ito. [applause] >> we feel so honored to accept this for ben ito. wonderful job. thank you. [applause] >> i will say just one thing. he told me a long time ago that one day he would be recognized by the city for something. i kind of thought it was a joke at the time, but it came through. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. >> commissioner lee. commissioner lee: thank you. september 4 and 5 rec and park and the table tennis association are preparing for a two-day ping-pong tournament at richmond recreation center on september 4 and september 5. i understand there will be cash prizes. one of the top prizes is a $500 price in the adult category, but all ages are welcome. you can find out more information about this on our web site. september 4 and september 5. for those of you who have ping- pong in your hearts, come out and give it a try. commissioner buell: thank you. that concludes my report. >> is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is close. we are on item 3. >> thank you, commissioners. we have a number of items today. i will try to move as quickly as i

. >> our next award goes to the unsung heroine, carol ito. she is bed a passionate advocate for women of all levels of the community. she was one of the founding members of the national asian pacific women's movement in the late 1970's, which resulted in the development of the local bay area group, pacific asian american women. the have been running 30 years. she recently completed three terms as a san francisco airport commissioner. please join me in welcoming carol ito. [applause] >> thank you. i am very humbled this afternoon to join all of you. i want to thank shelly's committee and everyone who made this happen. i am honored to share many of these honors. many of us have work together for the various causes and policy changes for this great city. i must say that there are many unsung heroines in this room, and my guests at table three are many of my own personal friends and supporters to keep me honest, keep the focus, and make it really very special and important to do what i do. i have got a lot of guidance and support from these women

next saturday for tons of fifteen minutes on the field meanwhile of this latest move makes some early ito the highest paid a footballer in russia as dungy will pay overturned a million euros per season let alone win and gold one assists in the wake of the few months of the biggest sunday football club has made have lines all across the world by buying leading international football stars the team has already legendary brazilian and to find out about the crowd was as well as he did the silver and a famous russian footballer you should call for meanwhile this all happened when the any football club was bought by the locally born in a businessman and also one of the richest men in russia so the monkey market and now he is basically spending millions of euros in a bid to make this football club which is situated here in the russia's north caucasus known all across the world and sometimes it's really seems that he's possibly gathering some kind of a dream team on the russian soil meanwhile maniacs for his believes that signing and so will bring the dagestani football club into a new level in t

. >> reporter: the next day, ito arrives to have his blood pressure taken. now the elderly eagerly await their visits with the doctor. >> translator: i just offer one tiny service. but i want to do as much as i can. if people stay in town, they will be able to rebuild it. i want to help make that happen. >>> in other news, a group of lawyers and evacuees from fukushima prefecture has called from the abolition of nuclear power plants across the country at a symposium held in tokyo. about 350 people took part in tuesday's event including more than 20 residents from near the fukushima plant. the event was organized by lawyers who plan to take legal action in all prefectures hosting nuclear plants to shut them down. an evacuee from a town within five kilometers of the plant talked about his brief visit to his hometown when he didn't see a single sparrow. >> translator: i realized that i might never be able to return to my home or live in my hometown again. i wonder if the tokyo electric power company really understands what safety means. >> a former resident of

. >> reporter: the next day, ito arrives to have his blood pressure taken. now the elderly eagerly await their visits with the doctor. >> translator: i just offer one tiny service. but i want to do as much as i can. if people stay in town, they will be able to rebuild it. i want to help make that happen. >>> in other news, a group of lawyers and evacuees from fukushima prefecture has called from the abolition of nuclear power plants across the country at a symposium held in tokyo. about 350 people took part in tuesday's event including more than 20 residents from near the fukushima plant. the event was organized by lawyers who plan to take legal action in all prefectures hosting nuclear plants to shut them down. an evacuee from a town within five kilometers of the plant talked about his brief visit to his hometown when he didn't see a single sparrow. >> translator: i realized that i might never be able to return to my home or live in my hometown again. i wonder if the tokyo electric power company really understands what safety means. >> a former resident of

this ito is trying to transform the company into a west coast version of our troubled ibm. -- arch rival ibm. but can they need to exit the consumer business as ibm did six years ago and to focus on corporations and governments. we're trying to sell the pc business. they're the world's largest. by the end of next year hp computers will be sold under another company's name. it will be selling to autonomy corp. for 10 billion. they have slender thousand workers worldwide. experts say that this is a sign that agency is failing to keep up with apple computers which have excelled in the personal computer business. this is a major change for a company that is trying to reinvent itself in the computer business. >> we are following a developing story on the east bay. oakland police are warning people about an increase in gold theft especially gold jewelry. these crimes are happening throughout this city, mostly in the fruitvale district and president of areas around lake merritt. majority of the victims have been female. their break approached conflict and cajolery is getting 1/4 script right of

