human-rights lawyers are a tough set of people in the executive branch. a bunch of human rights lawyers is a tough set of people then you read the book and it is explained. not only the questions of the government but a fifth branch you may call up the stomach communities but like mine did networks. they could be a bloggers, human-rights activists, read cross officials. stalin's said about the pope have been divisions says he have? that was a put down. but every division has judge advocate general's. is not how many divisions but how many lawyers your division has and how did it work with the new consensus? this describes how this happens it is an abomination forward james madison we have evolved for those that madison had. if madison n word to come down from have been if he could not get here but somebody sent him a copy of the book it would put a smile on his face. well done. >> 84 the comments. i will try to respond. on joe, i agree with your assessment of short-term thinking the bush unilateral strategy. i did a short comment on the cheney, bush, rums

because not only do you have the questions of the three branches of government and the fourth branch of the press, but there's a fifth branch which you might call if you're a social scientist, you'd call them systemic communities, but in more common sense terminology you'll call them like-minded networks. and they can be bloggers, they can be lawyers, they can be human rights activists, red cross officials and so forth. and what they have is soft power. and what's interesting is that as stalin once said about the pope, how many divisions does the pope have? and that was a putdown of this pope's alleged soft power. but what you find when you read jack's book is today every division has judge advocate generals, every division has a lawyer. so it's not how many divisions you have, it's how many lawyers does your division have. and then how do they network with each other and create a new consensus? and there's some brilliant pages in here describing exactly how this happens. so i found when i read this book, i came to the conclusion quite different than charles did. rather than seeing i

any bank, in my view, whether it has one branch or thousand branches, is a credit union or a regular bank, if there is an over-concentration, if it is in an inappropriate location or corner within the neighborhood, it can have negative impacts on the neighborhood commercial area in terms of the vibrancy and energy of the neighborhood. banks are typically not open at night and are not open for the most part on the weekends. for the most part, they do not add to the diversity of uses in the neighborhood and do not necessarily add to neighborhood character. so, i am supportive of requiring conditional uses for banks. and we do have that in the castro and upper market, on the 24th street commercial districts. that has been very useful. at the same time, all neighborhoods, just about all neighborhoods, probably, need banks. it makes sense to have a bank in a neighborhood with no banking services in it. it is not good for the people who live in the neighborhood. it is an ongoing frustration for a lot of us. i know that there are parts of my district where banks do not tend to go and parts

the executive branch must keep congress informed on negotiations of potential international agreements with other countries on matters that effect our defense and intelligence activities in outer space. that's the reason behind this amendment and i would ask for the committee to consent to it. thank you and i yield back. >> satellites are crucial for national, economic personal security. they help u.s. soldiers in harm's way and minimize. support first responders, disaster relief workers, modern agriculture, etc., etc. we are the country that has a lot of satellites. satellites are increasingly vulnerable and harder to protect from debris and hostile action. the tests including by china endangered over 4,000 satellites. u.s. satellites are now at risk mostly from space debris but also from a growing competition with china and the absence of rules of the road. what we're talking about is rules of the road. right now anybody can put anything up there if they can get it into space. so a code of conduct, we are not saying adopt the e.u. code of conduct. we are saying we need to negotiate s

this is fine but branch avenue northbound is blocked off between allentown road and the beltway with police activity. i'll have more on that situation coming up in my next report at 4:47. >> thank you, moen came. >>> -- thank you, monika. >>> time for your first your money report. >> it looks better today than it did this time yesterday. yesterday was not looking so good. we were seeing global stocks getting hammered in the wake of elections in greece and france. this morning global stocks are bouncing back after the u.s. stabilized. checking the numbers the dow stands at 13,008, only off about 30 points yesterday. meantime the nasdaq and s&p both headed higher. both up. nasdaq one and a half points and the s&p was up about half a point. >>> americans swipe their credit cards more often in march pushing overall borrowing up more than $21 billion, more than a -- the most in more than a decade. credit card debt rose more than $5 billion. >>> kodak will close its online photo service on july 2. a federal bankruptcy judge has approved selling its gallery to shutter fly for more than $20

