benson, let's go to the budget and legislative analyst for the report. mr. rhodes? >> yes, members of the committee on page 32 we report that the proposed ln to be issued by the port pg & e, pg & e will prepay rent for the initial 30 -year tim $2, 275,000. on page 33, we report that under the proposed agreement the real estate division would have the option to purchase the yard for $63.67 per square foot for a total cost. based on the prior decisions we do recommend that you approve both of these resolutions. >> thank you. mr. rhodes. we have no questions from colleagues. is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed: colleagues we have items 4 and 5 before us. can we do that without objection for items for and 5. thank you. next item. we should call items 6 and 7 and 8 together. city clerk: item no. 6 is authorizing a resolution and directing the sale of not to exceed $24 million aggregate principal amount of city and county taxable again obligation bonds. item no. 7. ordinance appropriating $24 million of city and county of san francisco taxab

jackie benson spoke to a woman whose car was hit. >> three people were taken to the hospital. two are said to be in extremely serious condition. take a look. given the proximity of the gas pumps this could have been much worse. hours after the crash page's ford explorer awaits a tow truck. the battery was ejected, a sign of the force of the impact. the suv was the first vehicle hit by an enormous blue panel truck that witnesses say careened across the road and plowed through the parking lot of the sunoco across from george mason university. it became a scene of horror before 5:00 p.m. >> the aaa truck dragged the van. one of the guys who worked here was hurt. a lady he was fixing her car. >> the minivan was crushed, wedged between another large truck and a gas pump. the chain reaction are sent vehicles bouncing around the parking lot. this red are pickup truck collided with another pump. the pump remained in tact averting the possibility of more damage. thankfully nobody was waiting at the intersection as the truck knocked over the crosswalk signal. by the time the screeching

jackie benson is in rockville where neighbors say they tried to report it before. jackie? >> most of the neighbors say they didn't know the boys were down there. some did. they said they tried to do something. sharon is moved to tears thinking about the two boys, now 22 who were living in this house in the twin brook section under what court documents call deplorable conditions. she called authorities three years ago after a family member told her someone was being kept many the basement. >> i reported it to the authorities. the authorities have been in and out of that house and nothing has ever been done and them children stayed in there three years longer? that's sad. i can't believe it come to this. >> reporter: on friday, 59-year-old janice land and her husband, 56-year-old john land were arrested and charged with abuse of a vulnerable relative and. false imprisonment. there was a search warrant served at the home. in an unfinished basement room they discovered two young autistic men, twins, in hideous conditions. the only thing covering the hard tile floor was a bed c

jackie benson, news 4. >> thank you. breaking news now. a stabbing in northeast d.c. police are on the scene now near second and adams street off rhode island avenue. a woman and a young man were stabbed inside a house there. cops say they know who did it. they are looking for her. >> turning to wet wither now, the summer heat and humidity are going to be back in a big way tomorrow. so is the risk for severe weather. veronica johnson has a first look at the forecast. >> tomorrow is expected to be the hottest day in over a week. on top of that, this time tomorrow we could have ongoing storms still bringing damaging gusts to the area as well as frequent rain and lightning. on the radar now, not much going on. we are seeing isolated showers. radar likely to be busy as late as 11:00 p.m. tomorrow and as early as 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. tomorrow. it is a weather alert day. we'll be on the air doing frequent updates throughout the afternoon and evening for you. in a couple of minutes i will show you where i think which neighborhoods will be hit with the worst storms tomorrow. >>

news 4's jackie benson was there for a meeting. she joins us with the latest on the landfill. >> it's done. barring unforeseen developments the landfill with close in 2018 as planned. >> aye. >> aye. >> the chair has voted nay. the motion to deny is successful. >> reporter: after a almost two hours of tense and sometimes rancorous back and forth with county planning staffers the board of supervisors voted against a measure to push back the planned closing of the landfill from 2018 to 2025. the chair and others who voted in support of the delay cited the need to dispose of debris from the silver line construction boom. supervisor jerry highland whose district is home to the landfill was add a manhattanly again-- a it. >> the landfill's owner reacted. >> we have no plans to come back and try to make another application. >> residents waged a passionate grassroots effort against the delay. >> many of the communities, so well after 2006 knowing the landfill would be closed. the developers will see it. they will renew faith. we'll have m

