that was concerning because the north beach business association does not formally exist. it is a conversation that took place between north beach merchants which has 30 or 40 members and the north beach chamber of commerce which i sat on the board for about five years which has 120 members. subsequently when that was discovered, there was a motion by the directors to send a letter to the telegraph hill dweller and retract the north beach business association because it does not exist. the north beach merchant association made a motion and they are generally supportive of 12:00 a.m. and there are concerns because of prior ownership. here is what i am afraid of. i asked one of the members who abstained from that blow to and said -- vote, and i said, what did you abstain? he said i am facing the same conditions that could be imposed. what i will say, city's imposing mandates on businesses which are increasing their labor costs, we have to give these businesses every opportunity to further sustain their business model. if they are out of line, this commission has the teeth no

to include not only our emergency management partners that nonprofit community, labor, and business associates. purchasing major emergency response equipment, using homeland security grants, that include field care clinics and care and shelter trailers. in fact, i have been personally involved in recruiting and training people to help our department of public health erect those field care clinics in precisely the time its takes in a very quick fashion. we're training people and volunteers to do that exactly. and we have earned the national weather service designations for storm-ready and tsunami-ready designations. in addition to these efforts, it is isn't so that we all work together and share the best practices -- it is essential that we all work together ensure the best practices so we can better respond to emergencies. this one and a half day seminar is a truly unique learning in relationship-building opportunity for all of us. representatives from a broad range of agencies at the local, state, and federal level have come together for this seminar and for the tabletop exercise that was con

. >> a personal crisis for my business associate, paul.s a $3,500 loan to save his family's home. >> i'm short. if you can get me $3,500, i will completely make it up to $7,500. give them tomorrow morning. i don't know if you can do that for me. just a favor i need from you. >> to keep things going and to make sure he continues to believe we have real money to burn, we wire a tiny fraction of what he asks, $200. paul writes he's not happy. in the meantime, we've been wondering, who is this guy, paul? we couldn't confirm his address, and the government department he claims to work for doesn't seem to exist. but we do track his phone number and find it's the same number connected to a batch of overseas scams. so i guess paul has a few other identities running on the internet. in fact, in one e-mail, paul signs a name we've never seen before. a mr. yumna. it must be a mistake. and i pretend not to notice the slip-up. hello, paul. >> soon we're back on track, on our way to london to meet not just paul but some of those other scammers we've met

elementary soccer player named clear is standing up to bob fischer and his brothers, political business associates, paid lobbyists and other profiteers and corporate representatives for the synthetic industry. from day one city feel lobbyists have exerted their considerable influence around town, convincing the people of san francisco that the plastic neighbor parks were sick. clare and her teammates did not think something sounded quite right and decided to investigate whether play in front tires with cars than the chicks and heavy metals was a wise idea. over a month she tested over 100 water samples with the help of local universities. her results reinforce what and our mental scientists have known for years, information that bob fisher, the city field, rpd management and the tufrrf industry have been trying to suppress. the results show that it contained dangerous levels of heavy metals and other toxics, which were in excess of state and federal guidelines. her experiment has brought her accolades, including a 2011 national eco hero award, national science foundation award, and even a speaking

we lost a father we lost a son-in-law, we lost a brother we lost a business associate. i lost my husband. i lost my best friend in this. >> reporter: state's attorney angela also says this case is an example of what needs to go before legislature to enforce tougher laws had it comes to distracted drivers. wisdom martin, fox 5 news. >>> the skins' quarterback controversy has plenty of people talking and tonight, the players are weighing in on who will start this weekend's game against the panthers. reaction straight from the locker room when we come back. r te iha >> hello again. jek john beck is in rex grossman is out. shanahan made the announcement today. he told beck and grossman yesterday. for the first time in over a month beck worked out with the first team offense. he said during the offseason he would be the guy. mike shanahan spoke like beck would be the guy and he picked rex grossman and now he's picking beck for real. >> i'm going to give john a chance to see what he can do. i believe in both guys. you're one play away from being a starter. it's always a tough

to include not only our emergency management partners that nonprofit community, labor, and business associates. purchasing major emergency response equipment, using homeland security grants, that include field care clinics and care and shelter trailers. in fact, i have been personally involved in recruiting and training people to help our department of public health ere