he's got the olive branch. >> in 2008, that was the first season.y used to have a lady who had taken part in a very first torch relay. it was choreographed from 1964 until the 2006 winter games, but now artemis has taken over, and she tries to bring a little bit of herself to this. she's worked closely with the music you heard earlier has been specially composed for this ceremony. they spent 18 months working it together so it will be in absolute synchronicity with the moment in the stadium. >> and let's let them move through. they will make their way along now, as we grad weight approach the point, and this is the next exciting element of the journey in a few minutes when, of course, we can start seeing and talking about the torch bearers. we've been talking about the first two with their jewels, greek and british heritage. >> we've said how important the children are in this, and the two little girls who are hopefully going to be presesses one day. >> and it's an honor to play the role of the high priestess, isn't it? the actress who is the high p

to help us with as opposed to things we can do within the executive branch. so we submitted a proposal last may looking at enhanced criminal penalties for interfering with critical infrastructure, looking at things around organized crime, looking at issues about information sharing both from the government out, etc., and so that was where we started from, and that was based on a lot of work not only amongst -- within the government, but also external partners. so when we saw this proposed legislation, we truly support, we need the ability to share information. we truly believe that the government has to give some ability for private sector to share not only with the government, with each other, but we can't do that at the expense of privacy, civil liberties, liability about some of the laws that currently exist. and when we saw that after a lot of discussions that that wasn't meeting that threshold, we said, listen, our advisers will recommend a veto if that comes forward. >> host: now, the bill did undergo some amendments before it ultimately passed. have th

you have two branches of shiloh branch coming to a junk tur here on the west side of the road. sherman's camps were on the other side. the interesting thing is when you stand here, i hope that visitors really key up on it. i hope they pick up on some salient point. you're dealing with three different bury garages. patrick's brigade from larson's corner, patton anderson's brigade of bray core and bush wa johnson's brigade of lee oh nigh it is pokes core. these are the centers of formation and you're dealing with 8:00 basically starting with clay burn, general time frame through 9:00 and beyond. so we have an hour's point of time when these three brigades come into battle here. first clayburn, then anderson, then johnston. now the thing is they're all occupying the same space that's only big enough for one brigade, and they're doing it all at the same point in time, relatively the same point in time, because clayburn attacks and is repulsed but continues to fight on this front. anderson comes into play along the same line, slams into clayburn's men and through clayburn's men and

entity, including a branch of the u.s. entity operating in a different country or doing business with any u.s. person would have title seven rules of line. we want to lay this out in detail for commenters. one of the concerns about dodd-frank, and it's been one of my concerns. the more you crank it down, the more the regulations become more own ownerness. the greater need for accountants and lawyers and at the end of the day avoid you. >> that's why the international efforts were engaged and are really critical. they're pain stakingly time consuming as we sit on a bilateral basis and multilateral basis with regulators in the other major markets and go through issues like prepaid transparency, post trade transparency, margin t clearing mandate, the exchange trading mandate. and work through each issue to try to get the regimes as confident as possible so there isn't a reason to do their business in the least regulated market. if it faces u.s. customers and has the potential to impact the u.s. financial system, we have to ve

the second widely recognized provision is what is referred to as executive branch/congressional agreements. trade agreements are the most frequent example of this where a simple majority vote is necessary to bind the united states of america. there is a third category which we would refer to as executive, sole executive agreements. that is to say where some agent of the executive branch makes an oral or written agreement designed to bind the country. there is a statute that deals with this. title 1 section 112 b of the u.s. code. what that size is when there is such an agreement entered into that within 60 days of the agreement being entered into the secretary of state has to notify the house and the senate where presumably the house and the senate for all of our powers whether appropriations powers. or authorization power to take appropriate action. now i do think the gentleman who offered the amendment is correct that there is a technical possibility here that the executive branch could bind the united states, at least for this 60-day period before this would happen. i guess i would ask

