city clerk: president courtney. >> here. >> city clerk: commissioner vt vietor. speaker: here. moran. >> here. >> torres. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you donna. the first item is approval of meeting minutes of june 10, 2014. commissioners. >> i'll second. speaker: it has moved and second. any discussion? >> any public comment on number 3, approval of the meeting minutes of june 10. seeing none, public is now closed. all those in favor, signify by saying aye. the motion carries. madam secretary, next item. city clerk: item 4, general public comment. >> i have three speaker cards. if you're interested in speaking, please fill out a speaker card and hand it to the secretary. the first card i have is from joan gerado. >> welcome back, joan. >> thank you. i wanted to speak on an issue not on the agenda today. the transition of the francisco reservoir property to the recreation park department. and the memorandum of understanding was made public on eight days ago, and most people have not looked at it yet. i wanted to say that many of us citizens believe that the spuc should take t

welcome, courtney, back from the holiday. >> yes, exactly. welcome back to from the holiday for all of us, a rude awakening this monday. futures are lower as investors return from the holiday weekend along with the two of us. the dow closing above 17,000 on thursday, though, and that followed a strong jobs report that saw the economy add 288,000 workers in june and unemployment dropped to 6.1%. ahead this week, minutes from the latest fed meeting and earnings from wells fargo. >>> well, tgif fridays is launching an endless appetizer promotion as it tries to boost sales, meaning you can get unlimited refills for $10 per person. sharing, though, is discouraged. analysts say the offer might backfire as customers could take an unfair advantage of that unlimited part. >>> and "transformers" tops the weekend box office, but not all is well at the movie theater. ticket sales are down 20% this summer due to a lack of blockbusters. receipts are down 4% for the entire year. frances, back to you. >> courtney, thank you very much. >>> some of the other s

attention on it and president courtney said it well, it may be practice vok tifb, but you have to be pro vok tifb to give them to save. as i mentioned, they have curtail notices for water right holders which is the irrigation system and we're watching that closely to see if there's an effect on us. the water board just issued regulations regarding enforcement of curtailment notices. this could have an affect on us and we're reviewing it with the city attorney's office to determine what kind of action is appropriate and what comments are appropriate. the water board is expected to consider adoption as soon as july 1st. so we'll be watching that closely. on june 17th, they had a work shop on urban water supplies to reduce water usage. they expect to have emergency drought rescue on june 19th and considered by july 16. it's not clear what direction that's going to go, but what's likely is a state wide percent reduction and that's something to come up in the regulations. i think they'll focus on recommended actions that they would try to put in place as requirements for all users of wate

courtney b. howard wwe courtney b. howard wwe situation.ected me tremendously as a pilot. courtney b. howard wwe situation. the pain in my scalp area and down the back of my neck was intense. it would have been virtually impossible in that confined space to move to change radio frequencies. i mean it hurt. i couldn't even get up and drive let alone teach somebody and be responsible in an airplane. as a pilot that meant i was grounded. neil: when they have this rush to spend billions more for climate change i should remind you we already are at the tune of $77 billion. it is true. welcome, everybody. i am neil cavuto. the dirty little secret of cleaning up the dirty little planet is we are already trying to address it to the tune of $77,000,000,000.2008 through last year how much we have committed to various programs and now we hear that we need tens of billions or hundred millions more and if we don't spend the rest of the world is destroyed because of that. our senior fellow at guessing is here also our "fox business all-stars" are here. f

yet after today his lifetime record against daughter courtney is 5-6. the two squaring off in the funny car finals and even starts and courtney leaves dad in the dust. with the win she becomes with the winningest female driver in funny car history. >> it's a huge deal here, especially this track where i remember watching eric win here. it definitely is special place in my heart. >> fifth career funny car win. >>> tonight was the last time you'll ever see an athletic event at the candle stick park. scoreless games, go to penalty kicks. off the post for the quakes, that allows saul, what a name, saul, to end it. ma dread wins. >>> vincenzo nibali victorious today in france. >> he had the lead for most of it anyways, right if. >> the whole time. >>> up next, it's mind versus muscle at the box office. can?? (birds chirping softly in background.) (loud engine sounds!) what! how's it going? heard you need a ride to school. oh, that's pretty cool! big day at school? i know just the thing to help you get going. power up with new cheerios protein. try it today

