we're very proud of what we are doing in the city. we wish we could do more. but we do have challenges. some of the challenges include issues with hoarding or cluttering, tenants unable to take care of stuff. need to inspect storage or warehouses. the need to respect a used furniture in our warehouses, and i believe to control what tenants bring into their rooms. we do have trained operators and hotel managers. i would say that many of the hotels and apartment complexes -- they are all very educated about the issue now, and they are taking great steps towards eradicating, but we still have -- with the issue of pest control, not all pest control companies know how to deal with bedbugs. fortunately for san francisco, the department of agriculture is under dph now, and the people controlling pesticide regulation work with us. this year, i intend to have the meeting with all the pest control company is licensed to do business in san francisco to address this very issue. . dbi, we work very well together. if they received complaints, specifically with bedbugs, they

you do, you sit there all day and do this. what is it about this idea that we have that you will not sit still for something like this. am i think sometimes the media portrays that, dr. >> i think sometimes the media portrays that, and that perception leads to people being less interested in politics because they do not believe they have a voice because they have this public perception or this older generation perception on them that they are wrong or somehow they are not living up to the expectation of the older generation. i think that is a terrible mischaracterization of young people in the united states. >> yes, ma'am? >> i am from bergen community college in new jersey. >> what have you learned? >> i have learned that everyone in washington carries around their constitution. [laughter] >> have you got one yet? >> i have. >> why do you think they carry the constitution? >> i think it is important that we know our rights. i feel like officials as opposed to getting involved with the process and really knowing what your righ

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 of situation is it? what is the issue? is it a medical problem? if it's a medical, is it a big hurt or a little hurt? is it a rescue situation and if it's a fire, do you have the resources to control or extinguish that fire? how about your situation, do you have all your people? do you have all the resources that you need? have you collected all the material that you need if you are going to start doing a lifting exercise because someone is trapped? because you never start a rescue, you never start a lifting exercise, never start anything, unless you know you are going to be able to finish it, have enough of the resources

so what i would like to do, i think we can do this. i think reasonably. we're going to have to dedicate time like we did last time. it became a full time job for the commissioners in. i spent more time with the commission than my family last time doing interviews. we get it written on february 2. i suggest between that time, i would like to see us gets this to the mayor by tuesday, march 15. it is two less weeks than what commissioner hammer is looking for. commissioner hammer: you're ambitious. >> i amleto beneficiaries but given the -- aam ambitious. but given program terse. >> if we can get this written one out by the 21st, two weeks from the 21st is february 4. that is my only concern. if you don't get the written one out on the 21st you're given a week and two days, three days to get the application in. it is less than two weeks. that's all i'm saying. if we get the -- if we can commit to get the written one out by the 21st, two weeks from that is the fourth. >> what we could do is meet this week. let's meet on tuesday and go over and do the formal w

host: do you do so? caller: yes.nfortunately i had to buy child galagos from finland and canada, but everyone else's christmas presents were made in the u.s. host: did you spend more on them because of that? caller: more than last year, but that is because i did better this year than last year. host: here is the story from "the new york times" this morning in the business section. host: woodland park, new jersey. harold, good morning. caller: when you go to purchase cheap stuff that the dollar store, is made in china. in a combat veteran from world war ii. to see our flag, symbolic to the country -- host: harold, you have to turn down your television. i will put you on hold and we will come back to you. richard, ark.. caller: what most people do not realize this that most of the parties that -- most of the parts are made in china, even if they have been assembled in the united states. we do not have that manufacturing to make these parts anymore. no matter what happens, many of the parts still come from china. host:

even another is not doing that great be a what street is doing that great? -- not doing great? what street is doing that great? there are skills of income, and there are not really fancy restaurants. there are people coming to that street -- there are scales of income. is that going to the union street dead? as a city, where is that taking us? this is not about you or the legislation at this point. this is about small-business issues in san francisco and what is working and what is not working. these are issues we should be tackling. we should be tackling wiimote pergram's street is dead after 6:00, -- why grant street is dead. or how another turned into one overpriced boutique after another, and nobody wants to go. valencia street is going to turn into one after another. i am sorry to talk about this while you are here, because it does not really concern me. but i do not think people are actually going to follow through with it. some will. that is their right, so they q4 listening. sorry. president yee riley: commissioner o'brien? commissioner o'brien: i

