i would like to welcome to the transportation authority. and i want to thank gov tv, charles criminack [sounds like] -- for broadcasting today's meeting. are there any announcements? >> no announcement. >> call item two. >> are there any questions or changes for minutes. >> comments from the public. seeing none. commissioner carver has joined us. >> item 3, -- reading from agenda. >> good morning. director for planning and happy new year to all. welcome to our newest board member commissioner yee. this item is a recommendation for an award for a consulting contract for cambridge -- we will be working together on the study to expre parking ways, and management strategies for san francisco. rfp was issued in november. the panel comprised from our agency and -- interviews were held in january. we are recommending the award of the contract to cambridge. they're coming to the project with an almost 10 percent dbe sub. we are looking forward to working with them as soon as the award is made final to the committee and the board. >> thank you. othe

i know the adoption of the brt strategy by the authority happened in 2003. i want to commend jose luis for his leadership in bringing those projects, van brt and gary brt, to where they are taking into consideration the concerns and needs of the neighborhoods. as chair of the authority, i want to thank you for the services you have provided to the city and county of san francisco. before we make the official presentation and before we allow you to say a few words i want to open it up to my colleagues they would like to add anything. commissioner avalos. >> thank you chair campos. i'm going to be brief because you mentioned a lot of things i want to mention. thank you for your great service and dedication to the city and county of san francisco, and transportation. your mark is been made in the city. i share the same sentiment about the staff, and the level of expertise in helping us make decisions and move forward on a number of key projects. i want to say thank you for your great service and wish you all the best. you have many years ahead of you to explore

of military authorities flowing in. and most significantly, we're represented today with the commander of northern command, general jackoby. as you know, defense report to civil authorities is not a primary mission area for the department of defense. we have codified it in policy over the years and certainly things have advanced since 9/11 and hurricane katrina, but there has been a real gap in detailed preplanning for emergency response, particularly as it works its way down the chain into the tactical forces that would respond, most specifically i think those on active duty. this is an area that we don't tend to pay a lot of attention to and very often when it comes we tray to look the other way. i believe that we have been reasonably responsive in immediate response, immediate response by doctrine and policy are military dod authorities moving out their gates into their neighborhoods when a disaster hits right next door. i mean, that seems to make sense. we have good relationships at our bases and stations and the ab

you're looking at someone that has authority and knows exactly about housing authority, knows what the tenants want. the scope back to what we were talking about this history here. it is no

you're looking at someone that has authority and knows exactly about housing authority, knows what the tenants want. the scope back to what we were talking about this history here. it is no secret that number one, public safety is what the most important thing of the tenants there. they don't have the money to do it. hud cut off their money. i appreciate campos what you are doing here, but i'm ready to get to the quick. 10 years ago, we had a public hearing. the tenants marched down to have hearings here. i know the rules. what i'm seeing now, i want someone to pay close attention to what i'm saying. i'm not new to this; i am true to this. you go through your process. myself,

back then was very small and while now the authority is at a 32 kufbl positions. going forward on page 10 of your packet you have attachment one. the congestion management for san francisco. the county manager for transportation for clean air and our naivety is the administrator for the fee >> just curious which of those roles are new from the last time, we went through the hiring of a new executive director. >> mainly to ask - i'd like to say that 3 of the 4 roles maybe - maria and executive director. >> if the sales tax director and the clean your role were established in 1989 and 1990 and 92. >> thank you. >> thank you maria. now on payment 11 you have the fiscal year adopted budget. this includes the high budget of expenditures and on page 12 you have the annual work program. it's a one hundred hearsay and $30 million fund. it goes through various agencies in the bay area. following that you have the authorities annual work program and i can see theizing of work to be completed for the year 2015. now these should be familiar to you, we brought those to the boa

