that is something that is known. we almost never have a zero report. >> to those usually come off the bottom line? >> i would say yes, oftentimes. >> it will affect the list price in some way. >> how much does parking? >> i see people putting garages under their houses. how does that work? >> an appraiser looks at it for $50,000 to $100,000, depending on the area. if it is way out in sunset, there is more street parking. but in his family it could be a very big thing. >> parking is still super valuable, even though there is a citywide movement to get people out of their cars, which is quite good. and it is working, which is really working. we have bike lanes everywhere. it is great. we are really seeing that. it is nice to see that. but parking is still a big one. i think some of that will not change. the style of the cars change over a long time. that is still a very valuable feature. >> here is the secret. nobody knows about this. this is fire rated glazing. this is not a window. this is a fire rated transparent wa

is that true? >> that is true. the fact is that we are making major adjustments in putting the entire ability for people to get health care. it is in the hands of people that do not want you as a client. i got a voucher. i got support. you cannot guarantee that i have enough to get it for my children. right? >> the time has expired. at witness can respond in a letter -- our witness can respond in a letter. the gentleman from florida is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for holding such an important hearing. really afford to working with you and the rest of the members of the said committee. i also like to thank our witnesses for being here today. wanted go over one point. the medics wear -- the medicare trustee would be insolvent. my district was in florida. it is a big issue all over the country. it is much bigger. one thing i do not believe is taking into account the reduction. when we project this out and look down the road, a lot of them will have to go out of business. we have another 30% cut that we a

it is not expo. it is not clashing. it is a conversation. this is the way we are hard wired.n. i tried to ask the questions they would ask. this was an obvious thing. i noticed people were not reading as much as they used to. obviously, the bid price was already video. i am -- the big prize was yardy video. -- the big price was yardy video. we spend a lot of time on these projects. it is a blessing to do. they understand what i understand. they have the same deals. i think about what it would have been like in 1985. this was 16 years ago that we came up with this idea. we would have created the dvd. how have we reached people with this. we would have gotten people to fast forward and by a bit. we now have about 3 million. they have been subtitled. >> it was an illustrious crowd. make it difficult for. that is the problem with the macroeconomics. >> it was already written. it ended up not being there. they added it much more. it was like the sneak preview of the next one. >> here is the last section of this music video. it is about two minutes. ♪ >> she said that you that whic

if you lost matt damon it is over, right? >> it is, it is, it is.favorite of all of them. >> the damon brothers? do you accept the apology from everybody? >> have they? >> no. >> okay. i have been out of it. it is amazing. isn't it weird they criticize me all the time about accountability and truthfulness and they are caught with their pants down and there is no accountability. where is there somebody to go to them and say what are you ging to do about it? you were caught with your pants down. it is not a small thing to accuse me of having hacked the congressman. >> i don't know if we talked about it on the show, but being a liberal generally means you never have to say you are sorry. you never have to admit that the rosenbergs are guilty. >> i think we agree on this principal. >> how did you become a one-man vast right wing conspiracy? >> it was on this show. during acorn we jokingly said what next? i said we are going to take down the institutional left. marcos took it seriously and created a hash tag and he said, okay, buddy, if you are going to

is a strong and solid, is it causes, is it cold? guest: we think we have to back its president in order to get america back to work. if we want to hold all elected officials accountable to making sure that working people get a fair shake. host: is that strong or lukewarm? guest: i think that i will be in conversation with our over 2 million members and volunteering to participate in the political process, because we think we have to demonstrate, to all elected officials that jobs needs to be the top priority for our nation. the head of the afl- cio wants to put a limit on campaign contributions. guest: it should not stay as a conversation about obama, the democrats, the republicans. this has to be a conversation on how car into our country shares responsibility for creating jobs. i think that we should be trying to imagine more ways like ford has done to create 70,000 jobs. as part of the health-care union inside seiu, i need to be a conversation with afl-cio on isn't there a way for the private sector to create jobs and what do we

