whatever the pleasure of the committee is. >> let me just ask you. there seems to be a disagreement about the use of switch backs and maybe you can talk from your point of view why you use them and let's start with that. >> okay. i think in terms of knowing -- we don't get up in the morning and say we have a goal to switchbacks. they're service management technique or tactic to make adjustment to recover from a significant delay and for us, and this is when we talked about the grand jury report when we first were briefed on it our concern was this was a lost opportunity, a lost opportunity to talk about muni service. in other words, what are the things that cause delays? what are the things we need to be doing to improve on time performance from crew reliability? what are the specific actions? what are the specific things? that's what we wanted to have. the higher the on time performance the less runs that are missed, the less vehicles break down, there is a less of a need for switchbacks. switchbacks are a symptom to us or a tactic, not part of the

>> i think that sounds reasonable. >> can we ask whether or not it would be okay to ask miss johnson a question? >> sure. >> miss johnson? >> yes. >> could i ask you a question. >> since you particularly focused on in attention-getting way, your comment that some correspondence does not fall within the investigative process, does this sound like the kind of... >> yes. >> suggestion to rereview that you were making? >> yes. you are talking about what you were discussing. you are having almost the exact same discussion that we had. saying that you have an e-mail that the controller's office said that we received... >> received, or the procedure is for distributing a piece of information. i don't understand... i understand that they are saying that they don't do redactions. but i am a paralegal i do redactoins all day long and some of that is related to why would the date that the controller's office took something in be privileged? why would be that part of the investigation that this was a date that this was taken in. i don't know what their procedure is. but if there was some kind of

now, some may ask why this amendment protects green card holders as well as citizens and others may ask why the amendment does not protect all persons apprehended in the united states from indefinite detention. let me make clear i would support providing the protections in this amendment to all persons in the united states, whether lawfully or unlawfully present, but the question is is there enough support in this body to expand this amendment to cover others besides united states citizens and green card holders? i do not believe there is. we got 45 votes last year. we have gained support this year. and so my hope is that at least we can clear the law with a clear statement on citizens and legal resident aliens. now, wherever we draw the line on who should be covered by this legislation, i believe it violates fundamental american rights to allow anyone apprehended in the u.s. to be detained without charge or trial. the f.b.i. and other law enforcement agencies have proven time and time again that they are up to the challenge of detecting, stopping, arresting and convicting terrorists fo

some may ask why. and let me be clear if i could add the word "persons" and get as many votes, i would. i don't think it would, and we've looked at this for a year now. so we have limited to what we felt could get the maximum number of votes in this body. here's the point. what if something happens and you're of the wrong race, in the wrong place at the wrong time? and you are picked up and held without trial or charge, in detention ad infinitum. we want to clarify that that isn't the case, that the law does not permit an american citizen or a legal resident to be picked up and held without end, without charge or trial. i want to say that the f.b.i. and other law enforcement agencies have proven time and time again that they're up to the challenge of detecting, stopping, arresting and convicted terrorists found on u.s. soil. and i have a document here that we have prepared that essentially shows 95 terrorists who have been arrested and are on their way to conviction and will do time, many of them life

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you heard him ask her to vote early. both campaigns urging supporters to vote before tuesday and the lines have been extraordinary across this country. more than 27 million americans have cast their votes in 34 states and the district of columbia all right. the wait so long in florida, tonight, the fight to keep some of that early voting open longer. abc's cecilia vega is watching the lines in tampa tonight. >> reporter: chaos in miami. so many voters showed up today, overwhelmed poll workers briefly locked p eed polling place door. all weekend long, the lines to vote early went on and on. for some, the wait was six hours. >> this is ridiculous. >> reporter: new changes to florida's voting law cut down early voting by one day. making saturday the last day to cast an early ballot. the republican governor refused an extension and, in the middle of the night, democrats filed and emergency lawsuit. a judge ordered one polling place near orlando to stay open sunday after it shut down early because of a bomb threat. and pollin

but i ask you this. during the last ten years, during the last decade, how many american forces were lost and killed in afghanistan and iraq? even today, even right now, they're still losing their it wouldn't have been acceptable to your people for you to do nothing. >> translator: not at all. surely we would have pursued the perpetrators, not to seek an entire nation. but i ask you this. during the last ten years, during the last decade, how many american forces were lost and killed in afghanistan and iraq? even today, even right now, they're still losing their lives. has the situation improved? clearly not. how can you say that it has improved? now the activities of the terrorists have trespassed into the borders of pakistan. in iraq and afghanistan, over a million people have been killed or injured. we are incredibly saddened that over 3,000 people were killed in the united states. the iranian government immediately condemned those brutal attacks. and i told you, we are against even the killing of one

