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. >> my name is jeannie scott. i am faculty at san francisco state university. i agree with everything the other two said, but what i really want to see happen is the m-line get out of the middle of 19th street and come to the side of san francisco state. i use the m, as well as the students. it is narrow and dangerous. there are a lot of backpacks, a lot of jostling, a lot of waiting. thank you. chairman nolan: ok, then we have a recommendation in front of us. is there a second? >> second. chairman nolan: all those in favor, say aye. >> item 12 -- chairman nolan: before we do that, our distinguished former chairman is here. i do not know if you would like to say anything. would you like to address the board? [laughter] >> you did not think he was going to say no, did you? chairman nolan: i did not think there was a chance of that? thank you for greasing a room this afternoon. >> good afternoon, mr. scherer and the members of the board of directors -- mr. chair and the members of the board of directors. earlier, i shared the news of mr. ford's moving on, and it

very good plan in terms of language pathways but i really ask that the vort that jean inventory that jeannie has been working on, so that families who are entering to into this and looking at middle schools have as much information as possible. >> thank you. i'll get the final words to the superintendent. >> i just wanted to thank staff. i all the parent organizations, i have to tell you. i especially want to think orla. you have done the heavy lifting here. you have put in so many hours and it takes a lot of patience. i think you deserve a nobel peace prize or something because the amount of frustration that people have and voice to you because -- because the most important thing in anybody's lives are their children. so you folks, you know, you did a great job with that and i just want to commend all of you for doing an outstanding job. thank you. [role call vote] >> it is unanimous. >> thank you very much. and staff thank you. really appreciate it. ok. one big one down. one big one to go. to our next item. 115-24. amendment of resolution number 9. students to utilize independent study for

is easily one of the ugliest bases. >> i'm glad i'm not a houston flight attendant. >> reporter: jeanniell more to come, i'm sure, on that story. something a lot of people are talking about. 26 minutes past the hour now. a lot of people still talking about what we have been seeing in the casey anthony murder trial. it will be back in session this morning. her brother and mother were the latest to come to her defense. we will tell you what is on tap for today's testimony. >>> also ahead, hitting the campaign trail. michele bachmann is making plans. rl up wi movie, and see a phone call. now, we can take a classroom anywhere, hold an entire bookstore, and touch the stars. because now...there's this. i don't always have time to eat like i should. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes, which can help lower a1c. [ male announcer ] glucerna. helping people with diabetes find balance. we don't just make a taillight... ..we make a sculpture. we don't just make a sunroof... ..we make the heavens wide. we don't just make a crossover

. >> and jeannie oversaw them as warden of the prison. >> that means that each one of those executionsmillion. >> reporter: leading the now retired warden to one conclusion. >> absolutely it's a broken system. this is a false promise to victims. >> reporter: in fact, the senior federal judge and law school professor were given unprecedented access to three decades of death row expenses. today they revealed the state must budget an extra $184 million a year for death row cases. that's 20 times more that in prosecutors pursued life without the the possibility of parole. >> if we ended executions today we would save over a billion dollar in five years. >> reporter: that's because death row cases require two trials and your tax dollars pay up to $300,000 for the attorney who is assigned for life. add the cost of appeals that span decades, the decades security, and housing each death row inmate separately, it is estimated to balloon to $9 billion by 20230. leading the judge, nick named the hanging judge. >> i would make atill a the hundred look left wing. >> reporter: to surmise he'll die b

. >> reporter: but 15 miles away in raleigh jeannie mccarraher has a very different view of the economy. her business, selling hand- crafted gifts is struggling. she too voted for mr. obama in 2008 but now blames him for a state unemployment rate of 9.7%. >> he said that he was going to change these things. okay? he said he would be creating more jobs in america. i'm not seeing that. i'm seeing more jobs leaving america. >> reporter: the president came to this part of north carolina today hoping to convince former supporters like mccarraher to give him another look. >> our economic challenges were years in the making. it will take years to get back to where we need to be. >> reporter: in essence the president's message is, have patience. but mccarraher says her patience is gone and so is her vote. there's nothing the president can say to win it back. >> i guess the old saying is, what is it? fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. he didn't fulfill his promises. you know, so, no, i would not vote for him again. >> reporter: scott, the president did announce a new program

panels and i have a conservative strategist a managing owner of four forty group public relations and jeannie weinstein deputy editor at the daily caller welcome to both of you to be here great to have you both back with us republicans played a fun little game of political theater yesterday with the nation's debt ceiling starting with the house of. speaker of the house john boehner brought a clean bill to the floor raiser nation's debt ceiling exactly what most economists have been saying needs to be done republicans had no intention of passing it boedi nearly unanimously against their own bill they just want to force democrats to vote for a debt limit increase so they could run campaign ads next year saying democrats support unlimited that this is. so why is it that when our nation is facing enormous challenges republicans are playing games in the house of representatives especially games that could collapse the entire global economy i mean this this is outlandish tom i know i'm i'm i'm astounded the fact of the matter is that republicans have stuck their neck out and supported something tha

