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let me right now invite up the honorable supervisor ross mirkarimi, supervisor of district 5, to greet us, and then we will move in. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi. >> when i was with speaker pelosi, honoring the center's work, there are still 1 of 50 children in the u.s. qualified as homeless, and one in 8 are on the cusp of losing their mortgage and going into default or foreclosure. and unemployment after 6 months continues to grow. sobering statistics, and yet i said to the speaker, my god, what would the country be in if it was not for the election of president obama, making sure that great cities like san francisco continue to move forward. the crowd erupted in applause, because they realize how severe the condition has been. mary rogerds would remind us of those realities. she would remind us that last year was the conclusion of redevelpoment in the fillmore, and remind us of the prospective new beginnings of redevelopment in the southeast sector. she would remind us to remain vigilant and true to the vision of what it means to make this city prosperous for all and do all we ca

let me suggest a couple more things. this would not have been possible without the leadership of gen chapel. the day i was important or reject i was appointed, he was in my office talking about this. if you could give a day could round of applause to spur and jim. here is the problem. two years ago we were half a billion dollars short in funding. we had some bad to plant, and are not the work being done. i think the final eir was done in 2008 of the did not have the money. it was because -- and this is never acknowledged, and it deserves to be. especially now with the governor supporting my opponent, i do not need to promote him, but you have to support his appointee -- i get it. governor schwarzenegger deserves an extraordinary amount of credit. because of dale and his leadership -- susan kennedy on his staff. this was not always on the top of the list. you were sending money down south. at the last minute, the bricks were put on by susan, the governor, and with you, we directed $405 million through the shop program. so

let me start by making some acknowledgements. we have some speakers who i will introduced in a moment, but i am very pleased to welcome to the event, dan representing the speaker's office. i would also like to have very much thank christine from senator feinstein's office, as well as mega miller, a field representative team for senator boxer. in that knowledge and then come i want to the knowledge and leadership of both senators and their vision for how important this project is from the first moment, they have been a steadfast force in washington, d.c. for us. together with the speaker, they have been a formidable set of champions for this were the project. i also want to it knowledge the chief operating officer of the presidio trust. a major comeback indispensable partner in the product -- execution of this project. we have had the pleasure of working with him for several years and look forward to working with them and the future until the project is completed. i also want to acknowledge the first vice-president of the golden g

let me very quickly acknowledge, as the mayor said, and echoing his words, the incredible work of the people that are actually delivering this project on the ground. most of them do not freeze because they are actually moving around when they are at the construction site. others are moving around and beating the bushes in other places, particularly finding local and minority-owned, small and disadvantaged businesses. they need to be part of the reality of both the stimulus and the rehabilitation of the entire infrastructure in this country. they are the future. they are the reality today in this project as well. i want to take a quick second to a knowledge paul prendergast and his team, the tremendous job they have done in finding those people and demonstrating that minority-owned businesses are perfectly qualified to add value to a project of this size. we have them right here in san francisco. we do not need to import them from mars. they are prepared to do a good job. we have to connect them to the right people. that is what paul and his team is doing and it deserves acknowledgemen

let me go in the order of the way it of the -- of the way that appears before me. ipple of apple. >> good afternoon, members of the committee. i am vice-president for software technology at apple. thank you for asking me to testify about our approach to a consumer privacy. apple shares are concerned about privacy and we are deeply committed to protecting the privacy of our customers. we're committed to providing our customers with clear choice over their information. for instance, as part of our service, we provide our customer with easy to use tools to let them control the collection and use of location data on all devices. i would also point out that apple does not share our customers' private debt or selling customers' private data to third parties for their marketing purposes. we have provided an explanation of our privacy practices in the written testimony. let me emphasize that you points about letting consumers control hot applications using collected data. in addition to a published privacy policy, it is very helpful to have privacy features actually built

the issue -- >> larry, let me -- >> it's going to be how they raise that child. >> let me jump in anday what else is hurting kids. one of the other reasons i did this. a dear friend of mine was the homecoming queen in high school, came out, lost all her friends. she works at the trevor project now on the suicide hotline for g gay kids. there is a gay kid somewhere tonight watching in iowa that's going to kill himself because he thinks no one else is like him. there's a teacher somewhere that takes pepto bismol because she's afraid someone's going to ask what they did that weekend. there are kids at risk, kids killing thefl in this country, and it's important to step forward and tell them that they're not alone. >> larry: we'll have more -- >> i'd like to ask -- >> announcing that it doesn't matter if you have a mother. >> larry: i've got to get a break. kamala, i'll come right back -- >> if a child is raised in a way that is with love or not. >> larry: we'll take a break and come right back, and we'll have you answer. [ male announcer ] one look can turn the everyday into romantic. ♪

