it will be their decision. >> now i want to move to keystone excel pipeline. a number of us today met with daniel juergen who wrote "the prize," "the quest," an expert on energy. he talked about roughly 170,000 miles of pipeline moving liquid in the united states, petroleum products. keystone is about 1% of that, about 1700 miles. it's my understanding the keystone excel pipeline would ship up to 100,000 barrels of oil today produced in north dakota and montana. we heard this morning about made-in-america energy. is it fair to say that the keystone pipeline would ifs sill tate oil production in the united states? >> well, first let me back off and say that, if you look at the oil pipelines in the united states, the u.s. government makes a decision on only those parts of the pipelines, and the state department makes the decision that goes across borders. within the united states, a lot of companies have the latitude. the pipelines that are taking the oil from wyoming north dakota down south to refineries are up and running. the biggest bottleneck in the united

we would be in excellent shapeu perspective. someone makes note of the fact you have distribute antibiotics in case of a bioterrorism attack. if god forbid an attack did come, how ready to you feel you are? >> we have worked with the department of human and health services and have run drills. in three or four cities. they come in andgoaebts or whatever they would need. we worked carefully with the rural car yore union. we would be ready if called upon. >> your website says you have some 216,000 vehicles that you use. what have you learned about alternative energy to fuel rem f small with it. we've had the largest natch ras gal leak. we've thinned that out a little bit. the key thing for us is this is ecisions with vehicles. people pitch that all the time. if we replace the fleet it will cost $7 million. we keep our fleet for 25 years. if you have a $7 million investment, you better make a good decision. if we had to make a decision a cylinder gasoline engine because of the sale by far. >> is the fleet itself being reduced in si

we have an excellent working relationship with our unions. we have four unions, three management associations. they understand the issues that are facing the postal service. so, when we got to the point last night where we needed an extension, i think it's well worth sitting down to continue to talk. i mean there may be a solution in there. from a postal service standpoint, we're looking to resolve this health care issue, and at the same time, more flexibility with our labor. >> okay. what happens if you don't reach an agreement? >> well, then we go to arbitration, but let's -- i'm a glass is much more than half full person, so i'm hoping we can get something worked out. >> questioner says, "the november 18th deadline for you to make a $5.5 billion retiree health payment has come and gone. did you default, and if so, what's the consequence?" >> we didn't default, and what's happened is, in the continuing resolution, the postal service has been exempted from making that payment now until i think the 18th of december. our proposals on health ca

i do want to thank president chiu for this excellent nomination. the fact that someone who is as qualified also and who comes also from these committees, not only the latino community but the lgbt community, but ultimately because of her stellar quality is a double- qualifications, i think she would make an excellent commissioner. i would like to make a motion to move this forward with positive. and to send a committee report. supervisor kim: you have to amend the motion. we have a amend. a motion to approve. we have a motion to approve that president and board of supervisors's nomination of arcelia hurtado to the border appeals and sent as a committee report. supervisor kim: thank you. we have a motion to amend the motion to approve the president of the border supervisors nomination. we can send that with a positive recommendation and we can do that without opposition. thank you and thank you for being here today. can you please call item 5? >> charter amendments to require the board of supervisors to wait 60 days to for adopting an ordinance that

adams will make an excellent president. he has great leadership qualities, one that we can all work with. i heartily endorse him in this position also. p commissioner clyde: -- president o'brien: commissioner clyde? commissioner clyde: the basis of my nomination is based on your strong work ethic, your ability to really judge things with a good, independent mind. i don't believe you come to the meetings with your mind made up and you do your research very well. i am actually very proud that it is the advocacy of myself and other commissioners for a strong commissioner to sit in your seat that brought you to the commission. i am very proud to nominate you because this commission worked very hard to put you here. thank you very much. president o'brien: i would like to say that being the president this year, steve has been on my side all the way as the vice president . we tried very hard to be very proactive with the director and a staff, discussing the agendas for the meetings. and to be heavily involved in the issues, especi

>> i think it is an excellent idea. >> why?> because they need to protect themselves. >> one thing all here in tunisia agree on, the failure to take action to stop the violence in syria isn't to do with their lack of political will, but the influence of russia and china who block any u.n. approval and refused to turn up to this conference. >> it is quite distressing to see two permanent members of the security council using their veto when people are being murdered, women, children, brave young men. houses are being destroyed. it is just despicable, and i ask, whose side are they on. >> one small noisy rally of his supporters nearly disrupted proceedings. a reminder there are plenty of people who don't think he's the worst option for syria. what's emerged from this conference here, even if all the countries involved wanted to see the unification and see assad go, don't have a clear idea how to do it. they may blame china and russia, but the truth is, being sucked into a conflict in syria has unforeseen consequences. >> well, as