open a criminal investigation into allegations mayor lee's campaign laundered money through business associates yits in order to exceed campaign limit associations. there is a civil investigation. >> the buck ultimately stop was those engaging in the activity. and at this point we don't know who was involved in the activity. we know whot contributors were but don't know if anyone was directing people, we don't know who was aware of it. >> at issue is an $8500 contribution the campaign received from a shuttle company receiving concessions at sfo. in a statement the campaign accuses herera after busing authority as city attorney calling for a politically motivated investigation into mayor lee's campaign over money that we returned as a result of the concern autos and with only two more days left to act on a pile of legislation, governor brown signed or vetoed scores of bills today, several have a major impact on the bay area. we report from sacramento. >> in light of last year's gas pipeline explosion in san bruno killing eight people and destroyed dozens of homes, the governor took steps to make

to open a permanent investigation into allegations into the campaign laundered money through business associatese accusation that it exceeds the limit on campaign donations. the political fair practices commission is opened its own investigation. >> ultimately the buck stops with the people engaging in the activity. at that point we don't know who were involved in the activity. we know who were the contributors were. we don't know who was aware of it. >> at issue an $8500 contribution the mayor's campaign received from an airport shuttle company that received certain concessions at sfo. in a statement sent to abc7, lee's campaign accuses herrara of abusing his authority for calling a politically motivated investigation over money returned as a result of our own concerns. >>> meteorologist lisa argen is here now to talk about a beautiful day but a little change perhaps tomorrow. >> i'm sure you noticed. a gray start. bright and sunny and view from mount tam, sutro a little over 1800 feet deep with the cloud cover, about thousand feet, we're looking at a slower burn onoff closer to the coast. inla

with the education that they can think independently and might because they come together in business associationsgin to organize, free assembly, very, very, very bad for a dictator. he had the undergirding of that and foreign aid. foreign aid is a great way to pay off your cronies if you're not generating an effective economy. president obama announced when he prom mull gaited his policy, and after that he announced he'd cut foreign aid to e gipped in -- egypt in half. two weeks after, the egyptian foreign minister for the first time since 1979 referred to israel as egypt's enemy. if you were a military leader, you'd be sitting there thinking the guy is getting old, and he's not able to manage his relationship with the united states in order to keep the money really flowing. most of that money is coming to we, the military leaders. now, it's getting cut off. maybe we should look around for somebody else. maybe we should hedge our bets. you're there on the sidelines, one of these relatively well educated people, unemployed, paying double the price for food, and you're thinking, you know, the milit

hoping with daylight hours, business hours, we'll be able to contact more family, friends, business associates and narrow that time line down. >> hopefully some of the people might be able to shed light on her 11-year-old missing son, william mcquain. what do we know about him? >> that's the other important issue. first of all, it anybody believes they know where he is or they see him or that vehicle, we want them to call 911 immediately. don't take any action. let us get there and resolve the situation, determine what it really is. we don't know. we have to determine what that time line is as well. right now, the report is september 30th, that was the last time he was seen. we want to confirm that as well. >> ten days ago. any idea in terms of motive, suspect? >> it is still very early. detectives are keeping a wide open scope. they want to look at every possibility right now and not miss a clue or not miss any information that will help them resolve this crime quickly. >> ok, captain paul stark, thanks so much for being with us. i want to go over one more time, the missing vehicle. it is a v

open a criminal investigation into allegations mayor lee's campaign laundered moen through business associationaccording to the accusations, this, in order to exceed limits on campaign donations. the california fair political practices commission has already opened its own civil investigation. >> the buck ultimately stops with those who are engaging in the activity. and at this point we don't know who was involved in the activity. we obviously know who the contributors were but we don't know if anybody was directing people, we don't know who was aware of it. >> at issue, an 8,500-dollar contribution mayor lee's campaign received from an airport shuttle company that receives certain concessions at sfo. in a statement sent to abc7, lee's campaign' cued herrera of abouncing his position at city attorney for a, quote, politically motivated investigation over moen we returned over a result of our own concerns." >> the sheriff's race in san francisco. for many, mike hennessy is the only one they have ever known. but of a more than three decades on the job, hennessy is retiring. so the race to replace

