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the gao says the recipients worked too many hours to qualify for the money when they look at it now. the gao says it will investigate and try to get back improperly made payments. >>> here's something lighter. a lot of fans of the movie "up" were cheering for this guy. after all, it's not often in real life and nonanimation life that a guy takes flight holding onto a bunch of multi-colored balloons. jonathan trapp lifted off yesterday from maine. he hoped to cross the atlantic ocean to france. things seemed to be going well for a while until he ran into trouble controlling the more than 300 balloons above him. he was forced to land in newfoundland and did so without injury. so all in all, well done there. >>> when we come back, around here, as we mentioned, they like to say they are stronger than the storm. how about a storm followed by a fire? we'll look at the resilience of a father and son who lost a lot and a lot of it together. >>> we are back here tonight in seaside heights. and by the way, we are right here in front of the fire break that ended up saving much of what is left h

. >>> back in this country, a new report by the gao says the government may have paid out almost $1.3cial security disability payments over just the last three years, all of it to people who weren't supposed to get that money. some of them received tens of thousa thousands. 36,000 people may have received payments in all. the gao says the recipients worked too many hours to qualify for the money when they look at it now. the gao says it will investigate and try to get back improperly made payments. >>> here's something lighter. fans of the movie "up" cheered for this guy. after all, it's not often in real, non animation life that a guy takes flight holding onto multi-colored balloons. jonathan trapp lifted off yesterday from maine. he hoped to cross the atlantic ocean to france. things seemed to be going well for a while until he ran into trouble controlling the more than 300 balloons above him. he was forced to land in newfoundland and did so without injury. so all in all, well done there. >>> when we come back, around here, as we mentioned, they like to say they are stronger than th

the second report that i want to go over is the report to the gao. this report included all the required communications that [speaker not understood] we have to report back to the city's governing body. these items that i have listed on the slide are very typical of any [speaker not understood] communicationses that you may see. i do want to point out that the first item, the equal tate i have access of accounting practices, this is the item where we would list any significant estimate included in the city's financial statement. and the -- any funds for the [speaker not understood] that may be included. in the report we have estimates related to the city's pension as well as opab benefits and those are disclosed in 9a and 9b of the city's c-a-f-r. and i'll also go over an upcoming accounting standard that will change the presentation of these benefits in the near future. the other items included in this include current new findings. so, we have in relation to the city's financial reporting, we do have a material weakness relating to the successor age

when we look at the impact of -- when we did this the last time in 2011, the gao estimated it ended uposting the federal government i think $1.3 billion for the end of the fiscal year. that was just two months and that we didn't actually breech the debt ceiling. >> brian kessler an economist for moody's thing you very much. >>> a critical phase of president obama health care act starting on tuesday. we'll head to hospitals and look at what obamacare will mean for money" continues. ♪ what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? it drives discussion across america. share your story on tv and online. >>> hospitals have a lot at steak as obamacare exchanges roll out next week. they may gain millions of new patients who didn't have insurance before, but they are also under huge pressure to cut costs and improve the quality of care -- [ technical difficulties ] and for me. david has the story. [ sirens blaring ] >> reporter: hospitals are getting bigger, joining forces to cut cost as the nation's health care overhaul takes effect. roughly a fifth of the country'

the gao has identified 15 different agencies, spending 60 to $70 million per year. you are watching all this and we are not seeing the results sitting here. if they are giving us this report that there should be consolidation, can you identify for us the overlapping agencies that maybe should be consolidated rather than individuals keeping us alive. >> my answer would be before we decide to consolidate, we should figure out what is the core curriculum and what is it that americans need to know. with that benchmark, we can go out and say, what are these folks providing, what kind of information are they providing. the other issue is the baby boomers and people older are maybe not web family so there is a lot of information. they are much more likely would be trusting their social security field agent than 101 different other providers. so we have to figure out this first, and i think interest is critical and risk diversification is critical. and we have to figure out who is the most trusted conduit of in information and that would be my recommendation. >> i think we

