chairperson hur: all in favor? >> aye. chairperson hur: opposed? there being none, that motion passes. just for clarification, does commissioner renee vote in that even though he was not here? commissioner renee: i didn't know anything about it. >> yes, you do vote. chairperson hur: i don't think commissioner renee voted. commissioner renee: i did. chairperson hur: you did, ok. commissioner renee: you didn't ask for an abstention so i voted. chairperson hur: thank you. the next item on the agenda is the executive director's report. >> could the executive director succumb to the dread disease running all over time? chairperson hur: the executive director has indeed appeared to have succumbed to that nasty virus. any questions or comments from the commissioners with respect to the executive director's report? public comment? >> david pillpel again. i think there were a couple of typos on page three about the year, wasn't the november 2012 meetings, i believe it was november 2011, page three, in the middle. >> we're now in 2012. >> right, that were ap

chairperson hur: mr. selna, i have a question for you. are you seeking contract work for many specific entities at the same time? are you trying to be a consultant with a number of different clients? or are you looking for -- such as the example with the fort mason center -- a full-time job or as full-time it can be for a short period of time? >> the fort mason center would be a contract job for a limited period of time. i don't know how long it would last. i'm doing what anybody would do when they're unemployed, i'm seeking employment to either get a full-time job or put together as many part-time jobs as i can to pay my mortgage and my bills. whether that tuns -- turns out to be two projects or four, i have to meet my financial obligations and my needs so it's kind of an evolving process and ongoing process and i'm doing the things people do when they're looking for work. i'm talking to as many people as i can, i'm networking, i'm asking people if they know people who need help on things, i'm doing all those kinds of things. as you know

there were towns called ben hur, there were mugs, books with advertisements for ben hur. if you followed what loudoindur it was the precursor to "star wars," "terminator," this idea of movie or novel or play, lou wallace was reliving shilo agai. and he said -- just to give you an example of what a strange man he was, this is in 1885 where he's the best-selling author -- by the way oliver wendall holmes don't want anything to do with this guy, it's not high-breaux literature, but to -- high-brow literature, but to american people, it was the first time it was acceptable to readas sot re created the idea average family reading literature. sort of the popular account literature. ending by finding solace in ben hur i can bear later in 1900, 38 years after the battle when he's a worldwide celebrity, he says the awful mystery known as pittsburgh landing comes home more directly than to most of those engaged in it. oh, the lies, the lies told about me to make me the scapegoat to bear off the criminal mistakes of others, think of what i suffered. all of his letters are filled wit

but he hit on something called "ben-hur." if you look at the novel the novel is a thinly illustrated metaphor for lou wallace. judah ben-hur is this energetic charismatic young nobleman. it's not grant who ruined his career but it is gratus. lou wallace is on -- he misses the road but ben-hur hits a roof tile and his rival it is probably henry hallek tries to destroy lou wallace-ben-hur. and only through perseverance and religion lou wallace found his god. he becomes rich and powerful and the funny thing about ben-hur was the zeal about shiloh not only made him write the novel to get even but gave him this idea that he needed to promote it. lou wallace spoke everywhere. there were 20,000 productions of ben-hur on the stage. later there would be four movies after his death. ben-hur sold 750 a week a thousand a week. in two years it was selling a million copies a year. nobody had seen anything like it. it outpaced "uncle tom's cabin." it was the best-selling fiction book in american history until "gone with the wind." it create

commissioner hur: commissioner studley? \] commissioner studley: i agree, and if they could be referred to by the roman numeral. on page two, there is a were missing. i believe that it should say it to pass the exam, and two comments were evolving -- involving my remarks. on page 3, third from the bottom. i think it would be a little clearer it said it would allow the commission to provide a $5,000 match to the candidate who raised $5,000 with a larger number of contributors than currently required, or while increasing the number of contributors, something like that to indicate that mechanism, and then if you would indulge me on page 8, items for future meetings, i believe or at least intended my comment under that item to be a suggestion, so the vice chair person suggested that the ethics commission consider that a future meeting whether to initiate, so i was not stating that we should but suggesting that we bring it up for discussion. thank you. commissioner huyr: -- hur: any other comments with respect to the minutes? co

