the theater for assaad is in the process of being renewed. we are hopeful that this upgrade will enable businesses to stay afloat. thus preserving these crucial neighborhood jobs. the sf shines program is one of several financing tools that the city offers to neighborhood businesses. we also have the small business revolving loan funds and the section 108 loan program for larger projects. the sf shines and roblin loans fund are out of money and need to be recapitalized. in the coming weeks, i will propose an expansion of these financing tools to increase our capacity to launch and strengthen small businesses in neighborhoods around the city. i look forward to your partnership on this and other programs for small businesses. thank you. >president chiu: i will ask the next question which has to do with affordable housing. in light of the recent supreme court decision, what is your vision for creating such housing in san francisco? will you support the housing bond or some other dedicated source of revenue? will you streamline and consolidate th

assaad? >> i want to finish my life with my family. im.not ask me about ha >> he feels exhausted and despairing. the violence is part of the uprising protesters say is a backlash against civilian deaths. >> there is a terrible example just a few hours from here of what can go wrong. in the 1970's and the 1980's, the country was torn apart a civil war, and the fear is something like that could happen here. >> the challenge now? find a way to stop the slide into a future no one wants. >> italian authorities say they are prepared to start pumping fuel from the wreck of the cruise ship. the bodies of two women have been recovered. at least seven more are still missing. >> 10 days after she struck a rock, rescue workers have set up an oil barrier. part of it is absorbed and so it can soak up anything seeping from the vessel. they have been afraid of a possible oil leak, but with the ship declared stable, it can get under way and start siphoning it off. >> the scientific committee concluded a rescue effort and pumping operations are compatib

. >> jason assaad is considered a very dangerous criminal. today, his sentence was 100 years behind bars as he faced some of his victims behind court. brad bell is now live with the details. >> jason scott did have to listen as some of his victims explain how their lives have been changed. he showed no reaction, no remorse. then it was time for the judge to speak. he said, "you were a one-man a tsunami of a crime." he thinks scott enjoyed it. he called him one of the most balanced, most jaded people in prince george's county. "you are evil and bad on to yourself and you should go to prison for 100 years." sure is brutally held at gunpoint and robbed during a home invasion. she said life has not been the same sense. >> my life has changed. i do not answer my door. i do not answer my phone lsi recognize your number. i do not go out and my neighborhood anymore. >> until it was caught in 2009 he was a one-man crime wave wearing this black masks and armed with guns, burglary tools and a police scanner. he committed dozens of burglaries and help vi

involved in these little assassination, james bond-like episodes or is that really something the assaad would more likely be involved? >> thank god for the cia, they are the cleverest people on the face of the planet. i hope we're doing everything we can in covert operations to signal them that that is a real threat to the region. the saudis, the gulf coast states, the sunni arabs are properly horrified at the press pebl prospect of a nuclear armed iran in the near future. >> general, thanks for sharing your wisdom with us this morning. >> good to be with you chuck. >>> well will wral street suffer from triskiadekaphobia on this friday the 13th? we'll tell you who's jumping into the race and who isn't. >>> but first today's trivia question, there are 115 members of congress with military service including in in the national guard and reserves, among those, how many are women? the first correct answer gets an actual follow-up friday for us. the answer coming up on the daily rundown. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? just 'cause i teach preschool doesn't

and also concerned about whether presidenti president al assaad has control over the country. >>> anding planned for the 24-year-old. her life turned upside down when she was kidnapped and held captive for nine months. >>> in an amazing mid-air collision in the skies over east asia, check this out. a japanese plane struck by an albatross flying over the east china sea. the bird got lodged in the noses of the plane and created a huge hole. amazingly, the plane flew for another hour. nine people were aboard. there were no injuries. >>> about nine minutes past the hour. let's head over to john elliott from wcbs. talking about the germs on planes. now we have birds to contend with. i don't know if i want to fly any time soon. >> all i need is some purell and i'm good. >>> active weather we have to talk about on this saturday. snow in the northeast and ice too. damaging winds out west, nice and quiet for the central states, but the southeast, you're dealing with potential for severe weather. area of low pressure, area of high pressure, gusty winds. damaging winds earlier this week, more of

if i had been president of the united states, and we were trying to leverage assaad in order to get -verage saddam hussein in ord to get -- i would have wanted the power the president was asking for and because of colin powell and others who went very public about how that power could be used, i thought we had elicited by the president that specifically we would only go to war as a last resorlt and only go to war if we had a coalition and only go to war based on -- with other countries and a sort of perimeter of those countries. and i thought that was really important to us. because john and i learned what happens when you go to war and don't have the support of your country. in my judgment,every one of the promises made by the president were not kept. we didn't go to war as a last resort and now it's record and the record about the weapons. so i knew what was going to happen. it was clear to me, i mean, i had some people on my team that advised me and said senator, if you vote for that, you're going to have a heck of a time winning the nomination for the democratic party. i said i kn

. >> jary carney today talked about the downfall of president assaad as "inevitable." the u.s.s having intense discussions about syria and confirmed secretary of state hillary clinton is heading to the u.n. security council to discuss the next step. this is about 40 minutes. >> it got so quiet. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for being here. i hope you are enjoying this spectacular weather. it should be getting warmer this week. i wanted to remind you that later today the president will participate in an interview with hulu and google +. it will be held in a google + hangout, the first virtual interview. the president will answer questions submitted in voted on by a citizens across the country. through the white house youtube channel, more than 133,000 questions were submitted and cast 1.6 million votes leading up to this interview. president obama will answer a selection of the top of voted questions and engage with americans in locations across the country virtually in the google + hang out. the white house launched an official presence on google + earlier thi