supervisor chiu: but if there is gridlock on one side, there is typically gridlock on the other side. >> it is not ideal. from what i understand, the central lane would also be available for emergency traffic needed. they would have to weave in and out of transit, but it would be available. d chiu: if t some more information about that because there wasn't anything in the environmental impact report that gives me a lot of confidence around emergency vehicles. >> a couple of numbers i have in my note -- 5% r code 3 which means they have their lights on. based on the data it at preexisting campuses, there are approximately 50 per month that we can provide more information on that. that is the data have. supervisor chiu: i'm trying to envision what it means for an emergency vehicle to come in and out of the brt line. there is going to be an impact on traffic when brt is there and then this is reduced by a lien on both sides. it is confusing for me to think about how that is actually going to happen in real life. >> understood. supervisor campos:hq!i if i coud ask that anti to come up on

of economists are agreeing on something that it's kind of hard to figure out why there's so much gridlock in congress as if they're the top economic minds in the country the truth is they're not and i think this survey rightly points out their gridlock is more about partisanship wins and losses there than it is about getting the country back on track and trying to figure out how to make life better for their constituents in fact they're making life even worse they're wasting even more money take last year's debt ceiling debate for example i think that we all rely on pretty well we were on the brink of default because congress just couldn't get along well guess what according to a new report from the government accountability office so far that whole debt ceiling debate has cost us in fiscal year two thousand and eleven alone one point three billion dollars because creditors get scared when you leave the country at the brink of a default borrowing becomes more expensive and the g.a.o. also says that the one point three billion number will only continue to grow so they. it's a lot guys and

our politicians the argument on why they're not getting anything done is there's too much partisan gridlock and therefore the president can't get anything passed that he actually wants to sign but the reality is that it's not partisan gridlock over what actual economic policies are politicians believe it it's all about just not letting the other party win any points so in other words the u.s. economic policy debate that we see playing out in washington is all a sham that's the headline coming from bloomberg today as they took a look at a survey conducted by the university of chicago's booth school of business this is a survey of leading economists from all sides left right and in the middle and it turns out that amongst leading economists there's actually a lot more consensus than you know for example ninety two percent agreed that the stimulus succeeded in reducing the jobless rate that's not really something you're going here in washington because republicans always want to label obama stimulus as a failure then there is this one that might not make too many people happy but again there's

. >> because it is so gridlocked, when you add 28,000 more cars, it's pretty gridlocked already. >> that is not what i'm saying. those intersections experience a substantial number of the lead. a respected of the peak hour factor, the impacts reported in the eir would not change. >> if i could ask. i know you had pierce experts that changed your peak hour factor. there is not anyone else identified as transportation, planning industry petitioners that have utilize this approach before. can you name any other experts, firms or individuals of that have altered this factor as you have done? >> we work with other transportation consulting firms such as lcw consulting, chs, and because this is a standard accounting practice, all of those consultants do that is the work on city projects. >> i appreciate all of them working with your department, but have any of those actually altered the merkel factors you're talking about? do you know that to be the case? >> yes, because that would be our practice. >> i think that is not the case but we can hear from them on that. >> may i follow up on the int

there's tons of gridlock, and congress is at its lowest approval rating since we started surveying that doesn't that show the kind of idea that responsiveness is a wise goal for us to strive for? >> it's only one element of what we would want from the government. it's true that gridlock has negative consequences, and they're very evident, but it also has this positive side which i think has gone unrecognized previously. that is under the circumstances, when not much policy is adopted, it doesn't mean that government is doing better, but it does mean those policies that are adopted tend to be more popular. it's a bit of a silver lining to an otherwise rather gray cloud. >> you're not that scary after all. martin gilens. author of "affluence and influence" which is terrific. thank you very much for being here. >> my pleasure. >>> attention cartographers, if a certain republican congressman has his way, the world's maps will need to be redrawn to honor the star of the movie "cattle queen of montana." that is straight ahead. >>> in august of 1961, the government of east germany began as a h

as i told supervisor wiener, i know why we may have some much gridlock. [laughter] supervisor chu: as it relates to housing and the environmental document, the obligation is to analyze whether there is any physical impact if there is not adequate housing to accommodate additional employees is that correct? >> yes. supervisor chu: the way i am understanding they approached that is to what was being proposed and to analyze capacity so the maximum number of people that could be at that loquacious -- at that location, even though that is a higher number than cpmc is providing. >> we look at the maximum capacity the building can accommodate. even if the sponsor told us they realistically think less people will be occupying the building, we populate it to the maximum. we'll look at the worst-case scenario. we take a conservative approach as to what number employees will be there and the housing demand and what kind of significant impact they could or would not have. supervisor chu: in analyzing whether or not there would be an environmental impact with regard t

