it's the liberals and the democrats who just want government bigger and bigger and that's the agenda and they'll do nothing-- absolutely no problems almost coming out and telling the american people, a bald faced lie. >> brenda: and you're a democrat, is eric right, is that the agenda or is there something more to this? >> well, the only thing that president obama, talked about not having shovel ready projects is that we live in a nation with lots of bureaucracy and red tape, so, yes, when the money was there on a monday and the project didn't start on tuesday. that doesn't prove anything. reality one out of five construction workers do not have a job and the only thing that's going to turn this economy around is when they hear the word you're hired. the road to recover isn't going to be straight, isn't going to be smooth and you know what i'm happy about, my president is actually telling me the truth and being frank with the american. >> i'll go with that. >> it wasn't just democrats that were talking about shovel ready projects. john boehner was talking about shovel ready projects

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bigger. the amount of money that they have is getting smaller. realistically, should now salons across the city in the next couple of years expect a new fee to subsidize this program? that is something that we should put out there, so that folks are aware that that is probably coming. >> i am glad that you asked that. what was most helpful about the wording of this ordinance is that it is a recognition program, it is voluntary to participate. we have the infrastructure already to evaluate the alternatives. we have the interest -- infrastructure to create out reach, should we need it, and we have excellent partners who will spend time writing grants. i would say, categorically, nail salons should not be expecting a new fee in order to implement the program. supervisor chiu: ok. surely, we will hear from the help the nail salon collaborative, who has worked as a partner to help the department reach the required outcomes. if i could now ask -- i am not sure if i see regina from the office of sma

how does something that's much bigger and rival a revelation that's much bigger now how many more lives are put in jeopardy as a result of this recently. i spoke to a different can but he's a politician from the national iraqi alliance group who told me this leaks important to bring those responsible for the wrongdoings to justice but i would like to see all people iraqis are americans who practice torture violate of the law and the constitution of iraq to be put in front of legal process and punished this report although they may not make a tsunami of politics changes in iraq but they also could be very useful to to. take people to justice and punish them for violating the law and the major strategic mistake of the united states is a key patient there's no good at completion of bad accusation and this is exactly the outcomes of acute patient these out a very important document has to be viewed very carefully ward by ward to put the dots. on the line. thoughts are events for canberra politician for the national iraqi alliance troops speaking to r.t. ahead on the program the saturday nig

and for the bigger stuff, we can pay down our balance faster to save money on interest. bigger?. who's that? i don't even know if it's a character. [ as schwarzenegger ] "let me tell you something. let me tell you -- see the flickering flames up there?" i love arnold schwarzenegger, because he'll say obvious things and it's just fascinating. [ as schwarzenegger ] "you have the flames, there was a fire, there was a fire, and the flames were flickering up, and the fire department came and put the water on the flames." [ laughter ] "the water." he literally doesn't saying anything but state obvious facts, and you're fascinated. [ as schwarzenegger ] "the water and the flames and the water." it makes me laugh. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: one of the things that always made me laugh. one of my favorite things, because you're one of my favorite comedians. >> bless you. >> jimmy: and in your stand-up -- you're one of my favorite stars. >> i've never been complimented. right, yeah. >> jimmy: it was written by a british singer -- derek -- >> derek stevens. >> jimmy: derek stevens wa

bigger. the amount of money that they have is getting smaller. realistically, should now salons across the city in the next couple of years expect a new fee to subsidize this program? that is something that we should put out there, so that folks are aware that that is probably coming. >> i am glad that you asked that. what was most helpful about the wording of this ordinance is that it is a recognition program, it is voluar

then our political roundtable, on the bigger picture. >>> then our political roundtable on the bigger picture, how newobless numbers affecthe caaign, whether democrats can make the election a closer contest than most expected. >>> and another high-level departure from the white use. with us "time" magazin columnist joe klein and "the wall street journal's" peggy columnist joe klein and "the wall street journal's" peggy noonin. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. president obama and vice president biden heads to ph philadelphia to try to rally democrats to turn out for pennsylvania senate candidate joe sestak. here in washington, this morning, it's all eyes on the ght battle in illinois. >> hello, chicago! it's good to be home. >> the fight is personal for the president. >> very tough circumstances, in a tough, political battle. he has not waivered. that's the kind of person you want. tht's the kind of person that you know when the going gets tough in washington, we'll be fighting for you. >> democratic state treasurer alexi giannoulias, ck and neck with con