about our seniors and to think about the 18 months and what that means in terms of confidence and what ito means also to have a 50/50 in terms of defining the strength -- america. we cannot, despite reluctance to vote for the bill and depending on reseating their checks in the government or other security over tim overe, time we cannot allow our seniors and veterans to be caught in the collateral damagei f the assault on the middle class that is being waged iness. this congress. this is one manifestation of making it harder for the future for a great middle class which is and those who aspire to it which is the backbone of the ofu democracy. so if we're going to honor the vows of our founders did carry c on the great legacy and a tradition of their optimism, their determination we hope for ageshfuture that we would last dr ages but we but last ages as a democracy and the disparity of income and equity in the country that undermine that democracy. so please, call -- colleagues, i brtainly am and have been even though i work very hard to t support the president in abouto preserving what i sa

really capturing the imagination of the world of football according to the leaders information center ito has a right to moscow just several hours ago he under one's magical examination and signed a contract to become an ongoing player on wednesday and many waited for some kind of a commons from his side on his arrival and during the last conference he explained why he made such a decision and why he decided to join the club that i'm very glad to be the most important thing in life is to be happy and i'm happy to be here i'm starting from scratch says of all the trophies possible in europe as a player here it was sort of new plus a little bridge across before he told me a lot about russian siebel and i drew forward to joining the team also he adds as that he hopes he will be given a chance to join the team next saturday for transfer fifteen minutes on the field meanwhile of this latest move makes sam alito the highest paid player in russia as sunday will carry over turned a million euros per season let alone win and gold bonuses in the wake of the few months of the biggest sunday football

it is disgusting and itoes right to the top. the wish shps, along with the vatican, played a major role in aggravating the level of abuse of children in ireland. the report is measured in its tone and found that the vatican's reaction to the 1996 framework document was entirely within council. it gave any bishop the freedom to ignore it. we need cast iron guarantees from the church that they'll adhere to the civil law when it comes to reporting abuse, and will do so as of now with immediate effect. they have a moral only fwation to do so. however, moral obligations on members of the clergy have not work sod well in the past so we also need cast iron guarantees from the state that if there are more flagrant breeches -- breaches of the law which we have seen on many occasions in the past, they must be held to account. for the vatican to state that the framework document was merely a study document, rather than an official document, was mething to shortt of an insult to the survivors and victims of abuse. they stated th had serious

didn't have the fiscal framework that we need, but i think it doestake -- i think it does take -- itoescreate risk with respect to confidence. i think we're far better off doing it -- even if our leaders can't act until after the election -- i think that's a real possibility. if they committ to work together, ross party and ideological lines to reach a sound position, i think that itself could be very confidence-reinforcing. >> rose: are you in approval of? >> i think on the whole dodd-frank was sound. i don't know necesrily agree with every single piece of it. i think the consumer protection piece was very important. i wrote a book which came t in 2003, in there i talked about my concerns about derivatives, and the dodd-frank derivatives were -- i said in the book -- i think what we really need in derivatives is t do what dodd-frank did, but also go further and have much higher and capital requirements, because it would give you a larger cuson. that's what i said in the book in 2003. >> rose: what ought to be thepuo years? one big idea is it ought to be about the role of government? th

getting very aged and we haven't had the kind of investment or the resources to put the investment into ito keep our infrastructure strong and safe. and i know this is a problem from around the country. i've talked to many mayors. we need to understand that nvestments in infrastructure is actually going to save us money over the long term, it's going to keep people safe, and it's actually going to help our economy as well. >> all right. mayor booker, thank you very much. more of that discussion ahead, of course, and good luck to you as you continue with your efforts r rescue and damage assessment there in newark and the surrounding areas. we're going to take a break here. we're going to continue the discussion. coming up, this really is a test of national preparedness, as mother nature strikes twice this week, we've been mentioning. first, a rare earthquake on the east coast, and then, of course, hurricane irene barreling up the eastern seaboard. how prepared is the country to deal with these unexpected national emergencies? our roundtable's going to talk about it. and of course, the politi

it had an impact on what ito to do in life. >> americans understand asia? and does the u.s. policy reflected policy specifically toward china that you think is appropriate? >> we have insufficient knowledge of asia. we don't quite understand the economic implications of the rise of asia and what that means in terms of our own competitiveness. when you look into the 21st century, it will be much different century because it will be based on economic competition. the players pretty much all reside in the east asia-pacific region aside from the united states. the implications are fairly profound. if you visited china 10 years ago compared with today, the differences are absolutely phenomenal. i believe that in order to truly understand the economics implications of the rise of asia and the way in which society has so transformed itself, you have to have visited on a very regular basis, because the rise of asia and specifically the rise of china has happened so quickly. the change of society, the development of society, the rise of their economy is so significant, so consequenti

