okay, charles rathbone, followed by eric williams and then ed healy. >> good afternoon, commissioners, charles rathbone, dave deforest worked at luxor cab, a very long career, we were grateful to have his services. dave was much loved and much missed and your comments, director and the kind comments of miss hiashi are much appreciated. >> eric williams and then ed healy and then han sue kim. >> good afternoon, board members, director ruskin. i want to thank you for putting on the event sunday. as you very well know operators have been taking the brunt of the ridicule about the system for many, many years. i have expressed this to ed, many people, anybody that has anything to do with the sfmta that we need to regain at any cost the image that we're doing out there, the hard work they are putting in day in and day out, the men and women should be recognized. and we're not asking for anything special. but if we're talking about building morale, we're talking about having employees ready and willing to come to work, it's a good thing. like i said at the event, sports events, after the gam

the team that led on this, it was led by janice ewan from our communications group and included eric williams, mark deanda, lavinia, helen low so happy to have brought that back to the mta and that's something we will resume as an annual event from here forward and that concludes my report. >> thank you, director riskin. >> i know there was a chronicle article blaming us for the rat infestation. did we have an opportunity to talk to the board of public health to see if there's anything we can do. >> we have department of public health approved rat abatement program. there are some things we do pre-emptively and the balance we do upon any evidence there is any such issue. we had not, before that hit the newspapers, from the public, the department of health or otherwise gotten any complaints and we checked and nor had the department of hub -- public health, but we immediately took steps to address this. i advised director kim and we will work with the department of public health to make sure we don't have any such consequences from our construction work. >> thank you. >> members of the board? t

eric williams with the transit workers union mentioned immediate improvement and can you talk about that as well? >> yeah. sure. so, our director of transit director hailey has an operations plan both for the tunnel as well the overall light rail system in general. we have the vehicles and making sure transit priority is working and operational. we are doing things like 3-car train to reduce some of the crowding in the tunnel and doing a lot of switch repair, track repair. district try to upgrade and make it more reliable. we are also a little bit longer term in the 4-5-year range trying to order lrv's and new vehicles to get out there. not only are we having in our existing fleet which is in some case of disrepair. we are also ordering new vehicles for the next several years. >> thank you. commissioner breed? >> just one last comment because i noticed that some of the requests there were be some new bus stops and bus stop improvements and i just wanted to mention that i have serious issues with the current bus shelters that are located all over the city. i have already talked to the may

officer eric williams was stabbed to death by an inmate while working in a housing unit.the oofs shot and killed while driving home from the etropolitan detention center porkt. we'll remember these officers and the loss undercoarse the dangers the staff faces on a daily basis. we share a commitment to the nation's criminal justice system. we understand that incarceration is only one aspect of the overall mission. i'm sure you share my concerns about the increasing cost associated with operating the nation's largest correctional system. those make up one quarter of the d.o.j. bument. we're optimist tick smart on crime initiative will reduce the population in prison ahead. i know several of you have bills to impact the crowding through sentencing reform and incentives. i appreciate your work and your interest on this important topic and i look forward to working with you going forward. the bureau of prisons is responsible for the incarceration of 219,000 inmates. our prison reasons crowded. we are most concerned about the 52% over crowding at high ecurity facilities and 45%

inside patrick baltazar's shirt. >> these two hairs were consistent with originating from williams. >> then there was ericiddlebrooks and the fiber stuck to his tennis shoe. this is a blow-up of those red fibers. the same kind were in a car williams was driving that year. >> this puts middlebrooks both in the interior and -- of the '79 ford and the trunk of the '79 ford. >> did you ever meet any of the young men who were victims? >> no, i did not. >> never met them once? >> no. >> not once? >> no. >> it's incalculable the odds that they were not in contact with the fiber. >> the fiber evidence is your biggest obstacle. >> that fiber evidence may have been manipulated in this case point blank and simple because they had a suspect which was wayne and that manipulation no doubt continued even after my trial up until this point. >> there were just too many fibers placed on too many bodies. >> mike dearham in blue seen here the night of the verdict was one of the jurors. >> what would the chances be of finding these same -- all of these fibers? the chances would be just astronomical. >> this witness, robert he

william. >> the president also -- excuse me, eric, the president also sought to shift responsibility, blaming local officials for poor preparation. now, the locals that i spoke to gave the president mixed reviews, but said right now it was most constructive to look forward. the mission is simple. getting supplies from here to there. accomplishing it is not. the first step is clearing roads so heavy equipment can begin cleaning up the mountain of debris still clogging the city, letting officials salvage what they can. this backhoe is clearing a canal so stagnant water, a breeding ground for mosquito born illnesses like malaria, can properly drain. the backhoe arrived yesterday from cebu. >> everybody is helping each other. >> the typhoon also wiped out the warehouse district, crippling the city's ability to move product. slowing commerce to a crawl. another problem, employment. coca-cola, san miguel beer, the call center, they're all closed. no job, no income. no income, no food or rebuilding. >> we had to gather food, we have to gather water. we had to make anything out of anything that we ha

