and ktvu's ken wayne live in oakland where bart officials are asking riders to be courteous on the crowded trains. >> reporter: the last time the ridership was this high was in 2008 and that is when the gas prices were more than $4 a gallon. i add a slowly rebounding economy and more people working, and the bart trains are getting crowded. this was the scene at the evening commute, every seat taken and people standing in the aisle. >> i was on the train at 6:00, 6:30 and it was superpacked with people and i couldn't understand why it was so packed and i think the reason is probably because of the gas prices. >> reporter: there are about 350,000 riders on the trains every weekday. >> we're seeing a steady increase in ridership. we have had some of our highest days in the last couple months here. >> reporter: that means riders are getting squeezed. >> the one before this is really jam packed. so this is -- to me the one to ride. >> this is the easy ride? >> yes, yes it is. >> reporter: while 350,000 riders is a lot it saw 500,000 riders when the giants won the world series. as trains fill up

and ktvu's ken wayne live in oakland where bart officials are asking riders to be courteous on the crowded trains. >> reporter: the last time the ridership was this high was in 2008 and that is when the gas prices were more than $4 a gallon. i add a slowly rebounding economy and more people working, and the bart trains are getting crowded. this was the scene at the evening commute, every seat taken and people standing in the aisle. >> i was on the train at 6:00, 6:30 and it was superpacked with people and i couldn't understand why it was so packed and i think the reason is probably because of the gas prices. >> reporter: there are about 350,000 riders on the trains every weekday. >> we're seeing a steady increase in ridership. we have had some of our highest days in the last couple months here. >> reporter: that means riders are getting squeezed. >> the one before this is really jam packed. so this is -- to me the one to ride. >> this is the easy ride? >> yes, yes it is. >> reporter: while 350,000 riders is a lot it saw 500,000 riders when the giants won the world series. as trains fill up

be courteous. we are sorry, but you need to cut your comments short. be direct and to the point. if you don't want to come up and speak, you can write your thoughts down. those will all be tallied had a documented and given to supervisor kim and mayor lee. we will call up angelica to give us a short budget overview. [applause] >> first off, we should give everyone in this survey and for being here today. this is the people's town hall budget. this is your time to speak. every year, the city budget is one of the most important decision making groups that the city of san francisco makes. decisions that are made about the city's money impact -- the budget is created in three phases. there were few handouts. from march to may, the mayor makes those proposed budgets and creates the entire proposed city budgets making changes along the way. from june through july, we come out to the board of supervisors. they get the mayor's budget into it to make changes. how many of you have been the the city budget? i hope you will all come out during gym because we will meet you there. we are very

it was people being courteous and taking pictures. >> we took pictures.was cool because dave is a marine. he was very proud. we all were. they sang the national anthem. they sang proud to be an american. >> how long were you down there? >> about 40 minutes. the one thing that struck me was everyone was looking at the white house saying obama has to come out and acknowledge us. we said security wise, he couldn't do. but he had to be debriefed. >> you could hear the cheering from within the white house. >> he had to know. it was a special feeling. glad i got to share it with ross. it was a lot of fun. >> the media is right there on the ground at the white house too. they were able to turn their lights. >> it was nice outside. made a nice night to be out there. >> we had a beautiful day today too. it's so nice to be free of rain and storms. today's high 77. we continued to have a lovely evening out there. there's a slight chance we could get a shower here and there very late tonight. especially to the northwest. the better chance is going to come this time t

my audience is courteous and embodies all the mystery of creation. my audience is my irish catalan and spanish family. the eyes of my family activate the dance but i was disoriented and forget the steps, but i wanted the dance to continue. i grew up in havana surplded by murphies, jeovese, all speaking spanish. this was in the late 50's. my grandfather and my father, like many other irish who went to cuba during the past three centuries, became integrated into the cuban society and many used spanish as their mother tongue. as a child, i was never able to pronounce certain words. i spent many solitary hours searching for words and phrases in dictionaries. my spanish was not cuban enough. my english was not irish enough. my catalan, only a few words. spanish was and is a privileged territory where i feel alive and well. my father grew up in new york and havana and married a cuban woman, my mother. all my family shared a great loving for havana, a city they call home. but contrary to my family, i grew up dreaming of traveling and wanted to leave havana

if you could please be courteous and stick to the time limit, we know there are a lot of people here with a lot of things to say, and unfortunately, we probably will not be able to hear all of them. but remember to stay engaged. this is just the beginning of the process. i would like to say that these fine public officials probably did not have to be here today, but they are here, and i think that says a lot. let's be respectful of one another. as we call your name, if you could line up of here. [reading names] i'm sorry if i mispronounced your name. but the other folks could come up here if i called your name. >> greetings to everyone who is here. nobody can hear you. is that better? in a district 6 resident for the past three years. i have been in the south of market area. i'm here to speak on behalf of my work. -- my work at lyric. i also want to represent the concerns of the community partnership for lgbtq2 youth. it. lyric, lavender street, market street, bay area positive, lgbt center. district 6 is one of the neighborhoods with the highest number of lgbt youth in san francisco