political headlines and jeannie moos all straight ahead. in "the situation roo.". >> a brazen attack involving suicide bombers, snipers and rocket-propelled grenades. multiple explosions and at least 10 have been killed. the taliban claiming responsibility. cnn is monitoring developments from neighboring pakistan for us and what's the latest you are hearing about the situation? we understand it's ongoing. >> at least two are resisting and all indications are this this was a well-coordinated and well-organized attack. at one point, witnesses say these heavily armed militants were on top of this hotel locked in a fierce firefight with skurs forces down below and tracer fire and grenades lighting up the night time sky and making for a dramatic scene in the capital of afghanistan the latest from afghan police is that six suicide bombers atta attacked this hotel and one of the attackers detonated his suicide and three attackers were killed. still registing and they could be in the roof area of the hotel. the target of the intercontinental hotel,

line editor at the weekly standard and jenny weinstein editor of the daily caller dot com daniel jeannie both based on great to have you guys with us let's get going here unfortunately the big news of the week was winner gate democratic congressman anthony weiner admitted after a week of lying that he did indeed send lewd photos of his junk and carried on internet relationships with a variety of women on facebook and twitter and though he assured everyone that these relationships never became physical if that makes anything better when you're apologize in a press conference on monday but is refusing to step down smelling a lot of the republicans are circling here's our in c chairman reince priebus this morning on the today show. nancy pelosi needs to do our job and be a leader of her caucus and tell anthony weiner to really hit the bricks and go home i don't think here's the problem i don't think we need to spend taxpayer dollars investigating whether or not anthony weiner the creep or not nancy pelosi debbie wasserman schultz through the obama's hand-picked leader of the democratic part

coming out conservative strategist heathers servo and deputy editor of the daily caller jeannie weinstein join me for this week's lone liberal rumble. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right and. i think the bombings even well. we have the government says they're going to keep you safe. ready because you are freed up. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm charging the big picture. for the. body bag the big picture on top marvin coming up in.

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here's cnn's jeannie moos. >> the camera sounded like a firing squad.ener who took a last strength and the waterworkses that mattered came out of his eyes and his sniffling nose. >> one thing i particularly regret. i -- >> sory to the media for all the stonewalling he did. >> i appreciate you flashing that at me, but pictures like this flashed out from the website big government that wiener's goose was cooked. pictures exchanged consensually with women he met through facebook. >> i don't know what i was thinking. this was a destructive thing to do. >> some of the pictures were flafl, flashinging a sign saying me with his wedding ring fully visible or posing with two cats with the caption full of double meaning according to the big government website. when he bared his torso, it was with what appeared to include family photos behind him. the owner of big government.com said he didn't publish the worst photo. >> of an x-rated nature. >> the person he apologized to the most was his wife. >> i love my wife very much and we have no intention of splitting up

political headlines and jeannie moos ahead. situation roo.". >>> one day before pop addresses the nation about drawing down the force that afghanistan, we are learning new details of the plan and deep divisions among the president, lawmakers, the pentagon and how many troops can bring home and how quickly. let's go straight to the white house correspondent brianna keil keilar. what are you hear something. >> wolf, of course as you know the president is being pulled in two directions here. on one hand you have members of his own party who are citing war weariness and the cost and the recent successes saying it justifies a drawdown in troops innocent you have the president's military commander who is are suggesting that bring home to be could cause a set back in the war. >> tomorrow night, president obama will tell the nation how many troops he is withdrawing for afghanistan, making good on this promise he made in december of 2009. >> these additional american and international troops will allow us to accelerate hanning over resp

here's cnn's jeannie moos. >> over memorial day weekend we went from toasting wieners to roasting congresshey are unwiener like. >> leaving those of us in the media searching for the right words to mention the unmentionable. >> bulging underwear. >> searching a picture of an arrest. >> for it might have been my area. >> below the waist area. >> it may or may not be his package. >> from front pages newscast to tickle to editorials. >> this weaner is doing o cooked. >> is this or is it not representative wiener's chief of staff. >> all the bad wiener puns show america is emotionally a sixth grader. >> the long and short over the weekend you discovered. >> you didn't say the long and the short of it? >> congress wiener is punning himself. >> the other reason why i get a little bit stiff yesterday. >> everything is starting to look wiener-like. there wiener cartoons. isn't that anthony wiener in ballet tights? the news is coming across as come comedy? >> do you know what your drawers look like? >> i know what i look like in my drawers. >> i can identify my pelvis in a lineup. >> some can ident