really something that the mainstream media picks up on sure they talk about partisan gridlock they love the ins and outs the name calling the playing of the sound bites over and over again but when will they point to consensus amongst economists and at least ask one set of their one representative how the hell they can answer that two thing is they don't and they won't because they love to keep the game running that's their only material calling a bluff on partisan gridlock that supposedly is over which way we want the country to head economically that's what the mainstream media chooses to miss. now while the economy is certainly issue number one for the upcoming election they have to remember that foreign policy is actually the area in which the commander in chief has the most direct control or you can just blame things on congressional stand still so if you're running for president for policy is a big one to vote for mitt romney he has no record on it but this week came barak's on a three country trip abroad where he'll visit england israel and poland and today he spoke at the nation

gridlock over the future of the united states. it was as if two teams of brawny athletes had been engaged in a mighty tug of war and one team abruptly dropped its end of the rope. but the achievements of 1862 cannot be explained only by the fact that the republicans suddenly had large majorities in both houses of congress and the president. two other factors were also crucial to the equation. the first was extreme necessity. the united states was facing the greatest threat in its history. looking backward, knowing how it all came out, it is easy to forget the extent of that crisis moment. we can hardly imagine as the fortunate heirs to that sacrificial generation of americans just how close our national experiment came to dying in 1862. the breakaway confederate states of america, a would-be nation founded not on ideals of human equality but in the famous words of the confederate vice president alexander stevens, founded upon, quote the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery subordination to the sup

a votedcr this project, i want drivers and residents to be cursing me in five, 10, 20 years for gridlockis site. when i first took a look at the final environmental impact traffic analysis, i was pretty surprised that it appeared you minimized significant impact here. so i have a couple of questions. these are issues raised in the appeal but i want to understand at this point. taking one datapoint, the corner of seventh and market street, you are familiar with the discussion are on the potential impact there. there are going to be 20,000 new trips of individuals trying to get to this hospital. hundreds of more cars through most of the major intersections close to hospital. yet the analysis you approved stated at seventh and market ( (p&culation there will only be one additional automobile thatbe will go through that intersection to get to the hospital and in the afternoon after -- in the afternoon traffic, only three additional cars per day. do you find that believable? should we find that believable? >> that is the analysis and since it is the subject of the he

the problem is traffic is gridlock.e westbound is just pretty much in gridlock. city police have had to shut it down. their concern is with the major water main break that the road could be compromised than they do not want anyone an advert in getting involved in a sink hole. i can tell you from listening in that they're frantically trying to get here to get the water shutdown and to figure out the cause of this problem. live in the sky team 11, and capt. roy taylor. >> what a mess. >> and emerging fire storm, so to speak, between volunteer and professional firefighters leaning accusations that union organization is soliciting money using their name. >> lisa robinson has been working on the story and joins us live in the newsroom with the latest. rely on donations to keep the station working. if they think someone is going after their dollars, they will sit down and talk about it. a firefight of sorts. this is the president of the chestnut ridge volunteered our department and has heard this from a number of residents in

for some folks who came to washington then created gridlock confrontation. now as much as all of them would lead you to believe that fund raising could be hard if last election cycles halls any indication representatives are going to have no trouble attracting the big bucks because when it comes schmoozing lawmakers do appear to put in the long hours and they do get the results there and unfortunately it seems like that's the only place where they really put in the real time and get the most done and let's go do a last month report by mother jones reporter david gill sent me a pretty cheeky calculation taking campaign finance data from each member's last election assuming that they raised money forty hours a week fifty weeks a. here gilson found out that the average house representative would have raised three hundred sixty seven dollars per hour per hour and that's if it was a full time gig now under the same assumptions the average senator raised eight hundred and nineteen dollars per hour if you ask me that is absolutely insane so in other words house or

guys like you like gridlock. but this is a case where you reminded me gridlock is not good. >>guest: these are not normal times. gridlock would be great for the markets because it was the old rule of thumb that if washington is busy fighting they cannot go out and screw things up. however, think of some of the things on deck. you have obviously from the deal of last august, the defense department is looking at $1.2 from in long-term cuts. this is a sector that employs 305 million americans. if they don't get any type of reprieve from that and it needs to be done by the end of the year cow have hundreds of thousands people out of the work. the farm bill is another one. that is saying they would save $23 billion off the deficit to it is passed. that is speaker boehner talking about it. >>neil: but a lot of the companies that talk about exposure abroad is hurting them, not all of them, boeing was an exception, but if more and more of them say that, is that appreciated enough here? do people sense or just ignore how big europe could be? >>guest: well, i think here, main street j

