mark ellis, comes up with a clutch two-out double. barton scores, two-hit, two-rbi night for ellis. a's lead. next batter, davis, to center. falls just in front of b.j. upton. ellis beats the throw home. but the a's bull pen couldn't held the rays down. in the 8th. rod rodriguez goes deep. the a's will not pick up a game on the rangers, who get stung by the rays 5-4. are you ready for football? the raid is in chicago and jason >> mike: the raiders are starting to look like a team that will not have an 11-loss season of. through seasons the bears back into hiker hibernation. 7-0 raiders. the defense looking just as good. campbell, and the former seminole takes down cutler. but oakland still struggling with the run defense. the play is overrun. still looking for his job strap. the raiders own the second half. stevie brown, finds the ladder, picks off dan lafevor, the rookie out of michigan. and that led to a field goal and maybe a spot on the roster. raiders are 2-0 after a 32-17 victory. >>> the earthquakes need to get busy if they're thinking about postseason. sixth in the western c

studying with ellis mar sails.ans is a lot of it was informal, but the musicians that i would play with were so giving and so forthcoming with knowledge and experience, so even though it wasn't a formal setting, you could be very specific, well, why did you do this or how do you do that and everybody down here is aware of that's how the tradition is passed on, the older guys show the younger guys. >> larry: did you always sing as well as play piano? >> i started singing when i was really young, probably six years old, and i would imitate louie armstrong, that was my favorite thing to do. and as my voice changed, when i got to be a teenager, really singing was all about meeting girls. because they certainly weren't going to be interested in a guy singing like louie armstrong or playing jazz music, that wasn't the most popular music. so if you could imitate stevie wonder or sing some michael jackson songs, that was more my interest with girls. so i started singing like that. and then as i got a little bit older, i sa

. >> reporter: some charge ellis structures.hey built bigger structures before locking in tenants. the owner of the el piscatore says his business started suffering two years ago. >> they took my parking away. >> reporter: ellis partners chose not to be interviewed by ktvu but in a statement blamed the quote, unprecedented economic climate for the vacancy. certainly the economy is a major factor, but not the only factor. other bay area developers who didn't want to appear on camera told us that ellis partners made a bunch of mistakes. not securing tenants before building, erecting too big a structure, planning a market place where there's little foot traffic. their role model: san fransisco's ferry building, it's part of the financial district. but jack london square is cut off by the rest of oakland by freight trains, cars and pedestrians sometimes have to wait 15 minutes. there are signs of hope here. the owner of one no restaurant says business is thriving and defends ellis partners for keeping the market place closed until a

and that goes back to actually being with ellis marsalis.hat i go to, when you're asked to be a mentor, you're supposed to spend time with the contestants and the people in the classroom and show them what you know. i just like that, i like that environment. so it was a breeze doing "american idol" because that's what i grew up doing. >> larry: and i'm going to ask you about mentoring right after these words, don't go away. ( revving, siren blares ) there's no way to hide it. sir, have you been drinking tonight? if you ride drunk, you will get caught... and you will get arrested. >> larry: the winner of idol's season 9 sang sinatra's single life. harry was a mentor, and he coached the contestants on the music of sinatra, you arranged their songs and accompanied them. we know what they took away from it. what did you take away from the experience? >> i just had a great time. i thought it was really fun, you know? it's really fun, you know what the strangest part was for me, larry? was they had rehearsal and you know when there's somebody on s

and that goes back to actually being with ellis marsalis.hat i go to, when you're asked to be a mentor, you're supposed to spend time with the contestants and the people in the classroom and show them what you know. i just like that, i like that environment. so it was a breeze doing "american idol" because that's what i grew up doing. >> larry: and i'm going to ask you about mentoring right after these words, don't go away. ring ring. progresso. why does it say box tops for education on your soup? oh, it's a program that raises money for schools. that's great, but this is a can. yes it is. you can't have a box top on a can. yes we can. but a can isn't a box. we know. i don't think you do. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >> larry: the winner of idol's season 9 sang sinatra's single life. harry was a mentor, and he coached the contestants on the music of sinatra, you arranged their songs and accompanied them. we know what they took away from it. what did you take away from the experience? >> i just had a great time. i

