>> couple of thoughts about action at the local level and those are not sort of tools we've thought about but there's interesting things happening the cities for climate control campaign. something like 50 municipalities signed up. so through the general purpose around the west about 50 western water providers are part of that campaign already. the municipal water district when jarrod hudson was the first to sign up for that from a new system provider. i think it's a real opportunity for water to step up in that. there are folks from the santa clara valley, looking at a range of local variabilities with climate change being one of those. in both of those areas - and those are a couple of very few examples where places have decided to get involved that local level in climate change issues. >> i've been trying to puddle through the advice i'm going to walk away with. i hoped you would be more precise in strategies. it's not clear to me that it's predictg the future i'm not sure you want to look at,pa leo climate, it's not clear - hearing the pieces early on from charles and port land, deman

poles are necessary and desirable, but it is a process that should be a community one from the local level in my opinion, but i know we have to be careful and legally defensible in what we propose, but the legislation before us is reasonable, and i do think the two-year appeals process makes a lot of sense to me. i wish it could be a shorter appeal, and i do think the industry's concerns have been listened to. on the claim of discriminatory treatment, i think that is totally ridiculous. that was made by one of the industry representatives. i will just say that from so many residents in my district that have raised concerns over a long time, i hope there is much more we can do at the local level to protect the right of people to create more livable communities, and i do think that the proliferation of the antennas has been fast and furious, and it is really shocking at how they are being done, and i hope this legislation is a small step forward, as others said, to really protect our neighborhoods rights to have a say in beautifying our neighborhoods and to prevent ugly and dangerous boxes f

going to do, but we're seeing tremendous amounts of cuts, not just in san francisco but across the local level. we've been seeing a lot more private/public partnerships, rec centers close, swimming pools, local workers as tom mentioned, being laid off, schools are being hit. it's a really hard time. can you bring the bacon home to san francisco? i think it's hard. it will be hard for the public money, but newsom has made it in a point in the mayor's office to really kind of tap the philanthropists in the bay area and i think he'll try to stretch it to the state. >> one thing he won't do on time is leave his office which will effect who appoints camilla harris' successor who is the caretaker or the subsequent mayor which would affect the next mayoral race, pa whole domino aspect. >> and the amazing story is, ron dellums, he didn't win a second term, he didn't run again. but jean kwan came up as not the first choice, as don perata had that title there, but she was -- took full advantage of rank choice voting, being a lot of second and third choices. >> you have a don perata, but can you put me a

prevent, as fran was talking about, using some of these collaborative efforts at the state and local levels. and also the schools can provide education prevention intervention services. maybe that would be through a student assistance program, maybe through having something like a chemical health specialist in their buildings to help facilitate and support those students. or if their local community doesn't have a recovery high school or collegiate program, maybe being able to support those students when they're returning from treatment so that they can have access to an adult who is trained in dealing with addiction and recovery. mark had mentioned earlier that, you know, an adolescent coming out of treatment and working on recovery is going to have issues and they're going to need support and the families need support and education on what that's going to look like. and the schools can also be a part of helping facilitate and educate those families and support those families and students when they return. and just to add one thing, there's also this emerging peer-support models in public

since he was 5 years old, and he has been addressing health disparities in both the national and local levelor over 25 years since he was 5 years old. he has worked with the chinese hospital and the chinese community health care association to create the nation's first and only bilingual and culturally competent health class. he also spearheaded the creation of the chinese community health resource center, which today serves over 30,000 san franciscans. he currently serves on the san francisco health commission, which he has served for over 20 years, where he has been a staunch advocate of our community, requiring culturally competent programs, rebuilding lebanon hospital, san francisco general hospital, and encouraging support for the hepatitis b three program. he was quoted in today's "new york times" for his advocacy to that program. one of the first individuals are asked to come to my office to greet me was none other than this gentleman here, and i also want to remake a quick conversation i had with my mother recently. i told her i was going to present an award to the good doctor, and s

at the local level, the authority of staff continue to coordinate the city families and put into the high-speed process. we have been successful so far in getting the high-speed rail authority to accept a set of three alternatives that are the result of a consensus building process among the agencies. you're sure that will be included in the report. given the news that i'm sure you have all seen in the last 24 hours -- the incoming republican leadership in the house looking at high speed rail and california's allocation of money as a target of deficit reduction. we have at least a reason to be worried. come the beginning of the year, we will most likely be involved in a vigorous advocacy process to help the state retained the funds that are already at the state level to keep moving this project forward. of course, there are implications for projects within san francisco that we need to be worried about. it seems as though this topic will require continued education and continued attention. we will continue to do that. i'm sure there will be some demands for your time as the advocacy

