restrictions on how loud leaf blowers can be and times of day they can be used.als say public feedback shows some people want more restrictions. tomorrow, the city council will discuss the possibility of further limiting leaf blower use to certain days and times. >>> certainly this weekend was a time to do yard work, elizabeth, because it was absolutely gorgeous. >> it was gorgeous. i don't think i've ever used a leaf blower in my life! >> just the rake! >> i guess so. maybe you have to have a yard first! that would help! it was a great day to get outdoors, actually a few degrees warmer today than we saw yesterday. overall, just a picture perfect weekend. still not bad outside. temperatures mostly in the 60s across the bay area. fran coming in around 60 degrees, but still 69 in oakland, 67 if you're out in concord. tonight, we'll cool things down, mostly in the 30s and 40s. on the chilly side. tomorrow, you'll notice the biggest difference, temperatures about 10 to 15 degrees cooler tomorrow than what we saw over the weekend. the 70s are gone for a little while l

a specially whistle-blowers on public agencies. obviously, whistle-blowers with company is likeenron -- companies like enron has gotten the attention. they can get support through a program like this. everyone knows that in the legal program, it is buddy and buddy. if you're going against certain entities and certain persons, you will never -- the word is never -- get representation in the bay area. you have to get it outside the body that work -- buddy network. i think a lot of people don't want to admit that the problem exists among lawyers like any fraternity of professionals. they will always scratch each other's back and you're going to help each other as much as you can. we are going to be honest and help the poor, etc. you might as well include the whistle-blowers' because that is the fastest way to clean up government. thank you. president chiu: are there any other members of the public that wish to speak on this item? i think public comment is over. >> [inaudible] supervisor farrell: thanks, supervisor kim. thanks to presi

i think if we allow the government to imprison whistle blowers and torture whistle bloblo blowe blowerster than any other country on the planet. i know we live in a better country than that. we live in an honorable country. every american should think about what our real american values are and think that protecting whistle blowers is definitely one of them. >> david house, loyal friend and eloquent advocate on behalf of his friend bradly manning. thanks for sharing your thoughts and perspectives on this today. >> thanks for having me. >>> coming up on "hardball," vice president joe biden comes out swinging. chris matthews with the day's political action. >>> but next, a former classmate, mrs. assad. oh dear... oh dear! ohh dear... i'm not sure exactly what happened here last night. i was out helping people save money on their car insurance. 2 more! you're doing it! aren't they doing great?! hiiiiiii!! come sweat with me! keep going richard. keep sweating!! geico. fifteen minutes could save you sweat! sweat! fifteen percent or more on car insurance. i'm michael bazinet, president of cre

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i was -- i guess you could say "a whistle-blower." i put together a case in which three officers i have worked with had been nearly to deaf a game and what they were off duty. -- nearly two -- to death a gain man -- a gay man when they were off duty. i dealt with the consequences for many years. it was very lonely in that position. very lonely getting death threats. very lonely worrying more about the people behind you than the crooks in front of you. not a nice situation. very lonely when you do not get the backing of your fellow officers, at least some of them. or some of them kept quiet. or particularly the administration when there is no investigation. times have changed the lot. -- a lot. there is a saying we have. we do not expect what you do not inspect. and if you don't put into place policies that encourage -- i am not saying being a whistle- blower, but encourage proper at 6, and i think -- proper ethics, and i think greg suhr stated very properly its starts in the police academy. u.s. no other position probably in the unite

to support whistle-blowers. for over two decades, i have learned from, appreciated and honored whistle-blowers. congress needs to make a special note of the role that whistle-blowers play in helping us fulfill our constitutional duty of conducting oversight in the executive branch. the information provided by whistle-blowers is vital to effectual congressional oversight. documents alone are insufficient when it comes to understanding a dysfunctional bureaucracy. only whistle-blowers can explain why something is wrong and provide the best evidence to prove it. moreover, only whistle-blowers can help us truly understand the problems with the culture at government agencies. whistle-blowers have been instrumental in uncovering 700 being -- $700 being spent on toilet seats at the department of defense. these american heroes were also critical in learning about outliar, -- the f.d.a. missed the boat in approved buyouts, how government contracts were inappropriately steered at the general services administration and ho

. >>> one bay area city could put new limits on leaf blowers. burlingame already has restrictions on how loud the blowers can be and times of day. but public feedback show some people want more restrictions. tomorrow, the city council will discuss the possibility of further limiting leaf blower use to certain days and times. >>> a record number of winter spare the air alerts banning wood fires this year. 15 of them issued this winter season that ended february 29th. wood smoke is the single largest source of winter air pollution here in the bay area. the air quality management district issues alerts when air pollution exceeds safe limits. unusually dry, still winter weather is to blame. >> what a beautiful day across the bay area. it's been a few degrees warmer today than saturday. temperatures outside right now, still really on the mild side. concord coming in at 71. let's see, still coming in at 72 degrees in oakland, and 73, if you're out in san jose. for overnight tonight, we are going to cool things down, mostly in the upper 30s to mid40s.

