barbour drop out. >> haley barbour dropped out. he had been testing the waters in the very traditional sense and he said is he didn't feel the fire in his belly, which most people took to mean he didn't think there was much of a chance to win, but the field is very unsettled and someone like a donald trump who under normal circumstances where the party finds its candidate and begins the procession toward the core anition, donald trump couldn't have gotten the traction. but now people know his name, it's registering by the in the polls. >> there are some people outside the white house who have made the argument that the birther argument was simply a proxy for people going after the first african-american president, people were uncomfortable seeing him in the white house. if that's the case that could move on to other conspiracy theories. donald trump immediately started talking about his academic brack -- background and how he got into harvard. >> exactly. gwen: they've always had a kind of tightrope they walk when the question of r

gwen: donald trump rocks the boat and haley barbour gets out of it entirely. and as americans worry about jobs and gas prices, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke goes before the cameras. >> there's not much that the federal reserve can do about gas prices. after all, the fed can't create more oil. gwen: covering the week, mark mazzetti of the new york "times", tom gjelten of npr, karen tumulty of "the

haley barbour has problems of k street lobbyists. on a personal level, he has a record to talk about. unlike mitt romney, who cannot talk about his governorship in massachusetts to republican audiences. but haley barbour can talk about having been governor, as ken pawlenty. >> pawlenty is the obvious candidate. he is successfully pandering to the right, a two-term governor of a midwestern state. the one problem is he looks boring. >> what about this one? >> he would do all the right things. he is my candidate and has my endorsement. >> wow. >> that is why he is not running. >> it is like being on the cover of "sports illustrated." >> news flash, he just announced he is withdrawing. >> bruce babbitt of the republican party, r those of you old enough to remember that race. >> there was a comment after barry goldwater's losing in 1964, and in the loss in 1988, that arizona is the only state where mothers do not tell their children who is visiting. and then there is john mccain. as far as tim pawlenty, his breakthrough has to be in iowa.

haley said is something you should consider in whatever level you can. thank you. >> the next speaker is -- >> funneling all of these millions to a company out of the state is not a solution while we are short in money. we can use this money over here in san francisco, in california. drivers can only pay 2% and having this 2% spent inside, why they should funnel money to another country? -- and out of state company. this is full falsifications. this is not present the facts. all the personal information of passengers, drivers, are being held in databases and as we know, these databases can be accessed during the process that it goes through and we see a misuses it all of the time. fortunately, -- can be -- personal information can be compromised. using gps is a bad idea. using automation as a foundation is a much better idea. 90% of the cab drivers are the silent majorities. they are the people that transferred people here. why they are not here on the prior session's because they are migrants. in their countries, when they speak their minds, bad things

. >> reporter: john haley said she's not sure if today -- he did acknowledge that there was a failure in the chain of command. >> that problem has been corrected now and for me what it means is that i will be holding some management people accountable for failing to follow through. >> reporter: haley will note will be rate on what will happen to those managers. what we do know is that the texting operator will be -- operator will be in a hearing tomorrow. we're expecting her to be fired officially then. >> we don't know if she's been driving all along in the last week or so in the interim? >> reporter: they would say they know for sure she was driving today. >> thank you, grace. >>> well, avoiding transit and jumping in the car is getting more pension receive and in a few months gate lean could reach $6 a gallon. gasoline could reach $6 a gallon gallon. >> reporter: rising gas prices not hurt her wallet but also her customers. as the manager, gas prices are forcing some changes. >> we're not going to take another delivery across town after three for one delivery so we can make that th

. >>> meanwhile, haley barber said he's ending his bid for the white house. he lacks the, quote, absolute fire in the belly. been killed by government forces during weeks of anti-government protests. barry peterson has more. >>> as demonstrations escalated, so has the government's brute force. in dara, army tanks were used for the first time in this uprising against protesters. people in the city could only answer with rocks. this woman was in dara. bodies on the ground, she says, my family is dying. it's not just protesters under attack, human rights activists are being hunted down. a syria in turmoil fits perfectly into what experts say al qaeda's leaders want. >> you can bring down the regime in syria, which many al qaeda people believe is godless and too secular. we'll have a border with israel and be in a position to really shape the future of the middle east. >> reporter: demands for freedom that now come with an ever higher price. barry peterson, cbs news, london. >>> in libya, a government spokesman is denouncing yesterday's nato air strike on muammar

