we're rover asia a city but we want to prepare for our kids as well as and we want to make sure that our budgets reflects the prospectives of every citizen in our city. i'll talk about this later. thank you all for coming tonight. >> we have one last person who would like to speak with us the fire chief. >> hi everyone good evening. john an fire chief i'm concerned about the number of the people in the room. and it's all about safety i encourage you to sit in the seat and technically, if you don't have a seat i'm told we have an overflow room. i hear that's getting crowded too. i'm a mom of 3 kids and i love kids and this is making we concerned this is one of the concerns the exit is blocked. if we could get some people to help and getty people to go into the offer flow room it, it's not safe right now. we want to hear from everyone and we'll work with the library but i'm conflicted right now. so thank you. >> so there are some enterprise seats we've got 4 in this little circle. raise your hand if there's an empty seat next to you or come on down. >> so i'm now told that the overflow

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a second citizen of asia. >> george: it is wintertime in curd kurdistan. >> our goal was to find a safe place away from the cityto not draw the attention of the authorities. >> george: for a few days, fatali and a handful of christians gathered in this secluded villa, about a two hours drive outside the capital city. >> we worship, pray, and strategize how to effectively share the love of christ's in our countries. >> george: cbn news cannot show you their faces or reveal their real names for security reasons. people from kurdistan, uzbekistan, kazakhstan, all former republics in central asia, experiencing a rising tide of hostilities against believers. all are members of a christian community that is reaching young people in the former soviet union. >> it is impossible to openly share about jesus christ. doing so will get you beaten, arreste arrested or killed. >> last year was a difficult year for you? >> fortunately, i wasn't arrested, but i was interrogated by secret police. accused of gathering people in my house. >> george: he runs training of uzbec leaders. >> you can't relax. you're constantly under str

asia where they have the bullet trains and europe where they have the bay that goes 350 miles an hour and it feels like you're sitting still. the channel underneath the english channel. berlin. it's a modern city. they have civil engineering on bridges which is beautiful, trains that are spectacular, a new subway system. why can't we compete with old europe and new asia in the kind of structure we build for our economy? >> well, chris -- >> why not? >> when ike did it, he had the support of the democrats. the democrats were in favor of the interstate highway system. what was amazing, the republicans gave more resistance. his own party. i don't think the president can go into congress and say, listen, we want to do something big when the republicans want him to do something small. this is not the time when we have an eisenhower in the white house and democratic group of people -- >> let the republicans know the biggest no in history, let them be the no party, but the president is the building party. i want to go back to steve israel. the congressman. your party, you're for immigration reform which is a mixed bag. it helps hispanic people, helps some people. it's not one issue that grabs the who

a flat in the city center. and says more than 150,000 people are trafficked in south asia every year poor rural girls are often ities with the promise of jobs as maids and nannies and then forced into the sex industry. eight soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern thailand while they're on patrol and their truck hit the device. two of the officers were wounded. come stays after the government rejected a ceasefire offer by muslim rebels in the region. share is in blackberry have plunged 29% in new york. investors were reacting to its warning of future losses despite releasing a new range of products this year. here is an analyst view of why the shares dropped. >> one part of the report that disturb me was the fact that they lost 4 million subscribers. that is what disturbs me. the handsets were light and it is a little bit concerning but the fact that their subscriber base has been what has been sustaining them and the fact that these are the people potentially that will upgrade. >> they are the unsung heroes of america, the men and women who pick up the trash. their job is more dangerous than t

asia. >> the urban farm is not very labor-intensive, is it? >> in a dirty city environment, you need to grow things in a closed system or at least semi-closed system. that means that you have to have as little people going into the system as you possibly could to protect it from having to use pesticides and other things. what we and everyone else is developing is therefore a system that is like, everything goes around. you plant at the same place as you harvest. that means that the whole farming machine that we are building is much more efficient than if you would do this on free land because then you would move things around all the time. here, in a sense, you're actually moving the field that you're growing on. instead of moving people and machines around, you move the things that are growing. that means that it gets much less labor-intensive. this is both good and bad, of course, because you take work opportunities away in one sense. on the other hand, if you don't compete with the free-land growers, you don't disturb their market and their jobs and you creat