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. >> one speaker card courtney. >> hi courtney the project manager for transbay four years ago this month i was getting ready to accept my job as transbay all i kept hearing you are going to be working with mike she's he's so smart and dedicated you're so lucky. after 4 years of working with mike i'll reiterate those words again and again he's one of the best bosses and mentor he felt so passionately about sylmar and transbay and stopped at negatively nothing that people would be proud to work in you've heard from tracey a list of his accomplishments for his passion for the work. along with that he is very patient as explaining things and understanding things easier and a natural leader i want to an opportunity to thank mike and tell him how much we'll all miss him (clapping) >> (calling names). >> 30th for the i feel like i'm presenting someone i never thought i'd see the day when mike was leaving when i started tjpa almost 10 years ago mike was one of the first project manager's that grateful size and it was important because details that rapture observe it didn't get into the resolutio

courtney for your work on the commission and also your support of the labor unions and creating local jobs. when you invested in asian neighborhood design and invested in go solar sf you've invested in me and it worked (clapping) >> so i'd like to thank everyone for coit and enjoying this project that it dear and special to the puc and we wanted to thank you for coming out and thank you. >> this is the meeting of the supervisor kim tuesday, july 22, 2014, it is 5:05 p.m. first item is call to order and roll call. commissioner king. commissioner stephenson is executed and commissioner wan next it the approval of the minutes on may 27th on the environmental special meeting in your packet are the draft minutes this is a discussion and action item >> colleagues any discussion on the members if not can i get a motion to approve. >> unless we need to take them separately i approve both. >> any public comment on the minutes seeing none, public is closed. you'll in favor say i. opposing seeing none, none the minutes have approved >> >> address the commission on matters that are within the com

up town to courtney at the nasdaq. hi, courtney. >>ic there, sue.mposite and 100 still in negative ter attorney general as bob subjected, markets moving a little bit higher on what president obama had to say about the circumstances overseas in russia and ukraine, though certainly also keeping an eye on what's going on in the middle east. monster beverage though getting a downgrade today, equal weight at morgan stanley. the company saying actually, there could be -- morgan stanley, that is slowing u.s. sales growth and that's concern really weighing on shares of monster beverage. there's also trouble in toy land, sue, i know you mentioned hasbro, the ceo will be on "fast money" and shares of mattel pulled down. and look at shares of gopro, skip down to that getting initiated today by at least six different analysts, mostly hold, but two buy shares moving higher. back to you. >> courtney, thank you very much. >>> you know, shares of monster, as courtney just mentioned, moving down. we are going to talk a little bit about that later this hour. >>> also

courtney reagan, cnbc, business news. >> interesting. >> it is. >>> well, if you call your close friendour family, you may actually be right. >> that's right. a new study from researchers at yale and uk san diego say we actually do share a bit of dna with our close friends. they say people with similar genes meet and they form close relationships. they found friends share about 1% of their genes. that's about as related to each other as fourth cousins. the study also says close friends have a similar sense of smell, which brings them together as well. >> explanations for why we would tend to associate with other people who are similar, and this sort of adds a whole another layer to it, a deeper layer than one that we had anticipated. >> researchers also found genes that were more similar between friends seem to evolve faster. they say ma might explain why human evolution has actually sped up over the last couple hundred thousands of years, suggesting that social environment is actually an evolutionary force. >> cousin! >> exactly. close cousins. >> our other cousin, christina loren. >>

courtney reagan has more. >> reporter: it hasn't been an easy year for retailers, and the stakes only get higher. the all-important back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons have stores pulling out all the stops to get consumers buying. economic data shows consumers have been spending on big purchases, like homes and cars. but when it comes to smaller items, like closet organizers, and clothing, retail ceos are scratching their heads. ceo of the container store thinks there is, quote, a retail funk going on, causing sluggish sales at his company, as well as others. staples' president of north american stores and online agrees. saying weather is no longer the foremost barometer retailers can rely on to predict traffic. >> we're seeing different behavior pattern from customers. because they do have so many choices. online, stores, ors combination. it's hard to put a finger on exactly what's going on. >> consumer funk or not retailers can't afford to sit back and wait for the tide to turn. social media buying options, aggressive pricing, and more convenient pop-up shops are just some o

good afternoon, nicole. >> good afternoon, president courtney, commissioners. i did want to come and speak on the water supply in particular i had the pleasure and i think the honor, i appreciated participating in the press event yesterday. more than ever, we're working quite closely with your staff and your general manager and focusing on the message to get the water reduced reductions. we got off to a bit of a rocky start, it was difficult with the rain that continued off and on. but we have seen a significant change in the last couple of weeks and in fact as we look at the data now, we're on track with an idea of getting an average annual water saving reduction. what that mean and you had a lot of conversation about landscaping is outdoor water use and the summer is our biggest area to achieve those savings and specifically