i'm haley. >> i'm mark. >> glad to see you. thank you for coming. >> glad you came out. >> governor barbour pleasure to meet you. >> we try hard. >> some things have turned out. >> welcome to new hampshire. >> thanks. >> good to meet you. >> hi jason. thank you for coming. >> welcome to new hampshire. >> thank you. i'm glad to be here. get a picture? sure. come on. >> if we're squinting it's because of the sun. >> i'm very vermont. >> great. had a nice visit yesterday. >> i'm haley. >> hi governor. i came tonight because i said guy always says something smart on tv. >> hopefully i'll keep up that record. >> hey. >> good to see you. >> hour doing? >> my wife betty. >> i'm haley. how are you doing? i married over my head too. >> i certainly did. >> glad you know that. >> mark of a good man. >> is barbara french? >> the barbours were huegenots and they left during the counter reformation and went through holland, probably. but my family went to scotland and then to northern ireland. you know, the english hated the scots and hated

haley barbour is on the local south carolina poll. going after the southern base. tim pawlenty trying to dip in the evangelical base. that is a crowded area. >> chris: i want to look at three currently non-candidates. on the screen. start with you, kevin, but we can go around the table. mike huckabee, sarah palin, donald trump. nina just answered it. she thinks huckabee will get in. do you think any of those get in? >> i think huckabee and palin get in. i don't think trump gets in. >> chris: you do think huckabee and palin get in? >> i do. find myself in one percentile of people that believe that. when i was in seventh grade, my seventh grade teacher talked about a guy trump running for president. that was a long time ago. like 1985. >> it's like me. i have been down this road before. i was in seventh grade to. juan? >> mike huckabee, he has a shot to win if he gets in. palin and other folks is about raising the speaking fees and books. >> chris: anybody get in? >> i was surprised after today palin's speech was good and sounded like she was running. >> chris: okay.

haley said -- these were deliberately not on time. i do not want to delay this more, but i am glad that there are some ways to look at this. it is not just that we are surveying different lines, but if there are changes we can make to make it a more accurate depiction, i think we should look at that, and the reality is that we should revisit the schedules. chairman nolan: ok, anybody else >> one thing we need to point out, the service standards, each is surveyed twice a year, so i think that goes to director lee's point in terms of monthly data. six months of the year, those lines are not serving as part of the on-time performance figure, but what we have done in the last year, in the brief to use some time ago, this year, we wanted to migrate from the current process we have now to the passive the counters, and right now, we are in a bit, so that is what is going on in terms of on-time performance, so this has been a challenge for this agency. when we take our 75% on-time performance figure, we were literally filling everyone regardl

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haley was there, explaining some of the problems on the 14th and what would need to happen, and they have all of the solutions, but nothing happens. there are new dates. there are so many things that you can do to make me work better for your -- to make m.u.d. work better -- make muni work better for your riders. why can we not do it? what all of this stuff, we have to do a ceqa analysis. when we take it out, we should not have to do that analysis. when you made n

. >> maybe he'll turn out to be another charles haley. giants beat pittsburgh 5-2 this afternoon. that's the sporting life for right now. >>> before we go. an update on that amber alert issued in the bay area. the chp says ciara thornton is from hayward. they said she was abducted this morning by richard ashley who is a 57-year-old man. ashley was last seen driving a blue four door hyundai with a california license plead number 5hxf433. we will have much more information on this coming up on bay area news at 7:00 on tv 36. that is our report for now. i'm frank somerville. >> i'm julie haener. good night.

. >> reporter: john haley says the operator was having trouble with the door and in order to keep the train running, he over rode a safety feature but what he didn't do was use this, a pen to make sure those doors stayed closed. >> obviously this was a serious incident. we're thankful that no one was hurt. obviously it's unacceptable. >> as far as what will happen to that operator, he says appropriate disciplinary action will will take place. when we pleased him to ask him what this means, he merely repeated that appropriate disciplinary action would be taken. they say if you ever see that door hanging open on a muni train to press the red button and stop the train. that's their recommendation. >> no kidding. the video that we saw, there was an officer, a k-9 officer, was that officer on board that exact train? >> no, that was from video shot today. so he was not on board as far as we know. >> because i would hope he would have pressed the red button. >> we would hope. thank you very much. >>> southwest cancelled a handful of flights at all three bay area airports today. this is after

