no. >> do we think they are doing enough? no. you have to be really careful about what you do with that. >> what is the end goal, you think? >> disrupt, dismantle, certainly destroy al qaeda. the one thing you have to listen to in afghanistan is to do not want to say that about the taliban. they do not say to defeat the television. defeat al qaeda, but do not defeat the tell them. the afghans need to take over. that will be a while. you cannot really defeat them. there is one which you need to listen to coming from the administration. it very specific language from david petraeus. he and others have talked about successful counterinsurgencies taking 10 years. they have really just begun to fight. they got all the troops in there as of december 2010. general petraeus said that we are at the beginning of that clock. i do not think that president obama sees it that way. >> other than your reports from over there, where else do we get confirmation on a daily basis that you can trust? how many reporters are over there now? >> we actua

do you have an idea? are those funds being used? do people know about it? is it getting exhausted very fast in terms of year? that is $63,000 a year, i assume. >> i do not really manage the fund, but we have -- anyway. the funds are available to use. it is managed by and the community-based organizations. they provide our reach. they actually do know some of the people that need help, and i think what i'll probably instruct my inspectors later on is that when they find cases to aps, if they know that is not a client that will be able to comply, that may need help, that they refer them to a community- based organization who does this. we have the central city collaborative, and those who have permission. i think that is an improvement. >> it is hard to know whether it is sufficient or insufficient if we do not know how it is being used. my second question is -- commissioner walker: maybe we get here from the sro collaborative at some point. commissioner mar: my second question is for the regulations you have passing out to the tenants. are those in multiple

do? >> always about myself. >> of course, she can take on someone else, also. >> do you do that, as well. >> yeah. rodney dangerfield. why do women get the label? nobody ever said he was self depricating. >> you're a wonderful person. what barbara walters says about you is not so. absolutely. you're a very nice person. >> what is she saying? >> she hates you. >> oh, well. >> so does whoopi. >> can't win them all. >> do you like going on "the view"? >> i do except -- >> i love it, anderson. oh, okay. >> all right. never mind. this is over for me. >> i love going on "the view" because you get to see friends. you never even get to say much. there's five of you. >> too many people. too many people. >> that's why you like hln? >> i'm the only one there. i love it. >> what about you, kathy? >> i'm currently under a ban. the ban's been lifted before. >> you are not banned, kathy. >> that's not true. >> b.s. joy, b.s. unless you're lifting it right now. >> you hosted it, didn't she? >> they love

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

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

seriously, how do we do it? i am not sure. one of the things that i struggled with, in particular, in robert blake's case, when i got into the case, i was determined not to get caught up in the media and to be the same person at the end of the case as i was at the beginning. i think of lawyers need to be lawyers, not try to be entertainers. you would know better. >> just so you know, i covered him while he was trying that case and desperately tried to get him to come to me during the case. i felt it was so important for the public to understand the constitutional issues that were coming up, but he rightly wanted to remain focused on the client and case at that time. so how do we educate the public while remaining true to the cause of the work? >> i was going to have a hard time controlling these guys. >> you have a panel of lawyers and you are telling them to shut up, and you are not even wearing a black robe. [laughter] by the way, putting a black robe on a suit does not give you a good judge. by the way, everything your offi

know, you've got to do it for me. i just want you to do this i can't go around and do this. please, i don't trust anybody else. he says no, it's just not right, it's incest. talk about a conversation. that's the conversation of the 21st century. >> tom wolfe winning the contribution to american arts and letters award from the national book foundation here at the national book award. >> would hit the to national press club national press club withstand very, very and kathy goldmark to talk about their new book "write that book already!." tell us what this book is about. >> it's a book about how to get published and how to keep going as an author, how to get your career up and running. so we do encourage people how to write, but it's not so much a craft of writing a book as the business of being an author. >> once somebody advise you have? >> your book will not get finished unless you start a. that's the thing. you have to write a bit every day you possibly can, and we have a lot of tips for the moment when you get stuck, the moments when you feel insecure, tips about finding