i do know of anyone realizes that jose luis moscovich a the authority and the city and county of san francisco for almost 20 years. he started with the rather interesting title of director of congestion management, not an easy task to deal with. and having been you cma, congestion management agency function of the authority he helped grow the agency to just over 30 positions today and created i think a culture that truly attracts and retains a high level a dedicated and professional individuals. i'm always amazed whenever i go to a meeting where you have authority staff at the level of expertise and excellence that they demonstrate. the prior report, annual report presentation, ennumerates a number of accomplishments that we were able to attain under his watch. i want to name a couple in particular, doyle drive, presidio parkway, something that would not have happened were not for jose luis's dogged persistence and able to communicate what p3 is. because of his efforts it is a national model for how the public/private partnership can shift certain risks and responsibilities to the pr

the couple managed to free themselves and alert authorities. questions are being raised over whether police intentionally set the cabin on fire. in audio recording from a police scanner appears to show officials from the san bernadino sheriff's department planning to deploy burners. >> steve, we're going to go forward with the plan with the burner. like we talked about. we have a fire. >> copy, burners deployed and we have a fire. >> police said the phrase burner referred to a grenade-like canister containing flammable tear gas. in another recording that was aired live on kcal, a police officer can be heard in the background shouting, "were going to burn him out," and "berndt it down." >> we don't know [indiscernible] >> police officers, understandably, a separate >> on wednesday, san chain county sheriff john mcmahon admitted his deputies deployed the highly flammable hot gas canisters but denied they intentionally started the fire. >> i can tell you it was not on purpose. we did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get mr. dorner out. th

he has no idea that right now authorities are closing in on him.last time before the raid. over coffee in broad daylight he tells us how he met his 16-year-old girlfriend, jade. >> she was hungry. >> reporter: we met her two days ago at his bar. if there is something i don't like i [ bleep ] her out. there is always another one. he. >> reporter: he tells us how with the help of mama-san lucy underage girls work for him. >> she is a master at it. she has a lot of girls working for him. >> reporter: and how they avoided trouble when authorities stopped by the bar. >> lucy showed them all the paperwork which is in order some creatively. they will get their older sister's birth certificate. >> reporter: just down the road at the preda center, shay cullen has been given word that the raid has been given a green light. six months of investigating have come down to this. a team of investigators working with father shay have booked a fake bachelor party at crowbar to guarantee that benjamin will be there. i've been invited to be a guest to be inside as it

>> transportation authority. >> the ta? >> yes, for the project, yes. >> so similar, although on a smaller scale on the city of parkway, the ta is actually delivering the projector just managing it? >> i am sorry. we are managing it and we are going to go ahead and obtain a cal transapprovals for the project and mta is working on the bus stop relocations through the city process. >> good morning, planning, we are managing this phase of the project development process which is the planning environmental and clearance and through the preliminary design, eventually we suspect that it will transfer to the city either through dpw or mta and i believe that it will be dpw. >> similar to where you will deliver it. >> correct, pending over final design and construction. >> thank you. >> sure. >> great. calling any other questions? >> are there any other members of the public would like to speak on this item in please come up. >> good morning, commissioners, my name is jackie sacks i am a member of the citizen's advisory committee fo

item number 2, resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $300,000 from centers for disease control and prevention to participate in a program entitled "hepatitis b early identification and linkage to care for foreign-born persons with hepatitis b in san francisco" for the period of september 30, 2012, through september 29, 2013. >> thank you. and we have dr. melissa sanchez here from the department of public health? >> yes, correct. >> thanks for joining us. >> thank you. yes, i'm the project director and the principal investigator for both projects. >> okay. >> i'll be happy to answer any questions you have. >> colleagues, do we have any questions about item 1 or 2? okay, i think we're good. thanks for being here. >> we just have a real brief presentation of the items, that would be great. >> sure, sure. the first item, the surveillance project being funded by the cdc is for us to maintain core surveillance of hepatitis b and hepatitis c in san francisco and to look at high-risk populations in our

