a lot of you are. how many of you are interested in starting a group in your neighborhood. >> wonderful. that's helpful. >> i will ask the panel a question about the tools and strategies they use. i encourage you to think about questions you have in terms of what you would like to hear from this group of exerts we brought together today and we will turn it over to you in a minute to answer your questions. >> for the panel. what tools and strategies do you use finsuring your community remain vital and engaged with the communities you represent. >> having been a kindergarten teacher for several years i do a lot of projects and things based very event driven. since our organization began last november, we had several events that's way we keep everybody coming to the table. we are moving toward a goal and it's event driven for the most part. we have done several evenses such as a recognition dinner where we recognize students who were on time for school for a month. we had 250 students participate. we did

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

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

one area where we trimmed a lot of jobs in a lot of different areas of the operation, including the news room, and it is not always about the quantity of people you employ of the quality of the product in the information you put on the pages day in, day out. that is the most important thing. is the quality there on a daily basis? i look back over the last couple of years. i have only been here about a year-and-a-half, but i have been very familiar with the chronicle. i might be biased, but i think is better now than it was a few years ago. we are doing that on a more efficient basis then we did before. i do not think it is always about the tonnage, but it is about the quality. i think we are doing a great job with the resources we have today. >> you are in the broadcast field. you teach radio and television at san francisco state. as well, major cutbacks in the broadcasting industry. how has that affected coverage? >> it is interesting. i'm going to answer the question, but i want to go back to what you started with. a changing landscape in which we have higher technology and lower budge

a lot of them cannot afford health insurance. if their mother was so important, why cannot they go to the doctor and get access to the care her cells created? you can pile -- you can buy a vial of sales. tavis: sales? >> hela cells are her initials. anybody can buy them. they are about $200 for a file and you can get products made from them for about $10,000 per vital. this family is still struggling. they look at that and think shouldn't some of that come to the family? historically, case law whites, that has never been the case. there have been points in time where people have sued for property rights and the courts have ruled against them saying that once you leave your tissue in a hospital, you do not have any property rights to the course there is no adjudicating body or governing board or advisory panel who could say to the industry, given what we have done and made, we have decided that we are going to do this for her family. that would never happen today? >> there is not one big body that overlooks it. each institution ha

a lot of trees, brush, but not a lot of access.this is causing some issues and why they are dependent on the attack from above with the helicopters and the air tankers. and they're hoping here to possibly have this fire contained by someti tonight. the weather, it is very hot out there, perhaps over 100 degrees in some parts. as you can see with the smoke, it's pretty much going straight up. that is good news for firefighters. >> speaking of people, there are some structures thaare threatened. but when we try to get an idea, homes, outbuildings, barns, what's in this area we weren't given a definitive answer. this is more fire retardant being dropped there on the flames. when we talk about who or what is in the area, it's mostly brush, but it's dry brush. calfire is in the process of closing morgan territory road. again the state park itself is closed as well. this is something that calfire is putting a lot of resources on. we've also seen sort of scattered fires, i know there was a smaller fire we just talked about up in mount tam

there's lots of new vehicles, lots of competitors, all over the globe. but g.m. is in a very good spot but it still has a lot of work to do in europe and north america to be certain. >> couric: gentlemen, thank you very much. george magliano, sorry about the technical problems but we got it all in anyhow. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> lehrer: still . >> brown: still to >> brown: still to come on the "newshour": rising home foreclosures; cyber threats; a war-crimes trial at guantanamo and chinese investment in greece. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: former illinois governor rod blagojevich will have to wait a while longer to learn his legal fate. the jury in his federal corruption trial sent word today that it is not close to finishing. blagojevich appeared upbeat this morning, as he entered the federal courthouse in chicago. he's accused of trying to sell an appointment to the u.s. senate seat vacated by president obama, and of trying to use his office for personal gain. but after deliberating

