. >> funding for charl yee rose is provided by the following: >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg. a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: mikhail khodorkovsky is here, he was until recently russia's most famous prisoner. president putin pardoned him in december after more than ten years of imprisonment. he was an oligarch who became wealthy in the era of russia's post soviet crony capitalism, when masked men arrested him at gunpoint in 2003, he was russia's richest machine and the chairman of yukos oil, he and his partner platon lebedev were convicted on tax fraud and embezzle am in two widely criticized trials. amnesty international declared them prisoners of conscience, trapped in a judicial vortex that answers to political, not legal consideration. his story has come to symbolize russia's turn to author tearianism and struggle to democracy under putin. in an impassioned closing argument following his second trial, he told

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. >> funding for charl yee rose is provided by the following: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg. a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. october and the u.s. supreme court today opens its 2014, 2015 term. it declined to rule on the issue of gay marriage. that decision clears the way for gay couples to wed in five states and has banned same-sex marriage. they also announced that there would be hearing some other important cases. joining me now from washington, cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. so tell me about the new supreme court term, we are here on the first monday in october. >> well, what we know is what it will not include. is the final climactic battle over whether there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. in a surprise to many people, including me, i must say, the supreme court today denied serbary, in other words, refused to hear five cases where circuit courts of appeals had held that there is a constitutional rig

funding for charl yee rose is provided by the following: additional funding provided by: and by bloomberg, a provider of multimed why news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. . >> rose: the death of klinghoffer is an opera written in 1991. it tells the story of the hijacking of a cruise ship and the killing of one of its passengers. he was shot and thrown overboard in his wheelchair. the opera opened monday at the metropolitan operahouse in new york it was surrounded by controversy. hundreds of protestors called the piece anti-semitic and inflammatory. others called it a masterpiece and said art should not answer to politics. the episode has raised questions about the role of art, freedom of speech and the unique responsibility of an institution like the metropolitan opera. joining me are first amendment lawyers martin garbus and floyd abrams. i'm pleased to have them at this table. floyd, what's wrong with this? >> well, first of all, let's say it's protected by the first amendment. >> ro

>>supervisor norman yee: charles stephanski. >> my name is charles, i have been working as a nurse in uc sf and have worked nightclub security setting up events for friends and family and being supportive in the public aspect of making sure things are safe. also spent some time doing cooking for a while. so my experience in the health care field and entertainment venue i believe is very extensive. hoping those sorts of information are for mine. i have submitted my application and letters fl health officials and i have one more letter of recommendation if i can turn that in. i hope that will make an appropriate application. >>supervisor norman yee: okay. thank you. any questions? seeing none, thank you very much. >> mr. demetri is not here and i believe someone is here to speak on his behalf. patrick finger. >> my name is patrick finger, i work with dmeet tri. i'm going to read his letter. i regret for not being able to attend my application. today i am applying for the public health seat of the entertainment commitment. i hope that you will vote this favor of my application today. i b

>> good evening, commissioners i'm eric yee i work to charles sullivan take care consulate. >> i've known charley. >> yes. and in your opinion what is the source of the sound of vibration. >> we haven't had a chance to do a study on the noise situation, however, if i were to take my best caught guess one of the pieces of mechanic either the exhaust fan or the make up supply fan is rigidly coupled to the building which mr. tails building is coupled to the ladies believe so everything is tied together struggling there are isolateors in place it's true we haven't been able to see if they're working and the issue 0 with the exhaust fan is has to be rigd low coupled the moment you couple the ductwork to the building is not isolated i've short circuited your support into the adjacent recipes. >> and the ducks are attached to the building in a rigid fashion. >> from the photographs on the on-site it's rigorously strapped with the rigorously we would like to the l breathes in a steel frame. >> thank you well, i'll give you one last question you know earlier the city presented the equal active loc

charles criminacand the clerk is erika cheng. >> any announcements? noe. announcements. >> commissioner avalos? >> present. >> breed. >> here. >> campos? >> present >> chiu. >> present. >> cohen. >> absent. >> far ril? >> present. >> kim. >> here >> mar. >> present. >> tang. >> present. >> weiner? >> absent. >> commissioner yee. >> present. >> we have quorum. great, let's go item to, >> item two, approval of the minutes of the september 23, 2014, action. >> any comments? >> any member of the public that would like to comment. seeing none, we will close. >> avalos? >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> chiu. >> aye. >> cohen? >> absent. >> ferrill. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> weiner. >> absent. >> yee. >> aye. >> item passes. >> okay. let's go to the next item. >> item three, three chair's report, this is an information item. >> colleagues, in what has become a ritual i begin high report with the sad news that four pedestrians were hit by cars in the past couple of days, one of whom, 87-year-old, mr. louis van belson died of his injuries after being hit, and as he tried to catch a bus. and this is truly an acceptable and, we must act to make the streets safe and her to ask our drivers to slow down i appreciate the work of the sfmta the police department and the depart