tell you what's happening at the nfl could affect the way your child plays football here at the local level. that story coming up in a live report. >>> and the leaks keep on coming. find out what's in the latest secret documents released by wikileaks. >>> good morning, everybody. a live look outside at the bay bridge. it is wednesday, december 8th, on "today in the bay." >>> from nbc bay area, reporting what matters to you, this is "today in the bay." >>> thanks for joining us. the time now is straight up 6:00. i'm brent cannon. >> and i'm scott mcgrew in for laura. we want to get right to rob with the forecast and a good-looking weekend ahead. >> the weekend will look pretty outstanding but 53 in san francisco. east wind at 14 so it's a little gusty across the span of the bay bridge right now. notice our temperatures throughout the day not changing a whole lot from where we're starting. we'll see in the 50s all day hau long with rain at times. same story right now on your 680 commute through dublin this morning. back to you. >> all right. let's go over to mike on the commute. >> yeah, rob

criticism on that and i heard my dutch colleague say one hour ago, you can get stuck because at local levels people don't like it, although your regional plan is to be so good. that's true. on the other hand, i think that it's a good democratic process to really to go at the low-cal level and convince people why it's good to have those new infrastructureses. this is one of the typical, in old belgium towns you would find it now, it's the flow of cycling. it's what you do if you have a one-way road and you make it accessible for cyclists. we knew at the federal level, at belgium level that this regulation was coming up and in parallel in the brussels parliament, we voted a law if you will implement this new belgium law of accepting cycling on those one-way streets, if you do that within two years' time, we will finance half of the cost to do so. and that was a regional law who was, in fact, encouraging putting the federal law into practice and that's how come that you will see in almost every one way street like you see there on the left that cyclists are admitted. on the right hand, you have

what can be done to bridge the gulf between what is written in washington and what is happening at local level? is the fdic series about giving banks a chance to work out these loans without freezing a bank's ability to make other loans? >> yes, we have very specific items that we issued with other regulators encouraging prudent loan workout. we have encouraged workouts of residential loans as well. if the collateral has gone down, that does not immediately mean that the money will be criticized. if it is current and the borrower is making payments, we tell our examiners they should not criticize the loan. if the law is in trouble we want to restructure. -- if alone is in trouble we want to restructure -- if the loan is in trouble we want to restructure. it is very typical right now. parts of the country particularly commercial real estate still has some troubles. the balance sheets are getting cleaned up and the construction development loans in particular, the balances have been coming down and the credit quality is improving. we are emerging from this. for some banks that have heavy concent

at the local level many people use a very different code.for their conduct and we really need a purge i've course i don't mean the way it happened in the one nine hundred thirty s. but we need to exclude those people when they finish but if we feel from his life if they often are members of our ruling party if. this doesn't mean that the party should be turned a blind eye to that effect no look at these people should be exposed and expunged from their party and from the authority of the problem on the list so again this is the responsibility of local and regional authorities you know when i started dealing with the situation. from what i feel if i was amazed brooke of what the situation was very fuzzy and we didn't know anything we didn't hear anything and people would say or we said something but nobody listened to us law enforcement agencies would launch an investigation and then stop and when i heard you newspapers reported it and nothing happened that's why even the governor would even governors themselves asked me if you shouldn't reall

i know it is, because if you go to art in a local level, the arts budgets are increasing. the mayors think the arts are fabulous for their communities. the state arts budgets are going up. the only people who are lagging behind, i'm sad to say, are our federal officials. are you finding that kind of highly volatile reactions are being stemmed now? yeah. they're definitely-- but not self-censorship going on? there's still provocative art? oh, the artists, you mean? right, yes. there is self-censorship in terms of what they apply to the endowment for. i see. because i wanted to make the agency bulletproof. i got rid of the seasonal support, because congress kept saying, "i don't want to buy a pig in a poke." and the panels didn't know, either, what they were funding. so it's now possible not to fund a whole season but one specific project. so an organization applies for one project, and, of course, they're going to apply for one that is going to be essentially risk free, because they want to get the money. and in the rest of their season with their own money and other kinds

