with that, lieutenant governor gavin newsom, thank you for your vision. we would like to present you with this plaque. [applause] mayor lee, we would also like to thank you for your vision. we look for too many years working together. we would also like to present you with this plaque. [applause] >> we have new decals that will be on some of these taxi cabs. i am a hunter who has them. here they are. -- i am not sure who has them. the lieutenant governor, mayor, are going to come down and help us put these on some of the calves outside. -- cabs outside. >> right here? there you go. very good.

gavin, what is going on?> please people who bought so shirts stop having paypal actions against me. i am sending out the citers. the shirts. please calm down. they are on their way. i am not. >>> jeer yen and this is not a scam. >> excellent. >> greg, anything you want to say? >> andy, about last night's show. it didn't live up to my expectations and our viewers at fox news deserved a better show so i scraped it. >> sounds good to me. >> see you later. >> a special thanks to shira, bernie, gavin. that does it for me. i'm greg gutfeld and i am going to stair at you. stare at you.

>> gavin? we will -- we actually envisioned this as being a great opportunity to have some give and take with those of you who are here. so i'm certain that you will get some questions. gavin? >> thank you, miriam. and thank you, dan and american university for having me. mariam said that i would tell you how government is doing and where it should be going and that is exactly what i would like to do. and i'm going to split the difference here between the topic that dan wants and the topic that miriam wants and we'll talk about both ogis and foia or i suppose the role of ogis and foia. so ogis today i think plays a very important and valuable role in our foia system. i want to highlight the three activities in particular. the first are the requester services or the facilitation that you have been hearing about and before i go on, i'd like to get an idea of who's in the audience here. there's always such a diverse group of people at the collaboration of government secre secrecy events. raise you

what will gavin say about his new book? something. >>> the new york times book review called it, quote, a book. that's right. i am talking about gavin mcguinness' book, how to pee in public. he has more tattoo than a bar of long shore men. let's discuss some of the anecdotes with him. i read the book and i loved it. i read it over vacation. it is incredibly graphic. >> thank you. >> your parents and marijuana, explain that story if you can. >> i was hoping they wouldn't hear. the first page says "to my wife. make sure the kids and none of our family hears about this." yes, i got some pot when i was in canada, and i tried to explain to my parents who haven't smoked in 70 years. even a pin is of too. put a pin in it and go -- they say, we know what we are doing. don't you tell us what to do. and then took a towel and then then -- this is quite vong. and then -- strong. it was very, very bad. >> your mother saw -- >> she became convinced the goblins were trying to kill her and the family. >> my dad ignored her because if you g

see, gavin, that's how you talk about things. and now she is suing the school for $150,000 saying housing officials violated laws by not giving reasonable alternatives for escaping the bad living situation. she says she suffers from depression and add moved into a hotel where her symptoms worsened, which cannot help her case. i don't know. they say there and two sides and sometimes more to every story. that is profound. my roommate sometimes bugs me by playing music when i am trying to sleep. i believe we have tape. blp >> i don't mind the music, but it is the time. she chooses the weirdest times to play. not living together anymore. it didn't work out. mcat shouldn't this have been settled between roommates 1234* do you have to sue when you can't get sleep because they are doing things? >> my roommate in college smoked a lot of weed and her boyfriend ordered a lot of wings and i was forced to eat them at midnight and 1:00 in the morning for free. but we worked it out. >> if you extend that metaphor to this, m-cat -- >> whatever.

it is gavin mcguiness. his book how to [bleep] in public comes out march 20th and i urge you to buy it. and my repulsive sidekick, bill schulz. and sitting next to me is the legend dairy jeff baxter, the former member of steely dan and the doobie brothers and serving as a missal defense consultant. and he is back despite nobody's demand. it is our new york times correspondent, good to see you, pinch. >> in the sunday times, the metropolitan section profiled the keen steak house and now defunct long stemmed pipe club where since 1885 the members would pop by and ask for the carefully stored clay and then puff away. it reminds me of a den i used to frequent around the same time. gentlemen would come for the eastern opiate and stay for full frontal massages. admittedly more had to work with massage wise than i did. sad face. >> have you one face. >> and it is sad. >> it is sad. >> actually it is horizontal. >> horizontal face. >> there you go. >>> before we go to our first story i want to go to gavin. i notice

