk about what you an

as far as euro/dollar is concerned, i will show you what that has done, as well. 4% for the year. and gold having its worst annual loss since 1981 is. down some 28% during the course of the year. what's on today's agenda in the united states? the october s&p case-shiller home price index is out at 9:00 a.m. eastern. at 9:45, we'll get the december chicago pmi and at 10:00, it's december consumer confidence. forecasts are calling for a reading of 76.8, up nearly 6 points from last month. the next year sees india and brazil hold nationwide general elections. do they have the potential to change global dynamics in 2014? i asked daniel frankfurt, executive editor of the economist. >> indonesia is another one, a quarter of a billion people there. so new leadership coming in there. and in india, i think there's a hugely controversial figure, but business wants him because he's got a reputation for getting things done where he -- >> that's a big thing for investors in india, somebody that can deliver. >> the system is clogged up. illustrate needs unclogging. but the euro

well as the democrats? >> well, i can't answer that question right now. i have talked to them. i have two meetings before this, have another one after this as we try to get it here. even unately, some aren't in town yet. mitch mcconnell is in an airport some place unable to get out now. talked to them by phone. i see a totally different change we're in a now that point where the choices are so limited that it's either we do do it.e don't so i can't tell you that we have a commitment on the republican this, but we have a lot more support than we would have had or that we did have in the of the bill. >> leader reid is hopeful the to pass a be able bill this week so we can take it up next week. realistic here's no way of passing a defense authorization bill this year without the procedure. the emphasize this is not same procedure that's used twice in 2010 recent years and in 2008, i believe. now, in terms of the democratic we will present this to my colleagues, as a matter of be meeting with the full armed ser

stability as we did that. from my perspective, this is how a mature and responsible country should operate. [applause] as a result, jointly with partners, we have been able to turn around the developments from war to the establishment of a syrian process and the chemical arsenal has been put under international control. elimination of this arsenal is in accordance to first run hitting the regime of nonproliferation. the syrian president has confirmed the united nations central role in global politics. as the situation around syria has indicated and also iran, central point, any problem must be solved politically without resorting to power. as far as the iranian nuclear program, the breakthrough has been achieved this year, but it is just the first step, and the search must be continued for a broader solution that guarantees iran's inalienable right to develop peaceful nuclear energy and also region including israel. now what is happened? the iranian nuclear program is -- problem is going away but the adm syste

and it's as easy to hide the rifle as a school zone. because the island is so in a special there are no indigenous people but there are all those who do choose this frozen life. this is could be right about if you own the conductor. if you got nothing in it. start to construct your own. kiln olympian bit his don't want to meet gangsters in a lot of. drug dealers they don't want that bull with no time to tell the kid came be we can see. you just means the boat is out is the right oh probably the hook and with a thirty round clip. about i said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young a. lot of fun your whole show common in washington d.c. spanking new college face people. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. iran considers a bill on accelerating its nuclear program if new u.s. sanctions are imposed as western powers urge it to fulfill an agreement brokered in geneva seen as a key breakthrough off two thousand and thirteen. a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

as an a talk or a scene or as a dictatorship in fact it sees itself as a democracy and it wants to develop as a democracy but on its own terms rather than terms hunted down from some of the old established european democracies and i wonder if you think as an observer that some of the european countries would be ready to discuss democracy in this russian with other oil see members on equal terms not as teachers and students but rather as equal partners and talking about what democracy. really is and what is the best way to achieve or improve it they have every opportunity to do so in the u.s. c.n. we have discussions all the time around these issues what we're finding is that there is still at the bottom of everything a lack of truly conciliation. and perhaps following the end of the cold war there are still issues on which we can and should work and we're for supposedly examples from germany and from sir paul in the russia presenting some good models of worst that forward so i think the first thing to do is really to do that to try to get a better environment for this discussion to take pl

as mta. we are looking at two separate areas. one is just adjacent to mcler and park and one is a church and we are looking to getting this going by july 15th as well. this is rain gardens and ultimate irrigation. baker beach project is kind of a neat one too. this is talking about all camino del mar. that water runs fast from the golf course to the street and causes challenges in the system. we have an ex- cess of volumes. it goes to baker beach. we are looking to manage that storm water better and we'll be looking to establishing rain gardens along the golf course and looking at putting a green street permeable pavement at the end of 25th and this is cul-de-sac area from baker beach. we are going to be having some very interesting and at the residents homes. residents are concerned that water when collected, the water can enter their homes. the residents have proposed supporting us and possibly taking some leadership to work with national parks.dgnra to work with rain gardens a little furth

thankfully it appears as though what happened at arapahoe today, while tragic, not as horrific as whatbine in 1999. dave, when you're talking about avoiding coverage of the newtown, sandy hook anniversary, that sad anniversary tomorrow, of course, you're talking about specifically from having covered what happened in colorado, from knowing people, from having developed strong relationships with people who were traumatized forever because of what happened at columbine in 1999, you're talking about post-traumatic stress. >> right. yeah. >> are the people in columbine 14 years ago, are they still dealing with what happened? >> yeah. they definitely are. to different degrees. i was really surprised that it changed over time. in the first week, the parents were dealing with it a lot better and the kids were just distraught. they were almost universally a mess. in fact, those i worked with were really surprised they had almost universal numbness the morning after. i was really shocked to see the kids the morning after. nobody was crying. there was no emotion at all. they had shut down emotio

ukraine's prime minister and he says his family as well as the families of other officials are receiving threats from anti-government protesters activists have also rallied outside the homes of security officers as an investigation is launched over allegations of excessive force being used against demonstrators last week are just going to go reports from kiev. the night of november thirtieth when peaceful protests in the heart of kiev were broken up by ukraine special riot police force dozens and end up in hospitals images of police beating defenseless people emerged on the internet was. was the next day it was the police on the receiving end of the violence but at the hands of the mob and not the peaceful protesters who were dispersed just the day before i. mean i got hit by either a brick or a piece of pavement score in the face it's hard to tell because everything was flying no one could predict it would go like this that there would be wrong bricks most of cocktails. and i was scared for my units who were there because it was totally unexpected just right in front of all of this ther