so gao has an will continue to consider items like this. >> perfect, thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to speak to this item? seeing none. public comment is closed. just for members of the public we've been asked to consider this report for september 17th. motion was made and second by supervisor cohen and without objection, it passes. okay. thank you. next item. madam clerk could you please call item no. 3 and 4. >> the clerk: item 130601:agenda[hearing - civil grand jury report - "are the wheels moving forward? a follow-up to the 2009-2010 civil grand jury report sharing the roadway: from confrontation to conversation"]1306013.hearing on the recently published 2012-2013 civil grand jury report entitled "are the wheels moving forward? a follow-up to the 2009-2010 civil grand jury report sharing the roadway: from confrontation to conversation." clerk of the boardd6/10/13; referred to department.9/3/13; received and assigned to the government audit and oversight committee. >> the clerk: sf 611234 sfitem 130602:[board response - ci

and it a gao audit into dozen 11 found it was even better. 99 percent accuracy.ut that means about 450,000 people who are legit get flagged as illegal. that is awful. >> first of all, they don't get the job is the issue. you know what, this is not 100 percent. it is not 100 percent. @%t it just depends. you want an answer? that is my question. you actually want to do something about it all would you rather have, as you said, lor force that is affected only by markets? demand. people come. the wwge rates and lowered because they're is a lot of demand. so be it. john: what's wrong with that? >> well, what is wrong with it? okay. how about the millions of americans whose wage rates are depressed and/or the people who are displaced. the employer like that and a lot of consumers would like it, but the workers are oing to be negatively affected. john: what about the americans to do have just because their work forloria who were these businesses created by emigrants. >> let them keep working. immigrants, we are not trying to stop every immigrant from coming into the cou

when we look at the impact of -- when we did this the last time in 2011, the gao estimated it ended uposting the federal government i think $1.3 billion for the end of the fiscal year. that was just two months and that we didn't actually breech the debt ceiling. >> brian kessler an economist for moody's thing you very much. >>> a critical phase of president obama health care act starting on tuesday. we'll head to hospitals and look at what obamacare will mean for money" continues. ♪ my name is jonathan betz. i'm from dallas, texas, and i'm an anchor for al jazeera america. >>my name is ranjani chakraborty, i'm from houston, texas. >>i'm kim bondy. >>nicole deford. >>and i'm from new orleans. >>san francisco, california. when i was a little kid, i just really loved the news. >>news was always important in my family. >>i knew as a kid that was exactly what i wanted to do. >>i learned to read by reading the newspaper with my great-grandfather every morning. >>and i love being able to tell other people stories. >>this is it, i want to be a part of this. >>this is what really drove me to al

gao would've been looking at the functionality over the hub. we were focused on security. >> is it that to a certain degree, there are some theoretical aspects to standing up the hub that makes it somewhat an exercise in futility for you to get that testing? or is it that you are waiting for a certain level of, the operation to become feet before the testing becomes -- to be complete, before the testing becomes applicable? >> i appreciate that. there are certain aspects of testing that cannot be done until the process is far enough along, until enough has been billed to do testing. to be clear, part of our audit approach was to look at the testing that was ongoing by the agency as it was being built, because the agency employed, actually it is a system development process called agil. it is very popular right now because you can build things up fairly quickly. with that, though, they are doing continuing testing as it goes on. so what happens later on, then, is all dependent --independently independentd an security assessment that is done after

already the usda has been testing these changes, but in a report released today the gao writes faster line speeds raise concerns about food safety. >> i think that they are putting speed over safety. >> reporter: the usda says the new inspection system will reduce the risk of foodborne illness. no washing, new advice that may be hard to swallow in countless american kitchens. kerry sanders, nbc news, ft. lauderdale. >> and we are back in a moment with the latest attempt to make your current smart phone obsolete. >>> you want answers? >> i think i'm entitled. >> you want answers. >> i want the truth! >> you can't handle the truth! >> well, jack nicholson, it's interesting you would say that because a lot of us wondered if there was any truth to a big story we woke up to out of hollywood this morning. it was an anonymously sourced report saying that jack nicholson, of all people, has quietly retired from acting, due in large part to memory loss. today, however, when asked for comment by nbc news, we received an adamant denial from nicholson through a spokesman who said the 76-year-old a