what has shapd that a lot of them -- what has happened is a lot of them spent a lot time in displaced people camps in pakistan and along the border between averages and pakistan where they have been recruit bid the taliban and other factions and they have molded them into this new taliban, a group of young people that are willing to create suicide, which was different than the past generations of the taliban. they were fighters but it is not common for the afghan people to accept this type of wahhabiism which is the saudi, arab law that falls into i will sacrifice my life for something greater than myself for god. afghans have always been willing to fight. they are fierce fighters, tribal people. they are willing to give their levers to fight for their country. i have known a lot who fought the soviets and they said if i could have given my life in jihad i would have fighting. but not committing fesurveyed. and i think -- not committing suicide. i think what others in intelligence overseas and in europe are saying is there is this new breed that is blossoming in afghanistan and this i

as far as the source yellow is a lot of pressure based a lot of business wire type of information. >> 3 says that unlike the u.s. or china investment can i invest in australia? >> that's a great question you actually can. there stilt single lane highways they have that china exposure they have no major national debt like we do cure the china exposure means they get tourists come to them but they also supply some of their valuable commodities to china. i like them for those want to by australia that it's up about 15% this year up about a hundred percent last 10 years which is in great compared to our markets in so shabby. i like australia as a long-term pay investor 85 to 10 to 15 percent of your money. >> i don't think it like being called us 15 years ago. >> i know it's cute to. >> adrian is writing to say what you think about financial coaches? >> not much. i'd be very cautious on that. there's a lot of people out there they look at the robert model which is not to help people financially, to sell some of our is telling people he would help them financially and as a lot of money in

it's a very old neighborhood that's been dealing with a lot of issues for a lot of years. st. anthony's, st. boniface go back many years. glide is now an older institution. there are long term institutions in the tenderloin trying to meet the needs of it's residents. jerry: over the history of the tenderloin it's been a place where service providers come and provide human services for people who need them. so people with hiv and aids- there are resources here for those people. substance abuse, mental illness- there are a lot of resources in the tenderloin for those people. and it's a place where people who have special needs such as those can live their lives. you know there was a time, not so long ago, there was a time where there was discrimination against people with hiv and aids, so the tenderloin was a place where people could find housing instead of other parts of the city. chris: the tenderloin development corporation a community development corporation, is i think one of the biggest in san francisco. they have retrofitted a large number of buildings in the tenderloin.

um, well, yeah, there's a lot of-- you know, a lot of that. i do things that i want to do, but then again, don't misunderstand. i don't get tons of offers to do things, so it's not like i'm passing up doing the next nicole kidman vehicle so that i can do space ghost, you know what i mean? like, it's--it's-- [laughs] which would be a tough call. i'm offered a lot of fun things, but it's not like i make hard decisions every day. i understand that david letterman was an early inspiration for you. yes, when the letterman show came on when i was in high school, i was motivated to set my sights on a career in comedy. i thought i wanted to be a comedy writer. i wanted to write for the letterman show. i was so impressed with the show and his sense of humor and sensibilities, i-- as sctv was also at that time. i would have watched sctv and david letterman and be very impressed with their sense of humor. that's how i got interested in the medium of stand-up comedy, was being inspired by david letterman. well, in the intro, as being topical-- i mean, tha

there's a lot of people of color. there's a lot of gay people. and these are people that don't have access to, you know, other kind of funding. they're not likely to get commissioned by, you know, some big cultural institution to make their work. and it does-- it makes it possible for a lot of people who wouldn't have access to art-making to have access to it. we want to talk some more about the battle itself and the path through the courts, but if you answer this question-- why in the world does it make sense for somebody who's working in rockford, illinois, to have some money taken from his paycheck to fund your work? why not keep government out of the arts? well, one of the things is-- this is one of the arguments that people would often say: "you know, if the majority of people in this country "didn't like your work, why should they have to pay for it?" well, of course, the majority of people haven't seen my work. but this really goes to the question-- a couple of key questions about what is the role of minorities and minority expression in a