jackie benson is at our live desk with more. jackie? >> jim, it was a decision made here in washington earlier today that cleared the way for this execution. the u.s. supreme court upheld the state of arizona's desire to keep secret the drugs that were used. >> witnesses say 55-year-old joseph wood remained alive gasping for breath for nearly two hours after the state of arizona began the execution. >> it started off looking as if it was going all right but then obviously something didn't go right. >> he was sedated. the doctor kept saying he was sedated. there was no expression of pain. i don't think you could say that. i mean, he was unconscious. but he was clearly struggling for breath. and that's atypical. as i say, usually an execution takes 10, 11 minutes, and you see virtually nothing. >> he was sentenced to death for kiting his girlfriend and her father. and victims family say that should be what is at focus, not the execution. >> it sound to me like he was snoring. you don't know what excruciating is. what is excruciatinging is

david cassidy, bobbie sherman, sean cassidy, the bay city rollers, robbie benson. remember robbie benson? lance kerwin, donny osmond, how about the band patent brothers? these are all boyish young men. >> it wouldn't be much of a fight. it is like bob beck kill fighting -- bob beckel fighting lou daabs. they should arrest bieber's mother for letting him out into society. >> i think his mother is a lovely person. i don't know her, but i'm certain she is. she raised -- she had a tough life. >> are you trying to get some of that bieber love? >> i want him on "the five." the father is a strange man. he puts him in a rush to flush. i speak of australian flight attendants who warn passengers returning home from a music festival to ditch their drugs prior to landing. the reason? sniffer dogs. they were waiting for them at the sydney airport. said the jets star airline crew member, quote, we are told there are sniffer dogs dogs and quarantine officers in the terminal. if you need to dispose of anything you shouldn't have, we suggest you flush it now. it prompted a rush to

news 4 jackie benson is live in northwest d.c. with the details. hey, jackie. >> the victim told the police the man abducted her by force at 8:00 p.m. georgetown waterfront. he says he forced her along the canal trail and then into the park where he sexually assaulted her and fled. detectives won't say how the man came to their attention or when or where these security camera images of him were taken. the victim describes the suspect in the case aas about 6 feet tall, 230 pounds with a tattoo on the back of his left hand depicting an n, with stars down the center. zarchlgts 16 years ago a georgetown university graduate student named christine was raped and killed in the same woods here. it is unlikely that there is a connection, but there is still so many unanswered questions. live in georgetown, jackie benson, news 4. >>> an important warning before you head to the bank. fairfax county police just released pictures of skimming devices at atm's and gaining access to customer accounts. northern virginia bureau chief julie carrie joins us now from bu

jackie benson is live with details. jackie? >> doreven, it's important to remember this long that she was a very reemarkable young woman, girl from a loving family here in loudoun county. although investigators won't name the person believed responsible for her death and that person has since committed suicide, he is described by her family as someone who 12 years ago reached through the net of safety they had put around her. unbeknownst to them and began some type of friendship with their 14-year-old daughter, instructing her to keep it a secret. we spoke tee erica's father, william, who dignity and fierce love for his child convinced mike chapman to reopen th case. >> you have to persevere yourself. you have to push it to their minds that you're not going to give up. that you're not going to let your child's life just go away. if you don't do this, if you don't do this, in a lot of cases they won't persevere. >> william smith says that it is very important for him to express his gratitude to the many investigators who took pa