." >> policthe police used tear gao move protesters back from parliament in mexico city.sters threw rocks and set objects on fire. protesters are against the government's education reforms. >>> canada's oil boom is producing an unwanted affect. we have reports from detroit where big plumes of smoke. >> clouds of black dust against a dark side blowing over the detroit river. there was panic on both sides of the international water way. a canadian tour boat stopped at the bridge while passengers and crew locke looked on. >> at first we thought it was a tornado. we really consistent kno didn'tt was. the obliterated the bridge. you couldn't see through it. >> the dust three off petroleum coke. it's a by-product of bi bitumenf tar sands. many ait's not dangerous but scientists feel different on that. otherwise feel otherwise as they find black dust alon in their hs and along the streets. >> the dust was flying on into the window sills. getting into the apartment. if it was that easy to get into the apartments that means they're breathing it. >> after the uproar in detroit the

gerri: a scathg report out by the gao sheds more light on waste fraud and abuse in washington. government shelling out more than $1 million of improperisability payments to people who have jobs for a 36,000 are not suppose to be working better gaming the system and the report says the overpayments show major of weaknesses in procedures to police the system. outrage over welfare recipients in arizona instead of cashing in benefits and restores they are going to times square tuesday land and hawaii. are these cash grabs legal? we have a criminal defense attorney and prosecutor and our legal analyst. give us the the 101. >> of arizona 47 billion is spent on federal aid and not a huge percentage but some of it people go to the atm at casinos, strip clubs, bars, using the federal money right there. that is not what we are paying for both food and shelter. gerri: the new state law bars that activity? is that the right thing to do? >> it is to taylor because you don't want to use taxpayer dollars for these purchases but the problem is when you use a debit card cage you really prove th

the gao first made the request on october 2012. a year has come and gone with no resolution and that is far too long for this to go unresolved. what do you think is a reasonable amount of time to get back on resolving these issues? >> senator, i wasn't prepared to talk about the gao today. however, we have been in discussions. we had a discussion with the gao over different requests and that was one of the requests we brought up. we are attempting to reach a position where we can provide information. they are requesting proprietary data related to the drug industry. we do not want to wholesale release that data and that is what we are discussing right now. what they need and how to give it to them in the best possible format and i believe that we are close. the last negotiations between the agency went very well. and i believe that we are close. >> i have an e-mail that says that you are the main impediment to getting that result. i hope you will get it resolved. i have used my time to it i will go to her and ask questions in a sec

gao at the san diego zoo.determine because of the gender and a dna sample was collected to determine the cups paternity, the panda cub is healthy and active. unbelievable. shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. in my head... never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. too much? a little. [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. >>mark: top stories we are following the bay bridge commuters are filling and other backup although it seems to be not as bad as the first two days. and disturbing video coming out of long beach were police beat a man off line on the ground and the police officers remained on the job this morning. we will show you more videos. >>darya: and taken a look at weather and traffic this thursday

when you look at the gao they say in ten years that more people are going to be off health care, not have health care coverage than there are today as a percentage of population. isn't obamacare about expanding access? >> this is important. you're a democrat. the president made promises to save $2500 a year per family. you gt to keep your plan. all of the oh companies say you can't keep your plan. number two, nobody is saving money. why not delay it and get it right so the promises would be fulfilled? >> your statistics aren't true. >> which ones? >> people watching television -- >> let me finish. >> rand corporation, kaiser family foundation the and study the premium price it is last two years and the average american premiums are going down, controlling costs which we all agree is essential to obamacare. >> he said it's the lowest increase and you are saying they're going down. you're telling me the president is wrong and you're right? >> the republicans have announced a plan this week. >> it's not a plan. it's just defunding. >> that's not true. let me educate you. >> please. a ta

