the city does a remarkable job compared to other large cities in the recycling program. what the city could use more of its community gardens. there is a long wait list and not enough of them. parks are -- parks are for people and not industrial use. thank you. >> next speaker, please. if there is anyone in the north concourse who would like to speak, will you please come up? >> my name is mary sporer. after listening to everything, i think it is really clear that there is something very peculiar about this whole process. we have got here a chimera, a mythical beast made up of the body of one thing and the head of another. i am also reminded once again of lewis carroll, as you have heard your for in the past. it is through the looking glass. sentence first, verdict afterward. this is like a trial of hank that is attached to the body of the community gardens. it needs more time. there is no way you can make a rational process out of this unless you deal with two completely separate issues. thank you. >> my name is peter zimpone. i volunteer with the nature group and severa

people were pushing for a large city park in other places. it was a political compromise. >> between lincoln and fulton and the beach. >> you're saying, why did they decide that exact plot? they brought someone from new york to come up with a park plan. they eventually made it a rectangle. they had the panhandle part. the panhandle was the same with as golden gate park, but there was dealmaking going on between park commissioners and they decided they would buy the land and cut off part of the panhandle. >> the development of lincoln park is interesting. you can see the cemetery. >> on the map, it is a cemetery. >> what happened to that and all of the bodies? >> they decided around the turn of the century the land was too valuable to bury people. where uss is now there were four cemeteries. they moved all of the cemetery's out -- cemeteries out. the heir did not want to move one of the places. there are two people -- two places where people are buried in the city. the other ones were moved out. >> the big scandal of lincoln park, someone want

it be said that on this day, things to the generosity of peter and melanie monk, canada and its large city toronto is clearly at the heart of the conversation. [applause] now, the moment we have all been waiting for. we have our motion before us. be it resolved, religion is a force of good in the world. all we need is our debaters here, center stage. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. tony blair and mr. christopher hitchins. [cheers and applause] [applause] tony blair was the prime minister of the united kingdom from 1997 until 2007. among his many international roles today, he is a representative in the middle east, working with the u.n., the u.s., russia, and the eu to try to secure a lasting peace in the region. after leaving politics, mr blair converted to catholicism and launched a global initiative, a foundation, to promote respect and understanding among the world's great religions. many of us in this room have read his recent best-selling memoir, "a journey of my political life." kirsten hithins is an author, journalist, an atheist. his regular "vanity fair and" riding is cen

other large cities to follow suit. it is a worrying development for german car makers who thrive on the china's rapidly expanding car market. volkswagen alone sold nearly 2 million new cars in china between january and november of this year, over a quarter of its global sales. bmw's china's sales topped 153,000. daimler sold 130,000 of its luxury mercedes benz brand this year. german car makers expect the performance to continue next year witholkswagen announcing plans to invest 6 billion euros in china by 2012. these optimistic forecasts are based on china's rapid car market expansion in recent years. >> the announcement to restrict driving in the inner city of beijing has a knock on effect in europe. automobile stocks were among today's leading decliners. our correspondent in frankfurt asore. >> investors were shocked at the news from china -- said that prospects for volkswagen, bmw and daimler seem to have darkened. what if other cities besides beijing take the same measures and curtail sales of new cars? the invest

if we could get some of the other large cities, we really get a big picture of what we should be doing and where we should be targeting our efforts, so we are really excited. supervisor mar: thank you so much. >> i'm proud to live in a city that has an open date of policy. i teach at stanford university. i would like to point out the power of opening it up to also -- supervisor maxwell: could you move the microphone -- thank you. >> i would like to point out how or opening up the platform for allowing people to comment on data. let me give you and a sample. having reviews of books is much more powerful than just knowing what the folks far, so what i see as a possibility for us is to have the people of san francisco actually make the data that government provides even better, even clearer. you have seen this on google nappes, for instance, where citizens change locations if they are wrong. they fix mistakes. they create additional layers of information, and you are seeing that at amazon were people create data, which is useful for the rest of the world. supervisor mar: thank you. is the

