welcome to the show, jessie. >> "amazing." >> so happy to have you here. talking. >> a whole month, like, nothing -- not even whispering. i was, like, walking around with a pad of paper, going to the gas station, saying like, "$20 on 4." what happened is that i had vocal nodes just from oversinging and just singing the wrong way. i decided to just take a month and get really healthy. >> what was the best part of it? >> i think people were nicer to me because i wasn't talking loud in their face. like, usually i like to save conversations and be like, "okay, okay, i'm the center of attention," and then i had to, like -- like, get back and be like... >> so, what was the first word you said? >> i think i sang a [chuckling] song. >> you did? >> i think i just picked up the guitar, and i'm like... "okay, i'm gonna see where i'm at with this." >> sure. >> and my voice had not sounded better in a long time. it was amazing. >> now, before we jump into the solo stuff, let's backtrack a bit to your other band, jupiter rising. tell us about that. >> jupiter rising was

and jessie threw out the idea, "have you ever done seven songs in seven days?""okay, there's something here," you know? three of them, they'll probably get composted and something new will grow out of it. >> the other ones, keep in your pocket. you never know how they'll kind of evolve. >> you never know, man, how it's gonna pop up, so... >> also, i know one of the things that you do, you played all over and stuff, but you've also done, like, house parties. you played a house party recently. >> i love them, yes. >> how cool is it to play a house party as opposed to playing a big club or something like that? >> the quality of listening is just so phenomenal. because when you're up there a lot of the time, especially if it's just a solo artist, you know, you're broadcasting a lot of energy, and sometimes you don't feel like you're getting much back, which is okay. i mean, everything's, you know, a balance, eventually. but in those environments, like a living-room concert, it's so real time. people really feed off of it, and one thing i do, i do some improvisationa

. >> pero jessie no era uno de los seis niños que estaban en su casa. >> estaba buscando un milagro den abrazo de alguien que está ahí para ofrecerlo. >> espero que uno no pase eso, hay que cuidar a los nietos de uno. >> otros buscan en las mascotas el contacto para expresar su dolor,a acá todo vale, hay que buscar apoyo para superar estos momentos. >> hasta el momento se han realizado once funerales, faltan quince, mañana se hará el funeral de un estudiante que nació en utah, también decenas de personas procedentes de otros estados vienen para ofrecer ayuda a la primera seman a de la tragedia en el colegio de newtown. >> bajo presión el presidente barack obama nombro al vice presidente para una comisión que ayudara en cambiar las leyes de armas . >> después de la masacre de 26 niños y maestros en el colegio de newtown, el presidente barack obama iniciara una comisión para cambiar la ley de las armas de fuego. >> usaré todo el poder para que no ocurran tragedias como estás . >> tenemos miles de armas en el país, claramente necesitamaos mucho tiempo para cambiar la situación, aunque pod

nona and jessie. madam clerk, if you can please call item 1 roll call. >> commissioner avalos? >> [speaker not understood]. cohen present. elsbernd present. farrell present. kim absent. mar absent. olague present. wiener present. we have a quorum. >> great, thank you very much. if you can now call item number 2. >> item number 2, approval of minutes of the october 23, 2012 meeting, that is an action item. >> before we take action on this item i'd like to open it up for any member of the public who would like to speak on item 2, please come forward. you each have three minutes. >>> mr. chair, i was reading the minutes and normally i don't comment on the minutes. but when we comment on something that is critical and important and if just a few sentences are put in the minutes, maybe that's the style of doing it. but i think it's really important when you're talking about the third street light rail, the first street starting at fourth and king and ending in the middle of visitacion valley, that that connection from visitacion valley to balboa station is very critical in having a