>> i want to ask you to come up again. given kind of a lot of concerns i raised in the neighborhood around the speed which this process is going, i get it with the fiscal feasibility. this initiates the process. the board is asking if this is fiscally feasible. the substantive part is with the term sheet and substantive eir. i'm hoping to get a commitment from city on ensuring we don't hold scoping meetings during holidays and move to mid-january to make sure we adequately hear through the input. if the city would also be okay with amendments to the resolution ensuring the cac would hear and review the term sheet prior to the board budget committee meetings. >> since you mentioned, during my presentation, the concept of moving the eir scoping meeting to mid-january, had an opportunity to talk to planning department and warriors, we can do that. rather than having two meetings, one before and one soon thereafter the new year, we can move and have a scoping meeting in mid-january and get beyond the holidays. that is somethin

here's abc's john donvan. >> reporter: you can ask voters who they want to win, but ask them who they -- >> reporter: who are you going to vote for? >> romney. >> reporter: and who do you think is going to win? >> obama. >> reporter: and you might be getting a pretty decent forecast of the actual outcome on tuesday. >> you've heard about what other people are thinking, what they're feeling, and from that, you get a broad sense of how your local community is feeling. >> reporter: justin wolfers of the university of michigan just published a study on polling data, where he and a colleague looked at data from hundreds of elections dating back to the 1930s, asking what pollsters question was the best predictor of who got elected. it was not the obvious one, which candidate do you prefer, which they say would have predicted only 69% of the elections they studied accurately. rather, it was, which candidate do you expect to win? 81% of the time, voters consensus on that turned out to be correct. and that's because, wolfers believes, voters, real people, know things. >> the amount of nchx, it

we were specifically asked to respond to a number of them. recommendation number two is the budget analyst for the controller perform management audit evaluating department of technology's function and dt adequately communicates with other departments and alleviate their barriers to performance and i gather from other agencies this will be implemented and while the audit will be helpful it is my understanding this is under way. recommendation number four -- >> excuse me. through the chair, president chiu, i think in terms what is required for responses to the recommendations there are four categories of responses. either has been implemented, has not been implemented but will be implemented. for that we need a time frame for the implementation of the recommendation requires further analysis, that requires description of the scope and time frame not exceeding six nt

so i came asking to postpone this rehearing. i am asking, i am pleading, to please let me be represented by an attorney and it does make sense to postpone the hearing and i will tell you why. i am person who came in 2005 in april to the building department asking to bring my neighbors, who are represented by an attorney, to the table to negotiate or talk how to fix the problem on the property line. i have plans here dated 2005, then dated 2006, 2008, filed permit 2010, which was suspended, then i have application dated 2011, november, and i have new request for yet another permit to be reviewed. and what i learned yesterday that i cannot have my permit reviewed by the planning or building department because my neighbor very creatively requested discretionary review on one of my permits for this project and now it holds absolutely everything claiming -- planning is not able to comment or review my application because there is open discretionary review. so they are doing it for 7 1/2 years. i am pleading that you please postpone t

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ask governor crist tee. ask mayor bloomberg.the president led and he did it with class, he did it in a nonpolitical way. >> that was a week ago. he got his photo op and left town. he went gabbing to vegas. >> this is a very hotly contested race. what will decide this race now is the ground game. i have as many attis ticks as an american of the public party on voter lowing sleighs. i just gust in florida and i saw the campaign offices of barack obama a new pole significance. four years ago it was young people out trying to change the country. i am going to predict we will narrowly win florida. i think it will bes hispanic states near me, colorado, nevada. >> i will take the florida. >> let me ask you one last question do you think reagan said with fewer americans working when they took office 1-6 in poverty 17 million more of americans on today stamps. 6 trillion in debt. are you going to say we were better off than a year ago. the president has created 5.7 nobs after a month mt. 800,000 emotion of god. >> i thing you would use t