but in this case i feel like we're not termed a branch by our own company. it represents well less than 10% of our overall revenue. but it would be cost prohibitive for me to be required to fulfill a process to relocate to better serve my clientele because of an ordinance such as this. thank you for your time and consideration. my time few seconds i will mention there are other agents in the room who will not be sharing but i know they share the same sentiments. thank you. >> my understanding, mr. stewart, and let me verify with mr. star is state farm does not fall within financial institutions, is that right, mr. star? so it's not impacting your businesses but i really appreciate state farm. thank you so much for testifying. >> i'm under a different impression because of our affiliation with state farm bank and the fact we are offering financial services. there are 18,000 state farm agents nationwide. i guess what i would appreciate then is some sort of clarifier. supervisor mar: you don't fall but that's kind of verified by the planning staff. >> we looked

the city workers trimmed tree branch e -- branches. the power was knocked out for 12 homes. the j-line wag stalled. >> we waited for 50 minutes in embarcadero station because it wasn't announced in public that there was a tree felled. and it was a hassle. >> reporter: no one was injured, and there was no damage other than to that pole. neither muni nor pg&e crews would comment on camera. offcamera they told us hey had to work as fast as the could to restore service on the busy j church line. we got a cowl back from pg&e and they told us they have braced the power pole and they still don't know whether or not they're going to have to replace it. but hey should know sometime very soon. >> ama: if you have your supercool eclipse shades you can run outside and check out the solar ecips. lillian kim is live from the shack bow -- shack -- chabot viewing party. >> the viewing party is sold out. 500 people gathered at the top deck to watch what comes around every two decades or so. the last time it was in the u.s. was in 1994. so no surprise the viewing party is packed. the eclipse

such a branch, it needs adequate funding. when they say we have an economic crisis, we do have an economic crisis. there is no question about that. don't put the courts as another library for another road. it is not. it is the basis why we today enjoy our freedom. we have got to make that clearly understood. every time you talked legislator, every time you have an opportunity to talk to a civic group, you need to make that distinction. >> thank you. the next question from the audience, if you could choose only one reform of the american justice system, what would it be and why? >> it would be to de-politicize the funding of the justice system. what you have is the fact that the courts get in the way. they get in the way of the legislature or the executive branch doing what it want to do. it becomes very much a political issue as to be adequate funding of the courts. there should not be that tension that exists for the courts doing the right thing. there should be an opportunity in some states, and we will look at this next ye

community which consists of 73 i.g.s in the executive and legislative branches. and at the outset before i get into the topic of this hearing i would like to express the appreciation of the i.g. community to you and the members of the committee for your continuing support of our mission and your interest in our work. this committee has a noteworthy record of bipartisan support for the contributions of i.g.s and in particular we note your work on the data act of 2012, which was recently passed by the house. and which contains several provisions that would greatly assist i.g. operations if enacted. so on behalf of the community we want to thank you for your support. my written statement provides an overview of the i.g. council's activity so i'm going to focus my remarks on the role that we play as a council in filling i.g. vacancies. as has been remarked, the process to fill vacancies involves multiple players and a thorough vetting process. and cigie play as small role at the front end of this process. by law, we are responsible for submitting recommendations on p

the branch hit the powerlines, causing the power poll to lean precariously into church street. the pole fractured at the base. pg&e braced the pole, and the city workers are trimming tree branches. 12 homes were without power for four hours according to the crews. the j church muni line has been stalled since 1:00. ant which you is not blewed. >> we waited 50 minute nems bark dare roar statement because it wasn't announced in public there was tree felled. and it was a hassle. >> reporter: she has opted to get back on a bus instead of the j line. she has to get back to albany and is two hours late. pg&e crews say they're working as fast as they can to get the power pole braced so muni can resume service on the j line. they're trying to get that power pole braced, and they say they will open the street and come back later on when they can schedule replacing the pole. they're telling us now it's going to have to be at least until 6:00 that they're going to have church street closed between 23rd and 24th. so far those people that were without power, now have power, and hopefully ev

