francisco is a charter city and does not have to follow or apply sb293, however, under the direction of edward lee, this ordinance may lead to support small contractor and is to align our policies with those of the states. currently, city departments with contracting authority reduced the retention from 10 to 5 percent on every public statement when the work completed by the contractor exceeds 50% of the value of the entire contract. this modification reduces the retention amount to 5% from the beginning of the contract until the end. this change will provide more cash flow available to small contractors while working on six projects, hopefully, there's better performance and timely confusion. i would be more than happy to answer any questions if you have and i'm joined here today with [inaudible] from the city attorney's office. >> alright, thank you. is there any public comment on item number 7? i'm sorry, before we get to public comment, could you step aside for a second. supervisor chu's a sponsor, my apologies. >> carmen was going to be here, i'm a co-sponsor for this legislation, as you know

edwards lee and mark mallory have agreed that the losing city will host a chili cook-off fundraiser at firehouse to benefit the winning city's youth sports programs. and today's wildcard, we are talking wildcard. larry beil brings us up-to-date with this morning's sports. >> good morning. here's the problem with the one-game playoff. you play 162 games to get one chance. and an umpire blows a call that kills you. it happened in the braves-cardinals game last night. in atlanta former president jimmy carter enjoying the action. you like this. yadier molina with a drive to right. jason heyward fighting the sun, back to the wall and makes the catch! spectacular concentration. top of the sixth, former a, matt holliday, solo homer off of kris medlen. 4-2, cardinals. meltdown in the eighth. two on for atlanta. shortstop pete going out on the pop-up. holliday comes in. the ball drops they called the infield fly rule so the batter is automatically out. instead of bases loaded, one out, two men on, two outs. fans throw trash on the field. the braves protested the game that was immediately denied

chinese american mayor and first asian elected to the office and please join us welcoming our mayor edward m lee. [applause] >> wow thank you very much. good evening everyone. well, it's my pleasure to be here with you tonight and to participate in the recognition and honor of our great leaders from the latino community, and i tell you there are so much construction that our latino community is providing the city in every way possible, the arts, law enforcement, restorative justice, all of the different services in the city, so i am excited to be here tonight and it's my personal pleasure to be joined here to have our democratic leader nancy pelosi also join in this community celebration. [applause] while we all know that latino heritage month is particularly importance to us in our city. it's the time when we can celebrate the independence and the self determination of numerous central american and south american nations where so many of our residents come from and where our immigrant population came from. there are two important characteristics of the california latino community that we all kn

edwards lee and mark mallory from cincinnati will bet, benefiting the youth sports programs. with the morning sports report. >> good morning. here's the problem with the one-game playoff. you play 162 games to get one chance. and an umpire blows a call that kills you. it happened in the braves-cardinals game last night. in atlanta former president jimmy carter enjoying the action. you like this. molina with a drive to right. jason heyward fighting the sun, back to the wall and makes the catch! spectacular concentration. top of the sixth, former a, matt holliday, solo homer off of kris medlen. 4-2, cardinals. meltdown in the eighth. pete going out on this pop-up. holiday comes in. the ball drops they called the infield fly rule so the batter is automatically out. instead of bases loaded, one out, two men on, two outs. fans throw trash on the field. the braves protested the game that was immediately denied but it was just the wrong call. after a 19-minute delay, jason motte strikes outburn to end the ending. the cardinals face the nationals in the series. who will this ended up

. >> lee edwards was talking about the tree that fell on his neighbor's house sunday night. this morning she saw the damage for the first time. >> i was shocked when i saw it. i know you can rebuild and material things are not important, but i am grateful i was not in the house of the time. -- at the time. all over hartford county there were trees down, minor flooding, and lots of power outages. >> waiting for the electricity to go on, and then we will be in good shape. we about a lot of help from neighbors. that has been a big help. everyone pitches in together. >> if you were in the tree trimming business, there will be plenty of work for weeks. >> all the time. one after another. i'm going to go look at jobs after we get this cleaned up. >> at the hartford county emergency center there were winding down. a very busy few days. bob thomas says it could have been a lot worse. >> when you look at what has happened to new jersey, what happened in new york and other jurisdictions, hartford county and the great state of maryland sustained -- cared much better than these other ju

. >> his name is lee edwards. >> that's right. >> was also a biographer, as you are. spent and he's a historian. he's written several histories of the conservative movement. he himself has been a member of the conservative movement, an important person in that. stomach. >> it's not jealousy. i can tell you that. one of the things he did disappoint me about mr. edwards being asked to write that review is that one of the things he takes issue is with i call him from his ghost rider. well, it was thurmond staffer, former staffer who had characterized his work on the book as being ghost rider. after talking to them i e-mailed mr. edwards and i asked him if i could interview him about his relationship to strom thurmond, what work he did in the kind of thing. and he said it was 40 years ago, you know. any interview would be a wasted your time and money. so my only thing i can do is he was sitting at the time to write a criticism of the book once it came out. and he got a number of other things wrong. he quoted goldwater speaking with thurmond and talk about the importance o

his name is lee -- >> lee edwards. that's right. he has written several histories of the conservative movement. he himself has been a member of the concert a moment, in an important person that. >> it is a jealousy? >> it is not jealousy, can tell you that the one of the things that did disappoint me about mr. edwards being asked to write that review is one of the things he takes issue with is that i call him thurmond's ghostwriter. it was thurmond staffers, former staffers of thurmond who had characterized his work on the book in ghostwriting. i talk to them and i've been talking to them -- i e-mailed mr. edwards and i asked him if i could interview him about his relationship is strom thurmond and what work he did in that kind of thing and mr. edwards said 40 years ago you know, the interview would be a waste of your time and mind so the only thing i deduce was he was saving up the time to write a book and he got a number of other things wrong. he quoted goldwater speaking with thurmond and talking about the important people rising

. >> you have no knowledge of that being done at the time, that lee edwards was going to be -- they didn't tell you that he was going to be the person? >> no, no. >> did he have any other favors like "the new york times" or anything? >> "the washington post" and the "washington monthly." if you google strom thurmond's america you can find them, and you should. [laughter] >> what is next? >> i don't know. i just finished this one. i'm still trying to figure it out. that would be fascinating. thank you all for coming out. it's been a real pleasure. [applause] >> now on booktv members of the first post-9/11 u.s. naval academy graduating class talk about their experience in serving in iraq and afghanistan. this event held on september 11, 2012, was hosted by the navy memorial here in washington d.c.. it's just under an hour. [applause] >> thanks to all my classmates and co-editors and mentors and supporters who helped make this possible. it was in favor of 2000 when i mentioned this book. there were things happening for me as an active-duty in southern afghanistan in kandahar. is working for g

lee. >> he's still not getting more hours. >> the fight investigation in ad seg found both samuels and edwards guilty of mutual combat.oved to the reception center and is awaiting transfer to another penitentiary in the coming weeks. there, he will serve out the six months remaining on his sentence. >> the inmates were on the yard they were playing basketball. edwards was getting kind of rough with samuels, didn't like the way they were playing, didn't like what was happening to him, so he just swung on him and tried to hit him. from there, the fight ensued. he was looking at getting 360 days. but since it got reduced down to a lesser offense, mutual combat, he received 61 days, which he was satisfied with. >> after working out in the yard, inmate samuels meets with counselor woodford to review his case and plans for the future. >> go on in. >> there was a concern about giving you that break because you were right there on the wall. >> yeah, i know. >> it could have gone either way. >> i know. >> the only reason you got that break because the lieutenant said, i believe this kid can turn it around. don't disappointment