attempts, this is permanent expediters but adding additional transparency of the work the permit expediters do. we know that over the years, there have been clowns, over the permit expediting world, fbi investigations, concerns of inappropriate influence. and what i hope to do in this legislation is to make it clear and transparent the work that is being done because there are many permanent expediters that are doing necessary work. bringing greater transparency to our permanent process will improve confidence and the fairness of the process and the goal of this legislation is to create disclosure to provide the public about permit that's they're being asked to help obtain. i made a change to the legislations regarding -- that every contact that could be potentially overly owner for businesses where they have dozens of contacts with line staff and departments. we eliminate the requirement to report every contact as lobbyist do and instead of requiring quarterly disclosures, we now only -- instead of requiring monthly disclosure, we only require quarterly disclosures. i want to make amendments

attempts, this is permanent expediters but adding additional transparency of the work the permit expediters do. we know that over the years, there have been clowns, over the permit expediting world, fbi investigations, concerns of inappropriate influence. and what i hope to do in this legislation is to make it clear and transparent the work that is be

and so first i want to thank the building department for doing incredibly hard job. now, the expedite error permit consultant legislation, i am a structural engineer and i believe that most of what i do is exempt because i am expediting my own drawings, because after doing this as long as i have, i am very good at being able to not only prepare plans, as a license structure ital engineer, but, to go and get the permit, and it is very complicated, lots of challenges, lots of integration, between the building department, the fire department, the bureau street use and so the permits do fill a very important role. but the legislation is passed. and we need to embrace it. and we need to work with the building department on how to implement this. such that it does not become a roadblock to getting permits. or it does not create any more of a roadblock than it needs, so i will strongly suggest, that there will be a workshop between the senior people at the building department and the people like me in terms of how to process this paperwork and not create a deterrent where you are sitting wit

so, i'm doing a permit expediting and as pat buscovich says, i'm a license [speaker not understood], i'm narrow to one thing i can do for myself. but the other contractor calling me to do the service for them, i cannot do that. yet on the other hand i have seen the supervisors calling the building department and asking for the permit to go through and, so, therefore, those supervisors are expediters or not? are you putting them on the list so we know who each supervisor called at city and ask for a client? because i know a lot of them do that. i have heard it, i've seen it. i've been with the supervisor when they're calling the city to find out what the status of the project. so, this expediting things is not right and i don't believe that a small businesslike myself, one-person operation, have to report every movement i make because i know how to do the job doesn't mean i'm a crook, i'm a lobbyist. i just do whatever i know the best. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, members of the committee. peter cohen with the counsel of community housing organizatio

with mexico we can expedite, do a quick removal with the people coming in.e central american countries and that's why i had those meetings with the ambassadors yesterday, it's a different thing. those protocols are not strong enough with central america. they got to be the same for removing people like we have in mexico. >> congressman henry kwa kwler, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> coming up, yet another tornado rips across the plains, this time in south dakota. that the the south major twister this week and the severe weather is not over yet. bill have you seen my keys anywhere? i'll help you look. maybe you left them in the bathroom again. it's just the strangest thing... the warning signs of alzheimer's disease, may be right in front of you. it's alright baby. for help and information, call the alzheimer's association or visit alz.org/10signs that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if it becomes simpler... if frustration and paperwork decrease... if grandparents get to live at home instead of

did you get any indication what the mexicans are doing to expedite this? ing anything to expedite this? is he running out of patience? what? >> he just fired his initial attorney in the last proceeding and so the new attorney is having to be brought up to speed and that takes a little bit of time. >> that initial attorney was fired because we're told -- the attorney told a lie he had never been to mexico before when, in fact he had been to tijuana a few times. where does it stand now? >> where it stands right now is that he's waiting for the next, you know, part of the equation, and i'm very fearful that if the president doesn't use at least a fraction of the capital that he guy out of afghanistan with questionable commitment to the military and to his country, this guy is undisputed. he's a hero. he served two tours in afghanistan. everybody that worked with him has nothing but praise for the young man. he's a great guy. and he served our country proudly. and our president needs to get at least as involved with this other guy and i believe that that would