ellis on the san francisco public utilities commission. thanks. >> just briefly, it is really a pleasure to see a commission do wonderful work and great things, made up of a body of good people. i just want to thank you all for the work that you do. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. continue that to the call of the chair. next item please. >> future agenda items. commissioner mirkarimi: colleagues, any future agenda items? commissioner schmeltzer: i do not know it is technically counts, but i'm wondering if we might be able to try and at least tentatively scheduled meetings more than one meeting out. there have been, i think, some scheduling conflicts recently, and possibly, we might be able to avoid those if we were able to try to set a meeting a little farther out. if the chair is amenable to that. commissioner mirkarimi: absolutely. just because a leading up to the twin challenges of what was on the june ballot and ask racing to deal racingcca required more --

. >> reporter: some charge ellis structures. they built bigger structures before locking in tenants. the owner of the el piscatore says his business started suffering two years ago. >> they took my parking away. >> reporter: ellis partners chose not to be interviewed by ktvu but in a statement blamed the quote, unprecedented economic climate for the vacancy. certainly the economy is a major factor, but not the only factor. other bay area developers who didn't want to appear on camera told us that ellis partners made a bunch of mistakes. not securing tenants before building, erecting too big a structure, planning a market place where there's little foot traffic. their role model: san fransisco's ferry building, it's part of the financial district. but jack london square is cut off by the rest of oakland by freight trains, cars and pedestrians sometimes have to wait 15 minutes. there are signs of hope here. the owner of one no restaurant says business is thriving and defends ellis partners for keeping the market place closed until

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rehema ellis, nbc news. >>> on wall street today stocks lost a bit of ground. the dow was down 5.5 points. >>> when we come back here tonight, what's a world famous supermodel doing testifying at a war crimes trial? >>> there was an extraordinary witness this morning in the hague at the war crimes trial of charles taylor, the former president of liberia. naomi campbell, the world famous supermodel, was called to testify about a gift, a bag of rough diamonds she received after a dinner more than ten years ago. nbc's martin fletcher picks up the story. >> where is she? >> reporter: fashionably as usual, minutes late -- >> i solemnly swear on the bible -- >> reporter: naomi campbell wasn't happy to be subpoenaed to the war crimes tribunal at the hague today. >> i was made to be here so obviously i'm just wanting to get this over with and get on with my life. this is a big inconvenience for me. >> reporter: it's all about the model and the dictator. charles taylor, former president of liberia. >> i never heard of him before. never heard of the country liberia befor

mark ellis hits one into the gap. daric barton scores. the a's take a 3-2 lead but it wouldn't last. sean rodriguez hit a two-run home in the 8th to put the rays on top. they hang on to beat the a's 5- 4. >>> irl point leader will power on your pole sitter for tomorrow's grand prix in sonoma. it's the eighth time this season power has claimed the pole. >> what's up bristol? you all are so loving. thank you. [ boos ] >> kyle busch, driver of the no. 18 double mint camry, brad keselowski driver of the wednesday penn ski racing dodge. kyle -- penske racing dodge. dial busch -- >> oh, keselowski apparently -- kyle busch. >> oh, keselowski apparently still not over what happened in last night's busch, but busch takes the flag on the short track in bristol and becomes the first driver to win all three of the series, the truck, nationwide and sprint cup in the same week. just under 11,000 showed up to see giovanni make his quakes debut taking on landon donovan and the first place galaxy. somehow the gall gets through the defenders and chris kozl

only the third of the season for ellis. the a's would combine to hit 5 railroads this weekend, kevin kouzmanoff hits one half-way to corpus christi, the a's win 8- 2, they pull to within 7 1/2 games of the rangers. but the season opener just two weeks from today it is uncertain whether or not the raiders will have their starting quarterback and running back healthy enough to play. michael bush broke his thumb on his final carry of the game and jason campbell has a right wrist injury that tom cable says is more serious than the stinger that knocked him out of last night's gym. >> in the heat of the battling so it got a lot worse, felt worse at the time it happened. thank god. we don't think it's anything going to be really really serious but at the same time it's something we have to take care of before the season starts. >> just a hand, i mean hopefully i'll be back, a hand to a leg totally different. i broke my leg, i with a bounced back, i'll do the same from this. >> final round of the barkleys in jersey. tiger finished