comprobó como padres e hijos volvieron a nacer >>una madre desesperada buscaba noticias de su pequeño jessiecasa y yo no podía, yo no podía dárselo >>hasta hoy eugenio no sabe los detalles de como los niños pudieron escapar del colegio, pero cree que han tenido que correr al menos una milla. >>yo quiero decir a los padres de victoria, usted es un angel, lo siento. los niños estaban en enamorado con la maestra. >>una maestra que al igual que eugene resaltaron lo mejor del ser humano en un episodio jamás visto. >>y eugenio dijo que en un futuro cercano le gustaría reunirse con los seis niños y dar las condolencias a los familiares de vicky soto. >>es todo por nuestra parte informando desde newtown connecticut. >>muchas gracias por la informacion. el presidente barack obama que el congreso debe comenzar a estudiar una ley el próximo año sobre una ley de armas. >>muchos congresistas esta'n dispuestos joe joe biden encabezara la iniciativa. >>vamos a una corta pausa, no se vayan, ya volvemos ♪. con lagrimas pero con musica, despiden a jenni rivera. nombran a obama la personalidad del aqo.liberan

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with cancer on january 5th, 2012, she was 12 years old. ♪ so shine bright tonight >> it's joy for jessientinue to do. >> what makes jessie a young wonder is she cared and in the midst of a world that says focus on yourself, it's all about you, she said, no, it's not. ♪ ♪ shine bright like a diamond [ applause ] w? . >> jane lynch is right. we love our dogs, us dog lovers. this is my dog, actually, molly. she has the stinkiest breath you can possibly imagine. it's like a squirrel has crawled inside her and died, but i still love her. our next hero found a way to partner rescue dogs with people that need help. of the 2 million soldiers deployed to iraq and afghanistan, one in five returns with posttraumatic stress disorder. to share how our hero is saving lives, please welcome jane lynch. [ applause ] >> in the united states military there's a saying i got your 6. that means don't worry, i got your back. for our veterans that struggle with the invisible wounds of war that feel isolated with the effects of ptsd and depression and have to fight to get the care they need and to fight the urge

>>> tania casanova trabaja en una cafeteria y conocÍa a 4 de las 6 maestras y 6 nirnÑos incluido a jessie hoy enterraron >>> era un niÑo que venÍa en su secciÓn con su papÁ y colaboraban su orden de panqueques era la orden que todas las veces que cambiar taÍno juntos >>> los fines de semana tania es animadora de fiestas in fan timti infantiles >>> vinieron a buscarme, y abrazarme y me dijeron tania no nos ha pasado nada de la misma manera quiero ver quiÉn entra y a quiÉn abrazo >>> mientras el director de la agencia de salud mental de connecticut tambiÉn busca las respuestas profesionales para quienes le preguntan por el pistolero adam lanza y la enfermedad mental que padecÍa, aparentemente una versiÓn ligera de autismo. >>> y muchas veces ellos se van poco a poco aislando, pero con eso ellos tambiÉn cojen el sentido de coraje. no solamente contra ellos mismos a la comunidad y la gente de jafr di fav afuera. >>> dice que le preocupa el recorte de los programas de con ti kutsz >>> los maestros estÁn llorando porque tambiÉn estÁn yendo a los funerales de los niÑos, tienen que ir a la escue

through all this, was my campaign manager when i first ran for the united states senate, my daughter jessie, who in in many ways has perhaps sacrificed the most because when you're in this job, you miss birthdays, you miss other important events. but she has been a great daughter, and she was here last night for our farewell party. and we had a lovely time. our son, ivan, and his wife kendra, who are in oregon where they have a small farm tawld tipping tree farm. we wish they could be here today, our grandson carter, who is a proud member of the university of oregon marching band, the ducks, who served as an intern for me -- not at government expense, by the way, that was at our expense. and our little dog dakota, who has become sort of a mascot of the united states senate. brian williams when he did a show on a day in the life of senate concluded that program by calling dakota the 101st senator. and, you know, i think he will be missed perhaps more than i am as i leave the senate. in 1964 i came here, i sat up in the gallery, in fact, it was the gallery right up here. and i was 16 years ol