open a criminal investigation into allegations mayor lee's campaign laundered money through business associates accusation says it was done in order to exceed campaign limit donations. the california fair political practices commission has already opened its own civil investigation. >> the buck ultimately stops with those who are engaging in the activity. and at this point we don't know who was involved in the activity. we obviously know who the contributors were but we don't know if anybody was directing people, we don't know who was aware of it. >> at issue, an 8,500-dollar contribution mayor lee's campaign received from an airport shuttle company that received certain concessions at sfo. in a statement sent to abc7, lee's campaign accuses herrera of abouncing his position at city attorney for a, quote, politically motivated investigation over money we returned over a result of our own concerns." >> mettologist lisa argen is here and the weather today is nice. >> it will be nice but the winds have shifted overnight and the onshore push has pushed the clouds across the bay. the view from mount

they did this through going through bin laden family members and business associates in saudi arabia and elsewhere in the middle east of hopes much drawing out an adversary as we sought out different soviet leaders throughout the years. as these efforts went on for a small number of years, a small group, the response from bin laden was hush, hush, and sphoors we know, there's been no response. >> thank you for coming. it's a fascinating story. it sounds to me as if what you're describing represents the victory of those who said we better concentrate on counterterrorism rather than counter insurgency, has finally worked out, and that makes sense to me. i think the point that you were making about developing american resiliency, i like the statement by michael lither as he was leaving the nctc, that people had to be ready for this, but my question goes to the so-called arab spring countries. you mentioned it in the context of yemen. i'm thinking broadening that to perhaps libya. we don't know how that's going to work out, egypt, the same thing. do you see, do our people who are working

it went to family members and business associates in the hopes that at -- hopes of drawing out adversariessoviet leaders throughout the years. but as these efforts went on for a number of years, and very small group. very hush hush, the response from osama bin laden was silence, and as far as we know today there has been no response . >> thank you for coming. it is a fascinating story, and it sounds to me as if what you are describing represents the victory of those who said we'd better concentrate on counter-terrorism rather than counterinsurgency. finally been workout. i think the point that you were making about developing american resiliency, like the statement. he was leaving in ctc. people had to be ready for this, but my question goes to the so-called arab spring countries. you mentioned it in the context of yemen. and thinking of broadening that to libya. we don't know of that will work out. egypt, the same thing. there are people do are working on this matrix and these people who are fueling terrorist activity, making money out of it, they're beginning to look at the turbulence in

today a group of 200 business associations signed a letter telling the commission not just to do a dealrillion they've been mandated to cut from our debt. >>> well, it's a madoff media blitz. there have been three major tv interviews recently, two books and countless articles. it is a coming-out of sorts for ruth, his son andrew and daughter-in-law stephanie. madoff himself gave a two-hour off camera interview from prison in north carolina. now, the books, which are expected to be best sellers, could bring in a lot of money to the authors. madoff's $50 billion ponzi scheme, the largest in history, came to a crashing halt in 2008. as of today, only about $10 billion have been recovered. bernie madoff's former attorney, ira sorkin, came "outfront" today along with a senior writer for "the new york times." i spoke to them about the media blitz. diana told me she e-mailed with madoff himself this week. >> he told me that although his psychologist told him not to watch the interview that stephanie did on television, he did watch it. in an e-mail he sent on monday, he said, "it was as painful

today a group of 200 business associations signed a letter telling the commission not just to do a deal.2 trillion they've been mandated to cut from our debt. >>> well, it's a madoff media blitz. there have been three major tv interviews recently, two books and countless articles. it is a coming-out of sorts for ruth, his son andrew and daughter-in-law stephanie. madoff himself gave a two-hour off camera interview from prison in north carolina. now, the books, which are expected to be best sellers, could bring in a lot of money to the authors. madoff's $50 billion ponzi scheme, the largest in history, came to a crashing halt in 2008. as of today, only about $10 billion have been recovered. bernie madoff's former attorney, ira sorkin, came "outfront" today along with a senior writer for "the new york times." i spoke to them about the media blitz. diana told me she e-mailed with madoff himself this week. >> he told me that although his psychologist told him not to watch the interview that stephanie did on television, he did watch it. in an e-mail he sent on monday, he said, "it was as pai

