the more resources you need, the greater the alarm. the fifth alarm mayor lee referenced on golden gate, we hadn't seen a fifth alarm since july 8, 2005. it's very rare. we pride ourselves on going in and making an aggressive attack, minimizing property damage and saving lives. that fire, it was a windy afternoon. fortunately, the fire was in the afternoon and we didn't have a lot of occupancy and rescue problems that afternoon. however, we had great support while we were fighting the fire not only from mayor lee coming, then supervisor mirkarimi, our fire commissioners. i'd also like to acknowledge the d.e.m. because they're the unsung heros in my book. that's where everything starts. when the 911 call is made it goes to the division of emergency communications, highly trained professionals that get the right resources and equipment to the scene. can't say enough about our police department, working shoulder to shoulder. at one point when things started to go south, i thought i might need to place some your police officers. police dep

the economic need has never been greater, whether it be a need to drive tourism greater in our city or a need to accommodate the population growth. we have the urgency in front of us, as well. i will end by saying i am thrilled and proud that san francisco is such a good bicycling city. we can be a great bicycling city. we look forward to your help. i want to invite everyone here, please come and invite friends to tomorrow night's closing ceremony. as hille mentioned, we're now going to lock these good folks in a room for two days to help us come up with exciting and doable, that's important, implementable plans for mid market street, for polk street and the wiggle route through the lower haight. they'll be coming back miraculously tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. to share their design ideas with all of us. this is open to the public. 6:00 p.m. tomorrow night at the war memorial building in the green room just across the street, across van ness avenue. please come, and you will learn what the dutch experts and what our local experts and stakeholders think we need to make san francisco a tru

no greater partnership them with our head of block -- hud offices.e had a chance to meet with president obama at the conference of mayors. he had our cabinet members meet with us. we let him know that mayors across the country are struggling with how we deliver services and deliver on the promises made by this country to take care of our struggling families, low income families. he has delivered with the kind of programs that hud has any kind of programs we have with our local talent. i want to thank reverend fong and others. we have a new director of the mayor's office of housing opportunities, partnership, an engagement. that is bevan dufty. the veterans, the contractors, nicole from our local offices. we have assembled contractors and a marvelous design team. their expertise is to use old buildings that look worn and unusable and recreate them with the highest level of environmental quality we could possibly have. i know the best talent is here working with cahill and our veterans and veterans' offices to make sure that this housing opportunity co

the amount of the deficit is greater than $1 trillion. so one could do away with all discretionary spending, isn't it correct you could do away with all discretionary spending and not even get to a balanced budget without addressing medicare, medicaid, social security and -- >> well, part of the $1 trillion deficit is due to the fact that the economy is in very weak condition, and the cbo suggested that if the economy were to return to normal, say, by 2017 that the deficit would be more are in the order of 4% to 5%, in the odor of today's term, $60 billion to $75 billion. what i said before is true. that -- that discretionary spending cannot bear the entire brunt of deficit closing. not a possible. >> mr. tonko? >> thank you, mr. chair. dr. bernanke, chairman bernanke, thank you for appearing before the committee. i represent a part of upstate new york that hosts the third fastest growing high-tech jobs hub in the country, and we have a higher share of our workforce in green collar jobs than anywhere else in america and the innovation eco

we need demonstrated security improvements and greater use of private insurance, streamline permitting and licensing. this incentive based approach was spelled out in 2008 and was endorsed by president obama in the policy review in 2009, but the multiple trade association and civil liberty security paper in 2010 and the house task force in 2011. a great deal of work needs to be done to see how they can be used but in the meantime, reform and rodgers information sharing bill should be done and passing that package of cyber security reforms would be a historic and politically achievable goal. ladies and gentlemen of the commerce committee. you are dealing with the invention of gun powder, mandating thicker armor will not work. deeper moats did not stop the attackers. we need a different approach, a creative approach that engages the private sector with government, not have the government control what the private sector does, we look forward to working with you. >> mr. clinton, we appreciate your testimony. next our final witness is phyllis schneck, executive of mcaffry. we look forward t

to probably see greater intervention as we've seen in yemen and somalia because of those costs. do you think that you know as other organizations charity organization reprieve is actually trying to take a case to the u.n. human rights council they've also done a lot of research into seeing the costs on the ground trying to talk to those that live there in pakistan and they have photo evidence right they have other evidence taking some of un human rights council unfortunately that can result anything i said i don't think so i mean it's the golden rule whoever has the gold makes the rules and unfortunately you know there's a huge industry and there's a huge many lawyers and capitol hill who are going to direction of greater drone operations we've seen the increased sales of drones in of course you know this go to the circuit city issue even though we're increasing the number of drones that we will be deploying and even possibly on the us mexico border in terms of the clarity of the resolution in terms of the accuracy of what we're getting it's deeply in question in fact the wheele