now to talk about this letter mr mcgovern thanks so much for being here now this letter it cites a lot of. comments from from u.s. officials comments from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu but where is the smoking gun that is leading you guys to believe that israel could actually attack iran as early as this month. the analysis is the kind of thing that we used to do the analysis part of this. there's no there's no spy in that you know who's government that is telling us that we have to look at all the circumstances first and foremost it's not you know who's assessment of our president. ok fair enough but don't you think that maybe intelligence officials on the inside would have better information and if israel was in fact going to bomb iran or attack iran they may but it's so unusual in our experience for them to have a spy that's you know who's president you know what we have here is a good idea of our president as being rather supine his performance when that's you know who was here three weeks ago is really quite quite remarkable he didn't mention any of the contentious iss

and a lot of fun.or more info on learn it, grow it, eat it visit our website. >> if you get near this plant don't get too close. they eat meat. it's recently was found in the philippines and is big enough >>> curling isn't just something you do to your hair. it's also a sport. it requires strength, dexterity and a whole lot of teamwork. hannah has the story. >> for most kids, sweeping is a chore. these guys do it for fun. this is the weekly teen practice at the ardsley curling club. they're learning to play a game that started in scotland more than 500 years ago. how do you curl? >> well, it's a lot like shuffleboard on ice. you have to throw the stones from one side of the ice to the center of the bullseye. and whoever has the most in the center wins. by the way, those circles they aim for are called the house. curlers play on teams of four people. players take turns sliding the stones, while their teammates sweep the ice just in front of the rock. >> so how do these brooms work? >> well, right there,

so a lot of folks have put a lot of time and have been very generous. one of the great builders in town will oversee the project and provide all the equipment, and the tools, and the construction management. and a great local landscape architectural firm did the con isn'tual work with park and rec staff and the mayor's office to see what kinds of things would fit best in this space. and during that process there was a lot of discussion over other ideas. and they worked with the mayor's office of homelessness about the need to find something that will activate this space to encourage folks to come and ution the space for more than -- and use the space for more than just a place to sleep at night. boston properties, they currently maintain this parcel as part of their original agreement with the city and all costs of maintaining the site today and going forward will be covered by bost properties -- by boston properties. that's the resurfacing, when the old materials wear out, the crushed oyster shells, they will replenish it and dampen it and the playing

and have a lot of homework, and one way streets and a lot of crosswalks that are closed. and dual turn lanes, we have done a lot of work and several things we can do that are effective. we have a separate phase for the pedestrians when we have the turns. and have a leading interval, that gives the pedestrians a chance to cross and the cars go to the end. and there are a lot of things we can do and trying to attack those and dual turn lanes and sidewalk parking, a ton of talk about that and i mentioned some progress, and another thought, with this concentrated campaign, one idea i had on that, the neighborhoods that have a lot of that and perhaps leaflet the cars and let them know this instead of hitting them with sticker shock. and right turn on red, and we have looked at these numbers, and we feel that right on red is safer than right on green, and there are a lot of aggravated people and i hate it when people don't look. that's a violation of the law, and when people don't watch for the pedestrian, and when people say they want to inhibit the right turn on red and to en

in america a lot of people consider themselves bicyclists. in the netherlands hardly anybody considers themselves bicyclists anything more than brat eaters. everyone eats brats, so everyone cycles. there is no discussion about it. you see on distance, men cycle a little bit more and women use the bike more often because they use it for going shopping or the short distances. one other thing is that biking has a high status in the netherlands, so that's also different from a lot of other countries. this i will skip. hardly readable but this shows that bicycling is used in all kinds of modes of travel, 25% is using the bike, to go into education is 50% and beyond high school it is even a lot more, 55% to 80% children who visit high school do so by bike and you got to realize how in the situation, there are hardly any school buses in the netherlands. there will be no parents bringing their children to high school by car. they say, ok, what's wrong, you can use your bike. it's very cold or range, you won't melt, do you? -- raining, you won't melt

a lot of people keep year for jobs. and then potrero hill is very different because is kind of a new yuppie population, and little hollywood and dog patch. >> historical, district and has been home to shipyards, heavy industry, and a naval base. now, the naval base and most of the shipyards and factories are closed, but the environmental problems continue to impact the district. let's hear how residents are responding to the environmental and health issues they are facing. >> it was hard to breathe last night. i woke up coughing, you know? those are the things that we go through because of the contamination out here. >> this community has a history of issues, environmental issues that have been let go, just run amok. sitting in a meeting once with the health department, we discovered haphazardly that they had known for years that in bayview hunters point, african- american women under the age of 50 had the highest rate of breast cancer in the entire state, but the health department has noted for years, and they failed t