i like to do things that scare me. i like to do things they do not know if i will be able to do. i need the help of people around me. i love collaboration. and look at some of my work and stay, that is where i can be better. i want to continue to grow. i want to work with filmmakers that will help me go deeper. >> is there a particular role that has scared to more than the others? which particular character has scared to the most? >> it is hard to just use one that would scare me the most. they all have their challenges. with "boys don't cry", if i did not pass as a boy, it will not work. this was someone's life. with that he can -- betty anne, still is living on the earth today. if i did not justice, i would not be able to live with myself. it puts an extra into the process. tavis: it is another thing to be on the set. is that intimidating? >> it can be. see is the nicest person i have ever met. for not being in the business, she understood the making of the film extraordinarily whell. i do not want to meet her right away because they did not want to mimic her. i wanted to get h

how do we do mentally ill?our police department to stomach the habit of just shooting mentally ill people. if they had occasion, maybe it would not had to go like that. i am sorry at the murder rate the past few days. it is horrible. what that man did burning the car with that lady is puzzling, the most puzzling thing i have ever read. i wish him the death penalty. he would get the death penalty, a pri. president mazzucco: hearing no other public comment, please call line item number two. >> it is reports to the commission, beginning with the chief's report of recent activities. >> how are you? president mazzucco: very good, sir. >> i would like to update you with the most recent department crime statistics from the last 28-day cycle, which ended on the 22nd. total crimes are down 21%, year- to-date. violent crime is down 4%. property crimes are down 20%. there are 99 to work part 1 crimes this year than at this time last year. -- fewer part one crimes this year than the time last year. island crime is down 7%.

even another is not doing that great be a what street is doing that great? -- not doing great? what street is doing that great? there are skills of income, and there are not really fancy restaurants. there are people coming to that street -- there are scales of income.

do business in china. they do business with us and we can't, i have had chinese pans and i will tell you right now, very difficult. they want the knowledge all the time and unless we have the right people to deal with them, you have yourself a big problem in this country. and we don't have the right people as of this moment that are dealing with the chinese. >>neil: do you deal with china at all? >>guest: frankly, i would have told the chinese not to come for this wonderful state visit where they will outsmart our people again and i would say don't come until they stop with the manipulation, until they raise the value of their currency so our companies can compete. how can we solve our unemployment problem, and we have a big one, and it will last as you know, bernanke said the other day, five or six more years but i disagree i think it will be longer, because china and other countries are taking all of our jobs. so, we have to be much different than our attitude and, frankly, we need fair trade. not free t

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

i am not saying we do not do that. i am just talking about why we are hearing jurisdictional items when we have people sitting here. it does not make any sense. i am just saying, as a board, that we reconsider that addenda items always be first. president fung: if you put it at the board's decision, then we have to take it to a vote. i think at the president's discretion. commissioner garcia: so we are not changing in then? >> and then say "at the president's discretion." but i would want some guidance, i think, on a week to week basis, unless the president wants to consult with me every time about which items should go first. i think it is more efficient for the president's time if there is more guidance. commissioner garcia: i am just saying, for instance, tonight, we had carl short. that addendum item took a very long time. the present at any time can change the agenda in turn it upside down. -- the president at any time. president peterson: what they can try to do is something. this has to deal with a new rule on d

are doing for the community. then i want to drill down on finances and development. that is where you are going to have questions this evening. obviously, this is a long report. in your own time, you conduct a. i would point out the role we are playing in the educational mission of the district, special freckly -- specifically on reporting of education in the bay area we have a daily -- in the bay area. we are part of the discussion of public education in the bay area and the state of california. that is a valuable contribution the station is making to the district educational message. also, i would like to point out the work we have done in our election coverage this past year. i think this district can be proud of the fact that when it comes to creating an educated citizenry going to the polls, we are playing an important role in doing, doing more than we have ever done, including broadcasting the board candidate forum that took place in the fall. we are trying to be part of that mix and provide information so

it to help do this, so dbi cannot do that by itself, so the mayor set up a committee to involve all city departments that will be affected by this and make it a citywide effort. it will eventually be at our apartment at the end for inspection and implementation, but the actual aspect or incentives for the program will be developed city-wide. >> thank you again for this massive -- let me see this book here. it is a massive undertaking of crucial importance. i know it is going to be our exercise for the day. >> we have someone here from the mayor's office -- >> can i finish? i was not finished, no. i think that one of the things that we should follow up on is the discussion about a mandatory program. >> that is at the city wide level now. it has been referred to the city administrator by the mayor. >> ok. commissioner murphy: as i understand it, it is our of our hands. >> ok, got it. >> i guess i'm here to speak to the commission about the executive director that -- executive director of that then mayor newsom issued. this was made possible by the work that everybody had a hand in putting