nbc's rehema ellis has more on what was said and the nerve that it touched. >> this is dr. laura -- >> reporter: on the air for more than 30 years, dr. laura schlessinger's radio program on 400 stations reaches more than 8 million listeners weekly. some were outraged that this week, dr. laura repeatedly used the "n" word on her broadcast while talking to an african-american caller who complained that her white husband's friends frequently made racist remarks. >> caller: how about the "n" the word? the "n" word's been thrown around -- >> black guys use it all the time, turn on hbo, a comic all you hear is [ bleep ]. i don't get it. if anybody without enough melanin says it's a horrible thing, but when black people say it, it's affectionate. it's very confusing. >> reporter: dr. laura said the "n" word 11 times. the next day she apologized. >> i didn't intend to hurt people but i did, and that makes it the wrong thing to have done. i was attempting to make a philosophical point and i articulated the "n" word all the way out, more than one time, and that was wrong. >> reporter

rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >> and joining us now is dr. alanna lavine, a practicing pediatrician and spokesperson for the american academy of pediatrics. good evening. good to have you here. >> thank you. >> you say that this is, while shocking, not surprising to you. why? >> it's true. i'm seeing it in my practice. i'm seeing young girls coming in not knowing what their breast buds are. they are not realizing what it is because it is earlier than it was in the past. >> it is said to be found as young as 7. what are parents to do? what is your best advice based on your experience? >> the first thing parents need to do is understand this is happening so they can talk to their children beforehand so before breasts start to develop the children know what's happening to them. the second thing parents can do is really encourage a healthy lifestyle for children. we are not sure 100% of all the causes but clearly they are multifactorial but weight plays a role, genetics, the environment plays a role. as parents we really want to do our best to pr

rehema ellis, thank you, as always. >>> this topic will come up again with nbc news when we host the education nation summit right here at rockefeller plaza. it will include a series of reports on this broadcast and others, beginning september 26th. and the goal of this massive gathering is to try to figure out how best to improve education across this country. now, we turn to news from overseas tonight to iraq, specifically. a terrible attack with curious timing. just as u.s. combat troops are getting ready to pull out. it happened in central baghdad at an army recruiting station. suicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least 57 recruits and soldiers. wounding 123 others. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel in baghdad for us. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this was one of the worst attacks here in months. the recruiting center was exceptionally crowded on this hot morning. hundreds of people were gathered. some had been waiting for hours, others since last night. hoping to find positions in the armed forces. unemployment is high in this country

mark ellis comes up with a clutch two-out double off drived price. scores a 2-hit for ellis. next batter, davis. lines a shot to center and falls just in front of b. j. upton. he will -- ellis will beat it home. in the 8th sean rodriguez takes it deep. rays go up 5-4 and the a's will not pick up a game on the rangers but get stung by the ray's 5-4. raiders looking like a team that will not have an eight street 11 loss season. former bo jackson was in the house. the oakland office was sharp on its first drive. worth 89 yards, including this 20 yard strike. 7-0. the defense looking just as good. cameron wembley takes down jay cutler, the former seminal has four sacks in the first half. run defense. matt forte breaks loose. still looking for his jock strap. bears down. 7. the raiders own the second half. climbs a ladder to pick up dan la fever. the rookie out of michigan returns the 46 yards. a field goal and maybe a spot on the roster. raiders 2-0 the preseason after a 32-17 victory. the earthquakes need to get busy if they're thinking about a postseason. they can gain ground h

admiral ellis first? >> thank you co-chairman graham. i am the chief executive officer of the institute of nuclear power operations, known as inpo. also i have my staff assistant. we're pleased to be here to provide remarks to this panel describing the organization, our programs and activities, and i will not review the comments today. i am here today to address health regulation in a high technology industry. i will talk briefly of the founding of inpo and i will discuss the factors that have allowed self regulation to improve safety and a commercial power industry. before proceeding, i want to pledge my regard to the 11 crew members who died during the accident and express mired regret to their families, friends, and colleagues. it is vital that the lessons learned and the actions to be taken as a result of this committee and other investigations help prevent a repeat of such an incident. the founding of self regulation in the nuclear power industry after the interests suffered its most serious accident, a partial meltdown of the three