. >> narrator: leon benson, serving 60 years for murder, read one of his pages to the group. >> i wasfor tonight's special feast. >> i like the metaphor, you read the eyes like parables. that's something that shakespeare would write. >> i'm from the hood, not to separate the hood from anything else. the hood commercial now, right? shakespeare is not something i thought i would experience in my life. since i came into contact with shakespeare, i see a lot of those parallels that correlate with urban life. >> essentially macbeth and the rest of the characters are committing immoral, unethical, or criminal acts. we would say criminal acts. that's what we're in here for, committing criminal acts. it's made me more introspective. >> man, a sky has the residues of sunlight, but faded away like butter on cornbread. it should be approaching in a moment. >> macbeth is getting rid of them, that's how he keeps his hands clean. he's going to have the lower ranking ones do the job for him so he doesn't have to. >> narrator: just days before the shoot, iris white had done a three and a half year sh

. >> reporter: it's not every day an ice cream shop has to lay in extra security, but this is benson's creamery and today isn't just any day. >> we're celebrating our 120th anniversary established in 1894. so today is a huge day for us. >> reporter: 12 decades have passed since the fenton family began making ice cream in oakland. the business has been sold a couple times, but the customer royalty has remained constant. >> there's just not that many places like this that i'm aware of. >> it's like fishing. it's more than just catching fish. it's an event. >> it's very cheerful and you can actually like see all the stuff being made. >> reporter: the company offered its famous black and tan sundae for $1.20 today which explains the crowds lined up down the street, but just as this shop created rocky road ice cream, it's also provided countless people with a lifetime of memories. >> we celebrate birthdays here, anniversaries, kids' report cards. the list goes on and on what fentons means to so many different people. >> reporter: even though mom and dad say she's too young for ice cream, 1-

stephan benson lives next door and he says he spoke with the victims just before it happened. >> i'veeen crying all day and i just -- i don't want to cry. i don't have the energy to cry. >> reporter: benson says the victims were seven, 10 and 15 years old. their mother he says survived but was critically injured. >> turn yourself in now. and spend the rest of your life seeking redemption for what happened today. >> reporter: police are hunting for the driver and the passenger of the suv who they say carjacked a woman shortly before the crash. she was also critically injured. neighbors say they are now left to pick up the pieces but don't know how they'll move on. >> and that's crazy that, you know, people come and do this don't have no heart. no feelings. >> reporter: you're looking live again at the memorial here at the corner. i'm told from neighbors that there is talk of creating a permanent memorial either right here or at the community garden that would include a mural. lucy? >> all right. thalia, and for continuing coverage of this developing story, go to myfoxphilly.com. it is

at the washington navy yard, jack ary benson, news 4. >> a prince georges county police officer is facing charges accused of hitting another man with his gun during a fight in front of howard theater. corporal michael brown is suspended with pay pending an administrative hearing. he was off duty at the time. the police chief said he's taking the allegation seriously. brown is a 12-year veteran of the aviation unit and an internal investigation is under way. >> crooks have been hiding special devices on local atms, stealing enough information to get into bank accounts. police are looking for three men using so-called skimming devices. these are photos of the three cooks. atms at three different sun trust banks have been hit since june. the devices can copy bank card information allowing thieves to get money out of the account. one man carried a pizza box with hill as he attached a skimming device to an atm. >> new video shows a look at the man who robbed the parents of d.c. candidate for mayor and council member bouzer. police have video of him in the home on 7th street. he identified hims

colleen and kelly with the department of public health and hidden and [inaudible] with doss, as well as benson, the san francisco long term care [inaudible]. these individuals have worked tirelessly over the last 7 a days to attempt to save this facility. as we examine the zoning control in this neighborhood i'm grateful for the assistance of the planning department. i want to thank the city's attorney's office that has stepped in and acted very quickly to put the controls together. it is with that that i would like to now proceed with the hearing and i look forward, especially to hearing from the residents and the community members who are here to speak on this item. >> at this time why don't we open up the hearing. i want to thank the members of the public who have been waiting patiently. if we could, unless there are any speaker cards, i'd like to ask members of the public that wish to speak on this item, please approach the podium. each member of the public will have up to two minutes and please line up on the right hand side of the xam ber. we have a policy that if you are senior disabled