. >>> one bay area city could soon put new limits on the use of leaf blowers.urlingame already has restrictions on how loud leaf blowers can be and times of day they can be you've. but city officials say public feedback shows some people want more restrictions. tomorrow the city council discusses the possibility of further limiting leaf blower use to certain days and times. >>> remembering legendary guy arist ronnie montrose. he died last night. montrose formed his own band in the 70s. he also played with sami hagar herbie hancock and van morrison. no official cause of death but montrose has been in declining health for some time battling prostate cancer. he was 64 years old. >>> it's a requirement that supposed to keep thousands of people a year getting run over rear view cameras on cars. the federal government is delaying the mandate to have them installed. >>> lava swallows the final home in a neighborhood in paradise but it comes as no surprise. >>> it may sound too good to be true chocolate good for your heart. a new study that may have you headed for the

can you discuss some of these new protections for victims and whistle-blowers? >> 's true, i signed a new order out. i went back to look at, okay, let me refresh this, i was a bit surprised to find out it was as antiquated as it was. so, we did do that. it did put my fingerprints is the comment out of the marine corps on this on the entire matter. i required all leadership, all my general officers, all my commanding officers, to immediately put their attention and their leadership fingerprints on the matter of hazing to eradicate it. it has been -- it is like a cancer that is treated and gets beat back and you begin to feel good about it. and if you don't turn your -- if you don't keep persistent attention on the matter across the marine corps, all 202,000 marines, then it begins to show again and you have to treat it again. this is a leadership issue, senator. clearly i'm not happy with it. and i have not said anything in motion with regard to whistle-blowers specifically. but the marine corps understands. they've gotten the message loud and clear that, number

last we spoke to one of the country's most well-known whistle-blowers, thomas drake, who is targetedhallenging mismanagement ways and constitutional violations at the national security agency. the top-secret agency that is a number of times larger than the cia. he was one of several sources for an article about a $1.2 billion nsa experimental program called trailblazer, to sift through electronic communications for national security threats. as a result, he faced a 35 years in prison for charges under the espionage act, the was never action accused of spying. the case in the last year and a misdemeanor plea deal. today we aired the second part of our discussion on thomas drake and his attorney,, currently director of national security and human rights at the government accountability project. her new book is called, "traitor: the whistleblower and the american taliban." >> in fact, he said whistleblowers were courageous and patriotic, yet he has led an unprecedented war on whistleblowers and while whistleblowers have always been retaliated against and harassed unmercifully under prio

protect those the have legitimate whistle-blower plants.he problem is there are gaps in those statutes and they do not cover the situation of national security whistleblowing because they all presume that the information you are revealing is not a legal merely to reveal -- illegal merely to reveal. that is the trick here. is there a way to modernize the statutes to allow for whistleblowing even on questions of sensitive national-security secrets? that might be the next step, but so far this administration and the past administration has shown no stepped -- step. host: we are talking about the espionage act of 1917. our guest this stephen vladeck, constitutional law professor at american university's college of law. our next call comes from fort wayne, indiana, jim, on our line for republicans. caller: aggressive journalism now with the patriot act act basically means rewarded by the espionage act. if you look at wikileaks, where foreign leaders were charging hillary clinton was spying on them, i would recommend a book called "beautiful soul

at the same time, he was hard on whistle blowers not just bradley manning but corporate whistle blowers and security interest whistle blowers. civil liberties, he was a disaster. national defense authorization act allowing for the arrest of u.s. citizens and giving them indefinite detention was terrible. wiretapping continues domestic spending cuts significant dramatic. the war on drugs he started out great in the first two years and then has turned around and doubled down in the bush administration. on immigration reform, he's been horrible he's deported more people than george w. bush did. my main beef with him nothing on campaign finance reform. nothing. he was supposed to change the system. don't let people tell you that you got to bow your head and go along. don't listen to fox news and the republicans who say he is all bad. those are comical descriptions on that. i do want a debate on going towards an election, what should be the proper stance. i'm going to bring in michael shure here. i know you agree it's not a black and white issue. that's obvious right? as we go towards the el