what they were able to do was expedite medical aid and air strikes and it had a lot to do with our victory>> reporter: for a long time america kept code talkers a secret. only recently have they been recognized for their contributions. >> when they came i didn't know anything about military policy or nothing. but i do know there was a war going on. >> reporter: soon brown and dozens of others from the navajo nation became invaluable to the navajo nature. despite the brutality their families suffered, they considered themselves proud to serve the nation. >> it was one of the best things i've ever happened to my tribe. >>> when we come back on a second look, president roosevelt promised them american citizenship if they fought for the united states. why it took nearly half a century to keep that promise. >>> remembering vj day. how san francisco celebrated the end of the the second world war i. >>> welcome back to a second look. tonight world war ii in the pacific. when filipinos followed commanders they went with a promise from president roosevelt that they would become united states citize

an expedited removal of the mexican right back into the country of mexico. we can do expedited removals of adults into central america where there's no immigration judge involved. but in terms of an expedited removal for an unaccompanied child, my understanding of the law is that's not available. >> and as much as you heard today that we should just either turn them around or expeditiously remove them, do you know of any legislation introduced that someone put their name on to repeal the william force act? >> not to my knowledge. >> we also talked a little bit about -- and i heard you mention a little bit about mexico and the fact that you have -- the vice president has met and the president has had telephone conversations. has the government of mexico started taking any steps, any affirmative steps to help us with this issue? >> we have over the last several years been in discussions with them about our shared border security interest, and we've increased that engagement in light of this current situation. and i believe we'll continue to have productive conversations

an expedited removal of the mexican right back into the country of mexico. we can do expedited removals of adults into central america where there's no immigration judge involved. but in terms of an expedited removal for an unaccompanied child, my understanding of the law is that's not available. >> and as much as you heard today that we should just either turn them around or expeditiously remove them, do you know of any legislation introduced that someone put their name on to repeal the william force act? >> not to my knowledge. >> we also talked a little bit about -- and i heard you mention a little bit about mexico and the fact that you have -- the vice president has met and the president has had telephone conversations. has the government of mexico started taking any steps, any affirmative steps to help us with this issue? >> we have over the last several years been in discussions with them about our shared border security interest, and we've increased that engagement in light of this current situation. and i believe we'll continue to have productive conversations

an expedited removal of the mexican right back into the country of mexico. we can do expedited removals of adults into central america where there's no immigration judge involved. but in terms of an expedited removal for an unaccompanied child, my understanding of the law is that's not available. >> and as much as you heard today that we should just either turn them around or expeditiously remove them, do you know of any legislation introduced that someone put their name on to repeal the william force act? >> not to my knowledge. >> we also talked a little bit about -- and i heard you mention a little bit about mexico and the fact that you have -- the vice president has met and the president has had telephone conversations. has the government of mexico started taking any steps, any affirmative steps to help us with this issue? >> we have over the last several years been in discussions with them about our shared border security interest, and we've increased that engagement in light of this current situation. and i believe we'll continue to have productive conversations

if somebody comes in from mexico, we do a voluntaritory removal, expedited. o that quickly and work with the mexicans. we've got to the improve the protocols with the central american countries. i know we need to do that because i just talked to the mexican embassy and they want to work with us to make sure that we have better processes with the central americans and why are they coming here? i can tell you talking to those ambassadors it's economics. it's economics. it's economics. and, of course, a rising violence that we're seeing in central america. >> does that not warrant you said if they have fear back home, do you think that not warrants a reason? a good enough reason for them to be able to stay if they do have that fear of some of that uprising you're talking about in central america? >> well, again, if they do have credible fear, then that takes a different type of process. they're just coming here for economic reasons. and that's a different thing. but again, we can either do the short-term solutions here, place defense on the 1 yard line or we need

and we would have them do a community outreach meeting prior to that sexual when you say you'll do to expedite that process what's that involved >> we'll proirgz this application so it would be putting on the calendar allowing for proper notice. >> for the schedule and exactly. i'll anticipate had mayor ed lee we not going gone through the process we could have a planning hearing already >> so whatever would be the downside. >> you know so the planning commission if at the don't vote to approve that 4 votes and not approved. >> uh-huh. the appeal would be thirty days within that and issued not appeal able to the board there's pluses and minuses but it's a greater public process >> okay. thanks. >> we'll start taking public comment before people get up i want to make sure you understand under the boards rules officers who are of the organizations that are appellants to this can i should not speak under public comment nor the employees of the project sponsor with that said, can i see a show of hands that's great it would help the board if you line up open the side of the room so we can move thro