. >> we have brand benson from the port. >> good afternoon, members of the committee. director of special projects for the port. >> can you call item 5 with this. >> city clerk: item no. 5, a resolution of an agreement to purchase a yard of the northeast corner of north 22nd street from pg & e for $63 dollars $63 or approximately $8.3 million. >> thank you. here to present a project. the agreement before a license from the port and pg & e to submerge the property and an option agreement to acquire some pg & e own land near the ports pier 70. you heard this item in january. it's substantially the same along with the recommendations of the budget analyst. i'm going to breeze through this fairly quickly. if i can turn to the overhead project or, please. okay, san francisco's current system in the city includes 100 kv system and 230 kv system which is shown in light blue here. that's the system that served downtown san francisco. the two lines serving that system run over areas of the city that are subject to liquefaction. that's the reason for this project is to provide r

in arlington, jackie benson, news 4. >> since the u.s. supreme court struck down part of the federal defense of marriage act last year, gay marriage advocates this is the second ruling in a federal appeals court. three more court rulings will be coming in the next two months. any of them could be appealed to the supreme court and be heard this fall. right now, gay couples can legally get married in 19 states and the district of columbia. >> developing tonight, d.c. is asking a federal judge to stay his ruling that would allow anyone with aer permit to openly carry their gun in the district. on saturday the federal judge declared d.c.'s ban on carrying guns in public unconstitutional. anyone from any state with a gun permit can carry a firearm openly or concealed in the city. police officers have been told to stop enforce the law. the mayor will work to appeal. >> people can't forget this is the nation's capital. we have the president here. i don't think there is any more sensitive place in the nation than the district of columbia. it has

benson is the sole owner of swett. it's still southeast of rapids city.wn once had a population of 40 people. a post office and houses and grocery store, now it's just a bar, and workshop and three trailers and a house. benson and his wife still live in the town. >> i love this, kids can make music while they swing incolorado. each swing is connected to a recording of a musical instrument. the higher the kids swing the higher the note. it is set up at the green box arts festival in green mountain falls. >>> this creation is turning a lot of heads in wisconsin. george built his own life transformers. it stands 24 feet high. it was created from old automobile. a lot of people who drive by stop and take pictures and ask questions about the giant transformer. he said he is still trying to decide on a name for his new resident. >>> a man came up with a unique way to propose to his girlfriend. he incorporated the mardi gras dance troop for this new orleans pros posal. -- proposal. one by one the dancers began to give her roses. he dropped to one knee there he g

. >> good afternoon, brad benson, director of special projects. we've been in front of the commission two times before on this project. we were here on the initial term sheet for this project in 2012 and last september the commission endorsed a revised term sheet that included substantial new terms and that was endorsed by board of supervisors in february of this year. we're back with the finance proposed license agreement for the project and we're excited about that. the project's been approved by the california public utilities commission after a very exhaustive process. to refresh your memory, san francisco has two different transmission systems, 115 kv system and 230 kv system, which is largely devoted to the downtown area in san francisco. the two systems don't speak to each other. you'll see on this map in blue are the two lines that serve the 230 kv system to the embark dare row substation . those lines are running through the city [inaudible] one or both could be severed in a major earthquake and this project is really designed to provide

live at the metro station, jackie benson, news 4. >> thank you, jackie. >>> a boy is charged with attemptedry in the shooting of an 18-year-old girl. police say he took over the victim and fired shots at point blank range. it started on pliers mill road at 5:00 this morning when a group of boys and girls arranged to meet via text message. the girl was shot after she fell on the ground during a confrontation. >> they were screaming, then i heard gunshots. >> how many? >> about two. then everything went quiet. >> police have not released the name of the 13-year-old suspect. investigators believe the girl may have been set up for a robbery. >> a maryland family fighting to bring a sick relative home is grieving his death. we first told you about nathanial dennis last night. he travelled to liberia, suffered a surgery and fell into a coma. he tested negative for ebola. they consider his death a mystery. >> i'm feeling hurt. >> trapped in a whirl wind of emotion for a memorial for his brother. the 24-year-old was in a coma for over a week in liberia, stuck in ongoing ebola quarantine and died la