they're still a lot of places in the city or a vulnerable population that does not have a lot of options. in many instances they are forced into single room occupancy hotels or homeless shelters or relocating to areas that are not familiar to them. sometimes you have a vulnerable population that is being displaced, and people leave the city, does not matter what income level, if you live to the city, 40 years, and be very low income. it does not mean that you love the city any less. special consideration needs to be given to that fact, sometimes people have talked about the very controversial issues about increasing density and not height and bulk but density in areas adjacent transit corridors, including on the west side, which i don't think we should completely ignoring their. i think the whole idea of doubling up in san francisco needs to be considered throughout the city, not just on the east side. with the approval of a lot of these plans, we have seen an undue burden put on the east side when it comes to density. i am not sure all of the development that is happening in those areas

but there were a lot of, there's was a lot of risk in the system around the world, and different types of risk. not just an american made risk profile. >> we didn't uh, regulate properly. as a matter of fact, we took some steps which took the cops off the beat when they should be on the beat, when it comes to wall street and the financial institutions. we uh, said that these, that these financial derivatives, so called, that would not be regulated, uh, that created a situation where we basically have a gambling casino. >> i think we've all learned a lot of valuable lessons from what happened in the crisis. i think not the least of which was uh, the overall use of leverage in the system and the interconnectedness between the markets that that leverage really impacted. >> it began with a financial problem, it became a trade collapse, uh, then it became a commodity price shift, which hurt almost everybody. >> what might have started with uh, bad loans in the united states, means that you get a global slowdown which starts to hurt the economy in the developing world, and then bad loans fro

i max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know a lot of people ask why is the global economy stink so bad well the primary reason is because the big countries the so-called developed countries blow huge wads of cash on pointless wars let's bring in political analyst ac herman stacey tell us more about this well max it might be said that war is the last racket standing it's the last ponzi scheme actually holding the western world together now the first headline however bodes ill for this ponzi scheme security firms by day terrorist by night this is afghan president harm it cause i and he's interviewed by a.b.c. news and now check it out the private contractors you have called in your office has called for them to be disbanded by the end of this year in the next four months that something like thirty thousand private contractors who are providing security are you standing by that declaration you want them out by the end of this year different at the man the more we waged the war we lose therefore we have decided in the afghan government to bring an end to the prisoners of the security c

sometimes that introduces a lot of interesting things. there is nothing that inspires quite like this. >> the project benefits both the property owner, the neighborhood, and the artists, all of whom have been effected by the economic downturn. >> this is brand new work. >> we chose artists that had a diverse array of media from home video to coulter, paintings. >> when people walk around these neighborhoods, they will be able to see works that deal with the history of the neighborhood. they will see works that deal with movement and the works that celebrate some locations. they will be able to see works of that deal with new projects like the san francisco film museum which is a small organization that is starting. this is their first presentation to the public. >> this has introduced us to different organizations. they are building our portfolio. our project centers on a film that was found in 1906. shortly afterwards, the earthquake destroyed the majority of the market street area. that is what we want to focus on. this is dedicated to

the lot area is permitted. this is not an exception under the code. >> thank-you. >> i was able to go out and his visit to thanks to the request there and i got a really good perspective of what was going on. the overhead is quite good. i familiar with the park. this is an interesting place. the homes that were built in the 30's were all the attached. as we got into the 50's when the next group for build, there were some detached but a lot more that were attached. the pattern that was demonstrated was that they were fairly gracious relative to the size of the house. this shows a large green space. many of the houses are attached. things have changed. part of it is cost. we see one thing and this is larger bombs. if you have a lot of that is large enough to accommodate it, it is important to have a new home that is at least 2000 square feet, hopefully 2500, just for the uses that we have today which are a little bit more complicated. i think that the request your is correct in the fact that the predominant patte