. >> we have somebody that can expedite that today. do you want us to do that?> definitely. >> police team up with social service agencies with a programme called lead, law enforceme enforcement services. >> he was making crack in the alley, i could have arrested him. >> this officer helps him to get help. >> this is a neighbourhood where police are looking for drug activity. they have less that an hour to decide. be september to social services or be booked. >> you've been sober for a year. >> two years, six months. >> abraham decided to entered after seven years in gaol. >> maybe seven mistharns. his case manager connecting him to services he needs, making sure he follows through. >> doing the work not to just do it but to teach them how to do it so they can be self-sustaining. >> services that can be costly, but prosecutor thinks it is the solution. >> we'll save more money than we invest in mernal si room and courtroom costs. we don't expect perfection. instead, we are there to provide the support, that gradually leads to someone getting off the street and h

do this? >> he did the expedition in 1963. as the second of the underwater habitats my grandfather built. it was an underwater village in which he and his team spent 30 days to do scientific experiments as well as collecting samples and fish outside on the reef so that we would know more about our aquatic frontier. >> as far as your grandfather is concerned, can you make any estimation as to how the study of undersea life has changed since he began his work and now that you continue it? >> we have explored less than 5% of our ocean to date. it became readily apparent when we were reporting back on things like flight 370 and the other incidents in recent times and realized how little people knew about -- in fact, we knew nothing about the ocean. things have not changed all that much in the last 50 years. a lot of things have been known since then. certainly, there has been a lot of research. there is so much left to do that things like the aquarius undersea research laboratory are essential for us to know more about the aquatic

. >> twice a day do expeditions. so you go in the small raft. antarctica is a different world. if you haven't been there, you can't imagine what it's like. it's so beautiful, the scenery. you have all these animals you have nowhere else in the world. no plants. you have two types of moss that grow there. that's it. yeah, it's amazing. >> although the antarctica vistas are spectacular, they're set against the backdrop of frigid weather. average temperatures on the continent hover around minus 70 degrees fahrenheit. at the time of the trip it was summer and it was a bit warmer. >> it was around zero. it was really cold. the wind is really cold. the ice is really cold. a lot of layers on. jackets, scarves, hats. >> despite the bitter cold, lex and company soak in every breathtaking moment of this remarkable landscape. >> we were down on the raft and flowing past beautiful icebergs and islands. >> the raft circles close enough to get a true appreciation of how enormous and imposing they really are. one in particular catches lex's eye. >> this iceberg, it was really beautiful. i thi

we have protocols with mexico where we can do expedited returns. we don't have the same thing with guatemala and other countries and they're going to keep coming over here and overwhelm us. >> reporter: truth be told, the system is already well passed overwhelmed and there's nothing they can do to stop it, despite the president's assertions the border is more secure. just down the river where we are, all day long over the weekend, jet skiers from a park on the mexican side were running mexican nationals across the river for $100 a head, dropping them off on the american side, even while the border patrol were keeping watch. there is nothing, sean, to stop anybody from coming across. so they get a boat, they touch ground on the american side, wait for the border patrol. they're processed, bought a bus ticket to wherever in the united states they might have relatives and given a notice to appear before a judge. many of them likely will just disappear. sean? >> unbelievable report. john, thank you. so how exactly is the administration responding to th

would add to that. >> we are working with va to look at other opportunities and concepts to expedite the process. we do have an expedited process for issing okay as catastrophically injured ill personnel. to date after briefing each member who was qualified, we have had no one who has opted to take that process. but we're looking to see if we can broaden that concept to those that aren't catastrophically but to seriously and see if we can expedite it. these are in concept stages and we are working with the va on that. >> okay. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank the ranking member. with that the chair recognizes mr. cook. >> thank you, mr. chair. just a couple of comments and probably the same ones i had when i was chair of the veterans committee and the house in california. i look at it from the perspective of the veterans and people that you're dealing with. you know, just going through this paper right now we're looking at the bdd, ides, pueblo, m.e.d., bdqs, kacavc, i know that one, that's assistant division commander and i knew m.e.b. the spy ship that was captured by the north koreans. i thought it