we queried authorities.y answer was they couldn't confirm anything because they have not seen him. again, maybe reading too much into those words, but that phrasing is very interesting, wolf. >> let's talk a little about jimmy lee dykes. the man who allegedly boarded a school bus and shot and killed a driver, charles allen poland jr. before taking this little 5-year-old hostage and take him to this underground bunker here in midland city, alabama. what else do we know about this suspect? >> well, you know, he's been estranged from his family according to those who have been neighbors to mr. dykes. they say his family hasn't had much to do with him over the past couple of years. he is a military veteran. he served during the time of the vietnam war. he was in the u.s. navy. and he worked in the aviation assets but primarily we're told he worked doing paperwork and things like that. so it's not like he was a fro - front-line combat troop but he certainly served during the vietnam war and we're also told by nei

authorities found her house behind the bar empty.ive as this problem is, father shay is optimistic. >> give up is not in our vocabulary. we have all these children to save and we give them a new life and a great start in the future. we have a good organization here. and we will keep on. we'll never give up. >> reporter: in subic bay in the philippines. >> arthur benjamin remains in jail held without bail as filipino authorities determine charges. and our thanks to you for watching abc news. check in with our friends at "good morning america." and we are always online at abcnews.com. see you back here tomorrow night.

the program recommends and authority board recommends the members.ther staff or the citizens advisory committee maybe any recommendations on appointment. on page 16 of your packet you can see a list of folks who have submitted applications to be considered for the citizens advisory committee and on page 15 you see a list of with information of the current members. you must be a san francisco resident and speak before the committee. we have two requiring your action. the vacancies resulted in the terms ending of wendy tran and joseph flanagan and with that i can take any questions. >> thank you. i see no questions. my understanding this item -- we maybe requested to continue this item while more district three or six people show interest. is that correct? >> that's my understanding as well but i believe do mr. flanagan maybe interested in speaking towards this item. >> okay. colleagues let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? >> i [inaudible] i have been gobbled up into district eight and i lived

during those 12 months authorities made sure more than 1,000 articles never made it to print. awards for good reporting were handed out. but on the issues of censorship the highest-ranked editors were silent. now nanfang zhoumo's reporters cannot comment about their job on websites or in public places. >> translator: everybody feels a lot of pressure. it will be settled shortly, but i can't say anything now. >> reporter: despite the restrictions, a reporter agreed to be interviewed incognito. >> translator: most reporters are dissatisfied with the outcome, but as long as we work with the chinese media, we have to accept restrictions. some journalists in the chinese media may believe in complete freedom of speech with no government interference. but those people would lose their jobs. that is the reality. >> reporter: more chinese citizens, including young people in particular, are having doubts about their country's government-controlled media. there's a growing demand for more freedom in journalism. under the new leadership by xi jinping the chinese authorities would see more

he is author of, "my two moms: lessons of love, strength, and what makes a family."e will certainly follow this bsa boat, boy scouts of america. when we come back, daniel ellsberg, leading whistleblower in this country, and jacob appelbaum who just lost a federal case because -- well, he is afraid what it means that is twitter account, his email to be read by the government without his knowledge. stay with us. >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> a federal appeals court has ruled the government can continue to keep secret its efforts to pursue the private and permission of internet users without a warrant as part of its probe into the whistleblowing website wikileaks. the case involved three people connected to wikileaks whose twitter and enol records were sought by the government, including computer security researcher jacob appelbaum and icelandic parliamentarian birgitta jonsdottir. >> the aclu and the electronic frontier foundation, which represented the account holders, argued the subpoe

af the authorization to use military force so if that was the only authority which in itself is fraught with all kinds of problems that all goes back to the early days of the post nine eleven era why do you need section ten twenty one section ten twenty one is really a generalized provision under which the government undue itself once exercised military authority at any time anywhere including as anybody in the united states of america thomas to wrap it up i mean obviously we're living in a very agreed just two tier justice system where people like you and other whistleblowers are prosecuted for telling the truth yet the torturers the wire tappers are going on book tours gallivanting around the globe talking about their time in government should those people be in jail yes they violated the law agree just like they were and they were enablers in the violation the constitution and here's. i sit here before you as the only person prosecuted indicted. for the surveillance program which i blew the whistle on i had nothing to do with that program i was on offer the program i was on unable th