it is fine grained sand. it is usually loose. it is poorly graded. the colma foundation can be the same stand but it is denser. it may have to play in it. it is much stronger. it is an excellent supporting material. it is up to 10,000 years old on the dunes and. the colma is 40,000 to 60,000 years old. in some areas, it may be as old as 130,000 years. as you move across the city and get to the border, you get to ground that was originally under water. that sits on top of bay mud. wea is ak ve-- that is a very y with the consistency of jello that has been left in the refrigerator for several days. the others are residuals soil. they are either a product of the weathering of the underlying law. peluvium is soil that has been deposited by gravity. san francisco, dune sand, colma, and the others. very simple. because san francisco is so young. -- because san francisco is so young, it is riddled by faults. i have a map that shows the faults across the bay area and san francisco. the granddaddy of all of these is the san andreas fault. it is the longest. i

tavis: is is not your first encounter with mr. spielberg, is it? >> it is not. i met him in 1989 as a screenwriter. but in 1982, i was 16 years old and there was a super 8 film festival in los angeles. a good friend of mine, matt reeves, and i were in this film festival. there was an article about us calling us the beardless wonders, comparing us to people like spielberg and others, implying that we were incapable of growing a beard. to this day, i am offended by it. tavis: [laughter] >> the next day, spielberg's office called map. it was kathy kennedy, his assistant at the time. she is a big producer now. she called and said, would you guys be interested in repairing these movies that stephen made when he was your age? and we rely, what? nothing made sense. how was that a possibility? these were the original movies. it was not like it was a copy. he had done e.t. and readers of the lost ark. you would think that his early works would be protected by the government. tavis: and the smithsonian. >> that there would be hangar somewhere, a clean room. you cannot giv

this is an employer-lead focus. that is what is different.bout thee talking president's announcement about the expansion of job training initiatives. if you would like to get involved in the conversation, give us a call. if you are looking for a job, have just graduated from junior college and are out there in the job market, give us a call and let us know how things are going. if you are an instructor at a junior college, and definitely give us a call and let us know what is happening in your community. what skills particularly are the students lacking when they come out of junior colleges that is keeping them from getting jobs these days? guest: what we hear for employers is a variety of things. they do not have enough technical skills or the right technical skills. that is where we need to focus. we have a skills mismatch. we have too many americans unemployed and yet we have 3 million job openings in the united states. somehow we are not getting the right skills necessary that the employers want. but in a couple of interesting things. the

>> there is no kingpin. there is no god father.t is a bunch of doctors who get a patients with kidney failure and they want to help the patient. the transplant list can be five or 10 years. for somebody who does not want that, they will look where they can to get one. if you look hard enough, you will come into touch with people who will make things happen. it is these individual negotiations with doctors and brokers. a great deal of these organs move that way. tavis: you can find somebody if you look hard enough. how hard you have to let? >> it is not immediately apparent. three or four hours and you'll come across someone. that easy. tavis: what kind of money is generated as a result of this? >> it is difficult to say. these are organizations with poor records. we're talking about a variety of industry. i'm looking at child trafficking into adoption, blood, skeletons, a whole variety of things. i estimate there least in the billions of dollars. maybe tens of billions. maybe that is too high. it is difficult to say for sure. tavis

is that right? >> that is true. many geologists have spent many years mapping the geologic conditions. there are excellent maps of the city. in fact, there are a hazard maps. in 1974, there was a landslide map. >> that's right. that is available at that apartment building inspection. these are excellent maps. >> there is a real legacy of geologists working and now cannot always published. san francisco has a great repository of some of these archives. there is a child just -- a geologist to publish letters that is a great source of information. we are on the coast, they have the definitive work for all of the [inaudible] >> and did they pick up the old [inaudible] and wetlands? >> there was a map of those that weren' off the field. you can see where these are with respect to those that have been filled in with a debris from the 06 earthquake. >> that is one of the things i've learned, the very local zones, exactly where you are building at. side-by-side, san francisco is so varied in its tomography and geology, you

but what this is report is saying is that a lot of the money is not being well spent.rs. >> what would happen if they weren't getting that money anymore which is what some think is the best idea. >> well, you see, that is right. but the problem is that ongoing, and once the u.s. does draw down to troops which is meant to start this year of course, and once that happens, you are talking about maintaining the programs, and a lot of the programs the aid programs have been set up are going to require maintenance, and when we are not there, they are going to run down. then it is a waste of money in the beginning to have them there and counterproductive, too, because the people benefiting from the programs no longer are, and that creates resentment as well. >> and another thing that came up is the question of the inflated salaries? >> yeah, that is right. the danger being that, and i have been to afghanistan four times. i have seen this, too, where people are put on the payroll by us, by nato, and work for the coalition in various jobs whether it is construction or whether i