let me ask you a question let me ask let me ask everybody let me ask everybody a question here because you know i i'm not heavily involved in this issue like the three of you are ok but it seems to me that one side gets their scientists together then the other side gets its scientists together and what am i supposed to think. because it looks like well you know what you should do is scientists have not been participating in the rigorous peer review process that the rest of the world scientists know just a movement that is a record fine that all of that is i have. reviewed by the usual process and in the leading journals i'm not going to have this kind of childish mischaracterization on the air the fact is all the studies i have cited are fully peer reviewed and there by some of the most eminent scientists in the world professor lindzen has for thirty five years been the professor of atmospheric and planetary sciences at m.i.t. dr roy says there remains that there is the design any of the matter manipulators of measuring claimed otherwise satellites and these therefore are leading scien

now, let me give you the very important direction -- there is food over on the other side. please help yourself. hang out with us a little while longer. god bless you. go in peace. thank you. >> the mayor, the office of workforce development, kick off a new program which is to engage some of the artists in reinvigorating the streetscapes. organized in partnership with neighborhood based economic development organizations, the art in storefronts taps into the incredible creativity of the artist community to help improve the quality of life and the business climate in poor neighborhoods. the tenderloin, central market, they view, and the mission's 24 st.. at the launch party, the mayor released the first of 13 projects located on taylor and market street. we were there to capture the celebration and to get a closer look at the newly transformed storefront. >> we have an analyst at saying, you know what, we get it. if we close out and we put some plywood, we know it will have graffiti on it. we know that people will not respect this space. they are opening up their businesses,

let me take a second now in asking you to welcome supervisor mirkarimi of the board of supervisors. >> good morning. i am very delighted and proud to be here. i should explain that you might see both the mayor and myself and the president of the board of supervisors grinning. it may be the cold. we are also a little bit giddy because it was early this morning after a 13 hour board meeting that we just put to bed our budget of $6.50 billion. so we are quite delighted about that as well. so it is good to be here with you. [applause] the federal highway administrator, mayor newsom, and president david chiu, i am glad to address you on the occasion of such an important event in the development of the new presidio parkway. the start of construction of the first major tunnel. as chair of our county transportation authority board, i am delighted to welcome you to san francisco on this fine morning. it is not often that we get to mark the commencement of construction of something this big and this important, so i think it is very fitting that we take time to mark this moment appropriately. i

besides, let me see what you guys have. >> you know, i'm leaving. ter school, alice and delores park thinking about human behavior. >> i don't know what people want to -- from me, for real. i have to say i think people just want me to be perfect. but you know what? i am capable of doing anything. it doesn't matter who i am or the way i look. what matters is the effort. i will study more. >> alice studied hard. she gets automatic a's. she's on the honor roll! -- she gets all a's. she's on the honor roll. >> oh, my god. i can't believe it? you see? i am capeable. don't call me dummy. now who do you think schnur i am a girl with just good grades. >> the morale of this story is that no matter what people think about you, all you have to do is show who you really are. even if the situation isn't good for you, you must make the best effort you can and you will succeed in this life. jenny chuasiriporn did -- life. [cheers and applause] >> all right. yell about the shooting, about the killings. mothers don't remember reality. phone call. angers, her client.

let me suggest a couple more things. this would not have been possible without the leadership of gen chapel. the day i was important or reject i was appointed, he was in my office talking about this. if you could give a day could round of applause to spur and jim. here is the problem. two years ago we were half a billion dollars short in funding. we had some bad to

something is wrong with that picture. >> let me turn to michelle rhee.ecause she's had to deal with this directly in her own school district. michelle rhee, you have caused quite a lot of controversy. you've got a lot of supporters and a lot of detractors over what you're doing here in washington, d.c. i'm just going to put up the picture of the "time" magazine cover when you came in. you with the great big broom stick basically, signifying that you're going to sweep out the dead wood, so to speak. you got a certain amount from the stimulus funds. how did you do it? how did you get rid of something like 241 teachers and get the unions on board? >> well, we certainly sat at the table with the unions to craft a contract that we thought was going to be good for kids and fair to teachers. we completely revamped our teacher evaluation model so that it was more aligned with how students were actually performing, so in our new model, 50% of the teachers' evaluation is based on how much they're progressing their students in terms of the academic achievement leve