doing that kind of work. now, we are moving to a cbo that is funded separately through the city. through the school district. and it seems unless all of their credit recovery is taking care of, unless everything is already in place, i do not understand why this money is being shifted over. speaking of credit recovery, part of that is the cyber high school program, and as i program the high schools, i have not found a principle yet who can tell me who is in charge of cyber high-school, or what the directions are for running cyber high school. they are making a valiant effort to make sure the kids can use the program to recover from failed grades,

what do we do? what are we doing? is this real? to synthesize and follow up, i like peters comments. one of this things we do when we talk to more and more people is seeing a transition from a world we were focused on and meeting a regulatory world and now we're being asked to look external and further from the small boundaries of our communities and where do we sit. some of the ways we're helping and thinking of how to move forward is here is a set of what we have to do to meet the current set. how do we understand it's pervasive and crosses the miles of federal organizations. how do we use this world today in our,cip, planning to create platforms to leverage the real actions in the years and legacies we're putting together? >> thank you. >> one of the things we've noticeed our community climate development plan is greenhouse gases reduction metric, is pretty key integrator for integrating a lot of different activities so we've kind of adopted this approach of, an adopt the,un,fc. what needs to be done in order to do this we have

host: how many do you have? guest: i do not remember. of the 89 members who signed that letter yesterday, the majority of them were freshmen. we are having a difficult time, as freshmen, even caucusing, because there are so many of us. we are trying to build support behind this. encouragingly, leadership is looking to us. leadership does not really know the freshmen. the freshmen do not know leadership. and the freshmen do not really know each other because it is such a large group. host: you are not meeting with each other? guest: we are meeting in groups, but it is unusual to have this many freshmen come in at one time. we are trying to send a message to leadership as much as we can, meeting with them one on one, getting to work on legislation. what we heard in the retreat was that our pledge to america was not enough. we are going to be near $1 trillion in deficits. there's not much support for that among freshman congressman. host: what bridge, virginia. you are on the air. -- woodbridge, virginia. caller: i run callewonder if you re

we definitely do see that correlation. >> i might suggest it may have to do with large employers who operate in many states, who do not have a uniform health insurance plan. so they choose the city option as the simplest for local. commissioner o'brien: make sense. president yee: i am sure your office is getting inquiries and complaints, but i want to ask the director. the small business assistance center -- do we get many inquiries regarding health care? other small-business owners who might be not so clear? >> i think initially, in the beginning, we did get inquiries, which we've been directed to the office of labor standards and enforcement. i think now not as many inquiries. sometimes, we might get inquiries right before the new fee comes up online, because people are trying to work on their budgets. but i think we are doing a relatively good job informing folks at the counter, and we have the pamphlet always available, informing people about the specific liberal laws -- the labor laws that are specific to san francisco. i think the first year, there was a little more confusion.

we really do. i think that as commissioner norton and i had spoken about prior to the meeting, we do issue our quarterly report and show our burn rate of the funding. we are able to give a more augmented report to the board to keep you informed and make sure that you have that, so you are empowered to be able to speak with us and are kept informed. i appreciate how important it is an want to to understand we take it seriously. commissioner maufas: let me understand something for clarification purposes. this is directed to all of you. what you are saying is, in regards to the outcome and the ability to have access to that information -- you are saying to me that is something that is in sort of the silo of the research. it is the planning and accountability department. is that correct? >> i am sure doctor khana can speak to this in detail. >> we are trying to say that a $30 million investment will now be ordered around. there are -- there is a procedure where we have approached this before on evaluat

if you do what's mr. phillips -- do what mr. phillips says, that is affirmatively using the power of the federal court, granting him relief on a claim that he has not proven. >> we're not granting anybody relief. we're leaving you where you are. we do not know what the answer is, so go away. we leave you where you are. >> justice scalia, we have no problem with a go away world. if you do that and return to the status quo, we would have the $1.35 billion. that is with their -- that is what their own filing said. >> that assumes that the contracting officer's default termination was valid. we do not know if it was valid and we do not want half -- want to have to inquire if it was valid. everybody keeps the money that he has. >> that is affirmatively using the power of the court to set aside the contracting officer's decision, which is prevented by reynolds. if we had simply insisted on our $1.35 billion at the moment it was owed to us in february of 1991, we would not be having this conversation. the only reason we are having it i