traffic is in gridlock. this is on the jones falls expressway here. traffic is just not going anywhere from the east side to the west side. if you try to go from south to north baltimore, it is just packed and stacked. they're working diligently to try to figure out how they can get this figured out. reporting live in sky team 11, capt. roy taylor. klutzes special legislative session to expand gambling is better than rolling the dice according to governor o'malley who believes progress is being made. >> and david joins us live from the news room. >> this is a yet to be named gambling commission setting new tax breaks for gaming revenue. the senate president will be briefed at a breakfast meeting tomorrow. >> the are the low-cost special session are now better than a role of the dice. this grows from a consensus regarding a new proposal allowing to set a gambling tax rates. the seven sticking point for some house members. -- this has been a sticking point. >> this is better left to a commission to handle. they can come back and overturning it if it was

there is a democrdifferent perspective that can lead to gridlock. wondering if you have any thoughts or comments on that. >> thank you for the very thoughtful comment and question. first of all, we have had some involvement cpmc proposal or initiative rather. i think it is terrific it falls of a location where both of the brt project will insi intersect. obviously the importance was look at. the van ness corridor has a concentration of senior housing that is happening every day, so this is really an ideal way to gauge -- location to talk about introducing high-quality transit. as the discussions continue, i am sure we will be available to provide for their clarity on what could be done in addition to what was already discussed as far as dealing with mitigation. i think that both, the persons of the project there have made it significantly easier for the impacts to be mitigated. this is a key component of the discussions, and we will stay involved and to make sure we can provide as much positive as we can to make sure both projects are successful in

i agree with president chu that gridlock already occurred and that the numbers do not seem credible, good to have a performance threshold for any type of mitigation funds, and we need an additional mitigation fund over and above the $500,000 dealing with parking, and tenures is not enough for operating whatever subsidies for transit in the area. thank you. chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, board of supervisors. my name is daniel reyes, and i worked in the criminal justice system. i specialize in prison reentry. i am also a member of the van ness corridor association, and i support this plan. the van nessvq significant part of my life for almost a decade. r[o attendance at church, family and i had frequented many of the restaurants and small businesses that call this corridor home. over the years, we have built some life long relationships with some of those business owners and the employees of those establishments. to say the least, your decisions is important to me. one thing i want to highlight this evening is employment, the issue of the employment. as previous

we have partisan gridlock throughout washington. let's take -- let's step back from the health care debate for a second. and just talking about how can we get away from gridlock? what is the answer to that question? >> well, we need policy reforms, but we need political reforms, as well. we need redistricting reform, we need integrated and open primaries, we need campaign finance reform and ultimately we're going to need term limits. but frankly, we don't have time to wait for all that. therefore, two things have to happen. we have to make sure that this presidential election focuses on the economy, jobs, and fiscal responsibility that the candidates are very specific about what their visions are for the way forward so that the american people can make an informed choice about who to support and so that whoever wins will have a mandate for action. they then have to use the bully pulpit, and people have to put pressure on their officials to work with the president. >> and to that point, that mandate for action, you know, one reform t

. >> the danger, the gridlock, and the emergency repairs under way. >> hello, everybody. >> here's what people are talking about tonight. >>> an infrastructure nightmare tonight. crews are trying to clean up from a major water main break. there is a lot of work to do and it could be days before downtown is back to normal. >> reporter: things like bus service, buss came, but they were so late a lot of people gave up and walked. by comparison, this was a relatively small main compared to other water main breaks, but it is causing big problems. chopper 13 is over a 20-inch water main that drenched downtown. it sent thousands of gallons of water and sandy dirt gushing into the street. >> it looks terrible. it's like a bad movie. it's cracked. it's bulging. >> reporter: it happened about 5:00 p.m. at the height of rush hour. the city moved quickly to close roads and reroute traffic. some residents and businesses were affected. >> because the road has buckled, i would classify that has being dangerous. >> wow, this whole lumbar street is shut down. it's pretty backed up. nobody can get anywhe

you're not going to have the gridlock. even if barack obama wins, some of the gridlock will go away because the voters have said we want what president obama wants. if romney wins, i think the voters give the president a mandate to do the right thing. >> what about congress? where these bills have to pass and they don't get done? that's the point i'm trying to make. don't -- maybe we don't throw out interest in the presidential election. but can we at least put a lot of it on the people in congress, republican and democrat, liberal and conservative who might get something done versus those who simply will not and who refuse to. >> i agree with you on that. the partisan divide right now in washington and the gridlock is as bad as i've seen it in 30 years. and that's going to be a real challenge to overcome that. when barack obama won, he was able to get a lot of big things through congress. >> diane, you said we never escaped the storm clouds. i want to continue my vision of this. we never really been fully in the clear. >>

