ranked joyce has been in place in many places, including other countries. it has been shown to be effective. i personally follow every election very carefully, and have never seen anything alarming about ranked choice which made me think the person who was best for that community and who they desired to vote for was not being put in office. it looks to me like it is a system that works but could be improved. i think that is where we need to head with this. to some extent, like what is being proposed by some of the other advocates, if we had a rented choice system in which folks could rank all of their candidates in the election with little bauble dots -- you have seen the chart from steven hill. by the way, if you are not talking to steven hill yet, please do. he is the granddaddy of ranked joyce in san francisco. this does not have to be complicated. if somebody came up to me and asked what an algorithm was for the voting system, i would not have a good answer either. i understand what an algorithm is. i think we can all work together on this. eventually,

bob joyce says okay, i'll do what i can. and he writes an amazing series of messages across the atlantic to oss headquarters saying, hey, it goes to donovan's office. i mean, it's not -- you know, this is a cable, this is kind of personal for the cable. goes to the two assistant directors of the oss. and joyce is saying, let's get ernest -- if you get in touch with him, you know, you arrange a meeting face to face with him. you'll see all the things he can bring to the table for oss. he's got foreign language. he's got area knowledge. he knows about special operations. after all he wrote "for whom the bell tolls." an early special operator. and he's run this intelligence service for us in cuba. he can do great things for oss. he senses some kind of push back -- he senses the push back before it occurs and he basically adds verbiage to the effect of so what if he's been married three times, so what if he's not differential to people in high places, so what if he was active on the loyalist which is the communist supported side

bob joyce says okay. i'll do what i can. and he writes an amazing series of messages across the atlantic to oss headquarters saying -- it goes to donovan's office. this kind of personal sort of cable. goes to the assistant directors of the oss. and joyce is saying let's get ernest in the war again. if you guys get in touch with him, you arrange a meeting face to face with him, you'll see what he can bring to the table for oss. he's got foreign language. he's got area knowledge. he knows about special operations after all he wrote for whom the bell tolls. the hero's a special operator. and he's run this intelligence service for us in cuba. he can do great things for oss. he senses the pushback before it occurs. and he basically adds verbage to the effect of so what if he's been married three times? so what if he's to the differential to people in high places? so what if he was active on the communist supported side in the war? it doesn't work. oss gives the -- you know, they listen long enough and think about it and they circ

so the idea that ernest and the ambassador and joyce comes up with is to set up kin

he loved joyce. he loved what bumby did in the oss but he was really critical of anybody even in the oss which is kind of the haven of free thinkers in the american war effort, even in the oss there's still a lot of conventional bureaucracy and government behavior and this just drives ernest crazy and he writes a letter after the war, he says, yeah, there were some great people in oss, but there was also a lot of chicken dot, dot, dot in oss. so ernest does not have an official relationship with oss at this point but he does go to europe. martha finally -- her argument carries the day. off they go to -- they both go off to europe. martha's been a correspondent for "collier's." ernest arranges for himself to be the correspondent for "colliers" which means a significant demotion for martha. and ernest gets a seat on a plane crossing the atlantic and gets in touch with martha and says, you know, i asked them but they won't take women. i'm sorry. you can't come on the plane. i'll fly over and meet you th

he's got a male named robert joyce working with him.another unconventional guy for the foreign service. he believes in getting the mission done and doesn't worry about the form of the mission. so he goes around havana. he makes friends, he stays out late nights. he gets the kind of scoop that a good political officer needs to come up with. but he doesn't always show up at work on time. so he might stroll into work at 10:00 in the morning and write what he learned the night before. that was tough for joyce because he'd been thrown out of his previous post. in 1942, joyce becomes the coordinator of intelligence at the embassy in havana. and this is -- you know, these days most embassies don't have a foreign service officer doing this. the embassy was running its own television operations. joyce was going to run some of them and ernest was going to be his principle agent as we'll see. there are two other kinds running intelligence operations at the embassy. and then there's the fbi which at this stage is mostly interested in counter intell

just to be also noted, the open source systems we advocate can handle ranked joyce voting. -- ranked choice of voting. we want the security aspects to be highlighted continually. that is why i am here today. i brought a handout that might give you some background. chairperson campos: thank you, mr. turner. next speaker, please. >> i live in know we valley -- noe valley. i have been studying different voting systems for about 5.5 years. as you know, i have brought up issues of score voting and approval voting in the past. one reason i think these systems are really interesting is some inherent properties make them simpler for voters and the department of elections. with approval voting, you are using an ordinary ballot. the only change is to count over votes. you do not discard them. if i want to vote for five candidates, i can do that. it is hard for voters to get confused. it is almost impossible to spoil your ballot. in experiments including looking at really contentious political elections, it turns out you get about 1/5 as many spoiled ballots. whereas with ranked joyce, ballot s

