it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities.t is as good as anything you will find out why mca. parents come from all over. >> there are not too many pools that are still around, and this is one-stop shopping for kids. you can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. >> if you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout san francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. on saturdays, we have a senior lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. we have all the music going, the generally have a good time. whether it is awkward camp or junior guard. >> from more information, visit are ready to begin. >> good morning. today is wednesday june 19, 2013. this is a meeting of the abatement appeals board. the first item on the agenda is roll call. president clinch, commissioner mar, commissioner mccray, commissioner mccarthy, commissioner lee, commissioner walker and vice-president melgarex

it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities. as anything you will find out why mca. parents come from all over. >> there are not too many pools that are still around, and this is one-stop shopping for kids. you can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. >> if you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout san francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. on saturdays, we have a senior lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. we have all the music going, the generally have a good time. whether it is awkward camp or junior guard. >> from more information, visit ♪ >> thank you for coming to the talent dance performance and talent show. [ applause ] >> today's performance and talent show. ♪ >> public recreation has every bit of the talent and every bit of the heart and soul of anything that any families are paying ten times for. >> you were awesome. >> the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is always a hit now completing itself 12 year of

it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities.rents come from all over. >> there are not too many pools that are still around, and this is one-stop shopping for kids. you can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. >> if you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout san francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. on saturdays, we have a senior lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. we have all the music going, the generally have a good time. whether it is awkward camp or junior guard. >> from more information, visit test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test okay i'd like to call this meeting to order. hello. good afternoon, everyone thank you so much for coming to disaster council but i did want to welcome a few new members we have today. so we have jean who's the gov. of the area red cross. welcome. we have mark who's our brand new city c i o (clapping) >> bob ceo of the chamber of commerce re

the fact that they excluded the taliban from the bonn conference was a serious mistake. >> general carternd his newspaper interview says he is optimistic for the future of afghanistan trade he believes there will be talks eventually. showitain's -- britons the returnciation, of troops from afghanistan could not come too soon. al jazeera, london. >> in russia, dozens of people have been arrested in clashes between pro-and anti-gay activists. perlman is passed law banning homosexual propaganda. passed a law banning homosexual propaganda. same-sex marriages in california have resumed after a five-year ban was effectively overturned by a u.s. supreme court decision. the first couple to wed was christian and perry. they led the legal challenge to the ban on gay marriage. the supreme court made headlines with its historic rulings on same-sex marriages and voting rights. reports.man >> we need to go sell them something. >> he may not be a household name, but when he socks -- talks, washington listens. he runs one of washington's most influential lobbying groups. the u.s. chamber of commerce figh

the brewer's ryan bonn could face a suspension. altogether 20 players are involved because of links to that clinic, including melky cabrera. >>> hundreds of people have evacuated some areas along the mississippi river after heavy rains raised water levels. these evacuationings as flood waters tore through mississippi. the water is now at least 2 miles inland threatening homes. the national weather service says the mississippi crested tuesday at more than 34-feet. 4,000 sandbacks and 300 jersey barrier flood walls are up to keep that water at bay. this same town was mostly swept away by a flood 20 years ago. >>> poignant words from john mccain on military sexual asaumt. -- assault. tuesday the arizona senator says we have been talking about the issue for years with for the solution. then a startling revelation. >> a woman came to pe and said her daughter wanted to join the military and could i give my unqualified support for her doing so. i could not. >> a top military brass called the assaults quote like a cancer. another acknowled

if there is one thing that the two curators of the bonn exhibition want to avoid, it is judging cleopatra by appearances. in her time, cleopatra was a powerful woman who controlled egypt. to secure her grip on power, she first allied herself with julius caesar, then with his protÉge, mark anthony. in the 1963 hollywood movie, liz taylor portrayed cleopatra as a politician. this ruler of egypt was beautiful, enchanting, but above all, smart and emancipated. >> liz taylor's interpretation of cleopatra is the most contemporary that we can find precisely because she is not shown as a weak woman whose only option is to seduce men. she is a woman with a political vision. >> the role also made liz taylor a superstar. cleopatra, the career booster. when women take on the appearance of the egyptian queen from barbra streisand to lady gaga, they do it because of the power of her image. the usual male perspective is somewhat different. cleopatra not as a ruler, but as a kind of luxury pinup. to the end, cleopatra was her own woman. after her roman allies were defeated, she finished herself off with

if there is one thing that the two curators of the bonn exhibition want to avoid, it is judging cleopatra by appearances. in her time, cleopatra was a powerful woman who controlled egypt. to secure her grip on power, she first allied herself with julius caesar, then with his protÉge, mark anthony. in the 1963 hollywood movie, liz taylor portrayed cleopatra as a politician. this ruler of egypt was beautiful, enchanting, but above all, smart and emancipated. >> liz taylor's interpretation of cleopatra is the most contemporary that we can find precisely because she is not shown as a weak woman whose only option is to seduce men. she is a woman with a political vision. >> the role also made liz taylor a superstar. cleopatra, the career booster. when women take on the appearance of the egyptian queen from barbra streisand to lady gaga, they do it because of the power of her image. the usual male perspective is somewhat different. cleopatra not as a ruler, but as a kind of luxury pinup. to the end, cleopatra was her own woman. after her roman allies were defeated, she finished herself off with