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courtney is live with the latest. >> reporter: whole foods is turning on a picksed quarter. shares falling after hours in response. the organic grocer beating the street on the bottom line of 2 cents. revenue, tow, falk slightly shy of expectations at 3.38 billion. same store sales up. analysts expected to see comp growth of about 4 pine 7%. whole foods cutting its earnings and same store sales forecasts, saying competition in the organic space is continuing to swell. the board is announcing a new $1 billion buy back program. sales are down by a couple hair's percent, we are bouncing it around a bit. we will bring you more as the conference gets under way and see if we have more insight into the earnings. >> guy adami, is this a business model that's broken? >> i think that seems to be what's happening t. growth was there. now you can't. it's very hard to justify 22 times forward earnings with the growth we are seeing right now. an interesting day in the stock, tow, it was up almost 2% on huge vurnlgs which leads me to believe a lot of shorts were scared going into earnings.

hey, courtney? >> reporter: hi, good morning to you, carl. joined here at walmart headquarters by bill simon. he is the kceo of walmart u.s. walmart made a big pledge. spent $250 billion on products made in the u.s. and supporting u.s. jobs by the year 2024. the world business network, worrying about profit margins. it's expensive to produce in the u.s. how will you protect the profit margins? >> the economics are changing. that's what this is about. an open call for the first time ever we've invited anybody who makes or assembles a product in the u.s. to come and show what they have and we've seen exciting products already in the day's 1yu69 started. economics are starting. a generational shift with the labor components rising in asia. demand poor products rising in asia. transportation costs increasing, and lower energy costs domestically, there are categories that are already less expensive to manufacture in the u.s. that old notion that it's going to be more expensive because it's made in the u.s. is not the case. right now we're seeing p

courtney reagan takes a look. >> here is what to watch for in retail in the second half. the two biggest retail spending events are still ahead of us. back to school and holiday. the good news is most retailers are expecting a stronger close to the year. the bad news is they're up against tougher comparables. it may be another weak back to school shopping season in the teen sector as more disposable income is diverted to smartphone bills, entertainment, and sports. capital markets analyst susan anderson thinks the missie shopper is finally ready to start upgrading her wardrobe. that's your second half retail outlook for "nightly business report." i'm courtney reagan. >>> and joining us now with his take on the economy, we're always pleased to welcome back steve forbes, of course chairman and editor-in-chief of forbes media. steve has a new book out now, called "money: how the destruction of the dollar threatening the global economy and what we can do about it." what do you think of the economy right now as we go into the second half? the stock market as a discounting mech

. >> correct good morning courtney with the to my right the to my right has an 11 member citizen's advisory committee each member serves the term and we recommend that and you can see the applications in attachment one with information important our current committee members for the advisory committee you must be a san francisco resident and appear once before this committee speaks and, now, as you mention we have currently one vacancy for there are 12 applicants and we understand there maybe people in the audience to speak if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> so again, this is a seat vacated by joseph flanagan who represented district 6 and we are incredibly i still miss his weekly appearance at city hall and our transportation authority and anybody that comes into that seat has shoes to fill we had applicants speak and i'll ask if there are any applicants for this seat who want to come up to the podium to speak and present? come on up mr. smith >> thank you supervisor kim. my name is ramona smith i've minding in san francisco for over thirty years of those years i'v

parents of the four children courtney soules has been following, started out saying between 5,000 and00 words per day. how many more words are they speaking to their children a year later? >> anywhere between three and five. >> 100? >> yes, which is great. >> 500 more words a day: it's probably not going to have a huge effect. >> reporter: james morgan of brown university. >> which is not to say it'll have no effect, but 500 words a day the child is still far below the average. that's not enough improvement. >> reporter: in morgan's view, conversation coaching for low income parents only goes so far because it fails to address their circumstances. >> it's tough to be a parent in a low income family. think about a simple trip to the grocery store: if you have to rely on public transportation and watch every penny, then you don't have a lot of energy. you don't have a lot of time. it's not hard to see why kids in low income families are probably getting less interaction with their parents than are kids in higher income families. >> we already know that this is changing behaviors in fami