i think this is a huge part of the problem which is that it is not that the american economy is bad for everyone. it is and i know it is not very hip to quote john edwards right now. but his diagnosis was right on. there was a great interview in the wall street journal on saturday with bob dole who as we know is the great rob eberly strategist and he said that the fate of the u.s. economy and the fortunes of u.s. companies were no longer connected. he thinks that 70% of incremental revenue of s & p companies over the next five years will come from outside the u.s. 70%. so if you take that together with ad age saying only focus on people making more than 150,000, there is basic lay whole slice of america, the majority that doesn't really matter. >> which goes, tim, to our ongoing conversation about the unholy alliance between business and state. and particularly giant business -- >> and finance. >> finance is the biggest but telecom et cetera and the government service of those industries at the expense of the liberty freedom choiz and opportunity of human beings. >> the argument i belie

it is possible that it is to make up for yield that is now going into the streams, that it is a little bit of both, but we would like to be very clear on what the money is buying. the last comment i would make, and this is something i suspect will come out of the details of the study as things get for the refined that refers to a water district as being able to receive water that goes through the system, and that may be a five-day. i can imagine situations where it would not. where they are using capacity of your system during a drought, where your regional customers and your wholesale customers would like to use that capacity during a drought, so those are things we will be looking at so there is no conflict and so we are sure that the benefits are going to be there, and i am sure steve is looking to make sure your customers are protected, as well. president vietor: 80. a question for mr. richie -- thank you. >> period of supply shortfall or emergencies. a supply shortfall is a very broad phrase, to meet future demands, or it could be a time of drought. for study purposes, for the sup

that is going to end and end in california this summer. >> cpuc is asking that the cost is not begin to consumers. >> and the verdict is in, in the trial of a man accused of killing a oakland journalist. chauncey bailey was killed. and the jury convicted yusuf bey. >> they are live at the courthouse. >> the jury has been deliberating 10 days after hearing two months of testimony from dozens of witnesses and the district attorney here in oakland said the guilty verdict sends a message that a journalist, the murder of a journalist in this country will not be tolerated. yusuf bey and antoine mackey showed no expression. outside bailey's family said justice was served. >> journalist have a job to do and should not be squashed. that's what they tried to do with chancy. >> bey's mother stormed out of the courthouse missing because she was late. >> i believe in my son's innocence. i do. >> it was a case of the testimony of one man. former bakery handymanard. they wanted bailey today to silence him in a plea deal brosard will several 20 years. >> i don't think there is more i can say. that i

his name is bernie, his daughter's name is petra. she is 22. chris is a second of nanjing, by the way. she is moving in with her new >> they got a home for 50% off. >> who is her husband? >> he is an offer nor. his name is hunter something. >> i was going to say good for her, but at 22, may be a starter home. is there any reason why two people need that house? >> to entertain? it looks like a palace. >> if you read about aaron spelling, supposedly he grew up dirt poor. he wanted to show, look what i have accomplished, but he worked for it. this young lady is just getting used to it. imagine being married to someone, your husband comes home and says, i've brought you some flowers and you would say, get those needs away, look to my dad bought me. >> we need a new name for her panda. >> he got one hit last hoppe >> last year he had a terrible season and they were stuck with all of this panda merchandise. >> hawks gary, we will talk to you later. >> 8:22 a.m., we will be right back. ♪ [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd

when our union is strong, no real is tuesday. notarizing is beyond our reach. -- no hill is too steep. no horizon is beyond our reach. it is time to focus our efforts at home. we brought in for -- inspiration from our fellow americans who have sacrificed so much on our behalf. to our troops, veterans, and their families, i speak for all americans when we say -- what i say that we will keep the trust for you in providing you the care and opportunity that you deserve. i met some of these patriotic americans at fort campbell. a while back i spoke to the 101st airborne that has helped to turn the tide in afghanistan. standing in front of a model of bin laden's, doud, the navy seal who lead that effort paid tribute -- compounds, the navy seal who led the effort patriot to those who lost their lives. their memory will never be forgotten. this officer, like so many imad on bases in baghdad and bagram and the walter reed in bethesda, spoke about how his unit worked together as one, depending on and to other and trust in one another. -- d