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when i was in germany, we learned that the french had an agent inside the american embassy in and bonn and had had him there for 20 years. we do things to each other. but we don't talk about them publicly. now, he had to say something. the world had heard the story, so we had to say something. >> it is an unhappy twist of fate that in a country that was famous for spying on all of its citizens in daily life, a country that would be particularly sensitive about this, that is where he goes and where all of his meetings are, and that he would be forced, in some sense, to deal with this issue there. do i think the germans do the same thing? absolutely. do i think we save their bacon sometimes with our surveillance activities? absolutely. do i think we need to talk about surveillance activities more? absolutely. >> are you worried about the germans spying on us? >> unbelievable. >> everybody spies on everybody and always has. for god's sake, everybody is shocked? of course you spy on your enemies, that's for sure. and you spy on your allies to make sure you know what is going on. i know we

it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities.t is as good as anything you will find out why mca. parents come from all over. >> there are not too many pools that are still around, and this is one-stop shopping for kids. you can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. >> if you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout san francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. on saturdays, we have a senior lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. we have all the music going, the generally have a good time. whether it is awkward camp or junior guard. >> from more information, visit >> it's great to see everyone here, on a saturday morning a little bit on the dark. i thank you coming to this joint district two, district 3 town hall. i want to thank our mayor as well as a department head standing behind us. i think all of you know that every year the mayor and the board of supervisors we approve the most important policy document in the city which is our annua

bonn geno served on security details of president bush and obama. last year he was defeated in his run for the u.s. senate. >>> world leaders admits more embarrassing allegation of u.s. spying. edward snowden the u.s. whistle blower that leaked the information that was holed up in hong kong is promptings more announcements and his father begs him to stop. here's the latest from washington. >> reporter: the latest leak of government seek rids stunned the g-8 economic summit. he had war snow dn revealed the british government spied on diplomatic targets from all nations and the smart phones and world leaders in 2009. he said the u.s. spied too listening in on calls by russia's president and in an interview president obama said the leaks must stop. >> the case is referred to the doj for criminal investigation. >> reporter: and possible extradiction-- he can tradition. >> reporter: the president saysit does not follow every phone call. >> we couldn't have carried out bin laden raid if it was on the front page of the papers everybody understands. >> repo

it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities.t is as good as anything you will find out why mca. parents come from all over. >> there are not too many pools that are still around, and this is one-stop shopping for kids. you can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. >> if you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout san francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. on saturdays, we have a senior lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. we have all the music going, the generally have a good time. whether it is awkward camp or junior guard. >> from more information, visit >> hello. and welcome to "need your district supervisor -- meet your district supervisor." supervisors campos is our supervisor for this week. welcome. thank you for joining us today. tell us about your background. where you grew up, went to school? >> sure. i was born in guatemala. i was brought here by my parents. i grew up in l.a., and then i grew up in l.a., and then moved up

it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities.t is as good as anything you will find out why mca. parents come from all over. >> there are not too many pools that are still around, and this is one-stop shopping for kids. you can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. >> if you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout san francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. on saturdays, we have a senior lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. we have all the music going, the generally have a good time. whether it is awkward camp or junior guard. >> from more information, visit >> good morning. thank you for joining me here at the board chambers, and thank you to board president david chiu, budget chair mark farrell, members of the board of supervisors, our elected officials, our commissioners, and our department heads. and welcome, members of the public who joined us this morning. this year's budget reflects a lot of hard work between city government an

bonn -- both were cleared to the shoulder. on -- new york avenue in bound at bladensburg road, we have our report the right lane as close. 95, still monitoring a crash at lorton. we're getting reports that the left leg was) delays s.e. to be even on 95 northbound at lorton. -- delays seem to be even on 95 northbound. that's accident is causing heavier traffic as you get closer to the beltway. this is a live shot of current conditions along to 70. -- along 270. give yourself extra time southbound backu. >> 6:43 and we've got more to and "good morning, washington." what a reporter and her photographer got attack on the job. >> find out what a five-dollar antique chair is actually worth thousands of dollars. >> live, and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning washington, 65 degrees in d.c. and we are saying hey to bowie, maryland where it is 60 degrees. 66 degrees at pickup time with cloudy skies and mostly cloudy at recess and 74 and 7 the aid to greece and a drop of time. a few showers could be