do we think? >> i'm told that he literally dictated them. he didn't write them out as i used to do. i used to write everything with a pen. >> rose: he would dictate it as kind of a spoken, some people like to speak it because if they write it, it sounds more like being written than spoken. >> you can certainly hear that in some of the texts that are read by speakers who have never had a hand in writing them themselves. john f. kennedy never did that. he never got up and read a text that he hadn't personally participated in the formulation and the revision and so on. but i, my days as a young senate assistant, i saw quite a few distinguished senators, no names, who read text they clearly never had seen before. >> rose: i think they still do. they also go to congressional hearings and look at notes that they have not seen that much of before. >> i'm sure. >> rose: it's a busy life and a lot of congressional meetings to go to and all of that. but nevertheless, especially speaking. there are certain p

do you remember the first time we met? >> yes, i do. i met at a dodgers stadium.s in it. >> jimmy: i love brian hooks. >> and they had this hollywood stars game. you had to play, you know, baseball in dodger stadium. and so i'm on the field -- i invite brian -- does he want to be in it? he says sure. so when we're on the field, he goes, "hey, you want to meet a friend of mine? he says, "i want you to meet a friend of mine, jon." and it was you. he goes, "hey, john, this is my friend jimmy fallon. he just got 'saturday night live.'" >> jimmy: yeah. >> and i go, "hi, jimmy." [ laughter ] "oh, good luck to you." that's exactly what you did. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, come on. >> your hair was sticking -- i know, it was me. you're only human. [ laughter ] no, but your hair was sticking. you had a jean jacket i remember. right? >> jimmy: i was dressed like -- >> you didn't have any money. >> jimmy: i didn't. i was broke. >> jimmy: and look at you now. it's amazing. it's fantastic. now i'm your guest. [ laughter ] what the hell happened to me? >> jimmy: no, what are you

the group, as most groups do, eventually get to a point where you each want to do more of what you do and there's not enough room for all of you in the band, i think is probably the answer to that. and we just naturally fell into that kind of position. and you coined the phrase, "jefferson starship" initially. a logical extension. i was the science fiction one in the band, so when i started a new band and i wanted to carry on what we had been doing, it seemed just logical. and the first album that i did was a science fiction album about stealing the first government starship that was up there. hijack was a really bad word to say, you know, in airports in those days. so "let's hijack the starship." and so it was just-- just a logical... if you look at-- if you look at your work from that point on, there's, you know, this band that you describe as not being concerned about commercial appeal early on suddenly-- well, we had no objection about commercial appeal. we just weren't very commercial. but eventually you were. oh, i think you can count the number of hits we've had in or career on

as we do that, we're doing it expeditiously. we're doing it quickly in terms of the first part to that. and you have already been given -- should have been given at least two documents. one is terms of reference, which actually lay out the process that we're going through. and the second document actually gets into specifics dealing with the policy changes that have actually been made or are being recommended. we're still working through policies, if we give this to the services, but that's where we are right now. but the first step here now, dealing with the actual -- laying out the process, what we're going to be doing, has already been laid out. what you're going to see as we move forward, that we have actually three tiers as we get to the training part. we expect to start very quickly. these three tiers, starting out with our experts, that's the first tier; the second tier deals with our commanders or our leaders; and the third tier is, of course, the force as we move forward. we expect to see essentially not a lot of change

how important is it to you and how do you do that? well, not only wouldn't they know how to grasp an intention, they wouldn't even know what they were looking at. see, that's--the reason i title the images the way i do is just to be literal or, you know, to give some sort of information to the viewer so they know what they're looking at. you know, even though i don't call myself a photographer-- i call myself an artist-- i am a photographer who creates images that are basically things that are based in reality. and so when i do a monochrome, and it's just a red photograph, you know, i-- by titling it blood, people know that they're looking at a monochrome of blood rather than just red color, you know. and so i find it necessary to to give the images titles just to inform the audience. and, you know, a lot of times, the titles are something that pops into my head at the same time as the image does, and so it, ah-- but they--you know, they need each other. do you think there's a temptation to self-censor? clearly you haven't done that,