mark ellis comes up with a clutch, david price. barton scored the two-hit for ellis. a's lead 3-2.avis. lines a shot to center and falls just in front of upton. ellis will beat it home. sean rodriguez takes it deep. rays go off 5-4 and the a's will not pick up a game from the rangers. get stung by the rays 5-4. will not have an 8th straight 11 loss season. jackson was in the house. the oakland office was sharp on its first drive. jason campbell worth 89 yards including the 27 yard strike lewis murphy. defense looking just as good. cameron wembley takes down jay cutler, the four sacks in the first half. oakland still struggling with the run defense. still looking for his jock strap. 89 yards, bears down 10-7. stevie brown climbs the ladder to pick off the fever. returns it 46 yards. otherwise field goal and maybe a spot on the roster. raiders 2-0 the preseason after a 32-17 victory. the earthquakes need to get busy if they're thinking about the postseason. currently 6th in the western conference but can gain grown hosting the first place l.a. galaxy. 4th minutes as they take advanta

. >> oakland gana su partido y ellis nunca había conectado sus dobletes. >> federación interescuelas >> gracias edgardo. >> pasamos con guillermo quiroz y pronóstico. >> noche fría estupenda y california se mantiene con excelentes condiciones. >> vamos a ver quñ sucede y temperaturas de promedio 55° y en san josñ 56° y se espera que continúen en los 80°. >> en promedio 66° y lo que pasa fin de semana día domingo a los 70° y en san josñ lunes con 85 y siguiente semana calor regresa más intenso.>> >> discusión entre sobre cargo y pasajero terminaban en pleito historia al regresar. ♪ me gusta ser como soy, ♪ no hay nadie como yo ♪ me gusta ser como soy, ♪ poder elegir y elegir ♪ todo todo todo todo ♪ lo que tengo para mi ♪ todo todo todo todo ♪ lo que aqui descubrí. ♪ ven conmigo que ♪ estoy lista hoy. ---las vacunas contra las alergias podrian ser un buen tratamiento para el asma. alergias podrian ser un buen tratamiento para el asma. ---las p contra alergias podrían ser buen tratamiento para el asma.decenas de estudios han demostrado que se reduce efectos del asma. vacunas no son para

we will be rebuilding the ellis griffin public housing site. -- we will be rebuilding the alice griffithusing sites. it is 30 years of hard work coming to fruition. we are marking the economic development of this part of san francisco and marketing at the economic development of san francisco for the next 30 or 40 years. that means tens of thousands of jobs and all kinds of infrastructure improvements. if that was not enough from the budget to the hunters point deal, we were also an extraordinarily proud to have had speaker nancy policy out here, senator barbara boxer out here, and countless others celebrate our groundbreaking at the terminal. we will be developing a world- class grand central station on the west coast of the west coast. i call it a grander station. it is a new intermodal facility creating a regional transit hub. 11 transit agencies will feed in from 88 area counties into this world class hub. there will be ground-floor retail. there will be 2600 new units of housing. 30% of them will be available below market. there will be the ability ultimately to connect the high- sp

>> i want to understand how safety and ellis is -- how safe the annulus is. and with the approaching storm [unintelligible] are there is many vessels out there as there were before? >> not before, because we're not working on the second vertical riser pipe and that sort of thing. the main vessels our development driller ii, development driller iii, and q4000 is in the area. to operate in the 12-foot seas, it does make a problematic if you are hooked up and trying to drill at the time. they're trying to stabilize the current situation and hold their position so they do not have to completely immobilize and return once the weather passes through. it is a lower-level tropical system than bonnie became three. -- that came through. >> and the and ellis. -- and ellis. -- annulus. >> the difference between this and surcoat -- their rings. we're talking about inches. thank you, folks. >> you can see this briefing what national incident commander thad allen again tonight in our prime-time program. that is at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> washington, d.c. delega

mark ellis at the base for the play. and it's around the horn triple play.not because the replay showed that ellis was really safe and he gives the umpire an ear full. didn't get ejected but the a's wind up on the shore 3-1. >>> tell you what, no messing around with the 49ers with their top draft choices, they will learn under fire. on the job training to begin sunday in the season opener against the colts. coach singletary has seen enough of anthony davis and ayup ati and he likes the view. both are starting, both have impressed since day one obviously to get the nod this early. >>> first glimpse of the nfl season yesterday. jerry rice on the sideline with his old buddy t.o. as teammates. he and terrell owens were never terribly great buddies, but when they were interviewed yesterday, t.o. was playing nice. >> i feel very fortunate to have played with him, to become friends with him on and off the football field. a lot of things i've done throughout my career, when he left san francisco, i was kind of the guy to fill his shoes, if that was possible. >> it w

