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put on blinders. zero waste blinders. nothing to see here. nothing to see here. nothing over here.bit of this. >> and if you are buying packageless food, don't forget your handy dandy reusable bags. our one beat with the reusable ba bags and the stickers and things wrapped in these things are so few and far between that you can self-serve and put in the arm pa packaging, and it makes a big difference. so now things are getting trick kishgs and time to buy raw meat the zero waste way. >> if you do this before, they are going to be looking at you crazy. so just don't look at them in the eyes. >> what about in middle america where if you have had to go to the butcher. >> well, you could go to the farmer and go to get the waste. >> and what about the bourbon chicken. >> i know sit is too much. >> but can you tear it? >> i don't know how to do it. >> p but can the manager do it? >> i am willing to wait for the manager. >> things are wrapped like this for convenience and go through like saying, i want this big bloody meat thing, and this jar of stuff, and you throw mitt the buggy and sho

been due diligence that this whole mechanism of determining the asset allocation has been taken with blinder on for the last six or seven months and the lass lack of controls with the board and the hedge funds will have and the investments and fear that groups on the table like elliott management and the people he deals with that will invest their money against the unions and against the fine benefit plans leads me to once again say you've heard from many of our members you've received many, many services opposing hedge fund investments today, i have another 8 hundred and 65 close to 3 thousand signatures of our members back behind the ones you've heard opposing the hedge fund allocations we'd like submit those and hope you'll consider well, today, i hope we hear a lot of comments today that actually have a career point of view by the way after all of there must be so. >> (clapping.) good afternoon. my name is a terry.org i work to the san francisco public health as a coordinator i've worked for the san francisco over 40 years and member of local 21 i'm a member of 21 pension advisory commit

. >> we are going to put the blinders on. >>> good morning, steve. we are off to a good start on the bay area roads. not too bad if you are driving on the east shore freeway starting there and traffic is looking good as you head out to the mccarthur maze. also the morning commute looks good if you are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza. again a lot of people are back today. and if you are driving to the nimitz freeway southbound 880 looks good from hayward to fremont. it is 4:31 let's go back to the desk. >>> police in the east bay are looking for two suspects in take over robbery at a pizzeria. alex savidge is live at the el cerrito police department where we understand one worker was shot during the holdup. alex. >> reporter: brian, good morning to you. that woman was shot in the arm during last nights robbery and at last check she was still being treated at the hospital although it sounds that she was alert and talking when paramedics took her away. the victim works at a little caesars restaurant. police say it was just before 8:30 last night tw

"peaky blinders." and i love the documentaries.e of discovery and they have been great as well as their algorithms because they keep pitching the new shows. >> and there's nothing to discover in ross and rachel's relationship? [laughter] >> again. >> i have been enjoying watching "marco polo." >> always great having you on. congratulations on "jane the version." our friend, ben silverman. >> stay with us because jeff will be back and it's time to play -- ♪ >> now for some top headlines around the world at this hour. prosecutors are investigating whether switzerland's largest banks helped americans eight taxes. the issue is whether ubs used securities that let owners hide their identities. six years, ubs settled another tax evasion case with u.s. authorities. germany lost chancellor angela merkel and the president of france are on a mission to moscow. they will meet tomorrow with vladimir putin over the fighting in ukraine. verse he will stop in kiev where secretary of state john kerry is meeting with ukrainian officials. >> social

a lot of people like to put blinders on and act like it does not exist. >> reporter: kamal karriem isanize the event. >> in mississippi there is a psychosis of poverty. in other words, i've been poor for so long, until i think that that's the way that it's supposed to be. >> reporter: the counties around columbus include some of the poorest people in the poorest state in the nation. in some areas, one-third of the people live in poverty. the columbus public school system has been largely abandoned by its white residents. 40% of the city is white yet only 10% of the city's school system is white. mississippi public schools are poorly funded and the worst performing schools in the nation. >> this school district traditionally has always had a failing grade, a "d." this is what we have to overcome. not just in education. but in every aspect of life we have to overcome the psychosis of poverty. >> reporter: which begs the question, to what extent will the area's poor benefit from the new manufacturing? manufacturing taxes supply more than a quarter of the county's school budget, but they