adopt and since that time it's been adopted in 15 hundred cities around the world including in asia and african. and decided to spend the money through a budgetary process and four of the districts adopted the same process and 20128 districts adopted it on $10 million worth of discretionary fund. va la adopted it but 4 thousand residents voted on what were originally 8 hundred idea and they received $2.2 million of city fund. if you think about their budget they have a $2.2 million budget. if we did the same here that would represent one-hundred and $26 million. i have a colleague to talk about that. next slide. i wanted to give you agent of sense. this is the slide of capital expenditures within the 49 ward in the city of chicago and joe moore who started that. in 2009 it gives us a rough breakdown of how he choose to break down spending. the next year he did a budget pilot. those are the expenditures that were made by voters directly voting only projects in emphasis district one year later. now joe moore is an outstanding legislature and the sense of what his community needed the fact it was who different is why i decided to adopt th

asia. i come from a city that has had a long immigrant tradition of folks coming from western europe, fromland, from italy, from all parts of the world. it has made new york city the greatest city in the world, a tremendous international city. we come from a country of immigrants and that is a tradition that should be respected. host: our last call comes from barbara, a democrat. caller: hello? we are listening. just turned down the volume on your tv and state your question. caller: i hear about all of the jobs. what about the people who are married to american citizens. i am an american citizen. my husband is an immigrant. it is just so difficult. i am being punished because i have not been able to get everything legalized and everything. in other words, it should be a little bit easier for somebody who is married to an american citizen. you did not mind issuing why not license, so make it easier for someone who is married to someone who is illegal? guest: thank you for that question and observation. you are absolutely correct. one of the suggestions that senator schumer and the gang of 8

asia where they have the bullet trains and europe where they have the 350-mile-per-hour transit and it feels like you're sitting still, the channel, the english channel, germany and berlin, a modern cityu'd think they won the war. they have civil engineering on bridges which is beautiful, spectacular trains, a new subway system. why can't we compete with old europe and new asia in the kind of structure we build for our economy? >> chris, when ike did it he had the support of the democrats. >> yes. >> the democrats were in favor of the interstate highway system. i don't think the president can go into congress and say we want to do something big when the republicans want him to do something small. this is not the time when we have an eisenhower in the white house and a democratic group of people who want to go with it. >> let the republicans know, the biggest no in history, the no party but the president is the build party. the problem is on immigration reform it is a mixed bag, not one issue that grabs the whole country's attention and says we're going to rebuild this country and look like the rest of the world instead of falling behind. why not? >> you are absolutely right. he's trie

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a minute. sars ended up infecting over 7,000 people and it did kill over 700. the real story is how much fear there was. they cordoned off the city of toronto. they close asia. and bills of dollars were spent. everyone says it's going to be worldwide pandemic. 700 people isn't close to the people that dpei of flu every year. >> jamie: you want people to pay attention? >> i like the world health organization and cdc, the virus has potential to do harm. it is killing 50% of people that are infected. as viruses evolve they get less and less deadly. the thing that the virus is not doing, it's not spreading human to human. until it starts to spread easily it is not going fake off. now, we need to watch it. we need to have scientists on it. in great britain, it's in france, it's in saudi arabia, it is not here yet. i want to be advance on this, don't panic when you see a single case. >> jamie: should folks out there wear a mask on an airplane if they are going to these countries? >> i don't think it's time to panic. it sounds like something from the middle east. it was diagnosed back in 2012. reason why there is so much they are on top of this because with sars we

asia. they had a cafe, movie theater, even a chicken coop. this is the second time moscow police have undercovered a secret underground city in the past two yearshe san jose shark tank is getting a new name and a deal. german software giant sap has finalized the namey rights deal. the founder is also the majority owner of the san jose sharks hockey team. the name is already attached to annual tennis tournament in the south bay. if the deal goes through as planned, the pavilion will known as the sap center at san jose. >>> authorities say a raid in san francisco uncovered a criminal operation. how they first found out about it in a story that is only on channel 2. >>> chief meteorologist, bill martin is tracking a big warm up, coming to the bay area. >> up first, a restaurant worker's unsettling discovery. a man's body found in a shopping cart. star command, i'm detecting high levels of happiness. luscious locks there's an entire land here...with living cars. now this is flying... with style. great glittering galaxies. disneyland resort just got happier, see it all with a 3-day park hopper ticket. i now appear to be lost in a deep dark cave... >