we have a lot of students, lots of groups right now lots of boy scouts in town for the jam boree, there are all sorts of visitors coming. but then you also see the families coming in and taking the children around and pointing out what's happening in the capitol building. right now with the the capitol visitors center there's a lot more opportunity for them to learn more about what's going on in the congress. and i worked for many years in terms of the exhibits that are there to talk about what is the senate, what is the house, what is the differences between them, how do they function. and that's the same type of thing i tried to do in this book is give an introduction about these very different bodies. and hopefully they'll get curious to have more questions to ask. >> done richie, a little tiny book here called the u.s. congress, and you can find it called a very short introduction. and we thank you very much for joining us. >> i don't want any part of cruise if iing this boy. >> i see. our smoges are getting too hot for your sensitive soul. the silvernight is getting too big for us.

my government that is necessary for america you know there was a lot of. there was a lot. of american officers and soldiers there were a lot of. the crowd. before the war i always thought i wanted to. have a lot of separation. but afterwards i realized if they mean anything. to british royals. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports. of this nature and discover it. communicate with. test yourself and become free and. see what nature can give you. welcome back to crosstalk i'm peter lavelle to remind you we are discussing the nuremberg process and its implications for modern international law. but first let's see what russians think about those who question its justice the pivotal role played by the soviet union in the victor although not in germany is indisputable yet there are those who contest this history president medvedev took a stand against such historical revisionism while lawmakers in the state duma advocated punitive measures for those denying or appr

we got a lot of work to do a lot of work to do.old our young guys before we played this game that we're playing against the number one ranked team against the run, in the past maybe four or five years. and i'm sure they'll take my word after playing this game. so a lot of things to learn from this game. a lot of just film to look at and really evaluate where we are as an offense and a defense. i thought adrian peterson got some good runs outside, kind of bounced him outside. and we just have to do a better job and make sure that everything stays inside. and we have someone supporting our side. other than that i will take whatever questions you might have. >> your running game is any of the struggles attributable -- >> very nice. mike singletary the head coach wrapping things up live right now aside the 49ers locker room. overall he was impressed. almost an inverse of last weekend's game against the colts in indianapolis or the starting units didn't look as good. tonight it was the starting units that were solid. i think singletary

lots of cuts here in oakland. i can tell you the new police chief is coming out visiting some of the parties, also the mayor. oakland is on the upswing with the national night out parties. this is the fifth year of growth. they'll have about 440 parties tonight across the city. it's a chance for neighbors to come out, form watch groups and get to know each other. here with me is daniel tran. i thought it was interesting, one statistic we are reading is homicides are down, burglaries are down, but you were the victim more than once of being robbed. can you tell us about the latest incident? it was really just for 20 bucks. >> yeah. i was coming home from my friend's house late saturday night. pretty much got to my door. two men approached me, held guns to my head and demanded money. pretty much gave them money. that's all they asked for. i consider myself lucky. >> reporter: absolutely. you were telling us earlier you were in west oakland, another incident, guys came up with brass knuckles n that incident got away

i'm a lot to handle, but i think i give a lot, too. i reciprocate well. >> larry: you want to be a mother? >> not that i know of. >> larry: why not? >> you know, i have a lot of nieces and nephews, eight or nine, i think now, i love them so much, and they give me like, you know, a lot of joy and happiness. a lot of that joy and happiness comes from walking away when they are in a bad mood. you know, you get the best of them when you're their aunt and i get the best of them. i don't know that i would want a child to have to deal with in my life. i don't know if that's fair. i would rescue a child, if there was one that needed a better home, i would totally take a child in, but procreating doesn't sound so appealing to me. >> larry: i thought it's an instinct of the woman. >> i know. i don't have that instinct. i have the instinct to be maternal toward a child or any young thing, you know. >> larry: or someone with a big head in a round body. >> if god could guarantee me i would have some ridiculously sized headed baby, i would go for it

