what do we have to do after? we can go walk around. we have after-school programs with things we enjoy. they have activities. we are building our knowledge outside of school. it also ties in with violence. that is something we do not want to have a lot of in the city. this is our community. after-school programs kind of cuts it down. think about it, if we do not have after-school programs, where are we going to go? we need things that make us happy. we go to school. we work hard. we want fun things to do after. how about if we need help after? it is a place we feel safe at. why would we get rid of something that helps and builds our community? thank you. [applause] >> that is an excellent question. one of the agencies that deals with a lot of the after-school programs is the department of children, youth, and families. there are many programs represented here. any thoughts on that point? >> i am from the department of children and families. thank you for having us here. the director and i have worked in the non-profit sector for many y

what do you do on that? >> for all public contracts, public agencies need to see that there contractors have bonding in order for them to demonstrate they can complete the contract. sba provides an insured bond guarantee to those who do bonding to small businesses on public contracts. so there is an sba program on a maturity bonding, similar to what we do. it is a guarantee to be assured the in the event of a default, that is a guarantee. so there is a charity bond guarantee, structured differently than the sba guaranteed loan program. >> i am a big fan of marketing. let us know if you have a small business in there that we can patronize. thank you. -- in that area that we can patronize. >> i have a company here in san francisco. like all small businesses, working for the city of san francisco is difficult. cash flow is a problem. invoices' get paid anywhere from 60 to 120 days. being cash for, i do not know how that would help me qualify for a loan, but it is a problem. so my question is, where do you go, i

if i physically can't do something when we show you how to do search and rescue, don't do it and make sure everybody else knows what you can and cannot do. that's very, very important. know where your emergency exits are and what your signals are. examine the exterior of a house. you want to know who's missing. if anybody is missing, does anybody live in the house? structural damage of the house, again, you want to know what you're walking into. potential hazards, glass, water, anything broken glass. we mentioned some of that earlier. know your exit and entry points, know where the utility shut offs are if you have to turn them off. you don't have to turn them off all the time, only if you have to. any unique characteristics. does this house have a lot of glass, is it built on a hill side, is it built on stilts? before you enter, you are going to make a marking, make a slash near the front entry so everybody knows that you've gone inside. there's two things that are going to alert people that you have gone inside to do a search. one is a slash and the other is the other team outside.

do i think he could do a good job? there are a lot of people who could do a good job. the problem is, what can he do while he is there? he cannot say, you are fired. he cannot do that. >> he would run through chiefs of staff like he is changing his socks. >> the phone number is 563-344- 1420. these guys are hard working. they have been on the road. >> they went outside iowa. >> hopefully, they are having a little fun. hopefully, they will be back. we could do a whole show on the caucus process. there is a difference between republicans and the democrats. they put you in a corner and if you are not viable, they make you go to another one. >> i love the fact that that is the neat thing about the caucuses. it is an a side and a b side. they try to talk you into doing something their way. i have only seen them in action once and shook my head as i walked away. we talked about who is liable as a candidate. we talked about pretender contenders. >> right now, donald trump is not playing that great in iowa. >> there is a serious political atmosphere here. >> we are getting som

what do i do? i live paycheck to paycheck. all year, i have been watching c-span a lot lately, and all i hear is "is the other guys' fault" and this and that. too much time is focused on blame and not on the real issue, which is get it done. host: how long have you been in the military? caller: three years. host: thanks for watching. good luck. democrats line. caller: i would like to say, just to agree with a lot of other callers, we really just need to get to the real issues and everyone come together and make decisions. i'm a government employee. i am considered non-essential, so if there is a shot down, i will not be going into work. this is one of those things where federal employees, military employees, we are not the ones who should be used as an example when there are situations to where there cannot be agreements made between all party lines. i just think that agreements need to be made. if there are other issues that get tabled, then those issues become table, and you just move on with the budget. the economy is reall

to recognize that we have to do it now. we are trying to do that. to stand up for ohio and facebook is something you can check out. >> speaking for federal sector labor unions, our union was one of three unions that recently commissioned some polling, as well, to sort of figure out how we responded to this-media and congressional action that is happening with federal employees, and the results are pretty interesting, because the bottom line is when it is all said and done, the public in our country things pretty highly of federal employees. and yet, when you ask the question "what do you think about the unions that represent these employees?" their approval ratings when announcing the delay, and i think part of it is due to basically this notion that somehow unions are disconnected from the employees that they represent, and that is nonsense. they are one in the same. the very word "union" implies that it is individual employees that come together to form an organization to represent and bargain, so we have got this disconnect, where we think this u

