a lot of family leaves, -- a lot of families leave.e stuck around, but it was a turning point decision to say, all right, we are here from -- we're here for good. what can we do to make this place better? getting involved in politics was the fact that the seed was open for election for the first time in a long time. it was previously mayor newsom's seat and supervisor alioto- pier's seat. i did not get into politics because i had a lifelong ambition of being a politician. that is not me. i came from a private sector, and looking at honestly answering the question -- did i have something different to offer that i thought would be valuable to sanford's is go right now? i do think a large part of our problems in the city are financial, economic. with my background, i did think i would be able to add a lot of value, and that is why i decided to get into politics. >> where do you place yourself on the political spectrum? >> i have to say, i'm one that has been trying to get away from the political spectrum dialogue in san francisco. i would

the company took a lot out time managers, a lot of duplication. they did something that frankly was almost -- that no one else has been able to duplicate, and that's they started career builder, a jobs site and monster was considered the internet guru to wipe out everybody, and we started career builder, and it's one of the few times a legacy media company starting and operation that was highly successful and eventually overtook monster. it was working well. journal lis tickly, the l.a. too manies was wheeling from a scandal, and we turned that paper around, and it was winning pulitzer prizes right and left under the leadership. people were disparaging the chicago tribune, they were praising the editors put in charge. >> for sure, the book details no shortage of frictions fairly quickly between some factions in chicago, us folks in the newsroom, and our counterparts in los angeles which increasingly, you know, seemed to us sort of this, you know, wayward western empire doing what they wanted to do, but let's past all of those, the original respons

not a lot of good news in terms of the big picture for the u.s. economy of course the only thing that we can be certain of that this deal means is that it avert the self-imposed potential crisis of a u.s. default which would have been the first time this country faced could have you felt it in its history what we do know in this legislation is it does sort of cut spending by about two point four trillion dollars over the next decade what that means in the short term for the u.s. economy is potentially a lot of stifling of growth now we have to keep in mind that the united states has grown the g.d.p. has grown by just a mere one point three percent in the second quarter we saw that unemployment rates are still astronomically high at nine point two percent and so a lot of economists are saying this is not really the time to be cutting the spending to be capping spending it doesn't satisfy a lot of the political desire by some of the more tea party oriented republicans but it does potentially threaten just expanding meanwhile we also have to keep in

a lot of, like, drugs going on. at night i'd seen prostitution walking around. what it would benefit is for the community, for the children, for the moms that walk by. it should be better for these families to walk by inside the park rather than walk by 16th and mission. but, yeah, this -- i think this park can benefit the community and the people and even for the city. you know. so i think it will be great to build this park on this site. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> fannie. teresa olmigare. jamie chavaria. miguel. >> buenos tardes. >> good afternoon. my name is fannie. [speaking spanish] >> i'm a mother, a single mother of kids and i'm here to ask for your support to develop constructive site because this is important for families like mine. i have a child that's 2 years old and it's difficult for a family like mine. we're low income. we're low income, and it's hard for children to be contained in a small room, four walls but no place to go. this is a big opportunity for our community creating a park.

we get a lot of flooding up a here and a lot of flooding that causes a lot of damage to areas in new jersey and area around the poconos and now some of the rivers will crest near or above their all-time records because of the amount of rain we have seen over the last month. that a barbecuin is a big conc. the flash flooding concerns continue. anywhere you see the dark color, the catskills up in towards th the adirondacks. residual flooding with continue for a number of area and then turn our eyes to the next storm. there is a jose. not going to have any impact on anybody except a little breezy in bermuda. that could have impacts for the eastern part of the u.s., not for a couple of weeks. we will have plenty of time to talk about it. >> shepard: watching your loop i guess of the infrared satellite loop and show there's is more rain coming. if you watch the last picture here, there is atlantic city. looks like new york city is going to get hit again on the backside of this thing. >> one last brand of rain that moves through from the storm. the win wheels, that cycle on through and mov