it is so open here. there is nobody watching this. i think that is a plus to the community. hope the graffiti people do not go out there now that i am opening of my mouth. >> i want to thank you for the 50 years you have already given to the city as an arts leader. >> i started in to briberon, i's only been 45. >> you have championed his work over these years. >> it has been exciting working with him. it is one of the highlights of my life. >> thank you for being part of "culture wire" today. >> to learn more about the program and the list of public arts in need of maintenance, visit the website. thank you for >> welcome to culture wire. we will look at the latest and greatest public art project. recently, the airport unveiled the new state of the art terminal. let's take a look. the new terminal service and american airlines and virgin america was designed by a world- renowned architecture's firm. originally built in 1954, the building underwent massive renovation to become the first registered terminal and one of the must modern and sustainable terminals and the united sta

that is really what it is about. as we talk about the ciffies, i ask myself some fundamental questions. how in the world could we have investment banks that have relatively minor importance on a global basis justify a bailout. ? hulk and other banks that caused the collapse -- how can other banks because the collapse around world? how can a large insurance company that has failed be bailed out and left in private hands to go forward? finally, have been a country the size of greece hold hostage most of the world's financial structure. there are no good answers to those questions. it has been my experience those are very hard to answer. that is because i think they are inconsistent. having them and having these kind of the events makes it very inconsistent with the concept of capitalism. they have been increasingly powerful. they have been increasingly destabilizing to our economy as to have seen by the recent crisis. they have required special support. they have the availability of different rules. that is why we have

that is why oakland local is a partner of ours. we realized that it is not in our interests to hire somebody in every neighborhood. what we said was why don't we build a platform on which the myriad of local content providers that have begun to spring up can ride, and the key here is that they are looking for distribution. even patch is looking for distribution, and one thing yahoo! has is distribution. when yahoo! provides you with a platform, you see it. publishers recognize that it is a fire hose. so we launched in october 30 neighborhoods. we are now up to about 400 neighborhoods in new york, san francisco, san jose, peninsula, a detroit suburb, and chicago. we are going to be launching in cleveland and dallas, end of april/early may, and as we iterate on product, we will get better, but the idea is that it is open, and it allows for publishers to publish their content on the platform, people to actually communicate and for dissipate on the platform, and for the original content if you want to do that. the exact reason that you

this is 7069, with the euros stocks lower. the euro is at $1.43. general motors is about to regain their title as the largest car maker. there is a warning that profits will be slumping this year, the tissues caused by the tsunami in japan. this will fall by nearly two- thirds, and the march 11 catastrophe disrupted the power supply. toyota says that they will not fully recover until november. the question is, is general motors about to sell their european unit. the latest reports are that a chinese car maker, biac, would like to take over opal. they have received an offer from the chinese company. they first showed an interest a couple of years ago when general motors put this up for sale. plans were -- plans were canceled for a sale at the last minute. >> funeral services are being held for a german soldier killed in afghanistan in june. the german defense minister gave his personal condolences, but he also asked for germany's continued commitment to afghanistan, and said that the alliance should not succumb to violence. he was killed in it -- in

that is with the academic literature is on which were theory is based. >> i think it is not just academic literature, i did this is the premise behind teamsters. and makes it clear that he did not look to populations outside the company. >> this is typical of the entire american workforce. and let's say that every single company had exactly the same profile. and then you would say every company is in violation. >> i think title 7 holds the companies responsible for the actions that they take with respect to their employees. the industries of 30 or 40 years ago, the entire industry may have had evidence of discrimination. there be a negligence said under this statute, >> what is your answer, to assume that there is a disparity between the best of women and men, this can only be contributed to sexual discrimination? otherwise, how could she said that all these companies are engaging in these kinds of discrimination? >> in this instance, it is not just any old analysis that we are using. we isolate and take into account the factors, such as performance and seniority. >> it may well be that e

tax system messy as it is, is a major drag on our economy. this is not our problem. we have lots of problems. if i were to make a list of the 20 top things that are worrying me about the u.s. economy, i'm not sure that the tax system would even make it into that list. certainly it would be near the bottom. >> i think you need to broaden the tax rate but i disagree that you want to raise rates. i disagree you want to raise rates but dow need to generate more revenues as compar to historical levels. there is another thing to put on the table. we have to put on the table some type of consumption tax for several reasons. one, we have a huge undergrind economy, both legal and illegal. will you never totally capture through an income tax. secondly we've got a lot of people not paying federal income taxes. and thirdl, really wealthy people don't just consume out of their income, they consume out of theirealth. i have two points. first i agree with much of what has been said with one major-- i want to amplify something paul said. you know, i have been involved in this tax re

