the new fares could help passengers avoid the costly change fees on non-refundable fares. that's a very good deal. blue shield is proposing raising the health insurance rates as much as 20% on individual policy holders. >> shame on you! >> reporter: past rate hikes have attracted protesters outside the whether blue shield corporate offices. under the plan, the rate hike would be 12%. but some could see rate increases as high as 20%. consumer groups are crying foul. they point to blue shield's huge cash reserve of nearly $4 billion and some say, some of the money should be used to off-set the rate increase. blue shield says the money is needed to ensure it can always pay all claims. >> tough. >> while santa stuffs his sleigh full of ties for girls and boys, a couple of recent stanford grads are stuffing boxes with a new toy, just for girls. but as jonathan bloom explains, ruminate is different from any doll house you have ever seen. watch. >> reporter: in case you are worning, this is a spinning electric fireplace in an imaginary ski cabin. >> a bobsled appears and you can

cnn.com/fareed. let's get started. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> he was centrally involved in historic bipartisan deals to reform our tax system, our immigration system, social security. james baker was ronald reagan's most important lieutenant. so who better to tell us how to get a deal done in washington today? i spoke with him at the baker center at rice university in houston. mr. secretary, pleasure to have you on. >> thank you so much. pleasure to be with you. >> so you've been chief of staff, secretary of treasury, you know this moment. the president is negotiating with congress over a budget. what would you do if you were to put yourself in the place that tim geithner is or john boehner is. how would you play this? >> well, i think it's very important that the -- that the top levels of both parties are involved in the negotiation and that they get together as soon as possible because what we really need is grand bargain to deal with the state of our economy. we're fiscally bankrupt

the safety of the drivers, screen the safety of the vehicles, and make sure that the basis for the fare is fair. so if those considerations are satisfied we are in favor of anything that will increase transportation service in san francisco. >> supervisor cohen. >> i just wanted to say thank you and acknowledge your department's hard work. i appreciate you putting in the effort and looking into this matter. as you remember last year, earlier this year, we have always had this on-going conversation. i certainly had an opportunity to talk to you about my concerns around the taxi, not only the concerns but the challenges around the taxi industry. so thank you for coming back to us and making this report and i look forward to seeing you again. >> thank you. >> thank you. shall we open this up for public comment? please come forward if you would like to speak. >> ro*pb on miller, i took a taxi to get here from market. it was 7.95, i gave the driver a $10. there's only a shortage if you are hysterically running around with your head cut off. if you call for a taxi you can get a 5 or 7, 10-min

after the game, during the game and after the game in order to make sure that the legal taxis get the fares before rather than the illegal taxis and the vehicleses that are not licensed to pick up just by showing up * without an actual appointment to pick somebody up. and you know the law. so, i urge you to make sure that there's tough, stricter enforcement to help the 49ers in terms of getting better taxi service and also in keeping the illegal taxis out. >> mr. chairman, that's the last person who turned in a speaker card. >> are we having the closed session? >> no. >> we are not. >> this completes the business before you today. >> with that, members, we are adjourning this afternoon in the memory of supervisor mike nevin, a wonderful, wonderful man and did much for san francisco, the entire area. i want to wish everybody a happy holiday. hope to see many people on the 28th. just want to say it's a pleasure to work with all of you, mr. rifkin, our outstanding staff. with that, we stand adjourned. thank you. [adjourned] ing please call the role. >> director bridget. >> brinkman? >> present

according to fare compare.com you should expect to pay $10 more per day on any air fare booked after the second week of december. they say prices rise sharply on the 19th. the cheapest days to fly are christmas and new year's day. the most expensive are the sundays before those holidayses. >> have you checked the gas pump? tom costello explains why there is less pain at the pump recently. >> reporter: funny thing about gas prices, we all notice when they go up. remember labor and delivery? the national average was $3.83 a gallon but chicago paid $4.34. >> first time i filled my little car and spent over $50. >> reporter: but gas has dropped nearly 50 cents on average. while many of us missed it, they noticed it in california where regular unleaded dropped a full dollar. 370 now. >> i saved money. i am happier at the tank. >> reporter: why the price drop? much of it is supply and demand. demand drops during the winter and we are driving more fuel efficient cars. also, u.s. supply increased. >> with production rising to an 18-year high with demand at a ten-year lower less reliant on im