a lot of things. part of what interested in the book is the emergence of the pharmaceutical industry as a huge force beginning largely in the 1990's and that was the period in which the sort of age of blockbuster drugs began so they started hitting for the fences looking for drugs ticket market to as many people as possible usually for the mile and chronic illnesses. when the pharmaceutical industry started to become so enormously powerful began to go much stronger so you had the emergence of the clinical trial industry, medical education industry, oversight businesses, for-profit institutions. i think a lot of people don't realize how profitable the industry spent the past 20 or 30 years and it's been tremendous. >> your experience with that transformation and the pharmaceutical industry currently has a doctor? >> i don't practice medicine. i originally trained in medicine and went from medicine to the undergraduate school for so for the last 20 years or so i've been teaching medical. the root of the

it was a lot. i know we were the first lender -- i do not know, historically -- mark, maybe you can help me. wells fargo is the largest in dollar amount by the country and in california, and bay area. we are trying to do our part. we are easy to work with. i have been doing this for four years now. i am pretty good where i can look of something and realize if we can help you out. if we cannot, i look for the micro guys to help me out with the smaller loans. it is a collateral loan that we cannot do, i do what i can. we are here to lend. >> thank you. hopefully, people have their question cards. i am going to open it up to the audience. if you have written a question down, please give it to us so we can start compiling them. if i see a repeat questions, it will help to expedite the process, answering those questions that people want answered. we have some of the best and brightest minds here. don't be shy. if you could do us a favor and use the microphone so that everyone can hear your question. >>

of people don't know a lot about it. the fact that these papers face such terrible suppression from the police and the fbi and everything else, it does surprise me that a lot of people who are protective of free speech rights generally especially in the mainstream press seem to ignore and overlook the way these newspapers or press. i think our political issues today are reflections of how people feel about the '60s. though clinton said something along these lines which was shrewd. if you take a person today and you ask them if you think there's more harm or good done in the '60s they're likely to be a conservative and republican and unbalanced there was more good or harm you're probably a liberal or a democrat. i think that rings true to my own experience and so i do think, you know, a lot of the cultural politics that, you know, we face today, they have their origins in the '60s. people still fight these battles in the last election and in the 2008 election is fascinating to me to see, you know, bill ayers in the news e

costs a lot of money because you have to spend a lot of money to send. that's right money spent elsewhere so why is the u.s. empire spending so much money on wars instead of its own citizens. these lame rating agencies have been wrong about nearly everything for the past ten or fifteen years don't pay any attention to them ok so let's raise the rating agencies just how do they stack up well explain their mood swings and more. good evening it's friday august twelfth i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and you're watching r t well the g.o.p. hopefuls last night bay stopped in iowa in a debate for the most part it was a sea of hawkish conservative foreign policy talking points you'd expect from a g.o.p. debate the threats of nukes in iran and why military spending should not be cut were widespread views that were expressed but on the stage a very different voice emerged to ron paul's and he got a lot of airtime to make his points on mainstream t.v. rick santorum even complained about it so what does this mean are we seeing a new era of politically tho

a lot of cars, they get pushed back in the backyards of house of lots. so somebody might build a conventional house and just push their old car house in the backyard. this was on 48th avenue in the backyard. it's an old cable car house. guy who lived there in the early 1960's, he had a boyfriend named cliff. they paint it yellow. when he got a new boyfriend named dennis, they painted it red to get rid of cliff. but it was a beautiful little car. he still remembers it. it disappeared, we think, sometimes in the 1970's. but this is what keeps my hopes up. this actually isn't in carville. this is in the richmond district on ninth avenue. people say, are there any car houses left? are they all gone? have they disappeared? this is an example of how one can surprise you. this is on ninth avenue in the parking lot behind the old coliseum theater. before that park being lot was there the city was looking for houses, spaces, near merchant corridors to create these little parking lots. they bought this house from a mrs. suggs because they wanted to tear it down an