more, do faster, do more, do faster. again, people not knowing the capability until it was brought forward through the communications and net centricness. you mean, i can see what my troops are doing over -- and over the next hill? that was made possible because of the net centric capability. there's another bump there in the last line going up to the top. we've been asked to do it again, and there's really no end in sight. somebody says 65 cap, and we were asked the other day what are you going to do with that once iraq and afghanistan are down? well, so-com wants to keep what they got, and pay-com doesn't have anything yet and north-com duped have anything yet. we'll stay busy your quite a while even if it's just second missions. i bet we stay pretty busy. here you can see that growth in just pure caps from 2004 to now, a 12 00% increase, and they asked us to do it again. it was brought up that -- or i'm sorry, mr. barry brought up whether we should call them unmanned aircraft systems. the air force got away from that

what do you do the next morning?we went back to the ford factory and thank you for your help we will be back again. my mother tells a great story that i heard briefly about the history and the family and then to run again mom said she remembers running into a friend who said he will not let him run again? he just can't progress if he loses it will be embarrassing. as if the first two were not [laughter] but my mom had such a great answer. who am i to kill the dream? of course, i will. he wants to run. now we know that he ran and he run with the 1994 republican resurgence. i tell the story not to say that he lost a lot, because it is embarrassing but persistence matters÷ but that we as a people needs persistence because that would make a difference. as thomas jefferson said all they need is to remain silent. we need to be very, very aware. we cannot be silent. we have to have the ability to stand up to speak what we think is important as a nation. today more than ever, the conservatives, and no offense. now you know,

why do we do that?ernment can get involved and regulate the amount of water in my washing machine and now i have to do two loads instead of one, but why can they not get involved to let them be serviced right here? as far as the military and what not, why not give the cars and trucks back to the motor pool and bring those people home? it would save a lot of money. host: hollywood, fla., on the democratic line. caller: if the dock because a cease-fire, how do we get him out? -- if gaddafi calls a cease fire, how do we get him out? guest: there is a report that the african union has organized a ceasefire, but the problem is that what does gaddafi did in this situation? the best hope right now, and it is not clear that it is a strong hope, is that he could be negotiated out in terms with some assurances for his personal survival, protection of his family, a refuge. i think the problem of beating him at militarily would be very difficult. lead and then accept a victory by gaddafi is very unlikely during the

i do not want that. i hope it is zero, but i know that no cash on hand it does not help us get over the finish line. i'm trying to balance those objectives with getting our party down to business, functional, operational, and defeating this president that i think is taking this country of the financial rails. >> why do you think the rnc is even necessary in terms of funding voter turnout efforts? why not just leave it to outside groups? >> because outside groups cannot by law coordinate arm in arm -- if i was a 527, i could not sit down with a presidential nominee or their campaign and literally coordinate we are doing with our money, where we are putting our money, what needed to polities in ohio -- how much absentee -- how much absentee balloting work we should do -- look at what barack obama is doing -- who is the coordinating with? the dnc. that is the same thing we have to do at the end -- at the rnc. >> so without that, you are at a deep disadvantage? >> people ask me all the time what was differen

before you start, what do you do? stop, look, listen and think. any time you pull up to an incident or you see something, you take a breath, assess the situation, use all your senses and think about what you are going to do. those are all components of what we call the size-up. there are many components to size up. what's one of the components to size up? gathering facts. you want to assess the type of damage there is. what kind

>> but how do we change if we do not go to the source?> we have to, but you have to overcome that initial resistance. >> years ago i was involved in the case and one of the question was, what you think about prosecutors? wonderful. what about criminal defense lawyers? one person wrote just one word, sleazy. when i met him i said, we have never met, i did not take it personally. he said, oh, i meant it in a good way. [laughter] people don't appreciate how important jury selection is. judges often totally lose track of that because they want to move these cases. particularly in the immediate case, but in every case. >> one of the members of the audience would like to know, how do get the public to understand our great work which involves the phantom of the guilty, and sometimes an acquittal for some? >> the medical profession accidentally butchers about 100,000 people a year. kills them. yet, people love doctors. this is a wonder to me. i had the pleasure of convicting four doctors in my time as a prosecutor and my only regret is not convic