closely with gao on a number of matters. if they do an annual audit for us which is unusual among the federal agencies and they will deal with this i think appropriately and help us and have suggestions for improvement. second in terms of the data that we collect it's information that has to do that is very important -- not just with consumer behavior patterns. we are not interested in whether richard cordray went to this restaurant and spent x dollars on dinner last night. that is what the private sector does. they are all about that. our issue is we have to oversee and understand the pattern of how they treat their customers in order to understand the financial consumer laws being followed are being violated. so we collect data in pre-named buckets. in our consumer complaint function people come to us voluntarily because they have a complaint and they want to resolve the trade the same with constituents who come to your offices. second is the area of supervision where our job is to supervise these financial institutions. s

his budget this year at least addressed a few of the issues that gao raised.em. >> all right. senator tom coburn -- >> the man who over the past nine years has had the most conservative rating in the united states senate. >> there you go. senator, thank you. >> have a good morning. >> now defined as a rhino in a week and a half. congratulations. >> well, that's -- >> the president -- talked about how good federal workers are. >> by the way, did you see how nervous he was? uh -- i think he's good. ezra, i want you and chuck to help me out. a lot of the numbers we have been seeing from the president in the past week, i have noticed a drop in the nbc polls, the new york times polls coming out. if this is because of syria and other things. the president upside down. his job performance, the lowest in two years. foreign policy, 40-49. the economy, 41-54. health care 40-54. iran, 39-44. syria, 37-52. budget deficit 35-54 which would surprise anybody following the trajectory. >> people don't want us doing so much deficit reduction. they want more stimulus spending. >

it also says it will now look into this gao report. >>> prince william is sitting down with cnn for theirst time since becoming a parent, in a new special airing sunday, "prince william's passion, new father, new hope." in it he shares his passion for africa and conservation with max foster and explains how these feelings have only intensified since the birth of his son. >> for me, it's the sense of freedom, being out in the middle of nowhere in africa, just seeing the beauty of nature and the natural world is just phenomenal. it's fantastic. >> when the young prince arrived in africa for the first time, the splendor of an african sunset, the deep quiet of the bush, and the majesty of the animals captured his heart. >> i had no real idea that i would feel that way but i never realized how much emotionally [ inaudible ]. you want to stand up for what is very vulnerable and what needs protecting. >> those same feelings have become more intense for william since the birth of his son, prince george. >> i think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience, s

on june 2013 a gao report cms expected to spend 54 million in the program. are you familiar with that report. >> there have been a lot of gao reports. >> this is, what you do for living i hope you see that one. july 21st, 2013. cms administrator wrote to to committee asking questions about the navigator program. she state the navigator program would cost 5million. cms totaled that they would cost 67 million a 13 million increase. when did hhs make the decision about increase of funding program. >> i do not. >> what funding did they use the 13 million increase for the budget what you do. >> i'm sure we -- >> suddenly appeared and. >> i know that we have had ongoing interest making sure we do as much outreach and helping as people get enrolled as possible and additional resources. >> yesterday the administration announced new initiatives to announce fraud on the health care law and call center with rapid response centers and to address security and privacy issues. can you address what these will entail? >> i know that we have a call center now. the call center

. >> i said the gao.t accounting office. >> you also said cbo and republican -- >> actuaries. no i didn't. >> cbo turns out all their projections how expensive obamacare were going to be are actually wrong. in the marketplace it looks like prices will be lower because there is competition. martha: that is comparison what they originally thought the increase would be. they're saying a little bit lower than they thought increase in current plans would be. i mean, it remains to be seen. we've got a few hours left before this starts to kick in. kirsten, maybe you're right. maybe everybody should wait until it happens. >> why shouldn't congress live under it, martha? martha: congress is pushing off a couple big provisions. >> and exempt themselves from it. martha: that's true. thank you guys. see you next time. bill: breaking news. we reported on this a month ago when cable news network cnn was drafting a documentary on the a life of hillary clinton. moments ago cnn canceled that highly-anticipated documentary

know, when you're looking at whoever did the background investigations, i don't know if it was the gao or the fbi, but whoever did it certainly, if their budgets were cut because of the sequester, if they have fewer people working, fewer man hower hours to log, you're going to have more and more people fall through the cracks like this. >> there are questions about the budget even pre-sequester that perhaps work into this. there are questions that are being asked right now because of this. jim clemente, thank you very much for joining me. >>> and now, to a decision that will affect the interest rates you will pay for everything from mortgages to car loans. the federal reserve panel has just decided what to do with the stimulus. it's kept those interest rates so, so low. let's go straight to christine romans in new york, also alison kosik to talk market reaction at the stock exchange. first, christine, what is the word from the fed. >> no taper. the fed is not ready to take the training wheels off the american economy. the fed saying while it could see the economy is improving, there is