. >> we have invited jessie from the center for independent living to come and tell us how destination elevators interfaced with persons with disabilities. >> when destination elevators storfirst started appearing, thy presented a number of challenges to individuals with disabilities. what happened was, elevator technology outpaced california building code. building code has a number a provision that makes traditional elevators usable by people with disabilities, but destination elevators presented challenges, particularly with cited. how do you know to get from this keypad to your our corporate car? >> we had a terrific program where we develop and administer the bulletin, which your help, elevator companies, involvement from the public, and you can tell us the outcome of that. >> what is amazing about the process is we had both government and private industry, as well as people with disabilities at the table for three years creating these accessibility standards. what we are doing here is being looked at by the department of justice access board and state architect's office. that is

our clerk today is victor young and at sfgtv we have jessie larson and greg burk. mr. young, do you have any announcements for us? >> yes. please turnoff all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the [speaker not understood] should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on december 4, 2012 supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. would you call item 1? >> item 1, resolution approving cellular service equipment sites leases between new cingular wireless pcs, llc nextel of california, inc., and sprint spectrum realty, july 1st, 2009 for the term of five years and approving amendment 1 to the cellular service equipment leases. >> thank you very much for this item. we have cathy wetener from the airport. >> good morning, chair chu, supervisor avalos. [speaker not understood]. the airport is here seeking your retroactive approval for four leases with cingular, sprint-nextel, verizon and t-mobile to continue to provide cellular services to our passengers at cfo

evans, i forgot to mention we're being broadcasted by sfgtv and the hard working staff, jessie larson and jeff rob son. i'd like to thank them. mr. evans, could you please call item number 4? >> item number 4, hearing to consider the initial project design of the proposed golden gate -- golden state warriors development on piers 30 to 32 and seawall lot 330, and update on the waterfront transportation network assessment. >> thank you. and the sponsors are supervisor jane kim and president david chiu. so, we're joined by supervisor jane kim on this item. supervisor kim. >> thank you, chair mar. thank you for agendizing this hearing today. as many of you know, last wednesday at the budget finance committee, we considered the fiscal feasibility of the pier 30-32 project which includes a potential arena with our warriors team back here in san francisco. the committee did determine that the project is fiscally feasible, but as many of you know, we do have a lot of concerns in the neighborhood as we move through this process. and, no, i called this hearing to readdress one of the current co

>> katherine, chase, jessie, james, grace, em lem ilemilie, jack, noah, caroline, jessica, benjamin, aville, allison. god has called them all home. for those of us who remain let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory. >> this is a fox news alert. it started by shooting his mother four times in the face probably as she slept. >> the female that was found at the secondary scene location in newtown has been positively identified as nancy lanza. birth date september 6th, 1960. mer cause of death multiple gun shot wounds and the death has been ruled a homicide. >> then dressed ninja style he took four heavy weapons probable stash of heavy weapons and headed to the local elementary school to ignite his personal holocaust. >> the male subject identified as the shooter of sandy hook elementary school has been positively identified as adam lanza. he resided at that residence. >> i am geraldo rivera report live on the day the president of the united states came to comfort this stricken connecticut community ravrageed by the unprecedented slaughter the sta

. >>> felicidaeseo a todos, la lista es larga pamela, y hay otros nominados, jessy y joy, ricardo arjonaen vivo, mi querido tony. >>> con goofy, adelante tony. >>> hablando con goofy, nos entendemos, buen muchacho, la fiesta fue anoche, disney no escatimÓ, me topor quÉ con famosos, verÁn el reportaje, y la nueva atracciÓn, vamos al reportaje, quÉ bien. >>> fue la primera fiesta para 300 invitados, periodistas de todo el mundo llegaron para ser testigos de la nuevas atracciones, y famosos personages de disney, a gastÓn fue el primero que encontrÉ. >>> (hablan en inglÉs). >>> no hable espaÑol, con los encargados de atender a huÉspedes sÍ. >>> comiÓ mucho la gente aquÍ? >>> sÍ, comiÓ mucho. >>> usted es dominicana, se huele, huele a mangÚ, se consigue mangu aquÍ? >>> aquÍ en disney no, en mi casa sÍ. >>> me converti en su ayudante. >>> hay jugo ge mango, piÑa, tamarindo, da sueÑo cuidado, y marhmellow , te gusta? >>> sÍ. >>> ya lo hice. >>> (hablan en inglÉs). >>> el extraÑo jugo fue un Éxito, era hora de disfru tar de la fiesta. >>> andy garcÍa, quÉ bien. >>> el famoso actor fue un narrado