i do talk with her, but i get sad when i do. i imagine that she does not look the same with the passing of time. i often think about what my mother looks like at the present moment. i wonder how and why she had to go and leave my brothers and die. i remembered our reaction when we learned that she was not coming back. my mother left when my baby sister was about to turn one year old. it is challenging to take care of a baby and four younger brothers. i was a high-school student who is now taking care of her younger siblings, working, trying to finish her high school degree, and her mother has been in mexico, trying desperately to think about a way to rejoin her family. this is one of the thousands of examples that we see. in fact, we know the 1100 people per day have been deported under the obama administration. our perspective is that we would hope that in recognizing current law is not working, we know that it would be a more trans- national approach. looking at how it impacts the individual societies in the united states, loo

but we do not know where is that you'll be doing it. so speaking of tracking, people often say, well, how do you report this? are you checking this stuff? the amount required to meet a lead certification is a big stack of documents materials. basically, leave it does the checking. you let them know what you are intending to do, they give you approval in certain ways, you finish the job, and you are proving to some level that you meant it and they provide you with certification. if you go through that process, we are satisfied. we are not going to be checking all of your submissions, we are not checking on the field to make sure you have the right kind of paint on the walls. you have to do that yourself. and green point rated has a similar program. so we will accept that. we will not be plan checking. the problem might come in those buildings where someone says they will not need lead or get a plaque, they will meet an equivalent standard. or we say, well, how do we know? these are the agencies that are checking it. so what we have done

so if we're going to do this thing, how do we do that. how do we work hard enough to make that happen? one of the things that i think does help us is our nation's stories to talk about abraham lincoln and his second inaugural address and talk about ronald reagan when he gave the brandonburg gates speech and why words are important and talk about jfk's and his statement if not what your country can do for you, right, which is currently doing, what you can do for your country. and are we really doing what we should? and i think the hardest is to be a good example. that's the hardest thing i do every day and i fail every day usually by lunch. [laughter] >> sometimes i get a little later. but with two children i think you really understand what that means because they say everything you do and they say how you ask them to do things and they say how you react to people around you or to them and i think we all need to understand that every one of us has been an incredible network and we can be a good example. how do we do this? i'm using some o

we are doing a lot of different things. we have to keep doing it it. there's always better ideas to make it better. >> thank you. superintendent garcia. one of the first actions we took in terms of the mta upon your joining the city as our superintendent was to talk about the relationship between the mta and the school district. we are intrusted with thousands and thousands of students. we have to make sure you get there savely. it's additionally personal to me because i have 2 children in the unified school district. we do take this very seriously. back to 2001. there was a mtap program. we have dozens of individuals who are out there to work specifically with schools and work close with schools. they have the individuals in this program, primarily in middle schools and highs. they have relationships with school security personnel, the idea being, if we do get the information, we are able to redeploy these individuals to head off these conflicts. one of the things we tried to do was one, we increased mtap personnel and this year, where you hear about

do you want me to do nothing? i'm not going to be part of thep do-nothing caucus around here.ards common sense goals, regardless of the outcome. even if i lose, whatever. i have played a role in history right now. in this time of history to makee a difference to make a change. and i am so hopeful. i'm an optimist. i really believe that we can don it better. i believe that we have an opportunity to do a better right now with your leadership and the other l senators who are going o be heree soon, to just take gete together and solve the problems folks. we can battle in two to -- 200. the world is looking at is to make a difference and i'm hopeful that we willin find that ability to do so because if weni don't, then we miss a great, opportunity to just solve problems. so thank you mr. president. i appreciate your patience and your occasional smirks, and i yield the floor. thank you. >> senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says the spending in the deficit are the biggest issues facing the country. he and all the other republican senators are cosponsoring a constitutional amendme

, but in many ways, we do not do it alone. we do it with partners, and that is the takeaway message, the sba lending activity, while would guarantee loans through a number of lenders, we do it with a lot of other partners as well. let me give a little bit of a sense of what the small business administration does and is. we in san francisco covered the bay area and north coast counties, and we do a variety of things. i will come back to the credit card because i know that is what this session is about, but before i do that, there's two other roles we play that are important as well. one is about helping small businesses understand how to start businesses, getting good technical assistance, getting good advice about starting and managing your business. equally important is being prepared for credit. one of the things we tried to do is work with small businesses to understand how to be ready for credit. a lot of that is helping folks that are interested in starting a business understand how to develop a business plan, how to get

