clerk of the committee derek evans and sfgtv staff who are covering the meeting today, jim smith and john ross, mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> thank you, mr. chair, please be sure to silence all cell phones and devices, copies should be submitted to the clerk, items acted upon today will appear on the april first agenda unless otherwise stated. >> call item one. >> item one is a hearing requesting presentations for member of the long term care integration design group and the department of aging and adult services on the long term care integration strategic plan and the report to process of the developing of the plan and the challenges objectives and recommendations. >> this has been called by supervisor yee and so i will turn it over to supervisor yee. >> thank you, chair campos. >> good morning, the development and the implementation of california's coordinated care initiative, the state has begun the process of integrating healthcare and supportive social services while looking to reduce escalating healthcare costs. from that, the desired results are a more well coordinated hea

. >> our clerk is melissa miller and we are broadcast by sfgov-tv staff john ross and jonathan [speaker not understood]. and the public utilities commission clerk is donna hood. so, with that i welcome everyone to our joint meeting. this meeting is to get an update. okay, let's do that first. >> vice president caen? >> here. >> commissioner vietor? >> here. >> commissioner moran? >> here. >> president courtney and commissioner torres are excused from today's meeting and we have a quorum. >> very good. we have a quorum for both. so, colleagues, we welcome you to our meeting today. really our meeting is a chance to have a long awaited joint commission meet tog hear about issues that are relative to both lafco and our work around cca and keeping that program going as well as issues within the puc of the power enterprise department. i know there has been a lot of discussion about where power enterprise is and is in need of some greater attention from the public utilities commission. and our, our goal with lafco is to make sure whatever resource he we might be able to help to understand with

the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff sfgtv, jesse larson and john ross who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 1st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you. so, madam clerk, i would like to call an item out of order. can you please call item number 7? >> item number 7 is a resolution referring the initiative measure known as the waterfront height limit initiative. [speaker not understood] potential impacts if passed. >> okay. so, we have supervisor wiener here today and he's the author of this resolution. i would like to turn it over to him. ~ >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for calling this out of order. colleagues, i recently introduced this resolution seeking analysis from various city departments abo

in the year 1614 pocahontas married john ross. >>> finally the eu had a firm message for the u.s. at a recent trade talk. lay off our cheese. they said bad imitations of their products are sullying the reputations of authentic cheeses. if it's not from parma i shouldn't call it parmesan in the eu. the powdery cheese in the green can doesn't make it. asiago and munster would also be on the chopping block. u.s. dairy producers argue name changes will just confuse shoppers. they said this is an attempt to lay claim on america's $4 billion a year cheese industry. we're bringing in the fox all stars a bit early to cover some races to watch this year. plus, a full explainer from campaign carl cameron next. >>> in america's election headquarters fresh off the special election win in florida district 13, republicans are looking to continue their momentum into the fall, and that means picking the right candidates in the primary process. chief political correspondent carl cameron on some key races to watch. >> reporter: illinois's primaries are tuesday. governor pat quinn is the most vulner

ross shimabuku reporting. >> st. john'sin play in the big east tournament today against providence. >> if he doesn't make it to the nba, he has a back up plan. >> you always need a 6'9" soccer player. >> the president about to get that pen out. >> he wants to change the rules for low income workers who don't get paid overtime. who's likely to be affected and what it could cost businesses. >> the heavy snow with this last system is moving out of the. it's what it left behind that's getting pretty significant. i'll have your forecast. >> we deployed our assets but found nothing. >> a lead in the mystery of malaysian flight 370 turning up empty as malaysian officials reject a satellite image. >> the standoff with moscow in crimea, secretary of state kerry meeting with his russian counterpart. >> a pileup in ohio as a late winter blast knocks out power and causes travel delays. >> you mike me smile and i'm not supposed to smile. i'm supposed to be down. i think that ripped my heart out. >> one group staking its claim on a texas

ross and sean "diddy" combs. korea has freed an australian missionary. johnfter he allegedly passed out bible verses. ellen was multi-tasking last night at the oscars when she was not busy hosting, she was feeding the hungry audience members pizza, but did asks people to chip in for the bill. other things she did was dressed up as glinda and tweeted all night. when she wasn't dressing up as glinda or handing out pizza, ellen was busy tweeting all night. in fact, this "selfie" crashed twitter shortly before 7 p-m last night. is beat president obama's twitter record for twitter retweets. tall is itellen's on the fly pic with odd lawerence, brad pitt, julia roberts, meryl streep, kevin spacey, and more is racking up the twitter love with over two million retweets. ellen feeds hungry audience members pizza. asks people to chip in for the bill. and a big part of the oscars is what all the stars wore.so if you are interested in what everyone had on last night, go to the kron 4 website for more. one of the big winners last night was "12 years a slave" which grabbed