william. >> reporter: you know, eric, that commitment comes a little late for many filipinos given that relief efforts are already well under way. thanks to the u.s. and others but we did see some baby steps today. a man selling roasted pork on the street. another one, gas station opening. again, small steps but it is beginning. ♪ robbed of everything but their faith, thousands of filipinos turned out foreign sunday mass. to grieve for the dead and thank god for the living. including themselves. >> they are people of faith. they understand that from the hand of god comes good things. sometimes they are allowing difficult things. they appreciate that. >> reporter: already a deeply religious country the victims of typhoon haiyan know they need more than spiritual help to get them through the next few weeks. >> we will bring in fork lifts. we are bringing in water pure fires and all the things you need. >> reporter: best target supplies, surveillance planes from the george washington, maps and pinpoint areas hardest hit. like this tiny town. team rubicon gather firsthand intelligence to identify

nbc's pete williams spoke to attorney general eric holder. he joins us with details.did you find out? >> reporter: a couple things about this. first of all the justice department says this isn't just for conduct by bear stearns and washington mutual, the two banks jpmorgan bought. in the court documents filed today just now, the justice department also says jpmorgan was doing the same thing, overpromising what was in these packages of home mortgage loans that were then sold as securities. the jpmorgan knew well, executives knew, there were a lot of worthless loans in there. he says this $13 billion hit, even though today doesn't have any criminal charges, is still a big hit on the company. here's what he said. >> this was something that was hard fought. it was something that we decided in terms of the amount had to be met, otherwise we could have simply filed our lawsuit. this was not simply something that jpmorgan simply signed a check and smilingly said, this is a good deal for us. this inflicts pain on that institution. >> reporter: now, the subject of whether crim

eric bolling. welcome to "cashin' in." the crew, wayne rogers, jonathan hoenig, michelle fields, juan williams. welcome, everybody. talk about the words coming back to bite you. >> if you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. period. >> then the president back pedaled this week saying this -- >> what we said is you could keep it. if it hasn't changed since the law passed. >> and now he is apologizing, trying to clean up hiswn mess. >> i am sorry that they are finding themselves in the situation based on assurances they got from me. >> he has been lying for four years, lies are racking up, costs are racking up. michelle, you are not buying this, are you? >> not at all. he knew this would happen since 2010 and he did nothing about it. now the american people are paying the price for it. if you look at the state of delaware, it cost taxpayers $4 million to set up obamacare in delaware. you know how many pple signed up so far? four people. that means we are paying $1 million per enrollee. no one is signing fun for thing. the reason why they canno afford it. the commonwealth fund rel

william ferguson guilty of murder in the second degree. >> reporter: but four years after that 2005 conviction, erics on who pled guilty in exchange for aleen zelner, an attorney who won many wrongful conviction cases, agreed to take the case pro bono. >> charles ericson wanted ryan ready attorneys to meet with him. >> reporter: with her camera rolling. ericson read a statement admitting he had not been truthful in his testimony against ryan. >> things happen much differently than i preachously stated. i regret i put an innocent man through that. >> ryan got a new court hearing. in april 2012. ericson testified that he lied about ryan ferguson during his trial. >> man, i lied to everybody. >> then the janitor, the only other eyewitness to implicate ryan took the stand and admitted that he too had lied at the trial. convicted sex offend ter, jerry trump said, police pressured him to implicate two young men from a photo. >> i would like to have forgiveness from ryan. >> judge daniel green didn't believe ericson's most reesen r account. found there wasn't enough new reliable evidence to overturn the conviction. >> there is no case in the u

. >> pete williams caught up with attorney general eric holder, talked about the government settlement. >> one of the things that we worked on through this settlement was the possibility of the criminal investigation woon would not be precluded. that investigation will continue and it is possible that individuals can be held criminally liable. >> well, guys, there you have it. a little bit of back and forth. but i think the larger story here is we're going to see either more settlements of magnitude of these types of numbers, at least, whether it comes to bofa or this critical yam case. >> i think this is a template and they're going to be looking for something to make yields in the future. that's been something the company has always been reluctant to do. >> one quick note, and we talked to analysts about this yesterday, the $13 billion headline number is and sounds like a very big number. and i don't want to be dismissive of it. but in truth, after taxes and after you break down how the number is calculated, it is probably half of that number in total. so much of it is going to come