make sure you do that. but this city is great and one of the reasons why i came to work here, i get to care about you beyond that 72 hours. i want all of you to stay in this city after the big one hits. i don't want you leaving. i don't want you thinking you've been aen -- abandoned by government. that's what happened in katrina, what happened in new orleans. people left because they didn't have a message to say, stay and rebuild. that's why we have priorities in our budget, we have priorities in our 10-year capital plan, we are putting serious money in the building of our new general hospital. that will be built before the big earthquake hits. it's already under construction. we have so many of our public facilities that have been seismically reinforced. now we have our second phase. by next year, we're going to take another shot at putting together a very credible bond program that raises money so that people who live in the soft story buildings can have a mechanism, because it's too expensive to correct

do you know what they do in federal prison? you have hepatitis c or aids or hiv, they lock you in solitary confinement until you die. that is what they do. that is what they do. i have seen marines out of the military prison -- i have seen them in leavenworth dying in solitary confinement. marines. because they got aids or hepatitis c. convert visn's into what i call residential treatment centers. -- convert prisons. knock down the gun towers. take down the razor wires. inspired the corrections officers, the people with badges that make $150,000 a year -- inspire their asses. [applause] i am all for the union. i do not like their union. what you do is you rehire people back as correctional workers. what happens is in a state of california, where somebody needs help because they contradict or alcoholic or have a bad temper and they are going to be of their wife or sexually assault her stepdaughter -- whatever their problem is, let's do something about crime before they commit the crimes. they have this urge to do something illeg

we can do that without objection. do we have many other items before us? we are turned. -- adjourned. >> good afternoon, everyone. i have had the very fortunate opportunity to meet mayor bloomberg from new york, of course, and, of course, reminded them that both of my daughters, he needs to take care of them because they are studying graduate school in new york, and to welcome him here to san francisco. obviously, we have a lot in common because we are both makers of big cities with very complicated populations and a lot of things happening, but wanted to take the opportunity to welcome mayor bloomberg here to san francisco. immediately, we talked about a passion we both have, and that is golf, so i wanted to present him with a ++in exchange, he mie something for me relative to golf, but, mayor bloomberg, welcome to san francisco. running a very big, complicated city like new york, and at present to you, mayor bloomberg. >> thank you, mr. mayor, and thank you for the hospitality that the people of san francisco not only showed us this time, but every time

i do not think he is doing a good job for america.he reason i think that way is -- the guy is very articulate. obama is much more articulate than bush. but when we had bush, we were a stronger presence in the world. in other words, no one could really intimidate us. i think we are open to intimidation right now. i think we are open to a situation where we could easily be bested. i think a lot of the rest of the countries, many of the countries in the world are doing better, but we're not. and i think that says something to how we're doing. in other words, as an international leader, it might be great for the other nations, but it is not so hot for us. we still have high unemployment rates. we're still not getting the exports done. you're still not getting manufacturing back to where it needs to be. it is great that he comes off to the world as better, but to the u.s., he has a long way to go. i think he needs to focus here. host: thank you. jackie, how is president obama and doing as an international leader? -- i was president obama d

i do. and we plan -- we have always tried to do as homeowners and be responsible to our tenants to do the right thing. i think that is demonstrated by the amount of money and time we spend to have this done here also, our diligence with contacting the puc and calling the city and asking for assistance. yes, i understand that it is ultimately the homeowners responsibility, but i think that we look to professionals and we look to agents that have the expertise to tell us whether we are going about this the right way. in this instance, we only got the direction after the fact. commissioner murphy: you seem to me to be a very responsible homeowner. that is my impression of you. i just think you were in bad luck. you bet the wrong contractor. that is where you are today. >> when was the last time that your basement -- or problem flooding occurred? >> i believe it was last year. this is 2011. i believe it was 2010. i could have my tenant speak with you because she is the one most affected by this

what do you think about flag burning? what do you think about hate speech?t do you think about pornography? and then they'll go, well, i didn't know you were talking about that. >> what most concerns you? you and i talk all the time i know you're a news junky. what most concerns you about the retread, the ground that we're losing? >> what concerns me more than anything, and it's the privacy issue. and the government is not doing anything about it in terms of the big companies like facebook and google. i'm not saying, i don't begrudge those people for making money. nothing wrong with that. but i think americans need to know when they're giving up their privacy. i think that's just as important as the speech issue. >> the privacy part. >> so the government is not really necessarily protecting people's right to free speech as well as they're not saying they have the right to privacy. >> what could, what should the government be doing bet anywhere that regard than they're doing now? >> well, number one, you should not be able to infringe on anybody's rights. you