i do not believe in that. i do not condone it. i certainly do not understand what is really going on in the united states right now. seems to be a great deal of tension between people. there is a lot of information out there. people are getting so much from different places. you have a person that was probably not have stable to begin with. they couldn't be. you do not have a right to take the life of another. even as the republican i do not believe -- we do need to tone down a bit. we need to settle down a bit and think about what is going on before we jump up and start trying to push through legislation that is not really going to do us any good. i feel greatly distressed about the shooting. it bothers me a great deal to see something like that happen. host: new york, independent line, thank you for waiting. caller: first of all, we can see what is coming when we listen to the media. folks like rush limbaugh talking about democrat bastard's meeting to be wiped out. sarah palin, the targets and the bull's-eye, we know about that.

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. [applause] >> , you know, commissioner, i understand. i respect your passion on this issue. i can say this. this has been the focus in the trenni decision -- division to find a way to accelerate this training. we have spent 10 years presenting this trading at one rate, and we needed to find a

do you agree with that? >> you know, charlie, i don't do forecasting. i don't believe much in it, but i don't think its record is particularly good and i am not an economist. what we can do is try to make sure we're making sure that people who are responsible in washington and in congress in the executive branch are doing things that are going to make it more likely that we grow and we bring the unemployment rate down as quickly as we responsibly can. that's our obligation. and, again, i think what is happening is encouraging, but we have a lot of challenges ahead, not just the level of unemployment, the trauma you still see in the mouz markets and these long-term imperatives. >> rose: what are you going to tail us you're going to do about freddie mac and fannie mae. >> in a very short period of time, in a few weeks-- i'm glad you raised that. again, even though i think the core of the u.s. familiar system is much stronger, and i think the basic framework reforms we legislated last year with the barney frank and chris dodd leading the charge, you know,

i do watch with an eagle eye. we were just speaking about a storyline where it's always about picking up that next drink or taking that next drug after getting clean or sober in treatment. i rarely if ever see the success story about recovery where that person goes through treatment and comes out, goes to meetings, has a regular family life, struggles but has choices and makes those choices by the use of what we do in recovery by asking people for help and doing the right things and going to a meeting or picking up the phone, and they don't pick up the drink. you don't have to pick up. you can go to a meeting, you can talk with somebody and see how much better your life gets and the success in recovery rather than always that struggle. and how would you exalt other individuals in recovery, other people in recovery to really get engaged in this dialogue because really what we're talking about here is how do we create a different mindset in society about people in recovery through portraying addiction recovery in a

and if be not, do can you see the fcc acting, and do they have the authority to do what needs to be done on their own? >> guest: yeah. i understand the democrats are still organizing their subcommittee leaderships, so i don't know who's going to sort of take those roles on. but i think there's plenty of democrat members who might be interested because it is, it's an important issue. particularly as the fund may move to cover broadband. so i think there's a number of members who might step up to do that. but, so it is an issue. and what was the second part? >> host: the fcc -- >> guest: oh, yes. they have stated they have authority to reform the fund. and the language from the '96 act is fairly broad to give them power to amend it for -- >> host: do you see them acting? i'm sorry. >> host: go ahead. >> guest: yes, i do see them. they're going to act one piece of it in february. it's already on their agenda. >> host: catherine, where does congressional legislative power end and fcc authority start? [laughter] >> guest: i think everybody wishes they knew the answer to that question, and i t

there's a lot of things we can do with models without physically doing it. there's compelling scientific evidence that posted challenges to our water systems. unfortunately, there's pretty serious evidence that we may not about quickly or effectively enough to prevent some pretty extensive consequences for us. i think that's a problem. . manager's must use current tools but also look at future risks. policy manager's have the opportunity to do this. we already manager for variability and risk. we build homes in earthquake zones not knowing how big or when the earthquake will be. but we manager risks and we have lots of tools for doing that management but we're not doing enough yet. either in planning or actually on the ground action. we do need to take more on the ground action. ultimately the impact will depend on our ability to for see major changes and do the analysis and adopt and implement changes and this is in the face of surprises, because as much as we know, there will be surprises and things we won't know in advance, and we rely on our ability to b