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jane kim in san francisco, korean-american, first korean-american elected to a large city council or bord of supervisors in the united states, south of market, she did a different kind of race where she went on language and ethnicities and very much pigeonholed the groups and had the field organizers out there very precise to each campaign. are we going to see more of that as well? >> i think people are going to have to do more of that in order to reach into these different communities and even, jean, you know, this has been the year of asian politicians rising, you know, jean kwan being this great example. though it's worth remembering it was historic for chinese to have somebody like jean kwan as the mayor, but it was not chinese votes that made her mayor, it was the second-place votes for somebody like rebecca kaplan, but people are aware they will have to reach the different communities. >> it's a full year but i'm not going to let you get away without making the traditional closing-year predictions. starting you, tom, what do you see ahead? >> unemployment to 11% but falling, an

some security experts say disaster planners should forget trying to evacuate large cities and instead urge people to shelter inlace. it's worth emphasizing this is not based on any new threat or fears about a nuclear bomb attack and the oma administration is now considering how to better get the word out about these new findings. brian? or as a friend of mine put it this way, turns out duck and cover wasn't that bad advice after all. pete, thanks. >>> we continue to keep a close eye on this winter weather we've been havin this was a rough day mostly because of ice. in suburban atlanta, for example, an estimated 1,000 traffic accidents over the last 24 hours. big problems tonight from richmond to roanoke to washington, d.c., south to norfolk, and a bad mix of snow and ice over parts of the appalachians as the rtheast prepares for what could be a brand new nor'easter churning up this weekend. and quickly,wo spots of note. if you've got a shovel and live in the twin cities and need the money, they'll pay you ten bucks to come out and shovel the field at the university of minnesota for th

policy will be implemented in the regions because you know what happens when you come to a paulus large city and you have small cities around it when you small towns and then nobody believes beyond that and at the same time the big city has terrible conditions for life oh people are living together a lot of garbage and living conditions are terrible when they would be environmental situation is not so good. we should work spread out throughout the territory this is geopolitical very important for our future would think you missed an addendum. everyone including me was quite impressed by your words. when you said that our political system is showing symptoms of stagnation. as with people ask for a land. well they ask for land they demand justice and. their demands can't always sufficiently it can't always reach their forty's by official channels and. you believe you have said the system is becoming brands have i imagined in the faces of our politicians certain politicians when they're. placed by demand by ten or so on as they travel around. so on one hand we have this and the official politic

ideal national security becomes just as made up as the means of reaching this issue going to a large city. paul craig roberts is a former senior white house official he told us that the f.b.i. is deliberately recruiting innocent people in fake plots. we know it was fake plot because the f.b.i. recruited a guy and made the bomb and gave him the fake detonator he obviously was not a terrorist since you didn't know how to make a bomb and didn't know how to recognize a fake bomb. and so the real question is why then does the f.b.i. go around creating these phony cases where it has to recruit people. into fake plots now allegedly we have real terrorists but we don't have a cancer knew them we only catch once the f.b.i. has terrific cruet united states gets a lot of criticism and so one way to deflect criticism is to always have acts of terrorism and he's manufactured fabricated acts of terrorism are used in a propagandist way. to justify the wars against terrorists trenchers and of course also they're being used to create a police state. a fresh wave of protests has swept through britain again

san jose is a large city of a million people. it's a huge difference of living in a huge city and living in a smaller town. >> reporter: homeowner kerry whittaker calls it a quality of life issue. she's decreased in services of police and fire. says campbell is better given san jose's budget issues. >> when you have budget issues and then you're annexing people. >> reporter: a town michael christmas says he feels a part of. >> everything is within walking distance. if we want to participant downtown san jose, we would have to get in the light rail to go to downtown campbell. it just makes life hard for us. >> reporter: but again, frank and julie the big headline tonight, a compromise. again this deal will require campbell and san jose to reenter negotiation over this disputed property for the next six months. if there is no deal, then the cambrian 36 neighborhood will become part of san jose. reporting live, heather holmes, ktvu news. >>> a san francisco man pleaded not guilty today to attacking a retired jesuit priest who alleged