bigger than the beatles. >> the beatles were bigger than jesus, and we're bigger than the beatles. >>l, say the apology now. get it out of the way. [ imitates john lennon ] >> jimmy: i'm sorry, i never meant to say it, you know. i didn't mean it, you know? i didn't mean it at all. >> very good. >> jimmy: you have a new nemesis this year. >> yes. >> jimmy: bieste. >> coach bieste is the football coach. >> jimmy: and it's a woman. >> it's a woman. >> jimmy: bieste. >> yes, coach bieste, and she's very -- she's like this tough woman, but she's very sweet. she has a heart, and of course sue sylvester goes after her and tears it out. but it's very strange. i'm usually the biggest girl in the room always. i'm six feet tall. there are never bigger girls in the room than me, and she's 6'4", and it's weird. >> jimmy: yeah. >> i lose my -- whatever empowerment -- inner empowerment i have. it just goes out the window. >> jimmy: yeah, you're upset about this? >> yeah, i don't like it at all. i don't like it at all. i don't like it at all, yes. she's got like four inches on me, and i just -- i can

it's now being applied to something bigger, much bigger. not red or white, but orange. >> it's the small grapes and the big pumpkins. >> lee hudson makes fine wine, but he's hooked on the happiness that comes from enormous pumpkins. >> it's contagious. >> makes you smile. >> makes you smile. i think so, yeah. >> just watch them grow. often adding more than a pound an hour. captured in this giant pumpkin. >> there's nothing forfascinating -- more fascinate going sounds like a rock. >> with his head gardner, set his sites bringing big pumpkin glory to napa. they can't be satisfied at being second best as anything. >> second is not quite first is it. >> now at least a dozen nap ta growers are toiling to make the valley famous for pumpkins. >> i'm not the only goofy one in town. nap -- napa was hopeful when -- first place, though, went to a 1500-pounder from california's sunnier central valley. don't expect napa's growers to wine. they will be back next year determined to squash the competition. >> that was john blacks stone reporting. >>> some

does something that's much bigger than a revelation that's much bigger now how many more lives are putin jeopardy as a result of this recently so despite the warnings from washington to wiki leaks about publishing even or all promised in the future all we likely to see any more attempts by washington to try and stem this flow of information well that's the question i mean what can washington really do especially if they don't know exactly who is behind besides wiki leaks who is really behind the leak of this information they don't i mean at this point it seems as if washington is a bit. especially the defense department is a bit of a paper tiger trying to find who is responsible and this but at this point where did we go from here that's the big question what could the role of occasions anyone in the u.s. have allowed to face charges do you think of the alleged atrocities details of these leaked documents. and once again i mean answer that same question to the same way answer the previous question who is first of all they have to first of all find out who is responsible for this now an

it is really just -- >> it is really a by product of the fact there isn't bigger spaces. also, it is a by-product of the fact that the city regulated the mission by banning new liquor licenses being moved into the area. so the only -- the only things that shawl business owners and shop owners can do is work with buying an existing bar and working with the footprint of the old bar. >> they could do a premise to premise transfer within the mission district. >> that's very -- that doesn't happen often. >> not anymore. >> so commissioner what you would propose is not in existence right now? >> right. what i'm proposing is that -- we should have something concurrent with this type of concurrent with this type of legislation, i believe. when i see the other, i agree with commissioner yoke -- owe connor, it is another layer of bureaucracy, which we are very used to. but at the same time i am interested in removing some of those layers of bureaucracy. what happens is because businesses operate basically under the radar, when they hit the radar, all of a sudden viable thriving bus

comes to tax cuts so do you think that politicians perhaps are trying to maybe distract from the bigger issue at hand here from the global perspective that no one really wants to you know look at it in big terms probably but i think that politicians are really concerned with what the picture is at home because that's what their constituents care about and you know when you see something like this china currency debate and the china currency devaluation which they're struggling for and making a big issue about we heard treasury secretary timothy geithner talk about this that this week you see candidates campaigning on that really this is part of a much bigger issue that has to do with a lot of different countries that are devaluing their currencies to try and get out of this global financial downturn recession or whatever you want to call it that's becoming a major issue and in many ways with the u.s. is doing with our monetary policy it is very similar to what china is doing in interviewing in the foreign exchange markets to undervalue their currency i mean that's a point that nobel pri

and for the bigger stuff, we can pay down our balance faster to save money on interest. bigger?gives you extraordinary control over how you pay for life's surprises. trip...lets... slate customers pay down their balances twice as fast with blueprint. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: welcome back, everybody. and thank you for watching our show. if you do watch our show, you know i use twitter a lot on the show. and sometimes on twitter, these weird lists get started. it's a topic with a pound sign in front of it. on twitter, they call it a hashtag. we've been making our own hashtags on the show lately. and i thought we'd try it again tonight. a little earlier, i started a hashtag called "worst job i ever had." i tweeted out that i had to scrape gum out of the electronic floor mats at the grocery store. [ audience groans ] all right, hey, so this is where you guys come in. go on twitter. tweet out something about a weird or awful job you once had, and be sure to include the hashtag "worst job i ever had." i'll look at all them and put some of my favorites on the show to tomorro