capabilities, and the gao has called upon the pentagon to conduct a study into enabling capabilities.e pentagon issued a non- concurrent concurrence among where you concur with that recommendation and explain why you're not going to do it or you are going to do it in a completely different form from the one that was suggested. i am worrying that enabling capabilities are being left out of the rss. the fourth issue i want to flag up today are the international remicade's -- ramifications. sorry -- one last thing on enabling capabilities. area for good congressional involvement. i think the congress should require the administration to of neededstudy enabling capabilities with plans to fill those gaps. this needs to happen before c and this needs to happen before acquisition. the final thing i want to bring up is the full range of ramifications about global strike. one ramification, warhead ambiguity, has attracted all of the attention so far. and never mind you, that is the risk that russia or china could detect the launch of the weapons, misidentified as a nuclear arms, and launch the

i'm sure that all of you are aware of the latest high risk report from gao, the department made considerableprogress in integrating its components. moving toward, having audible financials and we hope unqualified audit i soon -- soon. but the overall measure of the department remains on the high-risk list. i've been really impressed by the efforts of the department leadership to address these management issues. with the changing of the guard, the impending changing of the guard at the top of the department, they're still a bunch of questions about how the department can sustain and build upon the work of secretary napolitano. and also deputy secretary jane holl lute. what do you do are the most urgent steps the deparle should take to develop strong management institutions and practices? that's questionable and. one of the most urgent steps the department should take to further develop those practices? and, are there any legislative steps that come to mind that those of us who serve on this committee, and our colleagues, ought to take to strengthen the tools and institutions that the secretar

gao is certainly one. the comptroller of the currency, whoever the president happens to be, those numbers are there. the u.s. budget is online, i think through numerous sites, from the white house, or american conspiracy theorists you think the government is manipulating the budget. those reports are very volumous, the joint committee on taxation -- >> but you have to learn how to read -- >> guest: it takes time. there's no short cuts it's not exciting work. people always ask us, ever been threatened? never been threatened sitting at a library table looking at this data, but that's the heart of the work. it takes a long time but it's open the average citizen today in a way that was much more difficult a few years ago. >> guest: you're putting your finger on a critical problem that goes unmentioned. and that's the news media. and especially now when the news media is really under such pressure and never going to be the same again. it's hard to imagine how this is going to play out, but going back in time, t

mergers acquisitions, and startups and the management around those things for the past 10 years -- the gao has not dramatically improved. i do not have an answer. i think we have had some good people there trying to get those things done. but absent by and from some of the management changes and the restructuring that might recommend and that is by and by the congress, it is difficult to make reforms. it is not just endemic to homeland security. i truly believe there are still silos within that agency that will require -- that have to be merged to be done with legislative oversight and direction. i hope you find the money to build out saint elizabeth's because when we would have meetings with the leaders of the five or six muscular agencies, it got about 20 departments and bureaus. there were five or six. to try to pull your leadership together a couple of times a week, taking them from their offices and bringing them over and sitting down for two or three hours a couple of times a week was not a good use of their time or ours and we had the opportunity to develop the day- to-day working r

issued in june, the ministration issued the navigator grants to much behind schedule --according to the gao report. issuing not end up awards until august. the administration had initially planned to start navigator training in july but they did not finalize the programs until august 29. this reduced by half the time available to begin training and preparing for enrollment. to begin training and preparing for a moment. today we will ask the director for consumer information and entrance oversight to explain how the abbreviated training schedule will affect the program. we will also ask mr.: to address some of the concerns we have identified in our review. some are going door-to-door to connect -- conduct enrollment activities. indicates the representatives are aware of problems linked to door-to-door outreach activities such as represented falsely navigators. we have learned the return on taxpayer dollars varies widely among recipients. 312charge $80,000 to enroll people. other groupshand, clearly have high expectations. another applicant estimated they would enroll 75%, resulting in severa