of disruption and causing a lot of people to have left their offices, and a lot of of, well, a lot of fear of something that's just not fanl yar in th -- familiar in this part of the world. >> absolutely. we are getting in information, bob, that the earthquake that shook the east coast is causing connection problems for verizon users and at&t connections as people went scrambling for the phones and we heard about this, and now the two big cell companies are confirming some interruption, and problems with people being able to make phone calls. over the our wbi affiliate, and what can you tell us from detroit? >> well, we didn't feel any shaking in the news roomt, and we are located in downtown detroit, but we are receiving news from auburn hills area in particular, and we are told that at chrysler headquarters they did feel shaking and had the workers there evacuated. what is interesting is that right across the river, the detroit river is windsor canada, and we are getting reports from there as well that they did feel some shaking and swaying, and that there were quite a few evacuatio

that eliminates a lot of people. >> it eliminates a lot of people.gain, you have candidates and campaigns, you know, spend money where they will buy a block of ticket. you heard david and others refer to 4,000 tickets paid by the bachmann team to have folks come in. that's votes, potentially 4,000 vote. the down side is no guarantee that i'm eating brisket that i'm going to votes for you. that's the other side of this thing. i don't know what it reflects beyond the popularity of a particular individual at this moment. >> i guess it depends on how good the brisket s. michael steele, thank you very much. >> there you go. thanks for joining us again. >>> the front-runners are hoping their hard work and money pays off as they await the results of the poll. just how criticediitical is it that one spot? our special coverage continuing next. >>> we're 15 minutes away from learning the results here in iowa at the straw poll. critical day for michele bachmann who is trying to rocket to the top here. and do or die for tim pawlenty. joining me in saim "washingt

feasible means that it may require a lot more money, a lot more alteration to get that done. under the ada, you need to be surveying your property and putting together both a short- term plan and a long-term plan. the short term plan is going to be the readily achievable solution. the long-term plan could take 20 years. i do not know. your business might not be making huge profits. you may need to be saving money for the long term. but it is your obligation to plan for the long term as well as the short term. the ada has a set of priorities that guide you on how you will be serving your property. the ada says a certain party of getting in the front door, but you are logical, you want your customers to access your services. be that steps, be that ramps, if the door is not wide enough, if the landing is not level enough. priority two is actually travel. once you get into your business and start speculating the wits of your files. access to all of your services. [inaudible] rearranging furniture. that is something we would call readily achievable, if you move your table out of t

seawall lot 330. the city entered the host agreement with the america's cup, to host the 34th america's cup in 2013. there is a court agreement between the parties that if the event authority invests in the waterfront to make it race- ready, that we will provide a long-term development rights at a number of locations as a means of repaying that investment. the core of those development rights are piers 30, 32, and seawall lot 330. a host of a new agreement is pretty explicit about a requirement for the city to use best efforts to remove the trust from seawall lot 330. we are lucky that in 2007 we had gone and laid the groundwork for this with sb 815. it found seawall lot 330 and a number of other lots useless and lifted the restriction and allow the leases for non-trust uses. so we have been in discussions with state planned staff about how to revise those findings and requirements. this is a faded met. i am sorry about that. -- faded map. it shows seawall lot 330 in its entirety. you do not have this

a lot of loss and a lot -- the lost children. also a best men in leather using romantic language talking about this time the passion that he felt, referring to the fact that the central park kept him from being able to realize it as he thought he would. the language, stymied romance. it seemed to be a clue to something about the relationships. i mean, i think there were collaborators. they have mutual respect. kenya, they stayed together. i think there was even a form of love there. i just don't think it was any kind of great passion are great -- born of obligation and sorrow. >> the other woman and the store there was no acknowledgement of the contributions of the sister who was unmarried throughout her entire life and stayed at the house. yes. that is interesting. when it was sunday and learn more about the mud just a glimpse of what she must've done and felt. a great loss. not reconstruct will, not unless somebody finds amazing troves of letters. some of this history of this person who was very much part of the homes of farm w