there were excellent neighbors and customers of mine. also a great family. sinclair is still with us, but it is a shame to see that may passed away. >> commissioners, we will be moving on to the directors' report. item 10, directors announcements. >> good afternoon. i actually do not have any announcements today. we can move right into the next item on and john's retirement. i do not see him here. is he on his way, i hope? >> he is retired. [laughter] >> maybe we can and defer that until john comes. >> we will be skipping item 11 and moving into item 12 for 55 ninth st., informational item regarding the current design and program for the 55 ninth street project. >> the informational item for you today is with respect to a project at 55 ninth street. approved in december 2007 to construct a 17-story building with approximately 260 dwelling units. 3000 square. ground-floor retail space. off-street resident of parking spaces, 98. 15 off-street commercial spaces. section 309 review, including several exceptions which i can go through. and conditional use authori

jim, as always, you bring up excellent points. want to hit the issue of stock valuations because you noted us the s&p 500 expected to come in around $100 of total earnings. every multiple point therefore is worth about 100 points on the index. >> right. >> are you confident we can get the expansion we need to say drive the s&p 500 to 1500? >> well, i think a lot of what's happening here in the rally from late last year's lows is a reversal of the fear that was generated last year. last year we had good earnings, but you had the multiple of p/e started about 15 and ended about 13. and you had a collapse in the valuation with rising earnings. you have a flat market. this year what i think we're seeing is the fear subsiding. we found out we way overreacted, that the u.s. was headed for a recession. it probably wasn't close. and we're finding out that europe is not probably an eminent calamity going to take the world down, it's more of a chronic problem. as a result you're seeing valuations go back up. the p/e already gone from 13 to

it is excellent. it is by a professor from uc- berkeley school of law. he wrote a book about new york city. what has changed the level of incarceration and substantially increase the crime rate in new york city was the hiring of more offices. the presence of the officers reduces crime. not only does the crime rate go down, but the expense over a tenure time -- nationally, the rate went up 6%. new york city went down 28%, not to mention an 80% decrease in homicides. it is an excellent article. i will probably be buying the book. he is an expert in his field. it is nice to see there is not just anecdotal evidence that homicide's increase as numbers godown. the reality is that police in uniform can be proactive and it tends to make for a safer community. that means fewer people in jail, less expense. it is better for everybody. it dovetails perfectly into what you have brought forward tonight. i want to thank you for the report and for working with the mayor's office and the chief. i know everybody has to give a little. i appreciate what the mayor's office

there is an excellent website and is www.thatsnotcool.com.t is an excellent resource for middle school and high-school students. had i would also like to mission -- to mention that the deputy superintendent, commissioner maufas, president yee, and i attended the chinatown ymca just yesterday, a graduation of chinese-speaking parents that have attended a series of workshops on parent empowerment. it was their graduation, one of many sponsored by parents for public schools. and of course are wonderful cindy troy is the one who organized this. we had a great lunch but we also had a wonderful debate around parents engagement. i want to publicly thank them for a towering so many of our chinese-speaking parents. >> i wanted to report on my recent trip to washington for the federal relations that work for the national school boards association. the national school boards association is advocating for we authorizing the mta, which is not going to happen this year. further, they are advocating for, which i think is a good thing, because it is simple e

>> excellent question, you answered them both correctly.mally, special victims units in other cities and larger cities focus mainly on sex crimes. we hit the whole gamut. we base it on victims that our children, women, elderly. we look at those crimes were the sexual abuse takes place, where the physical abuse takes place, and the financial abuse.

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>> that was an excellent update. >> i have one. on expenses, it is dated 11/30. >> i am sorry, i did not update the date on the report. it is as of the end of january. >> ok. next question would be, based on our lag in hiring, is that possibly going to roll into, if we do not hire them, roll into the next budget period? >> the budget would start over. we would still be anticipating that we would have them hired for the full year. we do have a lag this year. i would hope and expect that we would have everyone hired before the end of the fiscal year, which is not until the end of june. so it should not roll into next year. we are asking for quite a few new positions. so hopefully we will be able to get those hired faster last year than we did our positions this year. >> great that you mentioned the word fiscal. as you mentioned it late in the year, being february only, that relative to that is our fiscal year, which is at the end of -- >> in june. so our fiscal year begins july 1. commissioner hechanova: so we're almost running close

. >> excellent and really looking forward to it. >> today we're going to make the san francisco classicish invented by italian and portuguese fishermen. it'll be like a nice spaghetti sauce. then we will put in the fish soup. the last thing is the dungeon as crab, let it all blend together. it will be delicious. when i could, i will try to make healthy meals with fresh ingredients, whatever is in season and local. those juicy, fresh tomatoes will take about an hour to cook down into a nice sauce. this is a good time to make our fish stock. we will take a step that seems like trash and boil it up in water and make a delicious and they speed up my parents were great clerics, and we had wonderful food. family dinners are very important. any chance you can sit down together and have a meal together, it is great communal atmosphere. one of the things i like the most is the opportunity to be creative. hello. anybody with sets their mind to it can cut. always nice to start chopping some vegetables and x and the delicious. all this double in view is this broth with great flavor. but your heart

