bronson talking about gavin newsome. he also sat down with us and gave us a surprising answer when we asked him about being relevant in his current political role. stay with us. i knew there were a lot of tech jobs available out there. i knew devry university would give me the skills that i needed to make one of those tech jobs mine. we teach cutting-edge engineering technology, computer information systems, networking and communications management -- the things that our students need to know in the world today. our country needs more college grads to help fill all the open technology jobs. to help meet that need, here at devry university, we're offering 4 million dollars in tech scholarships for qualified new students. learn more at devry.edu. >>> he's no longer the mayor of san francisco but still making headlines. gavin newsome called to legalizing marijuana here in california. he spoke candidly about his current low profile position. do you miss being relevant on a daily basis? >> partially and partially not. i don't

. >> author po bronson when "press: here" continues. >>> welcome back. the shape of your hand can affect your success at work. i learned that in po bronson's book "top dog." science of winning and losing. it is a dog eat dog but don't be on the menu. po bronson, author of "nudist on the late shift." "the first 20 million is always the hardest." it became a film. screen play by the guy that did "iron man." "swingers" is a great movie. not with the blockbuster success of "iron man." of all the ones to conspire with john on, you know, that -- the -- 20 million is the hardest, probably not the best one. iron man would have been the one. >> we thought it was going to be the iron man of its time. john had been an engineering student in chicago. he had this background and had been a geek. and before he became a writer. so he really was drawn to the material to the play. we took him to these companies in the valley. he got into it. the film didn't do well. right. and -- the first 20 million was the hardest and -- it did not make $20 million. >> wrote the book. >

po bronson. tess well born. [speaker not understood]. espinola jackson. [speaker not understood]. paul page. leah [speaker not understood]. and george wedding. welcome. >>> thank you. >> you can go ahead. >>> okay, all right. hi, i am christin ham son and i'd like to thank you for having me here today, supervisors. ~ obviously this is an important law. i also believe that the reforms that are being considered today are very important as well. i was asked to share a little bit about our family's story. i'm here to talk about one of those home remodel projects that came up against the ceqa process as they are implemented today in san francisco. and, so, i'm here to talk about some of the real impacts to real families. i can sense there is concern in the room about some of the changes that are being considered, but i hope that our story might help people think about some of the impacts and the way ceqa is implemented currently as well. we did a home remodel project. it took us about 2-1/2 years to get through the full approval process. we went through mediation, the planning commissi

. >>> i am [speaker not understood] bronson, [speaker not understood], and volunteer san francisco biking soccer league. we register 8,000 kids to play soccer. we are a significant partner with our rec and park department to provide that for children. and the opponents to the supervisor's legislation, supervisor wiener's legislation, have brought up the beach l.a. project in a way and i think that's a misunderstanding. i want to be clear. my understanding here is that under supervisor wiener's legislation, there would have been more proactive notification of the categorical exemption for beach l.a. and it would have been easier and better for opponents to know what's going on under supervisor wiener's legislation than as it was last spring. in support of supervisor wiener's legislation, it is common sense and as a journalist easily understanding the rules of governance that creates fair competition of these ideas is vital to the city to pass this legislation. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> hi, xiiixv. supervisors. my name is sam ball. i'm a film documentary maker at

doesn't work on that charles bronson kind of life those movies where his family gets wiped out by somescum. "charlie, forget the .357. "you need a custom-made suit, a convertible, "new carpeting french doors, a divan. that'll show those punks." public performance of captions prohibited without permission of national captioning institute captions copyright 1991 castle rock entertainment it was a nice retirement party. i guess. still, it's a shame professor rothman was forced to step down. what choice did the university have? he snapped. it happens to theoretical physicists all the time. i wonder how long sheldon's got. these shrimp are all the same size. there's no the logical order to eat them in. can't be very long. hey, look, there's rothman's empty office. sad. mm, indeed. yeah. so sad. dibs. (tape measure retracting) what's up, fellas? what are you doing here, kripke? ah, measuring my new office for drapes. this is not your office. it hasn't been assigned yet. well, i called dibs at the christmas party when professor rothman tried to have intercourse with the toys for tots collecti

plus, author po bronson ponders cheating. our reporters from central china television mark nu.s. this week on "press: here." good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. the organization joint venture silicon valley. in alliance of business and government changed the definition of silicon valley to include san francisco. a place that is not in any way, shape or form a valley. the change was made to acknowledge that san francisco, not the sunny south bay, is the new center of tech. now certainly the san jose area still has apple, the world's most valuable company, as well as google. >> talk about that facebook phone. >> peninsula has facebook. but the new hot start-ups, twitter, yelp, sales force, were all drawn to san francisco. several because of the city's community benefit agreement or cba. a contract whereby the city agrees to drop some taxes in exchange for economic benefits. in the case of start-up zen, the company agreed to locate in the downtrodden tenderloin. and support local jobs. in this case, a accident desk luncheon catered by a charity which trains and employs forme