it's a song that was made by a man named matthew too bold, a very well respected elder whose wife, ellie, just recently passed on. both of them were very well respected for their singing skills. when i thought about doing an arrangement for today, the blue horse special came to mind. i thought i wonder if i can bring a cedar flute into an air, i thought, i wonder if i can take a pala song and turn it into a reel. what i will do is sing you the original pala song, so you can hear that, then we will go into an arrangement that also includes a little something at the end for my grandparents. (singing)

that's the language that the drafters of those pieces of legislation, ellis scompsm costas-hawkins. you won't be able to assure they remain rental units, also, unless they are subsidized with a direct financial contribution. i don't think we are planning on doing this. the analysis here is complicated. i'm not going to pack it all in to these two minutes. i'm willing to continue the conversations with the management and hear what they have to sayment but i also want to say to them, i have receive veer doubts. given the case law we believe it is uncertain a government code will be capable of over coming these acts. i believe we need to look at the development agreement. that should be part of the i.r. process. here is a copy of the four letters for the four of you that was written on this topic. chair maxwell: we also need to make sure in some way we can do that. the buildings should not have to fall down, because then they would be gone. so we have to work on making sure that this can happen. >> i think we need to see if there is a way we can maintain them as rent-controlled, evicti

seconded by ellis. item 22? all in favor, please signify by saying aye. opposed? ayes have it. clerk: mr. president, is there any additional new business? >> i was keeping notes on follow up items, and i have 3. one was something that must be useful to have some technology policy and how we direct staff as far as having the appropriate level of investigative alternatives. second is with the sewer system, it invites a discussion of police -- policy, and we need to come to grips with that more concretely. third, within the universe of our planning for the program, we have been focusing on ssip and not as much on the r & r. it may be possible to do a level of service definition for them as well, and we look forward to doing that in the near future. >> there were two elements. one was the 10%, and the other was the structure. putting it together, is there a financial plan or staging process? >> i agree, but i know that time is of the essence. given the rates and inflation taking off, i guess before we get there we will know fairly soon. >> and that is the result of the acquisition,

my great-grandmother was tragically rejected at ellis i've filmed -- ellis island.he was sick and was sent back and killed. anyway, my family is -- my father's family made it here. >> were to get your start in literature? >> that is a good question. i was a bookish little boy. i was an avid reader. we have books in our house. my parents were not what i would call literate, but the world leaders. my father collected rare books about natural science. i started reading history and things like that at a pearly early age. -- at a fairly early age. when i was age 10, i found an old typewriter that have been discarded in our basement and i brought it upstairs and cleaned it up and started banging away on it. in time, i taught myself to talk with two fingers. -- to type with two fingers. i started writing and found that i enjoyed pushing words around on a page. at around 10 or 11, i decided that i wanted to be a writer which was a somewhat unconventional choice in our household. in time, i discovered that i did not really have a knack for telling stories. what i liked about

mark ellis. on to first, a triple play. seattle's first in 15 years. you got odo is change managers. baren brown gets a win tonight. 8s are 8 back of texas. -- a's are 8 back of texas. that's what happens when you face collides with a bat. he suffered multiple facial fractures. no word on how much he is suing for. jackie you are making a fist -- making a fist. >> no. >> story? >> when i was at the kingdom. >> i need to catch my breath. >> i saw the angels and the mariners, i was sitting in the terrace and joey fouled a ball off and it came right towards my face and this guy puts his fand in front of my face. >> pam, you are in the way of the most indr.ing -- interesting girl in the world. you know something? i got corns on my heels, do you have any doctor things? >> negative. >> bad news for the 49ers. the center broke his left leg tonight at practice, expected to miss 6-8 weeks. anthony davis was named the starting rathe tackle. mike will also be in the starting lineup. so here we are, their two top choices are showing they belong. matt barnes played

