jessica layman. >> good afternoon, ms. layman. >>> one second. thank you for having us here today, chairman nolan, director reiskin, directors of the board. it's good to be here to address you. for starters i want to appreciate the amendment -- it looks like director brinkman just stepped out. but the amendment about including 18 year olds now so that young adults have access to job. we really support that. of course i also want to urge you to go ahead and pass free muni for low and moderate income seniors and people with disabilities now and not wait until january. we have several reasons for that. first, we've seen the success of free muni for youth. it didn't cost as much as anticipated. we've seen how many families benefit from it and, so, we want to get

jessica layman. rosie [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon. >>> good afternoon. i am one of the third pulpit members at the third baptist church. i'm also a san francisco native and my father is a retired muni driver proudly. i am pleased in your proposed budget that you've taken into consideration the fact of rolling back

foundation over and pushes out the ruptured pipeline >> it is intimidating i'm talking to people as a layman who needs help. >> this is a difficult process for people to navigate we're only focused on outreach so we've got the informational and we've spoken to many different owner groups and community groups all across the city. >> outreach is critical for the retrofitting program the city has to get out to the community and help people said what they have to do and do it and raise finances so this program is an advocate and resource for the community. >> so why not skip to the theme. foremost and most to come we've been presenting community meetings and going face to face with community owners and helping people understand what to do >> you may be wanting to know about the sf green but this will allow you to have is a loan for the property so if you have the property the loan will be summoned by the new owner and this is pay back for your property taxes and the low rates this is a fantastic option. >> i'm in favor of the program obviously we're going to have a earthquake this is from an inv

to have a stone that is 13 carats, flawless, no imperfections, and to put it in layman's terms, this rolls-royce of blue diamonds. >> is there anything comparable to this impeller that exists? >> for something that is as dark but not as pure in color, the hope diamond. that is not for sale. if you want a blue diamond, come to christie's. >> he have to go to geneva. >> or call into geneva. you can be on the phone. >> the same thing for the white stone that looks like a diamond. >> the raja diamond. it was purchased in the 1800s by mr. morgan. towards 1880, tiffany purchased the diamond and sold it to isabella stewart gardner. christie's sold it for the first time for $2 million. it is back with us now and is going to be make more than $5 million. >> is there a way to determine what is going to be the fashion? we know about color diamonds. >> people have realized how much rarer they got, how rare are defined in large sizes. this education the market like we have seen the good temporary art market that has driven prices to a new level. >> let's talk about a pink diamond. this is one tha

to a layman that doesn't seem like a huge amount of area to cover with sonar under the water, with sidecanning sonar and underwater vehicles. is that naive to think that? >> no, it's not naive to think that. seems like a small amount. under the sea there's no gps navigation. it's pitch black. fairly hostile environment. where they are working right now is on the north facing side of an underwater feature called the wallabe plateau. that place will be covered with land slides and steep cliffs. working in that area even though it's a limited haystack is less than easy. it will be fairly tricky. >> on air france flight 447, david, you had a general idea where the plane went down. you found debris, the pingers on the black boxes never worked. still took you months and months of searching over two years to find the wreckage, correct? >> took two years with all the mobilization and things like that to get back out there but all together on the water about ten weeks. actually two months of that, eight weeks was spent almost on a wild goose chase because of a bad model for retrodrifting. so dri

to a layman that doesn't seem like a huge amount of area to cover with sonar under the water, with sideing sonar and underwater vehicles. is that naive to think that? >> no, it's not naive to think that. seems like a small amount. under the sea there's no gps navigation. it's pitch black. fairly hostile environment. where they are working right now is on the north facing side of an underwater feature called the wallabe plateau. that place will be covered with land slides and steep cliffs. working in that area even though it's a limited haystack is less than easy. it will be fairly tricky. >> on air france flight 447, david, you had a general idea where the plane went down. you found debris, the pingers on the black boxes never worked. still took you months and months of searching over two years to find the wreckage, correct? >> took two years with all the mobilization and things like that to get back out there but all together on the water about ten weeks. actually two months of that, eight weeks was spent almost on a wild goose chase because of a bad model for retrodrifting. so driftin