just a minute ago, i had a chance to tell gavin, thank you for showing such great leadership.ay marriage. i can personally thank him for that wonderful leadership that led to an historic decision by the ninth circuit yesterday. we go back to 2008, where mayor gavin newsom had led the effort with the board of supervisors to establish a difficult goal of reducing gas emissions, carbon emissions from our taxis, in 2008. at the time, the ordinance was crafted with support from the board. they set out a per vehicle reduction of about 20% of the missions. everybody said at that time, that is a strong goal, but it might not be attainable. there are two numbers that we want to announce today. not only have we met that goal with the cooperation of so many parties that we are here to celebrate with, but we have exceeded that 20% goal. we now have a 49% per vehicle reduction. with an increase in taxicabs. [applause] that is what makes this fun. you set a goal that people say you cannot do. there were a lot of goals that people said could not be done. now, with the cooperation of taxicab

with that, lieutenant governor gavin newsom, thank you for your vision. we would like to present you with this plaque. [applause] mayor lee, we would also like to thank you for your vision. we look for too many years working together. we would also like to present you with this plaque. [applause] >> we have new decals that will be on some of these taxi cabs. i am a hunter who has them. here they are. -- i am not sure who has them. the lieutenant governor, mayor, are going to come down and help us put these on some of the calves outside. -- cabs outside. >> right here? there you go. very good. >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a str

. >> a special thanks to shira, bernie, gavin. that does it for me. i'm greg gutfeld and i am going to stair at you. stare at you.

. >>> lieutenant governor gavin newsom has been calling for richards to resign. coming up in about 30 minutes, newsom will join our phil matier and former mayor willie brown to discuss the controversy. >>> police are reviewing a beating in the berkeley hymns. dispatch tapes indicate officers weren't sent to the home when the victim called about an intruder. officers said they didn't answer the call because their priority was an "occupy" protest march. police did respond after the victim's wife called 15 minutes later to say this her husband had been attacked. he was later killed. >>> a deadly avalanche near a tahoe area ski resort rescue crews rushed to an out of bounds area near alpine meadows yesterday when they got word of the avalanche. three skisser touched off the avalanche. one wassed aboutly hurt. it took several hours to get the hospital where the skier who was badly hurt died from his injuries. >>> regions hit by tornadoes this week could experience even more violent weather today. clean-up is still going on in the wake of the storms which killed 13 in

this report fromç gavin hewit >> protesters burned, rye oaters startedç fires.ce responded with rubber bullets. spain is currently the country causing the most concern in the euro-zone.ç the e.u. insists it must cut its budget, but the economy is shrinking. >> we have unemployment going up. at the same time, we haveç goto implement spending cuts. >> here's the0p 9ñ -- problem. there are around 140 evictions every day. house prices are still falling. deepening concerns about the spanish debt. euardo and mariayjjut are brother and sister, both ute of work. unemployment at 24% and still rising. >> in my last interview there were 40 orç 50 candidates tryi to get the job. >> a further problem the regions.ç valencia has the highest debt. those who support the government say there is no alternative to austerity.ç >> the risk -- austerity will help at home. >> the fear is this countryç already in recession is being lost into a downward spiral. gavin hewitt, bbc news, madrid. >> whyç will this be such a challenge for the spanish government? >> the task should not

this fight began eight years ago, almost to the day when they are gavin newsom will lead decided to issue licenses to same-sex couples. [applause] shortly after, san francisco would distinguish itself as the first government in american history to strike down marriage laws that discriminate against same-sex partners. fortunately, we would not be alone. in addition to the brave plan, we successfully recruited to does another series - -cities -- cities and counties statewide. we are still fighting in california today, six states issue marriage licenses to same- sex couples. we owe a debt of gratitude to all that began in this building eight years ago. together, we started an argument for a quality. and we put a human face on marriage discrimination. i speak for everyone in my office when i say how honored we are to continue to work alongside the american foundation for equal rights. the outstanding legal team and the couple's the represent. -also very proud of the deputies in my office that worked so hard on this appeal. the deputy city attorney's. i also want to thank all the city official

