those analyze the waiver exemption in costa hawkins? and with the legislation that will be in front of us, the development agreement, is that the waiver or is it the density bonus exemption? supervisor campos: i don't know the extent to which we can discuss this, but the problem, supervisor elsbernd is that there is no case that specifically addresses the issue before us where density bonus actually satisfies the exemption this is -- which the issue here which is there is no case that specifically addresses, how do you know what you're doing is in fact enforceable? supervisor elsbernd: when you said you wanted to put on the record these cases are the precedent, i wanted to be very clear, they're not the precedent because there is no precedent on this issue. and i think we agree on that point, there is no case law specifically on whether or not the density bonus exemption in costa hawkins is applicable. supervisor campos: that's the point. you're making my argument for me. because if that's the case, if there's no specific case on point,

it is way too risky to think that under costa-hawkins we can have some sort of protection for these units. you have heard from these people who are going to lose their homes. do not put this -- do not put them at risk. send this back to planning. thank you. >> i have been living in parkmerced since 1959. in case you don't know it, this is the eir. i suspect to probably have not seen it yet. i have emailed each of the supervisors and the staff of the board some comments with respect to this. i would like to emphasize certain points. one, one-third of the proposed 1500 units being demolished were not built in 1941. they were built in the 1950's, at that standard, when the towers were built. if the towers do not need to be replaced, than one-third of these units do not need to be replaced either. they are made of concrete, not lath and plaster. the muni reroute is probably one of the more bring was ideas i have seen short of the crosstown subway plan. any route of the m line goes one block inside parkmerced. it serves may be 5% of the population in that unit. it leaves the entire west side n

finally, we are going to have to but epps -- at costa hawkins. there are two narrow exceptions, subsidized housing and density bonuses. this is how these work. if you are a developer of multi unit housing, and you come to say, "i am going to do high- density housing, i want assistance under this provision, the city must give that assistance, so it is not merely in consideration for anything. it is not optional. they have to give the consideration. they have to give the assistance, which is in the form of a density bonus or other concessions. what they do is set aside a certain amount for low-income or very low income people. the government assures this goes on for 30 years. this is different from rent control. it is much more narrow. it has restrictions. it maintains a web level but only for 30 years, based on affordability levels. rent control has no time limits and does not match rents or affordability. really, is a complicated scheme. full-scale rent-controlled construction by parking inside the density bonus program. this is a risky propositi

to demolition, relating to some of the traffic impacts that were considered, regarding the cost of hawkins, will we be able to consider those in terms of exercising our own political judgment in approving or disapproving the development agreement? >> you definitely can exercise your independent judgment around those issues. supervisor wiener: ok. we have in san francisco certain responsibilities in terms of production of housing of a city, in terms of what the region needs in tears terms of future housing, is that right? >> we have regulations. supervisor wiener: are we meeting that? >> we are meeting that in quantitative terms. -- in terms of the affordable component. supervisor wiener: and what percentage of the housing here will be affordable? >> the project must comply with the existing city inclusionary ordinance. so approximately 15% of all the housing would be required to be affordable, permanently affordable. the agreement goes further than the existing law and mandates that 1/3 of that requirement be on site so there would be approximately 271 net new b.m.r. affordable housing uni

i personally take the i personally take the demolition of hawkins in this project extremely seriously. i want to make that very, very clear. but i ant to folks on traffic and parking and density and congestion issues that were raised, because representing an east side district that has the market octavia plan, where we are going to be adding thousands and thousands of new units, of new residents and even with a .5 or .75 parking ratio, when you look at what market octavia will create in terms of new autos being brought in, i'm going to bet that it completes with what would be added in parkmerced, and what you add in eastern neighborhoods, it eclipses it. the fact is that from what i'm aware of, in terms of significant opportunities for housing additions on the west sired, this is pretty much it. we see these maps of where the development opportunities are in san francisco, and other than park merced and somewhat around balboa park, there's really almost nothing on the west side. our population in this city is going to grow. it grew in the last kecked -- decade. it added like 10%. it's