today, mostly clear skies over the greater bay area.ou can already see that blue setting up here above the city by the bay. you'll be able to comfortably hit the water later on today. but watch out for some very thick fog. especially inland this morning. talking about your visibilities dropping off in places like concord, napa, santa rosa or measuring visibility in hundreds of feet. so take it easy out there. you can also see we're starting to drop off in livermore, san jose and gilroy. so as we head through the next couple hours, that's when the fog will at its most dense and then we'll progressively clear as we head throughout the morning. 8:00 a.m., your future cast, you can see fog situated over the central valley but pushing back out to sea when it comes to the bay area. by 10:00, a lot of sunshine from san francisco to livermore. high pressure is the reason why. it's going clear our skies very quickly and keep us nice and mild through the second half of your day. by tomorrow, setting up over the great basin, making for an even war

when is turned out greater? do we have greater turnout with ranked hoyas voting or run off? think we have all showed a bit of both. at least from the data i have seen, the turnout has always decrease -- my guess is that it also decreases for the runoff. in the 99 and 2003 election, it did increase. if the goal was to maximize turnout, you should focus on the strategy on how to do that. if that is the goal at the end of the day, let's bring run off and back to the male role election if that is really our goal. the second thing we talked about is the cost to the city, to the residence and candidates. the greater the cost of the city, that is something we already know. march, october, november, december, that was incredibly exhausting. both in terms of money and time. and speak of the folks that come out to work on all these elections. we're having them spend time on elections. at least it was a consideration for myself. i think that we can debate this point over and over. i think intuitively, runoffs make more sense. i think people understand ranked joyce voting, and i definit

why start something new when you have something else that is happening greater and grander? you talk about foreclosures and people being foreclosed on. i am going to you and one of those faces, myself. these banks did not do a lot of great things. i really believe that if you start investing in your people, the city, and actually have more high-approved places and counseling, -- hud-approved places and counseling, it would help a lot of people. a lot of people do not realize there are foreclosures in san francisco. up and down the peninsula. it is not advertised. it is -- i can't believe it. when you talk about middle income, 1% of people make over $350,000 a year. 2% make $120,000 a year. the rest make an average of $35,000-$45,000 a year. when we look at -- what we're looking at is the 97%. and how we're going to help them out. all i am going to say is this. do not turn a blind eye. -- do not turn a blind eye to your city and these people. what we can do for them. we need your help. we need your support. and supporting these banks is not the way to go. and creating somethi

parties of opposition parties in the duma but it needs to be broader than that there needs to be a greater involvement of civil society in russia in general and i think that that could be the key change that we see over the next five years of the next dream and so. the big question i think for investors and the concern is the extent to which a growth in the opposition will impede the ability of putin potentially the next president of united russia to push through unpopular reforms and bear in mind is still the communist party here the second biggest party in their country and it's the communist party's manifesto that runs completely in the opposite direction of esther's wishes i mean that manifesto is the renationalisation of the economy foreign investors do not want to see the communist party challenging the united russia in the lower house obviously not but that does need to be a greater representation of the more pro market more put more liberal more pluralistic society and that means that he's represented in the duma and i think we'll see that over the next five years i think putin and

and helped our nation to achieve the bigger things to which our greater nature aspires.e owe them our humblest gratitude. on behalf of nasa and all astronauts past and present, i congratulate and thank each of you, john, neil, buzz and mike, our congressional gold medal recipients today. >> ladies and gentlemen, the singer-songwriter norah jones will now sing "america the beautiful." ♪ o beautiful for spacious skies ♪ ♪ for amber waves of grain ♪ for purple mountains' majesty above the fruited plain ♪ ♪ america america ♪ god shed his grace on thee ♪ and crown thy good with brotherhood ♪ ♪ from sea to shining sea ♪ o beautiful for unseen skies ♪ for purple mountains' majesty above the plain ♪ america america god shed his grace on thee ♪ til souls max as earth and to music hearted sea ♪ till souls wax fair as earth and air and music hard at sea ♪ [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic leader of the house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. >> good morning. today's ceremony is a celebration of the imagination and creativity. it is a tribute to amer