now, one of the things the president is going to try to do is expedite this process, get more i.c.e.ot a matter of these children sneaking over the border. in many cases they turn up at the border and turn themselves in but he wants to get more i.c.e. officers, expedite the legal process, and also wants authority to send some of these children back once they've been processed, and that's going to raise issues how young is too young to be sent back to somewhere in central america on your own. >> wendell, thank you. trace gallagher also keeping tabs on this story from our west coast news hub. trace, they have come, you say, tens of thousands of them, over the last six months. the president said the system is so broken, so unclear, that folks don't know what the rules are. well there are rules. just they're not being followed. >> they're not being followed, and in central america, john, where these people are coming from, they believe the gates are open and they can show up and if they get one foot on american soil, they get to stay. a couple of important things to pick out of the press

would add to that. >> we are working with va to look at other opportunities and concepts to expedite the process. we do have an expedited process for catastrophically injured or ill personnel. to date, after breaching each member who was qualified, we have had no one who has opted to take that process, but we're looking to see if we can broaden that concept to those that aren't catastrophically but too seriously come and see if we can expedite it. these are in concert stages and we're working with the va on that. >> okay. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank the ranking member. without the chair recognizes mr. cook. >> thank you, mr. chair. a couple of comments and probably the same ones i had when i was chair of the veterans committee in the house in california. i look at it from the perspective of the veterans and the people that you were dealing with. you know, just going through this paper right now, we're looking at bgg, ides, peblo, mdb bbq ccd, i know that one, that's assistant division commander, and i knew mdb, marine expeditionary brigade. abbe lowell the flagship those captured by the north kor

do you plan to change this? >> we're working through recall today. we've expedited it and the most senior levels are involved in it. while i don't want to do recalls we're going to do what is right for our customers and we're demonstrating it today. >> reporter: barra has outlined changes including a new top safety officer and engineers. but these are folks who worked for the old g.m. so are you changing the culture? testifying, the lead attorney on the internal g.m. investigation into this problem. he painted a corporation with a culture of secrecy and meetings where no notes were kept and no one took responsibility. >> lisa on that note the families of the victims of these crashes also holding a news conference in washington today. what exactly are they calling for a? >> they did hold a new conference and they sat in during the hearing. they're interested in compensation. they'll start getting that, according to gm, august 1st. more than that they want justice. listen to laura christian, whose birth daughter was killed in a chevy cobalt in 2005. >> i'm hoping that

to look at other opportunities and concepts to expedite the process. we do have an expedited process for catastropheically injured or ill personnel. after briefing each member who is qualified, we have no one that has opted to take that process but we're looking to see if we can broaden that concept to those that aren't catastropheically but seriously see 23 we can expedite it. these are in concept stages and we're working with v.a. on that. >> ok, thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you, ranking member. with that, the chair recognizes mr. cook. >> thank you mr. chair. a couple of comments and probably the same ones i had when i was chair of the veterans committee in the house in california. i look at it from the perspective of the veterans and the people that you're dealing with. just going through this paper right now we're looking at pueblo m.c.s., m.e.d., m.b.q.'s c.a.v., a.v.c., i know that one. i knew m.a.b., that is marine expedition brigade. the pueblo was captured by the north koreans. i thought it buzz b.d.a. that was battle assessment. i can go on an