so that anchored the left firmly at deal branch ravine which lay here in front of us. so this union's last line has a huge ravine just immediately to the south of the left flank portion of it, and then on the extreme right is that tillman branch that sherman and mcclernand backed up over at mid afternoon. so he had these two prominent landscape features to put between the confederate forces and this new defensive perimeter. the hornet's nest capture basically is the climax of the first day's fighting. a large number of confederate forces, in fact, the majority of confederate forces never advanced beyond that point, but a remnant of the confederate army does. it's debatable the size of the force, but it's no more than about 10,000 troops at best. of that, i would say that only about 3,500 men actually come under musketry fire in the final confederate attack of the day, which will be delivered across deal branch against this section of grant's last line, from the mouth of deal branch westward for about two-thirds of a mile off of the river. so it's pretty much anti-clima

here's what it looks like at branch avenue. on the beltway itself it is unaffected. let's go back over to the maps and this time all the way out west to 66. no problems to report coming in from manassas into centreville into fairfax. we'll take a live look in centreville and show you what it looks like. still nice and light this morning heading inbound on i-66 heading toward the beltway and inside towards the district. in my next report, we'll take another look around the area in a couple of minutes. >>> the f.b.i. stops a plot to kill americans. a group with ties to al qaeda planned to set off explosives on a jet heading to the u.s. >> delia goncalves joins us live from reagan national airport with more on how these investigators broke up the plot. delia, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, mike, andrea. we first should tell you officials say americans were never in danger. if you're heading to reagan national airport a little later today, anticipate no changes in regards to security and checking your bags through the security check point. the c.i.a. learned ab

at all -- the sunshine ordinance reports to the executive branch at all. that is what led us to ofeel tht it is appropriate to make those changes. >> i have the opinion of the city attorney here. >> is it opinion or advice? rex is a memo. how is that? -- it is -- >> it is a mammal. how is that? you guys are subject to it. -- >> it is a memo. how is that? you guys are subject to it. gregg's when research to see of this particular body was encompassing under the section that referred to it did not seem like it applied at all. brecht's i understand that is your opinion, but -- >> i understand that is your opinion, but on the board of supervisors we take our opinion very seriously and abide by it, especially when there are clear decisions or opinions that they give us. do you view it as advisory comments? how you guys feel about it is kind of interesting. i think we all rely on our attorneys. >> we had understand -- we had asked for a reason why at the time. and we did not get a response. it is just the way it is. it was a difference, i guess, opinion because

tree branch snapped in his power lines near the intersection of church and a was a bit.he impact caused a power pole to lean. one new-line had to be rerouted. residents were advised to stay inside. >> i was setting the table for breakfast when all of a seven i heard what sounded like a buzzing sound but with a pop. it was pretty weird. pretty random. >> no one was hurt by the tree. >> in 2008 during the housing crunch, there were a lot of people that had a change of address this. >> some research has shown a foreclosure crisis affected a high number of minorities and that could explain why few were latinos are registering to vote in california. >> some lost homes, some moved to different parts of the country. >> there is disagreement on the numbers. after that latinos are still considered a very informed voting bloc. >> one person who has struggled to resonate with latino voters is new gingrich. the report filed with the fcc says he ended his campaign nearly $5 million in the whole. >> it turned out to be a beautiful day around said francisco. here is a live view from th

i would throw and the broader -- the entire executive branch. very much a part of the agenda. >> absent a compromise on critical infrastructure, do you anticipate some of these other measures from the house addressing cyber security issues? is that something the white house would be receptive to? did they insist on seeing a comprehensive package? >> we put a lot of effort into taking all these ideas to say, these are the specific things we need congress to do. that brings all these things together. we cannot afford as a country to go part way. there has been a lot of discussion since 2003. it is time to act on it. that is why we need to have these all come together. >> would no bill at all be a better situation than some of the house legislation? >> we hope we will not be faced with that. we hope that cooler heads will prevail. >> howard schmidt, on an international level, what is a country we could look at and see as a model of cyber security? >> many countries are facing the same things we are. government has a tremendous dependency on it. dev

branch? >> i'm not as familiar. >> okay. then i'll stick to my two igs for a moment. in your experience, isn't it true that these white house liaisons, regardless of who is in the white house, have pretty much unfettered access to information that they would choose to have and the ability then to report it directly back to councils in the white house? >> i wouldn't know, mr. chairman. >> well, in your particular case, the white house liaison was aware of your investigation and reported -- and the chief of staff actually, in this case i believe, reported it back to the white house council. so there is a separate avenue in every administration of these legislative or white house liaisons. here's one of my basic questions for the two igs. that's all well and good, but do we currently have that same level of transparency from igs or any one else in each of the branches? we'll take that as a no? >> i'm sorry, but i don't follow your question. >> miss fong, unless you report with the same specifici