we feel confident about where we are, whether that's well known to that gentleman or not. >> let me ask you about the tax cuts. are you going to take that issue to a fight before the elections? letting the tax cuts for the 250,000 expire and then keep them on for the middle class? >> the tax cut for the wealthiest, the $250,000 and above, were the bush initiative. i don't see any reason to renew a tax cut that only gives a tax cut to the wealthiest people in america, increases the deficit and doesn't create jobs. that doesn't meet any standard. >> i know that's your position. but for the middle class -- >> keep the middle class tax cuts. the recovery act -- >> would you take to it a vote before the election? >> it would be my hope. on the recovery act, nearly $300 billion of the recovery act were tax cuts to the middle class. most people don't realize that. the republicans want to have the tax cut. they want it unpaid for. $700 billion added to the deficit for an initiative that doesn't create jobs. >> can i show you something? >> sure. >> there's so much polarization, so much partisans

let me talk about secretary lahood. he has been a colleague to many of us in the congress for a little while. when he became the secretary of transportation, it was no surprise to us he shared a representation of illinois with the president, served as a great leader on the transportation and infrastructure committee. we knew full well his knowledge of the issues, the possibility and opportunity for the future. he knew about infrastructure in transportation being job creators, improving the quality of life, the air we breathed, lowering the amount that people are spending in their cars. he understood that this was not just about infrastructure. it was about jobs for the future that make our community better. when he became the secretary, he had all of that experience. he had the respect from both sides of the aisle in congress. most importantly, he had the confidence of the great president of the united states, barack obama barack obama trusts ray lahood. one other person that is not here that i want to technology is jer

let me start with you, bill. the israelis and the palestinians resume direct talks in washington on thursday for the first time in two years. president obama is going to host at least the initial sessions. they have a timeline of just one year to get things done. what realistically can we expect? >> well, they shouldn't expect to get everything done in a year. the timeline is artificial, and the president should let prime minister benjamin netanyahu and prime minister abbas negotiate. netanyahu wants to meet every two weeks. that's good. let them meet and talk and see what they can work out. don't expose unrealistic expectations that it will blow up and lead to things wor worse. >> chris: juan? >> the question is about settlements. what you hear from abbas is they go back to the settlements, that he cuts off the talk. last time the talks were cut off because israel launched offensive in gaza. now we have a break. the question is can netanyahu hold together as his forces together in israeli politics to say you kno

. >> let me ask you this. the president of pakistan recently said that the battle for hearts and minds in afghanistan is already lost. do you agree? do you believe that the war in afghanistan is winnable? >> i believe the campaign against terrorism is winnable. we have to win. but in order for us to do that, we must end the business as usual. and we must begin to re-examine whether we're doing everything correctly. whether we're doing the right things. and whether we're having the support of the afghan people or whether that support is declining. if it's declining, then there are reasons for it. we must correct those reasons. >> specifically, those reasons are what? >> we must provide protection to the afghan people, rather than causing civilian casualties. we must end corruption and corrupt practices by the international community. by the way contracts are given. we must end the security firms that are spending billions of dollars in the presence of whom afghanistan wouldn't have developed a police force. >>

if a contractor says let me brace your chimney, you would say let me check with my engineer to see whatkind of basis are necessary and you can do the work. okay. contractors do not do seismic design work for the most part. there's minimal things they can do and we'll see that in a minute. here's some kids standing outside of one of his builds where we have a pair pet up there. people hang outside on the sidewalk. it's important to protect the public. >> after the event if you're going to go somewhere, do not g right in front of the building. maybe go to the center of the street although you're going to have to watch for cars, but it' not necessarily the safest plac to be to run out after an earthquake and hang out underth earthquake. we also have something called after shocks, so you want to be careful about where you go. >> so i picked a house in my neighborhood to look at in a little more detail. i think this suz built right after Ñithe 1906 san francisco earthquake. this is a wood frame building, it's basically a soft story building because it has a big garage door and next to it is

make let me make three or four points the first thing is this the first thing is this. the effects of economic globalization particularly in the last three decades or so with the insertion of much of the developing world including china russia india brazil and so on has been historically unprecedented in terms of growth in terms of removal of hundreds of millions of people in the developing world from poverty in terms of an overall increase of wealth although there are inequalities here and there now proportionately it's the developing world that has benefited the most and we see that particularly in china and other parts of east asia but we shouldn't forget that both consumers and producers in the west in europe and in north america have also benefited to a very very large extent second point globalization is much more than just about finance and finance is not a disembodied part of globalization it is about trade it's about invest. it's a movement of people as well not just rich people but also poor people in search of better lives financial globalisation is very much