. >> supervisors, my name is benson nadel and i'm the program director of the long term budget program and i'm a member of the long term coordinating council. i'm here to talk about the need and crisis in long term care and institutions in san francisco. every time there is a closure, they have to get involved to monitor the closure. i've been going to universal mound three days a week to see if there's trauma. individuals living there are scared. they don't know where they're going. back in february, a program went into the mission bay which closed and everyone had to be removed from other counties and family members were traumatized. it's now an empty hole. everyone had to move out. we're having a crisis in long term care. most of us don't think about it until our relatives or ourselves need it. the future has many different readings, optimism, we need to have them involved in a long term integrated planning and policy services for everyone so they don't have to leave home. i'm asking you to expand the living fund to make sure that individuals aging in place in san francisco are not

department, the mayor's long-term care coordinating councilmember ~ council and i'd like to thank benson nadal for helping honor her also. [speaker not understood] and a founding board member of the community living campaign. and she's been active with the coalition of agencies serving elders and seniors or case, that's collation of [speaker not understood] serving elders and also senior and disability action formerly the senior action network. she served on the commission for immigrant rights since its beginning so she was a member that we have a lot of consistency in our immigrant services and advocacy for the city. and she provided rich insight on elderly immigrants in our communities. she also served on the immigrants right commission [speaker not understood] for years and was considered to be the commission's oral historian and expert. earlier this year mercy housing california -- and i'm so happy, and the saint anthony's foundation broke ground on a building, a home, a place that we now will always know as vera hale elder residents. located at 121 golden gate avenue in san francisc

at this point i'd like to call benson nadel, california long term care ombudsman. thank you for being here. >> supervisor campos, mar and yee, thank you very much for convening this meeting around this particular closure of university mount. i've been the ombudsman director since the end of '86, so, i've seen trends over the years. i have with me a list of licensed residential care homes from 1989, 165 are cfes, mostly of the small mom and pop variety that served low-income individuals. let alone affordable. a lot of people are served on ssi and, and there were -- to the present there are only 77 rcfes compared to 165. and only over 2,100 beds, dropped from 3,500 beds in 1989. so, in my many roles as ombudsman director i've seen an evaporation of beds. i want to separate out the loss of ssi budget, low-income beds is where dph comes in with their patch which is based on the criteria from the affordable crfes or assisted living based on eligibility. and also separate out the dph program from dot program where they have the community living fund at 300% of federal po

photoshop because we are photo shopped on the poster of our show which is something that actually benson and i have used our social media accounts to talk about to say that even to the point we didn't like it we said we are being overly photo shopped and this is giving a bad impression on the young girls who watch our show now this is a men's magazine we're in it for a reason in knots that we are attractive women and i can tell you that the women that you see in that photo look like that in real life i work with some of the most beautiful women in television and the fact that people were giving us flack for being photo shopped when everybody is photo shopped i just it didn't sit right with me i felt like it was propagating a lie you said the part you play as a new type casting did you have body issues and control issues as a kid definitely would would pump and would be good to go to i i went through an eating disorder and the big thing for me that i found interesting about going through this and then coming into a world where a lot of i saw a lot of actresses doing it and a lot of the pr

jim benson bought it and now mark is doing it again. i'm just wondering if inflatables was a program at one time and now it's back in another program developed by las vegas, bigelow. just several days ago we had a giant thinker leave us, john heubolt, and he was a great rogue model for me and i hope that some of the thoughts that i come up with can in some way mimic what he's been able to do. at the moon we had a free return trajectory, and we modified that once the s.b.f. was working. we were always in a relatively close lunar-earth orbit. and apollo 13 indicated that we could probably come back. i don't believe we have that capability in the trans-mars injection with the fly-by free return that is an acceptable solution, nor do we have a rescue ability. why don't we do like many other industries do instead of one big large thing that could fail? why don't we have two small things like fighter airplanes, they fly in formation. if one can't do the job, the other one can. sure, you could do them but leave a staging orbit at five pliles f