so where i think the gridlock is ultimately going to be broken is when one of the two parties becomes a majority party. and if you look at the republican party, certainly not a majority party in 1860, you know, abraham lincoln received a smaller percentage of the vote in 1860 than any president in american history. he used to say when people asked him why he hadn't fired george mcclellan, he'd say i'm a minority president and he's a majority general. but by the end of that war, the republican party was definitely a majority party and was for the next 30 years because in large part they had articulated an agenda that americans were ready to get behind. >> you raised spectrum of corruption. it was legal to bribe congressmen until 1853, after which time it was legal to pay them consulting fees to do things. which is interesting. so i wondered in relation to the money you were talking about, was it consulting fees some i know it's stocks. you mentioned that. if you could comment a bit more. >> a huge amount -- question if anyone could not hear is what was the legal status of the money the

as captain jeff had said there's so much gridlock right now on pratt and light street.ffic is being diverted right now because it's flowing along light street four different breaks where the water is flowing through. so traffic right now mostly being detour to pratt street also fayette street. if you can avoid the area get on 385 and take president street as your alternate. it could be a very long rush hour as you can see. back over to you. >>> all right, christie. thank you. complete coverage continues now with adam may in our newsroom gathering more information on this for us. >> as we've seen in the past, water main breaks could have a huge impact for businesses. we have been calling around, we've been checking in with restaurants and business. a couple of them have been reporting closures but most will remain open. it gets real muddy because it breaks up the ground that is underneath there so the water begins to flow and it's rushing down there into the inner harbor. what you don't see is drews drew -- crews at the scene. that's fairly typical because they have to f

it is just gridlock everywhere. it used to take maybe three hours to get a permit for the entire day. now it takes twice as long or three times as long. everything is taking much longer. one other issue i would like to bring up is that the drone of the constant number call link is just enough to make someone go postal. people have said it is like dm v, but i have never heard that as a compliment. [laughter] >> next speaker, please. >> good morning. i am a lieutenant with the standards as the fire department. my assignment is at hand check. we are the guest there. -- is at plan check. plan checkers. normally would be just too. -- would be just two. i have been there virtually every day working with the system. i just wanted everyone to know that every new system will have bugs, and this is no exception. i think we have gotten rid of a lot of them, which were really only because what we have left is still a system that is not working. that is after we got rid of a lot of the bugs. i understand there was going to be ef

it that they had to call off because of the gridlock.it's not a complaint that gets any sympathy from london's mayor boris johnson. >> they were complaining about the rain. they're now complaining about the sun. i think... >> reporter: they're complaining about the lanes is what they're complaining about. is it necessary for a city to prostrate itself were the i.o.c. the way cities have to in order to hold the games. >> well, you know, we're not prostrating ourselves before anybody. >> reporter: holing an olympic games is a big risk. their smooth running-- or not-- can make or break a city's reputation. are you sleeping nights? >> until about 5:00 in the morning. >> reporter: and the games haven't even officially begun. the opening ceremony isn't until friday. mark phillips, cbs news, london. >> pelley: there was an incident at the games today before north korea played soccer against colombia. have a look. this is the north korean flag and this is the south korean flag. it's hard to mix them up. but on the scoreboard they put up the wron

the world by far, in a huge nation where half the people couldn't turn on the lights today, and gridlock took officer. >>> in syria, what could be a new stage in the fight and a game changer for the rebels. >>> here at these games, phelps in the pool again, and making big news ain. sore the women of the u.s. gymnastics team. and tonight our interview with high school swimmer and now gold medal swimmer missy franklin. "nightly news" from london begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening from olympic park in london, where in a moment we will update you on another history making day here, and a momentous day for team usa in gymnastics and swimming. however, we begin tonight with what was by far the largest blackout in world history. at its peek today near 10% of the world's population was without power. it happened in india, where just under 670 million people found themselves plunged into darkness and gridlock. and this involves something that is a bit of an issue in the u.s. an aging power grid. we begin tonight with jim maceda. >> reporter: imagine being c

the common interest. >> reporter: dionne believes our current atmosphere of political division and gridlock is due to an imbalance between individualism and community. and for this, he places a lot of blame on the tea party. >> i think right now we are having a big argument as a country and are having trouble agreeing because i think one side in our debate wants to blow up that consensus and replace it with a kind of radically individualistic approach. >> reporter: while many tea party members say it's big government that has gotten out of balance, dionne believes there is and always will be a legitimate role for the government in advancing the common good. at the same time, he acknowledges that government and community are not the same thing, that other institutions, including faith-based groups, have a role to play as well. despite his strong criticism, dionne commends the tea party for highlighting the values of the nation's founders. and he takes his fellow liberals to task for often ignoring that. >> i do think we need to have an argument about our history. and it's bothered me as a pr