i'm fareed zakaria. on the show today, we'll move past the fiscal cliff and talk about the real challenges to the economy. i will talk to the chief economic adviser of the romney campaign and president obama's former budget czar peter orzack, among others. >>> also, let me tell you about the biggest success story in latin america. it's not brazil. much closer to home. then, as the world watches the arab world struggle with democracy, we'll take a look at the problem from an unusual perspective, upside down. how does a country turn away from democracy as eastern europe did 50 years ago? i talked to pulitzer prize winning historian anne happalbaum. >>> the administration had a choice save chrysler by injecting taxpayer dollars or let it fail and let it lose perhaps a million jobs. car czar steve ratner gives us a fascinating inside look. for viewers in the united states, we have a special tonight at 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific called "tough decisions." >>> but, first, here's my take. announcing

fareed zakaria joins me tonight. fareed, first of all, the u.s.stimates this group makes up 9% of rebels. in a country where we don't know who is who and what is what, how do we know it's about 9% of rebels? >> i think that claim is almost certainly wrong. the one thing we should have learned from iraq, from what we know about iran's nuclear weapon capacity, from afghanistan, is that you know, these are black boxes. we have very few people in syria. the idea that we could estimate 9% of the rebels are anyludicro. i think we'll be surprised in syria as we were surprised in iraq, surprised in afghanistan. what is significant is we have figured out there is a group that is fighting very well. these guys are real good fighters. that it's very dangerous and this will complicate the effort to help the syrian rebels enormously. >> how big of an influence then is al qaeda in the rebels? we don't know exactly how many, but when you thing about it and hear about it, how significant is al qaeda? >> it's important to understand we don't know if this is al qae

and not our cab driver was nice enough to drop us off here only he can't get a return fare back he has to leave and go all the way back to d.c. without anybody in his cab simply because of the regulations. that requires another permit that a driver may or may not be able to get and on this day at this time maybe that makes sense there aren't the lines i've waited in countless times for a cab here when there just don't seem to be enough in lieu of customers there actually seems to be a glut of taxis that are. moving on we need another driver with more complaints about the rules one is what he says is a recent change a prohibition on ride sharing. if. hardly any of the cab or something i don't have another passenger drove all my way i could not think of why because there is no sure right. perhaps that's one reason why we've started to see more. are cars like this appear on streets a business opportunity for a company looking for new revenue asking this question what else can we do what are the other streams out there such as ride sharing car sharing working with taxi industry is the resu

that obviously the idea of providing reduced or even free fares for the truly under privileged children in our community is a noble idea and one that i think we all agree is worthy of pursuing from a policy standpoint. but when we reached that sort of agreement, one of the points was that it be new money. and i think we've heard from some members of the board of supervisors and some members of the community the concern that this money is not really new money earmarked for this. it's discretionary money that we could have spent on something else. and, so, maybe i just say, what is your reaction to that particular, and you know, how do you weigh the benefits of spending this discretionary money on service upgrades or something like that as opposed to this project? >> what i would say is i think that's all correct and those are valid, legitimate points. when we had the discussion here back in the spring, and when the mta board approved this, it was contingent on funding from the mtc. so, actually in terms of the letter of the resolution that was adopted, what we're doing here is fully cons

adding injury to the already insulting high holiday fares. jim avila, abc news, washington. >>> and now, last night, there was an epic concert, a pantheon of rock legends gathering to raise money for those hardest hit by hurricane sandy. ♪ baby we were born to run ♪ baby we were born to run >> 2 billion people around the globe watched the cavalcade. $30 million raised in ticket sales. but those suffering from sandy were also promised a lot of help from the u.s. government, and that money is stalled, in congress. so, abc's david kerley decided to find out why. >> reporter: six weeks after sandy in long beach, new york, janet peters and her elderly mother are still dealing with this, wondering, who is helping? >> no one can tell you where that new money is slated for. no one seems to have answers. >> reporter: with the hospital still down, the water and sewer system not fixed, the city manager worries his local economy will tank. >> just crucial that we get these funds right away. every day that goes by that we're not actively repairing this cr

>> well, you say high likelihood, fareed, this is why it was a tough decision. even at the last principal's meeting, which was on april 28th, 2011, where the principal sat with the president and gave them their view whether to go or not, even at that point, it was a wholly circumstantial case. there was not direct evidence that you could present to the president at that point saying we guarantee you, we have direct evidence that osama bin laden is at this compound. >> one of the things you decided to do and it must have been the president and you, very small number of people to limit access to this information and decisionmaking to a very tight circle that excluded the secretary of state, the secretary of defense. take us through that decisionmaking. >> there was a decision made because of the extreme sensitivity about this to have, at the first, in the first instance have the analytical people be really the sole team working on this. >> at the cia. >> at the cia and it moved and we made decisions about going operational. that is, need to bring in the special fo