asia. they had a cafe, movie theater, even a chicken coop. this is the second time moscow police have undercovered a secret underground city in the past two yearsears the san jose shark tank is getting a new name and a deal. german software giant sap has finalized the namey rights deal. the founder is also the majority owner of the san jose sharks hockey team. the name is already attached to annual tennis tournament in the south bay. if the deal goes through as planned, the pavilion will be known as the sap center at san jose. >>> authorities say a raid in san francisco uncovered a criminal operation. how they first found out about it in a story that is only on channel 2. >>> chief meteorologist, bill martin is tracking a big warm up, coming to >>> unanswered questions tonight surround the death of a man who was found in a shopping cart in san jose. it was in a cart near st. james park. he field us the body a-- told us the body appeared wrapped up. >> it was almost like a blanket. >> san jose police say it was not clear how the man died. he may have been a transient. homeless people often stay in st. james park. police say it is possible the ma

when it first emerged, sars was about a 50% dea rate and everyone panicked, it' going to kill the entire world. the city o toronto was cordoned offiterally and asia spent $30 billion keepg people from treling andsequestering people. anand you know what? that's the real story about sars. it'she fear, it's t panic. so now i see on tv everybody saying this could be another sars and i'm thinking, well, but sars want as bad as people said. why am i talking abousars? it's the same kind ofirus as a coronavirus. guess whattes is a -- guess what else is the same kind of virus? the cold. >> i think, my god, how many illnesses have those at symptoms? it's going to be awfully hard to identify. i think to myself wait a minute, wait a minute, the world health organization is telling us that there are 49 cases. now thi is pretty good because we're planet of over 7 billion people a they've come down with 49 folks, they know how many of them have died. this doesn't sound right to me. what's goingn? >> exactly right what you just said. what's going on is it's too early to say anything like what she's sayingbecause we don't even know wat something called th attack

asia and no where else can do that because we have unique climbate here and with the california native garden and with birds and insects from california. the volunteers provide a great service to the city in education and managing the nursery and many other tasks. these are services that enrich the garden and enrich the lives of californians and san franciscans so i urge you to support the management agreement, and for the continuation of the non resident fees. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is monica martin and i have two statements this afternoon. my own and one who had to leave earlier. i'm a botanical garden volunteer and a member of the board of trustees. in the botanical garden society was formed to look after the garden. its soul purpose was and is to support the development of the garden and provide educational programs. our partner in achieving that is the city. we couldn't do it without you. the non resident fee has worked well. it's important for the maintenance of the garden. the lease and government agreement is fair. it's the result of long negotiations between the interested parties and i urge you to support the agreement an

city and jakarta are among so-called hot spots expected to receive aid money. world bank president jim yong kim says climate change threatens to derail global poverty fighting efforts. "south asia is a cornerstone in our effort at ending poverty, if we don't take action now, we'll never reach our goal and the impact could be devestating." climate change is still heavily debated. despite that, funding efforts spiked in 2012, and are expected to go even higher. as the immigraiton bill winds its way through congress... the congressional budget office estimates-- the bill would reduce the deficit by $197 billion during the next 10 years. the study shows by moving immigrants to legal status-- they add to the economy and become taxpayers. critics have said passing the immigration bill would be costly to the country. on the hill this week, a house panel passed a measure making a federal crime for illegal immigrants to live in the u.s. so much for liking the way george zimmer looks. zimmer, the founder,. chairman -- and pitchman -- for the discount suit chain, men's wearhouse, has been abruptly dumped by the retailer's board. zimmer had reportedly been in transition with the company and acc

do think there is a real shift going on at the moment so with asia we can see that even more as the years go on absolutely we project that the top four hundred emerging market cities will probably contribute over half the g.d.p. growth between now in two thousand and twenty five if you look at the report we commissioned by the economy. the fastest moving cities to see as they're becoming most competitive the fastest are merging market cities whether it's in sean and south korea there's mumbai for example these are the ones that are moving the fastest time and it's about mustangs i mentioned that we took some places that must go on the global scale he's standing there but it's not quite yet what more needs to be done is it really the company well sees actually the heart of the panel international visors to support that and we've spent time with the we are with sharon on this morning and i'm talking about moscow as a financial center one of things that they are doing and the economists support picked it up because they are investing in an actual financial. center and it's called moscow city and they are trying to make it in moscow's wall street and the economist stu