news 4 jackie benson is live to explain that. jack? >> wendy, investigators are not going to identify the man linked to the murder of erica smith, except to say that he committed suicide during the course of the cold case investigation. now, the shocking murder of the bright and bubbly 14-year-old is believed to be linked it her acquaintance with that man which she instructed her apparently to keep secrets even from her parents. he is believed to have lured her from her home the day she disappear would the promise of shopping of brotherirthday gif they came they told us that it was my daughter that was murdered, i made it a point in my heart that i had to be strong for her. i had to be her voice. this monster silenced her voice and i was going to be the voice that people hear for her. i was going to talk for her, speak for her and i was going to fight for justice for her. >> loudoun county chapman said the dedication of erica's parents inspired him to create the cold case unit two years ago. live in loudoun county, jackie bensen news 4

for decades, the sand creek descendents had used george benson maps and writings as a guide. they had made pilgrimages to a spot near the monument overlooked or they perform sacred ceremonies and honored their arrogant -- their ancestors. i don't should go should leave the podium but if you look at the bend you see here in this sly, the monument overlooked is just below the creek. i will give you a better sense of this in a moment. the park service by contrast tried to solve the mystery of the killing fields location by looking at other materials especially records produced by troops who had fought at sand creek and then by consulting a map made by a soldier named who visited the site after the massacre with william tecumseh sherman in 1869. using that map, officials believed they pinpointed black kettles village located less than a mile upstream from the monument overlooked. you can see on the map on the lower center, it says, shivington's massacre. they looked at this and they thought they had found the exact location of black kettles village which was located less than a m

. >> attorney lenny benson helps undocumented children get through the legal system. >> they don't getree pass. they have to appear in court and if a young person doesn't appear in court, they will be given an order of deportation. the system is overwhelmed, there are 50,000 pending cases including 6,000 minors and only 28 judges. but for now manuel is happy, because just days after we left, this happened. immigration authorities put manuel junior on a plane to be reunited with his parents. manuel hopes his son is hope for good. with a chance to live the american dream legally. >> there was not a dry eye in the building. manuel said he hopes his story shows u.s. lawmakers that every immigrant is not bad and that specifically when it comes to kids, they aren't usually coming here to work but fleeing unthinkable violence in their home countries. >> we end this is a honduras teenager, sitting on railroad tracks. they are making the dangerous trek to the u.s. border, many forced from their homes by poverty and gang violence. has tonight's exclusive report. >> stories that have impact... th

townhall.com senior political editor guy benson is here with his take. guy, seems to me on the one hand you say one thing and on the other hand you do something completely different. is this ironic? is this a telling tale of the administration? >> hey, gerri. look, i'm not that old of a guy but i'm old enough to remember all the way back when dissent was supposedly the highest form of patriotism, not going along with the government's program, administration's program. that is what we should really value as height of patriotism. that era ended mysteriously circa january 20th, 2009. we have form of patriotism in form of bullying to pay higher taxes. it is not new. joe biden on campaign in 2008, paying taxes and higher taxes is a patriotic act. they used this language as a pretext to keep taxes high, or raise them higher on people at the polling tells them they can get away with. gerri: a little background here. what jack lew is talking about is this practice of inversion which more and more americans companies are doing. basically, they're domiciling overs

businessman lance benson is selling, sweat, that is name of the town, it is two hours hours south ofity. they will own a bar, three trailers, a house, workshop and more than 6 acres of prairie land. >> hey, i spoke with coldwell banker headquarters this morning and they were telling me this is the the most famous listing in the world right now and it rivals when the home alone home sold and also the versace mansion in miami. >> i want to change the name though, sweat has a population of two, current owner and his wife. you can call it what you want. >>> we will be right back but first here's a check is what coming up tonight so why are we so,000 obsessed with turbo? card with a new volkswagen turbo. because there's nothing more exhilarating than a powerful ride. and you can get that in places you might not expect. like the passat. and also in the fun-to-drive jetta. in fact, volkswagen has sold more turbos than any other brand over the last ten years. that is a lot of turbo. hurry in and you can get a $1,000 turbocharged reward card when you lease a new 2014 passat s for $219 a month

