i talked to john glen and he said he was one of the best pilots he had ever seen, high praise. rose: and there was talk about was that about? >> that was a sad coda towillia. his son john henry whom he reconnected to late in life had gotten interested in something called cr cry i don't i don' crm held by a few thousand people who believe that at some point medical science will progress to some point where it will be possible to cure you from whatever you died from and they'll somehow be able to bring you back to life. a lot of holes in the theory. they hadn't worked out for example if ted would come back at an 83-year-old man or a stud who could hit 406. so claudio williams, who is the sole surviving son, in the year 2000, about year and a half before he died, johnclaude and claudio went to him, and he was going to have a pacemaker installed. and no surgery for a person of that age, she said dad we would like to do cryonics, would you do that with us, for us, that's when -- she said they framed it that way, will you do it for us, she says he agreed. my conclusion was that if he

john. >> december mat. >> glen >>> i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. get in

john. >> december mat. >> glen >> i want to learn more about it. >> social networking and e-mail. >> i want to know how to use it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> divisional divide is a divide between those with access to use digital tools and those who don't. >> with young people, having computers and i just don't know. they're doing it fast. so, i want to know. >> not knowing how to navigate the internet or at a loss of what to do. >> we don't have a computer. >> we're a nonprofit that unites organizations and volunteers to transform lies through literacy. our big problem right now is the broadband opportunity program. a federally funded project through the department of aging. so, we're working in 26 locations. our volunteers are trained to be tutors and trainers, offering everything from basic classes all the way to genealogy and job search. >> to me computers, knowing how to use it. >> i think it's really important to everybody and possibly especially seniors to get enough of these skills to stay in touch. >> it's been fun. with seniors, to get them out of their homes. >> so they can connect with their famil

john. >> december mat. >> glen >> i tried to think about this room as the dream room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31 years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. there is a circus company that i have been fortunate enough to work with the last couple of years. i use elements of dance and choreography and combine that with theater techniques. a lot of the work is content- based, has a strong narrative. the dancers have more of a theatrical feel. i think we are best known for our specific work. in the last 15 years, spending a lot of time focusing on issues that affect us and are related to the african-american experience, here in the united states. i had heard of marcus shelby and had been in join his work but never had the opportunity to meet him. we were brought together by the equal justice society specifically for this proje

john. >> december mat. >> glen >> hi, in san francisco we're doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. and today we're going to be talking about the neighborhood support center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at the urban center in san francisco with sarah karlewski, deputy director of spur. we're talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. and part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your home. and that's what this little neighborhood support center is for. >> that's right. >> what are some of the services that might be provided in a neighborhood center like this? >> yeah. so, we think of the neighborhood support centers as really being homes away from home. so, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. people are going to need to try to meet up with other people. they're going to need a lot of information. so, a lot of what the neigh

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john. >> december mat. >> glen >> >> good morning, everyone. ed meeting will come to order. this is the tuesday, december tenth, 2013, meeting of the plans and programs committee of the san francisco county transportation authority, our clerk is miss erika cheng, could you call the roll? >> roll call, commissioner breed? >> here. >> commissioner campos? >> absent. >> kim, absent fp >> mar. >> present. >> yee? >> yee, present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you, and i would like to thank, jim smith and johnson gramwhack from sfgtv for tell vicing us today. >> item number two, approve the minutes of the november 19, 2013 meeting this is an action item. >> thank you, seeing no comments from colleagues, let's open up this for public comment, is there anyone from the public? seeing none, the public comment is closed could we moved this forward without objection? thank you. >> item three, citizen's advisory committee report, this is an information report. >> and we have the vice chair of the committee joseph flanagan. >> >> good morning commissioners my name and i am the vice chair

that's like amelia earhart, john glen, jesse owens. that was extraordinary. that? did he get it? >> oh, yes. he was a very wise man, and he understood the significance. later when we had a gathering at yankees sta yankees stadium, it must have been 60,000, 70,000 people. i put the yankee jacket around his shoulders and the cap, and he looked out at the crowd and said, now you know who i am. i am a yankee. and that went around the world. george steinbrenner was so impressed he said, i'll pay for it. >> you know that was impressive he was going to put out for that. how about the reception in harlem? what was that like? >> it was amazing. he spoke at 125th and lenox avenue, the site from which people like malcolm x and martin luther king and many had spoken earlier. here's this legend, this international hero. the people went wild. our biggest job was bill lynch, whose idea it was to have him come here in the first place, and our biggest job was for bill to negotiate among the various people who wanted to be part of the program. some black nationalistiss who h b

