i want to introduce christine adams, the market manager and real mother of the market. >> thank you so much for coming. 30 years is a great accomplishment. it used to look like a war zone when we came. i do not know if you have looked at some of the pictures. now it is beautiful. people feel safe. we have lots of choices of food. we have very good people to work with. the commissioner in san francisco, dwo has been great. . dpw has been great. city hall has been great. we started with 15 farmers. it has grown into this beautiful oasis in the desert. i do not know how many of you knew one of our farmers who sold right here next to the honey. she passed away about a year ago. i wanted to remember her for those who remember her also. i want to thank the new manager, john. he has just been named co- manager of the market. he has been here since he was 13. he has worked his way up from being garbageman, seller, and now being manager. i want to thank you for what is going on here. he makes the market work. another new person is kate crepps. kate put on his party. she deserves a hand. she is

christine lagarde for speaker, anyone? >> where do we go from here? joining me to discuss it is the bbc's adam brooks.re you surprised the super committee came out and said, sorry, we cannot do our jobs? >> unfortunately, not. there has been anticipation this is what would happen. the president pointed out there is no danger of america being downgraded after defaulting on its debt. he also said there is nothing else to stop congress tcoming together to find an agreement on the budget deficit, to try to stop the automatic cuts kicking in. he said he would veto any attempt to do away with those automatic cuts. there are already muttering in congress that they would like to do away with those automatic cuts that kicking in as a result of the congressional failure to agree. >> they decided to try to avoid blame each other, but is it possible to point the figure of one group over another? >> you can be sure there'll be finger-pointing in the end. there is difference over economics and whether you should have tax cuts or tax increases, to what degree you should tackle the deficit by making cuts. these are b