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

. >> let me ask if president eric williams wants to come up and say a few words about the safe driver awards. he is an indispensable partner with us putting these honors on. >> good afternoon president nolan and board members. yes, i would like to say something. we have six honorees who have 36 plus years, but i believe the other four are retired and wanted no part of this -- [laughter ] ironically i had the pleasure of working with both of these young men, when i first got there. this young man has true skills as a gripman. and he can't be replaced. so any knowledge or anything like that that you can give anybody coming up will be well-used, okay? mr. dwayne allen, wow. i don't know how many people didn't make the cable car messing with him because of his tricks -- just understanding being a conductor, what it takes. and if you didn't cut the mustard can dwayne allen, you couldn't be a conductor, not just based on seniority, but if you can do the job. it takes a lot to perform the dutis that you do day and in and day out and i salute you on behalf of your train operator brothers and

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

we have two members of the public who wish to address you under this section, eric williams followed by vera hale. >> mr. williams may have left, i believe. >> all right. >> is he out in the hall? okay. >> vera hale. >> miss hale. good afternoon, miss hale. >> good afternoon. i wanted to say a couple of things at your last meeting, and i was so surprised president nolan's move that i didn't and there is some information in here that i wanted to pass onto you. on the accessible parking recommendations, especially on disabled placards and the charging of fees at meters, charging of regular payments. i think you should know there are 60,000 people in san francisco who have disabled placards. and most seniors who have them live on fixed incomes and the added expense of paying $2-$5 an hour to park would work a great hardship and eliminate their ability of what they need to do or reduce it. i know it's not appreciated very well around here, like if you have to go to the doctor, or you have to go to the grocery store or senior meals program, or if you want to go out with friends or relativ

the board of directors only follow -- foreign-policy initiatives, and we find people like eric edelman, william kristol, for christ?s sake, c- span, let's have a little would have objectivity. host: go ahead with your question or comment for our guest. caller: yeah, i am wondering why c-span always has people on from organizations like the foreign policy -- host: we got that far, and i said we have a variety of perspectives on this topic, so caller: i don't think you do. guest: nyack was on right after the deal, so there are difference perspectives on season. i disagree with him on a lot of issues, but c-span has given him just as much time to talk and other supporters as opposed to iran. so i think you're complaint is frankly without. host: we have another caller. caller: i just want to know, why is it that when we went into iraq, before we went to iraq, they claimed that they had weapons of mass destruction, and then come to find out in the end, they had no capability of that or that they did not find any is what i mean to say. and then now, we want to go to iran. i just want to understand si

the board of directors only follow -- foreign-policy initiatives, and we find people like eric edelman, williamristol, for cry say, c-span, let's have a little would have objectivity. go ahead with your question or comment for our guest. whyer: yeah, i am wondering c-span always has people on from organizations like the foreign policy -- and iwe got that far, said we have a variety of perspectives on this topic, so -- caller: i don't think you do. guest: nyack was on right after the deal, so there are difference perspectives on season. i disagree with him on a lot of issues, but season has given him just as much -- c-span has given him just as much time to talk and other supporters as opposed to iran. so i think you're complaint is friendly without -- frankly without. host: we have another caller. caller: i just want to know, why is it that when we went into iraq, before we went to iraq, they claimed that they had weapons of mass destruction, and then come to find out in the end, they had no capability of that or that they did not find any is what i mean to say. and then now, we want to go to i

inside patrick baltazar's shirt. >> these two hairs were consistent with originating from williams. >> then there was ericdlebrooks 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 henr

i'm juan williams in >>> hello, i'm kimberly guilfoyle, along with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino, and andrea tantaros. and this is "the five." is religion making a comeback in america? pe hungry beyond what is offered in the sexually charged culture of what dominates our lives. pope francis was named time magazine 2013 of the year. bill o'reilly's killing jesus is a best seller and duck dynasty has captured the hearts of tens of millions of americans. and the history channel's mini series the bible was a huge hit. hollywood is catching up with noah starring russell crowe based on the story of noah's arc. take a look at the trailer. >> you must trust that he speaks in a way that you can understand. >> i saw water. death by water. >> a great flood is coming. we build a vessel to survive the storm. we build an arc. >> momma -- >> what do you want? >> you don't know you're king. there isn't anything for you here. >> i made this off my back and you stand alone and defy me. >> i already want to see it. it hits nationwide this spring and it looks like a fantastic production and russell

i'm juan williams in >>> hello, i'm kimberly guilfoyle, along with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino tantaros. and this is "the five." is religion making a comeback in america? pe hungry beyond what is offered in the sexually charged culture of what dominates our lives. pope francis was named time magazine 2013 of the year. bill o'reilly's killing jesus is a best seller and duck dynasty has captured the hearts of tens of millions of americans. and the history

host: from maryland, william is joining us. dr. eric green at nih. -- i wasy question is in vietnam and i can't malaria. i stayed in the field house for three months. when i came back to fort brag, i had a relapse. i am having problems. i cannot hear that well. warts growing out of me. the va cut the amount. -- cut them out. what kind of side effect or long-term effect is this? host: can you adjust that? thet: dr. fauci would be expert on that. this is an infectious disease. i would refer you to the institute that he runs to get the sort of insight. what i will tell you to make the point about a disease like malaria, it is a complicated infectious disease. it involves not only the arial parasite, it involves mosquitoes and vectors that carry the parasite. -- of course,s there are humans. there are three genomes interacting. the human genome, the mosquito genome, and antimalarial malarial-- and the parasite genome. the pools developed for human genome -- the pools developed to read the human genome can be dna. to read mosquito we are lea