what do we do? we will get adult protective services involved, legal assistance to the elderly, or any other group to assist the code enforcement process will not cause displacement. we constantly work with those agencies to make sure that the individual is not displaced. with regard to asking for reasonable accommodations, people cannot always use those magic words but may need some sort of accommodation. we will refer those individuals to those agencies so they can assist with the preparation of the room. 90% of the treatment is prepping the room properly. one thing we have heard in the department of building inspection -- i was just a mental health conference. i had an individual indicate that the pesticides in hz single room occupancy hotel were too severe for her. she could not get information from the licensed pest control operators regarding what materials were being used. she wanted other materials to be considered. the san francisco task force formed by this board meets regularly on a month

do you trust us? [laughter] >> do you -- do you believe the climate change is a natural phenomenon? fewer americans believe to be a real problem. >> your than what? it before? >> i don't know. how serious do you believe the problem ? >> i think it is a life or death issue. i am a real expert when it comes to nature and of the temperature goes up six degrees fahrenheit, it will make life on earth very difficult for most of the crtures including humans. >> how do you feel about it? >> i made geologist and we can take you back in time were you had drought that would extend over maybe 1 million years. we have had ice ages that were hundreds of thousands of years. we know the temperature can remain constant or fluctuate or whever. believe it or not, i am one of the few geologists that believes in climate change. [applause] i think all of us skirred up a lot of what -- i think a lot of us screw up what we emit into the atmosphere. i don't think it will happen real quick. it is like a problem with energy and america. you had a cheap oil. you have climate change but if you're cheap oil had

do not give up. if you cannot get through, be patient. 911 works. 911 graffiti calls have doubled the past two years in san francisco and arrests have also doubled. calling 911 can be very effective at reducing graffiti. when you call to report graffiti in progress, please do not confront the vandal. it may not be dangerous, but it could be. avoid that. the next thing you should do is try to take a picture of that graffiti act in progress. without the vandals seeing you, of course. a still picture or video. still is easier to work with, but if you can get the deal, right. that can help authorities prosecute. if the criminals leave the area before police arrived, call the police department. 553-0123. tell them about the crime that has been committed. if you have taken pictures, they might suggest you e-mail them to the san francisco police department graffiti unit. their e-mail address is sfpd_ graffiti_unit@pacbell.net. you have all of this information in your packet. officers might come to your door

let the committee do what it is doing. president mazzucco: commissioner hammer, i'm getting looks from the -- that we've really gone far astray. commissioner hammer: i think it is important that we have a brief conversation about that. not that any of us stop doing what we're doing but that we're of one mind about what this commission is going to do. commissioner chan: i agree with commissioner hammer we should clarify. president mazzucco: ok. we'll put that in the agenda. let's move on to commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings. any commission announcements? commissioner hammer: no. president mazzucco: i think we have discussed this at issue so we can look at the perceptions of the community and provide them with facts and a response to the perceptions and allegations. i think we owe it to the communities and the officers assigned to the jttf. we need to have a meeting, not a prolonged meeting about this, but a meeting where we put all the cards on the ta

president o'brien: i think what we need to do, do we need to have a qualifying common, or do we just approve this resolution with the understanding that you're going to follow-up with a presentation from the america's cup? >> well, there are some amendments, which was adding the department of public health to the list, so the commission can approve this it resolution as is with that amendment, or the other item i heard was for staff to draft and a minute about businesses that are outside of the property that are adjacent, so it is up to you to decide if you just want to move forward with this amendment or for us to draft language and come back with what is adjacent. president o'brien: commissioner dooley? the commissioner dooley: i think we should go ahead and do this first. present o'brien: ok, with no further comments from the commissioners, we will open it up for public comment. clerk: public comment will be for three minutes. please state your name clearly. >> i want to congratulate you. this is one of the most are thinking things i have seen you do. the french businesses are bus

i think this is why we do what we do. this is the power of education. so thank you sheriff hennessy for starting this program and being such a champion of this program. it really is -- it is one of the things i'm very proud of that we have helped to do in san francisco. >> commissioner yi and commissioner winn? >> i know some of the other commissioners have had the chance to go visit some of the facilities. did this several years ago and i was completely sold. it was just an amazing -- one of the most amazing trips i've had going into something that was not expecting to happen. it was -- even though it was a short visit, every classroom, the students in there, were so attentive and so -- how do you say appreciative of what they were learning. i spoke to them. i said why are you doing this? they said you know, what we're doing, we're learning how the read and how to write and do math and actually, what we're learning today is how to balance our checking account. checkbooks and stuff. it is more practical in nature. so i -- i can't say enough about it. if