commissioner hur: do we have any extras? commissioners, and comments with respect to agenda item two? commissioner studley: this is more in the nature of a question, and it may be for others. we know that there are other general conflict policies that apply to all city employees above and beyond the sia, and it would help me to understand something about the scope of those, a more general version of the same kind of things or how they would operate in effect in situations of a kind that are described. >> deputy city attorney andrew shen. they are just different. there are broader and narrower. that reflects financial interests, and one significant difference between that statutory scheme and these restrictions is that at least with the political reform act, you need to be part of the decision making chain before you have a conflict not just those people that are in the decision making chain, and i think that is where commissioner liu's questioning was going. you do not have to do that to have these rules affecting. -- affect

commissioner hur: thank you. any questions or hurt? commissioner liu: thank you for coming today. -- any questions or her? how that is done and if it is separated? >> yes, it is separated. the commission has no involvement in improving library contracts. commissioner liu: so someone who wants to have their work published, they would be in a position to influence to contract with that vendor or the publisher? >> not at all. commissioner liu: a ok, thank you. commissioner hur: any other questions for ms. marion? thank you. i would like to take public comment on this matter. >> yes, thank you very much, commissioners, and of course, do not accept money for the friends of the library. this is more complicated as it seems or as it is being represented or kind of masked as a potential author might want to write something, its publisher might be involved. it is also actually a wide spectrum of vendors, not just somebody who might want to publish a book. there are digital vendors, and digitalization projects, all kinds of exhibition projects,

commissioner hyr: -- hur: thank you for bringing it to my attention. we will look into it. >> excuse me. i have had a hearing loss since i was a child. commissioner hur: i said thank you for bringing it to our attention. we will look into it. >> that will be the third time you have said you will look into it. >> we have been here six or eight times before this body. the ethics committee is the only city body empowered to enforce violations of the city -- laws. i -- from 2004 to 2011 without having a single hearing or taking a single vote, the ethics commission rejected every one of 26 public record enforcement cases sent in by the sunshine ordinance task force. during that eight-year period, the commission membership has turned over almost three times, and the commission has held over 100, over 100, meetings. the only constant player in all of these 26 rejections over the entire eight-year period has been john, your executive director. wrongfully using the ethics regulations and its default, and he handled the entire process from start to finish withou

commissioner hur: any further comments or questions? >> -- commissioner studley: some of these seemed problematic, but the author seems least troubling and most likely to occur frequently, said that would be my and suggestion. commissioner liu: i agree. i would be inclined not to of this report section but to address what would be a concern, especially if the waiver process has been working. i am not sure we need to just completely eliminate the entire section. i want to more nearly -- nearly -- narrowly tailor that. commissioner: i agree, and, ms. marion, you are talking about taking out purchaser and publicists, to get to the areas you are concerned with, i think we should make it as nearly -- narrowly tailored as possible. what would that be? >> i would meet with staff again and come back to the commission with new language. commissioner hur: 50. i am sorry. commissioner hanyon? commissioner>> this is the prop. perhaps we should address this as well. so that we can provide further directions to the staff if necessary. my view, based

a storm will be a snow maker for the sierra but will it produce moyer hur? -- moisture here? >>. >> tony bennett pledges his love for stit. the news continues in one minute. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> it's golden. everybody is paying tribute to the man who left his heart in san francisco. and every radio station in town was considered to play the song at noon what. a treat. the city decided to show tony bennett love today. and we are live from city hall with the city. carolyn? >> there was a lot of hoopla here today. city hall just packed with fans of tony bennett on this valentine's day. and this is a fitting tribute to the singer. and he is celebrating his 50th anniversary of the song, his signature song "i left my heart in san francisco". today the 85-year-old winner was serenaded with renditions of the song and there is a video tribute. mr. benett your royce is the advice of -- voice of san francisco this, is your day. >> i have the honor and privilege of meeting mr. benett. we drove down the high street hill. he sang a few lines. of "i

hurt nerves we don't want you to go in and hel somebody and have something fal on you and get other hur hurt. look, listen and feel and have you ever put your chin to your chest and it's tougher to breathe and tilt your head back and easier to get a breath and we tilt the head back, lift the jaw up off of the air way and i opens the air way. this young lady is in the classic position and take first aid and take cpr class and ther is any and she'y annie and she' and in a disaster you don't fin people in this position and sometimes i walk up and i can't tell whether they are breathing or not and you have to get closer and you have to touch th person and shake and shout "are you all right? " and no response and then you touch annie and shake her and n response, and what you do is pu the person in a neutral positi position, on the back so you ca open the air way if you think they're not breathing. if they are breathing and you shake annie and she says "go away, i'm sleeping here" you don't have to move her. how much blood do you have? about 6-liters and how much of the red fluid would it ta