we need to eliminate where the government is doing things it may not need to do or we don't need to do as much. that's one of the things. we start to have having a national debate about what it is we want done. >> ifill: entitlements on the table? medicare, medicaid? >> everything has to be on the table. we really do have... particularly medicare and medicaid we do have the get growth of those programs down. the way to do that is by slowing the rate of growth of health care costs systemwide. if we whack medicare and medicaid without slowing the growth of health care in the private system you end up with a system where no longer does medicare and medicaid make sure that the he will elderly and the poor have access to adequate care. care. we need to have a national debate where we really talk about what's important. unfortunately in the campaign last year it was about let's cut spending. let's reduce the size of government. people were led to believe that if we just got rid of earmarks, if we got rid of waste, fraud and abuse that would take care of the problem. we need to have a debate

do you demonize and do you then take a step? to do you create a climate in which steps then go to violence become more likely? >> rose: or do you move towards some more... whatever means possible, civilized discourse for the lack of a better word? >> i think the civilized discourse is something that isn't cool to talk about. it's cool this week. and i think we should make a resolution. you know, there's a line in tom sawyer who talks about a prewhich you a who came through town who was so good that even huck finn was saved until tuesday. >> rose: (laughs) >> let's see how long this moment of civility lasts. and one hopes, actually, because everything hits home, the fact that this was a... one of their own, particularly in the congress this will be true. but i think that, you know, people who say both sides have a point get clobbered out there in the web land, if you will, for somehow being establishmentarian or false equivalencys. there's a certain stigma to civility. and i don't think we should ignore that. and i say sort of to

they do not shoot to their people. they do not taser their people. they'd have ways to talk them down and to the escalate -- de- escalate. we are told they were going to look into that. it is one year later. we have 120 people trained. that is lips service. what concerns me most is that everybody is saying we need tasers to deal with the mental health unit but we can actually get training to our officers that can assist them in dealing with difficult issues on the street. i do not think that because you are mentally ill that you should be taste -- tased. i just do not. is there really a commitment to train our officers, or not? and if they do not, just tell us that. tell us that you would rather tase people. 120 officers with 2000 on the force is not acceptable.

what do we do about that? there are things we can all agree on. there is a reasonable diague in the country. on social security, we have to say, we have got to get this fixed. we have to get it fixed soon. here are somthings we should agree on. as it relates to the cost of living adjustment in social security, not the whole program, i think we can say means testing is andeal. amongsthe suboptimal choices we have in front of us, means testing, just cost of living increase, is a reasonable step. what that means tha in the future, if you are wealthy, your increase in social security will be smaller than if you are middle income, lower income, or poor. that will not solve the problem by itself. it will help substantially. we now know the history of life expectancy is and how long people are living. i do not think you can change the rules for people in the program. for a new people entering the program, we have to sav the retirement age will be pegged to some reasonableorrelation for life expectancy that is different from the way we do it now. we also

what do you attribute your longevity and how do you stay relevant?necessarily played into what the industry does. they need you to be on all the time, to oversaturate the market in a sense. i don't think that's the best way to go for long give itty. i think that you give and you fall back. do something else. i'll write articles or i'll act in a movie or i'll write plays and then doing something else and come back and create more music. i think you just kill yourself basically, kill your career, by oversaturation. >> you've been sharing your gifts with us for ten years, and i hope you give us another 20, 30, 40 of that. >> god willing. >> always a pleasure to see you. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> up next. >> get the impression that democratic party has since this inception has had all the answers for black people if that were the case black people would not be complaining about the problems they complained about 30 years ago, 20 years ago and today. no party has a ma nop it's supposed to rain tomorrow. probably can't paint the garage. [ thinking real

do?i think the president maximizes his chances of getting reelected if he can guarantee the unemployment rate at 7%. in december, the tax agreement might not have been the best thing in the long run. it was certainly taking things off the table they cannot talk about. if what they agreed to produce 7% unemployment rate, then he can come back with more and use it in an election. if they failed to do that then he can blame them because they got part of the responsibility. this is the politics of real things. there are 9.5% of the american public, 17% of those who have been looking -- who are unemployed. we have to create more jobs and can't do that in a number of ways. we have to get the corporations that have $2 trillion in the banks to spend that to hire people. we can help do that if we have the federal government help subsidize a% of the wage of every new job that a corporation puts on its books. tavis: but we failed those banks out without strings attached. now the president called the

