i want to congratulate isa. we attended the lowl a lum. i wanted to take note that patricia sale and i met with a delegation from beijang normal that came look at our career path way program. any other announcements? >> i'd like to wish everybody a happy lunar new year on february 3. just to know that there will be no school that day and also february 4. so happy new year to everybody. >> thank you. at this time, i would like -- commissioner, do you have any announcements? >> no. >> thank you. at this time i'd like to announce the appointments on only of education to i budget services. buildings, grounds and services. i will be chairing. curriculum, i will chair. chaired and the city select committee. commissioners will be sandy fewer, emily and racial more ton joining the supervisors. the last committee is the ad hoc committee. they will join the trust ys. report of the closed session actions of juwan 20, 2011. the board by the vote of five ayes approved the appointment of 0 ayes and two absence. the closing of one middle school student.

she was only replaced last week laura has gone to isa as their head counselor. this probably could have got their attention reminding them this hasn't gone through yet. >> i was concerned about moving monday from teachers to consultants. this is not really a new proposal but something that should have occurred earlier. the frins pal did go over with the union rep roll call. six ayes. item 2 f. commissioner. the reason i receiveered them. collectively, we are being asked do approve $4 pound 5 milton data. first this was about how many women and minority owned contractors we are not allowed to have quotas. it's a concern that the business that the school district is suing does reflect a broad base of contractors. staff provided me data on previous levels

things would be solved within the isa's, if you could do it that way. i presented it as a dilemma. it created a situation where somebody could use more than their supply guarantee. more than the interim supply assurance. it is a surplus back to the people who have that. this is a for every issue. -- a forever issue. if eat palo alto -- east palo alto was successful, i think we would be very sympathetic to that. and part of what option 5 does is it keeps in place the incentive to do that. this would basically say that if there are adjustments, is that those changes would be affected on the supply. the allocation, as well. bulls customers are approaching their water supply situation very serious. they are approaching conversation -- conservation measures aggressively. the targets they have to be are tougher than the targets we have to meet. they are already doing that. there are a couple of amendments of would propose to make, to effectuate that. i will hold those. president vietor: thank you. i, for one, appreciate your comments, particularly in regards to east palo alto. if we do p

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the 50s and 60s, going to be a near record high in santa rosa 68 degrees, 63 in fremont, mill pete isaslook ahead towards the weekend whenever mavericks is a go, we have the green light, we have the large swells, you have the very light winds and beautiful sunshine so you can see the bay area all across the country if they televise that surf contest. the only way they'll not call it in my opinion, ken, is when they gamble for a larger swell for february or march. but meanwhile eh, let's go fishing, thanks to tom from the north bay for ending us this glorious picture and keep them coming at mypix. >> i'll have to go get a trenta and watch it. >> you can't stay on the shore any more, can you. a trenta. >> no you can't. >>> perhaps best known for fighting in the indian wars, the ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, in the philippines. monica blakely in >>> you probably know they fought in the indian wars in the 180 0's, you might know they also served in the philippines. monica blakely wants to know, in hayward, was there a reg itself of buffalo soldiers in san francisco? tonight's good question. >> they distin

it's three pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live with me and isa now a first up this hour we start in riot torn egypt where tens of thousands have gathered in the center of the capital on a seventh day of anti-government uprising the opposition has united us forces behind the x. chief of the international atomic watchdog mohamed el baradei i was there challenger to the president our correspondent paula slayer is in caro with more. it was late on sunday evening when they addressed the hundreds of thousands of protesters who've for seven days now have been demonstrating in downtown tokyo in the square he said that he had been chosen by opposition groups by the political organizations that have organized these demonstrations he said that he was prepared to head an interim government of called on to do so and once again if you waited the rallying call of thousands of egyptians full force me to stick down now we hear this was not a major surprise i mean mohamed el baradei has been a name that's been bandied about here in the last few days as a possibility in terms of unifying this very

construction of course israeli position can and should be respected but at the same time if israel isa genuinely it here into the middle east the peace settlement it should realize that. it should also give some concessions to the palestinian side and to understand better how things stand at present while continuing constructions it would be impossible to reach me. a long lasting solution move with polystyrene outside. poland's internal ministry says a russian air traffic controllers were involved in the plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski the full report in the tragedy is due to be presented in february and he said now he has more now on the latest developments. these are the first stabs and statements from polish officials in their investigation into the plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski is just too weak it has to be said after the interstate aviation committee presented their final report which found that an inexperienced polish crew bad weather and also pressure from high ranking officials on board ultimately led to the tragedy poland found this on its s