the kind of leadership that's required to address deep social problems the only branch of government that can provide it is the presidency. that congress is dysfunctional in this regard. the rise -- the congress already as a collective decision making body has a hard time of attending to problems that don't have obvious solutions. i'm thinking of things like that -- a comprehensive energy problem or deal with global warming? things of this sort of scale. it's -- and then when you build on top of that rising polarization between the parties, it's at historic highs right now. >> you call it dysfunctional. is there another period of time was it dysfunctional then or more than in years past? >> there was a lot of polarization that's between the parties right now is at historic highs. that in conjunction with the rise of the personal vote that is parties are weaker and the connection between individual members and their districts are what often matters most for the electoral prospect, members of congress getting re-elected. this has made it very hard for members of congress to coordinate

the igs are america's front line of oversight in the executive branch. fiscal year 2009 alone their audits and investigations identified over $43 billion in potential savings, having a robust group of permanent inspector generals at the federal agencies is the best way to protect taxpayers from waste, fraud, and abuse. the obama administration has often proclaimed its commitment to transparency and accountability. that's why it's so troubling, and i remember that his predecessor had similar situations, and i want to note that, that the president has allowed vacancies at several ig offices to linger for months and in some cases years. even more disturbing is the administration's willingness to demonstrate a pattern of, at times, of hostility toward some members of the inspector general community. that is not to say that that has not happened with past administrations. one of the president's first actions on the ig front was to remove ig gerald waltman from his post at the corporation for national and community service. we, on this side of the aisle, objec

the mayor of a city or town represents the executive branch of local government. motion to second to approve recommendations of staff. please vote. the role of the mayor of riverside is both complicated and simple. you're involved in chairing meetings and being the official spokesperson for the city. in addition to the kind of formal things, i try to see problems, get people who can make some difference ing them together and say, "let's do something about this." [ narrator ] the city council makes the laws that govern the city. they represent the legislative branch of government similar to congress on a national level. i'm having some concern, not feeling comfortable about... what our long-range plan is at the sewer plant. what we'd like the opportunity to do is to review the report, have the different departments look at it and come back with the council in the second week of february. [ narrator ] in this city, like many others a city manager administers the services the city provides. i work for the mayor and city council. they're the elected representatives. a

knocked down lines the branch came down at church and elizabeth street yesterday.it took pg&e crews well into the night to make repairs. the j church muni line was affected because part of the tree landed on light rail tracks police closed off church between 24th and 23rd while crews cleaned up. no word on what caused that branch to snap. >> don't know fit was breezy in san francisco, certainly on the peninsula it want. >> could have been old age. >> could have been. >> when we get to this time of the year trees on the edge start to break off because of the lack of water. i don't see any in this forecast either i see breezes out of the west this morning. good morning. clouds back any time you see clouds this thick that means we are going to have a cooling trend. thickest fog now along the coast 1 1/2 mile visibility at half moon bay everybody else around 10 the clouds aren't causing any problems there i think we'll have delays at sfo. 49 santa rosa, 64 antioch most of us in the low to mid 50s monterey bay more homogenized temperatures low to mid 50s everywhere with

the branch library puts out quarterly reports. for more than a year, those reports show the france donation -- friends donation of $1.1 million did not change during the busiest part of openings. a quarter of that was public funds. finally, the library's suddenly realized how bad this looked, and came up with a figure that the friends had donated $5.10 million. we made a formal request and for the basis, and the answer was, "i do not readily have that information on hand." we still cannot justify that figure it three weeks later. what you have to understand is that this comes after being castigated by the civil grand jury for failure to document issues. we usually talk about the harm to our democratic institutions, which have been privatized. what about the harm to the citizens? your constituents are donating this money. you might say that only a fool would give money to the friends of the library, but even a fool does not deserve to be cheated. if they were raising money for sickle cell anemia, there would be in jail by now. the