. >>> as twitter gets read ito move into its new san francisco headquarters. people in the neighborhood are hoping some unwelcomed visitors will be on their way out. people who live and work in the area say the vacant lot across the street from the new twitter building has become very popular with rats. rat poison containersers are clearly -- containers are clearly visible behind the fence. the lot may be developed as early as this fall. >>> 7:19. investigating the cause of a brush fire in kern county. how flames shut down one lane of interstate 5. >>> if you have always wanted to go to stanford, you now have a chance to take a class for free. >>> good morning. southbound 680 traffic looks pretty -- pretty good driving to the south bay. but some others are not looking so good. we'll tell you where they are. >>> the cause of a brush fire in kern county is under investigation right now. this fire started just after 4:00 yesterday afternoon. a brush fire -- a brush and dry grass was actually fueling all of this. at one point, some homes were threatened. the crews

momentarily meantime, a relative of a suspect responded to the charges against him and this is what ito kron4. >> he called and said i want my family to believe i did not do this that is all he wanted you wanted to stand behind him that is it. >> i know he did not do that i know he didn't. this is too much for our family. we do not need this anymore in our family. >> we wanted to show you the pictures at the makeshift memorial, you can see that people love blooms, signs, messages, all reacting very emotionally to the death of a three year old boy, this happened in a drive-by shooting on monday, of course he was not the intended target, nonetheless the police say they have made an arrest in this case. we also want to show the other big story of the state, we will have more on that coming up at 6:00 p.m. tonight with the other big story this day is a look at the closing numbers from wall street. the roller- coaster ride is definitely continuing, the dow jones came in at 423 points to finish the day, just above 11,000. the nasdaq pick up 112 points to close at nearly 2500 points. a dramati

on the phone with us right now, journalist ito gown, give me an idea of what you're seeing and experiencing everything is quiet, as of yesterday when people expected the storm to hit, the stores closed early and markets did open a little later, so a lot of people did stock up. but as of yesterday afternoon and into late last night into early this morning, so far nothing, so we're just bracing for the worst or whatever's coming. >> so no rain as of yet? the biggest fears are with people living still in tents, still living really in dire straits, is a large concern also kind of the hillside area where traditionally whenever you have big rain, you end up having remarkable and dangerous mudslides? >> absolutely. absolutely, and that is the fear here and so far and so good, it's dry in port-au-prince and so we'll see what the day brings, but so far it's quiet and it's calm and people are going about their business. >> thanks so much for keeping us posted, it would be nice if that storm would just kind of take a turn and go book to sea and people there not being affected at all. >> hope is workin

i know they have to get involved risn ito th >> some people -- some sta ♪ >>> my favorite show on tv. good. the theme from "modern family" the new season of the hit show starts wednesday, september 21st. can't wait. >> the cast and crew are in jackson hole, wyoming, taping the season's first episode. marissa vodner of kifi was there as their western adventure began. i bet it was awesome. >> reporter: led by rico rodriguez, aka, manny, the cast of abc's "modern family" steps out of a chartered plane into the wild, wild west. >> we just landed. i can't believe the scenery here. it's awesome. >> we were looking through the windows of the plane. it was just incredible. >> reporter: one by one came familiar faces of the show that's captured the hearts of more than 12 million views. sofia vergara, ty burrell, julie bowen. all greeted by the mayor and jackson pd mounted patrol. >> we're thrilled to have this kind of publicity in jackson hole. more importantly, to be able to show off our community to the world. >> reporter: the cast and crew of more than 100 will shoot the one-hour season thr

the greed is good itos, which has been dominant since the 1980's is an attempt to kill killassion, killhy, til care. -- the poverty tour is a love tour. we care about the innocent civilians that the u.s. drones are killing every day. innocentong to killl people. host: here is a tweet -- host: do you plan to vote for president obama? guest: i am going to do the same thing i did three years ago. my role on pbs is one of accountability. my friend dr. west did 65 events for president obama. guest: that was 2008. host: you will be asked next. [laughter] guest: my role was the same as it was a few years ago -- help people reexamine the assumption they hold about the poor in this country, expanding the inventory of ideas, using my platform to introduce americans to each other so we have empathy for each other. ultimately, where politics are concerned, my job is to hold people accountable. itself as many of you know, mr. smiley -- host: as many of you know, mr. smiley hosts "the tavis smiley shelow." dr. west, you campaign for president obama at what, 60? guest: 65. we were hoping barack obama

come up to me a year after the trial a tribute to in the decision to me as if i had persuaded judge ito to provide cameras. he said you have set back to the course of justice in america. you have done that by assisting, preventing a situation in which the public got to see that trial, the lesson of that trial is not the lesson of justice in america. that is what the judge said to me. my reaction is about the o.j. simpson case and the anthony case is that really, that is an argument that is deeply anti- democratic in its nature. that is really not an argument against television. that is an argument against information. i think that is exactly what it is. we have to recognize and accept the proposition. sometimes information which we ought to protect and ought to allow people to have can be used or misused by the reader or the person who watches, by the person who becomes enthralled by what is going on. i was struck by what was said about jurors in terms of protecting them. i do not think it is a very close case. i do not think it is a hard issue about letting jurors and certain parts of