john's, big with the fans in america. in his home in nigeria, let's say he really stands out as a real prince. rossmabuku has his story. >> he's royally gifted shot blocker. he comes from royalty. he is the prince of a tribe occupying much of central nigeria. his father is a prince, his grandfather was the king. his uncle is the current king. >> he's called prince. i just, like, call me chris. my travelling name. >> they calling chris. >> chris doesn't speak a great deal about the royalty aspect. he has a regal presence, but humility, a sense of humour, the ability to laugh at himself. >> his first love was soccer. he became a basketball fan through his older brother that lives in the u.s. he september chris instructional tapes. >> he sent a lot of teams to me. i was watching it. >> he moved to new york city as a junior. it was quite the culture shock. >> it was the weather and the food. it was totally different. i'll be back home, 80 degrees, eating rice or something. some local food. here, it's freezing. maybe pizza. >> do your friends teach you about the movie coming to america. >> what do they

but diplomacy did continue, ross, in rome, led by u.s. secretary of state johnerry, that he again failed to bring the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, into the same room with his ukrainian counterpart. that said, lavrov is reportedly carrying u.s. and eu proposals back to putin today to look at. these are two very different sets of proposals. you've got the u.s. plan, which is calling for immediate international observers in crimea, direct talks between kiev and moscow. whereas the russians, of course, want to get back to the viktor yanukovych days, february 21st and the agreement he signed. he would lead and oversee the national unity government. and eventually at the owned on of on this year, which seems like ages away now, elections. so woeflly we'll see something change drastically. >> jim, thank you very much. >>> moving on to a absolutely different story, tin venter of bitcoin has reportedly been discovered. a japanese-american man has been determined as bitcoin's founder by news week. the 64-year-old son of a british priest has, however, denied co

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john and marci. >> lana, thank you. >>> federal officials -- health officials say a drexler university student died last week from the same rare type of meningitis that caused an outbreak at princeton university last year. sophomore stephanie rossad been in close contact with students from princeton about a week before she got sick. the concern now is that despite a massive vaccination effort, the strain might still exist at princeton. >>> a new report shows that women are being hit harder by alzheimer's disease than men. the alzheimer's association study says women have a one in six chance of developing the condition. that's compared to 1 in 11 for men. the report says 5 million americans are now living with alzheimer's. >>> well, some rough moments for an iowa state trooper. he was parked off interstate 80 when a pickup truck suddenly careened off the highway and -- check this out -- it almost smashed into his squad car. it turns out that the pickup had been hit by a semi, and that force sent it airborne right there. amazingly, the trooper and the pickup driver did not suffer any major injuries. >>> a gang of thieves caught by surveillance cameras in north carolina pulling off a sledgehammer smash and grab at a computer store

ross sorkin and steve liesman. joe is off today. we have a big lineup this morning. ursula burns will be joining us at 7:30 a.m., followed by johner. then we have an exclusive interview with carl ice. that's coming up at 8:10 eastern time. stick around for those interviews. >> i hear your voice. >> i know. i've been trying. it's better than it was an hour and a half ago. >> if you need help, just -- >> better than it was a half an hour ago. >> just signal and we will jump in. >> i'm here. i wanted to be here. i feel okay, it's just that my voice is going. we're trying this morning. our top story this morning, the fed is kicking off its two-day meeting. the central bank is widely expected to stay the course both with the pace of tapering and with interest rates. but with any meeting, it will be the language surrounding that decision that will keep investors on their toes. that and janet yet

ross sorkin. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. secretary of state john are going to hold a second meeting in rome today after talking in paris yesterday. that's not a bad gig old kerry has. kerry tried to convince lavrov to meet his ukrainian counterpart yesterday, but was unsuccessful. so i said, hey, how about rome? unsuccessful european union leaders appear to be set to issue warnings to russian in ukraine, but to not impose any sanctions. and one of our friends and squawk guest hosts dallas fed president richard fisher is continuing his against the bond-buying program. he said the program is distorting markets and encouraging risk taking. and one of this morning's early losers, office supplies retailer staples reported quarterly profit at 33 cents a share, missing estimates. staples was hurt by a 7% trop in same-store sales. you know what i got today? >> what? >> a christmas card. >> did you, really? you complained about it enough that he -- >> from particular cook. >> he made sure he sent you one? >> he made sure he sent me one. said he really did s