do they write? >> yes. they do. >> what kind of things do they write? >> well, one has been thed iltor of the -- editor of the weekend mag zeeven the jerusalem post. she lives in jerusalem. and one used to write edit orioles for "the washington times" and now she does public relations. >> and the third? >> the third writes seldom, though she writes very, very well. and she's become an artist, actually. she makes these wonderful ceramic tiles with pictures on them. they're wonderful. >> what is the written word done for you in your life and your husband and your son and if you hadn't had it, how would your life have been different? >> it's hard to imagine what it would have been. this is what we did. it was always the way we immediate o livelood, act writer, an editor. i didn't make much of a livelihood being a writer. i was a freelancer and writing for high brows magazine and it doesn't bring you much in the way of income. but we were all in that game and john, too, is an editor. >> what is the first thing you ever wrote? >> the first thing i ever wrote

>> where do we look to? where do the communities look to to see if this is working. >> our director of community programs. lonny holmes. >> david, you participate in this process in a different way. you are an outside agency. can you tell us essentially what your center does to further the cause to some of this >> sure, i would be glad to. our center, the berkeley center of law. so you know one of our basic tenant system that community and law enforcement need to work together. it's sometimes different for folks not used to working together. sometimes our partners have told us. it's helpful to have an outside agency come and serve as a catalyst to serve the folks on the ground. the chief talked about the juvenile strategy. we have worked with john tores and the san francisco police department and other organizations, as the chief talked about. those who are most at risk. those are 18 to 24 years old. those are folks out of custody and were called in to receive the message that the violence must stop and it's

nothing else can do that. twitter can't do that. the internet can't do it. television satellites can do that. all the celebrities worked. they were happy to be there. it was a giant night for them. >> keep phoning in. keep phoning in. >> 53 years in the business and counting. still love going on. that was special. ♪ >>> i love the beatles, they break rules. you can listen to their melodies all day. it was the one-year anniversary of the show "love" still running at the marriage in vegas. great show. we had them altogether. the two wives and two of the living beatles. >> for people to stop you in the street and say, thanks for the music, you saved my life. it's a privilege to have been part of those four guys. ♪ get back to where you once belonged ♪ >> everything was extemporaneous. we didn't say we were going to hand you a mandolin. we just handed it to him. it was a moment. that was fun. i was jamming with the beatles. i will go down in history, the jewish boy from brooklyn jammed with the kids from the mother country. >> what made you special? >> we were j

[applause] i do not know if you want to say something. i do not know if we can play the video.ally, we set up in advance. >> i have it right here. >> can we set that up? >> i just wanted to say thank you very much, and it has been such a great opportunity, and everyone has been so supportive, so thank you. >> -- supervisor alioto-pier: i just want to know, what made you do it? >> i have been going to these games since i was about six weeks old. my dad has taught me well, and i just love football and the 49ers in san francisco, so it was perfect. supervisor alioto-pier: good to go? is there audio? >> pimm visit the website for how you can -- supervisor alioto-pier: rick, is there audio? clerk calvillo: we will call sfgtv and see if there is a problem. >> it is called family day. it is an event for anyone. they can come to this. is a sort of carnival, i guess you can say, and is one of the events where you can meet some of the players and players from the past, and, yes, you can get autographs and participate in activities. it was a very fun event to attend. supervisor alioto-pie

this is important for us to do and probably the only way to do it. there are a number of other strategies. one thing the obama administration has done is gone after these innovation rules that president hu jintao has sponsored and really does put american company that serious disadvantage if they want to do business in china. that is one thing but when it comes to the actual theft which is another issue i believe the only way to deal with this is sanctions of some sort and probably going to follow the general trajectory of h. r. 2378. >> i agree with gordon chang. we have to avail ourselves of the available world trade organization remedies. we are not always doing that. they are more limited than we might like but we must avail ourselves of them. we continue to work with european allies and friends so when the case is brought it is not just by one country. that helps. countervailing duties is another potential remedy that would be useful. >> i would like to broaden the implications of intellectual property, links between stealing intellectual proper