asia, where they have the bullet trains and europe where they have the really fast train. where they have the chunnel going under the english channel, where in germany, berlin, it's a modern city, you would think they won the war. they've got civil engineering on bridges which is beautiful. they've got trains that are spectacular, they've got a new subway system. why can't we compete with old europe and new asia in the kind of structure we build for our economy? >> well, chris -- remember when i ike did it, he had the support of the democrats. the democrats were in favor of the interstate highway system. it was amazing, the more republicans gave resistance, his own party. i don't think the president can go to his own party and do something big, when -- >> jim, shove it at them, let the republicans know the biggest no in history. let them be the no party. but the president is the building party. i want to go back to steve israel. the trouble is you're for immigration reform. it's not one issue that grabs the whole country's attention and says we're going to rebuild this country and look like the rest of the world again, instead of falling behind. why doesn't have the president

asia and what the strategy is now. >> reporter: well, thank you, it's a plea sure to be on. i do look at global banking for citi'm based in hong kong and i operate the franchise which tells you something about the role and importance of asia for us as a company. asia generates about a third of our net income for our consumer group globally. we're the largest credit card issuer and largest wealth manner but we've had a lot of success in rolling out our smart banking approach, new distribution model using a blend of physical distribution and technology to reach out to a broader client segment the emerging affluent to combine the reach of our card business to combine with our wealth business. it's a great region for us to be in. we have a unique position across 14 countries and a brand that's unmatched. the challenges of operating in asia for the last couple of years have been around re-regulation post-crisis, adjusting to a new set of regulatory norms to protect consumers and consumer credit area. dealing with spread compression, of course, and low interest rate environment. and, of course, dealing with a pretty

it fit emerged, sars, it was about a 50% death rate and everyone panicked, it's going to kill the entire world. the city of toronto was corned off literally and asiapent $30 billion keeping people fom traveling and sequestering people and you know what? that's the real story about sars. it the fear, it's the panic. so now i see on tv everybody saying this could be another sars, and i' thinking well, but sars wasn't as bad as people said. why ialking about sars. it's the same kind of virus, a coronairus. guess what else is a corona virus? thcommon cold. the common cd which doesn't kill anybody. >>hen i look at e symptoms of this virus, talking about a cold or flu-likesymptoms, coughing, i think my god, h many illnesses have those as symptoms. it's going to be awfully hard to identify. i think to myself wait a minute, wait a minute, the wld heah organization tellingus that there are 49 cases. this is ptty good, because we're a planet of over seven billn people and they've come down with9 folks, they know how many of them have died, this esn't sound right to me. what's going on? >> exactly right, what you just said. what's going on is it's too early

city. >> we hope and look at it month by month. people haven't lost sight of the fact that it's scary there. >> asia has a big potential. >> yes.asn't happened as fast as we want it to. right now american ladies are helping us stay alive. >> we are seeing a recovery and we heard that from ben bernanke today. what are the prices of these shoes. people say i love manolo blan iks and it's not in my price range. what makes this shoe special? >> i brought this shoe for three reasons. eats $595. it comes in an array of colors. that's $595. the blue satin shoe is from sex and the city which was sarah jessica's wedding shoe in the movie. that's about $1,000. the shoe in the middle is louisiana alligator and that's $5500. >> because it's alligator. >> exactly. >> good to have you on the program and to see the hot products. do you think colors are the hot thing? >> colors are neutrals. with anything you bring to it, prints are big again. that shoe with prints is fantastic. >> i got the scoop from the leader of it all, president and ceo of man oil la blanic. up next why the market should stop looking at what ben bernanke is doing and focu

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city i'm melissa lee. let's get straight to the big story we're following tonight. usa usa markets around the world were falling apart the nikkei in a bear market and the rest of asia selling off. the u.s. finished with gains of more than one percent across the board. is the united states of easy money also the greatest trade in the world. bk kick it off? >> greatest trade in the world i don't think so. there's probably better places to be in the world at this point in time. i did cover most of my equity shorts this morning. what you saw this morning was all the bad news came out there. the nikkei down six percent, the yen falling apart, europe falling apart. due important coming out with terrible earnings and the market wouldn't go down. >> so covering shorts doesn't necessarily equal bullish, does it? >> the way i'm looking at it now we make a retest of the 22nd is, around those levels and we'll see what happens. over the next week we have the fomc coming out next wednesday. there's not a lot of news until then. so you could get one of those vacuums up. >> bk had a brief pause. we saw that hoagie. >> that's a hot dog, mister. all american hot dog there. >> anyway