he led authorities on a short chase for several miles. it took tire spikes dropped on the roadway by police to finally end the hunt for eddie ray routh. >> this is such a tragedy. you've got details about an incident with routh and his parents a few months ago. what happened? >> reporter: we've got our hands on a police report back in september. from his hometown in lancaster, texas. his parents called police and it was described as a major disturbance. according to that police report, his parents said that eddie ray routh was threatening to kill them, because his father told his son he was going to sell his gun. when police arrived, they found him walking through his neighborhood without shirt and shoes on and he was telling them that he was, quote, hurting and that his parents didn't understand what he was going through and that he was a marine veteran suffering from ptsd. that police report also says that routh was taken to a mental hospital and evaluated. it's not clear what, if anything, was done after that. >> and what's going on wi

and let me ask you other questions with respect to the president's authority to kill americans.e asked you how much evidence that the president needs to decide that a particular american can be lawfully killed. and whether the administration believes that the president can use this authority inside of the united states. my in my judgment, both the congress and the public need to understand the answers to these kinds of fundamental questions. what do you think needs to be done to ensure that members of the public understand more about when the government thinks its allowed to kill them, particularly with respect to those two issues? the question of evidence and the authority to use the power within the united states. >> i've tried to be as open as possible with these programs, as far as our explaining what we are doing. what we need to do is optimize transparency on these issues, and at the same time, optimize efficiency and will security. and it's not one or the other, but optimizing both of them. so we need to explain to the american people, what are the thresholds for action?

the authorization to use military force so if that was the only authority which in itself is fraught with all kinds of problems that all goes back to the early days of the post nine eleven era why do you need section ten twenty one section ten twenty one is really a generalized provision under which the government undue itself once exercised military authority at any time anywhere including as anybody in the united states of america thomas to wrap it up i mean obviously we're living in a very agreed just two tiered justice system where people like you and other whistleblowers are prosecuted for telling the truth yet the torturers the wire tappers are going on book tours gallivanting around the globe talking about their time in government should those people be in jail yes they violated the law agree just like they were and they were enablers in the violation the constitution and here's i sit here before you as the only person prosecuted indicted. for the surveillance program which i blew the whistle on i had nothing to do that program i was on offer the program i was on unable the pr

the authorization to use military force so if that was the only authority which in itself is fraught with all kinds of problems that all goes back to the early days of the post nine eleven era why do you need section ten twenty one section ten twenty one is really a generalized provision under which the government undue itself once exercised military authority at any time anywhere including as anybody in the united states of america thomas to wrap it up i mean obviously we're living in a very agreed just two tiered justice system where people like you and other whistleblowers are prosecuted for telling the truth yet the torturers the wire tappers are going on book tours gallivanting around the globe talking about their time in government should those people be in jail yes they violated the law agree just like they were and they were enablers in the violation the constitution and here's i sit here before you as the only person prosecuted indicted. for the surveillance program which i blew the whistle on i had nothing to do with that program i was on offer the program i was on unable t

when we say federal authorities, fbi, local authorities, a lot of law enforcement are involved in this hunt. >> and we also know through law enforcement that they expect and have anticipated that dorner is very well armed, very dangerous, his manifesto, they talked about his expertise as a marksman trained in the military. he delivered to our own anderson cooper, a medallion that had bullet holes in it. so they're very aware that he is apparently well armed and it's no surprise if in fact this is what happened that there has been an exclang of gun fire, wolf. >> and this new report, also from the "l.a. times," i'll read it to our viewers, source says the gun battle occurred after dorner allegedly tried to burglarize a home and steal a car. the "l.a. times" says dorner's condition was not clear. we know he has been on the run now for several days after allegedly killing three people in the southern california area, but these reports from the "l.a. times," local tv stations suggesting that there's been an exchange of gun fire and that they may, repeat may be -- they may have involved chr