. >> now muni officials are talking about another idea that could turn the fare system upside down.riders have plenty to say on the plan to base fares on their ability to pay. >> reporter: the san francisco municipal transportation agency is thinking of changing the way you pay for transit. instead of basing fares on age or disability, muni is thinking of basing prices on a person's income. >> well, that makes sense. >> i make less money, so i feel all right about that. >> i think that's great. >> reporter: muni has been talking for months about allowing low income use to ride for free. this would go well beyond that. >> we would have to work on exactly how this would work, but there would be some sort of financial record that would have to be proven to get a discount like this. >> reporter: riders have mixed feelings on that. >> no one wants to give up records. >> the government has all the records of what i make anyway. so it's one other branch of government having the records of what i make. >> yeah, i don't want my information scattered here and there. i don't know where they en

what age can want pain adult fare? as you are aware, 16 is the age.ecause that is when somebody becomes an adult. we've campaigned with many in this chamber support, for instance for 16. you ought to be an adult. so the soothsayer you have to pay adult prices as well? is not right and responsibilities taken next. [laughter] the first speaker highlighted between his art collective bargaining to continue the campaign for price, acceptability and reliability of. however, we've also heard a speaker but had transport is managed regionally and not nationally, meaning that national campaign would be confusing and disjointed. the northeast of england has a completely different system as does northern ireland. the first speaker quoted, divided as the region we are weak. united as a nation we are strom. well, i tell you this, we cannot be united if we are off fighting systems. [cheers and applause] was this campaign worth it? this was last year's campaign. to be too much? regionally people achieve some as the regional campaign. we do focus on a campaign that wa

they are also considering basing fares on income and not stage. supporters of the plan say it's not fair those struggling to pay their bills have to pay $4 for a monthly -- pay $64 for a monthly pass while seniors are only paying $22. the plan was sparked over the debate to provide muni -- free muni passes to low-income commuters. >>> repair work is just getting started today on this sinkhole. we'll tell you how long it might take to rebuild this road. >>> rosemary is back in the pacific. she's watching the latest storm in the pacific. we'll have more on when this may arrive in your neighborhood. >>> and how news leaked out when someone went to the house about the royal family. lots of prepaid cards come pre-filled with problems. enough is enough. introducing the chase liquid reloadable card. with chase liquid, there's no waiting and no fee to activate you can load cash and checks at any chase depositfriendly atm and there are no withdrawal fees at over 17,500 chase atms all for one flat fee of $4.95 per month. get rid of prepaid problems. get cha

i love southwest i wish they would reregulate airlines together and not have the bargain a fares, the airplanes are too full. >> more rules. >> neil: you could dispense nickel and diming for more regulating. >> i'd like the way it was when jimmy carter was president. a fixed fee, and guarantee the profit. >> so wrong. >> and there were airlines-- they reregulate it. >> you've got a deck of cards, cologne, and you've got price-- >> you've got the wings, fantastic. >> and where were you when you were getting cologne. >> as a little kid. >> and it must have been right around the '70s. >> and a slice of roast beef. >> neil: anyway. >> it's true. >> neil: we tried to suffer this process along. but anyway we tried. and the run over the health care law, the of forbes gang has a new holy war. and the bailout and taxpayers are ready to crash and burn. are ready to crash and burn. how bad do you think ththththth i always wait until the last minute. can i still ship a gift in time r christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday str

the airlines haven't figured out a way to make money since 1980's and gone into the senseless air fare wars. i think it's a disingenuous way to do business. >> and go toss to the cost of your ticket. roll it into the cost of the ticket. tell me what you want to charge. >> i tell you why, gerri. because people freak out if they throw it into the cost and raise prices that much. and by the way, the polite thing to do when you don't show up is cancel ahead of time and this causes disruptions for restaurants and airlines, that's all they're asking people to do there, neil. got no problem trying to make money. >> you show up and they sell you a ticket before the flight and it's a stand by. >> neil: why are you trying to make a connection and you're still in the air. >> some of t airlines are ten miles long and you've got to-- >> you didn't mean to oversep. all right, all right. >> responsibilities. >> neil: i'll give you that. >> why do you pick on the the airlines all the time? >> you don't find this-- >> no, they have a business and they need to make some money. >> and any about what they

