boomer? oh, i am sorry. i did not see anyone. >> i really like to see this day today, because this is a good example of this community, and government agencies, what they can do together. i think if we can do things like that more closely in our community and trying to look into a really well into the needs and all of the effort, everybody in the city can work together. i think this is something that i really want to see more and more often. some do not have the money to pay for the bus. we would like to be a happy ending, like today. so thank you. and i hope we can work together. chairman nolan: anyone else care to address the board? all right, what more. >> my name is emily. i work for the chinese progressive association, and we represent low-income chinese families around to san francisco, and we are very happy with the steps that mta is hopefully going to take today, and this is one step. while we appreciate that there is efforts going on to disperse these 12,000 passes, it is not enough. when families a

the boomers are not going to be richer than the generation before them. i should add something else. as you know, the majority of people over 85 are women, overwhelmingly. women are poorer than men. african-americans and hispanics are poorer than whites, and the gap between rich and poor ways even more heavily on the old ban on young people, because the old don't have the resources and the physical strength to go on making more money and doing things. this is going to be a bigger problem. when you are talking about what government could do, the things we need to be doing right now are thinking about a solution to save for medicare. i don't disagree that the cost of medicare is out of control. one of the terrible things is that president obama about to right-wing pressure and with through this little proposal for patients to have voluntary consultations with their doctor about door of one aggressive medical care if there is no hope that i can recover? my own mother took care of that and wrote it out in her will and gave my brother specific instructions. sh

we're so happy to have him home. >> reporter: boomer arrived using the help of a cane. the 39-year-old was injured in combat in safg two weeks before his one-year deployment was up. >> he's very, very fortunate. some of his best buddies didn't make it. >> reporter: boomer will be home for a couple weeks and then return to camp pendleton. >> everything seems to be in order. it's just a matter of healing. >> reporter: boomer has fought in four wars and has 22 years of service. he says regardless how americans feel about the war, he hopes they support the marines and other u.s. military who he says are doing an exceptional jobs overseas. >> to be just with those marines at that time is just amazing because it's a great opportunity that i was given. unfortunately, it's not the greatest circumstances. however, you know, we try to do the best we can, and they are doing great things. >> and while his family and friends had to suffer through this deployment, they understand it's nothing compared to what boomer and other service members have been through. >> amazing. absolutely

start retiring i keep in mind this is money boomers set aside to pay for their own retirement. and as they start retiring as it is supposed to do by the time they're all dead or dying and by two thousand and forty more or less the boomers you know another twenty thirty years from now by two thousand and forty forty forty twenty forty five the so security trust fund will be exhausted now that's the way it was actually supposed to work. the way it was supposed to work is that this should have come out about another five or six maybe eight years and so that's that's it let's go to the next slide here social security's costs remain stable over time when the boomers all start to retire we're going to have to have a few more people to pass out their checks but this is not a for profit operations there's not c.e.o.'s and dividends all i kind of stuff the payout so the cost of administering social security which right now is around five percent is going to go up to around six to happiness and then and then even out because you know it's just a few more people it's not it's not this hug

are baby boomers going to buy something if it says,, this is for the aging baby boomer. >> i'm starting to see if it says they're for baby boomers that they're not going to walk. they're going to run. >> i'm having chest pain. >> reporter: if ads of 20 years ago focused on the vulnerability of seniors.... >> i've fallen and i can't get up. >> we're sending help immediately. >> reporter: today products like depends try to stress vitality. >> confidence. available in color. depend colors for women. >> ask me what it's like to get a massage any time you want. >> reporter: and adjustable beds sound like fun. >> ask me why i'm glad i didn't wait until i'm too old to enjoy this. >> reporter: g.e. calls appliances that are easier to use universal design. (beeping) your car can now warn you when something is too close. or even parallel park for you. but even with a quarter of all new car buyers age 65 plus, nobody shouts, "this is for you, old timer." do you have to use sort of a coded language? >> business doesn't want to use the "old" word either/or the age word either. smart is the new young

