local roads. so for some regional administration has to take care for the locality administration. so this is mainly a guideline that has to support local administrations in their work. and why do local administrations need this? because there is a regional regulation that says that all our local authorities need to have a local mobility plan. i heard this morning about a problem like neighbors complaining when things have to be changed and the whole debate that is coming up then. but i think we have it similar because it's our local mayors who sometimes are hesitating to put into practice -- that's one of the reasons why those cycling routes sometimes get stuck, because you have a regional cycling route, but local authorities, we have 19 in brussels, local authorities do have to give permits for that. there is a lot of 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

he proposed a new constitution that he said would include new laws for the party's and local administration. he think russia and china for their support of syria and stressed that his country would defend themselves from outside forces. the last time he addressed the nation was in june 2012. coverage comes to us courtesy of al-ajzeera english. -- al- jazeera english. >> this is the first time since november that the president has given a public address in his own country. official figures in united nations said as many as 60,000 people have lost their lives during the course of the 21 month conflict. [chanting] our translator is standing by [applause] -- by. [applause] president bashar al-assad, live from the syrian capital. >> ladies and gentlemen, today i look at your faces and the faces of the people of my country with sadness and pain. i look at the eyes of the children of syria. i'd look at the hands of the elderly today, pain and suffering is spread all over syria. safety and security are absent in these streets. many women lost their children, many children became orphans. siblings h

and so, 70 percent of that of the dollar is to stay in the local municipality, 65, 5 percent goes to the administration of handling the funds. and then 65 percent is to go towards past inspections and helping businesses do their construction related activities. the requirements and any kind of education and out reach. so i think that it is written pretty broadly, so i think to allow municipalities to sort of develop their own means of how they wanted to administrator the funding. and so, we will be working on that with your department together. and so, roughly that is about 52,000 dollars. should every business pay that dollar. the tax and treasury's office did let us know that with some businesses if they are just in automatic mode, they may not and they may just issue their renewals with the current business registration amount and so, for the on-line renewals we will automatically capture that dollar but any checks that are mailed in may not. they may or may not see the new dollar requirement. and so, they have kind of made an internal determination that depending on the degree we may or may not be

to the board of supervisors on board of supervisors file no. 121105, administrative code expanding the public utilities commission local business enterprise contracting ordinance. in your binder is the board file number and the legislative digest and we have representatives from the puc here to speak to the issue. >> great. welcome. >> good afternoon commissioners. i am from the puc and here to talk about the proposed legislation. currently within the admin code 14b we have a program to certify small businesses. the admin code currently recognizes this is the informally the hrc program which is now under contract division. in 2006 that program was expanded to also include firms that are also outside of the city of san francisco to support the contractors working on the puc and water system improvements programs. as that program comes to an end, which we are in the latter phases of the water system improvement program, we have currently certified 200 plus firms over the last several years. if we don't expand that program, all of those firms that were certified over the last five years or so, those firms won't have any f

the administration insists they must have immunity from local laws. obama is scheduled to meet with karzai on friday. they have many delicate issues to address and finding an agreement that's acceptable to both sides is expected to be difficult. >>> a terrible traffic and soaring land prices are some of the unwelcome features of asia's booming cities. those problems are especially acute in vietnam. construction companies from developed markets are competing to offer solutions. they include a railway company that wants to use lessons learned in japan to help vietnam build cities of the future. akiko has more from hanoi. >> reporter: vietnam is booming. people pour into the cities look for work and fortune. but not everyone is moving forward. the hanoi traffic gets worse every year. and dangerous, too, with more and more accidents. but infrastructure isn't the only problem. land prices have spiked. one potential solution is inspired by lessons from japan. this man works for a tokyo corporation, a japanese company head quartered in tokyo. next to vietnam

reporting requirements for campaigns and campaign limits and we should be looking at local elections on the administration. i'm looking forward to working with the secretary on a number of things. [applause] [applause] on ethics we need to do state and local government. in terms of lobbying and in terms of the procurement are kissing process and help you deal with it. i also want to give a shout out to our attorney general who has been very vigilant. one of the achievements was the mortgage industry and we thank him for his efforts in that area. [applause] there are about a dozen and a half different things that are out there that i think are important. the roadmap for next year, because i thought this was very helpful in the past in terms of different activities. this is a year that is a little bit different. bringing people together to talk about issues in a serious way, making plans and getting things done. schedule looks like this. in february, the very seven, we will be back with a budget much as we have done in the past. in march, i plan on giving an economic development summit to focus on talent. a

so if we could give them power, the local officials, i think that would be helpful x that's what i've been urging the administration to do. >> i think you stated it well. it is a fear of washington more than a fear of their local public officials. mayor mulder, do you want to come over -- here, take my chair and use the mic over here. and then if there are any other mayors who want to weigh in. >> thank you, annise. i took the liberty to talk to my police chief and asked him to aaccess because he's been a police chief at a prior community but been with us nearly 20 years. and something that i heard the attorney general mention which now explains one of the questions my chief asked was that he would anticipate that major professional law enforcement organizations would support the report, the recommendations but that it's never mentioned. it's been silent of where the position of the justice department and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and explosives. and as we've heard, they haven't met for six years? >> they haven't had a director. [laughter] >> they've been working. >> they need somebody, i guess, t

. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," an update on the obama administration'sk force to curb gun violence. we'll get the latest from the white house. >>> plus, we'll go to italy to mark the one-year anniversary to mark the "costa concordia" disaster. >>> and more on the guidelines for the popular sleeping pill ambien. that is the news for this friday morning. as always, i appreciate you watching. i'm terrell in new york. take care, everybody. have a great weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >> good morning, it is friday! >> yeah, i know. >> hello. january 11. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. time now just about 4:30. frank, i like how you say that, it's friday! >> yes, and it's 1/1/1, triple lucky. >>> it's cold. it was a little chilly this morning. we are not seeing 20s yet. that could change. but the freeze warning and frost advisories around the bay still in effect until 8 a.m. so we'll let you know how low it will go overnight plus the weekend forecast coming up. >> if you need time t

so there won't be much incremental administrative cost, but the marketing and communication costs with the local businesses that we with would have to evaluate that we haven't done. >> i think in one respect having the input of the businesss is absolutely important because it's what helps to have the businesses to continue have to customers come through who are able to park and shop and frequent those businesses. so i understand that connection. would it be difficult to create something similar to an advisory body that would be able to serve the same purpose? >> absolutely not. that is what 5th and miss and ellis and o'farrell will be doing soon. the unwinding the leases and corporations and the creation of a new advisory board that will serve only in an advisory capacity >> for the two other structures where they are unwinding that financial relationship, you are maintaining an advisory body? >> that is what they would like to do. yes. >> okay. thank you. if there are no questions at this time i would like to open public comment for these two items. items 1 and 2. i do have a number of speakers

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administrator fuget in fema headquarters. fema's role is to coordinate response between state and local governments and his focus, his direction to us really comes down it 3 things. he asks us to always plan for the worst case, the maximum of the maximums and it's go to see the department of defense is incorporating this within the catastrophe policy that was spoken about a little earlier. no. 2, he asked us to sppbld and are able to stabilize an incident within 72 hours. his mantra is think big, go big, go fast but not fast. 3, he asks us to do this within a whole community approach, not only it make sure we utilize the whole community in the response because there's much more responders past the federal-state responders. there's the public being responders and there's many others, private industry need to be in that so we try to integrate that into a whole community concept. and also to make sure when we respond we respond to take into account the whole community. not everybody looks like me and you but we need to be able to take into account and service our elderly, infants and others that may need special assistance. with

local paper. the whole solyndra thing started with the bush administration. guest: thanks for the kind words. i am glad that you are reading them in your local paper one thing we are trying to do, as much as we can, is get our work out in different ways. we have partnerships with television stations. have partnerships with newspapers. the one you are read for into in atlanta uses the truth-o-meter on state and local officials. i am glad to hear you are reading our work and their work and i am happy our word is getting out host:politifact looked at issues -- looks at issues like energy. what to do find overall? guest: a lot of that area was included in the economic stimulus bill. it was a big grab bag, $787 billion of goodies that included many things for energy and the environment. i don't recall offhand the overall ratings for energy but i know a lot were included in the economic stimulus bill. host: is president obama making fewer promises that he was initially? guest: absolutely, the 2012 campaign was a campaign of attacks. when we look back at the moments of the campaign, as you look at th

administration, tsa, ended its contract. they'll be gone by june. dulles by the way the only localirport that is using those particular scanners. >>> next, a violent attack on a subway as a woman gets tossed on to the tracks. why some are furious over what police did next. >> part two of oprah's lance armstrong's interview. tonight the one question that all most brought hem to tears. why he subway. >>> a nightmare unfold in a subway station. a homeless man beat a woman on tuesday and through her on to the tracks. police searched for him for two days without alerting any one. the man was wearing a jacket. they didn't want to reveal their only clue. they arrested him wearing the jacket and carrying the woman's cell phone yesterday. the victim was not badly hurt. >>> for the first time tonight lance armstrong is showing some emotion. with his television interview with oprah, he talked about the difficulty of telling his children he lied about doping. >> are you facing your demons? >> absolutely. >> reporter: on the second night of a revealing interview with oprah winfrey. >> what do y