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if layman's terms, what is the main argument you're trying to advance with this documentary?> mostly it's to refute most of what you just said. you know, the company did a very good job at the mine. in the mine, as the documentary says, every day. basically the mine blew up because of a natural gas inundation which now people realize and it will happen again if something's not done about it. people need to go to ubbneveragain.com and take a look at the documentary and see for themselves. >> now, i guess the issue i would take with that, there have been three different reports authored about this -- about the disaster. one was a federal report. one was a state report. one was an independent report commissioned by joe manchin, governor of west virginia at the time. all three of the reports reached the same conclusion. "charleston daily mail" said core ventilation, dangerous amounts of coal dust in a corporate atmosphere that valued profit over safety. that's what those reports concluded was the root cause of this disaster. you're saying, no, it's natural gas. why should we beli

. >> the humility of many of the progressive socialist governments seems to this layman as a very practical acknowledgement because we see how capitalist systems are failing. we see how the socialist systems are dysfunctional. we know that people -- that dreaming isn't a luxury. it's a human need and, hints, capitalism feeds into the possibility of that dream and the entrepreneurial ship that all of those discussions, but beginning with the beginning of the chavez in venzuela, it was a country that 80% of its people hadn't begun to have the right to dream. they didn't exist. they had no identity, and i mean literally had no identity cards. they didn't exist. and they were ignor by the elite. so when the elite didn't do something for their people, it gave rise to someone like chavez. chavez was an electric personality, a great friend of mine. >> that's a personal note. he was important in venzuela. his personal flamboyance sometimes i even -- i said to him, you know, don't pyourself there. there is that feeling and that long history of, you know, bad history united states had had an interven

to the layman, this catches your eye and leaves you in awe. a thin piece of metal embedded deeply in this tree like a dagger. imagine that kind of force. [crying] >> reporter: 73-year-old ruth buzer lost her home and nearly her life. never again she told me. >> they told me a tornado was coming and it was going to kill me or whatever, i'd say take me. i don't want to live through that tornado. >> reporter: 100 yards away, her son-in-law and his wife took shelter in a bathroom. what could you see and hear? >> couldn't see much until the roof came off -- i mean, the door, i kept trying to hold the door. it kept trying to hold up. >> reporter: they followed warnings all day that included urgent tweets from the national weather service little rock office. tornado crossing i-40 right now read one. another, takeover -- take cover now. cover now. their home completely torn apart, the weather radio that was their lifeline left in the bathroom that became their shelter. >> seemed like it lasted us forever, but it probably didn't last long at all. >> re

enough that i've to make an outbreak of conflict or equivalent and pessimistic assessment from a layman's point of view but what is experts take on the findings of the un report. so i can get to researchers who least need a win to the ipcc session in your book how not connected to collect a hectic day well the previous reporting two thousand said been made clear that the risk from climate change exists this fifth assessment report identifies specific risk factors posed by climate change and how much room is left for the human race to adapt to such risks. in terms of health has this report says the high level coffers the climate change aggravates already existing health problems. the whole threats stemming from climate change require national level solutions. since climate change poses health risks beyond just the individual level. sergio was a korean government doing to address some of these challenges up liking to expats. the korean government is in essence the upright taking the name of global f place to reduce the summit to address this issue to take the lock the government has volunta

explain >> your proposal in layman's terms. >>-- explain your proposal in layman's terms. >> the goal remove impediments in the tax system. the idea is not to subsidize investment or give it a break but rather to remove the current structure that impede investment because it taxes investment at a higher rate than it taxes consumption. the easiest way to see it is this. some income and you spend that income right now, you are taxed on it because your tax when you are in the income. notou invest it, you are only taxed on when you are in the income but when you are in the returns to it or interest, dividends, capital gains. that is an impediment to investment. most people who have studied this, and this is not a new idea, most economists believe that by removing that impediment you can move the economy in the right direction. >> we have tried this a couple totimes we have accelerated come out of recessions. what has that todd does other than companies timeshift to take advantage of the breaks? the timeshift is significant. that is not the goal here. the goal is not to move things over ti