who have enough education that they can think independently, because they come together in business, associations, begin to organize, free assembly, very, very, very bad for dictator. so he had the undergirding of that, and for name. foreign aid is a great way to pay off your cronies if you're not generating an effective economy. president obama announced when he promulgated his afghan policy shortly after he announced he was cutting foreign aid in have. indeed, within a few days, maybe two weeks, at this announcement is cutting foreign aid to egypt in half the egyptian foreign minister, the first time since 1979, referred to israel as egypt's enemy. and if you're a military leader, perhaps sitting there thinking, well, the guys getting old and decrepit and is not able to manage his relationship with the united states well enough to keep the money really flowing. most of that money is coming to we, the military leaders. now it's getting cut off. maybe we better look around for somebody else. maybe we should hedge our bets. so now you're seeing there on the sidelines, one of these roads of well-ed

my bank that i built with the help of a lot of friends and business associates is about two-thirds of a billion dollars. is successful. it didn't take any bailout money t. is profitable. and we restructured our loans without coming down hard on customers. that is what the market allows you to do. but the reason these others don't do it is they are not market people. they are government sponsored enterprises. i mean the wall street banks, what are they? they are an ol gone my, a handful of people who take moral hazard. they attack risks with their loans. you know why? the government has guaranteed them a bailout. think about it. if you were guaranteed a living no matter what you di you might do wild and crazy things because there would be no consequence. that is what our banks are doing on walstreet. they are wild and crazy and taking risks. they are wanting to be as big as they can so their salary will go om a modest $200,000 each to each.llion that is what size means to the bank. size hurts the rest of america. new to the point on what we can do in terms of the republican part i'm pr

they did this going through bin laden family members and business associates and saudi arabia and elsewhere in the middle east in the hopes of at least trying to draw out an adversary just as the united states again thinking these loose lines in deterrence is sought out different soviet leaders about the years. as these efforts won him for a number of years and again very small group, very hush-hush, the response from bin laden was silence and as far as we know today there is no response. >> thank you for coming. is a fascinating story. it sounds to me as if what you are describing represents the victory of those who said we have got to concentrate on counterterrorism rather than counterinsurgency. that makes sense to me and i think the point that you were me keen about developing american resiliency, i like the statement on michael lighter as he was leaving the nctc that people had to be ready for this. but my question goes to the so-called arab spring countries. you mentioned them in the context of yemen are going thinking broadening that perhaps libya. we don't know how that is going to

my bank that i built with the help of a lot of friends and business associates is about two-thirds of dollars. is successful. it didn't take any bailout money t. is profitable. and we restructured our loans without coming down hard on customers. that is what the market allows you to do. but the reason these others don't do it is they are not market people. they are government sponsored enterprises. i mean the wall street banks, what are they? they are an ol gone my, a handful of people who take moral hazard. they attack risks with their loans. you know why? the government has guaranteed them a bailout. think about it. if you were guaranteed a living no matter what you di you might do wild and crazy things because there would be no consequence. that is what our banks are doing on walstreet. they are wild and crazy and taking risks. they are wanting to be as big as they can so their salary will go om a modest $200,000 each to each.llion that is what size means to the bank. size hurts the rest of america. new to the point on what we can do in terms of the republican part i'm produced --

many of his business associates did not want to talk on the record. >> they said in their minds it wasno question that whatever he put himself into was specifically to make money. >>reporter: the suspect is due back in court september 25th. his lawyer says that he will plead not guilty. >> and live a car fire from the bay bridge toll plaza. a few high clouds streaming in as we head into tomorrow, we will see similar conditions with slightly warmer and into the war me--into the morning would have mild conditions. in the 4:00 hour we have upper 80s for the inland valleys. and as they looked at temperatures around the bay area to mark. upper 80's in a number of south bay locations. a nine cupertino, 88 los gatos of morgan hill 86 in san jose and the upper 80s for our inland valleys even hitting 90 degrees in pleasanton. 88 concord, danville. 89 also in livermore. mainly in the '80s for the east bayshores. '70s and '80s for the peninsula, 80 in san mateo, a good day to be along the coast tomorrow with upper 60 the no '70s. again plenty of sunshine tomorrow afternoon and light winds. 88 fai

in addition, since the introduction of my amendment, many business associations, advocacy groups, think tanks and others have come out in support of my substitute bill. i didn't file that for political reasons. i didn't file that to just cause trouble. i filed it because these ideas in that bill are far superior to the ideas in the underlying bill. and i think my friends on the other side ought to look at it and tell me where -- where they could improve it. and take it over if they will. the fact of the matter is it's far superior to what the underlying bill is. now, many agree that my approach is our best choice or best chance at solving this problem that we all find so frustrate frustrateing. to those who think this is more of the same old approach, i say absolutely not. the old policies and the old exchange rate act have not worked, and they need to go. on that, i think we all agree. my proposal does not say try and work this out with china and hope for the best. instead, my approach directs our negotiators to work with others and challenge china until a solution is agreed to. my app