agreeable to deal with and i know this is a difficult situation, but i have found them to be nothing but courteous during these times and we have paid to them the same respect to the department. that said, we felt the need to deny the application because we felt it was not consistent with the planning code. there is not a pattern of these smaller lots, a predominant pattern in the district. we found at less than 2% of the 1000 lots within 1,000 feet, 1868 lots within 1,000 feet of the property, that less than 2% were smaller than 1100 square feet in size. also, as the product sponsor stated, their alternative is here. they can go through the condominium process. they have not exhausted all of their remedies to achieve the goals that have separate ownership, that means available to them. i am assuming they qualify for the condo, it would have on our occupancy for that time, sounds like approximately 10 years. that i think summarizes most of the points i want to make. some of the other sites that were pointed out by the product sponsor, many of them were nowhere within 1,000 feet of the property and

they are professional, courteous, they know where they are going. that is not the issue. the fact is those drivers are so much in demand, we cannot get them. that has always been the issue. to go forward with the fare increase without offering some incremental, however small, benefit to the riding public in the increased service is to not couple be issues properly. what i would suggest is to hear the request, that we continue this one piece of the item which we would not implement even if we passed today or until the rest had been heard, continue this one piece of the item until one of our to next meetings and no later. if it cannot get these other items before us, so be it, we will vote on a fare increase. but i think we can get a fair increase. we have a pilot already approved by the board and that's a pretty small proposal. several dozen cabs in that peak times. we have heard the main concern and we are looking at addressing availability. it would also be important to clarify how the credit card fee is going to be handled and that will not be imposed on the riding publ

speaking i should say that all our policy years been held according to the lore and to all were courteous as i would like to suggest just an ordinary and so wise way going to the courts and trying to. argue with us in the courts that of the word of the day also obey the laws that he said that need more strict than those three do you think that the current law on political priorities should be changed to liberalize your person wrong probably my personal opinion is that. corporations and their non commercial organization of innovations should exist probably more freeway should be registered and more freeway but there should be much more serious responsibility for the breaking of the laws and the police and the special services should investigate this case fine now these cases and go bring them to the courts to the minister of justice of the brave a lawyer to bring their own documents so this is the point to my mind but frankly speaking from my mind to my mind tonight personal opinion i'm not a politician just try to understand me on bureaucrats and i have to follow the law strictly but some

be courteous. we are sorry, but you need to cut your comments short. be direct and to the point. if you don't want to come up and speak, you can write your thoughts down. those will all be tallied had a documented and given to supervisor kim and mayor lee. we will call up angelica to give us a short budget overview. [applause] >>

. >> now it's asking riders to do their part to make it easier on everyone and be courteous to other passengers getting on and off the trains. bart says it has as many as half a million riders during the giants world series run last year. >>> it was a close call for homeless man near sacramento who escaped injury after being dumped into a garbage truck and nearly crushed. police say the 45-year-old was sleeping in a large garbage bin yesterday when he was dumped into the truck. the truck then compacted its contents at least three times before the driver heard screams coming from the back of his truck. >> i climbed out he had a ladder, they dropped him in and pulled him out that way. had a neck brace, back brace. i didn't see anymore. he got in the ambulance he was pretty beat up. pretty gnarlly. >> firefighters say the garbage truck wasn't full and that may have saved his life. he was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. >>> in seattle a woman came away with just minor injuries after crashing her car through a wall and plunging ten feet down an elevator shaft. it happene

overall it would make the market less able to to correctly stop which as you saw a less meek and courteous order of the major way with prices so it would have a volatile in the first place. possibly not but one of the things of the ending to the volatility of course is something you don't mention is pursued and oil markets have been linked now because of their idiotic ethanol hollis's we're subsidizing the production of ethanol to the tune of about ten billion dollars a year and we're turning a third of our corn crop into ethanol or coal look at way look you're making you're making the opposite of your own point because that doesn't isn't it diminishes the demand for oil and it's creating you know we're subsidizing food i agree with the i hate the subsidies but the point is that the price of oil and and is going up at the very time when it should be going down but you know the idea is that we're turning food into fuel we are removing a third record crowd into hugh and this is making a terrible problem right now in the world in fact we're going to turn so much or in into the venom in accord