>> to support the judicial and the congressional branches. it's like a subordinate role in which he carries out their will, rather than carrying out his own will. >> yeah, it's a subordinate position, to assist judges, if the judge tries to prosecute someone or if the judge is presiding over a prosecution, and the marshal goes out to arrest the person and the marshal can't do it, then the president should send in the military to assist him. what do you guys make of that argument? yeah? >> it's an odd argument because in the constitution itself is doesn't list so much power to the judicial branch, even the judicial review as it mentioned so he's usurping things that aren't in the constitution and claims that the president shouldn't do that so it's an odd contradictory. >> good, molly? >> the constitution was sort of written on the idea of three equal branches of government, with checks and balances that no one can become more powerful than the other. >> yeah. >> so it doesn't make sense for him to be claiming one is less powerful than the othe

people sign up at the local branch library or online. log in the process.e they read a certain amount of books they win prizes. one of the prizes this year is a kindle fire. >> oh, wow. >> there are prize levels for teens, children and adults. it's not something people need to check in. it's something they can do from home or make time to visit their local library to read for pleasure and we also have a lot of events at the library. we have over a hundred events in june and july. there will be plenty of fun activities going on at the public libraries. >> and i imagine we can't over sell the importance of reading to your child every night. >> absolutely. we try to encourage parents from the beginning to read with them every day. it gets them exposed to the book and shows the value of reading. >> there is the information on your screen. it kicks off june 3 at the mlk library. >> the kick-off is june 3. they can start signing up june 1. >> any final thoughts, elizabeth? >> just want to invite your viewers to the celebration. there are plenty of benefits, like

as i said, our focus is very much because we did not regulate the london branch of j.p. morgan bank, that's an occ regulated entity, the fed is holding company regulator, our focus is on the quality of their risk disclosure and specific disclosures as a public company when they talked about their potential, all the risks they faced as a business when question talk about potential losses under their var model and we are very focused on the accuracy and timeliness of that disclosure. >> i just say that we're aware that it is primarily in the bank, that much of this em natured from the london branch of the bank, and as news reports have suggested credit derivative products are at the center of it. >> in reference to these investigations, are they criminal or civil? >> the sec's authority is simply civil, not criminal. >> are you working with entities that are conducting criminal investigations? >> i believe the fbi has announced publicly that they have opened a criminal investigation, and we will all work closely together even though we have different aspects. >> into which

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because of the branches, the chains don't pack together ll. instead of coiled rope, we have something that resembles tree limbs. low-density polyethylene is more flexible than its high-density cousin, but it's also weaker. it's fine for transporting goldfish or wrapping fresh produce at the food market. low-dencity polyethylene feels greasy. it stretches, grows thinner, then pulls apart. let's see that in the molecular world. under tension, the chains slide, theneparate easi. now, wt would happen if we add a calyst that caused these branches to hook up with other polymer cins? this is called cross-linking, and this third example of polyethylene haa weblike structure. what properties might we expect now? cross-linked polyethylene acts like a hammock. it's very difficult to tear. plastic ice is made with cross-linked polyethylene. soft drink bottle caps are made from cross-linked polyethylene. thplastic bottles themselves are made from another polymer, polyethylene-terphthalate, or p.e.t., and represent the solution to a formidable challenge-- h

morgan branch that's an o.o.c. fed is open company regulator. our focus is on the quality of risk disclosure and specific disclosures as a public company. when they talk about potential and all the risk as a business when they talk about potential losses. under their model. we are very focused to accuracy and timeliness of that disclosure. >> i just say that we're aware that it's primarily in the bank that much of this emanated from the london side of the bank and as news reports have suggested. credit derivative products are at the center of it. >> in reference to these investigations are they criminal or civil? >> the f.c.c. authority is simply civil not criminal. >> are you working with entities conducting criminal investigations? i believe the fbi has announced they have opened one and we will all work closely together even though. >> into which of the two i'm referring to. >> i think actually with respect to both. >> okay. so in essence, it's the agencies that are conducting civil reviews, i assume and to text tenth that there are criminal