thank you. >> thank you. >> ed healy. >> i am a cab driver and member of the sfcda. it is interesting these owners came in and are worried about these legal niceties. what day want is to put 500 cabs on the street without a hearing as some of you know. it is kind of a joke that they're calling for a hearing to have this compromise program. also, i do not know what happened to gillespie. at this town hall meetings, this was adequately discussed. he walked out after the second one and said he did not like the idea of peak time permits and never showed up again. the idea of a single operator permits or talked up extensively and they were talked up at the taxi advisory council which you should have been met. i do not know what kind of smokescreen they are throwing out. they do not want any kind of compromise. this is a very good plan. i have heard the concern expressed of the mta running -- this being a foot in the door for the mta running the taxi business and leasing. you have to be out of your mind to want to take over the taxicab business as far as i'm concerned. we

it is a great pleasure now for me to introduce my friend and fellow priest, father michael healy, whoad you in prayer. >> i would like to share with you this morning the beautiful prayer that was composed for the holy father the pope benedict when he visited the site in new york on 9/11. and so in this prayer, we are asked also to look at ourselves and the way in which we treat this tragic situation. i was very much impressed by one of the firefighters who said about her colleagues that she had a hole in her heart, but that it was important for her to fill that with all of the great memories of the wonderful people who served with her and also the sacrifice that they made. the holy father in going to 9/11 came with this prayer. we can all join in it. we have to use our imagination a little bit because i am going to mention places where the tragedy took place. god of peace, bring your peace to the vile world, the hearts of men and women, and to all nations. god of love, compassion, and healing, look upon us who gather here today at this site, the scene of incredible violence and pain.

and hilly -- ed healy had a blog busting limos and investigating limos. i feel taxi services needs to be a division to counter the power plays in our industry. i thank you for what you are doing for the city will love. >> thank you. >> our next speakers. >> good afternoon. thank you for the cost of living increase. let me express the next hope is recommended in tears, not in a and there will be no more politicization. many problems, balance and functionality would be resolved if the taxi division would be restored to the blanket enjoyed. finance and kept driving are organizations of two different functions. it is thought of as explicative and unfair. right now would be an opportune moment to make the change. there have to be some immediate effects and many of the most thoughtful people in the industry feel this structural change would be most beneficial. please promote the director and her division back to tk. please invest in open taxi access and make san francisco the first city in the world was transparent have ability. it is accept -- no increase has

we will start with ed healy. this is on the executive director's report. director nolan: good afternoon. director reiskin, we hear nothing but good things about you. congratulations. however, i would like to start out with something -- [laughter] why? do i always say negative things? i guess the bus drivers are happy about the way it is running because nobody else is. the only street south of market that flowed smoothly was seventh street. during rush hour, it flowed like a charm. you have cut off one lane at mcalester, and this created a situation of gridlock every day. i think it would be nice if maybe the studies of years in the future, you could also take -- i guess automobiles are evil or something. you might take the driver's into account also. director nolan: thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. we are speaking on item 7? yes. i would like to welcome the new director, and i am hoping that things will get better for the ordinary cabdriver's instead of the cab companies and medallion holders. we need that change badly, immediately. thank

right now there are seven portraits by george healy hanging in the white house.there are 17 portraits by george healy tannin national portrait gallery and over in the courtroom gallery over in the portrait gallery is his great picture of abraham lincoln in illinois and springfield just after linking done that he had been elected president in the was while he was sitting for that portrait healy was painting him without his beard and he read aloud the letter from the young woman telling him that he would be much more handsome if he grew a beard and lincoln turned to him and said would you like to paint me with a beard and healy in all honesty said no, sir, i would not. [laughter] so it's one of the very few images in color by a painter that we have of abraham lincoln and one of the greatest love all of healy's portraits. another healy portrait of abraham lincoln hangs over the mantelpiece in the state dining room at the white house. here is this young man who had known advantages colin none. he had never been to college, art school, who decided to take it upon hims

security altogether so would that be smart and would it ever really happen to me to discuss it as gene healy vice president at the cato institute and columnist for the washington examiner jeanne thanks so much for being here tonight. so what do you say department of homeland security you just you want to get rid of it you want to abolish it absolutely it's one of the worst mistake legacies of nine eleven it's a giant bureaucracy you for your that's mostly been devoted to harassing industry or long travelers groping pre-schoolers i think we can definitely do without it but how would you sell that to the american people because at the end of the day unfortunately i think what we've seen time and time again is that people are willing to be harassed they're willing to give up a lot of civil liberties if they think that something is keeping them safe and especially when you have stories like yesterday right. another terror plot that was foiled by the f.b.i. despite the fact that maybe the f.b.i. had a little bit of a hand in creating it themselves well yes like most of the terror plots since nine

the reporter patrick healy from our nbc station has a preview of that trial. >> the he was the of michael jackson's personal doctor sees a lot in this video. less than four months before jackson's sudden death. the defense sees indications that jackson was feeling the pressure of his announced return and showing signs of chemical dependence. before dr. conrad murray became his full time physician. perhaps. but the judge ruled it not relevant, not admissible. a setback for the defense. but leaving court, the team member michael flanagan said the jurors will learn of his condition from other evidence. >> there will be witnesses testifying, and probably tomorrow that michael jackson was not in very good shape. >> reporter: yes, trial finally is at hand. two years, three months, and two days after the pop legend died suddenly in the upstairs bedroom of the mansion where he was living. medication, primarily propofol. being used instead as a sleep aid. dr. conrad murray acknowledged giving jackson a dose but in desperation to sleep, that he woke up and gave himself another dose. the fatal dose.

. >> announcer: john healy's identity theft story began with a simple error.cking account and taken a shopping spree in his name. >> took money out of my account, then went and bought a cadillac in my name. >> announcer: months passed and john thought he had finally cleared up the mess when the unthinkable happened. >> john: there was a knock on my door one night, i answered the door. two guys there told me they had a warrant for my arrest. >> announcer: unbeknownst to john, the thief had bailed out a buddy from jail with john's identity. >> i had young daughters, you know, staying with me, and when the bail bondsman and bounty hunter showed up, uh, they stopped staying with me. it was just too much. you never knew what was gonna happen next. >> announcer: and what happened next would change john's life forever. >> it hit the local paper, the philadelphia paper, the... all four local papers that i was going on trial for killing a cop. >> montel: ladies and gentlemen, please welcome john healy to the show. [cheering and applause again, to help us out, please we

who was george healy and how long -- >> guest: well, george healy is to me a great american -- he grew up in the streets of boston, no money, no education. a talent as a paint and draw. and he was told, you're good. you can go all the way with this talent. but he knew -- he had to go train with somebody. he had nobody to train with. there was no art school. so without any money, except for what he had been able to save, no knowledge of french, knowing no one in paris, he went to paris. and he became the most sought-after and in many ways most accomplished portrait painter, american portrait painter in the 19th century. there's seven of his paintings at the white house. there's 17 of his paintings in the national portrait gallery. his paintings are in most every gallery -- major gallery in the united states. he was phenomenal. but he also -- this painting right here is the biggest single work ever did by far. i can't remember the dimensions but they're enormous. it covers the whole back wall behind the stage at the -- at nathaniel hall in boston, one of the most historic buildings in th