form face he talks about political prayer isn't he talks about tackling corruption and talks about greater transparency in the management of state companies but on the other side of that he's presenting a very populist face to his core voters which is increasing pensions increasing salaries increasing rages levies against privatized companies from the one nine hundred ninety s. taxes on luxury goods all of that for the majority of investors is bad news and what foreign investors want to see is that is an evolution of political pluralism here they want to jump that you think you create don't want to see putin go. i was going to get you i mean but if you find the right balance i mean with this is a campaign here i mean and it's a mixture of promises he's making to different audiences do you how does he have the right balance in your opinion. i think he's i think you struck him quite a good balance and what is very important about this election he's very likely to win but it's the manner in which he wins he needs to win religious and at the least be perceived to win the. legitimacy so that he

we've got a greater chance maybe of sprinkles late this afternoon.e then we'll climb into the mid to upper 40s. this evening, a 30% chance of sprinkles of light rain. we'll be in the low 40s through the evening. then near 40 by midnight. a look at wednesday, the rest of the week and weekend in ten minutes, as well as photos from my latest speaking engagement. that will be at 5:51. danella, how's traffic? >>> good morning, traveling along route 50, a live look now at 301 westbound. volume still really light making your way on route 50 past 301. i'll give you a travel speed. 50 westbound to the beltway, right now looking at 68 miles per hour. eastbound, not seeing any accidents for you. and if you're traveling along i-270 picking up steam, southbound at shady grove road. no accidents and so far, you're clear as you make your way on to the spencer and connect to the beltway. it is getting just a little busy now. joe and eun, back to you. >> thank you. >>> 5:41 the time. love is not in the air for everyone this valentine's day. a look at how some people

parents raise their daughters with greater equality, then i can't achieve it? i don't want to let these -- let people here off the hook in a sense. >> i never let anyone off the hook, good point. eql maternit and paternity. how do we expect our husbands to do as much as the wives if they don't get equal leave? it's ok as a woman in the work force, sometimes not alws to leave and take the child. we need to let men leave and take care of the child. we need flexibilityf all types. we need men to understand the success andikeability point and women, it is superimportant if you watch -- and i'mure everyone here had this experience. you watch the c.e.o., typically a man, talk about his senior team. he goes around, talks about everyone's strengths and weaknesses, right? we've all seen this and get to the one woman that reports to him, he says she's great at her job but just not as well liked as the man, with no understanding that, of course she's not, that's what the data shows really clearly. we need to understand that when men negotiate for their own salaries, every

[ applause ] >> i must say that actually, this panel in a sense addressed the question of whether greater female participation diffuses violence, we have a half panel that is woman and it's less violent and less tense than other panels. i said the cent alternative challenge was slavery and in this century it will be to achieve greater gender qualitied around the world. thank this panel for dress -- for addressing this issue. thanks. >> you had a nice fa sillity here. >> a number of live events to tell you b at 11:20, the president and the vice president will be remarking live on cspan2. a pentagon briefing over the burning of korans, and we are likely to hear questions about the killing of two high ranking military advisers. that pentagon briefing gets under way at 11:30 eastern. and this evening, gop presidential candidate, rick santorum, wraps up campaigning in michigan, ahead of the state's primary tomorrow, he will be at the heritage christian academy. that is at 7:30 eastern. >>> this is a 7 watt solar panel, it collects the power and you can charge your phones and cell phones direct

there are areas where there can be greater efficiencies, but the notion that that is the major place you get savings, when we continue to spend 5.4% or more or less, but around that of our gross domestic product on our military and our nato friends spend 1.4% and get a subsidy from us. it makes no sense. i think the withdraw from afg n afghanistan should be done more quickly. i fear more social security and medicare, because to do that would require cuts that go far beyond efficiencies and reduce what goes to people in the upper income bracket. secondly, i would welcome this debate on the dual mandate, because with i think there's an ill logic in in way it was just stated. it's true that the federal reserve has more direct control of the monetary policy than it does over employment, but the point is that monetary policy, the level of interest rates has not effected unemployment, that notion that they are not kked is not the case. chairman did not say that but that is the implication. we had a debate on mortgages that were given that should not have been given. one argument was that w

