the sierra club, black human rights council and golden gate alliance, san francisco green party, sanrancisco agricultural hemorrhage and green action for health and environmental justice. west of twin peaks council. cool valley improvement coalition. council for community housing organizations and take back our parks just some of those 41 organizations that have put in sweat here. we need to have the time to fix this went and i appreciate your giving you the time today and because of the schedule for historic preservation we're going to ask that you put you all of this about a month to three weeks out until kim's legislation can go through both planning and a historic legislation. thank you very much >> let me read a few more names. (reading names) >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm with the coalition of san francisco neighborhood. i want to thank you for trying to improve our sequa policies and procedures. however, i'd like to make a comment in regards to this process. as we all know this process didn't start with supervisor wiener. it has going on for 7 or 8 years. at this point se

i'm currently on the board of s f and green belt alliance and the international institute and telegraph neighborhood center. i am a member of cac for the central subway and for the crews -- cruise terminal. the one potential conflict is that i'm married to an and she's on the committee. >> any questions? >> no. thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner campos? >> thank you, mr. chairman. just a quick question for staff. have we measured -- heard from the district 3 supervisor on this item >> we have. >> thank you. i just want to thank mr. whitney for coming forward and want to go serve the city and county of san francisco. i have had the pleasure to serve with an. i think being married to an is a very good thing. congratulations. given that we have the district supervisor who is also supportive, i make a motion to move this item forward with a recommendation. >> thank you, colleagues can we do this without objection? >> commissioner yee? >> before we move this, my only comment is that going forth and i will be supportive of

ministry has halted the registration of the opposition party the people's alliance after it received complaints from the green party that it stole part of its name and those details also would r.t. dot com right now. and twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow it is day ninety of the guantanamo bay hunger strike with more than one hundred inmates refusing food in protest of the treatment at the hands of the u.s. military a two dozen now being force fed a procedure that lawyers have described as plain brutal david remes who represents some seventeen guantanamo inmates told us of their motivation and what it's alternately costing them. to being force have energy and focus as you would imagine the others who are. hunger striking are weak find it difficult to focus they can manage but it's difficult they all of them have lost it's a considerable amount of weight twenty forty five pounds and sixty pounds and it's really a horrifying situation they shouldn't have to do this to get it and kind of the american public and they shouldn't have to do this in order to cry out for the relief of the commander of the joi

green light a plan to allow exports or whether we should keep it all for ourselves. joining me in his first interview since becoming president of america's natural gas alliance is martin durbin. martin, thank for coming on the show. >> happy to be here. melissa: there is a battle brewing that we have unlocked this tremendous resource here in the u.s. should we export it as liquified natural gas and make money on it or hoard it and keep it all here and use it for manufacturing? how do you think this debate will play out? >> i think the facts are going to be realized, the facts will be on the table, they are on the table. listen, we have a an incredible opportunity here, abundant, affordable clean natural fast in amounts we didn't know we had before. there is absolutely no reason we shouldn't give ourselves the opportunity to be part of the global market for this resource as well. melissa: it sound like you're in favor of exporting it. the charles river associates is a consulting group that did research on behalf of the dow chemical we would have to say. they quantified the natural gas, if we exported it would be worth about $2.3 billion in terms of benefits to the u.s.