but supervisor campos made a reference to the cost of hawkins issues being potentially speculating that we're potentially speculating whether it would be enforceable. and i guess sort of a combination comment and question that there are -- in any major development agreement it seems that there are a lot of aspects of it where you're making predictions that are never 100% certain. so we're making predictions did the transportation aspects of it, and at some point down the line, say, the rerouting of the m, something could come up that would require a reanalysis or a change to that, and if that happens in the middle of a major development where something unanticipated happens or something you thought wasn't going to happen happens, what do you do. >> it's a good question in terms of it defining the situation more broadly than just the issue of the rent control, think the city attorney spoke that if there's an element of the project that changes in a way that was not covered in the e.i.r., it will need to be reopened. the reopening of the e.i.r. would be on whatever terms changed. so if th

joining us on the line is david hawkins.t happened yesterday in the senate and what happens next? guest: yesterday in the senate, the senate was asked to vote on two competing versions of legislation to cut money for the rest of this fiscal year, which only last until september 30. the republican option, the bill the house passed two weeks ago, that would cut $60 billion below current spending levels -- the democratic alternative was to cut about 1/10 of that amount. both of them failed spectacularly. each of the needed 60 votes, because, as your watchers know, most anything in the senate needs 60 votes to go anywhere. every republican voted against the democratic plan and so did 10 centrist democrats. every democrat voted against the republican plan and so did three of the most conservative republicans, the tea party favorites, demint, rand paul, and the new senator, lee from utah. this was so predicted. it was predicted that both of these alternatives would fail. they represent the hands of the spectrum of the domestic spe

gushing over the planned 41- foot tim hawkins statute which was approved today greeting commuters when the terminal opens in 2017 made from pieces of the old one. >> what were you thinking when you came up with that? >> seeing images of these huge pieces of concrete from demolition sites and always been kind of interested in using them as building materials, recycling them somehow. >> reporter: the artist's past work includes this teddy bear currently living at uc san diego. >> just to give you an idea of the scale. this is the arm. so that thing standing will be the hip. and this, the chest. >> isn't that going to scare the hell out of people walking by. >> i don't think so. i think they will be fascinated. >> reporter: hopefully more than the infamous big foot which was run out of town in the 1990s. public art is always tricky. >> everybody going to wonder what is next. >> i like to see it. oh, wow. >> i like it. >> i like it. >> we found generally positive reaction to the pieces until we told people the price. 1.1 million with the artist getting $200,000. >> i think that's a lot of

. >> rose: i think stephen hawkins is interested-- >> they're interested in how you can combine qaunt mechanics -- >> isn't your daughter worth hyden collider. >> in genev athat's right. and how you combine the thought there and how that works-- quantum mechanics, together with gravity. and is there some way to-- of understanding that? and there's a theory-- i'm well now out of my depth and i may say something stupid-- the theories, the "n" theory that are trying to put this together, and stephen hawkings is in the middle of this. >> rose: aren't they in switzerland trying to figure out-- take life to the time of the great-- >> the big bang. >> rose: they want to take it back to that, figure out-- >> enough energy-- they've got these big-- they have about 20 kilometers -- >> jon: 70 miles. >> amazing. and i've been down there. it's extraordinary. and they collide these things, protons and they produce so much energy that they get closer to the conditions that existed in the -- >> looking for what? >> the main object identify and they have several objectives-- the main objective is to