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jessi jessica just six-year-old, brunette, a beautiful smile. mother a teacher in a nearby school. >> and daniel, his father is musician, his mother loved him very, very much, as a first grader, he loved to play soccer. these small little details about kids just beginning their lives and things they liked to do, are really the things that kids all across america like to do. bret. >> bret: molly, we've seen the outpouring of support from all over the country, but how is the community reacting internally? >> this is a community that all has been struck in so many different ways, the initial fear, the pulling together, in the moments that this was happening, everyone you speakha town and the story the moment they heard this was happening and the moments leading up to it, the waiting for the names and everything afterwards. we have seen packed church services all across this community, outpouring so full and so big that people have been filled to the brim, pouring out of these churches outside, and when you ask anyone, why are you here? and even bef

. >> after he went to aurora and took care of the arrangements to have jessie cremated and bring here, once he got home, he very quietly without telling us sold his rifle. >> it was an ar-15? >> it was an ar-15. when he got home, he just started thinking about it and went this is the right thing to do, and sold it. >> lonnie, when you came on my show last week, after another shooting in the shopping mall in oregon, you both are supporters of guns. and you thought about being anti-gun, which is one of the myths of this debate. it's just you want to get rid of all guns. that's not the correct debate, it is? >> no, actually, it's not. in this case, the shootings had just happened. this woman whose son murdered her and murdered the children, if she had bought maybe a gun safe instead of the ar-15, she would still be alive, and so would all those children. we do need to change the laws. if we could start with baby steps even. we don't have to demand that the ar-15 would be banned, but it is a great idea, and i'm sure a lot of people would agree with that. but you use common sense. gunowne

jessie was outpatient, so every day, we would get in the car and drive up to children's hospital of orangehome? what can she do to help them? >> kind of found an empty jar somewhere and she started stuffing things in it. >> put maybe like a green turtle or like a splash ball. >> and maybe a car? >> maybe a car, yeah. >> took her middle name joy and took the jars and it came together and that's how joy jars got birthed. she clearly knew the impact it was making in these kids lives when she was giving them the joy jars. >> she was very particular when putting something in the joy jars. it had to be something cool, not something cheap and flimsy. >> people were calling us saying can we get something for our friends for their child fighting cancer, and it just exploded. >> why not make it about you? >> i just wanted to make them happier, because i know that they -- they're going through a lot, too. >> when jess lost her battle with cancer on january 5th, 2012, she was 12 years old. ♪ ♪ shine bright tonight >> it's joy for jesse day. since jesse's passing we have sent over 27,000 joy jars. >> i

jessie was outpatient, so every day, we would get in the car and drive up to children's hospital of orange just simply asked us, when do all the other kids come home? what can she do to help them? >> kind of found an empty jar somewhere and she started stuffing things in it. >> put like a green turtle, and a splash ball. >> maybe a car? >> a car? >> yeah. >> she took her middle name, joy, and the jar, and that's how joy jars got birthed. she clearly knew the impact it was making in these kids lives as she was giving them their joy jars. >> thank you. >> she was really particular about what would go in the jars. it had to be something cool. it couldn't be cheap and flimsy. >> people from all around the united states who were following her story were saying, hey, can we get some for our friends who has a child fighting cancer? and then it just exploded. >> do you know how many people are helping? why are you doing that? why not make it about you? >> i just wanted to make them happier. because i know that they -- they are going through a lot, too. >> when jess lost her battle with cancer on j