snow-blower sales were off 32%. and rock salt sales were down 41%. and speaking of salt, scott, chicago is saving a lot on that, too. the city has set aside about 300,000 tons of the stuff to deal with snow emergencies but this winter used up only 95,000 tons which, when you think about it, really qualifies as just a pinch. >> pelley: well, there will be plenty for next year. dean, thanks very much. there's a prediction tonight about where warming may be leading in the long term. two scientific papers in the peer-reviewed journal "environmental research" look at rising seas caused by climate change and they conclude that nearly four million americans live in homes that will be more prone to flooding. here's john blackstone. >> reporter: while the new report says climate change could raise sea levels by only a few inches over the next decades, those few inches will be magnified by high tides and storms. by 2030, that could mean much of the american coastline may be in danger of severe flooding. ben strauss is a scientist with climate central, the nonp

chill in the sunshine out there was a blowers represent a lifeline for true democracy spats what social sciences expert says professor marcelo found out there's an interview is in full in the next hour but here's a preview right now. the disclosures made by weakening. again to. reveal the secrets that truly belong to the people who have elected also authorities which are abusive by word by not only with and with that we can leave due in a huge favorite to democracy in my opinion. but it looks actually being bored to democracy. so. instead of being thankful for that effort. to get the latest from the business we are all danielle what are the wall street future saying well there's a little not for a second day in a row but first the new world bank report which says was as economy stabilized in the last twelve months employment is up inequality is down and trade is strong but there is a catch much of it's being fueled by high energy prices because the from the world bank told us russia is not making the most of those benefits. when you look at the last four or five years from the rebound o

we begin with wikileaks, a website that publishes classified and suppressed material from whistle-blowers around the world. in the late summer of 2011, wikileaks made news when someone--it's not clear who-- dumped 250,000 unredacted and classified state department and pentagon documents, which had been in wikileaks' possession, onto the internet. when we interviewed assange, he was already under investigation by the justice department for publishing classified material and possible violations of the espionage act. he was also under house arrest in britain, fighting extradition to sweden in connection with two sexual assault cases, which he has called part of a smear campaign against him. in what is still his most extensive television interview, assange talked to us about the idea behind wikileaks and the prospect of facing criminal charges in the united states. i mean, you've been called a lot of names. you've been characterized as a hero and as a villain, a martyr, terrorist. >> i'm not yet a martyr. >> right. >> let's keep it that way. >> for now, julian assange is holed up on this buco

what but i'll give it a minute he could whistle blowers. so if we have american citizen that is willing to. take the consequences and practice civil disobedience say this is what it's doing should he be locked up in prison or should we you know see you as a political hero because he is a true patriot deals which we are going to have it all right so those are his personal convictions but if you look at his super pac he has his own sheldon adelson as they like to say peter thiel is basically the biggest donor donated two point six million dollars to ron paul's super pac and he's also the guy that found palin tearing technologies that you can remember security for on the way to the f.b.i. the cia that you all kinds of. and we found out thanks to certain leaks and hacks that they were also working to take down organizations that were. you could say critical of the chamber of congress or congress excuse me this included certain blogs they progress they also were going after planned greenwald for supporting wiki leaks and so there is really shady

larry, i also talked to the whistle blower's lawyer here.e said in terms of these remaining banks that haven't settled yet, he would love to bring this case before a jury because the alleged victims here with are u.s. military victims and the taxpayers. he says he thinks he has a winning case going in front of a jury. >> did these banks know that these were veterans? >> well, the allegation here is yes. they would have had to have known they were veterans. this was in the v.a. program. they knew that's the universe they were dealing with. they also are being alleged that they falsely certified they were not charging unallowable feeses. you can't charge attorney's fees. the allegation is they kept a zero on the attorney's fees line of the documents, and doubled up on some of the other lines to make up the difference. that's what's being alleged here. jp morgan settling. the attorney here thinks he has a multibillion dollar potential case here. he has an snebtive to want to get as much as he can in damages. >> put down veterans, that is the wo