what do you do? what do you do? before you were laughing. this is not a laughing talk.anner, after all. i'm the city planner and designer. you need a plan and you've talked about doing one. you need a plan. a coherent plan by the san francisco city planning -- department of city planning and public works staffs to be done by them, and i'm sorry all your wonderful visitors and friends of mine, by the staff, not by consultants. if the staff wants to do it and not fight like crazy to do it themselves, they ought to get different jobs. that damn simple. why are you not business? the plan should be for major streets, basic schematic, howo reconfig and plant existing streets to deal with typical situations. look at the bose triangle. i'm a planning director. that's another age. why haven't we done more of that? if you go talk to people, we want that. why haven't you done that? when we were working on the plan for the hayes valley, that's what we heard over and over. why don't you do that? it's not so hard. a maintenance program that is funded. i don't want to underestimate th

good, you're doing good. but let ask you this. you know, there is a sense that these rock stars are, you know-- we all know this, they're larger than life. you know, they end up on magazine covers, huge concerts... you're with them in their most human moments. >> hmm, yes. >> hinojosa: what do you take away from that? i mean, how do you kind of tell young people, "look, don't get taken over by the whole brouhaha and the whole stardom and the... >> hmm. >> hinojosa: in the end, you're an artist and you're a human being, and you know, how you treat... i mean, what is it that you take away from it, because you've been with so many of these huge, iconic rock stars? >> well, at that moment, all i do is take away a story. i'm taking notes, meeting a deadline, moving on to the next thing. >> hinojosa: you're a working journalist. >> so i'm not there to advise them. i'm not their minister or their psychiatrist... >> hinojosa: but you're observing... >> yes. >> hinojosa: ...how they interact. >> right. and sometimes,

china's going to do with chinese going to do and is largely going to do what is going to do regardless of whether we like about and whether we try to contest it or not. it is the first time in the past 50 years there's been an economic force in the world that is significant enough that it is neither coerce will or changeable by the desires our actions of deny states, nor is it susceptible to military action. and i think it's unlikely this tension if it exists ever takes a military dimension because china's not trying to compete with u.s. military. they would love for deny states to spend $600 billion a year an aircraft carrier because they're not attempting to build those up. so, china's going to do what china's going to do. the question is what's the united states going to do. because if one assumes, as i do, that china's evolution is a fact, much as the evolution of the united states in late 1890s to the middle of the 20 century was the fact, not a fact without great internal turmoil so sentencing china may be headed for a real they crashed or the resource intensity of china's indust

how do we understand these numbers in terms of whether or not muni is doing any better? >> clearly, the trend on page 6 is going in the right direction. the reason is going in the right direction is because service, over all, is more reliable. as the service becomes more reliable, you do not have the need to make adjustments to service. if everything runs like clockwork, you do not need to make adjustments. to the extent there is a relationship between the number of switchbacks and service reliability, it vehicles are out, the runs are filled, there are no delays caused in the subway or in the surface -- on the surface, then the need to use switchbacks is less. if i am understanding the question, yes, the trend is going in the right direction because it indicates the service is more reliable. we have seen that as a result of the actions are described earlier, the throughput of the subway, the number of trains that make the trip, has been going up dramatically in the past three months. supervisor chu: i appreciate the comment about identifying the problem in september. on

to do everything we want to do.rough product to be any really conscious thought to what can we afford and what do we have to cut, that's the approach that's kept business, you know, at a point of trying to drive through some very challenging times of not having sufficient money to invest. so there is a phrase that were a marketer, i would like to begin to inculcate more in the conversation is that we need to cut and we need to invest. there is no one or the other. it is not either/or. we have to do both. i think part of the story will be what individual states have been able to do and how we raise the profile of what state actions have done to keep states afloat and how then we might be able to use that on a broader national level. >> how is it playing in germantown? >> it's worked fairly well in pennsylvania, actually. i just love building america's future, the infrastructure organization nature with governor sort shoemaker and mayor bloomberg. some suggest we stop using the word infrastructure and start using the

if we do not dance at this level, we do not dance. we have been using the film "fair game" to train women about the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. where are you out there "no labels" leaders? we want to be able to speak in this movement. we are a nonpartisan organization. this is the way we are going to move our agenda forward. we have lisa burroughs on the board of "no labels." you did not dance as well as i thought you could. this is going to be interesting to see what happens next year because, as i see it, i was a very fortunate woman. i got into politics at a different time. i got into politics when there was a lot of work across all parties. we went to political caucuses together. we made policy changes together. it was phenomenal. it was a very different kind. i am very lucky because i had a mentor like mary louise smith. she and i lobbied the legislature. why in the world are we joining different parties? i have not heard that question since 1978. now we are in a very different place. we are now at 17% of congressional leaders and 24%