not a lot of good news in terms of the big picture for the u.s. economy of course the only thing that we can be certain of that this deal means is that it averts the self imposed potential crisis of a u.s. default what we do know in this legislation is it does sort of cut spending by about two point four trillion dollars over the next decade what that means in the short term for the u.s. economy is potentially a lot of willing of growth now we have to keep in mind that the unemployment rates are still astronomically high at nine point two percent and so a lot of economists are saying this is not really the time to be cutting the spending this whole battle over the debt limit is kind of a proxy war an ideological proxy war between the republicans in congress and the democrats in congress what we saw with the past election is the rise of the so-called tea party wing of the republican party and ideologically what a lot of those folks want is they want a lot of major cuts in government spending almost no government spending with the exception occasion

a lot of people are going to lose power, a lot of people are going to get damage from this storm, a lotof flooding, that's why we're asking people to heed the evacuation orders. >> and what, sir, is the risk that we're going to have, i heard today from three to six feet of standing water, above street level on a good portion of the east coast, from the tide water, newport news, all the way up to the new york metropolitan area, long island, new england. and the possibility of people actually being cut off, on their own camping for three to five days? >> well, that's again the evacuation zone is to get out. but we're going to get a lot of rain out of this, and we expect flash flooding and a lot of places get isolated so everybody from coast guard on down to local officials are getting ready to go out and do rescues of people that get cut off. but it's going to be a big storm. i think we need to be serious about this and let people know, we are going to have impacts and we're going have power outages, almost simultaneously from north carolina north experiencing and being impacted by this h

i was in so i was a lot of. things together and say hold on wait a minute it was georgia that actually seems sort of started this car through russia . but we want to think twice about going all in and declaring you know we're all georgians that's ok that's not necessarily in us interest argument to the government of georgia has paid lobbyist since two thousand and four it's mean team close ties with washington. even after violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrators in two thousand and seven in two thousand and eleven more than the world. in elections that were criticised for irregularities by the organization of security cooperation in europe in two thousand and eight. the message would be delivered during the preparation for the war and during the time afterwards. thomas jefferson of georgia he is a democrat he's pro-american he's for you supports our values. and it's not just a little details about the way he treats his political opposition treats the media and george. denied being obvious in two thousa

we are missing a lot when we do not see that there is a lot of activity going on. there is a lot more than the tea party, is what i'm saying, and we just do not see that coverage. can you talk about the changes you have seen in sacramento as the number of reporters has been cut in more than half? >> as i say, when you decrease the number of reporters and do not have as many seasoned reporters, the depth of the information decreases. and that is a serious problem. i think the solution is in fact that we have to accept the economic realities that we have right now. that is that the normal business model of having print media -- that model is not sustainable. you have got to begin to reinvent that particular model and then in its place are these alternative news sources. you have to then ask the question whether or not they themselves can fill that particular role. we have to somehow get that information out to the general public. >> do we have more questions? >> it looks like i may be one of the only people here that does not remember what life was like before the in

there are a lot of great weekly newspapers. there are a lot of bulletin boards, facebook woods, you name it. there is a lot of media focused at local, but not every community has it, and even the ones that do often are not getting the kind of service that i think they used to historical because of downsizing and regional newspapers not serving those communities the way they used to. so you will have the council meeting not really being covered. we have had numerous examples where board meetings, council meetings, things that those members got used to not being covered. suddenly, they were seeing the week after week and seeing that we were there to stay. >> in the audience, do you feel like you're communities are being covered well? do you know what is going on in your back yard? do you feel like your stories being told? majority no? ok. let's go to pat with idg because you argue that there is a lot of local news in san francisco, based on the data you have done, and a lot of people feel like they do not know what is going on. c

at&t means a lot, our brand means a lot. we are going to help them enhance their life with all the products and services. friendly. that is self-explanatory. in this business, a smile goes a long way. we need to make sure we are friendly for our customers, and all the tourists coming to san francisco. and we have to be fast. we used to have a window seals over here. people would be sitting in them. it was too small of a store and we were not meeting their demands. we least the store next to us, which i will show you, which has some really neat things. before people used to have to drive out of town to get their devices worked on, or mail them in. today, we have a device support center. they can come in, sit down, let some people work on their own, possibly exchange, and that up front, we have a go phone section. number one, this helps our prepaid customers, and it also does a lot for tourism. we get a lot of tourists who come here and we do not need them in the store. we want them out supporting the community. this gives the