and bigger. bigger and the people that are involved you know keep increasing so i think they are having some fun with it but you know it's funny because they say according to the website to the descriptions that this exercise has been designed to test how well how quickly government agencies can declassify their information and then share it with the private sector companies which is so funny to me because normally it's exactly the opposite normally we have the government trying to do whatever they can to steal everyone else's and for me i don't know about the strange reversal in the trend but you know they did a similar sort of exercise back in february where they simulated a frightening cyber war and we actually covered it here at our t.v. and i guess one of the takeaway lessons that the folks at that were involved in learned is that you know all those laws that we have in america to protect our constitutional rights and privacy protections and freedom of speech well apparently they kind of get

it is bigger than that. i have never seen anything like it. the reception is just awesome. >> reporter: was it difficult for the county to get wegmans to come here? >> yes, very difficult. you know, the whole perception that we had to overcome. we did a study from an outfit that really laid out who we are as a community in terms of the demographics, the numbers, our income, you name it. once wegmans saw that report, they knew that we were the kind of community they want to be in. but what we had to do was convince them that the community will be receptive. i told them this will be the best opening that they ever had. it is more than i expected. i'm sure much more than they ever dreamed of. the lines have been going on since this morning. it has not stopped. it is like a festival. i don't know how to describe it. it is so surprising. i think the whole idea is the perception and the perception of us as a community and people are so excited that this really changes to some extent what people think of us. >> what was it in the study that pointed o

i'm not talking about titanically bigger, but somewhat bigger. realistically, we're not going to do any of those things. to the extent that we're going to do anything, it's going to be from the federal reserve. and i've said and as many people have said, the federal reserve is down to pretty weak weapons. now it's not defenseless, but it's down to pretty weak weapons. >> and those weak weapons i guess is quantitative easing, which everyone is talking about. do you expect the fed to be purchasing certain securities and doing that so-called quantitative easing? >> i do. >> obviously they can't take rates any lower. >> they cannot take rate nice lower, with one exception, though there is the interest rate we pay in bank reserves, which i urged the fed to lower. you can even go negative on that one. charge banks to keep the money on deposit at the fed, the idea being to force them out to break the logjam and push this idle money out somewhere, where it might do some good. the fed has not made a lot of noises that it's going to do that. it has made a

asking those who are relatively better off to make a bigger contribution. >> you can see why he only wants to deal with one thing at a time. this week, he promised to cut job benefit by a billion. on thursday, there will be published reports of making workers pay more for their pensions. they will increase tuitions for those going to university. they will finalize cuts to the fence, schools, transports and other budgets. this is all to be announced in the comprehensive spending review on october 20. it is enough to give him sleepless nights. he was having them anyway, thanks to the arrival of baby florence. >> you are with us here at abc news bank." western security officials -- bbc news bang." western security officials have a confirmed a plot to disrupt terror plot in europe. the man who tried to blow up times square has been sentenced to life in prison. flash flooding has forced 30,000 people to be evacuated in vietnam. at these 50 people have been killed by rising waters. >> treetops and rooftops, the only sign that beneath the waters there was once a village. rising waters have

the rich glamorous but also increasingly homeless and hungry a survey shows the income gap is now bigger than that of india. well up next to join the peter lavelle and his guests for the cross-talk debate on the role of the international monetary fund and the danger of currency wars stay with us. if you can. follow me and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle mission not obvious what is the relevance of the i.m.f. today at its recent annual meeting in washington it failed to resolve the crucial issue of global currency imbalances and should we question the logic of an institution that pays its clients for taking its advice. and you can. discuss the i.m.s. role today and in the future i'm joined by jeffrey frankel in cambridge he's a professor of capital formation and growth at harvard university's kennedy school of government in pittsburgh we go to allan meltzer he is a professor of political economy at the tepper school of business at carnegie mellon university and in washington we cross the invest ques he is the director of the cato institute's center for global liberty and prosperit

north beach residents need and deserve a new and bigger library. we need and deserve more open space. please approve the e.i.r. and allow construction of the library to begin. thank you. president miguel: thank you. >> hello, i'm a north beach resident, i'm a mom, i'm a student. i'm also in the representative on the council of neighborhood libraries. i wanted say that the e.i.r. is adequate and complete and we would like to get on with this process and get a new library. thanks. president miguel: thank you. ok, i will now start calling the names in the order i have them here. jack stewart, jerry crowley, howard shavner. >> i'm a landscape architect, private practice and lived near the library for 50 years. the e.i.r. confused me a bit so i asked some of the experts i have worked with over the years to help me understand it and see if anything is missing in it. they volunteered their time to do that although they normally work for developers and get paid for doing this kind of thing. the harborist said there's no harborist report on the trees that w