that's what the boomers are. but there will be one person in the '80s, and this was always the case in aarp publications because articles about people who are really sick and how they cope with it, i think they are to be doing more of that. but there are also down or articles. the story i told on myself and this book was, this is many years ago, none of the editors are there now with editors have been. i was asked to do a story about people who, after a serious illness, had made the changes in their health habits and have greatly improved their lives. and the first person i thought of was the high school classmate who had a form of cancer in her 50s and she was supposed to die from, and she didn't. and when it became clear she was going to die, she responded by giving up smoking and losing 50 pounds. they ran a picture of her, she was 56 been. i swear she was so gorgeous, she looked not really, anybody would've recognized as a high school cheerleader she was. i didn't do anything -- i didn't have anybody over 64

i am actually a baby boomer, at the edge of the baby boomer, and i know that baby boomer era. there's this huge boom in a population of seniors in our city that will grow. i think by 2020, 60% of the population will be seniors, and i think some people are now defining 60 and over, but i think generally, people looking at 65 and over. that is a huge population. i'm trying to look at issues of senior nutrition programs, alzheimer's research, but even housing policies that allow our buildings to become more senior- friendly. i guess we are calling it developing an aging-friendly city. we are also looking at how to support senior services and unique neighborhood by neighborhood programs called aging in place or village models that allow people who are older or seniors getting older to be able to support each other and to stay in their homes and communities longer so they can be contributed to the community as long as possible as opposed to institutionalizing them, which costs quite a bit more. so i'm looking with senior group's ideas of how to create more aging in place programs n

that is, in fact, baby boomers aging. all of the other age groups are going up as well. it will be increasingly significant part of the city's population. other factors that we look at included income. what you see here is senior income. lower than it is for other age groups in the city. showing groups with people under 25, 44 and 64, and then over 65. certainly the average income is lower than the other age groups over age 25. while it might sound like a substantial income, it is an average. but that means is that there are people below and above it. bringing the number of words. when you look at the break down in the second chart, the one on the bottom, showing the percentage of the population in different age groups and income groups, you will see that those 65 and over, there is a high concentration of them. much higher than for the other segments of the population. indicating that there are a large number of low-income seniors in san francisco. at the same time there are those with means and to have high incomes. but they are smaller percentage of the population. su

there's reasons for it especially unique to baby-boomers.k) plans. >> 1981. >> 1981. the typical baby-boomer in 1981, was 34 years old. they started later than the rest of us. most people, including baby-boomers, aren't saving enough. the typical american saves about 8% of their income in a 401(k) plan. you're saving about $4,000 a year. that's not enough money when you think about the amount of life that you'll live after you retire. on top of that, we've had this awful recession, that wiped out stock market returns, basically, for a decade, just as the baby-boomers were going to retire. >> and if you bailed out when it went down, you're in worse shape. >> or maybe you need to take money out of your 401(k) plan to stave off foreclosure or to make ends meet while you were laid off. people have seen this be a unique time. >> if you've fallen behind, how do you catch up? >> okay. the first thing you want to do is think about working longer. it is an inconvenient truth. working longer, even part-time in retirement, will make a difference. next,

enrolling people in a timely and accurate fashion is hugely important. 2011 is the first baby boomer eligible class. >> i have an analysis from the democratic staff to insert into the record. >> without objection. >> some of these numbers are just shocking, the programs of overseen by your committee. republicans propose to reduce funding for cms, the agency that runs medicare and medicaid in the children's health program by 23%. it this is not a little hair cut or finding efficiencies. that could prevent them from performing its core duty, bang for the health-care needs of seniors, persons with disabilities, mothers, and kids. would you be concerned about the impact on medicare beneficiaries of a proposed 23% cut, combined with delays in processing? >> yes, congressman, it would be very difficult to continue the services to the american people. the administrative cost for medicare in the budget year 2010 included no affordable care act implementation because there was no affordable care act. what we're talking about is an enormous reduction in the overall ability to administer medica