distrust a lot of animosity. between sides actually purposely planning for a conflict it's really interesting that you say that because you know we do see from you know president hu coming here for the state dinner to this visit on the surface there seem to be a lot of you know nice pictures of the two countries meeting but i think it's important to talk about this behind the scenes as you say the two sides are planning for conflict is the u.s. has problem you know with china on an ideological basis or is it more that they're worried about china as a rival. it's not ideological the chinese don't have an ideology that they can articulate and they have no intention of imposing something they can't define on other people but certainly the u.s. has been critical about the human rights record and various things like that the united states has problems with trannies behavior which but then we have a peculiar have it internationally of wanting to insist that you must be like us to deal with us which i think is perhaps o

shoots out here and here, so it cleans the ball really well as it flushes. >> there are lots and lots of brands. this is just one brand. these are manufactured in japan? >> these are manufactured all over the world. they have two factories in georgia and then factories all around the world. >> what are the differences between these different kind of toilets? >> we have the 1.28, which is what all the manufacturers are doing now to conserve water. this is a siphon flush with a larger water surface area, much more conventional american type of toilet. it has been used around the world for many years as a water- conserving light of flushing. it has a small water surface area and is a wash down type of toilet. some americans are not happy that they might have to clean the sides of the ball more. then, we have the high end totally automated toilet as you were already noticing. when you walk up to it, it will sense that you are there and it will open up. it has another green feature, which washes you. it saves you on toilet paper. a roll of toilet paper can take as much as 28 gallons to be

um, a lot of middle class, formerly middle class americans will not recover the wages they had, a lot of middle skill jobs that were available will not come back. and i think we really need to think about more aggressive subsidization of work for people at the bottom end of the economy. you know, economists on the left and the right have always advocated a social compact with americans who are working. you know, over time the problem in the u.s. is going to shift from, um, unemployment itself to the pay that many people are getting. and when we're seeing such explosive rates of growth among b the wealthy and still good incomes among the professional middle class, i think we owe it to ourselves as a society, i think we need to think about more aggressively subsidizing the low-skill, low-income work that many people are going to need to take who are now falling out of the middle class. so, um, so let me stop there, and thank you very much for your attention for a very long presentation. [applause]Ñi >> we have 20 minutes for questions from this mic. >> okay. thank you. that was very int

i have seen lots of changes off that time period. lots of innovative things. this is one of the most exciting that we've been involved with as a company. we are aligning our initiative -- is that better? i have been with the company over 35 years and i had the privilege of witnessing many initiatives. as the needs of our customers and patients have changes over time. one of the newest initiatives is the food oasis. it is an expanded offering of fresh and healthy foods in communities that are convenient. we are not always the only offering but here near public transportation in the neighborhood a lot of folks who are home bound don't have access and we are trying to change the offerings that we offer so people can come in and get fresh fruits and vegetables. one we would go and clean up in the community,. love is to the upload them. we have given lots of time and money. -- we are very committed to the program. everyone is aware, the citizens are basing a lot of chronic diseases, specifically i.t., a childhood obesity, high blood pressure. we have been trying to

but also, a lot of community arts centers. there is all these community arts space is that i just love, and it makes our neighborhoods a much more colorful and livable as well. >> what motivated your interest in politics? >> i guess i have always been passionate about civil rights and equality for everyone, and i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality and other issues, but i guess i have always been someone that is vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, and having to listen to many perspectives before making key decisions. as an activist in chinatown, i have always felt that working families and people who work in our neighborhoods need to have much more support. it is always about giving more voice to immigrants or the underserved and workers in the city. that is what drives my passion as a supervisor. >> tell me about the process of running for supervisor. what did you learn from the campaign process? was anything surprising? supervisor mar: i had to move from