. >> reporter: she relives the pain of her school years, even playing the role of hur bullies. why is everybody laughing at me? what's wrong with me? >> reporter: the reaction is raw. you look around, you see people in tears. it's your friend, people you know, and they're in tears and you look around and you're like why am i not helping them? >> reporter: kate says she now feels empowered to end the cycle of harassment. >> i think one of the most important things is taking steps to try and get rid of it or greatly decrease the problem because this is a ginormous problem spchlt. >> reporter: do you think bullying can ever be solved completely as a problem? >> i don't think bullying will ever be solved only because it's about the desperate need to fit in run amok. but if you're in a hole, i'm the guy who's going to crawl down there with you and get you out because i lived in that hole. being laughed at hurts! >> reporter: blanco's determined to prove that compassion is the best defense against cruelty one school at a time. elaine quijano, cbs news, jackson, ohio. >> pelley: and t

searching two hurs, police say they not find victims or gunman.icers set up a perimeter around 100th avenue residents reported seeing two groups shooting at one another. a nearby auto zone had to close because police were told a possible suspect had barricaded himself inside of the building. >> officers requested employees and customers evacuate from the building. and the oakland police department conducted an interior security check and did not locate a suspect. >> police say they're looking for four men and they don't believe anyone was hit. >> well, we're t minus two hours and counting until all westbound traffic is stopped at the bay bridge. and these time lapse images from the foot of the bridge showed progress made over several weeks in constructing a detour that is due to open tuesday morning. abc 7 is live on the story tonight. let's start with you and the caltrans time line. >> well... the chp is going start choking traffic down around 7:30. and then, the bridge will close right on time at 8:00 they're saying and trying to make that a har

. >> she was not going to let go of her hurs.ood thing she wasn't hurt. >>> still ahead, a couple stranded in a snowstorm, stuck for three >>> a ska california couple is lucky to be alive after getting stranded in a snowstorm. donna cordova has more on how they survived for days with little food and little water. >> reporter: our camera was there the minute they got word wednesday the couple had been found. they are filling in the rest. they held a news conference to describe what happened after they set out for a drive sunday morning and hit trouble on a remote road. they were stuck in snow. it was getting dark. and snowing. >> i made the cardinal sin of not telling anybody where i was going. >> reporter: they had snacks and a little water, which could only last so long. one day past, then two. they wrote out s.o.s. and help in the snow using branches. >> with the gas, i would run the car at night because it got really cold, like 19 degrees. so in whys and what ifs are going through your head. >> reporter: on wednesday, he decid

the judge approved a deal making ng perform 500 hurs of community service. in july of last year he ran a red light on his bicycle, striking a 68-year-old as she was crossing the embarcadero. she died a month later from her injury autos we never had to get a fight whether jail time was appropriate this, is something that has been agreed to make something good out of something bad. >> ng will be back in court march 12th. the victim's husband will be present and etc. expected both he and the defendants will address the court before this deal is finalized. >> san francisco health officials are confirming that it was a strain of the noro virus that made hundreds of students sick in the sunset district. the college prep will remain closed until monday because of the outbreak. more than 300 students and 30 teachers got sick. classes were cancelled yesterday so cleaning crews could disinfect the school. noro virus spreads through the air or by touch and it's contagious. >> a video recording of the landmark trial on the constitutionality of prop 8 will not be made pu

we will continue to keep hur her spirit alive, -- keep her spirit alive, by performing works of kindness in her fame. sandy works at the house of ruth in maryland. sadly, she said domestic violence cases on college campuses are all-too familiar. >> many campuses have places for young people to go. then there are agencies like the house of ruth as well. >> makes you think. like if you're in an abusive relationship, to reevaluate it. >> reporter: notre dame prep issued this statement. yeardley will always be one of our girls. and though we will never fill the void left by her death, we pray that those whose lives have been immeasurably altered, may find peace. >> reporter: online, there has been very strong reaction to that second-degree murder verdict. people saying in their opinion, it's just not strong enough. they do follow it by saying regardless of the penalty, it will never bring yeardley love back. in baltimore county, i'm jessica kartalija, wjz eyewitness news. >> jessica, thank you. the jury considered testimony from nearly 60 witnesses before convicting huguely in love's murder.

