item 21 and 27 through 30 dhl be read and considered when the two items are called madam president. >> thank you. and madam clerk, can you read the consent's agenda. >> item's one and two, these items are considered routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed. >> are there any members who would like to severe items for consent? see none, madam clerk, approximate please call the roll. >> kim. >> yie. >> tang. >> yeah. >> yee. >> yeah. >> avalos. >> yeah. >> supervisor breed. >> yeah. >> campos. >> yeah. >> campos yeah. christian ten. >> yeah. >> there are 11yeas. these are approved. >> a legacy business registry and authorize a $50 administrative fee. >> can we take this item, same house, same call? seeing no objection, this is passed on the same reading. madam clerk, can you please call item number four. >> item four is a resolution to authorize the general manager of the public utilities commission to execute a one to the water program agreement for additional management services associated with the henry tracy associated plant with hdr engineering and to increase the agreem

kennedy: joe lieberman made him go under the dhl several upper i am not wrong. >> has he ever done anythingk so. kennedy: i adore you. later in the show i will respond to inappropriate and memorex. you could be on the show in moments. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. kennedy: speaking to a sixth group yesterday obama suggested one way to improve democracy is by forcing everyone to vote. >> in australia it is mandatory. it would be to informative if everybody voted. kennedy: would it? the audacious hope and change we have been promised? he wasn't making a serious policy suggestion the bed thinking how deep it would be if the government forced everyone. from year-old pacific capital. that is a very handsome title. >> it sounds like a great idea? >> is a horrible idea. but now any

in the last three criminal prosecutions in europe which is the sky guide prosecutions, and the dhl, and the other midway and the concord which result eded in criminal prosecution, and the sas midair ground crash involved prosecutions and jail terms for the people involved. >> but who do you prosecute here? there is no one to prosecute. >> yes, they did prosecute, and you would think for example in the sas crash, you never would have expected on the ground incursion a criminal prosecution, but they prosecuted the airport managers for not putting sufficient markings on the airport, and the sky guide, the person who was not paying attention served time and then ultimately killed by a family member and then in the sky guide, ultimately, executives were prosecuted because of a faulty tire that was well known and metal strip left on the runway. >> could someone in lufthansa be there? >> and well, you saw a prosecutor called in today and so they are possibly opening up criminal prosecution and it would be monitor it. and even rebalance it. i've been called innovative. revolutionary. and just p

they had to be sedated and couriered-- you couldn't make this up-- by dhl! was that hard for you? family away. >> aspinall: honestly, no. i'm so proud that they're going where they belong. if i didn't do it, i would not live easy within myself. >> stahl: the gorillas were flown to gabon and taken by raft to this dense forest-- about a million acres that he bought and turned into a national park to protect animals like the western lowland gorillas, whose numbers keep dwindling due to habitat destruction and poaching. i'm wondering why the poachers even want gorillas. they don't have horns, they don't have ivory. >> aspinall: bush meat. they'll eat the gorillas. >> stahl: they... they are poaching them to... >> aspinall: they'll cut the hands off... >> stahl: ...to eat them? >> aspinall: ...and sell them as ashtrays. the babies are taken for pet trade. >> stahl: to keep them safe, the gorillas were taken at first to an island to acclimate. damian's staff continued to feed them and give them medicines like malaria pills. this wasn't his first time sending gorillas here. he had alread

everybody else that makes deliveries, u.p.s., fedex, dhl, whomever, individuals, has to leave them at the front door. of the residence or business. that's a substantial burden in a large apartment house, or business. or office building. the postal service itself estimated that in 2008, that ending the current bar on private delivery companies accessing mailboxes would cost the postal service $1.5 billion to $2.6 billion per year. and that was after all, 2008. so that's seven years ago. and is two to three times the estimate of the value of the subsidy. it's going at it a different way. i'm not saying that there was any problem in the accounting. it's the way you approach it. how you conceptualize the subsidy. this is how an economist would conceptualize it, and that is that you would look at the volume of mail delivered to curbside mailboxes and centralized mail rooms, and the cost of doing so compared to delivery to each customer's door. because that's the privilege they get as compared to the requirement for private companies. by that accounting, the mailbox monopoly saved the posta

everybody else that makes deliveries, u.p.s., fedex, dhl whomever, individuals, has to leave them at the front door. of the residence or business. that's a substantial burden in a large apartment house, or business. or office building. the postal service itself estimated that in 2008, that ending the current bar on private delivery companies accessing mailboxes would cost the postal service $1.5 billion to $2.6 billion per year. and that was after all, 2008. so that's seven years ago. and is two to three times the estimate of the value of the subsidy. it's going at it a different way. i'm not saying that there was any problem in the accounting. it's the way you approach it. how you conceptualize the subsidy. this is how an economist would conceptualize it, and that is that you would look at the volume of mail delivered to curbside mailboxes and centralized mail rooms, and the cost of doing so compared to delivery to each customer's door. because that's the privilege they get as compared to the requirement for private companies. by that accounting, the mailbox monopoly saved the posta