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by the fact that he doesn't realize that and that he hasn't asked for a broader count than he has asked for today while you have a hearing is going to be tomorrow you're talking logic and we're talking allen west well so there you go there you go get all partisan again i mean i'm sorry it's i just i can't help myself brad friedman brad blog dot com thanks a lot brad thank you great to have you. crazy alert the sopranos of the simple life file this one under who turns out that in lancaster pennsylvania the home of the amish people are a group of men who you really don't want to mess with in the land of simplicity there are still fights and disagreements and that's where the amish mafia comes up you heard that right there is such a thing as the amish mob it's even getting its own show this december on the. take a look. it's very different in the amish to be very conservative in everything first agree. that things don't go like to shit that's probably step in and help all . this. so. i will say. yes. so next time you get amish country and buy a pipe from the nice little old lady a up or el

nobody asked her if she was in love with him.perhaps guilty conscious. >> bill: you like this story. >> i'm fascinated by this story. i like the tampa woman, jill kelley. she fascinates me. >> bill: called 911 and commanded that the guy. >> ambassador, think she's is an ambassador. this is a very strake little thing. this woman, she is, you know, tampa is the hot bed of social activity but i guess she is the queen bedown there. it's fun to watch. >> bill: shear is a serious story. we did not report this story when it first happened because didn't really add up. there is a guy named kevin clash. he works for pbs. he is the voice of elmo. he was accused of a very terrible thing. here is an interview with the guy, go. >> sesame street. elmo's friends around the world. we're on the road all the time. [sigh] >> why you work elmo so hard, mr. kevin. >> elmo we love what we're are doing. this is the best job that i could ever dream of. i mean, it's been phenomenal. it's been amazing to be able to be on a show that teaches some kids arou

asking to use the bathrooms. our just to use the table and chairs to sit down and eat what they bought out on the street. last, adequate notice, we are not aware of adequate notice or any such notice that had been provided to the effected business and building owners within the 300-foot radius, if proper steps had been taken, perhaps we could have shorten the discussion of these above issues. please, over turn this approval for the second street and 150 california locations as they will be within the 300-foot radius of starbucks and many others. in doing so, restores balance to the permit process. i have another statement for a person who had to leave. shall i end mine and begin the next one or sit down and someone else speak? >> you still have time. go ahead. >> good. >> this is for deborah sellers of sellers market. also, at stevenson and second. 240 feet away from 84 second. her points that she wanted me to make were the landscape going forward for the city and downtown area and risks to us all. right now, the

since september 12th we've been asking for cables, we've been asking for hearings, we've been asking for ambassador rice to show you, we've been asking for the assistant to the secretary of state to show up. we would take anyone but they come in a classified briefing and that's what we will get this week. >> how about a s&p in can't you compel them. >> there are many committees looking at that now. we will coordinate and see what we can do because the time has come for answers. make sure the viewers en, this is an administration that clearly new this was a coordinate the terrorist attack and still the president went to the united nations and six times he brought up that video. ambassador rice knew about it and five shows she said it was a spontaneous reaction to the video. come on. >> it's time to get subpoenas. if people don't want to come, that's an easy thing to do. i recommend you do that because this has now carried on since september 11th. the election is over and everyone can forget about that. let's get to the bottom of the fact why four americans were murdered, why it's unsa

is up setting and unsettling and usually two years and we struggled with large projects and i would ask if this organization is mature enough to take on those initiative disblis think one thing i want to observe and in my first coit meeting in 2009 the body decided we were going to consolidate our email. that was four years ago, and as you know, and as i think many folks in this room knows every few months we got an update why things weren't moving and i wanted to quote a part of the civil grand jury report want the jury has been told that some members vote yes on the policy and with their department drag their heels in implementing that policy and one refused to go along with the full implementation of projects" and i bring this up because i often find there seems to be on the service support for what we are trying to achieve versus centralization of these functions but when it comes to actual implementation doesn't seem like there is much accountability and again i don't put that on you. i think that is a broader conversation of the management of our agencies and i think that directio