williams. williamsost his punt return duties to la micel james this past sunday. the team also announcing the have waived defensive back and activated linebackerick moody. eric rice shoul see more time which is a sn the 49ers trust his ability. >> you know, truthfully i don't knowow its or isn a clear sign of, you know, unfortunately with the way this game is, you have hard roster moves and decisions to make. i oiously wish him the best of luck. he's bn a great g to me. >> all right. stanfordardinal coming off a huge win against the oregon ducks. ey now sit atop the pac-12 north standin and contr their owndestiny, but shane saystanford isware of how important wiing the rest of their games is. >> every game you kind of, your chances to play in the big end of the year game kind of liv and die with every single week, every single win or loss. especial considering we hav one loss, i think it's that much morelear to us we have to be prepar every single week or we're out of the picture. >> all right. let'get aittle baseball going. a's manager bob melvin, finist for the american league manager award he won lt year. but the winner of this award ended up being clevel

eric reid left with a concussion. 9ers settle for a field goal, 9- 0. caroline comes back with an 80-yard drive, only td of the game, deangelo william 27- yarder, 9-7 at halftimemitchell just went kaepernicking. 4th quarter carolina's gano, san francisco needs to make the play and this is not the play they need. final 30 seconds colin kaepernick makes a desperation throw. carolina florence makes the pick to put a lid on this 10-9 road victory. carolina wins its fifth straight game. 9ers were held to 151 total yards on offense. they fall to 6-3 overall. it wasn't so much about rust. it was about the panthers defensive rush. once again the raiders showed their opponents anything you can do, we can do worse. oakland in new jersey today where it was windy and at times stormy. giants took the opening kickoff and they coughed. raiders force a fumble. andre loams takes it down to the 5. two plays later pryor scores, 7-0 raiders. punt blocked and go ahead and give it to me, cooper tyler 21 yards for the touchdown. giants led 14-10 in the 2nd quarter, but this game is up for grabs. giants quarterback eli manning throws and tracy porter lays it, waiting. he cruises 43-y

williams at length. then we'll invite you to reach your own verdict, guilty, innocent, or a third choice, not proven. the first clue was found on a dead boy's tennis shoes. the victim was eric middlebrooks. his body left here in a rainy alley. a foster child who rode his bicycle away one night on an errand and was dead by dawn. detective bob buffington saw something red stuck to eric's tennis shoe. >> and i noticed in the flap of the edge of this shoe this tuft of what to me appeared to be wool. and that was it. we could find no other evidence. >> back at homicide, buffington showed the fibers to his superiors. >> the lieutenant made a big joke out of it and told the rest of the squad that if i went over to the lieutenant's house and cleaned out the lint trap in his dryer, we could probably clear out all the cases in the city of atlanta. >> still, buffington sent the fibers to the state crime laboratory. a young forensic scientists, larry peterson, took a look. why was that a fiber that was stuck in the crack of a shoe, why was that important? >> because it was somewhat loosely there. people normally don't have tufts of carpet fibers stuck loosely in their shoe. >> from tho

eric holder should be deciding soon if tsarnaev will face the death penalty if convicted. >>> breaking news about a suspected case of child sex abuse at fort meade in anne arundel county. 27-year-old anthony williams arrested today on charges of sexually abusing a minor. he worked between 2010 and 2011. williams is accused of sexually abusing two minor males and exchanging sexually explicit photographs with the minors. williams is currently in custody. >>> more disappointment surrounding the affordable care act. the number of people who enrolled so far is a lot lower than the obama care had hoped for. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: between 40,000 and 50,000 americans have been able to successfully enroll in private insurance through the healthcare.gov website, according to the wall street journal. industry analysts have confirmed those numbers for cbs news, in the 36 states where the federal government is running the exchange. cbs news data from the states operating their own exchanges, shows another 50,000 enrollees. but those figures well short of the 500,000 the obama administration had initially hoped to have by this point. >> the fact that the website has been so challenging and so

williams went up. he left the stage, x-rays were negative. joe johnson took over. made the running ja. suns down two. in transition eric allows for pj tucker, slamming it. channing fry takes the free and misses. grabs the bored, joe johnson driving the length of floor - game winner. blooding out the suns 100-98. wuls derrick rose missed the friday night game with a sore hamstring. he missed two days of practicing earlier in the week. rose hurt the hammy late in monday night's win over the cafe leers. bulls defeating the raptors. >> i feel safe in saying no one who saw illinois's kevin weir shatter his leg while jumping to defend the shot will forget what they saw. friday night weir returned to action since the injury, scoring five, grabbing two rebounds. louisiana crushed core very well. the cardinals wins 19-straight games. michigan state taking on columbia, getting a scare from the ivy leaguers. columbia up. nailed three from the corner. columbia up seven. mich gap up one. keith in for adrian pap with the alley oop. deja vu. it's not a replay. spartans survive. >> while the college basketball season is underway recru

the team that led on this, it was led by janice ewan from our communications group and included eric williams, mark deanda, lavinia, helen low so happy to have brought that back to the mta and that's something we will resume as an annual event from here forward and that concludes my report. >> thank you, director riskin. >> i know there was a chronicle article blaming us for the rat infestation. did we have an opportunity to talk to the board of public health to see if there's anything we can do.