able to announce the selection of the new members of coac and some of them are here cynthia allen of dhl global forging brenda barnes, celeste linda feldman lisa alexander of cosco adam salerno, u.s. chamber of commerce and madeleine expect international. mike white, international air transport association and michael young orient overseas container lid. they are going to be joined eight reappointed members david berry of swift transportation scott feuer of kraft foods susanna hager of abbott laboratories, vincent that you know group, elizabeth merrick, airlines for america, and julia raytheon. what a strong and diverse team internationally type of business. everything that you want when you're thinking traditionally complex issues and the amount of time and effort that they spend and the fact that if such great support from their organizations and other companies is really unbelievably incredibly helpful to us. and i look forward to continuing to work with them. interagency collaboration is important as many of you know, too. we work closely with treasury and tim could not be a better p

everybody else that makes deliveries, u.p.s., fedex, dhl, whomever, individuals, has to leave them at the front door. of the residence or business. that's a substantial burden in a large apartment house, or business. or office building. the postal service itself estimated that in 2008, that ending the current bar on private delivery companies accessing mailboxes would cost the postal service $1.5 billion to $2.6 billion per year. and that was after all, 2008. so that's seven years ago. and is two to three times the estimate of the value of the subsidy. it's going at it a different way. i'm not saying that there was any problem in the accounting. it's the way you approach it. how you conceptualize the subsidy. this is how an economist would conceptualize it, and that is that you would look at the volume of mail delivered to curbside mailboxes and centralized mail rooms, and the cost of doing so compared to delivery to each customer's door. because that's the privilege they get as compared to the requirement for private companies. by that accounting, the mailbox monopoly saved the posta

to announce the selection of the new members of coac and some of them are here, but cynthia allen of dhl global forwarding, brenda barnes of the george s. bush and company and hida bra ashgsa hidabray lisa gelsemino, and alexandra latham of costco and amy magnus of an derringer, and adam adam salerno. michael white international and air transport association and michael young, orient overseas container line and they are going to be joined by eight reappointed members and david barry of swift transportation. scott boyer of kraft foods and brandon freed of air forward association. seuss soona haggar of abbott laboratories, and vincent aicap ella, and julianne parks and kevin parnell of microsoft. what a strong and diverse team, internationally type of business. everything that you want when you're thinking through these really complex issues and the amount of time and effort that they spend and the fact that they have such great support from their organizations and their companies is really unbelievable, incredibley helpful to us and i look forward to continuing to work with them and the i

everybody else that makes deliveries, u.p.s., fedex, dhl, whomever, individuals, has to leave them at the front door. of the residence or business. that's a substantial burden in a large apartment house, or business. or office building. the postal service itself estimated that in 2008, that ending the current bar on private delivery companies accessing mailboxes would cost the postal service $1.5 billion to $2.6 billion per year. and that was after all, 2008. so that's seven years ago. and is two to three times the estimate of the value of the subsidy. it's going at it a different way. i'm not saying that there was any problem in the accounting. it's the way you approach it. how you conceptualize the subsidy. this is how an economist would conceptualize it, and that is that you would look at the volume of mail delivered to curbside mailboxes and centralized mail rooms, and the cost of doing so compared to delivery to each customer's door. because that's the privilege they get as compared to the requirement for private companies. by that accounting, the mailbox monopoly saved the posta

we seen dhl doing it in europe as well. competitors. that itself the fact that everybody is zooming in on that last mile of delivery when it comes to parcel carriers. when it comes to package delivery. that's like doing it faster doing it cheaper. so drones is one way they're doing it. i think it's fascinating to fill years in the making. >> it is finally inefficient for a big old tractor to bring a tiny book. when a drone can do it a lot quicker, a little faster. a little more efficient. >> in the middle the postal service is doing it. >> those could be used for commercial purposes. >> i'm not so much into the drones pinpointing, like who is closer to deliver the package. you have these huge trarls tractor-trailers, et cetera, there has to be a delivery process seeing where all the package versus to go. >> i'm not sure how revolutionary. let's say ten years from now, 15 years from now, i assume it won't be in big cities. it will be in rural areas. how revolutionary will it be? what will it do caught little cost out of thin

that involved a russian plane and a dhl aircraft that collided over the german skies.an aviation companies are concerned, this is certainly shaping up to be the worst that's ever happened. >> fred 142 passengers on board, 6 crew members. we do know that 45 of those pass sentences sen gers were spaniards do we know anything else about the passengers? >> well at this point we don't have the numbers. we do know that the french authorities have come out and said that they believe because of the destination of this plane, that most of the -- or the majority of the victims will be german. of course there's 45 spaniards on board. that of course is something that also is very important. there is a lot of travel between spain and germany. spain is by far the biggest tourist destination of most european countries or northern european countries. especially from this area from dusseldorf/cologne area most densely populated. dusseldorf is the biggest airport within the most densely populated area. there's a lot of flights going back and forth. there are a lot of spaniards living in