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

what do we do as first responders. when we come up do we use our walkie talkies or radio? no. you go to a hard wire phone, call it in and get the information back because it may detonate that using the radio frequency. remember we talked about suspected terrorism is a stop sign for you as nerts. you do not want to get hurt. any questions on the terrorism? bnice is not nice. incident takes place, it takes place here on the left side, this is called the hot zone. you obviously want to be in the cold zone. first responders, we're going to come up to our staging area in the warm area and start moving to get to the incident. you want to be in what zone? the cold zone. uphill, upwind. you believe you have chemicals on your skin or clothing, obviously time is critical. remove everything from your body, wash your hands, flush your body with water. your safety is no. 1. direct contact with treating victims can expose you to contaminants. these people coming out of the bart might have been exposed to something, do you want to go and start touching them? do you want to let them leave? yo

do they need to be changed? >> do they need to be changed? >> updated for today's telecommunications world? >> i don't see it being a hot-button issues. of course, the review is going to be the review. but i think with everything else on the agenda in terms of congressional action, there are more things ahead of it on the agenda. >> there was some concern expressed last congress by some of the republican members, with some of the f.c.c.'s proposals, that perhaps given cuts in journalism budgets by media companies that the government must fund the media. and i think that causes a lot of concern. and actually, chairman walden, now chairman walden and representative pence introduced a bill on some of those issues. so at least on the house republican side there will be close monitoring of the f.c.c.'s proposals on that, and, if necessary, there will be legislation introduced that there are concerns with some of those proposals. >> you mentioned that legislation. i think it dealt with the fairness doctrine and that's been an issue for mr. walden.

to do? means test benefits? raise the retirement age? >> we have a program that we have seen one of our members, paul ryan, chairman of the budget committee, put together called the road map. he and kevin mccarthy and i wrote a book together and we reserved a chapter for discussion about social security, about medicare and how we can begin to -- >> i'm asking you what you are for? >> what we're for is an active discussion to see what we can come together and do. >> social security has been discussed for years. the irony of paul ryan doing the response to the state of the union, he has proposed cuts to social security and medicare and republicans don't stand behind it. >> that's not true. we put a chapter in our book about it because the direction in which the road map goes is something we need to embrace. >> raise retirement age, means testing benefits, those are specifics. >> the starting point in any plan has got to be we need to distinguish between those at or nearing retirement. anyone 5

you want to do and i am going to do what i want to do. i am not going to abandon my agenda to do that. i was talking to a former reagan biographer and i was asking him how he was able to be successful. reagan went out and sold his policies to the american people. he had a democratic congress. he did not give up his message. he believed in what he was doing. if obama believes in his own plan and in his own policy ideas, he needs to either try to bring republicans where he is, and if he can't, he has to go out and talk to the american people about what is best for the country. host: it republican caller from minnesota. good morning. caller: i have a comment and question. i feel the fairness doctrine promotes the partisanship. when they first guarded counterpoint speeches, i was appalled. does this not increase by partisanship? more strongly, the president should be bipartisan. he should be more in the middle, americans think. the presidency is the position of bipartisan and should be worthy of all americans trust. he should be more of a sta