investigation and cannot give us the specifics, but black was -- lightbox technology sounds to the laymantdated. why not upgrade to something better? >> i would say the sophistication of those black boxes is quite high, if you think about the environmental conditions i have to go through. it is tremendous. we have to certify them underwater. we have to have none survived huge g forces, really bad heat and other conditions you would imagine them going through an impact. when we find these boxes, they are flawless in terms of their performance and getting the data off. i call you back to the air france 477 flight from brazil to france. we found the box two years after being underwater. got toflawless and we the bottom of what happened in that investigation. the technology is quite sophisticated. wherer area in terms of we may go next is, longer battery life. and what is the connectivity solution we really need? in the particular 370 case, we came into one airspace had a bit of a different environment than you see on most routes. it did not have the same radar coverage you experience in othe

in layman's terms, the king asked, "does newton's two-body solution, the simple elliptical motions ofthe motion of several planets all under the influence of gravity. although poincare didn't succeed, he came close enough that the king awarded him the prize anyway, because his explorations had made a significant contribution to classical mechanics, besides adding a lot of mathematics. however, when a referee asked for a clarification, poincare discovered an error, and the great mathematician went back to the drawing board. unable to solve the problem as it was originally posed, poincare made up his own: will the solar system always stay together or will it fall apart? what poincare discovered was that for more than two bodies, certain initial conditions could lead to chaos. you see, with two bodies and newton's equations, basically only two things could happen. either the two objects could move apart to infinity, essentially like a meteor passing by the planet, or we could get the familiar old periodic solutions of one planet orbiting around another one. and most importantly, changing

places the bins which are only for clothes, shoes and in some cases books are attracting blight or in laymanst macauthor blvd near the border of san leandro, where trash is in and around the donation bin over near hegenburger yer another bin with trash in and around it, sometimes it s mattresses, couches, televisions, dead animals, you name it same forecast for the east bay valley 64 for livermore. over and oakland it look for about 66. here is your 7 day around the bay forecast. today and tomorrow public in a fairly stable weather. friday could put a system for a period much farther to the north. that one although we've had it aired on the tile manges bring a dropper to. if the trend continues we could be looking at low 90s by wednesday of next week. now on to traffic in the morning. >>george: there when the advisers for the venetian a cartoonist and san francisco oakland bay bridge is. right now the drive time on 11 minutes out of the maze. and if you're heading over to hayward are from hayward over to foster city he was still have an easy ride here in the westbound direction. no backups ar

the amygdala influences the coding of episodic memory or in layman's terms, that memory stick. think about it, some actors will not read their own reviews because if nine out of 10 things say good things about them, what are they going to remember? table remember the 10th that said something bad about them. that is why companies spend a lot of money tried to help employees through change because there are a lot of people who say we tried something different 20 years ago and did not work. we have evolved that way to survive. if you are a caveman and sabertooth tiger eats your friend a mile away from the case, it is really important to not go to that place a mile east of the cave. we learn by seeing. so when you raised your hand before in response to my question, a set of motor neurons fired. the neurons tell the muscles what to do. when you lowered it, another set of motor neurons fired. something else happened just now when you watch me raise my hand, some of your motor neurons fired again as if you had raised your hand. these are called mirror neurons and they are key to learn

>> that is the hope and i can't honestly tell you as a layman how realistic that hope is. we know about 170, 180 elite navy divers are on the sea. cometh the hour, cometh the man. these guys may be able to get into the hull under water, move inside this dark cold freezing labyrinth under the water and reach people trapped in air pockets. if they do reach these people, how they extricate them from that situation, this is an extraordinary dangerous and demanding operation for these young men. so hopes are strong, but reality -- your guess is as good as mine. >> it's now after 2:00 a.m., cleeshly in the middle of the night over there. the search operation, the rescue operation, is continuing throughout the night, right? >> the rescue operation has very recently just been resumed. there's a u.s. navy ship on standby in the area. but there's a huge number of south korean assets circling the stairwell. if you look at the early pictures, you saw not just coast guard vessels but even fishing bo boats going up to the ship and taking people off at considerable risk to themselves. wh