we need do do things so we're not doing it 10 different ways. so we're trying to apply that to our city government. >> i just want to ask you a question on this issue so instead of -- each -- each district station if they write the report assuming they write the report, it's going to right go right to you and possibly their captain as well. is that correct? >> we have a whole pro toe cal for coding -- arguing it will be -- we will be responsible for getting a copy to you. >> are you going to also develop a data base? >> well, we always have. i think as everyone knows, the role of this a.l.u. unit is evolving. and it started out as a licensing unit and you guys are obviously seeing me more and more here which means we're getting involved with entertainment because we recognize the overlap between alcohol and entertainment. we've always maintained a data base to every report we send to abc. we do that so we can follow-up so when a commander says, hey, whatever happened with this case, we can look and say, it went to abc on this date. this was the

>> do you think sarah palin will run? >> do i think she could run? we haven't spoken since hanukkah, so i don't know. >> if she asked you to direct one of her alaska reality show episodes or her travel show episodes, would you? >> oh, -- i'd be there in an instant! i'd have a lot of fun with that. and so if the good people at the discovery channel are watching and need a director, i'm here. >> obviously, you know, it's interesting, you look at what's going on on wall street and the big numbers on wall street and it looks like there's a recovery there and then you look at the job numbers, and there's no recovery there. you're in michigan, how do you bring back jobs in michigan? >> well, you know, i am here. and i'll tell you, we've really suffered a really bad depression right now. we're still, i think the unofficial unemployment rate is probably around 20%. up here in northern michigan, it's pretty bad. and so i'm doing what i can -- i've actually been pushing them up here to appoint some jobs ga ambassadors. i may just appoint myself. because i real

for those who dismiss it, do not do it so lightly.his has been a wonderful thing bringing people together, not only from all over the region and state, but as we discovered, from all over the nation, and all over the world, coming in on a moment's notice to share in the parade. thank you for the extraordinary memories. thank you for your proud past, the extraordinary present we are enjoying. here is to a great -- because you always have to look forward -- to a great 2011 season. thank you for coming out today. [applause]

what do you think they do sell so well? >> guest: young author books? >> host: yes, uh-huh. >> guest: so, okay, books by people -- okay, well, yeah, why do they -- >> host: young adults, sorry. sorry. >> guest: yeah, that what i was wondering. i was like miley cyrus? >> host: no, sorry about that. [laughter] >> guest: young adult books did incredibly well this year. i haven't had enough time to look into this, but i read a couple of ya adult novels this year that were just amazing. in fact, what's going on is we see more and more that there is more ya crossover. in other words, it's young adult books that appeal to both adults and young adults. the books are -- i think it's saying something about how sophisticated our young people are getting that they are becoming less and less difference between what is known as a young adult novel and what is known as an adult novel, so i think that that's something interesting to look into, but, yeah, i think they'll continue to do well, and i hope so because so many of them are so great. >> host: our booktv produce

to do that anymore. so what happens is you use valuable resources, imaging resources in particular, to do defensive medicine, to take that step number ten and bring it down to step number two, and you deprive someone who actually needs that resource from the use of it. >> so if a young child who has a head injury comes into the emergency room, in an ideal situation, you're saying a doctor would look at that child and say well, i'm going to start at step one, and if i think i need to go to step two, on my way to ten, then i'll do that progressively but in the current environment, they see the child and they automatically say we got to do one through ten? >> i think if there is a pediatric neurosurgeon or neurosurgeon willing to take care of that injury at that hospital, because i think three-quarters of our emergency rooms are at risk because of the availability or lack of availability of on-call specialists, that doctor will proceed with the entire battery from step one. >> and not progressively? >> not

what do they do? mr. garamendi: i think you're asking me a rhetorical question because you know the answer and i think most americans know the answer. all the industrialized nations, we're not talking about china here, but we're talking about korea, japan, the european countries, the european union, all of those countries provide universal health insurance conference. universal. everyone, including -- conversation. universal. everyone, including tourists who happen to show up and this i know from one of my daughters who fell off a stair at the leaning tower of piza. she fell, went into an michael jackson room, -- emergency room, they took an m.r.i., she said, i haven't paid. she said, you're covered much that was in italy. mr. cohen: does the united states not have one of the greatest desscrepsies in wealth between the richest and poorest in the industrialized world as well? are we saying to our wealthy people, you can afford health insurance so you can get it but for those people that are poor, too bad.