now, let me give you the very important direction -- there is food over on the other side. please help yourself. hang out with us a little while longer. god bless you. go in peace. thank you. let me tell you about the project and a lot about san francisco and by the end of this, you're going to feel like you have been buried about the new deal. i am only scratching the surface. i haven't even gotten through it. it's terrific. i recommend that is supplementary reading. homework assignment that you have to do that. i am going to tell you about the living new deal project and a lot of stuff that got done in san francisco and various other places as well, too. we have to really learn from the last great depression. because, in fact, we might be having another one soon. the great depression was photo. the farm security division which turned good photographers into great ones. berkeley photographer dorothy alang. these give you an idea of just how apalling bad the great reh depression was. the best we have, as well as movies, it's difficult to million how it was. we tend to look

hia chi let me introduce myself. my name is goto motimoshi and 8 years ago my wife and brother will were killed and i've been searching since for the man who did it. fortunately, i found him. congratulations! where? here. here? the man next door and i'm going to kill him. tell him to come here now. go tell him to come here now. [crying] excuse me. [singing] come on in and listen to this story! is it the story about gatomoshi. how do you know. because the samurai next door is him. he's going to kill you. kill me? no. listen, it wasn't me. it was somebody else. i just hear that story. i'm sorry. last month and i thought that's good story but actually it wasn't me. it was another man. it wasn't you? oh, no. someone else. go tell samurai, please! okay. i'll try but, i don't know if he'll listen. he's very, very angry. please! please! samurai - where is he? bring him to me! wait. let me explain. he said actually it wasn't him. it was somebody else and he just told the story. i'm sorry. it wasn't him. it was another man. a

so now you are going to dollar store dollar store stocking shelves and let me shows up remember just comes in some time and he's staring at me over the top of these little you know potato chip type holder and i walked over to say can i help you and he said no i'm just shop and he leaves and then he comes in again and tells me he's been working on the case on the side he's looking into this on his own on his own for fun i don't know why i was going to do with this information if you can if you do it and i guess if he gets enough of it he thinks he can pop it somewhere i don't know so he keeps coming in and ask me questions about boat rigging and spies and i don't know so what he wants so i just answer whatever he asked this was a big case that he was making headway on it was an official case because officially he was going to do nothing because feeney would let him do anything so i give him information but he didn't give it back clanton tecate to me that railway me had told him that it was much bigger. that what he was investigating was much bigger and went higher concert this to you

seeing none, let me invite back the mta staff. if you have any final rebuttals. >> thank you. >> thank you very much and yes, we're continuing to work with the property owners and their representatives and we look forward to successful negotiations. thank you. president chiu: thank you. colleagues, any final questions to the mta or any of the property representatives? okay. at this time these hearings have been held and closed. items 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52 are hereby filed. items 45, 47 and 49, 51, 53 are the resolutions of necessity to acquire the three easements and the two parcels by eminent domain. these items are now in the hands of the board. colleagues, before we proceed, i understand from the city attorney's office that that they are asking us to make some technical amend manies. they have been provided to the members and first can i ask, is there a motion to accept these technical amendments? is there a second? second to the technical amendments? any objection to look moving forward? those amendments are made. is there a m

let me answer you about massachusetts. i'll tell you.gest single institution in adoption in massachusetts history has been the catholic church, catholic charities. they are now out of it. they have been kicked out because prefer a married man and a woman to be an adoptive couple to two men or two women. so i ask the women a question. do you believe that there is any difference in having a father or not having a father or having a mother and not having a mother? is it identical to you, two mothers, as a mother and a father or two men and a mother and a father? is it identical? you have to say it is or you agree with me. >> i'm happy to answer that. >> hold it. >> they are out of the adoption business. >> most kids end up in foster care because some straight couple somewhere screwed up, dennis. >> it doesn't answer my question. there are straight couples that are beautiful. there are straight couples that are ugly. i want an answer to my question. is catholic charities, kicked out of massachusetts in the adoption industry because they pref

let's talk about these good samaritan pilots. tell me about those persons who first laid eyes on this crash. >> i don't know a lot who they are, but they definitely helped in the search and recovery. they let -- they provided us an opportunity to get our alaska national guardsmen out on the scene as quickly as possible. >> what role is the national guard playing? >> the alaskan national guard in conjunction with the coast guard, the alaska state troopers, we all work together out there. we were able to get the survivors, the four survivors from the aircraft back to anchorage this to providence hospital. also able to transport the deceased back to the air force base and that's where they are currently located. >> i keep asking this question to see if anybody knows anything more, do you know anything about the cause of the crash. was weather one of the major reasons? >> i'm sure that's something the ntsb will investigate and then that's going to be part of their investigation. one of the things that we know here as alaskans poor weather re