with a i am hopeful and optimistic that the select committee will do ito job and come back with another trillion and a half or more ofcm cuts to spending, and that is year going to happen, that select committee is going to reportatt, this year. the budget cap is set for this year and next year, but t elections matter, and who isiont elected in 2012 to the house and the senate and the presidency will finally and ultimately make a decision about whether this track that we are on now gets better than it is now or frankly heads back in the other bill, direction. campaign pledges, mr. president, i think are important, and while i support the bill, i am also fully appreciative of everyoneae who feels like they can't.t and frankly, if some campaignow pledges hadn't been made in 2010, we probably wouldn't be as this moment to become and if ce that's -- if that is somehow an extraordinary thing people run for office and they say that is what they are going to do and hw then they come here and do thatt that is what the process is all about and how it is supposed to wrk. is this my sense of what p

the greed is good itos, which has been dominant since the 1980's is an attempt to kill killassion, kill empathy, til ca. -- the poverty tr is a love tour. we care about the innocent civilians that the u.s. drones are killing every day. innocentong to killl people. host: here is a tweet -- host: do you plan to vote for president obama? guest: i am going to do the same thing i did three years ago. my role on pbs is one of accountability. my friend dr. west did 65 events for president obama. guest: that was 2008. host: you will be asked next. [laughter] guest: my role was the same as it was a few years ago -- help people reexamine the assumption they hold about the poor in this country, expanding the inventory of ideas, using my platform to introduce americans to each other so we have empathy for each other. ultimately, where politics are concerned, my job is to hold people accountable. itself as many of you know, mr. smiley -- host: as many of you know, mr. smile hosts "the tavis smiley shelow." dr. west, you campaign for president obama at what, 60? guest: 65. we were hoping barack obama

ito proposed cooperation with stability and growth. it will have to be in line with the program presented in brussels in may. the growth of the economy is a consequence of the positive convergent. we will strive to reach an agreement between the the ways in which to realize a common purpose. this meeting will will focus on the four. the bank will sell financing to finances. we will have to give a strong response on the commitment to growth that will make the stabilization plan credible. for this, i like to anticipate to parliament's the subject of our discussion with the unions. the management will focus on measures that have been tested. of the joint monitoring, it will allow us to have an oversight. it gives us the possibility to have an oversight of the effectiveness of the execution. biddle let us see the effectiveness of the measures. -- it will allow us to see the effectiveness of the measures. the role of financing is even more importance in this long term difficulty. in addition to the agreements, the government and these assoc

ito they spake eight basic economic predict it will face the basic economic ones. -- it will face thec ones. i am going to conclude with one assertion about that policy. i think he would agree to this. the best possible outcome for the debate over whether to extend the bush tax cuts would be a deadlock. it's so they all expire. we can begin to talk about how to curb tax expenditures. they can lower rates by some amount. we will have outcomes based on what they describe. i think a likely outcome is that the committee will agree to month -- committee will agree to some cuts. there would be automatic cuts between defense and nondefense. they might well be so large and unacceptable that in the end, the agreement that was just reached in august might be one to which congress returns. as advertised, i am a recovering congressmen. i lay this before the court. this is one arina in which the political party has striate to establish differences between each other. it is not unusual to find the parties. there have been glorious times. there is the wonderful time under president clinton. there we

atch him know what the senators want and to hold what they want or give ito them is brutal. it is governance. >> let me add here. bob told me the other day that when he won the national humanities medal in 2010 president obama said to him "i think about robert caro and reading the power but when i was 22. it helped to shape how i think about politics." what has president obama learned about politics? >> i am sorry you asked me that. i think that so far the things that george said, the difficulties of doing this are very real. part of the problem is senator obama was only a senator for three years. for part of that three years, he was out campaigning. it is very hard to learn congress. it is another world. when you come in -- i like to think he has been on a learning curve. >> on the job learning is not what we want for our president. what can i add something? the equivalent would be the health care bill. obama rlly needed every last vote. i studied that closely. he did it against great odds pick maybe democrat said forget it. i went down to virginia the next day. it was call

ben ito. he was a standout volunteer, due to his ability to blend in to the day to day life style.e walked to the lake daily, sometimes twice a day. he noticed a need for improvement. instead of complaining, he just took care of it. ben picked up trash around the lake daily without worry or concern of the why or who. ben's extraordinary work was brought to our attention by another civic-minded friend, john draco. john share the story of how ben was in the late one day just to reach a loose plastic bag. if ben walked in the same direction, he would take time for small talk. if he was walking in the opposite direction, he would kindly nod.