so there was a lot of attention there. and a lot -- face it. a lot of political attention, too. now we have a woman come on who is highly credentialed. went to princeton undergrad. harvard law school. had been the first woman dean at the harvard law school. you know, just had a very strong background in both the clinton administration and obama administrations. but she didn't give the republicans much to fight over. we had that -- we had the skirmish over the military recruiting policy at harvard. but it didn't really take off. so the republicans who tried to make her an issue found that there was no traction there. the obama administration have all these other things going on. so they didn't want any real attention on her except for -- to say look for putting the forth woman in history, the third woman for now. gwen: now that she is about to arrive, and she takes the oath of office at the supreme court chambers, justice roberts will swear her in on saturday. so that happens. what are the first things coming down the pike? the supreme court, past several years, as you well know,

it is frustrating. >> we see a lot of renegade valets that are using residential parking. that is kind of disturbing. i certainly did not know that. they're not paying anything -- commissioner o'brien: do we have any estimate of what that underground economy is? [laughter] >> is largely a cash business and it is hard to track down. i would not want to hazard a guess. we will keep the commission updated as we try to find more information on that. >> anecdotally, and the north beach area, it is huge. >> can i make a point of reference? at the budget and finance committee meeting, which is why you don't see it in the economic analysis, he made a point of noting that that amount of money was not included in the economic report because they did not have any way at this particular point in time to accurately assess what kind of in come it would provide. >> how would that be collected? >> it would apply new gross receipts tax as part of their reporting, and they would have to submit the 35% parking tax. commissioner riley: for every $10, 3.5 will go to tax? i know that some take

it does receipt that you have -- it does not refute the fact that you have a lot of close races, a lot of republicans running away with these races. i believe that the main error in a lot of these polls is assumptions about turnout on the democratic side. it is the same reason, i have to go back to pennsylvania 12, the same reason that republicans were popping the champagne balls after the polls closed in -- the champagne bottles after the polls closed in pennsylvania 12. the result of your pole will be driven entirely by the assumptions you make. turnout is a difficult thing to gauge, especially in a year like this. we have look at the facts. on the one hand, it is true in poland today, if you try to measure the political energy level, you have got folks on the right who are running out the door but the campaigns have not happened yet. most of the activity will take place in the next nine and a half weeks. that is when the messages will be sharpened and our kames have been doing a whole lot of field work that has been going on on a regular basis for months now, and you are seeing the

my government that is necessary for america you know there was a lot of room in the us a lot of murder of american officers by american soldiers there were a lot of good stories. to go out. before the war i always thought i wanted to win a lot of medals and i have a lot of decorations but afterwards i realize that they don't mean anything. that importance. i don't i don't i never kept the medal. you know with all to recap of our top stories as the record breaking heat hold sway over russia police in the south of the country are trying to trace the parents of a baby girl abandoned by the roadside savoy left in the sun for her role as the temperature pushing fifty degrees. the jordan river has become a bone of contention in the middle east for the liquid of life it's gets into a dispute between israel and jordan and syria almost to the river as each country tries to reserve a lot of sports and moves. on the transgender woman in the u.s. system from the two thousand to win back. to the sun to become free of the spotlight civil rights laws to protect against race religion and sex discrimin

she spent a lot of time volunteering at the school, she spent a lot of her personal time working with her kids and she told me she works as a nanny and she told me now she has to work overtime to hire a private tutor for her and she feels betrayed. and this is just one example. there are many parents who are very happy with the school system but her son goes to school at a star school and, you know, the passing -- the proficiency rate is barely at 50%. and so there -- the story echoes very clearly on a certain side of town where i live and my friends live, and so we want to make sure that all the schools across the town are setting the same high standards for all kids in making sure that they all get the education that they deserve. so that is a priority that we would like to make sure that you'll hear us talking about frequently on the p.a.c. >> another priority is parent engagement, clearly. with the start of the new school year that's on a lot of people's minds. i know at our school we're trying to figure out how to better recruit a more diverse range of parents and meet the needs