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how are your lakers going to fare? >> they have been faring pretty well. it has been exciting to watch the team go out and play basketball, as opposed to being concerned about -- should i be in this corner? should i go over there? just play. it is a talented team. if the lakers take 100 shots and other teams take 100 shots, the lakers will win. the problem is when you do not have a free-flowing offense. you take one shot at the end of the shot clock, and you are dead. tavis: did the controversy through you? >> i was surprised phil's name came up. i thought he was gone, done. the surprise me if it was even brought up. it is hard to say what happens. you do not know what the inner workings of that is. we can only speculate as fans. for me, if you are going to reach out to fill, you have to reach out to hire him, not to taste him, to get a feeling. you cannot even say that is the way it went down. do we really know the truth of what goes down? i cannot say. they are, two great coaches. tony is a great coach. steve nash will be able to create, which is why he

instead of basing fares on age or disability, they are considering basing prices on a person's incomeey believe it would even out with wealthier, older riders paying more, while others pay less. >> we would have to work on exactly how this would work, but there would be some sort of financial record that would have to be proven to get a discount like this. >> muni is conducting a study on the issue and on the possibility of extending the income-based area fare to other transit systems. >>> one by one, many of the bay area's old movie houses have disappeared. now, another sits in the path of new development. cbs 5 reporter patrick on the memories and uncertain future at the dome. >> reporter: affectionately known as the dome theater since 1967, it's home to art house movies and big blockbusters. >> it's kind of an icon, just a well-known place. >> i remember trying to put my arm around my first girlfriend and that took me about half the movie to get that to happen. >> reporter: the iconic movie house may soon be facing the wrecking hall to make room for a sporting goods store. >> i don

fareed zakaria is the host of cnn's fareed zakaria gps and has a special on sunday at 8:00 p.m.. entitled "tough decisions." i asked him are american taxpayers getting their money's worth. >> imagine a guy in germany, probably he pays particularly if he's upper middle class or upper class, he probably pays more in total taxes than his american counterpart. though it's not entirely clear once you add value-added consumption tax, for sure he's paying more. but here's what he gets in return. he gets universal health care, high-quality. he gets a free education. from kindergarten through any master's bachelor's ph.d. program he wants and it's pretty high quality as well. he gets free retraining if he ever loses his job. he gets all the benefits like day care and things like that europe is famous for. and the person in the united states may be spending a couple of percentage points lower. but he has to save for health care. he has to save for long-term care when he gets old. he has to save for his children's college education. perhaps for high school education. and certainly for any

what age can want pain adult fare? as you are aware, 16 is the age. but in some places, 14 is the age. i'm sorry, but if you think a 14-year-old as an adult, you need to take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror. [applause] i agree with the view select committee cited the age the 18th because that is when somebody becomes an adult. we've campaigned with many in this chamber support, for instance for 16. you ought to be an adult. so the soothsayer you have to pay adult prices as well? is not right and responsibilities taken next. [laughter] the first speaker highlighted between his art collective bargaining to continue the campaign for price, acceptability and reliability of. however, we've also heard a speaker but had transport is managed regionally and not nationally, meaning that national campaign would be confusing and disjointed. the northeast of england has a completely different system as does northern ireland. the first speaker quoted, divided as the region we are weak. united as a nation we are strom. well, i tell you this, we cannot be

. >> item 10.8, revising the san francisco municipal railway's schedule of fares for friday, december 28, 2012 to provide transit service at no cost for all passengers of san francisco municipal railway vehicles in celebration of muni's 100th anniversary. thises was severed at the request of a member of the public, eric scott. * this was >> mr. scott. >>> it's my hope that we can kill two birds with one stone here. december 28th is the last friday of the month. this is the day when we are traditionally subjected to the horror known as critical mass. i'm hoping that everyone who is able to can take advantage of muni's generosity and celebrate this as leave your bicycle at home day, muni is free, please ride it. thank you. >> thank you very much. [laughter] >> okay. is there -- would you like to make a motion? >> move to approve. >> second. >> discussion? all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> mr. chairman, that completes your consent calendar. now we will go back up to last but not least, item 9, this is an opportunity for members of the public to address members on issues not on the calenda