take on congestion pricing and other pricing strategies in a regional context, but also at the local level. we think what you're doing here by authorizing staff to move forward with the second part of the study is moving the ball forward in the bay area to really look at the feasibility of congestion pricing on a regional scale. transportation remissions, mobile sources are our number one sources of air pollution in the bay area. they have regional impacts and localize impacts, and congestion pricing strategies along with other demand managers throughout the area, can really address the localized impact and the regional impact. our air quality standards keep getting more stringent every year. we have new standards that we are going to have to develop an implementation plan to attain those standards, and i think congested pricing, and we think new transportation demand management measures in the bay area are going to be critical for us to obtain these air quality standards and protect the health of the citizens in the bay area. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker plea

at the local level with me any people use a very different code word for their conduct and we really need to purge i've course i don't mean the way it happened in the one nine hundred thirty s. but we need to exclude those people. from if they often are members of our ruling party. and this doesn't mean that the party should turn a blind eye to that he would know these people should be exposed ideally. i would like you know the case of how the cost of the picture of dorian gray as applied to the russian business every businessman does what is accused of but he is the one taking the blame and his associates latitude as well. do you think. our court systems might be too harsh on these people. as a lawyer and as a person what do you think about that yeah. well first let me say what i think of it as a president well as president i think the following we need neither the president nor any other government official. does not have a right to you go through and speak about his or her position on this case or on the any other case before the court gives its verdict this is quite obvious but o

washington, d.c., as lobbyists and come over here, do the same in sacramento, and come over here on the local level and try to bully us. what perturbs me is dpw, and i know there are some people here from dpw that know me pretty well. if somebody comes and puts a little graffiti thing, they will find you about $300. and you have these nasty, dirty looking things on our electric poles. they are disgusting. lowering the property value. they do nothing. we need to find out what is the relationship between the service providers and dpw? and secondly, who gives them the right to go inside somebody's house, even though it is public right of way, and put these nasty things on these electric poles that in the first place, such things should never be put. these are huge boxes -- not all of them, but most of them. you have heard here from eric brooks and others that we can do this underground. we can use fiber optics. the city lost eight years ago when we allow comcast to do the underground, and we did not do

the border and reinstating meaningful interior enforcement of the state at the federal and the local level and holding employers accountable for hiring illegal aliens in a rickety economy when those jobs are needed desperately to buy and i'll let me jump in here tomorrow gene i want to give you the last word what happens if the dream act is passed what's going to happen. i just want to address something quickly and then i'll answer your question directly bob. this tired argument about how we have to do border security for first in an interior enforcement we spend seventeen billion dollars a year on this there's six hundred forty nine of that six hundred fifty three mile fence what that wall fence at the border has been built it's never going to be enough it doesn't matter whether we're trying to dream or whether we're trying to conference immigration reform the excuse that nativism zina folks like bob are going to put up is that we need to do border security first and it's all right it's going to. be here we. can integrate it run out of time maybe some aid and we show you how did you guys

the majority in the work of municipality is virtually nonexistent as a result of local level parties performing to function of all russian political organizations and my proposal is make it mandatory to use proportion for the electoral system as the elections of representatives bodies in the municipal contingencies and municipalities for the number of businesses at least 20. we set out to modernize the armed forces and already updated personnel of the armed forces. the system of combat readiness and also started conducting a regular basis war games. next year special focus has to be given to the aerospace defense of this country and modern russia needs a modern army and navy and also needs to shed and functions that should not be performing. also we are not just building up our forces but also cooperation in the security area. russia is prepared to work on enhancing mechanisms of counteracting missile proliferation. at the russian nato segment i shared my considerations regarding architecture with european systems which would make use of potential russia and the northern alliance and

guest: at a local level, no, because campaign finance laws are so strict and you don't have politicaldvertising. so you just don't have any at all. all you have is, in the course of an election, official course of an election, which is about four weeks, each of the main parties can run three or four ads, just one, and the air time for those ads is provided free and they pay to make their little ad but it's three or four ads in the course of four weeks, not in the course of an hour. so the fact that you don't have political advertising of any kind eliminates the need to spend any money. the fact that at a local level you have a limit on how much you can spend and the fact that political action committees and lobbyists cannot run ads or do stuff on your behalf, that means that money plays a much smaller role in this country's elections than it does in america. host: how much do they pay you for your job? guest: i think it's about 65,000 pounds. host: that would be somewhere close to $100,000. $110,000. is that enough to live comfortably? guest: i'm fine with you. host: you've laid out m