>> gavin hewitt. you are watching bbc news. let's have a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. we will begin with the french newspaper. the french journalist who was injured covering the uprising in syria has been giving her account of how she survived the shelling. the financial times writes about the situation in europe. europe is finally emerging from its two-year sovereign debt crisis. tensions between iran and the usa. president obama has stressed that iran cannot develop a nuclear bomb and that he is not bluffing. here in the u.k., the guardian is considering a controversial plan regarding the police. companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighborhoods, and even detaining suspects. the daily mail claims some british banks are going to raise interest rates. there currently at half of 1%. this is bbc news. these are the headlines. the united nations secretary general ban ki-moon accused the syrian government of committing crimes against the country's civilian

gavin newsom went on to become lieutenant governor.- why is there such a difference in some political futures? >> it depends at the extent to which they acknowledge their misdeeds and the public's willingness to forgive. you look at gavin newsom and the current case of, of course, ross mirkarimi, they're young. and although they're at different stages of the contrition process, knewsome has displayed good sense since his affair. good news for him. mirkarimi is only at the beginning. you heard his comments today. okay, that's the beginning. the question is, though, the ending for that has not yet been written. as for schwarzenegger, well, it's hard to believe that he could make any kind of a comeback even if he wanted to. that's because of the strong allegations before he was elected governor and his unwilling ne unwillingness to accept responsibility and the facts, the ugly facts that we learned years later. whatever the public's political values, voters don't like to be taken for fools and for that behavior the penalty for the transgr

a few comic added. -- thank you, gavin. [applause] together we set out to achieve five goals of office. police chief, put some of kids go back to work with new jobs and to local hire program, chart a stable course, to balance our budget despite steep deficits, and tackle pension reform -- one of the most boxing challenges every city in america has faced. we got them all done. [applause] today, one year later, i stand before you even more honored, even more humbled by the responsibility you have placed in me. whether you voted for me first, second come third or not at all, i want to thank all the people of the city for giving me this historic opportunity to serve as short elected mayor. thank you. [applause] as proud as i am about what we accomplished together in this last year, i am here today to talk about the future of our city and the road map ahead. as some of you know, in the chinese calendar we are about to begin the year of the dragon. the most powerful of all the animals in the chinese zodiac. therefore, the year of

the bbc's europe editor gavin hewitt has more details from athens. >> we won't get the precise figures until early tomorrow morning, but all the estimations are that between 80, 85, even 90% of private investors have agreed to take steep losses on their holdings of greek debt. what does this mean? well, for the first time since this whole crisis in greece started, tonight greece's debt is not actually going up. indeed, it will be cut as a result of this deal by over 100 billion euros, also at the e.u. and the i.m.f. almost certainly will now go ahead with a second greek bailout and therefore the country will stave off bankruptcy. so there is some relief here tonight that so many private investors appear to have agreed to accept their losses. >> gavin hewitt in athens there. now tributes have been paid to the six british soldiers killed by a bomb while traveling in an armored vehicle in afghanistan on tuesday. five of the group were under the age of 22 and they had only been in the country for a few weeks. their commanding officer described them as incredibly brave men. rico, it was one

the gavin report, thousands of music professionals -- independent music people came to town every year. at the same time, a little group called south by southwest grew up in austin and it has turned into a billions and billions of dollars worth generator for revenue in the city of austin. portland has become a major might like tourist destination, because of their nightlife scene. i pick it up in the in-flight magazines, they are always talking about portland. when i came to town, we were the no. 1 entertainment venue for tourism. what has happened, we have been 20 years worth of neglect and outright hostility by city and county officials, by department. is this still going on? yes, i am fighting a battle at 4360 at the moment, because they do not want to put a liquor license in their. this has been described as a place where people simply deal crack. these are responsible professionals that have a bar. police ask me -- why should be put another liquor license on sixth street? they do not get the fact that the two security guards on the corner, going down to the corner for the last thr