. >> reporter: actor colin farrell read a gerhard hawkins poem that implores gives beauty back. beauty, beauty, beauty, back to god. there was a trumpet performance of "amazing grace," by one of her grandchildren. she was laid to rest beneath the great mausoleum. here, she will be keeping with her richly a-list life. there, inside the great mausoleum itself, is taylor's long-time friend and admirer, michael jackson. "gone with the wind's" clark gable. screen siren jean harlow who died so young. and funny man, w.c. fields. >> elizabeth taylor was a class act. she left the world in the best possible way. i think it was important to her and those around her that she be given a kind of dignified exit. >> reporter: a fitting farewell. but you can't help but wonder how many times elizabeth taylor must have heard the phrase, why, that woman would be late to her own funeral. i guess elizabeth taylor got the last laugh. >> always good for the last laugh and deserved. thanks, chris, for great reporting. >> we have heard about her sense of humor. >>> coming up on "gma," the beauty queen wh

we want to put into place the hawkins scholarship. so many teachers of color come through that. i want a more diverse work force. the administrators don't reflect the diversity of students. we have to work on that. we are going to continue to invest in hsi and hscbu. the final thing i'll say is i visited a number of them and continue to recruit more teachers of color to come into education. frankly, many schools haven't shown leadership in this area. hsi is a natural phenomenal pipeline of teacher talent for the classrooms. >> i commend you for what you have done in increasing the funding. it definitely exceeds what we did in 1946 with the gi bill and so i commend you. now, we need a time line to get into the competition and get to that money and recruit students into colleges. last question, if i still have time would be that the we reintroduce hr 778 the graduation promise act and that we must transform the nation's factories. how do you propose to build the capacity of the nation's lowest performing high schools and middle schools? >> this is where the school grant is so impo

we want to put into place the hawkins scholarship. so many teachers of color come through that. i want a more diverse work force. the administrators don't reflect the diversity of students. we have to work on that. we are going to continue to invest in hsi and hscbu. the final thing i'll say is i visited a number of them and continue to recruit more teachers of color to come into education. frankly, many schools haven't shown leadership in this area. hsi is a natural phenomenal pipeline of teacher talent for the classrooms. >> i commend you for what you have done in increasing the funding. it definitely exceeds what we did in 1946 with the gi bill and so i commend you. now, we need a time line to get into the competition and get to that money and recruit students into colleges. last question, if i still have time would be that the we reintroduce hr 778 the graduation promise act and that we must transform the nation's factories. how do you propose to build the capacity of the nation's lowest performing high schools and middle schools? >> this is where the school grant is so impo

bernanke, under the humphrey-hawkins full employment act, the federal reserve has four benchmarks for the economy. one of the four is price stability. currently, economic statistics show an increase in energy prices. what are -- what can or will the feds do -- fed do to try to stabilize the prices in the energy sector. is there anything that can be done? >> you have to distinguish between the prices of individual goods and services like gasoline, for example, and the overall price level, what people pay for all the goods and services that they buy. again, i recognize that the increases in gas prices are very troubling for a lot of people and very difficult but they are not inflation per se. inflation is increase in the overall price level which is very low. the inflation rate right now is 1% for all goods and services. the main risk from a price stability point of view would be if higher gas prices, for example, would get people -- would start feeding into the broader basket. that is, because people came to expect higher inflation, can't demand higher wage increases, or those costs we

from yukon, oklahoma, we have lula hawkins. made a sandwich for barry goldwater.ood, florida. an assistant air raid warden during world war ii. a lot of neighborhood people did that. kept us safe at night. cecila finnegan from rocky point, new york. her secret is eating well and having a great sense of humor. i concur, as ke say. and searl watson from deer, ark. a proud world war ii vet, walks without a cane. straight as an arrow. charlotte stanley of boone, north carolina is 100 years old. passionate school teacher. her students still come visit her from time to time. harrison new york's bert askwith is 100 years old. founded his own coach bus service. still runs the business and goes in to work. i telle y you, that's the secre. carmen appel is 104 years old. very independent and absolutely a delightful person to be with. giving is living. that's the motto. back to new york city where the sun always shines. >> mr. scott, thank you very much. when we come back, mr. roker gets a little bit of a send-up on jimmy fallon's show. first this is "today" on nbc. >>> back