was in that movie cash dash you trashed our green room earlier after downing your bottle of better bonn. bourbon. >> i want to see the room. >> that's what our viewers are saying. >> what does the damage look like? >> that is the problem with doing a show like "red eye" is we don't have the picture. imagine $100,000" worth of damage and that's the story. should obama be impeached? >> yes. >> better score on rotten tomatoes. >> fighting cinemaing to graw fee. >> that's a great movie. there aren't a lot of them. bill, your body is a hotel room you trash nightly. >> you were doing so good. i was waiting for the part where it turns into a question. >> as much as i heat partying there is something i hate more. whatever happens in vegas, stays in vegas, man. that's an ad campaign and it is a dumb one. if there is of a place where nothing stays it is vegas. forget about this guy's hotel room. the fact you gambled $100,000 including your kids' college fund stays there. you are divorced. oh that hooker you slept with in vegas, it stayed in vegas. look at the sores on you. they didn't stay in veg

there were more talking aut bonn's the naething else. not necessarily stocks.ed states can only buy fixed in some of -- fixed income security. bond prices can never go down. they can only go up and they're always supported by the fed. i just don't think that is something at people should rely on. the starting to hear. is not going to happen tomorro. gerri: it's going to happen. >> it's going to happe sooner later. gerri: and what happens when we start tapering? >> the world can ctinue. i guess that is the good news. people havto realize that there is an interest-rate rk that they have to be aware of in building their bond portfolios, but one of the things that have kept banks from lending as much as the fact that there not making any money with interest rates as low as they are. e of thehings that happe, banks start to add up there lending which will offset some of the tapering. gerri: alan, to you, i really interesting interview by our very own per barnes with the atlanta fed. he is worried about the sorsaultn the jobs market which is imptant becse the federal

a 10-ier bonn or 3 because of the strength is ultimately healthy.ld start to taper now. so what they did was even less than what he thought. bottom line when the dust settles, the only place to be is stocks. if you care what david tepper says. is unefive cal, the reason the bond market is selling off is the fed said positive things about the economy and eventually that's going to be a passive, which is, we all sort of. there check out the futures board right now. >> right. we thought this already. i think we keen of thought that. we don't have the money. you know, we might think it. but we need someone. >> eventually yields on bonn will start. >> right. at 0 on bonn, they make no sense, right? it makes no sense to own the bonds. but at 3 or 4%, then bonds compete for stocks again. at some point they will become more attractive. >> right now i agree with him. >> even if it got to 3. you know what, it's a huge market. it's hard to move from one-sixth to three without backing and filling, isn't it? the money doesn't move like that. >> you remember, the

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like i remember during the war with iraq, i was covering some things and all the people in bonn said no blood for oil. they were very much against those wars. >> if it's a head snapper for a lot of american who's wonder about the nsa surveillance under this constitutional lawyer president, yes, it is a much simpler almost cartoonish view over there. he's trying to not have them lose faith. let me say also the president has appointed i think has nominated a very shrewd lawyer named cliff sloan, a brilliant guy to work on the gitmo issue. >> it's a tough one. >> i know it's a tough one, but if anybody can do it, it's cliff sloan. >> figure out what to do with people we can't make a case against but are dangerous. >> this guy has experience all over the place. >> i've got something i want to get off my chest. most of the world leaders in our lifetime in the last 10 million years have been men. >> yeah. >> sometimes we've seen really good women leaders come to fore. margaret thatcher was great. not necessarily for the coal miners but great for the country and its spirit. certainly indira

patrice hemum baa called bonn with his president -- called upon the u.n. to intervene. hammarskjold got this message in geneva, and he said i don't know where this is going to lead, but i know i have to lay it on. those were his words. so he laid it on. and this shows lemumba at the u.n. in august of 1960. things went from bad to worse, to worst in the sequence of events. the most, the mineral-rich province in the southeast seceded with the protection of the belgians and of the british, although it wasn't fully acknowledged and very possibly of the americans, although it wasn't fully acknowledged, but certainly the belgians. and that stripped away from the congo about 50% or more of its revenue potential. so it created an impossible situation. hammers jold -- hammarskjold worked and worked with his core people and spent peacekeepers, of course, peacekeeping force. there were 19,000 peacekeepers at one point. and things just kept deteriorating. his attitude, his attitude was dual. he worked immensely hard with all of his inner circle to set things right if what emerged a