there has to be a local level of governance that can do this. they can provide some very basic level of services that allows for the transition. part of this is what president karzai has done in the reconciliation. underpinning all of this with conflict. it is notable was the afghans are doing with the high peace council. they are trying to solve the underlying political issues. >> do you fear that this reconciliation effort is almost short in the eyes of afghan president karzai is almost a short cut or a substitute to the hard work of building and sustaining a government that will deliver those services? >> i do not see it that way. these types of conflicts come to a conclusion through a political resolution. that is an absolute fundamental part of how you end this conflict. >> the secretary mentioned that one priority was closing the gap between islamabad and kabul. could you give the reasons behind why that gap still exists? could you talk about how that complicates your worked and the mission going forward? it seems the recently the threat as

on a local level, there is a limit on how much you can spend.oney plays a much smaller role in this election than it does in america. >> how much do they pay you for your job? somewhere close to $110,000? is that enough to live on comfortably? >> i think so. >> you had so many differences to the united states, the monday in the campaign, no religious rights and gun laws, no death penalty, we have taken a lot of what the petition lines in history have suggested in formulated our own government. what is more alike than different? you have a written constitution. and certain things will balance each other. there is a lot to that we have in common. in some ways, there is much less class. >> do you have a lot of regulatory agencies that regulate the media, energy, the government? >> in the media, you can have -- you cannot have a specialized force. [unintelligible] >> do you feel that it is balanced? >> it is somewhat balanced in the news. >> americans say it is free to say what you want to say or have a gun in your house. the first amendment protect

appropriate decisions made at the regional and local levels for general principles of organizing theudget of 40 of t defined property -- so that others must be privatized. everybody must do what he or she decides to do. modernization will provide wind this society has fair laws and laws that are actually working. and respected courts and law enforcement agencies are functioning, those that enjoy true respect on the part of the citizens. all these links undoubtedly are linked by themselves closely and the entire system of the report was individual execution. that is why along with developing legislation on the judicial report which is something we have been doing and are doing we also started performing the ministry of the interior and at the legislative level we are creating an environment in which to improve quality of the work of the investigative authority of and prosecutor office. i have submitted to the state legislation on the police and investigated committee with federal and regional and municipal must prepare to effectively implement these new acts. they have a lot of new th

a lot of the cuts will be found at the local level. most people blame the local government. >> in the united states if the president says they're going to cut the money to the states, he may not be able to do that because congress could not go along with that. what about here? >> they can do that. >> just like that. >> there are times when the government does not get its way and that is celebrated and you would hear about them even in the states. that would be a major loss for the government. things are a bit different in a coalition government. you have a lot of debate between the two parties, the liberal- democrats and the conservatives, that has to happen behind closed doors in the treasury before these things get announced. there is a new check and balance on a conservative power that would not have been there. unless something cataclysmic goes through, will law will change the >> if you work for the chancellor of the exchequer versus the treasury secretary in the united states, what would be added to be like? >> i suspect this spee

. >> the final legislation that will soon be passed will deliver successful reform at the local levelwe have to pass the bill so that you can find out what it what is in it away from the fog of the controversy. >> bill: you have got to pass it to find out what's in it away from the fog. >> not good, not good. not good. >> that did sound dumb. i'm not against the health care overhaul. everybody was confused. up in arms. you can't have the speaker of the house saying we're not sure what's in it but just pass it along. >> bill: you say you are not against the health care bill have you read it. >> i have not. >> bill: you don't want to go along with it if you haven't read it? >> there are couple good things in it you have fewer disparities for folks who can't. >> bill: but if it bankrupts the nation it is a -- victory. >> every time she speaks i keep waiting for a house to land on her. >> bill: are you talking about arthel or pelosi. >> you are not funny, o'reilly. >> i know i'm not. >> bill: i'm deliver ri russ. >> you are delusional is what you are. >> bill: here is number four. this pi

progress on the sanctuaries in pakistan and if we're not able to create an effective governance at the local level. the problem is there's a highly centralized afghan state in the aftermath of the overthrow of the taliban, that state is not conducive to effective governance of afghanistan but i think what we're going to be able to do over six months, we have an opportunity to build up certain resilient institutions to allow us to transfer, again, to a much less resource intense give operation. i mean, i think that's -- peter and i agree where we're trying to go. i would caution against trying to do that overnight. you are not going to be able to get 100,000 u.s. and nato troops out of afghanistan overnight. it takes time. if you want chaos and a return to the safe havens, go with a rapid transition. the only difference of what we are saying is i think it's a process to take place over 36 months not 6 months and that's a process ratified by not just the u.s. government but nato allies and government of afghanistan at the lisbon accords. >> the proof is in the pudding. there are 30,000 taliban. they