san jose is a large city of a million people. it's a huge difference of living in a huge city and living in a smaller town. >> reporter: homeowner kerry whittaker calls it a quality of life issue. she's decreased in services of police and fire. says campbell is better given san jose's budget issues. >> when you have budget issues and then you're annexing people. >> reporter: a town michael christmas says he feels a part of. >> everything is within walking distance. if we want to participant downtown san jose, we would have to get in the light rail to go to downtown campbell. it just makes life hard for us. >> reporter: but again, frank and julie the big headline tonight, a compromise. again this deal will require campbell and san jose to reenter negotiation over this disputed property for the next six months. if there is no deal, then the cambrian 36 neighborhood will become part of san jose. reporting live, heather holmes, ktvu news. >>> a san francisco man pleaded not guilty today to attacking a retired jesuit priest who alleged

san jose is a large city of is a million people. there is a huge difference in living in a huge city and a small you are town. >> if no deal is reached in six months the land will become part of san jose. >>> the community has come together to help the dogs that saved a family from a fire in hayward. da rolls pit pull suffered burns in a fire. he woke up the family barking and saving them from fire. he had $6600 in medical bills those have all been paid off made by donations. >>> now it's a spin off of the mayor's legacy project homeless connect which the mayor credits for a 40% reduction in the homeless street population. the new program will give the homeless access to information about housing, legal assistance, and medical care. it's scheduled to begin in february. >>> so far the south bay has been dry. there are wet roads around. let's check in with sal. >> it's right pam and dave but wet weather. the wet weather has been confined to the north bay. we are checking 280 in the south bay. it does help the commute. if it's wet we te

gathering for a rumored confrontation police reported isolated clashes in various parts of the city but no large scale violence or serious injuries a man suspected of leading unrest and killing a migrant from critical stand is now in jail president dmitri medvedev already said not to hesitate in using force to quell hate riots. but get all that out clashes fighting in vandalism and not just administrative violations but crimes and those who commit these crimes should be locked up rather than just told off the police should be using their legal authority to prevent extremism and incitement to listening kate should what happened in moscow and in some of the russian cities has shown that although requires very efficient management i'd like to draw attention to the fact that inciting violence in our country is a crime to. us republicans have failed in their attempts to reverse

other large cities to follow suit. it is a worrying development for german car makers who thrive on the china's rapidly expanding car market. volkswagen alone sold nearly 2 million new cars in china between january and november of this year, over a quarter of its global sales. bmw's china's sales topped 153,000. daimler sold 130,000 of its luxury mercedes benz brand this year. german car makers expect the performance to continue next year with volkswagen announcing plans to invest 6 billion euros in china by 2012. these optimistic forecasts are based on china's rapid car market expansion in recent years. >> the announcement to restrict driving in the inner city of beijing has a knock on effect in europe. automobile stocks were among today's leading decliners. our correspondent in frankfurt as more. >> investors were shocked at the news from china -- said that prospects for volkswagen, bmw and daimler seem to have darkened. what if other cities besides beijing take the same measures and curtail sales of new cars? the in

the community benefit district, and the city can play a very large role since it has so much propertyan take it to be successful just on the city alone, and i want to make sure i am seeing a high participation from property owners outside of the city for me to really want to approve of it. the other concern is we are basically assessing this ourselves to provide services, and i know some of these departments are not going to be contributing and do not have a lot of flexibility in their budgets, so unless i see there is a really strong recommendation from the non-city side of the ownership, it is going to be difficult for me to support on january 4. i think you have serious concerns. >> i think i can approve the city for disobeying. the city participation is not going to be the overwhelming factor in the passage of the civic center area. >> of the community report for tomorrow's meeting? >> as a community report. >> then we have our last item. we have the settlement as well. >> item #4, various updates regarding the city budget. >> before we go into that, we will take one minute recess

city and show them to you. what i'm not happy with is a large school that has a 30, 35% graduation rate. >> reporter: joel klein is new york city's school's chancellor. >> and when i think a school has got a kind of failure, low expectations, non performance culture, then my job is to create a different option for those kids. >> reporter: that different option has been small high schools, like this one, williamsburg prep, where justin now goes to school. >> when you come here, it feels so much less; you have so much more room; you have so much more attention. the teachers are willing to work with you. it's so much better. >> reporter: enrollment at williamsburg prep is around 500. it's a quarter the size of most large high schools. ben lockeretz teaches math. >> it's a small school where the teachers are talented and work very hard, and we don't let kids fall through the cracks. >> reporter: small schools can do things large schools cannot. for instance, williamsburg prep designs its schedule so that the students in each grade have the same lunch period as their teachers. >> so a student if he's falling behind