haley was there, explaining some of the problems on the 14th and what would need to happen, and they have all of the solutions, but nothing happens. there are new dates. there are so many things that you can do to make me work better for your -- to make m.u.d. work better -- make muni work better for your riders. why can we not do it? what all of this stuff, we have to do a ceqa analysis. when we take it out, we should not have to do that analysis. when you made noticeable improvements, you get a small increase in ridership, and that means more fares, but not only in that line, but there are a few more riders in the whole system. they have a way of counting this, but this is all true, and you need the support of your riding public. everybody can think of more ways to put more buses on, but you cannot do it, so do what you can. take out stop signs. maybe you can do it in a cheaper way. all of these things have to happen so we can get a new the -- get a muni that works. there are a lot of measures that have to come, and people have to vote. thanks a lot. secretary boomer: mr. lee. >> h

i know that the last meeting that you had where john haley presented an overview, you had asked for very specific examples of how this has influenced our planning and our transportation policies but i wanted to take a moment to walk you through really how this has changed the entire culture of how we do transit planning within san francisco. in addition to significantly in forming the changes as well as the subsequent changes in may and september, we also have had an opportunity to redo all of our schedules. one of the findings of the transit effectiveness project was that we have under sourced key management positions including our scheduling department. we had fewer schedulers than transit, a system about 1/3 of our size. since we have implemented this, we have increased the number of schedule as we have had and provided them state-of-the-art training so that they can really use the running time data that we were collecting to create better schedules and more efficient schedules. as part of the changes, we adjusted a running time as 60% of our weekday schedule and we make refinements a

. >> reporter: governor haley barbour deployed the national guard here to assist in some of the hardest hit area, and tomorrow, people will start going back home to see what if anything is left. >> ron motte, rounding up our team of extraordinary coverage. just relentless. that's all you can say, a staggering area. >>> a foot note, president obama, who you saw earlier, will travel to alabama tomorrow to view the damage, meet with state and local officials and families. later in the day, he flies to the kennedy space center in florida to watch the shuttle launch. >>> dr. greg forbes is about the best known veteran in the weather business. he's the weather channel's severe weather expert. he's been kind enough to join us tonight from their very busy headquarters in atlanta. and dr. forbes, i know you got to see this by air this afternoon. this is hardly your first time. but i'm curious as to where you place this event in recent weather history. >> well, the damage, brian, is staggering. we flew over into the tuscaloosa, alabama, area. i'm calling it as bad or worst i have ever seen. so ma

john haley is going to be joining me as well, to enter questions you might have related to this topic. as indicated, this is an exciting time to be here and present to you. we have reached a major milestone in the implementation strategy. it will serve as the guiding document moving forward. the planning process really wrapped up in earnest in october of 2008, after we had gone through extensive market research assessments and analyses. the recommendation that came out of that work was developed in february of 2008. we conducted extensive community outrage. that was before developing a sign up -- final set of recommendations that went to the board in august of 2008. the board endorsed those recommendations for the purposes of the environmental review in october of 2008. since then they have guided the agency's work around transit implementation. the proposals were structured around a policy framework that identified the most heavily used routes called the rapid network. recommending that investment be targeted heavily towards this that work in order to improve the conditions for the m

i would like to bring up robert haley. has gone through the process and can tell you what is included in terms of documentation. supervisor mirkarimi: is there a single document that outlines this? >> roberts kentucky what documentation is. -- robert can tell you what the documentation is. >> there is quite a bit of documentation in the last rate process. there was a lot of discussion on the subject. there is one exhibit that outlines the costs in the rates for these services. in the actual application, there is a table that talks about the impound account and those kinds of things. there are quite a few things in the record that would give you information on this. supervisor mirkarimi: i am looking for a contractual, legally binding document that says what they are supposed to pay. >> we do not use a contract in san francisco. supervisor mirkarimi: commissioner avalos? supervisor avalos: i appreciate the line of questioning about what they provide. i agree that they provide a great service. communities across san francisc

marco rubio, nikki haley, chris christie, paul ryan, but they all look like they will be candidates in 2016. a little bit presumptuous, a little bit young. that is why everybody sort of hesitated and looking around --- >> they lose their fox contr acts -- to be virginia, now it i fox. >> they are writing into the ambush -- >> going after a medicaid and social security? >> some obviously do. there is a time when the father is were jefferson and jackson, now it is roger ailes and rock -- and rupert murdoch. cash the check. as mike huckabee was candid in saying, a tough race for the nomination, and then the president is sitting there a year from now, 14 months from now, with $1 billion and in a primary challenge. if there were a primary challenge against president obama, which i don't see on the horizon, he would see more republicans in the race. >> i bring this up every week, because to be a is very important. does anybody have a candidate besides romney? >> there is an event that happens. something happens in the world which could create the circumstances that would bring a republican i

