back of the envelope calculation between joe reilly in charleston, john hickenlooper in denver, gavin newsome and michael bloomberg. that's more of a century of city hall experience walking out the door in the next two years. >> yes, michael bloomberg will do consulting for cities in his time ahead of him. certainly those leaders of some of the largest cities have had some great programming, some great success, some serious challenges, and some set backs. i think if you look at the totality of cities some leadership like new york, chicago, los angeles, charlie hails, the new mayor in portland is coming back after having been a city commissioner. there is a lot of good talent focused on problem solving, focused on doing work in city, which is ultimately making places to live better for their citizens, and they've been doing it in the midst of the economic recession without much help from the states or federal government. >> not that it's ever a great time to be running a city. but with the recession they were taking in less money, and their states were in crisis, and the feds were in crisis. >

. >> if you're looking at why this building came to be, in many ways it also included mayor gavin newsomereally had an affection for this building. he saw the design. he saw the potential. he wanted to make sure that that building got built. and he said, do what you need to do, but please, if you can make that building work, we need to have that building in civic center. >> i happened to be at a green conference santa clara. he said you shouldn't cancel that project. can you work with us? michael cohen phoned me up the next day. can we cut $40 million out of this project? it was one person more responsible than any others, it's tony irons, was the architect that was responsible for the revitalization of city hall who came to my office and said, we cannot abandon this. we can't walk away from this project. we have an opportunity to really take a lot of our values and principles, particularly raising the bar as we did as a city on our green building standards, mandating the most aggressive green building standards for private construction anywhere in the united states. and showcasing them i

in may 2008, san francisco opened the office of small business, under the leadership of gavin newsom, under the urging of our small business leaders. the mayor heard there was a need for the community to have a small office to help the needs of our small businesses in san francisco, help them understand and navigate the complex structure in getting a business opened within the city and county of san francisco. initially, primarily, we were going to be about helping you understand licensing and permitting requirements, but, really, shortly after we open our doors, we understood that we were also, as a government entity, a place for people to come when they want to know about loans, about writing a business plan. where to go to do that, where to go to get assistance. we are also a resourced. when we do see people in our office, many of them are a year or two out from even opening their business, so we will ask them what their credits for is, have they done their business plans, do they know what they're capital needs are going to be, how much money they have, how much money they are goi

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lieutenant-governor gavin newsom says that idea is a serious mistake. >>> as we have been reporting, storm on the east coast is has see sexually shut down the -- has essentially shut down the federal government. that include the hearing for the asiana crash in san francisco. ken wayne is live in washington, d.c. that the hearing has now been postponed it looks like the snow has turned to rain. ken? >> reporter: well, it's a very wet snow right now, tori. it's still snowing but it's not sticking. you can see the street here. there's no snow on the street. you can see the washington monument out there on the mall. gray skies, snow falling. we're getting forecasts up to 6 inches of snow falling here in washington just this morning. but that has not happened. i want to show you the capitol building. the capitol is open. the senate is in session. hearings have been going on. as you mentioned, the federal government itself is shut down. the ntsb hearing was set to take place. in fact, it was supposed to start about 2 hours and 15 minutes ago. we got the word after 6:00 eastern time that it