that's what authorities say. they can find nefarious that czechs those trips to finding her body on saturday in turkey. >> all right. very interesting. thanks a lot. let's bring in the judge for his take on this complicated international investigation. fox 2's senior analyst. to get the bottom of this thing you got to go through all kinds of international law. >> yes, you do. now, the authorities in istanbul have a good reputation. it's a good law enforcement community. turkey is a secular country. law enforcement is not a bunch of religious fanatics. they enforce the law. they prosecutor it based on the evidence, not based on what we consider biases or prejudices, and they have a good relationship with the fbi. i don't think the fbi would be involved on the ground absent a variety of circumstances, like a suspicion the killer is american, because it is against american federal law for an american to kill another american in a foreign country, even though the killing took place in a foreign country i don't think

niccolo machiavelli, historian,, co-author, tragic author. the particular circumstances of his trading "the prince" in 1513 may be relevant. the republic had just fallen. domenici were about to be restored to power. machiavelli was suddenly out of a job. he wrote this book and in the introduction to the rinse domenici had it as a recommendation. this is the context that has led many readers to study the sciences of the prime, to read between the lines to ask if there is a deeper message to the book and some have concluded that it is an attack on tierney, chronicling the crimes of a desperate so that careful readers will draw their own right conclusions. some have seen this as a defense of the rule as equals better republic. and even as catholics likened it to the subversive but luther and denouncing it, protestants read it as an attack on the tyranny of catholicism. during the french revolution can people said disembodied the ideas of the revolution by showing they tierney that was meant to overthrow. from decided to print says that all thing

af the authorization to use military force so if that was the only authority which in itself is fraught with all kinds of problems well goes back to the early days of the post nine eleven era why do you need section ten twenty one section ten twenty one is really a generalized provision under which the government undo itself once exercised military authority at any time anywhere including its anybody in the united states of america thomas to wrap it up i mean obviously we're living in a very agreed just two tiered justice system where people like you and other whistleblowers are prosecuted for telling the truth yet the torturers the wire tappers are going on book tours gallivanting around the globe talking about their time in government should those people be in jail yes they violated the law agree just like they were and they were enablers in the violation the constitution and here's i sit here before you as the only person prosecuted indicted. for the surveillance program which i blew the whistle on you had nothing to do with that program i was on offer the program i was on unable the

af the authorization to use military force so if that was the only authority which in itself is fraught with all kinds of problems that all goes back to the early days of the post nine eleven era why do you need section ten twenty one section ten twenty one is really a generalized provision under which the government undue itself once exercised military authority at any time anywhere including its anybody in the united states of america thomas to wrap it up i mean obviously we're living in a very agreed just two tiered justice system where people like you and other whistleblowers are prosecuted for telling the truth yet the torturers the wire tappers are going on book tours gallivanting around the globe talking about their time in government should those people be in jail yes they violated the law agree just like they were and they were enablers and the violation the constitution and here's i sit here before you as the only person prosecuted indicted. for the surveillance program which i blew the whistle on i had nothing to do with that program i was on offer the program i was on unable

of the conditions at the conditional use authorization. >> let's just work with a and b for now. so, i would move approval of the request for zoning text amendment to establish the central subway tunnel boring machine extraction site special use district on the property and the rest of the issues that are spelled out there, and 7b, which is request for height request reclassification zoning map to reclassify from 40 height and bulk district to 50 foot height and bulk district. >> second. >> is it 50 or 55? 55, commissioner. >> 55, okay, okay. that is what my motion is, 40 to 55. >> that's what it says here. >> second. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes, i'd like to remind the commission that we do have jurisdiction over geotechnical matters through the california environmental quality act. it's been pointed out i think in the carp report and others that there is a question about that. i'm not the expert. i don't know. and, you know, so, i think that if the commission were to say that perhaps the supplemental wasn't sufficient in addressing a geotechnical aspects of this project, that