whether or not he's right, he has his hands on a lot of bonns.ou make of that critique of the fed. >> keep in mind that this guy, pimco, has the biggest bond portfolio of anyone out there, and it's very difficult for them to get returns when interest rates are 1% and 2%. so there's an anger at bernanke and the fed for that. >> they something larger because they're blaming bernanke because the economy is want back from the aggregate. so your mom is one of three pieces of the puzzle. it can loan interest rates and help in other ways and somehow that's supposed to step through in five different steps to the consumer. in ordinary times thattic mas a big difference, but at a time when the federal government and the state and local governments are cutting jobs by hundred of thousand which is is what we've seen in the last few years and companies are basically hoarding cash. companies like microsoft, ibm, they're able to borrow for close to nothing, but what they're doing with that cash is returning it to shareholders, people who already had money in th

stocks will be immune to slowing down tear bonn boy something. >> yes. >> letting the long-term interest rates go up, that's what are you say something. >> yes, because investors at some point will realize the fed will only pull the accommodation if the economy is cranky. if the economy is still weak. >> you may be right. you may be dead right. i don't want to be too bearish. i'm just not that false either. john sylvia, how high are long-term interest rates going to go? >> probably the rest of this year another 25 to 40 basis points is probably where they're going to go. again, it's the context. i think phil has it right. if the fed stocks to be more cautious, perhaps pulling back the tapering, looking at it maybe after september, i don't think before september, it will be in the context of a much stronger economy. >> all right. leave it there, gentleman, thank you very much, john sylvia and phil orlando. now, breaking news out of southern california tonight with a shooting in santa monica community college there. jaquie deangelis will join us next with that ugly story and programs some

are firing sideways right down your line and for the first time you hear that awful sound of lead on bonn, the sound of a cracking walnuts and the guy next to you drops a and you want to stop and do something but the sergeant is behind you and says keep going and yells at you the lieutenant is still there and you keep walking and now you see the emotion behind those rocks and the thousands blue hat suddenly appear and the reflection of the thousand bayonets has the message come over is a wall and the first volley fired its and now there are lots of cracking walnuts all around you and guys screaming and guys crying and a few guys turnaround and run because they can't take it and you are still walking hand you are walking through the grass, you can see, you can't breathe, you are scared out of your mind, you are shot in the back means you are a coward so you back away, you step over the stonewall, you back away and all these guys in blue come to the stonewall and respect the retreat but instead of firing their muskets they start yelling. a single word, they start changing it over and over a

we have the potential of actually increasing a bonn emissions unless we approach these regulations very carefully. >> ifill: is executive action a unilateral action? is that the way to approach this? >> i they the president is demonstrating and what he said very clearly particularly regarding international is the united states has to lead. it's our responsibility as the largest economy and second-largest emiter to show how we can have a future that's safe for climate -- for our future. >> ifill: the president or congress? >> the president has to lead. he has the executive authority. we know we cannot get -- there's no path through congress right now yet the climate scourge is increasing and increasing. so the president is demonstrating his commitment. he made that commitment in the inaugural address. he made hit in the state of the union and what he did today was told the american public the path he's going to follow using his authority. it's an important moment. the president said today also in this stage that he would not approve the keystone pipeline, much-debated keystone pipeline i

bonn disposal expert came in. i was the one who had to take them and dispose of them.n his argument that way. >> i was with bernie several years ago when i traveled around the country, which, there is very fond of reminding me add due to much of. alloys make a point of stopping in a visiting and seeing the family members as frequently as i can. and oftentimes ask questions because they, like the rest of us, sometimes forget and think of the things. ast, let me ask you again this is something wrong with the memory? [laughter] and then said, no. you know, maybe you remember something you didn't tell me before. he said, i told you this before. i had a drink. you know, i told you about steward letter telling me about the one good thing about being in the demolition squad. when a minute. i found this thing. and that does not end there. how could there be any such thing? ever wondered the same thing myself. but in the world to be good about being in the demolition squad or the bomb disposal squad stewart said, well, you never have a superior officer looking over its shoulder