through all this, was my campaign manager when i first ran for the united states senate, my daughter jessie, who in in many ways has perhaps sacrificed the most because when you're in this job, you miss birthdays, you miss other important events. but she has been a great daughter, and she was here last night for our farewell party. and we had a lovely time. our son, ivan, and his wife kendra, who are in oregon where they have a small farm tawld tipping tree farm. we wish they could be here today, our grandson carter, who is a proud member of the university of oregon marching band, the ducks, who served as an intern for me -- not at government expense, by the way, that was at our expense. and our little dog dakota, who has become sort of a mascot of the united states senate. brian williams when he did a show on a day in the life of senate concluded that program by calling dakota the 101st senator. and, you know, i think he will be missed perhaps more than i am as i leave the senate. in 1964 i came here, i sat up in the gallery, in fact, it was the gallery right up here. and i was 16 years ol

noah, jack, charlotte, dylan, madeleine, kath reconciliation bill, chase, jessie, grace, care line, jessicason, and james. no words of condolence could possibly ease the pain of families who lost cherished little children. but i hope it's some small comfort that the entire nation mourns with them. my heart, my warm wishes go out to all of those affected by friday's massacre. my thoughts are with the students and faculty of sandy hook who witnessed the violence. newtown and the nation have seen great evil, but we've also seen incredible bravely. in her mine final act on earth, -year-old victoria soto hid her children in closets and cabinets and then sacrificed herself to save them. dawn hochsprung, the principal -- forcibly, the word goes, attacked the assailant and he killed her. mary sherr lock, rachel devino, ann marie murphy also died trying to sativeguard the children. these teachers devoted the newtown children how to read, subtract, and how to be good boys and girls. they gave their lives to keep the children safe. they are a source of hope in a hopeless situation. i commend the teach

. >> and you're jessy. where are you from? >> fairfield? >> fairfield.ause -- >> i attend a church from where a lot of people from newtown go and one of my best friend's granddaughters is in the first grade at sandy hook. >> and they're getting off my microphone but they walked up to me and talked to me and anybody can, doesn't matter if we're on television. thank you for coming out. bless you. we have been here, of course, for a couple of days, brooke. and we saw this memorial, just grow tremendously here. it just started just over there way couple of candles and now it has grown so far, police have to direct traffic here. and there are layers upon layers of teddy bears and flowers and candles and cards. and most people are bringing 26 of every single thing. and it doesn't matter the cost. doesn't matter. they're bringing expensive teddy bears, expensive flower arrangements, expensive candles, these candles that are solar that are here. and they just want to come out and show their support. i want to tell you about the school system here. they are not g

through all this, was my campaign manager when i first ran for the united states senate, my daughter jessie, who in in many ways has perhaps sacrificed the most because when you're in this job, you miss birthdays, you miss other important events. but she has been a great daughter, and she was here last night for our farewell party. and we had a lovely time. our son, ivan, and his wife kendra, who are in oregon where they have a small farm tawld tipping tree farm. we wish they could be here today, our grandson carter, who is a proud member of the university of oregon marching band, the ducks, who served as an intern for me -- not at government expense, by the way, that was at our expense. and our little dog dakota, who has become sort of a mascot of the united states senate. brian williams when he did a show on a day in the life of senate concluded that program by calling dakota the 101st senator. and, you know, i think he will be missed perhaps more than i am as i leave the senate. in 1964 i came here, i sat up in the gallery, in fact, it was the gallery right up here. and i was 16 years ol

jessi jessica, thank you. >>> as things stand right now, republicans want to keep all the bush tax cuts, but raise $800 billion by limiting some tax deductions, loopholes, et cetera. they also want to save will the $600 billion by cutting health care spending. the president says the republicans' proposal doesn't work because of the math. he wants to raise $1.6 trillion in taxes, twice as much as the republicans. and he wants to do it mostly by increasing tax rates on the top earners and proposes to cut health care spending by $350 billion. i'm joined by gloria borger. where do we stand on the expiration of the bush era tax cut? >> we are where we are, and what was interesting to me in listening and reading the transcript of that bloomberg interview today with the president, sometimes you have to listen to what the president did not say. of course, he wants the tax rates on the wealthy to go up. did he specify the 39.6% rate of the clinton years? he did not. so is there a little give ultimately to sort of say what if it doesn't go up to 39.6%, but say 37%, is that something the white hou