john brennan says he cannot rule out terrorism. another lead investigators are following are the pilots and their backgrounds. abc's brian rossre in his own youtube channel at the controls of a flight simulator. >> this is a youtube video. >> reporter: 35-year veteran, with more than 18,000 hours flying. his co-pilot, fariq ab hamid is much less experience and the airline said they were investigating reports that he was a kind of airline playboy, violating rules in the cockpit. these two girls. asked to ride with him in the cockpit on a ride to kuala lumpur. >> they were turned around and so engaged in conversation. >> reporter: there's nothing known about them that suggests foul play but their backgrounds are coming into sharp focus after new reports that the plane veered far off course for an hour after turning off transponder tracking signals, raising questions of possible hijacking or even possible pilot suicide. >> who had the ability to turn off the transponder? i don't know. >> reporter: it was just last month the co-pilot of an ethiopian airline high jakd his own flight to switzerland. the pilot of an egypt passenger

ross kaminsky from boulder county and lpr 2005. one of the big things we'll hear in the upcoming primary season, john mccain versus rand paul. how should americans think about what foreign engage amentses, what foreign entertaining fellments are actually in our national interests versus when we should leave it alone? >> right. if we get trapped into choosing between politicians who basically say we'll do nothing and stay home and we'll be the world's policemen, we'll lose. it has to be a prudent and judge menial decision and based on actual conditions at the time. i have to say something about boulder. i was owls impressed in the stand, when everybody in the world was dead except for 12 people, all the good people went to live in boulder. all the evil people went to live in las vegas. i always thought that was very cool. >> like you said, movies are not reality. >> oy. [laughter] are we out of time? we are. so we're out of time. i want to thank you so much. you've been such a great crowd. really i do want to sincerely, leadership program of the rockies makes me very optimistic about the future of this country. i talk to a lo

john kerry will meet face-to-face with his russian counterpart in paris. it's wednesday, march 5th, 2014, and "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, everybody. i'm barack obama along with joe kernen and andrew rossyork city for a change in the big event. some are using the bar on if a lon three pea to raise awareness in the health care system and mt. sinai. here is our lineup this morning. dr. kenneth davis, the ceo of mt. sinai. peter mayo, peter orszag, richard freedman of goldman sachs and glenn dupin. plus, carl icahn will crawl in before the end of the show. stay tuned to for that. we also have honeywell holding its investor conference this

john. >> caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. good morning general -- gentlemen. i have a hypothetical question for you. [inaudible] i wanted to ask you how you felt about ralph nader and ross perot the two of them got in there how things would be different and i will take, go off the air and get your response. >> guest: i assume what you're asking is my opinion about third-party candidates. obviously they have every right to do that that problem with the two-party system the kind of system we have if for example i was to support somebody running as a third party conservative in the national election that would aid the liberal democrat in the national election because we take votes away from probably the more moderate conservative running against them so the question is what do you want? do you want to make a point? you have every right to make that point and these candidates like ralph nader and the others have a right to make a point or do you want instead to try and move public policy in the way the country is governed in the direction that you believe it should be going in? in the two-party system that means that what you need to do it seems to me is in the final analys

ross sorkin and steve liesman. joe is off today. we have a big lineup this morning. ursula burns will be joining us at 7:30 a.m., followed by john veehmeyer. then we have an exclusive interview with carl ice. that's coming up at 8:10 eastern time. stick around for those interviews. >> i hear your voice. >> i know. i've been trying. it's better than it was an hour and a half ago. >> if you need help, just -- >> better than it was a half an hour ago. >> just signal and we will jump in. >> i'm here. i wanted to be here. i feel okay, it's just that my voice is going. we're trying this morning. our top story this morning, the fed is kicking off its two-day meeting. the central bank is widely expected to stay the course both with the pace of tapering and with interest rates. but with any meeting, it will be the language surrounding that decision that will keep investors on their toes. that and janet yet yellen's first news conference. steve will have the cnbc fed survey results in just a moment. but as for today's data at 8:30 a.m. eastern, we'll get two reports. one is the consumer price index for february. that's expected to rise 0.