but i'd like to turn it over to kirsten, then we'll ask marianne to speak and then gavin we'll turn to you as the third. >> good morning. so mariam talked about the culture change that we would like to see happen in the foia and i think as she said that is the future of foia. so i'm going to talk about what we mean by a culture change certainly sue pointed to several things and miriam mentioned a couple. we have four things that ogis has come out for improving t the -- the administration of foia. these aren't things that would require amending foia or changing foia, but just things to improve the administration. and there are no particular -- they're in no particular order. so the first one would be to professionalize the foia career track and we're very pleased that the office of personnel management has committed to creating a job series. they have taken concrete steps for foia professionals. it would help enhance the visibility of foia professionals. and i think it would also go a long way in increasing the likelihood that agencies could retain foia professionals. sort of moving a l

in 2004, near gavin newsom -- mayor gavin newsom secured funds by making personal phone calls local businesses. i look forward to working with my colleagues and the mayor to make this happen again. i also had a senior hearing requests. today, i am introducing a senior request on behalf of the needs of seniors and adults with disabilities, especially in light of the recent demographic increases reported in the 2010 census. there are about 155,000 seniors in the city making up over 19% of the population. seniors over the age of 85 increased by 44% over the last 20 years. based on the other economic standard security index, 51% of our seniors do not have enough income to meet basic needs. colleagues, the quality of life for our seniors and adults with disabilities is very important to me. i would also like to thank supervisors avalos -- supervisor avalos or adding his name as a co-sponsor. supervisor mar: thank you. i wanted to announce two town hall forums i am during this week in my district on wednesday and thursday. the first one i mentioned last week is the response to the recent incidents a

i said, gavin, what did i score? gavin said, "i don't think you want to know."t a couple of dollars put away. you can't hurt my feelings." he says, "500." i said, "for everything?" he said, "they give you 250 -- [ laughter ] to start the whole thing." >> jimmy: yeah, to write your name -- >> now, they put me -- jimmy -- because of my score -- first of all, what's important is they let me in. >> jimmy: yeah. >> they let me in. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and they put me in remedial everything. [ light laughter ] no, i'm serious. remedial everything. i had a scholarship for track and field. that means a full paid ride. >> jimmy: full ride. >> but they wouldn't put -- they wouldn't put me in the dorm. they made me live remedially. [ laughter ] they made me -- >> jimmy: everything was remedial. >> they made me stay at home. they said, "no, you are too stupid to stay on campus. we want to keep you -- we want to keep you away. we don't want it to be contagious." [ laughter ] but i am -- i am thankful for that time and the university letting me in. i -- there was not a prouder

and earlier i spoke with andrew gavin marshall project manager. the people's book project that it's all this war about the upcoming break take a listen. will creating alternatives like an alternative to the world bank possibly the i.m.f. this is an important sort of stepping stone for the brics nations coming into their own in the. international arena and specifically the realm of global governance now the question is whether or not these become alternatives or simply reforms to the system of global governance already being evolved for example a lot of the reforms that talking about new global reserve currency these have been in the plans western elites and institutions for decades even timothy geithner the u.s. treasury secretary in two thousand and nine said that they're open to the idea of a global reserve currency but that this process has to be evolutionary now the i.m.f. has its special drawing rights s.t.r. as which are being set up to be a global reserve currency the g twenty decided that in two thousand and nine and of course the brics na

the man who most recently left this job and went on to become the lieutenant governor of california, gavinewsom. [applause] frank jordan, former mayor frank jordan, former police chief of the city of san francisco. [applause] and my colleague from the legislative years and mayor of sanford says go, are new and tho san francisco. [applause] now that the stage is set, it is time clearly for prayer. reverend james, please come and give us the invocation. >> the per i offer todrayer i os on behalf of the more than 800 organizations in the city of county of san francisco. many of the agencies have served the people of san francisco for over 100 years. let us pray. got we come to you and prayer for our mayor, and when we. edwin lee. -- god, we come to you in prayer. as he renews his commitment to serve as our mayor, we ask you renewal his zeal for public service. grant him good health. give him the gift of patients, care for all people, but above all, the gift of wisdom here that surround his occupation with men and women dedicated to public service. fill him with your love so that he is not afr