and they are doing great things. >> boomer has fought in four wars in his 22 years of service.e hopes to retire soon. a return to the south bay then where he can do some work as a general contractor. >>> also this morning, a snowboarding accident. a dramatic rescue was caught on tape. we hope to show it to you with the border's own head camera. james drummond was pulled from a tree well last week. he had fallen head first and was stuck upside down in six feet of snow, even though his hands were pinned to his chest he managed to reach for his cell phone to answer his wife's phone call. >> i'm stuck in a tree well, give them my phone number. i'm going to die if they don't find me. >> are you serious? >> call them. give them my phone number. >> it is just like us wives, are you serious? boy, they were. luckily, she did it. help was soon on the way. even after all this, drummond got back on the horse and snowboarded the rest of the way down the hill. that's dedication. that's amazing. thank goodness for some of those gadgets like cell phones. >>> scott has a gadget this morning tha

boomer is recovering from foster care. he will be put up for adoption when this criminal case is over. >>> it is a stormy friday morning here in the bay area. you can expect rain and wind whether you are on the highway or out at the beach. that is where claudine wong is this morning on storm watch. how are the waves and the weather right now? >> well, it's all picking up. we're getting a little bit of a break from the rain right now. the wind is starting to pick up a little bit. take a look at the surf out here. it's crashing along fort point. tide is beginning to rise out here. we do expect a high tide in a few hours. and really the high surf advisory kicks in this afternoon. this is one of the days we are looking at the very beginning of what is to come. this morning we're out on the roads. saw wet roads. saw people running to get out of the rain and the intermittent spots we have seen. if you are heading up to the mountain there is is a winter weather advisory. just something to keep in mind if you are starting your day

now, when i was growing up, like all of the oldest boomers in the 1950s, i would say that attitudes toward age were negative in a particular way. old age was just something that started the minute a man retired, and he returned home to bother his wife. and her only role was to be the grandmother to her grandchildren, and that was the whole another not just of old age, but just of anybody who was retired in their 60s. now i think we've had a great corrective to that which the aarp has had a role in the sense that we now understand that people over 65 can do a lot of things and can that their only role isn't just lying around the house watching tv and looking after the grand kiddi

boomer is now recovering in foster care. he will be put up for adoption when this criminal case is over. >>> beta breakers is here to stay for at least two more years. kraig debro confirmed this morning that the race has a new sponsor. he joins us now to tell us about it. >> reporter: good morning, pam it's not something i do but some do. online tee shirt company dazzle is the new sponsor. we are standing on hay street. this is the famous hay street hill. the race is popular with everybody but not popular with people on the hay street hill. this is a challenging hill but for people that live here it's a place where drunk racers go to vomit and relieve themselves. the sponsorship deal was made without any requirement. dazzle not only sees this as a chance for notoriety for their brand but believes the createtivity of the costumes and races the kind of createtivity that dazzle brings to its products. they will mark their 100th year. in addition to that, this year the race will be run for the first time in recent memory without

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baby boomers are going to reach a point where they'll be drawing on government benefits they paid for over a lifetime. as more and more of them draw on these benefits, there's an obvious question as to whether the reserves are there to take care of them. how do we deal with that? let me speak to two issues senator mcconnell raised. the first is social security. social security, is there a program that is more important to america? i can't think of one. that is the starting point of the new deal. when president roosevelt said we have got to give seniors in america some peace of mind that when retirement rolls around and their senior years roll around that they will in fact have enough money to live on. not in a luxurious way, but the basics. there was a time, i can remember in my family and in many american families where grandparents moved back in with the kids because there was no place to go. they could no longer work and they can no longer afford their homes, and they became part of the larger family. it happened in my family. it happened in others. then came social security. and w