euro zone finance minister supposed to be set tomorrow going to nominally approve the $130 billion hur oh bail out is not going to happen. they will have a teleconference, discuss things again, we still don't have a letter of commitment from the greek leaders say they support their austerity measures, we don't have the firm psi deal, we still don't have all the details to put it together, it will go counsel to the wire and we may be past it already. >> the headline of yesterday, or two days ago that it was sunday that the greeks have agreed on the austerity package, that is an agreement, there was nothing binding, and that is what we're waiting on. >> theoretically it's binding but in the past greek leaders have not implemented laws that they have enacted to go ahead with it. >> whether or not it's enough, eu finance ministers had not gotten enough documentation to tell them they actually had achieved all the mettics they were going after. >> one of the party leaders said sunday night that he wanted people to vote for this in the hopes later on they might be able to renegotiate it. tha

leaders stepped up by offering a major league discount on the land it was trying to hur to the clubs. >> it's 5:18. a popular children's wing could get even bigger. the ronald mcdonald house will ask for the green light to expand. this is the 49ers last year. they want to had rooms and parking. the nonprofit organization provides comfort for children and families undergoing threatment for life threatening illnesses. >> hopes of a financial bailout for greece keeping investors optimistic. we turn to jackie before the bell this morning. live from cnbc headquarters. >> the fewers are higher after the markets posted gains on wednesday. they continue to monitor the debt talk increase. leaders have yet to agree on all of the conditions. this morning we'll get data on new filings for unemployment, whole sale trade a. >> nasdaq closing at 2915. the regulatory commission is expected to approve a license for companies to build two reactors at a plant in georgia. the first grant bid since 1978, a year before pennsylvania. pell put away more money in their 401(k) plans but re isn't seeing returns

those 17 people had to be buried at once in a mass grave hur hurriedly at night because there was noignity because of the fear of attack. >> i want to play video from the stories were talking about. the lengths people have to go through just to bury their loved ones. >> like all dead she must be buried in darkness. daytime is too dangerous. >> you describe homs as bleeding and terrified. does it seem like there's any rationale to where the mortars are landing? is it just like it was in bosnia with indiscriminate firing? >> it feels like collective punishment when you are there. bear in mind that these are the worst days that homs has had. it's been going on for a long time. i think more or less every single family there has had some kind of loss or has someone close to them with some kind of loss. there was a man in the hospital whose job it is to wrap bodies and he's wrapped hundreds of them so far. i asked him whether he had to wrap any of his relatives. he just gave me a long list. he had prepared his son for burial, his son for burial. a second cousin for burial. these are typica

but i think hur overstating the point.ent is really struggling there. need very unpopular democrat governor, actually say she is not going to run for re-election. now they are struggling to find someone to run on the democrat tick wet the president in north carolina this is a state that he needs to win in 2012. >> he does? >> he is really struggling, really struggling there i think you are overstating the point. >> okay. >> again it is state by state, not a national poll. >> bag carolinian, i can see your perspective you not sure he needs north carolina, he got it last time by a tad. congresswoman, let's go back to you about the liberals in your caucus. is everybody pretty cool with this guy now? he stood up for women's rights on the issue we just talked about, even though it seems like an archaic discussion about birth control he definitely stood with the women who care most about it, people like boxer and secretary sebelius, but it seems like he has got the high hand right now. he has got the rope in his hand, if you wil

that's adnan's grandmother working as a nurse in the hospital, shocked to see hur grandchild. >> my dare grandchild she's saying, where were you? my beloved, dear god. adnan is badly wounded in the side of his chest. you can see him still struggling to breathe. we're not going to show you the actual wounds on his body, they are open holes. his lips are pale from lack of oxygen. the medic you see tries cpr. at some point it becomes clear nothing can be done to save this little boy's life. in a real hospital, it might be different. not here not in the city of homs. all anyone can do is wait for this little boy to die. afterwards, all his father can do is hold his dead child. drowned out by the sound of nearby shelling, the father is saying, my baby, i'll avenge your death. he's asking, what did you do? who did you hurt? what did this little one do? we debated whether or not to show you this video. we admit, it is sickening to watch and there's no denying that. that is just what any assad regime is doing, flat out denying it that artillery crews are pounding civilian neighborhoods in that c