guy benson, townhall.com, fox news contributor and jessica ehrlich. former congressional candidate.ave both of you here today. >> hi, martha. martha: guy, start with you, what do you think of that plan, that idea? >> martha in my heart you think, yeah, help the kids. they're caught up in terrible gang violence. they're desperate to improve the situation. we're america, generous compassionate people. this is way to mitigate some much treachery as you called it, passing through mexico to come here illegally, i have to point out. my head gets involved in the conversation. hold your hours here. we'll recrude refugees in country that is neither war-torn or suffering from national disaster? what about christians in iraq? what about schoolgirls in afghanistan. they have to be terrified what awaits them after withdrawal. what about syria? more than 100,000 cash all thes, in that war. we can't recruit refugees all over the world. we have to prioritize it. i'm into the sure if this needs to be priority. martha: that is interesting point. jessica, what do you think about it? >> i think this is

james benson writing in the harvard business review confirms the economic burden of patent lawsuits is historically unprecedented. research shows that patent trolls cost defendant firms $29 billion per year in direct out-of-pocket costs. in aggregate, patent litigation destroys over $60 billion in firm wealth each year. he further cites three studies on patent lawsuits currently in the works by researchers from the massachusetts institute of technology, rutgers, harvard and the university of texas. based upon preliminary findings he states -- quote -- "a consistent picture is emerging about the effects of patent litigation. it costs innovators money, many innovators and venture capitalists report it significantly impacts their businesses. they respond by investing less in r&d and less in start-ups" -- unquote. i agree with mr. bessen. the evidence from these studies cannot be ignored. patent trolls do hurt innovation and it is passes time for congress to do something about it. for the better part of a year, congress worked toward a legislative solution to combat patent trolls. in decem

gard and jeff benson and after them are governor markel and greg dodson. i would reiterate something i said earlier. those who may not have been here we are taking written comments until october 16 and we encourage people to elaborate on an oral statement or submit a written statement. every written statement gets carefully read. hannah. >> thank you and please excuse if we take a couple of snapshots. my name is hannah and i live in charlotte ville virginia. today i'm representing appalachian voices original environment of nonprofit with partner groups around the southeast to lend voices to this critical conversation. appalachian voices and organization dedicated to speaking out for the mountain region and those most impacted by extreme cold mining method supplies the action and carbon that has been so overdue. having grown up in richmond in the shadow of a power station and seeing my younger sister suffer from asthma along with her partner groups there are programs to grow local energy efficiency on a clean energy economy throughout the southeast. regiona

jim benson bought it and now mark is doing it again. i'm just wondering if inflatables was a program at one time and now it's back in another program developed by las vegas, bigelow. just several days ago we had a giant thinker leave us, john heubolt, and he was a great rogue model for me and i hope that some of the thoughts that i come up with can in some way mimic what he's been able to do. at the moon we had a free return trajectory, and we modified that once the s.b.f. was working. we were always in a relatively close lunar-earth orbit. and apollo 13 indicated that we could probably come back. i don't believe we have that capability in the trans-mars injection with the fly-by free return that is an acceptable solution, nor do we have a rescue ability. why don't we do like many other industries do instead of one big large thing that could fail? why don't we have two small things like fighter airplanes, they fly in formation. if one can't do the job, the other one can. sure, you could do them but leave a staging orbit at five pliles f

guy benson, thanks a lot. we'll have to leave it there.ent on this saying that he should be on the job. >> it seems like there -- it's a serious crisis and there's more that he could be doing at least to send a message that the u.s. is taking this seriously and we want to get to the bottom of it. you have kids. >> i do. >> do you ever let them play outside by themselves? >> not so much. mine are little. >> what about letting them wait inside the store while you run into a store. >> and a new phone app let's you track your significant other, no matter where they go and what they do. is this a good idea? does it inspire trust among couples or does it help tear a relationship apart? we'll be right back. if you don't think "feed the hungry" when you think aarp, then you don't know "aarp". our drive to end hunger has donated 29 million meals, and counting. find more real possibilities at aarp.org/possibilities. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not tak