now, his dog renamed boomer by shelter workers astound in february. there's boomer.e weighed less than 40 pounds. his front nails were mourned down. his muzzle, scabbed. boomer is recovering in foster care. he will be put up for adoption when this criminal case is over. >>> charlie sheen's live tour is coming to san francisco. the actor added a dozen new shows. that includes the nob hill masonic auditorium. sheen's not saying much about what the show is about other than calling it "the real story." tickets go on sale for tomorrow. for every ticket purchased, sheen will donate $1 to the red cross japanese earthquake relief fund. >>> it was a close call for a san diego television reporter covering the ncaa basketball tournament in arizona. >> reporter: after a 68-50 win over the university of northern colorado -- oh! >> yeah. a little surprise there. ben higgins was in the middle of his live shot in tucson when you saw that suv nearly ran him over. higgins went on to finish that report. he thanked his photographer for saving him. you have to rely on those photographers

the south and combined with some showers coming in from the north, we actually have those thunder boomers we were just talking about. picking up dry lightning strikes here just off the coast. realtime lightning strikes off the coast of santa rosa this morning. waking up in santa rosa, probably hear a little bit of that thunder this morning but not to worry right now. it looks like everything is happening over the ocean. we'll let you know as soon as that changes because the chance for some isolated thunderstorms inland today, definitely a possibility as well, especially when we see breaks of sunshine. enough to warm us up for thunderstorms. san francisco getting a little bit of rain right now. as we head throughout the day, we'll see the tail end right here. this little creeper is going to come through the bay area, but what's happening is we're also tapping into some of the sub tropical moisture so that's why it's so warm out there. the cold front won't have a chance to cool us down though because of that subtropical moisture and high pressure is actually building in as well so the possi

the little hoover commission report claims government will be crushed as baby boomers begin to retirend live longer. they're a quarter of a trillion dollars in the red. they're recommending the state freeze new lower pension benefits for current employees. it suggestions creation of a pension system that includes a 401-k plan and incentives to discourage early retirement. democrats say the report raises legal as well as constitutional red flags. >> stinson beach is reopen this morning following a mud slide. mud and debris came down across the road yesterday afternoon. caltrain reopened the south bound lanes last night but had to work several more hours to clear away debris in the northbound lane including a large oak tree and rocks. the ground has been saturated by a recent string of rainstorms. >> has indeed. see any rain in your way in. >> no, but a few spotted. >> rain drops? a couple brief periods of rain. >> you said hello? >> no, i drove faith. >> they lasted maybe 10, 20 seconds at most but enough to make the ground a little wet. may cause a few problems. you see it's well past

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another thing looked at beyond the baby boomers is life expectancies. it is rising.there's the male and female line from birth. we are expecting these to continue to rise and the social security benefits, life expectancy after 65 is rising since 1980, but we are projecting that male and female life expectancy will continue to rise in the future, and this puts a tremendous amount of pressure on social security, but the big factor over the next 20 years is the change in birthrates. change in birthrates remember, we used to have on the order of three kids born per women. we are now at two kids per woman, and that's our assumption that we're going to continue of two children per woman in the future. immigration has made significant impact on softening the impact of this big drop in birthrates. look at the total fertility rate defined as the sum total of the birthrates of women from ages 14-49, it's an age adjusted concept. look at the birthrates of those ages, add them up, that's a rough estimate of a woman on average age of 14-49, or a million women in that board, the a

when the boomers had kids, they turned to crossovers and suv's, frankly invented the segment. we believe millennials are looking for a fun to drive, goodlooking, seven-passenger vehicle that has good gas mileage and drives well across country. there is not much competition. if you are a millennial with one or two children and you don't have $30,000 to spend, there are not a lot of choices. they are not rewarding to drive. we think the c max or grand c max in europe is really something new for those customers. we think that demographic trend is something that will play into the introduction of the vehicle. >> is that why you designed the vehicle as it were, rather than try to find your way back into the minivan segment, just go where there is little competition? >> absolutely. >> one thing for ford, we have access to these great products that in the past were designed only for europe. now we have the opportunity to bring a fun to drive seven-passenger vehicle to the u.s. in an area that's frankly, not competitive at this point. another thing we noticed, when fuel volume shot up