it is not affecting traffic this is a look at the toll plaza carried the san mateo bridge is a good ride. no overnight construction getting to the bridge. no delays coming out of marin county all along the golden gate bridge. >> today is the first day of summer and a first day of spare the air day. they are asking to avoid driving if that all possible walk warm like to your destination and people with breathing problems art encouraged to take extra precautions >> want north bay beach. " stetson beach has or issued of charcot advisory. they do not want people to go too far in the water because of the sharks. >> we did have a shark shutting said yesterday >> a ban on the surfing and swimming ons that some beach who will be in effect until thursday. >> police believe that geobotany of romero as well remain behind bars. no charges have been brought against him in the beating of bryan stowe the giants fan. >> the fight is not over there is an appeal process that will take place i will be submitting up our import more revealing. >> he is still in critical but stable condition. >> the fami

it is is a battle ground. do move through the area which is necessary? >> but then to sue the consequences. what we see is encouraging is how people regularly coming here to the district center and any other government agents that we have here to engage them to ask for help year and teethirty waiting for the people to solve their problems, that is a significant and it separate functions. >> [inaudible] >> there is an ebb and flow is the way i describe it. not as if everything is on a positive trend of the time. sometimes you take a few steps back. it is a constant buzz street and reassessing a need to do with the security perspective. that is a reassessment of where you need to go and what is the next up? >> to the best of your knowledge had to gauge the opinions of the people regarding the stands? >> the few who are tired of fighting program are a man of the fights going on around them. i think might urgency is that as the minority of people. thinking is a danger of themselves but the constraints of the daily lives for paying about security. i do not th

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there is another money. there is bp money and then there is nothing. there are scientists who are saying no trying to find support or they can, but there are getting in from groups like greenpeace, the center for biological diversity, universities. therefore they all need our support. we basically have to counter be peace control of the funds with alternative funding sources so that people like dr. cement the joy who i spend -- an amazing woman spend a great deal of time with has gone down to the bottom of the ocean want the month of fremont says this has happened to command the oil on the bottom of the ocean 2 inches thick 80 miles high up from the side of the blowout. a layer of dispersant on top. she was on the team that found the plan. she is fighting every single day. these scientists need our support. >> yes. something we have long suspected. i think it might have even have been the bp freedom of information act. thousands of documents emerged. bp has been doing everything possible to specifically direct how the money goes. i really do like t

that is where this beebee is. this is a stinging bomb in the garden party. it doesn't matter what part of it they are going to use or whether my name is connected with it, i don't give a whit. but i will tell you the essence of what we did, we felt that we have achieved an astounding success. we have effectively pissed off everybody in america and that is an important thing at 80 to be able to do that. it was good at 17 when i did it. [laughter] let me tell you, when we go around this country, we can sit in front of any audience, and for 50 minutes teaching questions get a standing ovation because we don't shoveled much at them. we sat through all this, and it took three months to establish a trust in this commission. never seen a more dysfunctional hostile environment, democrats against republicans and indy 500 worked with colburn on the defense proposals in our plan. but i tell you, when you get out and realize anywhere in the country and say here's where we are, if you spend more than you are and you lose your buck and if you borrow 41 since you've got to

tavis: what is the mission? what is the strategy? how did you farmout -- how to the five or six of you get the others to see it away you see it, to find some common ground? what is the strategy? >> you hit the nail on the heads. we have seen the republicans come up with mr. ryan's budget. we disproportionately made cuts out of medicare. it showed us how hard it is to take care of this problem. if you completely keep military spending off the table -- we saw the president come up with a proposal but also did not get a lot of attraction, so we have been saying, we have got this crisis triggered it is like we are about to drive over a cliff -- we have got this crisis. it is like we are about to drive over a cliff. every day $4 billion is added to our debt, that we will have to pay off. we used to say we will pass it to our kids. we are going to get stuck with it as well. some of the entitlement programs, we have got to reform them. now we have to say to our republican colleagues, spending may be at an all-time high, but revenues are at