i think she should listen to pass politicians who had set themselves a greater choice, greater competition the involvement of the private sector, that can help raise standards in our system, and that is why we should support it. >> thank you, mr. speaker. at the shipyard, a question over not only the 1500 level in its but also thousands of jobs in the wider regional supply chain. i know that the prime minister shares my concerns about this, but will he commit to do we can to protect this side or they have been building ships or over 500 years? >> i think the honorable lady is absolutely right, to speak up for her constituency and to speak up for shipbuilding. bae, as far as i am aware, there have note -- there have been no decisions made. we are building the global combat ship and a submarine. there is a plan for replacing tridents, and there are plans well under way for having aircraft carriers. that is a major punch for the royal navy, which i strongly support. >> mary glindon? >>

do we expect to have a greater pool of respondents?certainly hopeful that we will see a much broader pool of respondents. we are still crafting the r fp. for example, some of the things we are looking at are actually allowing financial institutions to not have the bid on all of the various types of services we require, but maybe they can bid on one or another if they have specialty or capabilities in one area as opposed to all the areas. our goal is to allow for a a a broad variety and a broad number of financial and institutions to be able to respond and ultimately to give the city more flexibility and hopefully more options to choose from and evaluate as we are thinking about where we're going to contract to receive these services. to answer your question, our hope is that we will receive a broader list of things and we are currently working with. supervisor avalos: are you giving any special focus for local banks at all? we're looking at no institutions, and the entirety of our transactions. is there a way to focus the process on a

come a greater time or perhaps the to cap -- you say it is only sustainable at 40 million, but perhaps there is another way to look at it. i think it is support to have it over many years. >> thank you. what we've been looking at is like a prop m office allocation to make sure we're not exceeding the amount of allowable. we've also been considering tying it to an expense, rather than an actual dollar value, because that would help as meter the program as opposed to what growth is happening. commissioner avalos: think you for your presentation. if there are no other questions, we can go on to public comment. -- thank you for your presentation. if any member of the public would like to comment, please come forward. >> andy zorley. we of the talking about this for a very long time. i am looking at commissioner olague and getting rid of o.l.s. as a process of ceqa. this body really got the conversation going in 2005. it is exciting. and try to pace myself. we have some time to go even if things go well. i do want to think of 40 staff and planning department and the mta and the mayor's offi

we will have greater opportunity to work on technological break throughs. already india is working on clean energy innovation. india saw 52% growth in clean energy investment in 2011, with leadership from companies like suslan and reliance solar, they have the fourth largest installed wind capacity and incredible solar energy potential. that is why i strongly support the 2009, u.s./india understanding of energy and climate change signed by president obama and and prime minister sing, which is being implemented through initiatives like the partnership to advance clean energy. it's clear that india's strategic role is growing. we agree that the asia pacific region requires india's sustained engagement, whether to promote economic stability in afghanistan or to encourage human rights in other countries. india enjoys strong cultural historical, people to people and economic links to east asia and i frequently hear that the east ward neighbors see merit in india's contributions to regional peace and prosperity. in the coming years i hope our two countries can de

he brings those concerns to the greater city at large. and the small business commission. i would like to highlight the work needed. he went so far out of his way to engage to -- the low-income entrepreneurs to make sure they had access and felt there were part of the community and waived fees that were assessed members. held a band so they could be part of it. he has demonstrated our marketability to make sure all voices are heard at the table. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. i will -- supervisor kim: thank you. >> i am here to speak on behalf of henry karnilowicz. i am a project manager. we do our work on sixth street. in that area. in the city of san francisco. i can testify he has been a great advocate for small businesses for a long time. he is a small-business owner himself. he does have a great deal over -- our respect for other small- business owners. he helps guide them. in his own business he major businesses get inspection and planning services which are difficult to navigate. he made sure they do not waste time. [unintelligible] we have a number of cli

. >> [speaking in chinese] >> president obama, vice president biden and i devoted a greater part of our discussion on economic and trade issues. we shared the view that the economic, financial situation remains grim and ensuring growth and promoting employment are high on the domestic agenda of both countries. we must continue to make concerted efforts to tide over difficulties and accelerate the building of comprehensive and mutually beneficial economic partnership and maintain steady economic recovery and growth in both countries and to the world as a whole. we should tap our cooperation potential to create -- and to strive for greater balance in trade and investment between the two countries. we should address each other's economic and trade concerns through dialogue and consultation, not protectionism. and up hold of the mutual beneficial pattern of china-u.s. economic relations and trade. >> [speaking in chinese] >> we also have a candid exchange of views on human rights and other issues. i stressed that china has made tremendous and well recognized achievements in the field of hum

i think there is a belief -- i think russia has been much greater belief in the u.s. technical skills and technical ability than the u.s. has in its own type of skills and ability. so i don't have a single clean and fair, but i think there's a series of overlapping different issues. ..