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criminal attacks in volgograd as well as terrorist attacks in the u.s. syria iraq libya afghanistan the jiri and other countries organized in the same part inspired by the same thinking this figure from the ministry of foreign affairs has also condemned the dividing terrorists into the wrong kind and the right kind depending on their geopolitical goals that the person or the entities who are making their judgment are trying to reach a sensually and that is according to their minister of foreign affairs any sort of terrorism is a crime and middle east experts. believe while terror groups don't necessarily have direct links to al qaeda they're certainly inspired by. the problem is that we have what i call franchise terrorism you have al qaeda which created this image their leader has been eliminated many of the his lieutenants haven't eliminated what is happening to the internet your friend just bringing up the words groups which share the same message can receive instructions if necessary and how to make bombs how to. do this and that acts of terrorism ar

i just feel that as with the iranians, as with bruton, with islamic extremists, we are seen as a power president who refuses to lead. lou: think you for being with us. >> thank you. lou: you can join the conversation at home. ke a minute to check us out. check out our facebook page. all the links. we love hearing from you. up next, the majory of republican senators that are up for reelection face some considerable competition from within theirwn party. in the "chalk talk" we will show you why and we will have the "a-team" reaction to my analysis "a-team" reaction to my analysis , and now look here [ male announcer ] here's a question for you: where does the united states get most of its energy? is it africa? the middle east? canada? or the u.s.? the answer is... the u.s. ♪ most of america's energy comes from right here at home. take the energy quiz. energy lives here. ♪ lou: a new challenge emerging in republican efforts to win control the senate. to do so they need to score six seats. ticker look. there are some inherent advantages. twenty-one democratic senate seats are up for reelec

no surprises except açó slightl lighter commute. 880 as well as the tri-valley.r, no reports of injuries. thatko building badly damaged. >> that's what's happeningq "today in the bay."'c back at 7:25.t(ñ a live local news t(t(update. >>> back at 11:00 a.m. for a >>> çó news#q& well.. for a have a great one. >> take care. # >>> good morning, miracle in the mountains. new details this morning on how a family survived days in subzero temperatures. the way they kept warm and stayed alive. >>> feeling the heat. president obama returns to the white house this morning facing his lowest approval numbers ever. while also coming under fire for this selfie at nelson mandela's memorial. >>> first on "today," from presidents to pop stars, to the pope. who will be "time's" person of the year for 2013? we're revealing their choice, live. >>> and all we want for christmas. mariah carey takes us home for the holidays. she welcomes us into her home

that, as well. look at that. all this smoke with fire still to be put out. a big distraction for folks through the area. you are closed off right now. local traffic cannot enter 101, and that affects the shore center, as well. back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> it is 6:37. still ahead, a christmas miracle through customs. the new push to make sure shipment of donations is delivered on time to kids in need. >>> plus, we tell you if you can still expect a soggy mess a day after a water main break at san jose international. >>> breaking news for you this morning out of redwood city. a live picture from our chopper. and you can see the flames burning. once again, at sims metal. you see two separated fires. might be all part of the appliances which exploded and burst into flames overnight. we have chase cain right there at the scene. we're going to have a live report from him on the latest, trying to knock those flames down. >> that's still ongoing. but everything else back to normal at terminal a

it is pushed down by the protests as well as the fed tapering.vestors are pretty nervous. >> thanks very much indeed. has linda eyman joining us from singapore -- haslinda amin joining us from singapore. bangladesh has charged 13 people in connection with a fire. 112 workers died in the blaze. emergency exits were locked. says many of the accused executives may have fled the country. the former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky has vowed to campaign for political prisoners and russia after he was released by president vladimir putin. khodorkovsky spoke at checkpoint charlie in berlin. he rolled out a career in politics and said he would not fund opposition parties in his homeland. he says he has friends who are still in prison including his former business partner. china's lunar lander and rover have spent the weekend taking pictures of each other. this is before they resume the exploration of the moon's surface. they reached the moon on the 14th of december. the rover will spend the next three months looking for natural resources. the lender will

social security is about advocacy as well as solvency. and number of suggestions are part of that conversation. at the same time, let's not look at social security as a piggy bank to solve the deficit. what kind of country do we want? what can we afford and what are we willing to pay for? >> the red light is on. i am asking your indulgence. may be just to a lightning round with the remaining witnesses on what you would help we would do in the next two years. we will not allow you to have much time. >> i agree we want to think about social security reform in a far-reaching way. it is not simply about solvency. republicans think social security is doing fine except we do not want to raise taxes. democrats think social security is doing fine except we do not want to cut benefits. if you make it do those things better, you get a more effective system. i think you want to look comprehensively at social security. if you look at in isolation, you are going to miss something. would you fix social security differently if there were not deficits in