they are going to be foresh limited and pre-empted, so i am urging you not to approve any expansion of the program except to people who have become disabled since the pro ramp started or another reason that was part of the pilot program and get on with the business of a permanent program. my own take on this, and everybody is going to have their own, but people who have been on the waiting list, waiting around for 15 or 16 years and are now being orphaned by the system, the cannot afford to buy a medallion or find it impractical to do so, space has to be made for them. i do not want to see them cut short by this action. thank you. chairman nolan: thank you. secretary boomer: [reading names] last speaker, martin smith. >> it is my request -- the pre k medallion, i have posed k. -- post k. please laura lee age to 60 or whatever. thank you. -- please lower the age to 60 or whenever. chairman nolan: thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a member of yellow cab. how we started. we were a small group of new immigrants in this country. mostly minorities. we heard we had the opportunity to have a

basis of a penalty would constitute a violation of the judicial powers act in an area of law pre-empted by the state of california. the problem is quite clear. when we go into court on an unlawful detainer and we get a judge to approve a settlement in superior court, then the city and county says that there is a wrongful depiction, there is a difference of conclusions. how is that going to be resolved if you have got this encroachment on the jurisdiction? getting back to the amnesty case, which counts of referred to, that case involved a waiver of the ellis act by the property owner. that waiver was held to be not enforceable. the city cannot require somebody, a property owner, to waive their state, federal, or constitutional rights, unless there is compensation. there was no compensation paid to my clients. they are independent business people and therefore are absent any compensation. it would be an unlawful taking. we are not here to challenge the bmr law. it is a good law. we are not here to challenge anything except the fact that my client do not come within the type of property ow

it is pre-empted by federal law. >> that may not be a proper basis for a denial? thank you. >> this is a clarification to my colleagues and members of the public that may not be fully versed on laws that govern on this particular issue. it is a very complicated and challenging issue, one bank that we have been supportive in dealing with i do not know how many times in the next three months. >> why do we not hear from our next number of the public? >> thank you. my name is ian wang. i am within 300 yards of the proposed site. i am here to support my community. i asked you to deny at&t the right to build at that site. i have been a resident of this community for five years. i am a long-term at&t user. i have never had an issue or a dropped call within my area of service or might baseman or my backyard. our service has been excellent with at&t. i echo everything that my neighbors have said. excellent service, a blight on the neighborhood. we feel like thiscell tower is not necessary. please say no to at&t and say yes to our neighborhood concerns. >> good afternoon, b

it goes into law that is pre- empted by the state of california, said that is part of the improper and over -- enforcement of which we complain. vice president garcia: it would seem, and i do not want to make an argument that the planning department could make, and probably because i do not understand to begin with, but i thought their argument was that you cannot evict a person because that person was not actually paying a bmr rate. do you contend that the person was paying a below market rates, and whose formula was used for the below market? >> yes, the unit was paying the bmr rate, and the stipulation gave her until november. it was a loss to my client of approximately 30 $200, over $2,000 in damages, , which they a bad toupee, above and beyond normal wear and tear. this is an imposition on my client. -- of $2,000 in damages, which they had to bear. vice president garcia: is that agreed upon by the m.a.s. department on housing or by a formula that would be agreed to by both parties -- by the mayor's department on housing? >> by the city and county of san francisco. vice president g

president obama offered this assessment of president hovel r the foundations of and the empt repressiveal leadership is more powerful than any weapon." every candidate desperately wants to be president, but the party itself isn't sure about any of them. because wanting the job is no qualification in itself. perhaps they could learn something from the life of the reluctant president, vaclav havel who died on sunday. thanks so much for watching. dylan ratigan is here. and dylan, are you looking forward to our joint holiday celebration this evening ? >> i am, indeed. you've made it very explicitly clear that your goal is to throw a joint event hosted by the two of us with your staff and my staff. >> but just before we do that, i wanted to express my thanks to our director, gena fellows, who just had a baby, recently, so isn't able to attend, but i

on the other side, emptness and silence.n walk right to the edge of the border. this is the end of the line. this is about as far as the bridge goes. it stops right here. where this side of the line i'm in china. if we step out from this bridge here, i enter north korea. mr. lee knows too well what happens there. a regime obsessed with pumping money into its military, while desperately poor people go hungry, he says. pig feet. that's all we can eat. corn. no one can get full on that, he says. there is tho food. not even food from china. it's been blocked for three years. even if you have money, he says, there is nothing to buy. any goods are traded for what little food remains. mr. lee is well off by his country man's standards. he is relatives on the china side who run businesses. mr. lee is is able to work here on a limited visa, but crosses back and forth to keep his family alive. i can't not go back. i have to. i have a son and daughter, he says. if i don't go back, they can't survive. he has shed no tears for kim jong-i

if newt gingrich was funded, he could have gotten on the air early and pre-empted those negative adsy, folks, i'm going to keep positive and tell you what i'm going to do but he didn't have the money to do that. >> danny, what do you think? >> i think newt gingrich didn't have the money on the ground to keep his numbers up. the impact that we'll see on tuesday. and if he can keep the campaign going as we move into those other states, we saw that he had an issue in being able to get on the ballot in virginia. i think that's going to be something that will hurt the campaign. i think in general the candidates will see them slip off the list and we'll get down to the last two or three. >> danny vargas and governor ed rendell, thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you. happy new year. >> happy new year to you. >>> an explanation of how iowa caucus works. it's not how most americans work. this is "weekends with alex witt." [ male announcer ] all over the world, there's a battery that's relied on to help bring children holiday joy. of course, children don't really think about whic

how the new but i felt like i was living in some sort of a video game and people were kind of pre-empting every move i made obviously as a result of accessing my private information. >> believing on had now more broadly to the question of the photography, and one of the photographs taken of you and published accurately or were they altered? an example you would like to tell about? >> i think a story to tell a picture that is unique. speed the other way around. [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> we were notified of this [inaudible] i have no objections. you were going on the u.n. charter territories. everybody is agreed then. it's not why would prefer to have have it happen. >> thank you. in this particular situation in the ambassador and all i was at the annual ball where many of the children were and many people were donating money, raising money etc., and there was a very sick child i was pleased with in the corner of the room who was pretending to shoot me and i was pretending to buy. we were playing a game and somebody took a photograph in the mirror and cut the boy out of the photograph an