local airports. they'll remove eight scanners from san jose international and five from oakland international. the transportation security administration says it's getting rid of the machines nationwide because the company that makes them couldn't come up with a way to fix the concerns regarding privacy. travelers will still be asked to get a body scan that creates a generic image. >>> it's official, california is now experiencing widespread flu activity. we reached that designation just today. so far, five californians younger than 65 have died from the flu. the state doesn't track flu deaths in people over 65. a 98-year-old santa clara county woman did die earlier this month from flu complications. doctors say it's not too late to get the flu shot. they also say wash your hands frequently and avoid touching your face. >> a breakthrough with cancer treatment developed in our own backyard. it's already helped a local patient, several local patients who had to fight the most common kind of skin cancer. stephanie, i understand this could lead to a breakthrough treatment with other types of cancer as well, correct? >> it's great news. one

expanding the the federal housing administration to play a larger role for those at risk of foreclosure. obama signed the home affordable refinance program in 2010. locally we've done many things. in january 2008, this board of supervisors established a san francisco fair lending working group, with its number one policy recommendation of whenever possible, home ownership should be preserved and foreclosure prevented. this promotes family stability in our neighborhoods and community. second of all, the goal of this legislation was to provide security for tenants in t.i.c. buildings. supervisor wiener as coauthor want to ensure that tenants in t.i.c. buildings which might take advantage of this legislation will be presented. we wanted to provide the greatest security possible for existing tenants to be secure in their units and our legislation has done exactly that. let me specifically address this to many of the people in the hallway that seem to be misinformed about this legislation. if you are a tenant in a building that elects to take advantage of this legislation, you will receive a rent controlled lifetime lease in that building. you will not be evi

local government. this is why the administration in making the resources available, if we have the resources, we would not have to enforce the laws to get folks off the street. i wouldn't need any more laws passed. there are people who are opposed to this. there are people post more cops on the street. this is why do we will come up with an approach that is based on the auction if you don't know what they're offering, that's your business. but even with resources away are, we can make a big dent in get around all of those laws. >> and looking around the room and i think california may -- >> we have restrictions as well. for instance, private sales. you know? then we have ongoing things in cities. if a private sale is made and that individual has to report it. we have things that i think we can look at and view but are not restricted by state or federal orders but we can't deal with. dealing with high-capacity magazines, making private sale owners register with the police department. then putting a burden on them and we are looking at this is that private sale is not reported on that gun is used in a c

that point one of the programs in the bush administration was called project, i'l exile, they prosecd federal law state violations. they ended up locking up local criminals in federal courts to get them off the streets and the carry rate diminished by 50%. in other words, there are federal things that this administration can do now that would help gun control efforts that doesn't require passage of congress. >> it doesn't have to be either or. even if we were totally to concede all of that, we could say because 40% of the guns are bought at a gun show or other places like that where there's no background check whatsoever, that even all the best enforcement of the laws would not matter whatsoever. i think walmart is the potential partner. why? walmart has an economic incentive to end the gun show loophole so people buy their guns at walmart. if walmart gets behind the idea of saying all guns have to be sold in a place where you can actually is a background check like walmart, that's a powerful ally for the president. >> you wrote a piece recently, jeff, arguing that the second amendment is not quite what people think. >> it's changed dramaticall

so they should push it to the local level we to be much more healthful to the administration with thefear of the national government they can vote me at of office quickly. if we could just empower it would be helpful that is what i urge this administration. >> it is a fear of washington more than the local public officials. mayor molder? come over here. >> i took the liberty to talk to my police chief. he has been one in a prior communities nearly 20 years. i heard the attorney general mention that explains the question my chief asked was he would anticipate major professional law enforcement organizations would support the report and recommendation but it is silent of the position of the bureau of the alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives. h'm. >> they have not had a director six years. director six years. all of these catastrophic events, it is incomprehensible and we have to have a reaction in the u.s. congress of mayors we need each and every one to let your congress member know that something has to be done but they are considered to do nothing. this is to book -- big to push a

local cuts in budgets. this government, this administration, pumped, as you recall in the stimulus package, hundreds of billionsto the hiring of what had been traditionally union jobs, teachers, police, you name it. that's over. what we are seeing now is the market place begins to work. now, as we look at how dramatic these reductions are, basically 6.5% membership in the private sector tells you that the union is a dying institution. it can't find a purpose or a reason beyond its political alliance with the democratic party. there is no other reason. >> you don't think there's a place in this labor force for a union? what do you think -- >> what do they do? what do they do? >> who advocates for workers. >> who is advocating for workers. >> the afl is really left. >> exactly. look at what's happening. the afl-cio, sat on the fence for years ons issue of illegal immigration embraced it 6789 what's the result of that? more illegal immigration, lower wages for unskilled labor, and for lower education levels, and they brought in their -- and seeking more members, they brought in competition for their members. they