what to do? we decided after many sleepless nights to go public to the press and hope the ensuing -- it would have an inquiry into this. we would go on a run around europe. we ended up hiding for a year in france. we lived in exile for another two years. student supporters and even journalists were arrested and convicted because they dared to expose these crimes. of course, david went to prison, not once, but twice. in 1998 when the british government failed to extradite him from france. the second time as when he voluntarily returned to stand trial. he was convicted and want to present in 2002. what is worse that -- was that his reputation was ruined in the press and through manipulation. why does this happened? they are easily controlled by the government and the intelligence agencies. not through the security advisory committee. this is through the adaptation of the official secrets act. this is through the adaptation of terrorism act. there is a section in mi6 which spins and controls media n

politically, it's hard to do. politically it's hard to do.for example, i'll give you an example of a change that would make a difference in social security. right now you only pay a social security tax up to a certain point of your income. so a little bit over $100,000 in your social security -- you don't pay social security tax. now how many people are making less than $100,000 a year? don't be bashful. the point is for the vast majority of americans, every dime you earn you are paying financials of security. but for warren buffett, he stops paying a little bit over $100,000 in the next 50 billion he's not paying a dime in social security taxes. so if we just made a little bit of an adjustment in terms of the cap on social security, that would do a significant amount to stabilize the system. and that's just an example of the kinds of changes we can make. [applause] so we are going to have to make some changes in social security, but it's not the major driver of our deficit. and when i proposed is, let's work on social security, but let's not

go ahead and do whatever you guys got to do. we're ready to do this. but for some reason the senate democrats, they get in caucus and say, well, you know, president obama has got to engage. president obama really has to do this. what does president obama have to lift every weight in washington? hold your own, harry. get your caucus together and say, we're not going to do $33 billion worth of cuts. because you're going to have to go home and explain cuts that are going to really hurt a lot of americans who helped put president obama and the democrats in power in the senate. i don't think americans want these kind of cuts. there is a huge difference between $10 billion and $33 billion. there's going to be a political back lash to this. and right now here you have boehner in a tight spobecause he's answering to the radicals. make him answer to the radicals. it's his problem. it's not our problem. and don't turn and say, well we got to hear more from the white house. no you don't. you have the majority, democrats. you have the votes to sit there and say ac

i do not understand if at all. basically, what i'm saying here is the department has been taken hostage for a couple of years. we got a new president. i just hope that he is treated with a little bit more respect than i was, director. i hope you can do that. the director does not have too much respect for the commission. i can guarantee you that. most directors do not want seven bosses, as they call us. we are not bosses. we're just overseers. but our role in the will of the president for the next year is to find out what the needs of the department are and help you with the needs of the department. i just hope that you can work with commissioner romero -- or president. commissioner walker: i just want to again thank president murphy for serving. it is a challenge to serve as commission president. i think that this department, as evidenced by the financial state we are in and how we are actually hiring back, how we have tried to respond to some of the ongoing issues, and the fact that it does take a long time. i ha

but if you try to do it for a particular part of an area, you do have to do it by persuasion and you have to do it by push as well. so i guess the mayor -- i don't know your systems as well as i know the systems in the uk, but there does have to be a top down push on this as well quite honestly to get everyone around the table. you get them around the table and say let's look at what if. how would it work if we worked together. particularly if you can bring in examples how it's worked in other areas. it is absolutely fascinating when you do this, you start with people who have very entrenched positions. i'll give you an example. one of the strategies we are looking at in the uk for the more extreme frequent events is to start to design highways as flood channels. interestingly, a lot of the design guidance we are picking up is from the u.s. so we are picking up your experiences and trying to adapt them to uk applications. our highway engineers said no way, we're never going to do this. the concept of using highways as flood channels is a complete no-no until we started to bring out e

what percent of your personal income do you do? >> sure, it's substantial. i would have to check. >> higher than 17? >> i will be reporting certain things. assuming i run and there is a good possibility. assuming i run, in about two months you will know that information. >> and that's my last question. >> with what's happening to our country. we are laughed at. we are a whipping post for the world. china is taking our money. i love my life. i love what i'm doing and i said it before, if i had my choice of our president, if we had a president that was great our current president, obama, president obama, if he were great that would be my first choice but he's not great and he won't be great. >> you think he's weak. >> i think he's ineffective. our country is in trouble. i wish i didn't have to do it because i'm enjoying my life. i have a great company, a very successful show, all of that stuff, right? i wish i didn't have to do it. i would prefer not doing it, but i love this country and if you ask me what are the odds, i will let you know prior to june. but i