i want to thank also mayor gavin newsom who gave me the opportunity and opened the doors for me. along with that, mayor lee, who last year, was so kind to have me continue, but more importantly, fellow commissioners, thank you so much for those that serve with us through both battles and the victories, and along with that, welcome to commissioner mccarty, commissioner melgar, commissioner mccray. i am proud of the accomplishments that our commission has done, especially passing the nation's greatest building policy -- green is green building policy, by which it was not only nationally recognized, but also internationally recognized last year in south africa by the world green building council. that is a torch that this commission will continue to carry along with shedding the light for the city as an example for other cities to execute and implement this green building policy. along with that, the accomplishment of caps that is now in the hands of the city, in respect of providing a more livable and safe city. the third is basically the category of bringing the department into th

lieutenant governor gavin is expected to be one of the speakers and we will be out here when students arrive and talk to them. we'll see you live again at 5:00 and hopefully we will have more people here and of course bring that to you. paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> in overnight news, a high- speed chase ended with the suspect's car facing oncoming traffic. the carjacking happened 2:00 this morning. then the car headed north in the southbound lanes and suspects made a run for it but they caught up with them and recover add backpack filled with stolen items. >>> late last night they found the 14-year-old oakland girl -- oakland girl who had been gone for several days. they located a 15-year-old from their city. no word on how they were found but they were both upon to have serious medical problems. >>> i am trying to find out if shootings just blocks from each other, the second shooting happened early yesterday morning. now berkeley police sad in that shooting, they are calling it a driveby. sick lar to the same, somebody opened fire and hit three young men. >> we had

very proud of gavin. predict he'll have a lot of portraits all over washington the next several years. >> reporter: the moment is proud and emotional. but to really understand why, you have to go back to 1999. at age 24, blakis got terribly sick. >> the unknown. you might have pneumonia, you might have cancer. >> reporter: he dentured six months of cancer and surgery. spending that time made him decide to make a change. art was his life. it wasn't something he was willing to miss out on. >> when you are 24 and somebody tells you we don't know if you are going to make it, it changes things in a hurry. >> reporter: he got a job at huckleberry fine arts and started taking lessons. >> they started consistently selling my work. >> reporter: known for portraits and city scapes, teaches classes and has received multiple awards over the years. his work displayed in galleries all over the country. and he is quite literally living his dream. >> things have worked out pretty well and i feel great. >> reporter: this

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harris was elected to be the state of the new general, and gavin newsom elected george gascon to be the district attorney. when asked his position on the death penaltiy, hy, he said he wouldn't rule it out. this raised a lot of concern among opponents of the death penalty who thought this would be a step backward. he has written against the death penalty, and adheres to san francisco values. san francisco has not had a jury return a death verdict since 1989, which was 10 years before he said his office would not seek the death penalty. we thought this particular issue wanted a discussion and we are pleased to have a palace here today. let me introduce them more at length. geroge gastcocon has had a long career in law enforcement, and he works for decades in the l.a. police department, serving as the director of the office of operations in charge of patrol and detectives and special operations. he is considered to be an expert in matters of police accountability. john thompson spent 14 years on death row, and after his verdict was set aside he was then facing life in prison. he was fight

supervisor chiu: i was going to ask you to comment on the gavin report in the industry that used to be here that seems to have been lost to boston, portland, cortlandportlandia, and other pn the country. >> right now we have a city that has begun to open festivals. the more we do that, the easier it is to bring those events that draw people from all around the country. that is helpful, in one respect. yes, this city has had a long history of being a magnet for music lovers, all the way back to the 1962. the summer of love was a huge industry. it could never happen again, i think, because the permitting issues. many of these festivals, including golden gate park or anything outdoors, general -- generally run into permitting problems. fees make these events nearly impossible to continue. having worked on hardly strictly bluegrass prior in my career, that festival was constantly battling the issues of restrictions with fee increases in the park and so on, where these are sources of funding -- obviously the parts need funding, but to go after the people who are generating a lot of revenue