the center of our tourist life is here because this is where the convention center is.eople from near and far can be introduced to the richness of the bay area. it is so wonderful and unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to be part of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture >> san francisco is home to a renowned civic art collection that includes a comic works -- iconic works by local and national artists integrated into our public buildings and six basis. the arts commission has struggled to take care of the priceless collection because of limited resources. in an effort to gather more funding for the maintenance of the collection, the art commission has joined forces with the san francisco art dealers association to establish art care, a new initiative that provides a way for the public to get involved. the director of public affairs recently met with the founder and liquor --

is driven by the market, but the framework is for -- it is driven by the market, but the framework is for public improvements. after 30 years, nothing has occurred, and if the board of supervisors does not amend the agreement, all the obligations expire. it is our estimation it will occur over approximately 20 years. president vietor: i have a question. i like to see a lot of this generation. i think this is the way of the future. i want to commend you on that. i saw that you did some calculations on savings. i believe the ghg, energy consumption and production -- are both of those related to the transportation peace -- piece, or is this gained by the new housing units? >> are you referring to the purple boxes? president vietor: yes. is this one on the left related to transportation? >> the one on the left is related to energy consumption and transportation. i am glad that you mentioned and pointed out the chart that i rushed through. i am trying to respect your time. there's a long story behind all of this. i think the point is to show the commission in general -- we accept -- we exp

it is not just a document that is on a wall. it is something we have to believe that every level and in force at every level. in preparing for this, i found an absolutely wonderful article, "the truth about the police code of silence revealed." i really recommend that you take a look at that. i'm going to recommend most police chiefs take a look at this. there are profiles. he talks about the code of silence. that is about the fact that there is. how you prevent the code of silence? it is like how do you prevent crime? or how do you stop crime, let's put it that way. the best way to prevent these kinds of indiscretions, or as you will, from happening, is to ensure each level of your organization is responsible for the people that they supervise. and you inspects, you audits, you ensure, and then it becomes part of the culture. i will tell you one of the best tools i have seen in my career -- two of the best tools. no. 1, tape recorder. two, video camera. i am not talking about watching "cops" on tv. it is a couple of things. num

that is one that is good news. and in the "financial times" about the shale gas industry in the u.s. let's stop there and go back to calls. clinton township, mich., dorothy, you are on the air. caller: good morning. the way things have been going there is not anybody die know in my area -- anybody i know in my area in the suburbs of detroit that is doing good. everybody is struggling in some form. if things do not get back together, we are doomed. i do not see us getting out of this any time soon. i am really, really frightened about our future. host: the administration today is going to toledo, the president, to a chrysler plant. what effect have you seen of the government involvement in the auto market? caller: be honest, i was disappointed with the bailout. and when it happened, it did not do me any good. i got my car repossessed because of a leafy, not because i was behind on my payments. it -- because of a late fee, not because i was behind my payments. there was a chrysler. -- it was a chrysler. i do not care

who is going to get credit? that is not for sure is. that is coercion. lot of this reminds me of a story of when i was growing up in louisiana. one of johnny's teachers was trying to get johnny out of his shell and she said johnnyjohnny, do you know the difference between apathy and ignorance? johnny said, i don't know and i don't care. people who are uninterested in the outcome are uninformed about the outcome will somehow produce a better america. it seems to me fanciful and yet that is what mandatory voting is all about. >> thank you fred smith. for a rebuttal on what was wrong with fred's arguments and now he you can be like a positive person -- and what was wrong with norman's argument. >> just a couple of things. as fred said we are not a nation where we all share the same views. we have a lot of very different points of view. what i find reticular lee interesting now given the nature of our election system, our nomination process, if you look at a whole range of surveys you will find for example over half of republicans believe that one way we sho

is key, and access is key.ve the best health care in the world. here in america. the issue is whether or not we can afford it or get it. so, we have worked very hard to try to make that the case. this legislation was important to seniors -- all americans, but particularly seniors because it made improvements to the medicare program. some of you are probably aware of those improvements, but i want to go over them. seniors in the medicare doughnut hole now get discounts on brand and generic drugs as a result of this discount. the doughnut hole is between $2,000 and about $6,400, in which there is no compensation from the federal government under the existing prescription program. however, we changed that so that -- we reduce the cost by 50% this year, and we will phase it out by the next decade. so that you will have the opportunity to have a prescription drug availability that you will be able to afford. by the way, i want to tell you liz murray is here. she is one of the most knowledgeable people in the house o