for now, carl, back to you. >> courtney, thank you so much.reagan over at the nas. >>> working for the weekend might be a little easier if carlos slim had whis way. he called for the introduction of a three-day week, offset by longer hours and a longer requirement designed to improve people's quality of life. slim is putting his money where is his mouth is, instituting a voluntary four-day workweek at one of his own companies in mexico. you're not doing anything like out of the "daily mail," are you? >> no. why is it always the most successful people telling everyone to work less. i'm sure he's been working three-day workweeks as he became the world's richest man. >> yeah, i'm just happy for a three-day weekend every once in a while. like those with young kids at home, like sometimes you need to go to work. >> need a reason to leave the house, absolutely. >> every once in a while. no, i don't know. you look at europe and how their economy's doing and productivity and kind of the long siestas that they get, i'm not sure i want that. >> i also t

courtney reagan, what's going on?at's right, kelly, check out shares of apollo education group, the stock getting hammered in the after-hours trading session after the company announced it has been informed by the department of education that it intends to conduct a review of the university of phoenix's financial aid programs. right now, shares trading down 7%. kelly, back to you. >> big hit for them, courtney. thank you. >>> well, we do know the fed will raise interest rates at some point. we just don't know when. but my next guest says the fed may already be too late to stave off inflation because of what he calls institutional inertia. ian shepherdson is chief economist at pantheon macroeconomi macroeconomics. ian, good to have you on the line here. listen, you're saying it's already behind the curve, so you see inflation already picking up in this economy, even where few other people do at this moment? >> yeah, i mean, it's not a massive problem yet, but of course, the problem is that managed poliicy have a long l

. >> plus the cougar town set working out with courtney cox. >> plus misti and jace. >> they open up after saving their teen son from suicide. >> i wanted to kill myself. >> you get through it together. >> plus tv mothers and daughters interview each other. mike & molly's dysfunctional pair. >> i think joyce gives you really unappropriate sexual

for more information on those types of project please vital sf and contact courtney at the transportation authority. the project for the nsb r project we thank the arts and civic design domino for their approval of the brt designs they have jurisdiction over the urban design and expressed their appreciation to coordinate across the departments. so thank you for that and pleased to see that move forward >> now with the completion of that milestone we're going to position quarterly on the reports. you have the geary project this continues with the circulation of our administrative draft and we're prepping to circulate that to the mta and to the public in the october formulate and finally on the management administration side i want to thank our finance and administrative staff for helping to prepare primarily assessment for the low and behold entrepreneurs and others you participation at the transportation authority for our professional services and contract on, on average we're meeting the goals we've set for the expenditures and continue to track those closely reporting out to supervisor

. >> reporter: courtney was against the legal says and is with mothers against drunk driving. >> withreational marijuana, we'll see a lot of people entering the marketplace who wouldn't have before. they either won't be familiar with how marijuana makes them feel, how it may impair judgment of driving abilities and other abilities. >> reporter: colorado already sold medical marijuana but washington state's medical marijuana dispensaries are unregulated so the recreational pot infrastructure started from scratch. distribution and supply problems are expected to keep prices for illegal marijuana at $25 a gram, about double the street price. many store owners plan to rags what they have left because they don't expect new supplies till at least next month. adriana disays, cbs news, seattle. >seattle. >> pelley: for harry photter fans, the long wait is over. author j.k. rowling post add new potter on her web site. harry is 33 and attending the cupp with friends and he hermim. just 1500 words is all she wrote. our final story is next. >> pelley: finally, tonight, the bible says there's a ti

we are joined by ambassador courtney. serving as national security council senior director for ukraine and eurasia. how significant was the fall of slovyansk and the three other cities in terms of the grand scheme of things? >> slovyansk was not a regional capital. it was a promma tory, if you will, in the russian back struggle. a colonel strokoff was a prominent spokesperson for the rebels. he begged vladimir putin of russia for military help saying that his foebs wouldn't last more than a week or so. they didn't last more than a day or so. they were through, and also rebels from kramatorsk, going back to don k. >> how significant is it that vladimir putin doesn't respond in amidst to those quests? >> vladimir putin is in a tight situation. after the success, take over in crimea, in which the russians forces - they had a bloodless take over. they were surprised. vladimir putin raised expectations in russia and eastern ukraine. that didn't happen. in fact, most of the people in eastern ukraine are not supportive of the ru

. >> president courtney n >> here. >> vietor. >> here. >> and moran. >> here. >> torres. >> here. >>nd commissioner caen is excused. >> we would like to approve. >> moved. >> any public comment? >> seeing no public comment, i will call a roll, signify by saying aye. if there is no objections from