and those people in the truck, people were very courteous, obviously. and we were able to martha's vineyard out of their way, and, you know, the truck kept on honking. and it looked like it was goitot them some care. >> we're going to continue to talk about these pictures. this is going so fast on twitter. i'm monitoring my twitter feed. and someone sent a message. i believe it was an official-looking message that said if there are any available medical personnel, to please head to joplin, missouri to help out. and it's going to quickly, it went down to my feed. but i want to say again here on cnn, if there are any available medical professionals, that's according to someone here on twitter, and to me it looked like an official tweet, to head to job pin, missouri to help out. also, fema is standing by, saying they're standing ready to support missouri after the tornados and the severe weather. that e-mail, and that is just crossing the wire here into cnn. it is unbelievable. we have jaime green on the phone who shot the pictures. she was working, shooti

you'd be very courteous to them. they were with the pakistanis for a long time, so the pakistanis probably primed them for the interview and what not to say. and i don't know if there's any reason to believe they didn't love their husband and probably are not especially happy that we shot him down. >> normally, under most circumstances, you would separate the wives. you would want to interview them individually. you wouldn't want to have the pakistani service present with you. you'd ideally like to have a native-speaking woman do the questioning. we didn't get that luxury. so this was not horribly productive, but my understanding is, we're in the early going. and u.s. and pakistani officials can work again. >> you made a point, michael, a moment ago, about leaks, and you believe the leaks are endangering the lives of people. i want you to listen. we started this conversation last night. it's been an issue, of course, for the last 10, 11 days. but the defense secretary, robert gates, who happens to be a former cia dir

those people in the truck, people were very courteous, obviously, and they were able to move out of their way, you know, and the truck kept monking and it looked like it was going to the hospital hopefully to get them some care. >> hey, jaime, don't go anywhere. we'll continue talking about these pictures. but i want to say this is going so fast on twitter. i'm monitoring my twitter feed. somebody sent a message saying if there are any available medical personnel to please head to joplin, missouri to help out. it's going so quickly it went down to my feed. you by want to say here on cnn if there are any medical professionals, that's according to someone here on twiter, and to me it looked like an official tweet, to head to joplin, missouri to help out. also, fema is standing by staying they're standing ready to support missouri after the tornadoes and the severe weather. that e-mail and that's just crossing the wire here into cnn. it is unbelievable. we have jaime green on the phone, who shot those pictures. she was working, shooting a wedding, shooting wedding photographs, and then got c

so make sure you are courteous. this is 27. it's not good. in fact, normally we show it to you.t picks up at -- p ticks up -- it picks up at zanker. that's why it's gonna be slow. all the way out to 101, 101 is a nightmare. the bay bridge has become very slow, it's backed up for about a 15-minute i wait at the toll plaza. this morning were you hooking at northbound 101. it's busy from about casar chavez on on on -- on up. let's go to steve. >>> we have thickest clouds around the peninsula, san mateo coast and across the bay. but some sunbreaks. low cloudiness all part the cooling trend started yesterday. it will continue. so partly sunny, mostly sunny, breezy, that's out of the west. some morning fog again tomorrow. we're getting to the fog it doesn't have any support. saturday morning should be all right. but it it -- but it had turn much colder. it looks like rain on saturday morning. system that's coming in yesterday and today is just continuing our theme of a cooling trend. now, kind of leveling off and we'll start to see the temperature og on. sunday looks to be coldest day

he's a guy, a principal, and every time you see him, he is a courteous man.esn't take positions from anybody, anything. maybe so. until now, his history has been that he's been able to get a lot of attention and no votes. >> it's true, the country is restraining government but he's for -- he's against the bin laden raid. if you look at his votes, he pays for the price for consistency and that gives him a high floor and low sealinceilin >> how does that affect the fact that he is 70 years, almost 75 years old. >> i think he will be there and come in third, fourth, fifth, which is what he did last time, and he will have to drop out. >> what about mike huckabee? your former governor of arkansas? our later poll was that he was atop of the republican field. >> you know, for what you hear he's not going to run because he's doing speeches and stuff like that. you know, once he's run before and did pretty well when he ran he has a path to the domination and i have to put a $2 -- >> he's going to announce tomorrow night. >> i know. >> whether or not he's running. >> t

reid: i express my appreciation to my friend from arkansas who is always so courteous in everything he does in life, and i appreciate it very much. i ask that the record appear as not interrupted, that his remarks will appear in one. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that at 2:15 today, the senate proceed to executive session to begin consideration of executive calendar number 61, the nomination of edward chen of california to be united states district judge for the northern district of california under the previous order. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: madam president, there will be three hours of debate on the chen nomination beginning at 2:15 p.m. today. senators can expect a roll call vote on the chen nomination at approximately 5:15 p.m. today. i have nine unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have been approved by me and by the republican leader. i ask consent that these requests be agreed to and be printed in the record. the presiding officer: wi