. >>> and queen of england marking hur diamond jubilee this morning. >> a start of a full year of celebrationshey are having. queen elizabeth ii ascended the throne today 60 years ago. over the course of 2012, the royal family will be fanning out across the globe to celebrate. today the queen is touring a nursery school and meeting students and watching a play about her six decades on the thrown. >> 1952, she took the throne. >> a little math there. >> actually i wrote 42, and that would be 70. too early. >> and coming up, more on the developing story on a liquor store in oakland where firefighters say this was not an explosion after all. but the facade of the building collapsed. chopper 5 is at the scene. and we will have an update coming up. in a moment. (car horn) paying with your smartphone instead of cash... (phone rings) that's a step forward. with chase quickpay, you can send money directly to anyone's checking account. i guess he's a kicker... again, again! oh, no you don't! take a step forward and chase what matters. >>> new details about a breaking news story in the east bay. we brou

the associated press is reporting almost 400 people are hur. these are mainly morning commuters. are still waiting for the latest video from the scene in argentina. in the meantime, according to argentina's transportation secretary, a train just pack with people slammed into the end of the line at a very busy station in buenos aires. officials say the commuter train simply came in too fast and hit the barrier at the end of the platform. again, about 350 people said to be hurt. so far though no deaths have been reported. of course we will continue to watch this story and bring you the latest in our next hour, in the 6:00 hour. >> marla, thank you very much. >>> next, some outrageous and really ridiculous claims about the girl scouts. indiana state representative bob morris says the organization's agenda promotes communism and lesbianism and it is a tactical arm of planned parenthood. this guy must be out of his mind. morris is refusing to go along with a resolution meant o to honor the girl scouts on the group's 100th anniversary. >> my problem is on a personal level an my family

goes about it, but if they do, suddenly iran is reeling, and they're going to shut down the strait of hur- hormuz to shut down the oil coming out of that region. when that happens we see oil spike from the $100 a barrel to probably 150. we already have gasoline at 3.50 per gallon, the earliest we've ever seen that, this year, and we're on pace for probably $4 heading into early spring. if this happens, megyn, we suddenly see it spike up to ad, 5.50 per gallon. as a consumer, that is tetering on that tight rope already, they fall off that tight rope and now the economy falls apart, unemployment goes through the roof and we have a move by the u.s., even though they're trying to help us about actually hurt you and i, the consumer, more than anybody out there. >> mig you're talking 5.50 for a gallon of gas if this happens. >> absolutely. this is a major disruption, the strait of hormuz, maybe it doesn't slow that much oil coming of there but what it does will send speculators shooting the price of oil up and with gasoline at 3.50 this early in the year, another $2 could be tacked on overnight

she wrote a really sweet message on hur blog all about the grammys being the best night of her life,e says, i have a few days off now and then it's the bring the awards. then i'm straight into the studio. five years, more like five days. so that clears that up. fred, for my money, i'm just happy to hear that she's going back into the studio. we want more music from adele. >> of course we do. i've been whistling her song "rolling in the deep" all morning long. you don't want to hear my voice. the best i could do would be to whistle it. we want to hear her version all the time. thanks so much, a.j. >> yeah. >>> herman cain on "dancing with the stars." could it be? producers have reportedly asked him to be on the show. a.j. will be back with us next hour with cain's response. >>> a sports star who comes through in the clutch and praises god. we're not talking about tim tebow. nba fans are crazy about new york knicks rookie jeremy lin. the lin-sanity continues. we'll look at it. that versus tebowmania next. e. ♪ >>> lin-sanity. get used to the word. the mania surrounding new york knicks

i'm hur the beverly hilton has a moo no media policy when you think of all the celebrities they havethere just last week. none of this is confirmed yet. however, since whitney's passing the hotel has, understandably, completely overrun with reporters, kyra, trying to get every single last detail of what really happened to whitney houston and how she spent her fibal hours. >> meanwhile, the academy award show is putting out a gentle warning? >> yes, aiming this at sasha baron cohen. we remember how he had borrat and bruno. it looks like that was his plan for the oscar's red carpet. now, in his new film he plays a sex-craz sex-crazed middle eastern despot. the academy let him know they don't want any part of it. they do want him there on the red carpet but as a guest, not there promoting his film. apparently they can't simply pull his ticket. people have been suggest that maybe they would do that. but cohen was in the movie "hugo" which is a big feel this year with so many nominations and apparently the way the academy works is they allot a number of tickets to each film and studio and