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in a lot of credit to civil rights organizations that are starting to do a lot in this area. the naacp, the new director really has made this an important issue, and that is what is going to take. we could run down the list of all the great things there are to do, but we have to push back on this kind of hysteria on crime, and it takes leadership to do it -- it takes individuals, all of us, to do it as well, to put pressure on leaders, but it takes real leadership to do that. that is how i would put it together all in one place. >> in the vein of what is hopeful, and there is a reentry coordinating council in san francisco and also one in alameda county. what has been helpful to me is i think that overwhelmingly, we have this being tough on crime problem as opposed to being smart on crime, but i think that even in places where you would not expect it, people are starting to make the connection. for example, a lieutenant from the sheriff's department in alameda county is one of the most consistent and supported participants in the coordinating council for reentry in alameda co

so we do find a lot of young people in that area and a lot of families in that area of not knowing how to access services. and one of the biggest supports that our organization does, connecticut turning to youth and families, we do peer-to-peer support, you know, and we do from a lived experience perspective. so my family can support another family on how we accessed the system and how we kind of talked to same of how to access state benefits and a young person in recovery knows how to fill out the form down at the social service office to get you on services to access, you know, a bed, you know, there's also that in between. a lot of those things take weeks sometimes. and, you know, what do you do in between? if there's a critical time and there's a lot community-based peer support out there, you know, mutual support groups or, you know, online stuff where people can connect with people and live recovery experience so that way they at least have some social support, you know, if they're in need of treatment. and then there's also a lot of young people who may not need, you know, resid

carolyn: there's been lots and lots of different plans over the years over how to redevelop mid-market, and what to do and stuff, but none of them have ever come into reality. so hopefully this is the plan that will make mid-market, and therefore make all of market street, the street that it should be. chris: there's a disagreement between a group largely backed by the property owners and the developers themselves, who want to minimize the amount of concessions being asked for by the city in exchange for this enhanced local investment, and a group more supported by the residents of the area, who are looking for enhanced benefits given to them by developers which include higher affordable housing in the area of developments along mid-market. charles: they oughta take redevelopment plans and sit on them for about 10 years until they've really worked them out. because most of the time they turn out to be terrible. market street is the death of dreams. in the 1890's, you have a situation where the hibernia bank, which was one of the biggest banks, if not the biggest bank in the west at tha

a lot of them are in public housing. a child is born in public housing and go to school ki, wh they reach 13 they are considered solders and stuck in their 2 square block area. if they move out of there they are a target. and they are also expected to defend their area. they do not, their education suffers. their ability to get a job suffers. when we talk about bringing serves and breaking up the cycles that's what we are talking about is breaking up the cycles. but also getting involved in the pta it really brings resources networking resources to those parents that have those children in the schools. and you will give them a step up in life. you will give them an economic step up in life. and you will give them a confident step up in life. that's what you really are accomplishing by getting involved with the youth. having the police officers spend a lot of time at the back pack give aways and them spending time at the bbq's. you think why are you sending officers to the bbq the da will have a festival at the african-am

so it means a lot to us. i would measure success if in one of the primary goals i would say is i would measure real success of the whole community if we as police officers work ourselves out of a job. think about it. if there was no crime and no need for police officers what would police officers become? they would be our teachers and our coaches. in essense that's where we are headed if we could eliminate the police. who are the primary recipients of our service the young people who need positive direction. that's where valerie went with the pta. positive direction. with the youth. and you know, that sounded weird at first when they said, join the pta and you are not a parent. or your children are grown or you know, about that's important. that's where it really starts in the neighborhood. you got to stop that. i will take a moment because we have an opportunity to talk to the audience at home. i really in advocating legislation on a state wide basis to somehow or another change the law so that there is a fr

there is a lot we don't know. what do know there is a tremendous amount of scientific evidence that showing low doses of chemical exposures can interfere with hormones, change the way our genomes for diseases that come down the long. most important time of development in the womb, teenagers developing. we also know that disease chronic disease is meaning chemicals are on the rise, breast cancers. who knows a young cancer or family member that has breast cancer, infertilities, testicular cancer. there is a lot of evidence showing environmental pollutants are part of the reason. so we see that there is a lot of cause for concerns and the trends um, cause us to look at these chemicals and say what is going on here. we know from the science that chemicals are ending up where they are not supposed to be and that is inside of our bodies. scientists can measure the chemicals getting into us, bio measuring. this is from the first chapter, indecent exposure, the intimate details. charlotte was surprised by the test results