supervisor maxwell: for those who do not have that, what would that be, do you know? >> 31.8 deals with exemption determinations. in includes a number of provisions about exemptions, including new notice requirements, some referrals to the historic preservation commission, and notice requirements to the public, and it also has to do with notices of exemptions, so all up 31.08 is taken out of this file. we would have existing section 31.08 with respect to exemptions, so we are in chapter 31 right now. 31.08 deals with exemptions generally, not just appeals of exemptions. supervisor maxwell: so what you are saying is the planning department is -- it would be better to let them -- supervisor, would that be ok if we allow the planning department to straighten that out? >> first, to answer the technical question. in a nutshell, our concerns have been about the changes that were made fairly late in the planning process, as late as last week as i recall. they are centered on the exemptions. the appeal process for exemptions and how that process is carried out. the concerns w

but how do you do it for the next two years? >> i do not think this is going to be worked out in washington. i think we have too much faith in what people are doing around the country. it is important to talk about that. as i travel around the country promoting my book, i am asked again and again by the people who may have given up on politics, but they have not given up on progress. they are using social media to come together. there are fascinating examples. a concierge in portland, ore., could not get another job. the brought together and other unemployed people -- unemployed lawyers and unemployed accountants were helping each other. they were taking their passions and their hobbies and turning them into a way to make a living. they are swapping things they have and they need. they are not talking about his role or promising it. it is not just what is happening in washington, but what is happening around the country. we are bringing these people to prominence and encouraging others to get involved. for me, that is really the

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.

what do you think? >> i think we're probably gonna continue to see what we have seen, is a hodgepodge. you know, some things get decided with basel, some of them are decided g20, we have the i.m.f. sort of play a role prodding countries, um, not always in a good direction, i'll say, at least in my view. but i don't think there's a way around, you know, having sort of a hodgepodge of international organizations and conferences where these issues are decided, as opposed to sort of a single one taking the lead and laying down the law. >> and, peter, do you see a group out there that's likely to satisfy your definition of how this, how this oughta be regulated or handled in the future? >> there's no group yet, but i, i would think under the g20, uh, a group could be assembled with a broader perspective on the question of how we, we handle global, uh, financial transactions, uh, to make sure that we are not focusing solely on the question of, uh, stability, or the things that the regulators are interested in

do you agree, john? i do, i do, absolutely. i think this issue of stigma which is directly obviously connected to the terms that we use, is, is very important. i was just thinking about the, the world health movement, this is a not a us phenomenon either, it's, it's cross-national. the world health organization did a study in, in the late '90s across 14 different countries, looking at 18 of the most stigmatized conditions, including drug and alcohol addiction. so they had things like being homeless, being a criminal, being hiv- positive, all these very heavily stigmatized conditions. and what they found, cross-nationally, drug addiction was number one, alcohol addiction was number four, so two of the top four were the most stigmatized conditions cross-nationally. and stigma, and, and that surprised me. i mean obviously we all know that these conditions are very stigmatized, just how stigmatized, i didn't realize, that they, they would come top of that list. so that was very surprising to me. so what we're dealing with is possib

get that out of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. >> goodbye.

i can't do everything i used to do. but there's a lot i can do that i was struggling with.ncer: ask your doctor if once-daily spiriva is right for you. >>> this week paula abdul opened with a new series called "live to dance. "she started her career as a choreographer and transitioned into becoming a sippinger herself. she's had a lot of ups and downs in the spotlight but found new fame as a judge on "american idol," one of the most popular tv shows of the decade. i had a chance to sit down with paula abdul and talk about her career as well as the rumors about drinking and drug use. do you worry doing a new show that it was going to be compared to "american idol"? >> i didn't walk into this new show even thinking would there be comparisons as to "american idol." >> it's going to go at some point head-to-head. >> yes, midway through the planning process we found that out. and, you know, i always say this. i feel blessed to be part of a genre of shows that actually give audiences an opportunity to understand talent in the art form and what it takes to be tenacious and strive