the communist party takes over at the township which is large cities and counties and provinces.the provincial people. so the government to process is involved with the carter center as a major monitor of what the chinese government is doing to bring democracy, at least on the local level. >> host: final question because we are winding down. i could go on for hours. the issue of global warming. we talk about conservation and the department of energy and your long time concerned about getting off of fossil fuels. you at all concerned that this is to be this global warming concern and now people don't mention that? a midterm election and the ultimate present republicans are kind of staying away from the. are you deeply concerned? >> guest: i really am. in fact i just read an article the other day. american cities in north fork virginia, they have had an increase in sea level. at think it's the 16 inches already. people that have lived on trial and are now having to leave their homes and into communities in norfolk. in alaska they have abandoned several of the villages along the coa

toledo's test scores are generally better than those in ohio's seven other large cities, but they lag behind the rest of the state in all subjects and all grades. >> ifill: finally tonight, a civil rights leader's words for a new generation. judy woodruff has our conversation. >> woodruff: the book is "walk in my shoes: conversations between a civil rights legend and his god son on the journey ahead." author andrew young has served as a top aide to martin luther king, jr., ambassador to the united nations and mayor of atlanta. his co-author and god son kabir is an investment banker in new york. thank you both for being here. so your backgrounds are so different i think there's 50 years in age between you. >> exactly. >> woodruff: exactly. so what was it, ambassador young, that made it possible for these conversations between you to become a book? >> well the picture on the front of the book was him in second grade. calling up the mayor's office and asking to interview the mayor. well, i was fascinated by the idea. we started talking. i had known his family. it just took off from there

the communist party in china takes over the large cities in the towns and provinces and the provincial people go every five years so that entire governmental process is involves the carter center as a major monitor of the chinese government and to bring democracy at least on the local level. >> a final question because we are winding down. i could go on for hours. the issue of global warming. we talk about conservation and the department of energy and your long-term concern about getting off of the fossil fuels. are you all concerned there seems to be this global warming for a while, seems to be this concern and now people don't mention it, do you have a midterm election in both democrats and republicans are staying away from it, are you deeply concerned but global warming? >> guest: i certainly am, it is happening. in fact i read an article today that the american cities began to suffer norfolk virginia where i went with my life when we were first married they got an increase in sea level i think it's it 16 inches already and people have lived on dry land are not having a to leave the

the communist party in china takes over at the time shipp with the large cities and count as provincesand the provincial people he liked him to go to the national people's conference every five years. so that the entire governmental process involves the carter center has a major monitor for the chinese government is doing to bring democracy at least on the local village level. >> host: final question, of course we are winding down. i could go on for hours with you. but the issue of global warming. we talked about conservation and the department of energy and your long time concern about fossil fuels. are you at all concerned there seems to be this global warming for a while seems to be this concern, and now people don't mention it? is a midterm election and democrats and republicans are staying away from it. or do deeply concerned with our global warming? >> guest: certainly am. it is happening. in fact i just read an article today that the american cities began to suffer in norfolk virginia where i went with my wife when we were first married. they had an increase in sea level, i thin

the city's smoky, caffeine-fueled cafes spawned a kind of feverish brilliance that has seldom been equaled. vienna was the ruling seat of the great austro-hungarian empire that once covered a large part of europe. the hapsburgs, europe's most powerful ruling family, governed their domain with regal flourish. though it's now an imperial city without an empire, the proud capital still glitters with reminders of its former glory. and with the fall of communism, vienna has once again become the gateway to eastern europe. maxa, voice-over: with our home base in vienna, we'll take in the city highlights, then we'll head to the danube river valley for cruising, countryside, and more. [blue danube waltz playing] what could be more viennese than a waltz? it was the dance sensation that swept the city in the 19th century. i'm here at vienna's most famous dancing school with my instructor katarina trying to learn the delicate steps that kept the nobility on their toes. so, now, let us try to dance very easy 6 steps of viennese waltz. and i will show it beside you. we are starting with the right foot one step forward. second step-- left foot to the side and close at 3. maxa, voice-over: fou