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agree with senator merkley about that but not because of filibusters.eb is because the majority leader isa cutting off debate and calling it a filibuster. so the majority leader and a republican leader i commend today because they have been talking about how we can do better. and we alle know that changing the behavior will be more lasting than changing the rules. i'm glad senator reid and senator mcconnell are working on this. they have as senator schumer ank need to work on it some more and we are going to do that. we have been. o we have had several meetings ano we have another one this afternoon.r we will keep working and we will consider carefully these proposals or any other sick, ane we will see if we can come ton some agreement about how to move ahead that my heartfelt plea haa before we change the rules,es. let's use the rules. going down to the suggestion for example the motion to proceed, that is a difficult one for many of us because if you are in the minority to motion to proceed is your weapon to require the majority to give you an amendment. secret ballot, senator wyden gra

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we will talk about the protection of intellectual property and other matters, but this is -- this isabroad visit. i hope they do some business. and people do it to distract? no. i think when people come to visit they often bring a gift. you go to someone's house for dinner you bring a bottle of wine. but seriously, i think you are calling to find a ongoing expansion and improvement in the trade relationship and the two countries. maybe you and i ought to talk offline. i will give you a few of your thoughts. i can take two more did you say? we have one right there. >> sean higgins business investor's daily. i'm hoping you can expand about your comments on labor regulations and what it was you might be concerned with the would do and how you would respond. >> welcome a you know, go ahead. >> one chief concern is trying to kind of the essentially to a card check approach through the regulation where they have been talking about the kind of slave revolt where the members could vote from their homes, the organizers could go to their homes kind of cutting off the business ability to communi

>> i don't think in that instance they came close t military conflict, but it isa very serious iplomatic. but i think these things can escalate, and could escalate if there are other incidents. we have a treaty obligation with japan. it's a very, very important ally, and without question if japan got into a conflict, military conflict with china, we would be at their side. i think that pacific command, commander, the secretary of state, have taken very strong and principled sitions, not recognizing the sovereignty of the island, the islands, but at the same time ensuring that the chinese understand that the united states is fully supportive of its treaty ally. and i think the japanese understand that. we need to be very close to them. we need to work very closely with them, and even under the democratic party of japan, i know the foreign minister will, they've got a strong leadership that understands the threats from china. >> if i could say something about this. it's part of a pattern we've seen over the past two years of china being very assertive about the maritime area around the sou

. >> i agree that there isa fundamental problems. and it's very difficul to shift from humanitarian assistance into, i have been in this field r a couple of years, and before coming to crisis group. and definitely people need to shift the assistance into long-tm, to adjust the pipeline of the human intelligence assistance and to get doctors for long-term so that it doesn't go out. and that's always the debate of that continuum. but for the south, get their independence, become a member of the uned nation, the ss by their imf and in recommend world bank to give money for development, which is going to include employment. at the employment -- at this moment, there is no money for major development that can create jobs in south sudan. so the priority is to work with the security sector, to reform the security sector, to continue building the institutions. y. fostering date can political conseus to accommodate those against the splm, so that when they are finished at least they can have a common ground where they can all move together. f

well speaker-elect baner isa wants to get back to a more traditional way of forming legislation. one of the more spectacular examples of this is his proposal to really give to the chairmen of the new budget committee, representative paul ryan of wisconsin, an extraordinary amount of power through the use of the budget, to limit the ability of the appropriating committees of the house to appropriate money. obviously a desire to save $100 billion from the budget, to cut $100 billion from the budget. and it's really quite interesting to see this kind of thing developing in the house of representatives. you've seen the center of gravity of power in the house move back and forth from the leaderships to the chairmanship, to the chair leadership to the chairman. we're seeing it go back now. now there are also interesting developments in terms of what's going on at the white house. congress in the 111th congress was very much concerned about the possibility that detainees who were held at the u.s. military prison in guantanamo would be brought back to the united states for trial. this is

isa,do more in the south. >> i've only got about 30 sends left.t me just note that we are entering a n era. government. we can no longer afford to have atarilyian and a half dollar deficit. we figured entirely if we are going to belion dollars in a corrupt with 38 million people, $0 billion for 38 million people and see that perhaps another country perhaps an adversary like china is benefiting greatly from our investment. those are the things we need to pay attention to. and we will be. thank you, madame carom. >> thank you so much. because the ranking member had given his time to mr. payne, now mr. payne is recognized as the ranking member designate of the africa global health and human i'm doing better under this uer late >> let me continue i think on the china discussion. as you indicated, china was very, very noninlv, as you know, and there were several meetings that were held with the chinese, the congressional black caucus actually met with the ambassador and kind of had a pretty tough meeting with them and they asked for a second meeting. t