my name is denny smith and i moved to san francisco 40 years ago. i appreciate your consideration of our remarks today. i have always been very, very proud of san francisco and how it treats its citizens. especially citizens who face a challenge in life. whether the challenges is homophobia or racism or health challenges as hiv infection or breast cancer and i am sorry to say that the pride that i have in how san francisco rises to that went from being a collective pride to a personal pride last year. and because i became unemployed and homeless. for the first time, and it was quite a blow to my ego and to my understanding of how the world works. but again, i am still proud of how san francisco deals with adversity. and i wish that i could say that it is not necessary to target tefk populations with special funding, but i think that it is. last night, i spent the night under the monument between the library and the asian art museum. and i think i don't want to be a bother to the city's workers and i don't want to wake up with them kicking my feet, s

they're very big on gouging you, so now that you know that, let's bring in denny strigl, i've got my fox all-stars as well, gary b. smith david asman and tracy byrnes. all right. so explain to me, denny, how this and why this makes -- >> well, first, thank you for that nice lead-in. [laughter] neil: whatever i can do. >> look, neil, why shouldn't the people who use the most service pay for it? if what average pricing gives you is that the people who use the most service are subsidizing those who use less service, that doesn't -- >> do you buy the company's math that this won't effect 70% plus of users? because i thk that's a lie. >> yes, i do. neil: you do? you think it's a lie? [laughter] >> no, i don't think it's a lie. these are not dumb people. and they understand that their job is to keep the customers they already have and to get new kansas hers. it has -- customers. if they're gouging, their customers are going to tell them that, and they're going to walk to somebody else. neil: but in a lot of the areas, they can't. it might be comcast and only comcast. i'm not using them as an example, we reached out to them, w

of alonia, helen grier of mayflower, jeffrey hunter of velonia, dennis laverne, glenna laverne, david mallory, robert oliver, cameron smith, tyler smith, rob at this tittle, rebea tittli, tory tittle and daniel watson. madam president, you can see and hear from those names that a lot of these were family members and obviously members of a few communities in my state. i want to thank my colleagues first because many called and reached out in various ways. some covered meetings for me. in fact, senator jack reed of rhode island actually covered a military promotion ceremony which was really special for me -- for him to do and special for everyone involved, so i thank him for that. and many, many, many of my colleagues have offered to help. also, we have had people from outside of arkansas who have reached out. i know our governor has fielded calls from a number of other governors from around the country, and our emergency management people have been reached out to by other emergency management folks. you know, another phenomenon that's happened in our state, we neighbor several states who have gone through this before. one

mark bradley, jaime collins, helen greer, jeffrey hunter, dennis lavern, glenna lavern, david malory, robert oliver, cameron smith, tyler smith, rob tittle, rebecca tittle, tory tittle and daniel wasam. madam president, you can see and hear from those names nat a lot of these were family members and members of a few communitys in my state. i want to thank my colleagues first because many called and reached out in various ways. some covered meetings for me. senator jack reed of rod. -- rhode island -- cover ad meeting for me. and we have had people from outside of arkansas that reached out. i know our governer has fielded calls from around the country and our emergency management folks have been reached out by others. we neighbor several states who have gone through this before. one of those is missouri. i see my colleagues from missouri in the chamber. people from missouri, people from oklahoma. and we have helped those states in their time of need. it was so appreciating that the folks came and helped arkansas. we appreciate it very much. and the federal officials reached out. i was in the car with our governer

denny's. >> osgood: the ant fay railroad helped to put this town on the map. transper takes keeps changing in many ways. here is tracy smithnot think of nashville as a sidewalk surfing mecca, but some of the best skateboards are made right here in music city. at salemtown board company, 27-year-old will anderson can turn a slab of middle tennessee oak in to a world class ride. so this wasn't exactly the career he had in mind. >> my under grad work, philosophy. my master's degree was master's in divinity. and now all my clothes are stained with paint and covered in saw dust. >> reporter: owe group skateboarding in central florida but anderson was drawn to a life as a social worker. >> i tell my fiance all the time that all i'm qualified to do is write a blog that nobody reads. >> reporter: now he's building the skateboards everybody wants. each one is made entirely by hand from the carefully applied stain to the custom paint job to the salemtown "s" branded in to the wood. what do you want people to think when they see these boards? >> i'm telling july and every month. i'm selling the beach in any state. i'm selling summer