one would gather, and i'm a layman, they think they're in 9 right area, otherwise these boxes may notgether. these areas may not be moving together. >> in fact, the pinger locator area hasn't searched as all. the other area, the debris, is. let's remember the a cyclone jillian, a hurricane in u.s. terms moved through that area about three weeks ago with 190-mile-an-hour winds. they blooe that took debris to the left. that's a moving feast, if you like. but the pinger area stays the same. so we're looking for three things, ping, acoustic return for hms echo, or we're looking for debris. to try to nail down the final wresting place of mh 370 is where they're looking. 1. >> you've been involved in many searches, including the titanic. it takes time to find these things. i don't think the titanic was down as far as they believe this plane is. a. >> they were at similar depths, once you get down deeper than 10,000 feet, it's all deep. the titanic, of course, no one searched for it for many years because there was no technology able to do that. once doctor ballard and the u.s. navy decided

when it comes to the legal stuff, i'm a layman.his is just a question that occurred to me reading through memos today. we gave the example of luciana dimaggio to begin the segment. she's the aide with kim guadagno who says she thinks she heard something about not playing ball. but she's not sure. in the memo it says she has two meetings with christie's lawyers, with the investigative team, where she's not represented by a lawyer. about six weeks later she comes back with a lawyer to reiterate she thinks this is what she heard. she's not 100% sure and doesn't want to go on the record with it. is that telling you anything that that happened? >> not really, other than that they are smart because anytime you're in an investigation like this, even if you're told you're only a witness, it's always a good idea to get a lawyer. it has nothing to do with whether you're innocent or guilty. so i suspect that she thought that her information wasn't such a big deal when the investigator seemed especially interested in it, she got the good advic

i'm just a layman here but it seems to me the team is worth more today this afternoon it will be in a than it will be in a month, particularly if he files suit. the longer he holds on, the less valuable the team is, doc rivers wouldn't come back, players won't come back. is he going to make a rational decision or make a litigious decision and sue? >> he is a litigious guy. i don't think anyone thinks he'll go a quietly but that remains to be seen. >> thank you. much more to come here on tdr. for the soup of the day, at spike seafood, it's lobster bisque. [ male announcer ] ortho crime files. reckless seeding. a backyard invasion. enter homeowner, and ortho weed b gon max. kills weeds without harming innocent lawns. guaranteed. ortho weed b gon max. get order. get ortho®. it's how i look at life. especially now that i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. i was taking warfarin but wondered, could i focus on something better? my doctor told me about eliquis for three important reasons. one, in a clinical trial e

can you translate in layman's terms? what does this mean for state, local elections?oes it just impact congressional and senate races. my second question is, does this change in capping campaign -- removing the cap have to do with an african-american man in the white house? is it race and gender specific? host: what you mean by that? caller: in the state of oregon, we have a number of women in wonderful leadership positions. there is a good old boy club that exist. they create these systematic race systems to create manufactured allegations and andst assault against women people of color in positions. worried that we are going to have a woman president after obama? i would just say that i think this supreme court would be hostile to any campaign finance restrictions, no matter who was in office. they truly believe more money in politics is better and i don't think it has to do with race or gender. in my have to do more with wealth. mightre interested -- it have to do more with wealth. i do think this court would have been hostile to these reforms, no matter who was in

how reliable -- the first time i as a layman heard about these sonobuoys was this week.eliable are they? >> very reliable. they are designed to search out submarines, for submarine attack and defense. as they get dropped, they are very reliable. they go down 1,000 feet. the fact that it went down 1,000 feet, it's enough to penetrate the temperature boundary and it's quiet at that layer. it's sensing everything. so the fact that we got a ping tells you a good place to go with the "ocean shield" to start looking deeper. >> professor stupples, how is the listening technology on these buoys different than what the ship is using to pick up the pings? >> well, the towed ping locator is very much more sensitive than this bouoy. the buoy contains a hydrophone. that is not to say that it hasn't picked up a ping from the locator. >> and david, the big question now, investigators have said these signals have the potential of being from a manmade source. >> uh-huh. >> i think we agreed last night that it's hard to imagine what they could be other than the black boxes. but what could