the whistle blower's actions have led to significant improvements at the mortuary. still ahead on abc 7 is at 6:00 how one thing is to blame for the spike in consumer prices that has taken a lot of money out of our pockets. >> the latest report on getting somewhere by plan on time is looking up. >> three more big election events on the republican scheduled. >> no arrests this weekend in the race for the white house. >> the official caucuses for misery will be held. -- missouri will be held. 69 delegates are up for grabs in puerto rico. >> the republican race is taking a detour off the mainland. sunday is the puerto rico primaries. mitt romney and rick santorum are fighting for every single one of them. earlier this week, rick santorum stepped into hot water when he said if puerto rico once to gain statehood it needs to make english its primary language. he has not back down yesterday he tried to explain the position. >> that is something i think -- >> the race heads to illinois on tuesday. mitt romney started the day there at the pancake house outside of chicago. >>

terminated driver of the sfmta due to my filing a sexual harassment charge, due to me being a whistle-blower. something needs to be done. they need to go to sfmta management and see what is going on. when you file a complaint, like i did, sexual harassment charges, i was terminated. they came after me. i was terminated within a year of filing those charges. yet, the harasser still works, like it is nothing. he has arrest other women who are afraid to come forth. something has to be done at the sfmta. commissioner campos: thank you. >> united public workers for action. this is an example of the systematic harassment and retaliation against mta employees. the effect of this has not been addressed by supervisors and the mayor is a serious question. why aren't they being addressed? women are being harassed sexually, discriminated at the airport. sexual harassment is going on. these workers are being retaliated and are being told to shut up. where is the action by workers on the city board? additionally, there have been people murdered in san francisco on the buses as a result of criminal neglige

maybe bring in glass blowers and show them how to make things, work with the people. i have not talked to anybody, so i do not want to get ahead of myself. but you see the strategy i am talking about that goes right to the root of community. that engages everyone as a participant. and i do not just mean, here you go, susie. cut this, and we will slap it on. you participated. in the new year, we are going to be ready with things you want to do. we want them to be expressive, interactive, collaborative. i do not know if everyone is an artist, but they can express themselves. >> i look forward to that. some credi>> what is burning a's relationship right now with empire, nixon, burlap? how has that evolved over time, do you have twitter set up with them? >> we have been out there for 20 years. we know the folks out there. we have a ranch there where we used to stage our event. we brought it -- we bought property in the community. derleth, nevada is a tiny place. the empire you mentioned, that is a neighboring town which does not exist anymore. it was a classic company tow

yourself, who issued a 500-page there was an fbi agent in the case who allegedly spoke out as a whistle blower and raised allegations of misconduct by the prosecutorial team. in short, this was the furthest thing from the every day criminal trial world even as we meet. the principle of law, constitutional principle, relates to notoriety cases as it does to those. i challenged the department of justice and said now what? now that you know this has taken place, what can you do to make certain it's less likely in the future? d learned our lesson. pardon my skepticism. i'm n because of contest living that we will ever avoid the inclination oftt i was one ago, to do their -- to proceed to the outcome they're looking for. my question to you -- i have two. one relates to what senator franken asked you. if it happened in this case by the pros kurt was, in fact, illegal wasn't the commission of crime failing to disclose what should have been scloesed in evidence under the brady rule? secondly, if we are really serious about this, don't we have to go further in the department of justice of prosecutors a

meat scraps and waste once used only for dog food and cooking oil, former usda scientist whistle blowers have another name, pink slime. after an investigation revealed 70% of the ground beef sold in stores contains the filler, many consumers know bit now, too. safeway will no longer purchase ground beef containing lean, finely textured beef saying experts agree lean finely textured beef is safe and whole some, recent news stories caused considerable consumer concern about this product. >> it's good. g. >> i know they claim you can't tell a difference but i don't know. you think you're buying pure beef, it borders on fraud. >> safeway says it's 80% lean beef and open nature brand never contained pink slime. asked when it's on shelves safeway said it decided not to purchase any new beef containing it, shoppers say this another remainder to be careful and richard hardy says they only buy at neighborhood butcher. >> and we hope that i can trust stores and people selling it to provide ground beef and nothing else. without that, i'm not interested in buying. >> safeway declined our request tod