facing the country financier's claims central banks and governments are leading countries to an even bigger crisis. and heroes of the state russia honors the agents deported from the u.s. in the biggest spy swap since the cold war they were exchanged in vienna this summer before spies held by moscow and of chapman who became the face of the ring is believed to be among the recipients. of those are the hour's headlines up next peter lavelle and his panel of guests ask if the international monetary fund is still relevant in today's current financial climate raging debate coming your way next on cross talk. fifty. five. in. the low end welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle mission not obvious what is the relevance of the i.m.f. today at its recent annual meeting in washington it failed to resolve the crucial issue of global currency imbalances and should we question the logic of an institution that pays its clients for taking its advice. and you can. discuss the i.m.s. role today and in the future i'm joined by jeffrey frankel in cambridge he's a professor of capital formation and growth at

you grow them and you just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. it's crazy what we do, the amount of time we spend. >> reporter: the 37th annual weighoff kicks off half moon bay's art and festival this weekend. about 60 pumpkins were entered. the event has become one of the biggest fund-raisers for the area. it draws tourists and even growers from outside the state. >> we don't have this down south. it's a feel-good thing. >> this is the first time the kids have come with us, and so they are really enjoying seeing the fruits of their labor. >> reporter: this year, $500 prizes went out to the most beautiful pumpkin. that's what you are looking at right there. the biggest pumpkin from california and the biggest pumpkin from the coast side. the winner took home more than $10,000. that's right. he gets $6 per pound and an extra $1,000 for being from california. we're live here at the weighoff. it's all finished up. there are the little ones to the big ones to the adults. more than 1500 pounds. that's the winner for today's weighoff. jade hernandez, kt

they keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. >> his pumpkin is slightly smaller than last year's winnerhe says generally speaking this year's pumpkins turned out smaller than expected because of the cooler than normal sum sneer vacaville fires put out three grass fires that started out a freeway in rural solano county. a spokesman for vacaville fire says one fire was about ten acres. >> the other two burned less than an acre each. just minutes ago, the national weather service issued a red flag warning for parts of the bay area that are vulnerable to wild banned fires. the warning covers mountainous areas above 1,000 feet in napa, sonoma, marin, alameda and contra costa counties. the red flag warning started at 6:00 tonight and will extend wednesday morning at 6:00 a.m. >>> bill, it's not so much the heat, but rather the wind they are concerned about. >> that's right. >> the wind is a major player in our fire season. these winds, these typical diablo or offshore winds are gonna show up starting now. they are gonna go through tonight and in to tomorrow and wednesday morning. they will pi

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he wouldn't be afraid of screwing with her lungs if there was a bigger issue.o bigger issue. she needs her lungs. not right now. she's already on a respirator. the machine is breathing for her. i can do whatever i want to her lungs. if you're playing catch in the living room and you break your mother's vase, you may as well keep playing catch. the vase is already broken. yeah, except that room can't breathe without that vase. i'm putting her back on corticosteroids. [sighs] [knocking] it worked. what worked? i got the baby's lungs to expand. we should be able-- cab's on its way. i have to finish packing. i have a whole new appreciation for what you do. how hard it is to believe when everyone around you is telling you that you're wrong. helps to know they're idiots. do you think i'm an idiot? you're not objective. but you're not an idiot. these lungs are still two weeks away from being viable. but big enough for a diagnosis. these tissue buds are new. could indicate bronchopulmonary sequestration or diaphragmatic eventration. i was thinking bronchogenetic cyst o

. >> so we got a little one, a little bit bigger one, a little bit bigger one. a little bit bigger one, and then we go to those. and there's some more in between. i mean, there's a lot of different sizes in betqeen. >> it all started back in the 1920s when art's grandfather immigrated from the portuguese islands of azures when he was 16 years old. >> his name was delfino. he was the immigrant--he was from the azure islands. and when he came to this country--i knew my grandfather very well. we were very, very close. and he told me all these stories of life and how it all began and how he came and all that. and when he came to this country, he came here to better himself. and then he brought other family members into this country as the years progressed. but he was a farmer and so he started farming. and then just little by little, it kept growing and growing. >> the company is called "george perry and sons", named after art's father. and today it's handling thousands of pounds of crops that are packed, stacked and delivered across california. four generations of

glamorous but also increasingly the homeless and hungry a new survey shows the income gap is now bigger than that of india. well next aussie talks to a political expert of just off the cuff about russia's future as a european power stay with us. which is loving kind of thank you very much for your time. now one of your recent articles russian democracy making baby steps is also something that we've been hearing for the past twenty years what is coming in its way to becoming full fledged the most important thing is history heritage. all the western countries studied democratic development. in the eighteenth century they had the legal basis for democratic development russia hasn't been illegal state and when you start to create democratic institution without established legal system. that causes corruption. that causes only potence of those in poer. it causes wars about you know the wealth it causes. wars about property and property in the rights of the world well established so i think that is the major problem for russia no. before making great steps leaps in democratic development the

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