. >> we're able to do this expedition and invite the world to be part of it in realtime. >> reporter:u's mission, fabian's mission will be documented in hi-def. >> we'll be able to film in slow motion a way that we never have been before. >> reporter: all in the family as a third generation explorer tries to knock his grandfather out of the record book. for today, nbc news. >>> we want to head out side for a final check of the weather. hey, mike. >>> hey, erica. folks joining us from millersville, georgia. beautiful weather today in new york city. if you want to spend time checking out sites please do so. let's check out your weather. we're talking about the drought across the country. it's been soar theable in the west and across the south. we've seen improvements in the great state of texas but still a very difficult situation there from del rio all the way up to the red river valley. can we get some relief. it looks hot and dry in most of the state of texas. we have a slight risk of severe storms in the central and northern plains today. that includes locations like wichita and sio

do in drawing and species. it's great stuff. >> it just opened up in the aquarium and we are displaying fish from our recent philippines expedition which is remarkable. since you got me on this topic, do come and see the skulls exhibit. byos. bring your own skull. but it's spectacular and i think you will enjoy it. don't miss it. you will recall the aquarium actually is and has been an active partnership between the city and originally the steinhart brothers who dedicated the funds to san francisco to have an aquarium second to none in the world. we don't have the biggest in the world, but i think we definitely have an aquarium second to none in the world. it's vital to steinhart is survival. please help us feed our talented fish. we can handle the rest. finally on behalf of my success or john fully, our new board chair who lives here in the city, on batch of san francisco families and kids and exhibition and excellence, our fish, claude and even my colleagues, the most talented group of staff that i have worked with. please continue to be our partners in every way you can. visit us and bring your staff. work with us to coordinat

he was off to do a mining expedition. only five years later, did this understand that this is really his forte. he only understood that after prospect park. he pulled him back in four central park. vaux is the unsung hero. 1842, across from liverpool, the beatles, many years later. this is a park. the people go to see where beatles originally played. aboutll as it was, it is a third of the size of central park. they are all royal land, open to the public by the grace of the royal family. this was opened for the people by the people and of the people. it was a true public park. speaking of london, if you know .ondon, this map of it the old city of london. we call it the financial district. as you get into the 1700s and after the great fire of london, the middle and upper classes moved to the west end. they were attracted to the west and because it did not have the congestion of the old city. land it was next to great that the royal family owned and used as hunting grounds. henry viii is running around shooting boars. or, w

expedite that today. would you want us to do that. >> definitely. >> police team up with social service agencies in an innovativeilot program called lead or law enforcement assisted diversion. officers can choose to arrest non-violent law breakers or put them in contact with a lead counsel lor who can help them get food, housing and medical care. >> he was smoking crack cocaine in the alley. i could have arrested him for that. instead, officer burns works to convince michael, this long-time street resident to get help and avoid more jail time. >> this is the seattle neighborhood where police are looking for drug and prostitution activity. the non-violent offenders have less than an hour to decide, be directed to social services for help or be booked. >> you have been sober for over a year. >> two years, two months and six days or seven days. >> abraham decided to enter lead after several years in and out of jail? >> it may be 20 miss demeanors and seven felonies. >> his case manager connects him directly to the services he needs and makes sure he follows through. >> doing this work, not to just do it, you know,

but with mexico we can do expedited removal. we can return people pretty quickly. central american countries we don't have the same type of protocols. i just sat down with the ambassador and talked to the other ambassadors. we have to set those protocols so they can return the kids back to their countries. if we don't send a message the numbers are increase. in 2009 there were 6,000 kids. in 2013, 25,000. so far this year over 66,000 kids coming in with no parents. it breaking your heart. bill: you don't know who is coming into your country. you have a situation where in the tralt american countries the word has gone out. once you make it to the united states's a one-way ticket. you get to stay there. what you support is to send the message that it's not one-way ticket. >> visits iting some of these countries, -- visiting some of these countries this week, do you know if he' he's prepared to send that message? >> the only message he's getting is saying if you are from central america they will let you go. this is not a mexican problem. 70% of these people coming ov

. >> and in our haurg hearing it was discussed that the department is doing a lot of work to expedite the hiring process to the department dhr and how is that moving along and how are we seeing that stream lining going forward? >> we are very focused on it from top to bottom and we actually just left the executive team meeting where we focused on that, so we have got, a new several, new hr team members, that are hired, as of about three weeks ago. and so, we have reorganized ourselves and added staffing in the exam unit that will help to facilitate to move that process along and we are restructuring the process and we are going to go through a process to evaluate our systems for hiring, and so we have a tremendous amount of focus on the process, within the department. and we have seen some results starting to really come into place, and we anticipate over the next few months that we are really going to start getting some traction and getting the momentum going. >> and you have the real targets that you are looking to meet to determine ho have the staff at a certain time that we can ex