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. >> this is called a blower door, and we use this blower door to determine how much air is flowing in and out of her home. >> reporter: carlton klegg with prince george's department of housing comes to houses like austin's, determines what's wrong and what needs to be fixed. then the county hires a contractor, like warren brothers construction, that worked on austin's home. >> they will caulk, conceal around windows and doors, put additional insulation in the attics. if pipes were exposed, make sure that the pipes are covered. >> reporter: the county can spend up to $6,500 making these fixes. >> this is to seal up duct work in the utility room. >> reporter: eric brown is the director of prince george's department of housing and community development. >> we pay the contractor. there's no cost to the family. it's all free to the family and it's all legitimate. >> reporter: the money comes through the state of maryland from a grant from the u.s. department of energy. families whose homes are weatherized see their yearly energy bills cut by an average of $437. >> the idea here is to try t

the council is considering tougher restrictions on leaf blowers.l would limit the use to tuesday, thursday and friday and weekends for residents. current law allows leaf blower use any day during certain hours. they will discuss the proposed restrictions tonight. >> chrysler is capitalizing on california by building a sales and marketing department that's specifically targets the golden state. the new california office is developing special advertising for the state. the company is planning special limited edition cars for california. sales are sky rocketing here to more than 50,000 registrations in 2011 compared to the year before. >> figure week for politics. scott says you can find out who your neighbors want to win. >> this is not a totally new idea but i thought i would bring it up. the the federal election commission lets you look up donors. so plug in your zip code and see who your neighbors are donating to. sort by amount of the donation or even occupation. one thing that didn't surprise me is most of my neighbors are engineers regardless o

after 20 years at laguna honda hospital, i became a whistle- blower. the repeals to help commission were ignored. the repeals to the ethics commission very. two years later we have recovered $250,000 for the parent gift fund in 430,000 from attainted public health contract. this took immediate attention and community action and a loss to to get attention. none of this what had happened and what the response of help commission. this commission has the authority and duty to uphold building codes. the matter of the jersey street permit has been explained to you by mr. butler. please review the reinstatement of the building permit that was properly revoked august of 2011. others charged with this responsibility have not done it. could oversight in good governments -- good oversight and good governance is the solution. older rules or codes are ignored in favor of some folks come out what happens to the rest of us? why have building codes? what is the point of having this commission? me >> than>> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, commissioners. my na

he would have campaigns, whistle blowers, he had stocking bag stuffers. there was an extrodinary house, lucky house, very grateful for all of that who is hilariously funny. he is holder sister, anita brenner was older, worked in the "new york times" in the 1930s. there are many pictures of anita in those family scrapbooks. unfortunately my father hated his older sister, rather than getting to have wonderful times of gertrudestein in mexico, all i heard was she is a monster. they didn't speak. the idea of her, the largeness of her loomed large in the house. >> so you start out, you become a writer for all of these reasons and you are someone who compulsively takes notes and packages what you see in story form, as you decide you are going to climb into your own life and own family story, how did you figure out what was true? >> that was a tough one. first of all, being a reporter, so often it is about a way with of finding our own stories and the stories we write about. one of the aspects so interesting for so many of us, if you are an introverted extrovert

hedge fund and other private advisers regular are stered with the sec and we established a whistle blower program that is providing the agency hundreds of higher quality tips helping us us to avoid dead ends and at the same time, moving companies to enhance their own internal compliance programs. in another area response to the melt down of the mortgage-backed securities market, the sec proposed rules that will protect investors by increasing dramatically, visibility, underlyiunder lie -- to keep skin in the game, giving them an incentive to double check originators under writing practices and change the ratings of agencies who misrating structure was fuel to the fire. a new regulatory regime will be built for over the counter derivatives. in october of 1993, i addressed a conference for the foundation of research and international banking and finance about potential problems and at the time i said, nothing will kbrupt t kbrupt -- will interrupt the progress of derivatives than unregulated actions in that market. i was concerned that this potentially useful financial innovation may presen

like to mention is that senator leland yee introduced legislation to adequate disclosure on whistle blowera step in the right direction and i hope the whistleblower program in san francisco takes note because you cannot hide it indefinitely. the last thing i would like to mention is that a certain x. maier said that someone should resign for shooting an animal. i would like to note that maybe should have resigned for what he did to that innocent lady and her husband. what he did was an embarrassment and is worth more than a dead cat. thank you. >> i run off the grid in is san francisco. i am here to speak in support of supervisor wiener's resolution, the legislation that would standardize mobil vending 1,500 feet away from schools. supervisor wiener in particular and others have been very ford thinking in the one-size-fits- all approach for mobile spending. and supervisor campos for opposing the of legislation that would be wrong for san francisco. these businesses are all of the things that san francisco once in this community and it makes it vital, the experience of living here. presiden