we can do this. we are doing it, we can do it. i am sorry, sorry. >> i'm reading about in the order of the questions they gave me here. on that note, i am all done. >> why don't you jump in here? recalling a time. >> i want to say publicly how enthuse the hand that we have very super competent leadership here. i have great faith in dr. groves. i am one of your big backers. i told you that in your office and i like the top to have done in the people that help to accomplish that. how much do we spend on the american community survey every year? >> roughly $200 million. >> do you have plans to put the americans community survey on- line? >> we are actually in the matter of our internet tests on the acs. it is a bigger challenge than the short-term senses. >> i understand. >> we are testing a right now. >> just for history, the reason it was not on the internet is that there was a contract between lockheed martin and the census to do an online test. they came up with a garbage excuse that they could not manage the security, when 72% o

do you know what is going on in your back yard? do you feel like your stories being told? majority no? ok. let's go to pat with idg because you argue that there is a lot of local news in san francisco, based on the data you have done, and a lot of people feel like they do not know what is going on. can you talk about that? >> we pulled together some numbers about what is going on, and i stopped counting after 100 local dot-com's. 14 city-wide newspapers, 13 ethnic, 16 different neighborhood papers. the high schools, the special interest things, universities, tv stations, radio stations. together, those add up to 100 units of local coverage, and that is not counting all the new stock that venture capitalists like we fund in the jungle all the time. this is at some level deflowering of local journalism that happen because it is cheap to be in business now. you do not have to have a big printing press and truckers and unions and all those things. you can be right in the business in a way that was impossible in the last 25 years. i think there is a flowering going on of local

they do whatever they or anyone else is doing. they do have to abide by our explanation code. that relates more to how much of the street they have to restore as opposed to how quickly they were. one thing, we are joining with them, and they will be doing a lot of destructive tearing up of the streets for their projects. we have been teaming up with them so we can do a curb to curb restoration of the street. all of the accessible curb ramps are being done at the same time. a think we have three different projects going on now. -- i think we have three different projects going on now. i do not know if there are any coming soon to district 8. it is a lot of disruption. but instead of having all that construction and just part of the street being done, after the project is done, the entire street has been resurfaced and the programs up and put in. if there are particular problems with pd any -- pg&e or anyone else, please do call 311. we will send out an inspector. there are rules about how they maintain the site while they are working. we will be happy to ensure they are in comp

chris: we can't do that. you guys can do that. there is no more noble picture of religious commitment than a man for all seasons. the story of st. thomas moore. the chancellor of england who refused to honor the henry viii divorce to marry anne bolyn. here is the unforgettable robert shaw as henry. >> i have no queen! kathryn's not my wife. no priest can make us so. they that say she is my wife are not liars but traitors. it is a deadly canker in the body politics and i will have it out. chris: i also loved young victoria. here's emily blunt as the young empress in her youth as she argues to her prime minister for an early bit of democracy. >> the hungry and the homeless, there are people who are lost and whose business is to see to their welfare? >> in my experience, mam, it's best to let these things develop naturally, if you sbench you risk overturning the cast. >> that was paul betny. this year's oscar winner, "the king's speech" showed king george v fearing his son could not lead the world as a stutter. >> i don't think i can

do you remember the dot-com situation? we could not do enough for those guys. we were building lofts and not charging any taxes for schools. we were so happy that they were here and they were going to generate all that money for us. you know what happened -- those guys went back to live in their parents' basement. [laughter] san francisco -- everything starts here. where is our pride? they should be happy to be here and not have us give them tax cuts all the time. we gave the fisher family $30 billion a while back. where did that go? what good does that do us? anyway, our muni, our bart brings these employees to the doors of where they have to work. we service them. that money has to come from somewhere, and it should not come from us. they should pay the freight. i mean, because, where is our pride? we have all the good ideas. anybody moves away, what is going to happen is they are going to die on the vine. thank you. [applause] >> [inaudible] you know, we want you all you allsro -- let sro people know what is going on. we did not feel we get a fair representa