john. >> mike viqueria reporting. more of my conversation with glen greenwold. now that this advisory panel called the practices into question i asked him if he felt vindicated? >> the very first story that i wrote back in hong kong on june 5th was about this bulk collection program. when we reported that a federal secret fisa court had ordered verizon to turn over to the nsa all telephone calls of all americans that use verizon. and we later discovered that it was all telephone companies who were subject to similar orders. so to have a federal court less than six months later say that the program our reporting revealed is a violation an abuse of the core libts of american citizens is -- liberties of americans because that's what it's all about. >> law did you hope to accomplish with your stories? >> i hoped first of all to make my fellow citizens in the united states and people around the world aware that their privacy was being rapidly and aggressively eroded by this system of surveillance beyond their knowledge. and secondly to hope to trigger exactly the kin

john. >> mike at is white house, thank you. tomorrow night on al jazeera america, my conversation with glen greenwald a journalist that broke the story earlier this year. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern and five pacific. now to a disus thing robert about chinese espeonnage. revelations that accuse china of hacking into the federal commissions website. now, according to the center for public integrity, the attacks took place during the government shut down, when the agency staff were furloughed. we asked the about today's report, but they declined to comment. the author joins us now from washington. he is the senior political reporter for the center of public integrity, and also an al jazeera political contributor. so dave, you were very much involved in this story, tell me how e part for transparency, if you take about elections if you have ever voted then even though the fes may not seem like the sexiest agency, it is still very important. so when it was not able to put up the millions and millions of records about the financial of elections then the american public was at a disadvantage, and a major way, and all the result of a g

john who will be in the television broadcast tonight. aaron davis my former colleague will be on the radio side. glenith one on one with the pro bowl quarterback. >> you never know who you'll run into. we got with us. eric davis and as you stand here when come on maybe one more read or pick. >> you know what, maybe one more time to sit down next to dennis. that right there i'd vice president more fun getting hit. >> i bet you'd love that one. you've been day after day bullet what's the knee jerk memory. >> somebody jokes in the huddle in the middle of the field when you are out there and it's intense and tim mcdonald would say something and certain fans thad would be doing certain things and that's one of the things i remember. i could go so many things but it's little the things. it's the joke in the holdel. it's watching the fans than were here year after year, game after game and watching those kids grow and seeing the changes in the fans. those are the memories that i am take with me in some aspects than the plays on the the field. >> we'll get out of here with this one. do you think those guys h

glen n greenwald and what is next for him. plus a million dollar piccaso showed for what, $140. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. here are the top stories. construction on new houses soared almost 23% last month, the biggest jump in 20 years. home builders broke ground on 1 million homes in november, the most since early 2008. it's a deal of bipartisan budget agreement passing the senate avoiding a government shutdown for up to two years. the bill eases automatic spending cuts caused by the sequester. 48 recommendations on how to reg eye late the n.s.a. a suggestion from the presidential commission - appoint a civilian head instead of a military general running the n.s.a. >> more of our conversation with journalist glenn greenwald. he's been highly critical of the n.s.a. and the secretive green lighted activities. now that the advisory panels and a federal court ruling called the practices into question i asked glenn greenwald if he feels vindicated. >> the first article i wrote was about a secret court ordering verizon to turn over to the usa telephone calls. we discovered later this w

john steward and jerry seinfeld and put his earnings at 90 million. he's got a book out called "miracles and massacres." i contribute to the blaze, glen beck is my boss, if you think that means i will go easy on him, you're wrong. buckle up america, an interesting hour. tanks for joining me. >> we were talking in the green room. >> you are vladimir putin and i'm the whale. >> it's not going to be that bad. i want to talk about your book but i have this rare opportunity to talk to you about conserve 'tis m and i know you put a box on both houses, and i get that, but it seems like conservatives spend a lot of time talking about whose more conservative, whose the most conservative, this purity testing -- >> is that -- >> is -- >> maybe. i don't think people are looking at it the right way. this is the conversation we should be having in all parties in all walks of life. what is for maximum freedom and maximum personal responsibility? i don't care if you're a conservative, if you're a bible believer, if you're an atheist, i don't know. i run "the blaze" i asked you contribute. faith play as huge role in my life, what does faith play in yo

john steward and jerry seinfeld and put his earnings at 90 million. he's got a book out called "miracles and massacres." i contribute to the blaze, glen beck is my boss, if you think that means i will go easy on him, you're wrong. buckle up america, an interesting hour. thanks for joining me. >> e wewe were talking in the g room. >> you are vladimir putin and i'm the whale. >> it's not going to be that bad. i want to talk about your book but i have this rare opportunity to talk to you about conserve 'tis m and i know you put a box on both houses, and i get that, but it seems like conservatives spend a lot of time talking about whose more conservative, whose the most conservative, this purity testing -- >> is that -- >> is -- >> maybe. i don't think people are looking at it the right way. this is the conversation we should be having in all parties in all walks of life. what is for maximum freedom and maximum personal responsibility? i don't care if you're a conservative, if you're a bible believer, if you're an atheist, i don't know. i run "the blaze" i asked you o contribute. faith play as huge role in my life, what does faith play in