supervisor mirkarimi: when i asked the question before, athey said the dropout rate was 25% on the fto program. is that high, do you think? >> that is probably about right, 25%. supervisor mirkarimi: ok. but it is a cost factor. if you lose 25%, it is a cost factor we are building in. >> i agree. we take great measures to get the right type of person, the right police officer in san francisco, and if you find out through the fto program, all the tremendous people, they are not suited to be police officers, because for a bad higher, if you will, someone not suited to the position can be far greater than losing someone out of the academy. supervisor mirkarimi: agreed. you are a cfo, so, if we put an academy class six months from now or nine months from now, we would not be able to realize the benefit until a year after that, because -- a year-and-a-half after that, because they would have to go through the academy, which is a seven-month process. and have a one-year probation period. it is essentially 18 months. even if we were to budget today an academy class for next year's budget, the

george at the psychiatric facility and this is the director of their psychiatric emergency service athey have ha a private security firm and explained that the firm and staff were able to work in an integrated way with the psychiatric team to increase the level of safety and found they were very responsive and i have a lot of confidence in his description of that and his experience with that. but nonetheless, i think it will be a huge transition for our staff. it will take some getting used to. people will have to realize that this is a different way of doing things that can work and has worked. but it's understandable that people would be concerned about the experience with that particular way of doing things. >> is there any data that helps us understand where the gaps are and the ability to be able to attend to these needs for intervention but was made inadequate because of the limitations i am hearing of the current structure? is there any data like this at all that's made available? >> i'm sorry? >> incident data. >> we may very well be able to provide you with risk management data.

and until that happens in the making well the moms production wall means a profitable business sarah athey. amaldi profits of war in danger civilian lives in libya in afghanistan the deaths of innocent bystanders go unpunished later the report on the commercial acquittal of polish soldiers who killed a number of civilians in the mistaken attack on an afghan village. those are still to come this hour as the mocked up missions of laws enters its second year we look at challenges faced part of participants in the longest space flight simulation. israeli security forces of open forum pro palestinian protesters who were marching on the syrian border reportedly killing twenty people and injuring hundreds syrian t.v. has also reported the thousands of protesters a staying in the border area for an open ended sit in a slit has the latest developments now from. hundreds of palestinians have gathered on the syrian side of the israeli syrian border and every long day today a group of about one hundred and fifty of them maybe right to the border fence we're being told that they were actually trying to

but overnight they found out they did not get the news athey wanted. working in blast furnace heat, ground crews are fighting fire with fire torching trees and brush in a controlled fire called a backfire hoping to gain an advantage over a blaze that still has the upper hand. this giant dc-10 tanker and calmer winds have helped slow the blaze, but today winds may gust to alarming speeds posting new challenges for firefighters deployed from around the country. these firefighters are from the angeles national forest in california. they've been working this fire in punishing 16-hour shifts. there have been several homes lost in the area, but firefighters have been able to save most homes. scenes like these are why 10,000 evacuees desperate to get home will have to wait. at a community meeting overnight, sheriff's deputy brannon eagar struggled to break the news. >> it hurts me to come over here and see my community over here. i want to be able to see all you guys over there where we belong. >> reporter: some members of the moose family are taking it all i