there's a lot of white sur. , a lot of -- surf, a lot of clouds up ahead.here are a lot -- there are not a lot of people on that beach. and there this is the radar mapt remote 294, and this is where you can see the projected path of hurricane irene is it is expected to reach landfall around saturday morning around the cape hatteras area. of course, we're keeping a close eye on all of this for you. we'll bring you the very latest. jenna, over to you. jenna: for more on the sheer power of hurricane irene, we have a look at some of the sights and sounds of this storm. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] jenna: looks like a movie preview, except you have the full feature coming up, right, guys? janice, you've been answering some of the questions on the chat. harris, there's been a lot of questions about this storm. >> reporter: absolutely. we had janice get on the chat, so the minute she aed -- answered the question about what's the next storm, it's who? >> reporter: it's who. we're just about to reach peak season of hurricanes, so i would expect to s

a lot of real people, a lot of people are citizens there have decided to stay. they're smart. we're urging them to use common sense and not go out tonight in the middle of the storm to try to see what's happening. but again we feel like that we're prepared, that big problems will come tomorrow as we see what damage is done and as we go into full recovery. but tonight our shelters are open. we've got marine helicopters, we've got highway patrol and national guardsmen. all of our resources are fully deployed. and we feel like we've got this part of the storm handled. it's the waiting that's so hard. >> and the president's already signed a disaster order for your state. you brought in extra national guard just to help out, right? >> yeah. we've done that. we're fully mobilized in north carolina. we've even got the water rescue teams in place across the state. so we really have done it so many times in north carolina. we feel like our system is good. we've prepared as much as we can. but there's all always things that are channels. so again during the night we urge

this stuff has a lot of potential because it can be used in a lot of different ways. this is a thin film panel here, right here and one of the innovative ways you can use this thing is on thought metal seamed roofs. they have an add he'sive backing on and they can stick down on the roof without penetrating the roof. it's a very effective and cheap and safe installation process. thin film has a smaller, a lesser efficiency. half as efficient but it's about half the cost. so if you look at it, a small system 1.2 kilowatt systems, it produces 1.2 kill what's in full sun or 1,200 watts. in crystal lynn it could would take 500 panels. in thin film it would take this much space. they would produce the same and at current prices they cost close to the same. let's look at the typical system components here and i'll show you how they're laid out on the house in a minute. we know what the array is. they're hooked together. they're mounted to the roof by rails and mounts. they're hooked together with wires and switches and things like that we call that the balance of the system.

we've had an awful lot of rain and we have a heck of a lot of more rain to come.the soils and the trees will go over and the power lines will go over. so we're going to have a three ring circus no matter what happens in the level of the storm. >> professor, obviously a lot of people will be on the east coast, listen towing, pretty gloomy picture you're painting here. you studied a lot of hurricanes in your time. will it be as bad as many people prophecy here? >> my gut feeling it won't be as bad because i think the storm will start as it starts to shear. the older hurricanes were category 1 and category 2. people make a big mistake when they use this scheme. if a hurricane comes in at high tide, comes in with a lot of rain, will have a very different thing than one that comes in at low tide and the ground is dry. in other words we rely far too much on the saffir-simpson scale. are on the right side or left side of the storm? how fast is the storm moving, the faster it moves the faster the wind are on the right side. so we do not have a realistic picture of expecta

we see a lot less complaints and a lot more cooperation between law enforcement and the industry. i am proud to say that that is all accomplished by four people. that is as large as the entertainment commission is. i think that they are doing a stellar job. i look forward to working with them in the future to make things move as smoothly as we can. thank you very much. >> my old boss, with these glasses he keeps telling me that i look like the monopoly guy. pretty somber group for entertainment. i hope it is not because of the police in the room. [laughter] i go out and bought. i like entertainment. -- i go out a lot. i like entertainment. i was deputy chief when this commission was born. i know many of the entertainment commissioners. we have become friends. that said, we have had some tough goes over the last few years. we have made gains. i do not necessarily want to give back the ground that the game with regards to making the city safer. i have a son in a band. for me to pop up at cafe dunor, trigger, or blondie's -- if they have a live entertainment permit. i was in there on

it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in park