i said, joyce, she's high. >> reporter: high on drugs.ar from the girl he first met decades earlier. >> i thought she was the cutest little thing! oh, my god. pretty. >> reporter: moore's career was just beginning. part of the singing group sam and dave. with chart toppers like "soul man" and "hold on, i'm coming." ♪ i'm a soul man >> reporter: he was traveling and performing alongside gospel greats aretha franklin and houston's mother, cissy. >> i remember her. i even saw the first "seventeen" magazine. i said, look it here! oh, my god, look it here. >> reporter: whitney came to call him uncle sam. and as quickly as moore watched the girl he called nippy rise, he watched her fall. it was the early '90s. >> when i first realized that she was using, i saw her on tv. she always was perspiring. she was doing this to her face. wiping the sweat. >> reporter: at that moment, he knew she was an addict. he knew because sam moore was an addict himself. on the streets of harlem in the 1960s, sam moore's nearly deadly descent into drugs began. >> we

meetings and directed staff to begin their work on a study of the voting process by including ranked joyce voting. -- rank choice voting. >> jason fried, lafco staff again. we have gotten most of the data that we needed to the system right now, we are continuing to refine or review the information that is available to us. over time, what has been available has gotten much better. some of that information isn't as a parent horas clear. we're trying to look at ways of comparing -- have there been any patterns with rank choice voting, are they good or bad? we are doing data crunching in the system. we also have the opportunity to sit down and talk with people about rank choice voting. there was a study done in 2004 and 2005. there is hope that we will get an updated version of that study. this number-crunching, i have a very talented in turn that can help with a lot of that data crunching. he has been able to utilize that. commissioner avalos: it has actually been very noisy in your corner of city hall with all the number crunching going on. like cereal or something in there. i was at sf-stat

they are 47-year-old christopher lowell and joyce lowell. authorities say christopher lowell shot his wife before turning the gun on himself at their home on fin way. the couples 13-year-old daughter found the bodies. the chronicle says joyce lowell had filed for divorce on february 22nd and that christopher lowell had filed his response just the day before that shooting. >>> antioch police have identified the man who was killed in yesterday's officer involved shooting. the man was 26-year-old david lopez, a wanted parolee. police tell ktvu two detectives were on patrol near hill crest when they spotted lopez driving then followed him. when lopez pulled into a driveway police say he refused orders to exit the vehicle and started ramming his car into the detectives car. police say the detectives who were outside their vehicle fired at lopez to avoid getting hit. >>> fbi agents today combed the neighborhood where 15-year-old sierra lamar was last seen one week ago today. robert handa is here now near morgan hill with the extense sieve search e

again, david joyce, the prosecutor, said that he has not told them why he did it but then david joycelso said in his confession that t.j. lane said it was not about bullying or that it was not about drugs. really what he said was that he chose his victims at random. it is the prosecutor who said, see, it wasn't about bullying, it wasn't about drugs. that was some of the early speculation. there are a lot of people in this community that don't necessarily buy that. >> and i know classes resumed tomorrow. you were texting with one student. what did he tell you? >> well, i talked to a lot of students, and of course, all of them will tell you that tomorrow is going to be a pretty powerful day. i actually asked my nephew to put it into words, and he said for most of us, we're ready to go back. he said he was glad they let us in to get our things and walk the halls. it will be hard and i doubt that anyone will be doing any learning tomorrow, but we can't live in mourning forever. he is a senior at chardon high school. >> we wish them the best going back to school tomorrow. appreciate the re

folks should be aware that beach drive is closed between joyce and bing ma'am driham drive. we're not sure how long this road is going to remain closed, but with that team arriving on the scene, we're presuming it's going to be at least a little while while they document what happened here. folks should avoid beach drive between joyce and bingham drive. >> megan, thank you. >>> time right now, 6:37, the spectacular site that could happen today that is worth staying up for. >>> plus a fashion statement, the first lady does it again at a white house gala, the designer behind the dress and what the president was overheard saying about it. >>> sweet news, what an atm like any other is coming to the district. >>> and some people in our area will get near 90 degrees today. 90. 9-0. [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [ female announcer ] and best of al

and writer and comedian jesse joyce. his latest cd is called pro-joyce. it is selling like hotcakes that nobody likes. ?i way. anyway. and she is chairman of the board of the american saw say tee of the totally adorable. it is fox news contributor and writer for "the daily caller." before we go to the first story. where can people get your andrew breitbar t-shirt? >> i am selling them now at street carnage.com. and i am donating 100% of the proceeds to breitbart's family. >> so it is so? because that is his favorite saying and street carnage dots. >> -- street carnage.com. >> yes. >> okay. >>> it is here like something that wasn't here, but now it is. i speak of super tuesday or suesday as the kids like to call it. caucus voting kicking off in 10 states that i think is half the country. i don't know. i am already board with this story. and with 437 delegates at stake it is fair to say this could be the most important day in the history of this great nation. so will tuesday be i got the blues day for rick santorum? that seems to be the view of many high-pr