how do you do that in a way that allows you to get your agenda out? >> in the first time in the 221 history of the republic, we went through the entire congress without a single bill be considered under the amendment process. that is history. we are looking forward now. speaker john boehner has said he wants an open process. i feel strongly about that. it is our responsibility to move our agenda. at the same time, we want to do it in the fairest and most open way possible. on the appropriations process, never before has that been shut down the way it was in the last years. it is a challenge. one of the things that i and speaker banner -- speaker john boehner have said to our colleagues is that we have a lot of work. we are going to spend a lot of time on the floor. it is not the job of the rules committee to structure the debate. we all have our own ideas of what we would like to do. everyone should have a chance to be hurt. it is possible for people to engage in a filibuster by amendment. there is a lot of duplication sometimes. having some kind of s

will not do. we do not know their safety plan. they have not come through the community. supervisor chu: thank you. we have two cards. michael nulty. john nulty. if there are any members of the public that would like to speak as well, please line up in the center aisle. >> [no audio] as stated before, the state of california, the license was started in 2004. this is what they mailed out to neighbors, -- 2004, 2010. it is not in the language of the other neighborhood so people could not protested when it was sent out. this is a type 24. these community groups oppose the application. seven years ago, the applicant -- since then, they have done no community of reach to the neighborhood groups. the american youth hostel has 19 hospitals in the state of california. why is the pacific center the only one seeking a license? i would like items a through g include that the police to not include restrictions on the license if it is to be accepted at this committee. over the last seven years, we have not los

>> 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

commissioner garcia: no, you do not need to do it, but i think people think they need to do it. the hearing exhausts all administrative remedies itself. commissioner fung: can anybody here remember when we granted a re-hearing. president peterson: there were some cases when the appellate was not present, and the board did not know why, and then later, they said, "i was called out of town on emergency." the board made a decision and was ready to issue a final decision in the case, so it is technically a re-hearing. commissioner fung: can i not bring it up? i will see what the vote is. >> i think i would need to look into that question before i would be comfortable. i would have to research whether it is required to provide a mechanism. it was 4 when new evidence comes forward, or maybe there was some error, to correct the decisions. commissioner fung: within 10 days. how is new information going to come within 10 days? and therefore, i agree that there may be a situation where we want to address something, right or wrong, but the fact is, i could not think of it. there was a reop

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

host: what did you do before and what do you do now? caller: i worked for a heavy equipment dealership, tractor trailors, and now i'm in the tool and dye industry. host: tell me a little bit about your thinking behind making the switch, and especially a switch that came with a pay cut. caller: well, the industry i was in, i worked for a trucking industry, and the owner was a second generation owner and they decide that had they just didn't want to do it any more. we were a viable company. things had slowed down. and that just kind of left me a little frustrated. i wasn't sure if i wanted to continue being in the trucking industry. and so an opportunity arose so i pursued it. and in the insurance industry didn't work out for me, so i tushed to something i was familiar with from high school and i was able to get a job. host: now, i can't determine your age but tell us a little bit about as far as we've had some people call in this morning saying that age was a factor of them not getting hired by another company. caller: you know, i don't

>> i do. i really do. it's a way that we can come together, that is symbolic, but it's something that at least can set a tone of how we may move forward. there's tough issues. we have a very tough economy. we've got to create jobs. and we need bipartisan support for good ideas. >> you can have this kumbayah moment during the state of the union next week but how optimistic are you that republicans and democrats can work together in this session of congress? >> you know, i am optimistic. i saw what could be done at the end of the session with the 9/11 health bill. that was a bill that was not idea logic, good people of good will from both sides of the aisle came together and passed that bill and i know we can do that again for the american people. i think that's what they asked for in the last election. they wanted people who would go to washington to get the people's business done. and that's the kind of work that i'm going to do. and i'm going to make sure that i conduct myself in a way that is not always