this for, and now i have actually drawn pi out in several way and put it online to explain it in layman's terms and equations so no matter the level, you can understand the root of mathematics, and understand it. >> and these individuals took your jacket and hit you in the head multiple times, and lucky to be alive and here you are not only alive, but almost a super hero for lack of a better word, but how much research are you allowing the happen on the brain, and what you have acquired? >> well, they have done the functional mris on me, and three-dimensional maps of my brain, and functional mris show how much oxygen your brain is using and where. and so if i'm writing with a pencil, the part of the brain that uses oxygen is going to show that part uses writing, and so every once in a while, they will flash up an equation, and see what part of my brain works hard come can paired to control subjects, and they find that i have conscious access to parts of the brain that others don't have. >> and what is next for you? >> i would love to be able to teach it to as many people as i c can, which

my -- when i look at their record just as a layman, i see a sort of comedy of errors or at least comedynts for shell where things kept going wrong after wrong after wrong after wrong. and they weren't dealing with spills. should we see the industry as being able to offer -- operate safely in an arctic environment even if they're not spilling? >> i was stunned, i have to say, when they ran aground. this was a situation where shell had invested over $1 billion in ships, equipment, the permitting process, but had truly invested to make this a model drilling operation in the arctic. they were going to prove it could be done and prove that it could be done safely. and then they ran aground. i -- it was just unbelievable. i haven't read the reports on it, i understand maybe they were pushing to get out of alaska waters to avoid some fees or something. but it really does make you wonder whether they can even operate. >> elizabeth birnbaum, former director of the minerals management service. we cover the energy industry a lot on this show in part because i'm always standing up at my desk and sl

to a layman, that sounds very, very long.an you explain why that's... >> lake barrett: to me, that's... that's not long at all. that... that's what i would expect for that kind of thing. it's a huge challenge. it's... it's a big onsite mess that they have to clean up, and it's going to take them decades to do it. it took us ten years to do three mile island, and the three mile island accident was much simpler than they have at fukushima. >> simon: are they where you thought they would be three years later? >> barrett: i'd hoped they'd be further along. it's been challenging, technically, it's been challenging culturally and politically for them. but they're making good progress now. >> simon: sounds like you're being a little diplomatic. >> barrett: well, the decision making process in japan is... is complicated. >> simon: decision making in japan requires consensus, and reaching consensus often takes a very long time. the most difficult job will be to dismantle the melted reactors, but radiation is too high for workers to ge

let me break it down even further for the layman. meaning me here, linda.all about what a dollar, basically, what one buck will buy you in different countries. they're assuming a dollar in china will buy you more than what it will buy you in the united states. >> reporter: yeah. actually, let me put it another way. if we didn't convert everybody into u.s. dollars, but convert it to chinese rnb. you would then have to work out what the rnb would buy in different countries in order to properly assess is value of, say, american income or output. so that's why these conversions have to be taken with a bit of a grain of salt. overall, if you look at this comparison that's come out, this new assessment, more accurately measuring purchasing power parity, according to this international comparison program, what they found generally is that middle income countries are undervalued in terms of what they contribute to global incomes and output. their assessment says middle income countries account for half of the world's gdp if you look just on the basis of their excha

if -- and again, there is probably an obvious answer to this and just as a layman i don't understand it. is there a disadvantage to trying to tackle this on multiple fronts? at the same time, did you have the towed pinger locaters up there until day five, what other assets do you have scouring the ocean floor, in a way that you have been able to triangulate, and having under water vehicles would that interfere with having the towed pinger locater in the water? >> when i'm launching it from the same platform it certainly would. the best use of resources right now again is to focus on that broad area search, that towed pinger locater until we could reasonably rule out that the tra transister locaters are failing. >> do you find is it tougher as time goes by without hearing another ping? >> i think we lost you just on the sound, obviously. it is a live transmission from australia, captain matthews, i appreciate you being on. let's go back to the panel. i mean, david gallow, you have been out searching for 447. is it hard to maintain that optimism and is it necessary to maintain that opt