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experts say the boomers are also finding new roots. >> some of them are older, and they are in some ways bringing part of the north back to the south. >> reporter: black families exploring new choices as color lines blend together in an increasingly diverse america. kristen welker, nbc news, los angeles. >> by the way, there's more information on this story, including the census numbers just out, and what they're telling us. we've put it all on our website tonight, nightly.msnbc.com. >>> up next here tonight, america's former presidents all in one place for a good cause. ♪ >>> this was the scene at the kennedy center in d.c. last night. all of this nation's former presidents together to honor one of them, george h.w. bush. the tribute was in honor of his years of volunteer efforts, including his points of light institute. in the last few years, of course, he's teamed up with former rival bill clinton to raise money for the victims of the indonesian tsunami and hurricane katrina. the former president described how that has brought them together in a very personal way. >> this man, whom i'

like boomer, our boxer. our leftovers... from last night. and then there's phil. oh phil.ut for every odor, our new air wick odor detect uses the latest smart odor sensor technology. the first air freshener that detects thousands of odors then automatically releases a burst of freshness... that can keep up with this family, and yours. check your sunday paper for a $4 coupon. >>> you're look at a live picture of 880. it's 4:53. soon more parking meters and the city council was hoping for the kind that took credit cards. it does not look like they will get them but rather get the older ones that just take coins. the oakland city council is expected to take up the decision as to where to put those parking meters at tonight's meeting. >>> meanwhile, let's check in with brent and see what he's got ahead on requested today in the bay." good morning, brent. >> lots of things. of course, we're following the crisis in japan minute by minute, and we'll have the very latest on the radiation leaks from the nuclear plants in the northeastern part of the country. we just spoke with a st

. >> and that's a very important topic to so many of us baby boomers. and as we age we are living longer, but we want to live better. and those are the techniques, life-long techniques that you teach us in the show. >> which is why i love public television because it's about life-long learning. >> and you'll hear more of that and more of doctor amen here in the studios as well. we want to hear your phone calls of support and we know we'll do that. when you see more of "change your brain, change your life." of "change your brain, change your life." thanks. [phone ringing] [applause] >> thank you. welcome back. i love this segment, because i'm gonna teach you what i call practical brain science, to make your life better. as you will see, brain science is imminently practical, because your brain's involved in everything you do. in the next few minutes, i'm going to introduce you to three parts of your brain that drive a great deal of your behavior. we're gonna talk about an area of your brain called the pre-frontal cortex. it works as like the boss in your

the future aft those temporary situations are gone, that are driven by the retirement of the baby boomers situation -- generation. tend thousand people per day are eligible to retire under social security. they are driven by health care costs that grow much faster than the economy. and a growing gap between projected revenues and expenditures. so, let's keep our eye on the ball and focus on the real threat rher than what people believe it might be. host: last question before we go to calls. politically feasible? guest: i think it is not politically feasible to engage in dramatic in panama reforms, tax reforms, and spending cuts and read prioritization of this year. because the work has not been done with the american people. the commission did great work but they did not do anything outside the beltway. you need to prepare the american bible for the chubb -- tough choices. what is politically feasible is let's get an agreement on spending for 2011 and for 2012. let's bring back stuff stacked -- tough statutory budget controls that start in 2013. and let us engaged in an authorized and fun

they're being told you're going to have to live with a lot lot less ok and i'm thinking about the baby boomers that thought that they were paying into this their entire life i mean there is disappointment in that respect. there is absolutely and i think you make a good point about the recovery for a small section of the population i tend to think of politics as something where there are very few permanent changes but there are certainly swings of the pendulum and you know it's interesting if you look back into the early one nine hundred eighty s. when president ronald reagan famously defeated an air traffic controller strike at that time and the public was broadly supportive of that and the proportion of the american public that believe the unions had too much power was considerable i think around sixty percent now that percentage has dropped dramatically in a new york times poll this week it was about half of that so i think you're seen a broad swathe of the public feel that perhaps it's not excessive union power that causes big problems for the united states fiscally or economically but inst