i told joyce, you may be getting up at 3:00 but the grandkids will have my dad was a union electrician, carrying his lunch or tools. it was good, honest work. i went to college with the help of a union scholarship, then started a maryland business, creating jobs by providing financing to small companies wall street ignored. today, congress is ignoring our need for jobs. my dad the electrician taught me, if something's broken, get in there and try to fix it. i'm john delaney, and i approve this message. and deposits at the same time. for paying your friend back for lunch from your tablet. for 26 paydays triggered with a single tap. for checking your line, then checking your portfolio. for making atms and branches appear out of thin air. simple to use websites, tools, and apps. for making your financial life a little bit easier. [ knocking ]

anyway, my sister, my friend joyce from way back. mr. shaw, randy. i will go ahead and start. you know, it was just yesterday that i was standing under the rotunda listening to mayor lee's inaugural speech, and i think this is an incredible time for our city. a time where the city is coming together and moving past the old political pigeonhole. i want to say first and up front that we are the city where everyone is included. we are the city for everyone. our priorities are clear. we need to focus on jobs and smart economic development for all of our neighborhoods and rolled up our sleeves, get to work, and get things done. to the people of district 5, mayor lee and i share the same standard, that every decision i make will be what i believe are in the best interests of my constituents and the people of san francisco. i think you all know that i am is following in the footsteps of great supervisors who have represented district 5, starting with harvey milk, harry brit, matt gonzales, and ross mirkarimi. matt, i know that you're here today, and i want to thank you for your couns

his latest comma de cd is called called -- comedy cd is called "pro joyce." good to see you pinch. >> according to a trifle called comscore, the paper of record has lost the top spot as the world's biggest newspaper website to "the daily mail." i don't know what a website is, but i will say this, in a vernacular these numbers with balderdash and popycock. jay you didn't have to say -- >> you didn't have to say that. >> that's what they say. >>> is bho the ultimate bro? like most people from kenya, i mean harvard, our nation's 44th president was a huge fan of "entourage" and even scheduling sunday night conference calls around the awful, awful show during his 2008 campaign. mercifully "entourage" ended in 2011 and they look alike there, but there has been speculation about a film feature based on this repulsive series. and now the show's star says if the rumored movie gets made, the commander-in-chief will make an appearance that is brief. yes, on friday the actor posted a picture, not seen here, of himself with the president on his facebook wall writing under

the woman on the right, in the green shirt is ellis' grandma, joyce. it's her 76th birthday party.he's posing for a picture with her two great grand kids. watch what happens. i think seeing her grand sson f the first time in almost a year is like winning the lottery. she has no idea he was going to be there for her 76th bert day birthday party. it would be fun to talk to them. "right this minute" from ashville, alabama they are joining us via skype. how did you set this up? >> they were having her birthday party before i got here. i thought i would make it a surprise. >> how were you able to slip in undetected? i didn't realize sailors were so stealthy. >> we bought her a birdhouse. my nieces and nephew took her outside to hang it up. my dad texted me to let me know she was in the backyard. >> did you sis spect? >> i didn't hear anything. my son said ellis will not be able to come home for a long time. i believed him. i thought it was one of the other children that came up and did the rabbit ears behind my head. >> ellis, this wasn't the only surprise that you did that day. tell me

. >> joyce terry -- perry and her husband to ride motorcycles to avoid parking problems. the cherry blossom festival officially starts march. >> still to come, the cost of filling up the tank is taking another job. the latest prices from around the area. >> starbucks is stepping out of its comfort zone to sell another country. >> the state of maryland says it mistakenly targeted seniors for thousands of dollars they do not over. that story is coming up. >> what a week we have. stay with us. >> you are watching abc 7 news at 6:00. >> we continue with a financial scare for seniors in the state of maryland. >> more than 1000 senior citizens got letters saying they owe more taxes than they paid. the pricing mistake was caused by a volunteer tax preparer. >> herald has been retired and living off savings for 12 years. when he got a letter from the maryland comptroller's office saying he owed $1,300 in back taxes, it scared him. he wondered how he would pay his medical bills. >> i ain't got much in savings. but i like to keep what i got. >> he was not alone. >> over the last fe

joyce and savannah were extremely close.rcumstances did joyce garrard cause the death of her grandchild. >> how would you respond to that? >> i'm going to respond that, yes, she did. she come to the bus and told that she would make her run until she couldn't run anymore, and that's literally what she done. i feel like that she made -- savannah died in a harsh way and i feel like she should do the same. >> how is your daughter natalie coping with the loss of her friend? >> at first it was really hard on natalie. and -- but now she's doing a whole lot better with it. she's doing a whole lot better with it now. but at first, yeah, it was tough. >> do you think her grandmother deserve ts the betdeath penalty? >> i do. i do. i think her granddaughter died in a harsh way, i think she should. savannah did. i think her grandmother should die in a harsh way, too. >> thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. >>> 27 minutes past 6:00. still to come on "early start," some pretty telling surveillance video. a hom