. >> and courtney reagan is on the scene. we'll see her later on. >> want to tell us about the market here? >> the dow is down 57 points, off the session lows where we were down about 76. so, 17,010 is the level we're watching right now, off about 0.33%. take a look, meanwhile, at the nasdaq, this one out-performing. last week it was in the range of 2% or higher in the shortened holiday trading week. today it's giving up 35 points to the down side. finally, the s&p 500 off about nine, 1,976 is the level there. >> keeping up with the closing bell exchange with die yawn, peter anderson from congress wealth management, hank smith from heatherford investments, steve sax from pro shares advisors, and our own robert pisani. peter anderson, at least two houses on the street are now, as a result of the jobs report on thursday, saying that they think the fed will start to actually raise interest rates sooner than expected, maybe as soon as next year right about now. would that be good or bad for stocks? >> well, it depends. it depends

. >> in the word courtney part of the hotel's address the t was capitalized in the middle of the word. >> this is unusual. not only because it's a capital letter but because of the spacial quality of the small r to the tall t. >> and the letter y was written in a way that teresa stubbs had never seen before. >> the letter y was written four times, each time written differently. a slight variation but different. that was important. >> so they are working it really hard. we got to find who wrote this note. we do that we fine the killer. >> besides the handwriting the note held one other clue. next to the directions to the boat launch, joan rogers had written the phrase blue with wht. >> we just surmised they were meeting something that was blue and white. if you're going a boat ramp what would you be meeting that's blue and white. it's a boat. >> there were no boats docked at the launch, it's an area where anyone residents or tourists can put their boat in the water for a day of boating. then police got a break. a tipster told them about a local man who was running an unlicensed busines

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let's continue with courtney kealy giving us some background on the area. >> reporter: the bible says de-lylea betrayed samson, shorn of his hair he pulled a temple down around him, killing himself and others. in modern times the strip of land became a backwater passing from ottoman to british rule. under the u.n.'s 1947 plan it was supposed to become part of the new arab country. palestinians rejected the plan. israel declared independence, war followed. when it ended the proposed arab palestine didn't exist. gaza was copied by a small army and reduced to a small strip of land. it was flooded by refugees from the fighting. >> the tents pitched by aid groups turned into homes and camps that endured for generations. the 6-day war brought a new occupier, israel, along with a second waive of refugees. the popuation swirled making it a densely populated place on earth. settlements swallowed up large swaths of the narrow trip in the years that followed. a glimmer of hope in the decades of conflict was a 1993 white house handshake. it ended the first interfada or uprising, a revolt beginnin

all unlikely victims of a conflict that rages on the ukraine. >> courtney keely, al jazeera. >> we willake an in-depth laid at the conference in melbourne australia at 8:30 p.m. eastern right here on al jazeera america. >> will do it for this hour. thanks for watching. i am thomas drayton in new york. we leave you from images for a vigil of the victims of flight 17. ♪ >> nogales, arizona. a bus has arrived filled with people being deported from the united states. >> right now we're headed to san juan bosco, a shelter here in nogales where the mexican immigration authorities have picked the people who were just deported, they take them there so they have a place to stay on their first night back in mexico.

. >> what about courtney cox? now famous for "friends" and everything else.limbed on the stage when springsteen and everybody got that honey shot of her. >> hemmer is a springsteen expert >> are you kidding? >> there's urban legend in chicago field. urban legend is that harry carey was during a cubs game, they were really bad then, worse than today, and they came back from a commercial break and there was an attractive woman in center field and the camera was on her and he said, what i want to do to be 29 and know what i know today. and so then harry's fans are like, you're the man. that's the legend. >> that's what it's all about. >> that's what made him famous? >> no. not really. >> hemmer has a lot of stories. >> i just made that up. >> courtney cox, that was plan snd >> sure. she tried out for the role. >> i feel like i'm living under a rock. >> bill, there are shots taken of men in the audience, in the stands or whatever you want to call it. case in point, you cover the "new york post" the other day. showed a gentleman suing a network because they portra

bill courtney was u.s. ambassador to kazakhstan and georgia. bill. >> thank you very much.let me comment on the strategic context affecting what i will call the three energy baby giants to the south of russia, azerbaijan, kazakhstan and turkmenistan. in the years ahead strategic environment in this region may undergo dramatic change. the first source of change is china. in 2011 its gdp was 4.7 times larger than russia's. the imf estimates that in 2018 only seven years later, china's gdp will be six times higher than russia's. leveraging this economic dynamism, china is investing in energy and in kazakhstan and turkmenistan. china has already broken russia's monopoly over energy export pipelines from central asia. oil and gas flow eastward over long distances to china. last year chinese leader ping visited central asia and signed tens of billions of dollars in commercial deals. china is challenging russia's security real. xiping, proposed a central mechanism for central asia focused regional organization. central asia and russia offer china sources of energy not vulnerable t