can't do it it. you can amend the constitution out of the founding fathers, presumed in their wisdom i think two-thirpdz of the congress and three-quarters of the state legislature. >> they're looking at state by state. they're looking to do it at the state level. >> you can't do it. the constitution supersedes state law. i mean, ted would agree with that. a state can't outlaw guns if the second amendment trumps that. that couldn't even -- my accepts says even a bad lawyer like me would say that would be kind of difficult to do, but you can -- it's possible. it's been done, what 24 times or whatever to amend the constitution. it's not easy. the founding fathers didn't want to make it easy. the 14th was an amendment to the constitution. >> do you see this as a big issue, james, the next two years? >> i see it as one of these things people are going to continue to talk about. if unemployment goes down to 4.5%, it will be less of a big issue. >> it's part and parcel to the immigration issue right now. i

i can't do everything i used to do. but there's a lot i can do that i was struggling with.er: ask your doctor if once-daily spiriva is right for you. centers for disease control more and more americans are coming down with the flu and the first place many turn for relief when we're feeling awful is to the medicine cabinet. on this week's healthwatch we're taking a look at five common medicine cabinet mistakes that can put your health and the health of your kids at risk. dr. holly phillips is here with us to explain. great to have you with us. >> good morning, rebecca. >> so many components of this can be confusing but one of them is the antibiotics in that cabinet when's the right time to take them, how much should you be taking. >> right. you know, what the main mistake people make think they go can treat the common cold or flu. but they just aren't effective because those are viruses and antibiotics only treat back tear yeah. on a chemical basis they are no more effective than rest, chicken soup and take going care of yourself. >> if you are taking them and the doctor has

i have the ways, the means to do something and i'm going to do it.hat is it that made you say, this is the new direction that i should take? >> yes, yes. well, i've gotten a lot of support from our community. so i thought this would be a good way to give back to our community. especially locally. and to have people read about themselves and their own experiences, because a lot of the literature -- there's a lot of fine literature out there, of course. however, there are -- there is a scarcity of literature from the chican chicano-mexicanos, so from that perspective. we all live in the same society. i also have poetry from samantha lai, she's vietnamese, it's very good poetry. it's in english. >> this is under way now? >> it's not really a venture, it's just a service that i'm providing. yes. when they look on choosemyhouse.com, get my e-mail, choosemyhouse@earthlink.get. i'll give them the particulars. they can pick them up. i have them in storage there. close to san jose state. or they can send $20, $30 for the shipping and i'll send them whatever b

>> do you think sarah palin will run? >> do i think she could run? 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 gas do ambassadors. i may just appoint myself. because i really want to spend a good chunk

there were two seconds, and at this point, can we do that unanimously, or do we need a vote? ok, supervisor alioto-pier, would you like to finish your statement? supervisor mar. supervisor mar: think you, president -- thank you, president chiu. were you done, supervisor alioto-pier? i will be supporting ed lee. i think he cares about working- class communities, and i know that firsthand from working with him in the asian communities. an asian mayor of a city like san francisco, i think we can similarly have a succession like ed lee that will empower not only our city but others. i think he would be a very inclusive person as our succession mayor to help move the city forward, so i will be casting my vote for ed lee for succession mayor. president chiu: supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: i think i have to say that there has been sincere support in bringing sides together, and based on even the signals from mayor newsom, the lieutenant governor- elect, about who was on his so- called shortlist as to who was acceptable, i think a due diligence was well applied by all ca

do they do some things that upsets people? absolutely, they do. the other side is everyone does. to me it's enterative that we continue to have a dialogue. >> rose:-- >> i was asked the other way to write a letter of recommendation to one of the top business schools, and one of my friends is a professor, and i called him up, and i said, "tom, tell me what's going on and what you're looking for. ?" he said, "before i do that, we have 2,000 applications from some of the brightest students we've ever seen coming out of china." this was at harvard. "it wasn't just harvard. so there's a real export of personnel, of young students who want to learn. >> rose: there are a lot more chinese students studying in the united states than there are americans studying in china. >> that's right. and i think that's changing. they're going to go back to china-- but these students are going to go back to china. they're going to have a different view of things. i think things will change in china. my only concern, it makes you very defensive when people are coming in who really don't understand your