>> well, haley barbour, obviously, is a successful popular governor. but he concluded he couldn't win it. he knew he had some baggage, he was a lobbyist. he represented business interests. and friends of him told me he also knew it would be hard for an old governor from the deep south to take on the nation's first black president. he's a shrewd politician and if he couldn't win it, he decided he just wasn't going to be in it. >> realizing many potential candidates have not declared yet. from who we know is running, who does this benefit right now? >> of all of the people who signaled they're running, this most benefits tim pawlenty, former minnesota governor. let's take a look at the race right now. obviously, jeff, it is very early. but right now mitt romney, the former massachusetts governor, is considered the front-runner if we have one at this point. all of the other names most people have never even heard of outside of their home state. but if the race goes on, it's going to shake down to really the top two or three. so these other candidates out

mississippi governor haley barbour announced he wouldn't run for president after all. he had already hired staffers, traveled to some early primary states, was talking the talk, and even shed a few pounds. he said supporters deserved no less than absolute fire in the belly. he said he couldn't offer that with certainty. >>> when you come back, how do you protect thousands of well-wishers, hundreds of dignitaries, and one royal couple on a very big day? >>> and it's a live picture of puppies sound asleep, and that's pretty much exactly the point. >>> the picture tonight of the iconic tower bridge in london. that city is buzzing with last-minute preparations for the wedding of prince william and catherine middleton this friday, and an event of this magnitude, as you might imagine, requires massive security preparations. nbc's stephanie gosk is with our nbc news team in london and is with us tonight from trafalgar square. stephanie, good evening. >> reporter: london police are used to securing big event. even for them, even for this city, the royal wedding is a daunting c

mississippi's governor haley barbour said america's volunteer tradition is enormously strong and plain to see. >> you have seen the devastation here, yet the shelters that have been opened have hardly anybody ipthem. that's because their neighbors have opened their homes and said, come stay with me, come stay with our family. >> reporter: families of strangers perhaps feeling a collective pain, pledging to heal these wounds together. ron mott, nbc news, smithville, mississippi. >> the only thing more relentless than the bad news around here these days, the stories of good will. >>> one note about president obama tonight, after he toured the damage here, he and his family went on to visit the kennedy space center in florida, despite the fact we learned earlier today that the space shuttle "endeavour" launch was delayed, scrubbed for now due to an engineering problem. the president met with the crew, including commander mark kelly, husband of gabby giffords. the president had a private meeting with the congresswoman as well. we'll take our first break. >>> when we come back, what happene

john haley is the director of the municipal transportation agency. rhonda simmons, with the office of economic work force and development. chief jeff godown, the chief of the san francisco police department. phil ginsburg, general manager of the rec and park department. ed riskin, director for the department of public works is also here. thank you for your presence here. mayor edwin lee, without further -- adult probation is here, too. mayor kelllee, thank you for yor patience. the microphone is yours. [applause] >> thank you. as you all know, i am not going to have been long speeches. and i'm here to listen to you tonight. but i want to say a couple of things. it is my pleasure to be here with supervisor avalos, supervisor carmen chu, the other department heads, to make sure that i fulfill a promise. while i am occupied this great office of mayor, i will listen to everybody in the city. the matter where you live. that is what i have been doing this whole year. i am three months on the job and it is wonderful to have a new relationship with the board

haley barbour from mississippi, a potential candidate. he supported the speaker. a former minnesota governor, tim pawlenty said that it was a bad deal. republicans shouldn't vote for it. so you're going to see the republican presidential candidates sort of insert themselves in these congressional debates. it's easy for them because they don't have to take a vote on this. the one potential candidate the white house is keeping their eye on is john huntsman. he comes back from china in a couple of months. gwen: he's the president's ambassador to china. a republican former governor of utah. >> they'll smother him with love. they'll see how that works. but they are agitated by him and i would say the white house is slightly preoccupied by him. gwen: somebody happened to leak some conservative online publications that he'd written all these nice letters about the president saying he was a remarkable leader, whichic i guess is what you say about your boss. >> the president could smother mitt romney with love on health care too. mitt romney signed the massachusetts health

>> next, remarks by haley barbour. that, a house hearing on the management of arlington national cemetery. national cemetery.