alan blinder called it cannot politics. so, anything about economic constraint, there is an example. once the president chose his path he went to the congress. when he assumed the presidency he was last to have overwhelming democratic majorities in both houses of congress. sounds like a golden opportunity for productive policy, right? not exactly. you see, democrats were not in the habit of taking the lead from the president of their own party. they had sent the last 12 years working with president reagan and president bush. when you look at the democratic side, two thirds of democrats and one half of the senate had never even served with a democratic senate. they were not in the habit of looking down pennsylvania avenue and looking to the president for direction about what they wanted to do. on tap the -- on top of that democrats have been telling the house for years that the republicans would have died to see them leaving the senate in the house. alan blinder called it an unruly majority. tom daschle said that when it cam

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zero waste blinders. nothing to see here. nothing to see here. nothing over here.s. >> and if you are buying packageless food, don't forget your handy dandy reusable bags. when you take a minute to look around, you see how everything is wrapped in something. things like this are so few and far between, where you can kind of self-seven and punt in your own packaging. makes a big difference. so now things are getting tricky, and time to buy raw meat the zero waste way. >> if they've never done this before, they are going to look at you as if you're crazy. so just don't look at them in the eyes. >> what about in middle america where you don't have your own butcher? >> well, you could go to the farmer. there are lots of different ways. >> and what about the bourbon chicken. in this jar, please. >> i know it is too much. >> but can you tear it? >> i don't know how to do it. >> but can the manager do it? >> i am willing to wait for the manager. >> things are wrapped like this for convenience and go through like saying, i want this big bloody meat thing. i want this jar o

crew and passengers walked away with only one blinder -- minor injury. the emergency slide to deplane. >> millions in the northeast are waking up to another face off with winter with the commute messy and dangerous. yesterday, cars backed up for miles with a stretch of the new jersey turnpike shut down for hours and at least one person was killed after weather was to blame for an accident involving continue vehicles and 2' of snow fell bringing the total to an historic 74" of snow so for this season. >> we can handle snow. we are running out of room to move it to. >> the snows have moved enough snow to fill the stadium 90 times. >> massachusetts is in a "state of emergency," as they run out of places to put all the snow. >> the measles outbreak is ing with 19 new confirmed cases and now the number is at 121 since being cracked according to the centers for disease control. 107 cases are in california after a group of unvaccinated people visited disney in december. days in is the parent company of abc7 news. >> the health care enrollment deadline is on sun

a blinder equalized for the visitors in the 92nd mnd. 1-all the score, united in first place with west ham. >> with less that a week to go until the start of the cricket world cup. the tournament hosts australia beat reigning champions india by 106 runs. sharma failed an injury test and will miss the world cup. australia had two sent ourians. david warner 104 and glen maxwell 122 as the home side posted 371 in reply, india could only manage 265 >>> and there's more sports on the website. for all the latest check out aljazeera.com. we have blogs and videos from the correspondents around the world. that is the sport for me. i hand you back to john. >> many thanks. to australia, where prime minister tony abbott will face a major challenge from inside his own party in the next hour when it meets to discuss whether the country needs a new leader. the vote was scheduled for tuesday, but the pm moved it forward. analysts say it was a strategic move to give opponents less time to build support needed to oust him. tony abbott has been in power for 16 months but faced criticism for his leadershi

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alan blinder called it root canal politics. he said it was a question of whose axe you were going to gore. there were substantial economic restraints. now let's turn to the political. once the president had chosen the path he wanted to pursue, he had to work the congress. when president a clinton became president, he was blessed to have overwhelming democratic majority in both chambers of congress. it sounds like a golden opportunity for productive policymaking right? not exactly. democrats were not in the habit of taking the lead from it resident of their own party. they had spent the past 12 years working with republican presidents, reagan and bush, in 20 of the past 24 years. when you look at the members of congress on the democratic side, 2/3 of house democrats and one half of seven -- senate democrats had never served with a democratic resident. there were not in the habit of looking down pennsylvania avenue and looking to the president for direction on what they wanted to do. democrats had held the house for 38 years. rep