. >> let's get straight to our chief white house correspondent jessi jessica yellin. she's over at the white house with the very latest. the president seems pretty optimistic that it's within a few hours we could have a deal, right? >> reporter: wolf, the people i just spoke to here say they are no more or less optimistic than they were this morning. which is to say they are not cueing the confetti just yet. senator mitch mcconnell, the republican leader on the hill, is still talking to the white house. the white house is in constant contact with the democratic leader harry reid. and they're working towards some kind of an agreement. but the white house has all along had -- during these past few days, been somewhat hopeful that they could reach some kind of agreement in the senate. all along, they have been far less optimistic that there would be an agreement that can get through the house. only because from the white house's perspective, from democrats' perspective broadly, they've been let down time and again by speaker boehner. they've never been able to reach a de

south dakota, with howard of ohio, democrats and republicans had it with james allen of alabama, with jessi, and there's been a number of others. sometimes it's been factional, but it has not been a party based process. there was periods when there was great frustration, but, mostly, the senate went along and worked because it's a body of individuals and a body where the party leaders tended to try to work things out, sometimes to isolate those individuals because the senate's also a place which basically operates and has to under broader set of rules than the filibuster by consensus because everything requires unanimous con cement. things changed. it was a cultural change, really. it's a cultural change building before that period of time. it was a cultural change that, as no doubt we'll hear, frustrated the hell out of bill friers as majority leader, and it's one that's affected every majority leader before and sense, but it's changed rather dramatically since, and the change is really of two parts. the first is that for the first time, really that i can see ever, you have a party acting

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and a veteran of the marine corps, gunnery sergeant jessie james and since the ban was lifted on womeno see you both. >> good morning. >> thanks for having me on. >> dave: this is a very interesting debate and why should women be excluded from combat. >> well, if women are already participating on the front line, that isn't the issue here and what i'm seeing in this lsuit is that women are insisting upon being in combat, infantry position and that's where i feel it's inappropriate because the requirements for them to get into the infantry are very, very extreme and men that do not pick that field to go into and are put in, based upon the requirements of joining the military. so if the women are getting into the field, all women must be capable of performing the function as the men are when they enlist into the military. and capability to get in. and women right now do not have the same standards as men to even enlist in the military. >> martha? >> well, again, women are on the front lines, women are in combat right now in case anybody didn't get the memo. i mean, they are killing the b

noah, jack, charlotte, dylan, madeleine, kath reconciliation bill, chase, jessie, grace, care line, jessica, allison, and james. no words of condolence could possibly ease the pain of families who lost cherished little children. but i hope it's some small comfort that the entire nation mourns with them. my heart, my warm wishes go out to all of those affected by friday's massacre. my thoughts are with the students and faculty of sandy hook who witnessed the violence. newtown and the nation have seen great evil, but we've also seen incredible bravely. in her mine final act on earth, 26-year-old victoria soto hid her children in closets and cabinets and then sacrificed herself to save them. dawn hochsprung, the principal -- forcibly, the word goes, attacked the assailant and he killed her. mary sherr lock, rachel devino, ann marie murphy also died trying to sativeguard the children. these teachers devoted the newtown children how to read, subtract, and how to be good boys and girls. they gave their lives to keep the children safe. they are a source of hope in a hopeless situation. i commend t

through all this, was my campaign manager when i first ran for the united states senate, my daughter jessie, who in in many ways has perhaps sacrificed the most because when you're in this job, you miss birthdays, you miss other important events. but she has been a great daughter, and she was here last night for our farewell party. and we had a lovely time. our son, ivan, and his wife kendra, who are in oregon where they have a small farm tawld tipping tree farm. we wish they could be here today, our grandson carter, who is a proud member of the university of oregon marching band, the ducks, who served as an intern for me -- not at government expense, by the way, that was at our expense. and our little dog dakota, who has become sort of a mascot of the united states senate. brian williams when he did a show on a day in the life of senate concluded that program by calling dakota the 101st senator. and, you know, i think he will be missed perhaps more than i am as i leave the senate. in 1964 i came here, i sat up in the gallery, in fact, it was the gallery right up here. and i was 16 years ol