. >> now i notice the gao in the budget there is $22 billion allocated for climate change action plansfor 2013. how much of that money will be allocated to the epa? >> i'm sorry, could you repeat the question? >> there's 22 billion plan to be spent in fiscal year 2013. how much of the money was allocated to the epa? >> i can't answer that question but i would be happy to follow-up. >> do you know from the secretary of energy position how much -- >> i think the problem first of all is how one counts. for example, if we count the energy efficiency programs which of course have the objective of saving money it would be a good part of the solution for climate change. so if we talk about all of the programs that are hopeful for climate change then we are talking about $5 billion mostly in our r&d budget, which i say most of that is for efficiency, nuclear power, cleantech, fusion. the one exception one might say is the substantial resources we give it to the carbon capture and sequestration specifically to make whole competitive in a low carbon world. >> my time is expired. five minutes for

the fact that are all these reports from the auditors, the gao and whatnot that say how far behind they are, how many deadlines they are missing. they really are in danger of hurting their own cause by not being up and running, i'm not solving the confusion. no question republicans have added to the confusion and have made the job for the administered a lot worse. one thing in particular, the polling you should insist on parker or more on fiber than it's ever been. that's what republicans are looking at and that's what's energizing to say look, we are winning the fight. it is getting less popular. if we just did to our guns we can win a government shutdown. having said that, chuck schumer last week made an interesting point. i think is correct, the republicans may be right about that but those who believe the entire government spending should be held as hostage to that is probably only about five or 10% of the people. so republicans are looking at the overall level of is it unpopular, yes, it is unpopular. but are people willing to see the federal education spending stop, you know, basi

and gao to discuss it. i think that's unacceptable. i understand that you admitted to the controller general that dea has a legal obligation to comply. however, the justice department and dea are still withholding records from the gao. there's no point in wasting time and the taxpayers on litigation with g ark orbing. that's where it's headed if dae doesn't comply. so the attorney general, i hope you can help us to work with us in congress to solve the dispute. dea needs to provide gao the information it needs to do the work. i don't expect you to respond now. i want you to know how i feel about it doing my job of oversight. and there's a distinguished member of the majority that is interested in it as much as i am. >> thank you, senator. i have been in contact with the deputy administrator with gao to discuss it once already. we're planning on having another conversation in the next week or so. i'm top of this pep. >> god bless you. >> the coal memo suggests that the department won't seek to enforce the controlled substances act excep

>> we're subject to gao audit every year. we're subject to an additional outside audit every year. it's law of the land. >> don't care about that. has anybody ask? >> i think it's been asked several times and in the hearings asked before. because people want to make sure, just as you are legitimately and validly asking now how is our spending natching up with the budget. >> and the reason i ask, mr. cordray, the money comes from the fed. money that could go to the deficit that you are sitting on. my clal collation is roughly $135 million plus interest. >> again, there has been some underspend issue around hiring trajectory and timing of the building renovation that will smooth over time. as for us, we are like every other banking agency. but we have a hard cap on our budget. which others do not have. are you operating on a specific plan? soon the building renovation i would rather spend zero dollars. >> i have to look forward to that. i want to fall on something brief. my understanding you have primary authority over the larger and some secondary authority over the smaller. less th

attorney-general has used and the us the justice department and they were holding records from the gao. no point in wasting time with litigation but that is where this is headed if the d.a. does not comply. . . colorado has seen a sharp uptick in each of these three priorities over the past few years. more over, a recent audit concluded that colorado department public health, quote, has not sufficiently overseen physicians who make medical marijuana recommendations, end of quote. another recent article found that the city of denver did, quote, not have a basic control frame work in place, end of quote, to regulate the medical marijuana program. denver didn't even know how many marijuana businesses were operating? the borders. so question, why has the department decided to trust colorado to effectively regulate reck rayingal marijuana when already struggling to regulate medical marijuana and federal priorities are already being negatively impacted. before you answer, would the department establish metrics concerning these priorities that will trigger when it will take action to either c