the global business travel association expects a 6.9% increase in domestic travel spending over last o $250 billion. and the organization expects business travel to grow well next year but at a slightly lower pace. it says despite uncertain economic conditions companies know the value in personal relationship. >>> attention parents, keep a close eye on your children's identity. the better business bureau cites one report saying kids' identities are 51 times more likely to be stolen than adults. among the top tarkts, your child's social security number. seems those numbers are assigned but not used much. scam hers find those numbers and sell them because it could take years before you find out there's a problem. by then a scam her has used your identity for years and years and years. it can be a real mess to fix up. that's why the young ter identity, the better it is for thieves to steal it. >>> the game was over, but the action was not. we're going to show you two nfl coaches who turned a simple postgame handshake into a postgame fight. but first, time for your "get smart" question of

businesses plan to hire new workers in the coming months. according to a quarterly survey taken by the national association for business economists, the number of companies that plan to hire new workers in the next 12 months fell from 42% to 30%. and the number of companies laying off workers rose. >>> a bill introduced in the senate is designed to ramp up the sale of u.s. homes to oversea buyers. foreigners spent $82 billion buying u.s. homes in the 12 months that ended in march. the senate bill would grant visas to foreigners who agree to spend $500,000 on residential u.s. property. >>> a new survey finds holiday shoppers do plan to buy more for themselves. overall, shoppers plan to spend less on holiday season than the last but a survey done says they will spend more money on practical nongift items for their families, taking advantage of holiday discounts. >>> and, terrell, paranormal activity three had a huge opening week at the box office. the third film in the horror franchise made $54 million over the weekend. it was followed by "real steel" and "footloose" i've heard "footloose" is pretty good to hear. >> i kind of heard the opposit

business. we have roger from the bar association. no carla johnson from the office of disability. -- we have carla johnson from the office of disability. i want to especially it acknowledge my colleague to help us get the resources and brought legal expertise to the table. i do not want to take too much of your time. thank you for coming. >> thank you, supervisor chu. i want to express my admiration for a supervisor chu's commitment to you. so, from our office, what we heard, many small businesses were receiving lawsuits regarding it the ada. tonight we will hear about the legal requirements, what has been in place. any small businesses that nderst informed as far as their obligations for the ada, there are the mechanisms to provide that information to you. so, we are tasked with providing the information. there have been about 300 small businesses that have received the lawsuits. knee individuals who use this mechanism and come up -- the individual to use this mechanism. while it is important to have ada access, but we want you to u

association. it -- not the least of which emma marcegaglia. >> >> marcegaglia is a top business person and president of the industry association, confindustria. her autographs are in demand at a youth conference in milan. many would like to see her go into politics. mingling with the crowd, is that part of a campaign? >> no, i just enjoy being together with young people. i like to talk to them about their future and training. it is something very dear to my heart. b>> marcegaglia manages her family steel factory near barone that in northern italy. pepsi is also the first woman to head the powerful -- she is also the fir woman to head the powerful federation confindustria. most industrialists and business people support her. she also keeps her opponent, silvio berlusconi, in view at all times in her office. >> we have very clearly demanded the government do something to finally begin implementing fundamental reforms. we need tax reform and privatisation. and we need a pension reform as well. we call on the government to turn this country around. >> the message achillea -- the marcegaglia out of one o

the union square business community has supported the project since 1996, first through union square association and subsequently through the business improvement district. this is a good project. we stand behind it. we should let it roll forward. supervisor campos: next speaker. >> mr. moscovitz over the tells us he doesn't like surprises, but i have one for you. we do not know the cost of the central subway, and there is no way of knowing until the boring starts. the reason for that is this project is below the water table, next to the day. there will be ground water, and the watering plan is to use pumps. those pumps have a capacity, and if they get overwhelmed, that bore will have to be sealed from two aunts and pressurized with thousands of pounds per square inch in order to keep the water out. what that means is that workers will sit for three hours a shift in compression chambers in order to enter the excavation. the cost of that is enormous. it can be done, but it is enormous. it is something that could happen. proponents say that it will not happen. i am advocating you get someone from