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to ask questions, you then have to make it okay to ask questions. when my mother asked me for the 312th time, "how do i attach a picture to an e-mail?" i have to stop myself from going, like -- and it is difficult sometimes. they'll say the same things over again, but it is an important part of technological success. in preparing for this speech, i thought about how a lot of people here are pretty experienced technology users, but i am recognizing that most of us are, if you will pardon my saying this, a little on the older side. how can i get you all to understand what it is like to use a computer for our parents and for seniors who have never done it? i have a great way. go home and find a 14-year-old boy and ask him to play a video game. i have done this with both of my sons when they were younger, and it is an amazing experience. my kids will be playing a game, which i am total in not understanding at all, and my kids say, "jump," and i go, " how?" everything that is intuitive to them is completely foreign to me. the good news is i am at no risk

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but i ask you this.during the last ten years, during the last decade, how many american forces were lost and killed in afghanistan and iraq? even today, even right now, they're still losing their lives. has the situation improved? clearly not. how can you say that it has improved? now the activities of the terrorists have trespassed into the borders of pakistan. in iraq and afghanistan, over a million people have been killed or injured. we are incredibly saddened that over 3,000 people were killed in the united states. the iranian government immediately condemned those brutal attacks. and i told you, we are against even the killing of one individual. why should human lives be taken, innocent humans, anywhere in the world? but in order to avenge the blood of 3,000 people, a million people shouldn't give their lives. some of the behaviors of the united states in our region encourages extremism. perhaps because they don't know the people. so they do need to reform their behavior. there was no need for 5,000

kennedy, can i ask you a question? as long as you are one of the leading developers of this concept? >>> sure. >> yes various argument have been made about the cap for it against it there was a comparison made with respect to the office you know cap that we have ... and the under the proposition vision and how that has been in some view a positive thing i'm sure that other developers have a negative view about it but if we had the 375 cap, vs. one that just said we are going to not have a cap but we are going to continue to study it and as a result of that study, we might modify the program, is that a worse approach than having a numeric cap. >> no, i think it's better because i think it allows flexibility down the road and the problem with having a cap is the timing with the planning department whether you know there is six months worth of planning before you submit what you are going to do and it's hard to know if it's a moving target it's how many projects are a proved or built and some get approved but don't get bu

[applause] >> i will ask the professor to ask some specific questions. and then we will get to your questions in about eight or nine minutes. i will ask you to keep your response is brief. >> ok, you will have to bear with me. i am going to go off script for 30 seconds. there is a person in the audience, and i meant to mention her during my keynote. it is someone that you all should try to talk to during a break or during lunch because someone like her should be on this panel. one person missing. it is a public defender. this is someone who worked as a public defender for 19 years in los angeles. she is now director of legal services. now i'm going to embarrass her. her name is ellie miller. there she is. [applause] public defenders are legal ministers. you are. you are part of this picture. ok. i will go back to what i was supposed to be doing, forgive me. i am going to -- we have heard everybody's contribution. now i want to talk about what is working and what is not working. i am going to ask each of the members to speak the truth to one another. let

i asked where they thought our language was deficient. i asked them if they could improve on the immunity provisions, please send us bill language. did they? no. they did not. i think that is some testimony that's worth thinking about it. the majority leader offered to vote on a set list of amendments. he asked if the minority would put together the ten votes it wanted. as long as they were relevant and germane to the bill. and we'd go through them. no list was provided. and so we voted by a vote of 52-46 and cloture was not invoked. again, after the vote, the staff from both sides of the homeland security committee, the commerce committee, the intelligence committee held numerous meetings to negotiate a compromise. the effort did not succeed. so if we're to address the major problem of cyber attacks and potential cyber warfare, we have no option but to bring the lieberman-collins bill back on the floor. mr. president, i know my time is limited. i know the nation's cyber laws are woefully out of date. i want to also just touch on one thin