. >> jeannie moos, cnn, new york. >> that does it for me and thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." john king usa starts right now. >> thanks, wolf and good evening. a stunning admission from democratic congressman anthony wiener of new york. hours after new embarrassing photographs of wiener were posted by a conservative website, he said he lied when he said a hacker sent a suggestive photo on his twitter account to a young woman in washington state. >> it's clear the picture was of me and i sent it. i am deeply sorry for the pain this caused my wife and our family and my constituents and friends, supporters and staff. in addition over the past few years, i have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over twitter, facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women i met online. i exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with six women over three years. for the most part these communications to place before my marriage though some sadly took place after. to be clear, i never met any of these women or had p

jeannie moos, cnn. new york. >> that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." in north america, "john king usa" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm jessica yellen sitting in for john king. an attack on the intercouldn't knell hotel in afghanistan. attackers including suicide bombers stormed the hotel a few hours ago. late word into cnn is that at least ten people are dead. a coalition spokesperson reports that nato helicopters fired on and killed three of the attackers on the roof top of that hotel. cnn has confirmed that all the attackers there have been killed. the taliban claimed responsibility for today's hotel attacks sending a message to the united states military and afghan officials that they are still a viable force in afghanistan. the white house says president obama has been briefed on the violence. we are joined on the phone by a journalist who is near the scene. we are not naming her for her own safety. please tell us, what is the very latest there? >> reporter: i'm on the scene

jeannie moos, cnn, new york. >> that's it for me. for our international viewers "world report" is next. in the u.s., "john king usa" starts right now. >>> the president takes a personal role tonight in negotiations aimed at keeping the government from defaulting on its loans. we begin with the latest official entry into the 2012 presidential race. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i want my candidacy for presidency of the united states when we the people of the united states stand for independence from the government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties. >> to liberals, michele bachmann is a white ring extremist who plays loose with the facts. to tea party activists, she is a hero willing to stand up not just to the obama agenda but her own party's leadership. like her or not, she is the candidate making the greatest impact on the race for the republican nomination. the new iowa poll shows her near the top of the pack running evening with mitt romney and well ahead of a half

political headlines and jeannie moos all straight ahead. you are in "the situation room."rning critical details of president obama's speech to the nation tonight about his plan to drawdown u.s. forces in afghanistan. a senior official told cnn that the president will announce he is ordering the withdrawal of all 33,000 surge forces in afghanistan by the end of the next summer, 2012. that is sooner than a lot of people believed. let's go straight to brianna keilar. you and other reporters at the white house have been getting briefings. what do you hear? >> reporter: from that senior official, here's the break down on pulling out all 3,000 of the surge troops by the end of the year. 10,000 out by the end of 2011 and the remaining 23,000 surge troops would be out no later than september 2012. keep manage mind that still leaves a significant number of u.s. troops, about 70,000 in afghanistan until 2014, but this is quicker than initial reports that we were hearing and you should expect tonight when the president addresses the nation that he will be justifying these drawdown nu

political headline and jeannie moos straight ahead. you nrt situation room.ommando raid that killed osama bin laden. pakistani authorities have rounded up people who may have helped the u.s. track the al qaeda leader and that's adding to the strains on a badly frayed relationship. brian, what are you learning? >> it's not clear if the people are still in custody and not clear if they will be prosecuted. what is clear is in the wake of bin latten's killing, this is more evidence of a fractured alliance. pakistan arrest and detained and detained informants before the raid on the compound according to pakistani officials. some were arrested in the safe house used to spy on bin laden the response from washington? >> it's not always an easy relationship, but it is vital. >> the arrests took place shortly after bin laden was killed. i spoke with national security analyst peter bergen >> how crucial was the preraid intelligence on the ground? >> it must have been crucial. without that you don't have a sense of who the kufrier is and when he comes and goes and what h

here is jeannie moos. >> together we'll do this. >> reporter: it was a day of feel-good photo opes. ♪>> reporter: posing with a butterfly, playing dentist. >> let me see your teeth. >> reporter: did we mention officially announcing for president? the campaign may be new, but michele bachmann's got a favorite line. >> barack obama will be a one-term president. >> a one-term president. >> reporter: the only fly in the ointment other than the one that landed on this bachmann supporter's head was when chris wallace asked an indelicate question based on what critics said about bachmann. >> are you a flake? >> i think that would be insulting to say something like that because i'm a serious person. >> reporter: wallace later apologized. >> i'm sorry. >> reporter: you know who probably resents questions about michele bachmann being a flake? her husband. dr. marcus bachmann is a clinical therapist with a degree in psychology. as she reached out to supporters -- >> nice to see you. >> reporter: he spent the whole time holding on to her waist. if bachmann did become president, her son might be t