instead of basing fares on age or disability they are thinking of basing prices on a person's income. >> well, that makes -- makes sense. >> i make less money. >> i think that's great. >> reporter: they have been talking for months about allowing low income youth to ride for free. this would bo well beyond that. -- go well beyond that. >> there would be some sort of financial record that would have to be proven. to get a discount like that. >> reporter: riders have mixed feelings on that. >> no one wants to give up records. >> the government has all the records of what i make anyway. so it's one other barrage of government -- branch of government having the records of what i make. >> i don't want my information scattered here and there. i don't know where it'd end up. >> reporter: a muni spokesperson thinks the program would be a wash financially. >> we might see an increase in ridership and that can only help. >> reporter: but seniors and disabled people would still get a discount of at least 50%. it's federal law. right now the discount is more likely 66%. the bay area's lead transi

that is typically when the fares are the lowest. a trick is to book your travel date on a wednesday, which is the least popular day of the week to travel, so therefore the fares are better. so, again, you have to have flexibility to do that, but there are savings to be had. on expedia, it really is important that you book your hotel and your airfare together if you can, because you can save $500, $600 on a trip that way. and then for hotels, stand- alone hotels, booking on our mobile app. what we see a lot of people do and take advantage of is, within 24 hours of their stay, getting on their phone, downloading the app, looking at hotels near where they want to go. you can save 10%, 12%, just by doing that. > did not know that. good to have you on the show this morning. that is jake reid of expedia. still ahead, a business-savvy supermodel spills her secrets on what it takes to make it in the industry. that's next. america's next top model and project runway are among the tv hits giving a new look at the modeling industry. show stars

phil andrew says the fares should be cut in half to encourage more people to use the road. right now drivers pay $8 to drive end to end on the 18-mile road during rush hour. trucks can pay as much as $36 for the same way one trip. -- one trip on that road. i'll be back at 4:55 with more traffic. >> see you then. thanks. >>> a new study could change the current standard of care when it comes to breast cancer. >> british researchers have found taking the drug tamoxifen for a longer period of time could have significant benefits. >> reporter: kerry took the drug tamoxifen for five years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer at 33. >> even though it may make you not feel great or you might have side effects, it's -- you know you're doing something that's helping you. >> reporter: now new research suggests women should take tamoxifen for ten years, twice as long as the current five- year recommendation. researchers at the university of oxford found breast cancer patients who took the drug longer were less likely to die from the disease and less likely to have their cancer c

also, remember, if you miss a show, go to itunes.com/fareed. audio podcast for free or buy the video version. either the show or our specials. this week's book of the week is david russell's "red ink." if you want to talk about the federal budget, please read this short book so you know the facts and spending and taxes. russell's single accomplishment is that it's a book about the budget and it's not boring. and now, you may have read the book ode on the grecian urn. i bet you haven't heard this ode though. introducing the ode to a well worn, rather unattractive jacket. this radio essay on a north korean station entitled parka of kim jong-il was a tribute to his old gray coat that the dear leader sported for over a decade. the narraterer tells about how the parka tells story. >> it will be remembered forever by the korean people. >> she also admits the jacket was threat bare and discolored, yes, it was, but not allowing those facts to get in the way, she continues that the jacket is a witness to history, telling forever about the great devotion

instead of basing fares on age or disability muni is thinking of basing prices on a person's income. >> well, that makes -- makes sense. >> i make less money so i feel all right about that. >> i think that's great. >> reporter: they have been talking for months about allowing low mcyouths to ride for free. this would go well beyond that. >> it would have to work on exactly how this would work but there would be some sort of financial record that would have to be proven. to get a discount hike that. >> reporter: riders have mixed feelings on that. >> the government has all the records. what i make anyway. so it's -- one other branch of government having the records of what i make. >> yeah, i don't want my information scattered here and there. i don't know where it'd end up. >> reporter: a spokesperson thinks the program would be a wash financially with others paying less. >> we might see an increase in ridership can that can only help. >> reporter: but seniors and disabled people still get the discount of at least 50%. it's federal law. right now the discount is more like 66%. the bay

i want to bring in fareed zakaria from new york.ou look at what happens in this country, we've got shootings in churches, malls, movie theater, other schools, even the attempted murder of congresswoman gabby giffords, and now sandy hook. when people look at what happens in our country, what do they make of it? what do they think of us? >> well, for everyone around the world, this issue of the united states is utterly mystifying because we know what works. the united states has 15 to 20 times as much gun homicide and gun suicide, by the way, a lot of it is suicide, than any advanced country in the world. what's different? do we have 15 times as many mentally disturbed people? highly unlikely. do we have 15 times more violent tv or video games? no. japan has lots of violent video games, and they actually have astonishingly low gun violence. the big difference is that we have these incredibly loose gun laws that make access to the kind of weapons you just showed, suzanne, very easy. the idea that people -- that anyone other than law en