>> kate ellis agree with buying things online that secure and it's a division of the bay. 4 and triedor the operation of gogol's phone it basically helps them compete with appalachians. when you bite appalachians your credit cards there is one click and you're done. this will help you go in and tried to a one click benefit situation. google has a commerce site so they needed a one-stop shopping. >> it's good for the consumer because of mixed it easier for them >> we get more caps. if rob will be back to ensure you the questions we have a lot more news ahead stay tuned. a live look good side from the bay bridge toll plaza play a sun shined here this afternoon and for most the bay area is home but it is so stubborn the fog and it's sitting right along the coastline. temperatures cooler closer to the coast to seven half moon bay, 62 and san francisco were still on the warm side and our inland spots all in the '80s this afternoon. 86 antioch 82 livermore same thing in concord. it's cooler in the north bay 72 degrees in santa rosa that's about 10 degrees cooler than worry work 24 hours ago

ellis. 1-0 as. top five, ellis getting in on the rbi action. this will be the extra bay hit. the left field. two are going to score. smith pennington. they make it 4-0, as. meanwhile, though, they're getting it done on the mound in the sixth. he went the distance. just allowed one run in the complete gain. four hits. the as get the win. avoid the sweep 5-2 1 phenyl. >>> it was one of the worst starts in his career, and it came at one of the worse times for the giants. with the team playing meaningful august games and in the thick of a pennant hunt, last night he struggled in his second straight outing, and he did it against one of the more challenged teams in the national league. that would be the cubs. at china basin tmy allowed four runs and that's the most he has given up in the opening frame in his career. in all, the cubs in four innings, and jits part of a skernk trend. over his top five starts the two-time cy young award winner with a 540 e.r.a., and he is not sure what's wrong. >> you know, you are getting in your own head, and i really don't know how to explain it. >

ellis ending a 15-game homerless route. a's take the lead. then in the fifth, still 2-1.urt suzuki. chops one to luis. throw to second is just a little outside. 3-1. 6th. kevin kouzmanoff, piling on. deep to left center and gone. a's are now 7-1/2 back of the rangers after the victory. >>> last year ben an from cal won the u.s. amateur. this year, david chung, a stanford player had his chance. 18th hole of the day, par-5. peter all line, -- uihlein, goes 2up. it comes down the slope. and watch this. he holes it. but amazingly, would only halve the hole to remain 3down. the birth day boy was too good. peter uihlein wins the amateur championship, 4 and 2. >> fedex cup playoffs, final round of the bark barclays. start on 17. laird takes the lead. on 18, laird would just have to two-putt to win. after his first putt, can't make the comebacker, three-putt. his wife can't believe it. so laird heads into a playoff with matt kuchar. kuchar punches a 7 iron from the rough. and was this go, all the way to the back of the green. catches the slope. ended up a few feet from the hole a

nick sherman, mark shelley, richard ellis, michael hughes, elizabeth colbert, simon winchester. i have been calling a lot of people and asking a lot of questions. thank you to my studio assistance. in sound and media, we have carolyn chadwick, raymond chavez, alex chadwick. my media coordinator, luc d ubious. they've given us a much of their time and brilliance to work with us to help in the final character of the media and also pentagram and management. i have to think what wall of foundries -- i have to thank walal walla foundries. what is missing? it begins with an accounting of what we are losing as we watch. in terms of species and habitat loss and i hope it provokes more a sense of wonder at what this planet is capable of and still could return to. this is a beginning. let's imagine this as a portal. we have begun to think of this as listening to the earth. me will be able to connect to the president. we see all the things that are being accomplished. we can also see into the future and by 2000 12th, we will start with the clean paint for the future. -- and by 2012, we wil

. >> [roll call] i might note that commissioner ellis is excused from this afternoon's meeting. she is out of town. commissioner crowley: all right, 3. >> i might call your attention to approval of the minutes of july 13. commissioner moran requested modification of two -- actually, three places. on page 8 in paragraph two in the beginning of the middle, he requested minor clarification of the language here, and on page 9 at the bottom, it said it could be accepted without objection. >> i do not seem to have a copy of the minutes. commissioner crowley: i will give commissioner caen a moment to look at that. >> if you could entertain a motion. commissioner crowley: as amended by commissioner moran, entertain a motion to accept. it has been moved and seconded. all those on the question, please signify by saying aye. >> we had a speaker cards on this item. commissioner crowley: -- we had no speaker cards on this item. commissioner crowley: 90. we now open public comment. members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction but no