name is carrie wong, i work with the department of aging and adult services and i have with me dana leavitt, she's the program manager at the san francisco transitional care program. i will start off with just a little bit of the background of how we got to where we're at, then dana is going to go into the program details. daas applied for the community-based transition care program, tcp program, currently 1 out of 47 participating nationwide. california has 3 of the participating cities, which includes marin county and san francisco. the tcp, which was created by section 3026 of the affordable care act tests for models for improving transitional care setings from hospitals to other setings and reducing readmissions for high risk medicare beneficiaries. care transition occurs when a patient moves from one health care provider to another setting. nearly 1 out of 5 medicare patients discharged from the hospital, which is approximately 2.6 million seniors, is readmitted within 30 days and costs over 26 billion every year. while hospitals have traditionally been the focal point for efforts it r

say leavitt or expanded.when you look at these core issues lifting more people into the middle class, how to do it, education and health care training and those kinds of issues, which party do you think is more in tune with where hispanics are and what are the challenges the twin faces? >> i think that's a good point because immigration is by far not the dominant issue and it's not the only issue on the agenda with latino voters. as we said before to an issue that creates hostile rhetoric so it's an issue that can be evaluated on but on health care and overwhelming maturities supported the health care bill and had the have the highest rates of uninsured. on issues of what to do about balancing the deficit overwhelming majorities of latinos say increasing taxes on the wealthy should be part of that solution not cuts only. there other issues on the economy. when we pulled our weekly tracking poll 70 to 20% said they trusted the democrats economic policies on the economy compared to republicans so there are othe

. >> hello, my name is daniel leavitt and i am running for district five supervisor and i am also an attorney here in san francisco, and to quote, another late attorney, the great oliver holmes. as life is action and passion you should engage in the action and passion of their life in the peril of being judged not to have lived. i am here to tell you that i have been engaged and passionate about the issues shaping san francisco and district five at every step of the way. now, is that engagement and passion for me comes from my up bringing. now, i never fought in the vietnam war, i never experienced it. and i wasn't even born until it was all over. but, nonetheless, i cannot help but feel, that most of my life has been shaped by that war's battles. my father was a combat soldier, he returned from the war with many of the same ailments as other veterans including posttraumatic stress des order which left him 100 percent disabled. folks i watched my father, who was a very proud man, beg, with the government for the benefits he deserved. and i watched my father, again a very proud man, h

michael leavitt, health and human services secretary for bush, he started on the reagan campaign andso excite excited. he said you would go to ohio. he said i don't want to go to ohio. nothing happens there. he said you can't win as republican if you don't win ohio. i'm sure he is reminding them of that every day. >> eric: any surprise if romney wins ohio today? and president obama chose not to -- >> dana: biden went last minute today. >> bob: i don't know why he chose cuyahoga county. i think what they're probably trying to do is minimize votes in cuyahoga county. as andrea pointed out to me, suburban counties around it, have been republican, and obama did very well there. again, question what happened last time around. i think obama will hold off enough but not -- i mean he will be there, but it will be within a point. >> andrea: people are asking is pennsylvania the new ohio? >> eric: we'll get there in a second. hang on to that thought. greg, you and i take care of florida. want to go first? >> greg: i want to talk about pennsylvania. >> eric: hold the thought. >> greg: bill clin

they were at a foreclosed home in galt deal with several dogs and cats leavitt inside the home.ly this morning, officers were finally able to subdue the suspect after he went downstairs to retrieve one of his dogs. the suspect is now being treated at a hospital. >>> they were in and out in a flash. two robbers hit a bay area jewelry store. it happened in los gatos at blacy's fine jewelers tuesday afternoon. the men wore masks, had semi- automatic pistols and went for the safe also used a sledgehammer to smash display cases. one customer refused the robber's orders to get down to keep her baby safe. >> protecting her child. the mother with the newborn, she was protecting the child because the glass was flying. >> the robbers dropped some of their loot as they ran out. they took off in a stolen car and that was found in a parking lot just a few blocks away. >>> a powerball dream came through. two tickets picked all the right numbers in the biggest jackpot ever. they will split $588 million. two winning tickets sold in arizona and missouri. >>> the jackpot triggered a ticket buying

i can tell you on the plane today was ike leavitt, running the transition projects for governor romney certainly not discounting the possibility he's going to win this thing. >> and i understand as we're looking at a picture of mitt romney and his wife ann there by his side, she was traveling around through the plane and made a stop back there with the media. >> that's right. we haven't seen much of ann romney in the last few weeks. she's been campaigning largely on her own in a number of states. she met with the press today. she even -- they asked her how she was feeling, how she was thinking. she's really looking forward to categorizing her views on the race but talked about throwing a touchdown pass in this last stretch football game. around the third debate and reflecting on some of her own best memories of this process. >> garrett haake,you'll have a lot of reflecting to do but not for a few more days, my friend. >>> joining me now, national joushl white house correspondent major garrett and politics staff writer sharon triplet. your latest article is entitled "obama-romney enter

you know, when fdr met with the leavitt brothers to build levittown, they were not thinking about creatingter citizens, how are we going to create a reality that requires each person to buy his own lawn mower, get their own snow blowers, so that we would grease the engines of corporate capitalism. >> we have taun a llked an awfu of esthetics today. and a lot of people can't -- >> i'm not talking -- >> no, no no -- >> but here's the billion dollar -- >> no, here's a point in savings iffer the lowest fifth -- >> there's a substantive point here too. there are benefits to low prices for low-wage earners, agreed. i don't think they sum out net benefit. but let me say this, we are -- we have seen the share of gdp that comes from consumption in america increase and increase and increase, now at 70%, place in canada, around 50%. we're growing, and 85% of gdp growth came from consumption. at a certain point, you just hit the brick wall. where the economy cannot grow any more from consumption. and that's a question for another day because i'd like to come back to that topic about just how much the

the morning and there were baggy authorities to escort them please let us go back to roman grandma leavitt's we catch our flight. others that were here for business will probably cancel their meetings for what happened. the fire department has met at this cleared in about four hours altogether. they brought out ambulances but they were not needed because no one was injured. >> now there are the canceled and delays flights that these people may have been affected by. >> the nor'easter is pounding minorities' right now. rain snow in the head wind up to gusts of 60 mi. an hour. half a million people are still without power after sandy. mayor bloomberg urge people to get out if they could. he knows some people lot of harm's way those who had requested help. a lot of people chose to stay in weather the storm and deal with the effects this morning. >> i hate setbacks i do not tolerate them very well. this one i cannot control. the weather is what it is and i'm looking for the locus and pestilence next. >> that is the question what else what else? hundreds of flights out of that minorities were can

i worked with governor mike leavitt to balance the state budget every single year. collaboration is how problems are solved. as your united states senator, i promise you every day i'll work the represent you -- to represent you and this great state. god bless you. god bless utah, and thank you very much. >> moderator: on behalf of the studio audience, our viewing audience and the citizens of utah, we thank you both for running. [applause] >> that debate between candidates to represent utah in the u.s. senate happened on october 17th. it's one of the dozens of debates we've been bringing you this election season. follow campaign 2012 live on the c-span television networks, c-span radio and c-span.org. you can also find us on twitter and facebook, and we've also been taking a look at some of the swing states in play this election season. here's an overview of pennsylvania. >> for the next several days here on c-span's "washington journal" we are focusing on key battleground states in campaign 2012. today the spotlight is the keystone state, pennsylvania. and joining u