the third quarter was a blinder. nearly 10 billion swiss francs. this quarter it came in at 3 billion. it is the interest rates and the fact that wealth management is having a tough time. good news for the shareholders in your pocket. ring the bell. >> a billion dollar business. the products, at least f u.b.s. we are looking into those matters as part of our ongoing discussions with the authorities. it is difficult to predict the timing on when we're going to get the resolution of those matters. >> beaten by the -- guy. it always happens when you're live. we had a conversation about litigation. so there is lots of stories out there, particularly on perhaps having -- -- there is a story out there, the department of justice is broadening its terms of foreign exchange investigation. how big is this business? how big is the f.x. business that the department of justice wants more information on? he made it very clear. this is not a multibillion dollar business. i can't queeze that down any further. we'll find out as time goes on in terms of what are the

leaders aware of the financial response abilities that these parties have come a order they have blinders with brussels? carl: i think they are acutely aware. this is the card they are playing that they can cause harm to the european financial system. they can cause a $300 billion hit and they do not have to negotiation tom: let me flip it, is merkel and hollande and european leaders aware that they could have exposure? carl: i think they are aware but i think they are incapable of admitting that the greeks have the upper hand in this negotiation. the grief can cause pain to europe, and the europeans cannot prevent that from happening. the europeans -- it is hard for to imagine them causing more pain for greece. i think most of the money in europe has to stay in europe. most of the money that is left there. institutions cannot go fleeing into dollars and take on the currency risk that is associated with that, so i think most of the money that can can g have gone already. tom: carl weinberg, thank you so much. we need a data check. here's olivia. olivia: equity futures are little changed f

one was ellen blinder. has been the vice chairman of the federal reserve. back now teaching economics at some school in new jersey, starts with a p. >> princeton. >> that's it. at his testimony he said to us, in terms of debts reduction, 800 pounds of -- health care costs. says if we don't get our arms around that we're doomed. he said more than that, but that was the substance. >> i said, what's your advice to us? he sat there for a while and thought, then he said, this would my advice. find out what works. do more of that. he said do more? he said, yeah. we're happy you're here and looking to find out, you've given us idea of what worked. one of the keys is clear to me leadership. whether it's a basketball team, college university of business most important here, most important ingredient is leadership and we can't pass laws to create leadership, but every now and then, people come along and provide great leadership. just talk about the importance of leadership here and what our leader, what we, our leaders of this committee and of the senate especially,

one was ellen blinder. has been the vice chairman of the federal reserve. back now teaching economics at some school in new jersey, starts with a p. >> princeton. >> that's it. at his testimony he said to us in terms of debts reduction, 800 pounds of -- health care costs. says if we don't get our arms around that, we're doomed. he said more than that, but that was the substance. sfrz i said what's your advice to us? he sat there for a while and thought, then he said this would my advice. find out what works. do more of that. he said do more? he said, yeah. we're happy you're here and looking to find out, you've given us idea of what worked. one of the keys is clear to me, leadership. whether it's a basketball team college university of business, most important here most important ingredient is leadership and we can't pass laws to create leadership but every now and then, people come along and provide great leadership. just talk about the importance of leadership here and what our leader, what we, our lead rs of this committee and of the senate especially, w

one of them was alan blinder. he had previously been vice chairman of the federal reserve. as you may recall. he's back now teaching economics at some school in new jersey. starts with "p." princeton, that's it. in his testimony he said to us, in terms of deficit reduction, health care costs. he said if we don't get our arms around that we're doomed. he said more than that but that was the sum and substance of what he said. we had a came to ask questions. my time to ask a question i said, doctor you said health care costs are the 800-pound gorilla in the room. if we don't get our arms rood around that, we're doomed. i said, what's your advice to that? he sat there for a while, thought and then finally said, i'm not a health economists, i'm not an expert on that stuff. but he said, this would be my advice to you. find out what works. do more of that. that's all he said. find out what works do more of that. i said you mean find out what doesn't work and do less of that? and he said yeah. and where -- we're happy you're here. and looking to find out -- and you've given us some