[applause] that is what is unique. the president of the united states just a few weeks ago, in responding to paul ryan's budget said this, and he was talking about medicare, medicaid, and unemployment insurance, and he said the country is a better country with those programs, i'll go one step further, he said, america was not a great country until those programs >> [crowd booing] >> ladies and gentlemen, america was a great country before 1965. >> [applause] >> america was a great country before government decided that it had to start taking from those -- >> [interruption] >> sorry, we have someone who i think the heat has gotten to them. to make sure if there's any emergency personnel that can get here, we want to make sure this person gets some help. >> reporter: obviously, something has happened in the middle of senator rick santorum's speech, someone fainted, apparently, they got a chair and some water and the former u.s. senator, doing the right thing, trying to attend to the individual here in somerset, pennsylva

is not listed, it is rove vote. it is an and the category that does not -- and m c category that does not exist. -- empty category that does not exist. the way to do it is not to have it listed. back when this was drafted, we have heard banks lobbied hard to have this exempted. it makes almost no sense to have sales and services listed if it is a category with no potential uses in it. that is the argument put forward by the planning department, because public services have not been pulled out of the general category it sits in but is otherwise listed, apparently it is exempt, so we are asking for your help in having the city and county follow the rules. there is no way to have some way in. they are not here today about whether or not people like corporate thanks. it is about following the formula retail block. it is about following notification from neighbors, and is about following the planning code. to continually manipulate the law makes no sense, and frankly, is sort of an affront to all of us who worked to pass

guest: that is absolutely right. that is absolutely right. that is exactly right. the reality is that medicare is complicated and it is critical to tens of millions of seniors. to think that the u.s. government should say, "here is the new deal. hope you like it." that's a bad idea. we need to have a discussion with the american people about what it means and what the issues are and get people bought into the notion that we have to do some things and it should be equitable. host: mike, democrat. lancaster, pa.. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. caller: my question is on the debt and on social security. i am totally against ending medicare. i'm totally against that. also, i'm going to be 62 years old in a few months. i am looking to collect my social security. if they get this lot past where they want to raise the retirement age again, -- this law passed where they want to raise the retirement age again, will there be any protection for people such as myself? people such as myself? i their main mission is to make them look bad. guest: regardless of what rep

this is this. political provocation or is this noble humanitarian mission because depending on what you want to read in western media it's one of the other and mostly it is a provocation how do you react to that being on the ground and knowing gaza so well . well the position of the united nations relief and works agency for which i speak is very clear on this if there were no a humanitarian crisis if there weren't a crisis in almost every aspect of life in gaza there'd be no need for the fertility if there were a blockade there'd be no need for fertility let's look at the basic humanitarian facts on the ground ninety five percent of all water in gaza is undrinkable forty percent of all disease is water borne is caused by poor water forty five point two percent of the labor force is unemployed eighty percent a dependency a tripling of the abject poor since the blockade there is clearly a crisis in every aspect of life in gaza we're trying to build schools one hundred new schools big problems there

this is a dramatic lightning strike in boston. there it is again. it is surreal.ngest lightning bolt hit the prudential building. it was shot from the roof of the suffolk university law school. we don't deal with tornados in like in the east. we have other worries. >> wildfires. they held a drill in case a neighborhood had to be evacuated because of a fire. it there was a emergency shelter complete with cots and medical assistance. the needs of the community are different than other areas. >> they have a 55 and above age limit and there is elderly people there and there are schools nearby. there are a few assisted living centers nearby. >> the red cross is preparing the assistance for pets simulated here with stuffed an mams- animals. >> it is an important programming note. >> very important. >> game two of the nba final between the dallas mavericks and miami heat starts at 5:30. >> join me after the game with warriors general manager and that will start at 8:30 and there is a new candidate in the coaching search. we'll tell you. >> we'll get you the latest after