i do recall it. i did recall her, so i realized the way it came, she was minors for five hours carrier -- 5 hours. out of that, she liked me. she knew who i was, and she could have been a diva. you never know who is watching her. if i had been another kind of person, she would have said, let her get her own kidney. >> having a bad day, which you were. >> she remembered me as being lovely, and her aunt jessica were watching larry king together when she said, i really wish we could help her get a kidney. >> you raised issue in the book. it is a bit of a toxic question to ask, and because you reference it in the book, you believe it was brought on by your drinking back in the day. that is most likely the way you contract hepatitis c, so how does it make you feel that because of your own this behavior, you end upturn contracting this, and a kidney that could've gone to someone else could read it when to you during your -- went to you. >> i am accountable for that. it is extraordinary it stayed in my body

landlords do not respond. tenants are asked to do things that violate their civil rights. i would also like to repeat what someone said about alternative treatments. we see a lot of people with asthma and other types of diseases. these chemicals are extremely toxic. there are some alternatives. i think there's more work that could go into that. those things are of a horribly affected with bedbugs. in terms of the numbers people are siding, i would say those are very underestimated. those are the tip of the iceberg. a lot of people do not report bedbugs. a lot of tenants just leave their rooms. what we're looking at is an epidemic where we do not have any good idea of how many cases we are dealing with. i think that is really alarming. i think we need to deal with this as an epidemic. that leads me to my final point. i think the efforts we are making now are not enough. we need a more aggressive campaign against bedbugs. maybe that will take what victor said. get all the players together in a room. have them sit down for a couple of hours and come up with a very effective w

we do not do that.n, magazines, whatever it is -- we are basically putting out content on the theory, and this is not accepted by every media company and every connection company -- if you have paid for a television network, if you have any economic relationship with any of those pieces of content, and you use to get it as a scheduled tv channel or a magazine, this concept is you cannot have it for free, no extra payment, on every device connected electronically. it basically works on demand so that if you want to watch whatever show is not scheduled tonight but was on last time, you can do that. any of you that have hbo today can do it now. you can see that future now. it would be no charge across all devices. same thing with magazines. if you were reading "time magazine," you can do this on and ipad right now. "people" is the biggest magazine in the world. if you have a subscription and you have a tablet device, you are a subscriber, it is coming to your house, you can turn on your ipad and read "peop

you do? is. >> guest: duck. [laughter] what's important is i call it, i look for the hour horizontal is, the issues that cut across that we can agree on. they are what i call vertical issues, companies will have that clash. i don't see that as our niche to sort of try to jump into those. we're looking for the bigger issues like human capital issues, like issues around broadband, things like that that we can reach broad consensus on and then figure out a way to work together. that's really our niche. >> host: one of the issues that is going to be coming up in the next congress is the issue of privacy. there's more and more noise around the issue of privacy. where does technet stand? >> guest: again, that's such a broad category to say privacy. what we have to do is start figuring out what kind of regime we're going to put in place in terms of monitoring, in terms of standards. privacy issues cut across trade, you know, issues. what does it mean overseas, where is technology moving? so i think

we do have a trainer. for instance, and plumbing, -- in plumbing, he's coming to our location and we got a set price. it's not dependent on the number of people. those sorts of things, we can save money rather than sending people out to various types of training across the state. in this case, plumbing -- i think they had to go out of state to get it. we are trying everything we can to save. >> the last one, do we get a break on the code books? >> yes, we negotiated a certain cost. the code books we had to go for bid, we ended up with the vendor who is across the bay. he was able to get some discounts and able to provide things to us at a lower cost. >> thank you. >> 10 we interrupt you for maybe two minutes? i want to introduce supervisor wiener, class of 2011. welcome, supervisor. >> thank you, president murphy. good morning, commissioners. thank you for having me down today. i just wanted to say hello. after one week in office, just trying to move forward quickly. i look forward to working with the comm

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.