else we're at 45% federal rate effectively and throw in state and local taxes it is a lot higher that than. when you hear the administration time for them to do their fair share, talking about guys like you, how do you feel about that. >> obviously i think you're being singled out for, punishment. we know that raising those tax rates is not going to produce that much additional revenue for the government. possibly produce less as people will again to shelter more of their income. neil: they want to produce more revenue. they don't want to cut more but nancy pelosi wants more revenue. what do you say? >> i don't think it is necessary. i read a study recently by daniel mitchell that showed we can completely eliminate in 10 years the annual deficit if we only let government spending increase 2% a year. so we don't have to cut it at all. we can let government spending grow at a 2% clip every year. neil: there is lot of -- things never get addressed. we call a cut, a cut, when it is a slowing growth of something. >> that's right. neil: you get the vernacular and jargon down. so, isn't it, is it possible that the debate just got

local airports. the tsa will remove eight canners from san jose international and the five at oakland international. they don't use them. the transportation security administrationaid it's getting rid of the machines because the company could not come up with ways to fix concern over privacy. travelers will still be asked to get a body scan but one that creates a generic image. >> dangerous sur of and strong rip currents caused trouble for surfers at more than one bay area beach. organizers are predicting monster waves for tomorrow's contest. this is one of those times where we say leave it to the professionals, monte. >> reporter: chris, that's right. the sign here behind me warns of rip currents. that's exactly what caused some trouble for surfers here at ocean beach today and also at dylan beach in marin. all of the surfers are okay tonight. a coast guard helicopter hovered near seal rock this afternoon and a rescue diver was just about to deploy when a a surfer caught by a rip current was finally able to paddle himself to shore. he was one of six surfers caught by the rip currents at ocean beach today. a nation photographer snapped a few shots as some of the

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local taxes. so i think a better way to look at those is to look at the administration's proposal, the to do with caution and if possible to do it on a bipartisan basis. maybe i'll close with a somewhat hopeful about. the notion we should address that issue has some bipartisan roots in the last year, right? everybody's been talking about it that we attribute to sit down and discuss on a bipartisan basis if the republicans are willing to look at additional revenues, including taxation. and maybe i close with this. i don't see the alternative. you cannot address sequestration simply through cut because if you reduce the amount for defense to say 100 alien, which some people, including somebody i know quite well says is feasible, but the 500 is sent. so if you reduce it substantially, but have some of that, where's the rest of it going to come from? it have to come in substantial part i think from the domestic side and i think if you look at what's happened and what is going to happen if we continue on this path to health research, nih, and i say this in a personal way because of family involvement

come in issued this an executive administrative order it was actually a rare undertaking where they had heard about this contamination incident and felt that the local and state officials that are supposed to be regulating this were not adequately. addressing the. danger meant to the health of the people in this area but what happened was the state agency intervened and said that they determined that range resources was not responsible for at the e.p.a. was trying was ordering range resources both to provide safe drinking water and begin to address the contamination that they had because the state agency intervened and said they weren't responsible e.p.a. was actually going to take this to court they were pursuing a legal battle with range resources but at the same time they were they were preparing to talk to industry about a national drinking water study that they were pursuing to determine the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing i'm drinking water the e.p.a. decided that they needed range resources and other industry partners to agree to participate in the study range resources votes the e.p.a. and said that they would not participate in th

orlando, vice president biden pledged that the obama administration would make sure that future infrastructure investments are more targeted to local areas. in november, last year, the vice president hosted our leadership in the white house to discuss the fiscal cliff and the concerns of mayors regarding both investment programs and tax-exempt financing. whenever there's a major issue that demands attention, again and again and again, vice president joe biden has shown the leadership and courage needed to help move our nation in the right direction. and that is why i was certainly heartened when president obama asked vice president biden to lead a special task force to develop responses to the tragedy not only at sandy hook elementary school, but the daily tragedies we see all across america. the nation's mayors and vice president biden have stood together for many, many years in support of public safety. after all, it was then-senator joe biden who championed the crime bill, which established the cops program and included the ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, which congress unfortunately, allowed to expire. yest

local airports. the tsa will remove eight scanners from san jose international and five at oakland international. sfo doesn't have any. the transportation security administrationays it is getting rid of the machines because the company that makes them could not come up with a way to fix concerns over privacy. travelers will still be asked to get a body scan that creates a generic image. >>> president obama and his family gave the honor of living in the white house to -- got the honor of living in the white house for another four years. it is a home you can't buy, but if you could buy it, how much would it cost? here's a live look at the white house tonight. real estate web site zillow.com estimates the white house value at $295 million. since president obama moved into the mansion in january of 2009, the value has risen by about 7%. zillow calculated the white house value based on public data and recent sales. the white house has 132 rooms, 16 bedrooms, 35 bathrooms, 28 fireplaces, and three elevators. my mom would say too many bathrooms to clean. >>> a breathtaking experience for tourists in hawaii who got up close and personal with two humpback whales earlie