is that what it is about? i don't know anyone who realistically think that afghanistan will stand alone when this is over. >> colby? >> what i heard him say is that he will keep 68,000 troops on the ground and afghanistan for the next three years. he is going to have a 70,000 troops out there to help stabilize the situation so that the corrupt, it karzai regime can have negotiations with the taliban. the of what we pay in iraq. 40,000 people -- 4000 people killed, 30,000 wounded. we get the word this week that the iranians and iraqis enter into economic cooperative agreements, syria and iran and the iraqis are building a pipeline into arab countries. we did all that for that? out of afghanistan, what are we going to get out of that? >> nina? >> what you hear from this panel is not just a reflection of the body politic, but from the public. president cannot sustain a war when there is not public support for it. the public has been remarkably supportive of this war, despite ambivalence. that support is clearly e

and what my concern also is is that the city, by having a high fee, if that is what its decision is, which for a family of four, i believe, would be $52. again, not 100% sure on that, but i think so. there is also the issue of the difficulty to actually go and use and get a day pass. so not only do you have a high fee, but when, on a saturday -- people may come up on a friday night and then a saturday afternoon to go to get a pass, and it is the very time- consuming process, because all of the people that are checking in are at the office. if you have ever gone to mather and had to check in, which i have done many times -- i have been going to mather for over 50 years. i was up there with my family. my father was a police officer. that is it. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners, anybody? >> then we are on item 12, which is the adjournment. >> a great. there are communications. -- at the -- [inaudible] >> we have found out that that is not one of our parks. yes. >> all right, thank you. >> i

one is the bayview. the other is the day. since the gold rush, 90% of the wetlands in the bay have been filled in. those wetlands act as a filter for all of the water that goes in. when you do not have that filter, you need to recreate one. that is what we're doing here today, making sure that all the rain water that falls down here does not lead on the radius days to ed harrington. he runs one of the cleanest shops right down here. you want to make sure that those combined sewer overflows -- they have about 10 times a year. by doing this, not only do you increased your property values, not only do you know that you are doing your part for the environment, but you are also putting less of a strain on the waste water treatment plant and helping the bay. and it really needs our help. it is in trouble. when i came down here, we passed the shore. there is a reason is called bay shore. that is where the shore of the bay used to be. a lot of the area this bill. when we think about infrastructure, we are also securing this for the f

it is about 20%. supervisor mirkarimi: what is their contribution sourcing on renewable energy at the state level? >> we're thinking 17%. it is growing. i think they would refute that and say it is higher. it is one of the other reasons why the sfpuc came to the conclusion that in marketing, we may as well go out and market the program infinitely different from the products pg&e is providing to you. supervisor mirkarimi: i agree. i think with all of the concern and discussion about nuclear power that if we can reliably segregate an option that would not be nuclear-driven, i think that would appeal to a lot of people in san francisco. >> i do, too. supervisor campos: did you want to add something kristin >> i want to echo that on the marketing angle. -- did you want to add something? >> i want to echo that on the marketing angle with nuclear- free. it seems like the energy money and accessing that would be key to looking at the financing, the low income question, the rate payer structure, and all of th

they feel is a paramilitary is not doing an adequate job. the raids made people worried that their protectors were not sufficiently strong and protective. on its face, i have to say, is not surprising that pakistan is up set it pakistani citizens are talking to a foreign intelligence service. that is a no-no. we do not like when foreign governments, even friendly governments -- israel france -- talk to our nationals, so that is not surprising, but the breach is something much deeper than that. >> the army seems to be perhaps the only institution in pakistan, for better or worse, that still functions. having this kind of criticism of the army, having the army basically from within itself -- how debilitating is that for the country as a whole? >> in the short run, as you say, it destabilizes one of the important levers of stability. in the long run, it is a good thing for pakistan, in my judgment, to have the army and isi brought under greater civilian control, be more subject to criticism from the public, parliament, and those are good things

this is part -- this is art to a great extent. there's a lot of demand still for the art gallery/liquor license concept. that was created actually before the recession hit, and it went into a lull for a while, and it is kind of sticking its head up again. like you said, we licensed one recently, and even those, we move cautiously because we want to make sure that the art is incidental to the sale of alcohol. that is all we're trying to do, get a relationship here if somebody wants to open a bar, we need to understand that that is what they want so we can prepare for the impact of it. supervisor avalos: do you see, looking at overall city guidelines that you probably operate under, where would you draw the line? >> by statute, we have valid consideration voids -- proximity to schools, proximity to libraries, proximity to public parks, proximity to boys and girls scouts centers, and clubs, so those are all things that would be -. -- negative. government-supported housing. we could go on and on. in this case, this is a pretty vibrant