tuesday to give us more opportunity to have more meetings with the permit expediting community to see if there are other ideas that we can do here. but again, given how many times, you know, we have been talking about this, this legislation has been in the works for a year. i do think we should move this through the process. >> thank you, president chiu. the issue around the permit is a new issue to me. i think i receive probably two e-mails recently regarding the particular issue. so, i wasn't completely aware that there was a lot of controversy as it related to this issue. and i do appreciate your willingness to work to try and get it resolved. i don't necessarily think that it's the intent of your legislation to impact this particular population in this particular way. so, i would like to be supportive of that and making the necessary changes to accommodate the request of some of the folks who made public comment here today. and i also had just a minor amendment. ~ i'd like to offer as well. mrs. mayo spoke earlier about this particular concern. it was an amendment i had planned to propose based on my own experience with

do something? >> well, john mccain suggests that we invest in some kind of, you know, refugee expediting process. assistance programs in these different countries that would allow them to it would be slower. many would come. but they would apply for refugee status. they have to do -- you are right. other people have to join with john mccain and show that they care about stopping this. that, even if they are opposed to immigration reform, they think our government has to do what it can to make sure we don't have all of these unaccompanied children that are sick. >> poem don't do it -- people don't do it because of political purposes. >> one thing we shouldn't do. our elected officials shouldn't do is send messages that encourage people to break the law likes nancy pelosi just did. setting aside the actual debate about immigration reform. she is in effect saying this is an opportunity, keep coming. >> i totally agree. she never should have said that you know what else i'm opposed to the fact that probably beginning august 1st, that all the members on capitol hill who have the responsibility for doin

unfortunately, we do not have many items from these early explorers, none from lewis and clark. in our new museum, we hope to show artifacts used on the in 1819long expeditionnd 1820 which we think are significant. the thing visitors will enjoy seeing those. we do have a number of scientific instruments that the explorers would have taken with them, instruments that would have helped map the areas they were seeing. we have other instruments that would help them find their longitude, their place on earth at any one time. this would help them draw maps of where they were going, what they were seeing, that type of thing. that is mostly what we have, the scientific instruments that would've been used by the people we call went into the west to trap beaver fur in particular. a lot of them are actually involved in large companies. they were employees. but they stayed in the mountains. they lived there year-round. by virtue of the fact that they were trying to find areas where beavers were located, they went into areas that only native americans had seen before them. it just happened that by virtue of this commercial enterprise, these guys found probably more than

he went to do the mining expedition in california.vaux call him back did olmstead really understand parks was really his destiny. is the unsung hero. where could they have gotten their ideas for a public park? 1842, liverpool, think the beatles many years later. 1842, small as it was, it is about one third the size of central park, this is the first ue public park in english history. you may say that london has beautiful parks. yes, it does, but they are all royal land open to the public by the grace of the monarchy. this was a true public park. by the way, speaking of london, if you know london, here is a map of it. the red part on the right is the old medieval city of london. we call it the financial district today. the 1600s-1700s, after the great fire of london, the middle and upper classes are moving to the west. we call it the west end. one of the reasons they are attracted to the west and, -- west end, aside from the fact that it did have the noise -- did not have the noise city, wastion of the this great land where henry could

do you intend to change this? >> we have it the way we're working through recalls today. we change that process. it's expedited and the most senior levels of the company are involved and i don't want to do recalls, we'll do what is right for customers and demonstrating it today. >> reporter: gm says 13 people were killed in 54 ceaccidents. while the auto maker is creating a program to compensate victims, friends and families say gm as a whole should face criminal charges for the recall scandal. >> i was convicted of a felony when gm was the true criminal. i know accountability will not bring amber back but accountability will give the future amber a chance. >> reporter: it came after gm recalled 3.1 million cars to fix keys that could slip and leave cars without power, similar to the cobalt ignition switch recall. more than 20 million vehicles this year, the company sales in the u.s. have actually increased in 2014, and gm stock has held relatively steady since the recall scandal started. >> from a recall perspective, investors are relatively immune, it appears the stock has been less volatile with respect to