paris, list bonn, brussels amsterdam opened an hour late after problem with systems prevented customersrom placing orders. nicely euronext spokesman says they can't say what caused the problem and an investigation continues. >>> after midnight mcdonald will let it all hang out to attract late night smackers and they want to serve limited select00 of breakfast and dinner items from midnight to the 4:00 in the morning. they're calling it after midnight. cue eric clapton. that is fox biz, power to prosper. lori: okay. breaking news for you. that is of course new jersey governor chris christie. he name ad temporary replacement for the late senator frank lautenberg. choosing new jersey attorney general to position until the special election on october 16th. melissa: jamie dimon is warning about the fed raising interest rates and warren buffett is selective purchasing financial stocks. do investors need to be worried. charlie gasparino joins with us more. >> jamie said a couple things that are interesting. watch every word coming out of the fed. it will be scary when they stop. that they're g

the leadership of the attorney general pam bonn i did on the issue has been very good.we have worked hard with a number of groups there in florida has actually reduced the problem i think from seven overdose deaths a day. they have been able to make progress. fringe the federal government standpoint what we need to be able to do is to make sure that these prescription drug monitoring plans are interoperateble for fourteen states can share data. we saw a movement of some of the physicians that were suspect as the vice chair mentioned from florida to other states. and so that information needs to be done. so that's one thing the federal government can continue to do. our data base is voluntary. it hasn't been up and running for very long. there's some frustration we have 10% of pharmacists that are using it and not many doctors. if we have interoperability between states that still doesn't get to the problem of incentivizing farmists and doctors prescribers to use that. how do we better incentivize? >> we are actually seeing significant improvements. one is that the elect

even there it's not a bonn time like the second half of 2003.confidence that they can find a job when they want one. >> rontd, how about you? what numbers do you think we should be watching closely? in there i am watching most closely business investment. i'm also watching consumer durable purchases. but, frankly, i'm watching europe and china more than the united states. and with respect to jobs, you know, we've got a face -- to face the fact that for now in two cycles, the response of u.s. business to growth in terms of job creation has eroded. it's stronger in this expansion than it was in the previous expansion, but it is still very substandard compared to the '90s or the ''80s. and this is a matter of really serious policy concern. with eneed to physical out what we need to do to try to jumpstart job creation and get back to more historic levels. >> okay. robert, philip, gentleman, thank you. >> okay. thank you. >> ply pleasure. >> and coming up, it's been an exciting post-fed morning on "squawk box." we talked to wells fargo ceo john stump

it's rippling through every secretary general one of the bonn markets. >> this goes back to the wholeou think the interest rates that have existed and what the fed has done has allowed washington and everybody else to live in this sort of la-la land, right? >> the beggar problem is this was the time that the fed bought and states like illinois that didn't care to get their finances back in order. you may have run down the clock on this. for the state of illinois over the next 25 years, higher interest rates will mean another $130 million. >> that's why i bleempblt i love the city. i got a lot of friends there. >> chicago? >> detroit will foille for bankruptcy. chicago probably isn't far behind. if you look at their finances, they rely on the states. the states already have the highest gdp. now this i love my wife, from chicago. >> right outside indiana. the problem is they didn't take it at the time they were granted by the feds. >> real quick, a lighter story. "wall street journal," shortcuts to getting elite flyer perks. you can actually buy your way now on to these elite programs,

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medal, the korean defense service medal, the army service ribbon, three overseas service remember bonns, the nato medal kosovo and the nato medal combat action badge and the basic parachutist badge. at the conclusion of his current tour in iraq, excuse me new york afghanistan, at the conclusion of his current tour in afghanistan, lieutenant colonel's next assignment, lieutenant colonel clark's next assignment would bring him back to texas as he was poised to become the executive officer of the second -- or the second in command of the reserve officers training corps at his alma mater, texas a quand m university. in the coming days, todd clark will be laid to rest at fort sam houston national cemetery in west. our thoughts and prayers are with the family of sernlt stevens -- excuse me of lieutenant colonel todd clark, he will be forever remembered as an outstanding soldier, husband and father. we thank him and his family for their service and sacrifice for our country. his sacrifice also reflects the ords of jesus in john, 15: 13, greater love have no man than this, that a man would lay

kentucky's signature burr bonn industry has enjoyed -- bourbon industry has enjoyed signature significant growth necessaryically and abroad creating billions of dollars in economic activity and 9,000 jobs including thousands in the legendary distilleries along the kentucky bourbon trail. bourbon is required by law to be stored stored for two years in charred white oak barrels. however they are unable to deduct their expenses during that unique aging process, placing them as a competitive disadvantage global marketplace. mr. barr: this week i introduced a bipartisan aged distilled spirits competitiveness act which would amend the tax code to fix this inequality and help level the playing field for kentucky's signature bourbon industry. american products can successfully compete with any in the world. this house is working overtime to enact policies that will promote american competitiveness, remove barriers to job creation, and spur this nation's economy. i am confident department that with the right tax policy we will produce even more growth in job creation for the people of kentucky. i