i said i do not want to hear if you are going to add to the drugs problem. -- i do not want you here if you are going to add to the drugs problem. i have a history of responsibility in this building. if i found out this tenant was drug trafficking, i would cancel the lease, and i have the authority to do that. i think you for your time. >> is there any other public comment? >> good evening, commissioners. >> i served as a district manager to the cbd for its first five years. i am well aware of the challenges of doing business in our neighborhood. of was a founder of the north the market community benefits corporation. we have brought many neighborhood improvements to the tenderloin, including the narrow reference earlier this evening, while engaging property and business owners as well as residents. i attended the board meeting where the owner of bay drug met with the community. i voted for them to come to our neighborhood. this was after a long discussion about the kind of products that would be selling. unfortunately, some people have promise he is negative in and of itself. much o

what do we do next? how do we handle it this evening when we have potentially three control specialists operating lease without insurance? without proof of insurance? we have three patrol specialists out there tonight. they're not qualified with firearms. what do we do? >> we spoke about this. he told me your role as hot dry air and cleaner is that you have to write of the memo. and you will forward that to management control and it will come back to you for an investigation. my concern is, in the interim, what do we do? what if something happens with an unqualified user of firearm? i don't know the answer to that question. i think it falls within the hands of the police commission. i know what we need to do tonight. that falls into your lap, chief. i will let commissioner slaughter speak. while they are speaking, we need to discuss what we can do this evening about those. >> we can make recommendations. >> i won a footnote. i want to thank the officer for truly attempting on your direction to somewhat o

they won't do it if we don't do it. i say that to you because you're not only helping every other woman, but every time you do this, every time you take your step of trying to advance your own worth to where your paid fairly, you're building your own legacy for your daughter's and your granddaughter's to have an opportunity that they now don't have to earn an additional million dollars. we all need to do it. okay. let's have some questionings and thoughts and responses to this. >> thank you. okay, questions? alicia, you want to ask? say your name and where you are from. >> i'm alicia from detroit, michigan. i read your piece, "why not a dollar" and why do you believe especially off the equal pay act of 19 # 63 that beginning in the 1990s the wage gap for widened or increased instead of decreases and the second part to the question is why do you think that that's still happening today? >> oh, well part of it is what i said. it's still happening because there's still a lot of bias stereotypes, discrimination, it just goes

i do not write content, i do not right product. i do news reporting. i do not write material to put ads around. there are some assumptions coming from this gathering that i find troubling. many years ago, upton sinclair wrote a classical study of journalism. he said that the advertising model does not work. clearly, it does work, but the main thing that is missing from what everyone has been talking about so far is the consumer. when i read long form of journalism, which i write, i print it out. when i mounted an investigation of the region's last year of california, i collected about $7,000 from individuals and parlayed it into six print journeys, seven weeklies. got a lot of national coverage. it made some difference in people's lives, but i did not take a dime from any corporation. ok? so let's talk about how we go back to the model where people who need investigation, news -- because my duty is not to reflect corporations. let us not be proud that we are moving forward because we do not have journalist unions anymore. that's going back to selling t

where do they go. we are planning as part of this process is that for every one of the people represented here that there will be a representative within that agency, that group, that particular subgroup to kind of help them because frankly everybody on this page is feeling just as pressured and overwhelmed and hopeless as times as i think the officers do in the face of the demand. the beauty is that we are trying to do it in a way that is completely unfunded at the moment. all of the people on the committees are volunteering their time and effort. we know it is time to do something differently. >> thank you. >> that will be interesting for us to see. thank you very much. in memphis, the first day we sat down and met with them they said in every city that tries to start c.i.t., try to do a diagram or flow chart of your resources and sources. you want to make it as easy as possible for them to do the referrals. we looked at each other and writing a flow chart. in five minutes she had this complicated fl

i'm on 1,700 calories a day. >> do you have cravings? >> i do. if people say, what do you do? and where you're feeling deprived. that's the triple chocolate cheesecake that i eat pretty much every day. and i don't eat it with a fork. >> just go for it. >> you get your chocolate. you get your fixes in. i'm on maintenance. i'll just mainly eat my own food and sometimes have a jenny snack. >> and did you run a half-marathon or something? >> i ran a half-marathon. >> were you active before? >> i never had run before. by the time i finished running one mile, it was the greatest feeling in the world. and running 13.1 on that day, it was so cool. >> i know there are folks at home going, you know. there's so many people who have tried over and over. >> a million times. >> what do you tell folks? how do you get them motivated to do what you've done? >> you really have to give over. the thing that's great about it is i had this consultant. you had a person who cared for you. and you have a person who supported you. i had never asked for help in my life. and i think i was embarrassed to