november, william and tanya, along with daniel and his girlfriend, katherine, broke into this home and savagely beat the young man inside, according to charging documents. their victim, eric was the boyfriend of kristen delmar. she's the daughter of daniel and tonya. police say they blame manly for their daughter's drug problems. she was arrested in late october and charged with possessing heroin, syringes, and other paraphernalia. william beat manly with a metal baseball bat, trackturing his skull and landing him at baltimore shock trauma. sister walked in on the attack and called 911. she told investigators that delmar were holding a wooden baseball bat and a hunting knife and stress to return the next night. all four adults are facing first-degree burglary and assault charges. late last month, a judge ordered all of them to stay away from mandly and his home. andrea mccarren, wusa9. >> bob mcdonnell is proposing new mental health initiatives, $28 million in additional funding for critical and mental health services and the creation of a task force to look at ways to head off what he calls a mental health crisis. the announcement comes less than a month after state sena

host: from maryland, william is joining us. dr. eric green at nih. -- i wasy question is in vietnam and i can't malaria. i stayed in the field house for three months. when i came back to fort brag, i had a relapse. i am having problems. i cannot hear that well. warts growing out of me. the va cut the amount. -- cut them out. what kind of side effect or long-term effect is this? host: can you adjust that? thet: dr. fauci would be expert on that. this is an infectious disease. i would refer you to the institute that he runs to get the sort of insight. what i will tell you to make the point about a disease like malaria, it is a complicated infectious disease. it involves not only the arial parasite, it involves mosquitoes and vectors that carry the parasite. -- of course,s there are humans. there are three genomes interacting. the human genome, the mosquito genome, and antimalarial malarial-- and the parasite genome. the pools developed for human genome -- the pools developed to read the human genome can be dna. to read mosquito we are lea

william to 2014. thanks for joining us. i am kristen sze. >> i am matt keller here for eric thomas. they do it so well in sydney in the harbor. we can celebrate early especially if you go to bed at 6:00. >> we check out the other time zones because we can't make it too late. >> the clouds will clear tonight but we have plenty right now on live doppler 7 hd. dress if temperatures in the upper 40's with written to the north, and the radar from port listened is picking up pretty well and another inside slider, and this is moving due east than inside and it is not going to hit the sierra. for us, we have high clouds in a mild slow and under the same air mass we were yesterday so low-to-mid 60's again but, remember, no wood burning until at least mood night because of "spare the air" day. >> >> it is holiday "lite." in san rafael, the parkway off-ramp making the turn, someone did it too fast and hit the guardrail. it is partly blocking the parkway off-ramp. in san francisco, milk was talking of the fireworks and the embarcadero will close at 11:00 p.m. if viewing and muni is free after 8

our chief economist has a better batting average than ted williams. 2 for 2 saying no tapering september, tapering in december. >> eric, what about you guys at russell? >> we haven't changed it. we actually see yesterday's news and the reaction as good news is good news. our expectations for next year, similar to sam's, is about a 7% total return on equities. about 5% price appreciation. 2% dividend yield. we're going to actually have to see the economic data be good next year. we're expecting about a 3% growth rate. real growth rate here in the states. about a 2% inflation rate. if earnings just keep up with nominal gdp growth, earnings growing about 5% plus the 2% yield we think that's a really good estimate for what you're going to get out of equities next year. >> eric, you're not worried about this line from adrian miller going back to this point here that someone woke up the bond market vigilantes today and after the party yesterday now the hangover is starting to set in? >> i'm not sure eight basis points of yield rise on the 10-year represents a massive uprising of the bond vigilantes. i think the reality is t

eric fair for the game winning goal. the caps beat the rangers 3-2. >>> to football, not a great season for the redskins. but finally some good news. probowl selections have been made. trent williams is representing the redskins in hawaii. williams selected to his 2nd straight pro bowl. deangelo hall was selected as alternate. that's your morning sports. hope your saturday is a good one. >> a big day tomorrow as tc williams high school band arrives in the big easy. on january 2nd the band will perform as part of the halftime show for the sugar bowl. that's in new orleans when alabama takes on oklahoma. and tc williams won't have the only band marching somewhere far off. the high school band arrived last night in california to perform in the tournament of roses parade on january 1st. the band applied to be part of the parade two years ago. you can watch the parade right here on nbc 4 at 11:00 wednesday morning. >> we don't know who is playing in the super bowl and tickets for the february 2nd game are already through the roof. prices on the resale market are in the thousands. we just checked with stub hub. the cheapest ticket there is $3,200 and that's for an upper level seat. just

williams. he went to paris and discovered omelette pans that you could not find the united states. he opened his own store in california. it sounds really high-end. >> i love my vita mix. eric>> you love your soufflÉ pan. now withre struggling the other retailers. they have fallen victim to show rimming. -- rimming. -- rooming. other retailers are selling the same things for cheaper. >> thank you so much. a walk down memory lane. >> meantime, the stock market is on a tear in 2013. the bull run continues today. will it continue next year? if it does not, where the will investors put their money? they reveal the best bets for making big toe in the latest edition of the magazine. julie hyman is here with more. >> let's start with john burbank. >> big beard -- >> we have to talk about why we want to know why he thinks. he has a 19% annual average. so, he had a valuation. he thinks that tec has been underappreciated. >> he lives in san francisco. >> certainly some areas of text do not suffer from being underappreciated. he thinks that internet firms in the u.s. -- he thinks that china, because of protect japan because of the peculiarities of the culture. he says that health care