cities now involve mobile devices. >>> while samsung scored a victory over apple, the u.s. international trade commission says two ipad models infringe on samsung patterns distributed by at & t. they are assembled in asia and considered imports. president obama has two months to override that decision. >>> time is 6:15. and developing news. a shakeup in president barack obama's foreign policy team. the national security advisor is resigning. as ktvu kyla campbell reports from our washington, d.c. newsroom republicans are not going to be happy with the president's pick to replace him. >> reporter: tom donilon is resigning from his post and susan rice will replace him. the white house said just a few minutes ago the president will be holding a press conference about five hours from now for a personnel announcement. donilon has been in his post since october of 2010 and heavily involved in the raid to kill osama bin laden in 2011. rice is currently the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. the president's pick is seen as a defiant move top republicans. many in the gop harshly criticized rice for giving a misleading account on the deadly attack on the u.s. con lat in benghazi this past september. but this

city state. the hazardous levels have prompted singapore's airport to lengthen the time between landings and departures as a precautionary measure. singapore airlines and asia cnbc they have no plans to suspend flights but are monitoring things. singapore's prime minister said the haze could last for weeks depending on weather conditions. the fwogovernment is urging residents to remain indoors whenever possible. >> the haze is horrible. it's bad for everyone's health. quite honestly something needs to be done about it. >> you're still going to work? >> yeah, i am still going to work. everybody has to keep going to work. probably might not be a bad idea for the companies to have people stay home to make a point. >> it really gets bad today. my office we have almost like half the staff on mc because of this haze. it's really -- i think the government really needs to do something about this. it's really going to be bad if it's going to prolong like this. >> singapore not the only country affected by the smoke. haze in the southern part of malaysia has also reached hazardous levels. the government ordered 200 schools to stay shut at least till the end of the we

he's a graduate of the institute of technology and is currently visiting scholar at columbia's institute for the study of human rights in new york city. louisa grieve is vice president for asia, middle east and north africa and global programs at the national endowment for democracy where she served as director for east asia. she studied since 1980, she's a member of aei, taiwan policy working group, the council on foreign relations,. [inaudible] new threats in a changing world. she served as a member of the board of directors of amnesty international for five years, was a volunteer china and mongolian specialist from '90-'99. she served two terms in the virginia commission on civil rights. if the two of you would join us and thank you very, very much. and cao yaxue will translate for mr. work en. -- mr. wen. please proceed. [speaking chinese] >> translator: thank you, mr. senator. thank you, dear mr. senator brown and congress pittinger and the congressman meadows. my name is work en chao, i'm here to testify about the cyber attacks against me that occurred over the last few years. [speaking chinese] >> translator: in september 2009 i discovered that my gmail account was se

asia democracy alliance. he regularly speaks about human rights on a number -- in a number of fore rah and media. we'll then hear from ms.ling who was a key student leader in 1989 at city yangmen square during those fateful days. when the military brutally crushed the protest on june 4th, she was named to the government's list of the 21 most wanted students. she escaped from beijing ten months later, she secretly was hidden in a cargo box for 105 hours to escape china as she made her way to hong kong. she has since gotten an mba from harvard. she also is the founder of a group called all girls allowed which speaks out on behalf of the girl child who is so viciously victimized inside of china as part of the one child per couple policy, and she is also on the -- [inaudible] foundationing -- foundation which supports humanitarian efforts for student leaders through grant opportunities. we'll then hear from dr. yang li. dr. yang is also a city yangmen -- tiananmen square survivor. he is a founder of the initiatives for china's citizen power for china and founder and organizer of the interethnic, interfaith leadership conferences in the online publication of china e weekly.

cities, there appears to be an increasing trend across the southwest border. a significant number are coming from latin america, including guatemala and honduras, in addition to india, china, and parts of europe, asia, and other countries. border patrol officers told the committee about potential problems to the immigration system. it appears the judicial process for asylum request and the administration of the says may contain -- these as -- visas may contain serious flaws. the government continues to identify new and emerging threats to secure the border, including the drug cartels' use of submersibles and ultralight aircraft and underground tunnels. nogalesthe heart of they recently found another towel going into the heart of the city. today we hope to discuss the threats, and also respond to some risks, including the use of effective drones, strategic s,acement of troops and other technology that can successfully be implemented. whether through technology or border patrol agents, we must allocate the necessary resources to secure the border in a way that is smart, strategic, and ensures we do not waste taxpayer dollars. i want to emphasize -- and i commend the work and support of our law enforc