that was an excellent ending to that. if anybody has any questions that they would like to ask john about his book, he's -- he had that he would be glad to entertain any questions. if you would wait until the folks from c-span get over to where you are, russ at this table right here, ma'am. if you wait until they get over there with their microphone and then ask the question. ok, russ manzini? >> i'm just curious if your book contained any information on the modern findings, the archeology of the slave quarters in new york and new england, and some of the atrocities that occurred there. >> i didn't really concentrate that much on that area of the country. i did look at archeological excavations in the south, in an effort to try to determine the food and what the slaves ate and what possessions they had. there's been a lot of archeological work done there and i'll recount that. i made mention of some of the archeological work done, for instance, in new york city but did not cover it to any great degree. any other questions

as always, our visitors can enjoy the excellence of individual works of art, on an individual basis, but would be what to do differently is to add a new dimension. we want to call out those stories. we want to object to talk about themselves, to tell us what makes a maharaja. how did he conducts his public life? maha means big, raja means king. so literally, and baking. how did he live his everyday life? how did he conducts his religious duties? negotiatinart and politics is an marriage, in this case, too. so we want to offer our visitors multiple choices. you can enjoy the art on its own individual basis and focus on its artistic quality, stylistic dilution, but also, if you like, there are stories at your disposal to learn. you can make a journey of self discovery. the maharajah has also inspired contemporary artists. engaging with the early contemporary artists like sanjay patel. is there a semblance between the two? i think it is there. we had given him a book, a catalog of the exhibition, showing the wonderful works of art in the show, including this one. he looked at this and f

the more immediate question with regard to the keystone excel pipeline is there is the u.s. mid continent is the principal market for oil sands going into the united states and that u.s. mid-continent, the midwest, is nearing a saturation point for the oil sands. there's only so many refineries in the u.s. midwest. there's only so much crude oil from canada they can take. so to expand the reach of canadian oil into the u.s., you need a pipeline to the u.s. gulf coast which is the largest most sophisticated refining center in the world. in fact, it's been an important source of export growth for the u.s. this denial does raise an uncertainty about whether that growth will continue as previously thought. >> thank you. dr. gruenspecht, i'd like to ask you about diesel prices. i noticed in montana it's higher than regular unleaded gasoline. it's my understanding that this difference can be attributed in part to a shortage of diesel in the west and the upper plains. i know a lot of diesel is being shipped toed north dakota. can you help me understand why diesel prices are so much

make the federal employees excellent. that has been done in many, many places. on certain first responders in terms of their service, and we have no criticism of the young men and women who have come into our military service, nonprivatized, who have offer would themselves to serve. we would expect no less from transportation security officers. they are on tsa that the performance of privatized screeners is comparable to that of the federalized work force. i want our tso to be better than privatized workers, and i believe our focus should be how we achieve that. we don't need equals in this busisspect to be better than. we have the responsibility of millions of americans all across this nation. they look to us, this great nation who uses the terminology "great," to be great and to be excellent. the reality is that this -- the security incidents have occurred at both airports with privatized and federalized screeners. under the watch in san francisco international airport a woman pushed through a checkpoint plane and boarded a plane and flew to baltimore without

of the two proposals is to make sure that we do comply with that ruling and the chair has done an excellent job outlining the reasons behind these proposals and with respect to the second proposal, which is something that could go to the ballot, i hope is there will not be a neat for that to happen and we will be able to collectively agree to something that achieves the various objectives that have been outlined and that there will not be a neat to move ford, but we want to make sure we have that option. as the chair of the committee indicated, there's a significant difference between item #2 and item number one and that is the issue of the soft cap. under version one, candidates can raise private money if a privately financed candidates or independent expenditure committee spends above the spending cap. version two has a hard spending cap for publicly financed candidates and raises the cap higher. i do not feel too strongly about either approach. i included the hard cap in the version we introduced because i feel spending caps in these kinds of races can have a positive effect. if you look

we are off to an excellent start. for the friday morning drive, let's hope the morning starts great for you. out on the roadway, we have had to look at beltway. let's look at some of the other routes. starting with i-83. a live look at 83 and shawan. we are trouble free on the harrisburg expressway. no incidents or accidents to warn you about there. let's get a look at u.s. 50. 50 at sandy point. looking pretty good especiallywestbound crossing over the bay bridge. in terms of delays or accidents you are good to go on 50. making the drive through annapolis all the way to i-97. megan over to you. >>> they may have been second class citizens and treated as such. >> stay with us. what hundreds and hundreds of people disabled people tried to do to reach the president's office in bolivia. >>> what officials in argentina says may have caused a train to crash. we will look at that when we come around the world. a little closer to home, that's a live look at nation's capitol. good morning maryland continues in a bit. >>> now

their response was excellent and not only did a good job but immediately there was also the fire commissioners, including the chief. we were there. i want to thank ross mirkarimi, then supervisor, he was out there with me looking out for the residents. several other board members, as well. and we immediately saw not only the residents there but the non-profits that had been there helping out. our faith-based community was there, as well, because immediately, the needs were felt and i think in the context, that there were no fatalities, no real serious injuries, it was just another reflection of the way we're handling serious disasters, yet response is so thorough, so good. and then to follow up with those needs, not only did the community help out and i think the city started showing immediately our sense of support for the residents there that had lost everything that they had just before the holidays, and good response from our helpful communities to help out, whether they were churches or individuals that would help. d.e.m. also, they made, i think, a very critical call to cal nema to get o